skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a form of discrimination where you justify or hold someone to a lower standard because you believe they are less capable. A common form is "racism of lower expectations" but it can of course be due to classism, nationalism, etc.

"Well, Terrorists are brainwashed and therefore aren't culpable." When you are about to press the plunger of a detonator in a market full of women and kids, that's a pretty universally bad thing - whether you're Muslim or Christian, rich or poor. You can wrap it up in this romantic story of how this young man was misled by promises of virgins but even very religious people have doubts and are logical beings. More than a few suicide bombers have backed out (or attempted to back out), and it's common for suicide bombers to be told there are punishments (of the earthly variety) for not completing their task.

It seems like you're holding a person responsible for a very complex web of events, to a very high standard and demanding extra punishment for them then you are for someone who is responsible much more directly for an event. If the billionaire was going around shooting people we would be much more likely as a society to condemn them to death, but we understand the more complex the casuality, the lesser the guilt. We do not condemn propagandists to death either.

The best I can figure it, it comes down to envy. Nobody envies the goat herder who blows up a market. Lots of people envy the rich. If you can't beat them, then make them suffer. Historically, people have also tied wealth to morality - being wealthy is good/evil, not simply an outcome of being skilled at making money.
I've tried it. It doesn't work.
It would help a lot to reduce the scope by knowing some requirements you may have in terms of storage size/number of disks/specs/performance/features/integrations/etc.

Without knowing anything else, for a small and power-efficient setup I can recommend the Odroid HC4 with Armbian (manually upgraded to Bullseye; Bullseye builds are currently broken but building Buster and then upgrading works fine) and a ZFS mirror of whatever SATA drives you choose. I use one as a backup sink.

https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc4/

As for drives, I've been committing myself for Toshiba recently. They have a good reputation for reliability/durability and reasonable cost-performance.

If you're going for SSDs, that market segment is in a bit of constant flux.

For something beefier and way more extendable I've been writing about my experiences with ASROCK RACK's X570 boards here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28302303

Though, from what I understand you may get lower idle power consumption from the right Intel CPU/chipset combo than AMD Ryzens as of now. This is just something I gathered from others' remarks and not something I researched or benchmarked properly myself so take that with a grain of salt.

I never used a prebuilt QNAP/Synology but I'm curious what it is that takes time for you these days that you hope to cut down on? A DIY can be pretty much as fire-and-forget once you have it set up and on the flip side you still have plenty of room for tinkering with containers and whatnot on Synology et al... Like, is there ongoing maintenance you have to do on your FreeNAS box just to keep things in place or is it more a personal tendency to keep changing things that makes it never ending?
Yeah, I owned a retail store (in the same area code as you coincidentally). Even though we marked everything up 80-100% our profit margin after expenses would be 2-3%. This is typical. If your retailers are doing >10% profit margin then they are extremely lucky.

Apple is making upwards of 90% profit margin on the App store. With zero inventory risk and no competition. In the real world, those kind of margins would attract immense competition... which would bring those margins way down.

Anyways, for reasons that I'm sure you're well aware the App Store vs. brick and mortar retail comparison is pretty useless. I wish people would stop using it (though in this case I appreciate that you provided context for your response).

The question remains though - at what % would Apple's take start becoming unfair and how did you arrive at that number?
This is the kind of thing that keeps me running OpenBSD-current - super excited to see this in snaps! Awesome work!
Agree. A desktop OS has different needs than a mobile OS, and Apple is trying to foist iOS onto its desktop users under the guise of progress, but really nothing has fundamentally changed about using a keyboard and mouse to interact with the computer in decades. And that experience is very different, if you are skilled, than using fingers.

Of note, macOS has always been very good at having consistent keyboard shortcuts across apps, something Linux is still trying to learn.
I wonder if "mammal-level intelligence" isn't a bugaboo. Crows are smarter than some humans I've known.
There have been various efforts over the years to improve the user experience for "desktop" linux users. I was deeply involved in one at Eazel over twenty years ago.

Before I make suggestions, I would like to turn the question back to you and get some more information.

What do you think defines good user experience? Are there any existing distributions or environments that come close to what •you* think represents good user experience?

Do you want to contribute financial resources, marketing resources, development resources or ...?

I would try to think outside of the GNOME/KDE boxes if you can, but it is perfectly acceptable to think either of those are good representatives.

Are there any existing solution out there that you think come close or any blue sky projects that really excite you?

Rather than just say "You should support Project X", I would like to know more about your thoughts and opinions.
Agreed! Unfortunately, most of the Codespaces team aren't even in the SF area, in order to actually receive this cake (like most modern teams, we're heavily distributed). But I love that this gave awareness for Camisha, and her unbelievable cakes.
Except your phone is not a snitch. Snitching is sending informations to a third party, which your phone doesn't do, unless you explicitly accept it by using iCloud syncing.

You're basically upset that your operating system can read your files. Well good luck finding an operating system that cannot read your files.
> As soon as your kid sneezes near you, you're gonna catch covid

That isn't for sure. Last I checked (over a year ago, so different variants) 50% of spouses sleeping together didn't catch COVID.

We are reasonably sure that amount of virus particles you are exposed to is a factor on if you will get COVID. So the more you can eliminate the better your odds are.
A child's choice or thoughts (within reason) we rarely take into consideration because they do things like shove raisins up their noses. Kid's should be allowed to be kids and not be dragged into this discussion.

This is a complex issue and there is a good reason why we don't let children consent to various things or sign legally binding contracts. Kid's are not just "little adults."

I will admit if apple did that it would be a pretty effective, but really sleazy.
Yeah. I think some celebration is warranted, but the "disaster averted, my iPhone is back to being a trustworthy user agent" take seems to be a bit myopic when the core problem is that Apple possesses enough control over the devices it sells to be able to implement something like this by fiat. Sure, Apple backed down today, but until users are able to exercise the four essential freedoms they're living under the sword of Damocles.
Firebreaks and Rapid Repairs – Sebastian Marshall
Fungi are really interesting, though at least in terms of eating them many folks in the US are strangely reluctant. But this article does seem to be at pains to tease apart 'intelligence' from 'consciousness' - so I think it's not unreasonable for them to claim fungi can be intelligent without being very similar to us (in the same way we could say that of an ant colony, for example).
"A firebreak in daily life are pre-built areas that stop you from acting stupidly on autopilot and give you a shot to reboot the behaviors you want." -- I've shared this notion with you before, but I think it's worthy of rereading it at our new environment. Take 15 minutes every week to see which areas or behaviors you want to fix to readjust your body and mind.
MongoDB tops $30B market cap in banner week for open source
https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...
Plants are ~70-90% water, and of the dry mass, 70-95% is carbon, the structure of the plant which is extracted from the air (splitting the C from the O2).... the remaining nutrients are from the soil + dissolved in rain water, although plants do absorb a limited amount of nutrients through their leaves via dust etc.
We (Pakistani family) used to do rosary (mala) on our fingers this way
Road Deaths Keep Spiking in 2021 Despite People Driving Less: Nhtsa
I’ve had one boss discover that “passionate” can be a bad thing when the passionate person is professionally embarrassed by the product they’re working on.

I hope not to do that again.
My grandmother used to say "well, not all dogs have flees..." It was annoying back then too.
An app that will change the way you can use your phone in your pocket
It disables touches and allows to play your favourite movies or listen to your class with your phone in your pocket without the worry of accidental touches.
It was interesting seeing this play out as a patient, as I had the same injury and surgery last year as I'd had during the height of the epidemic but was prescribed only 20% of the pain meds I'd received the first time. The second prescription was a lot more reasonable, to be honest, but I did have to fight with my insurance company as they wanted me to revisit the pharmacy every few days instead of giving me my full prescription at once. That was a little impracticable when I was on crutches.
I watched the launch live yesterday, it seemed they were late going supersonic, and getting to maxQ before suffering RUD.

A fairly impressive run, considering it was their first launch attempt.
Just a quick thought:

I think it wasn't that long before that NSA had warned against some other crypto that was widely thought to be safe and everyone later realized that it had been a good thing.

Can it be that some people thought NSA were doing them a favour again?
Western philosophy fell in love with Plato and Aristotle and basically ignored everything else.

A couple of suggestions: Angus Graham's translation of Zhuangzhi, Chuang-tzu: The Inner Chapters and other Writings from the Book of Chuang-tzu and A Companion to Angus C. Graham's Chuang Tzu edited by Harold Roth.

Graham actually made me appreciate analytic philosophy.
Also 3M 9502+ KN95 which was subsequently NIOSH N95 approved (but you had to pay more if you wanted the ones stamped for the US market).
If Tim had invested the proceeds in MSFT, he'd have done all right.

Of course, history is full of "what ifs" which can drive one crazy.
Maintaining a bunch of vegetables in your front yard isn’t miraculously easier than a lawn, it may even require more work, keeping more pests away and watering. Just do what you like
Makes total sense: the use of choice to move implies some sort of a mismatch. If not resolved, the worker will elect to use choice to quit.
I totally agree with TFA; except it was ever thus. (And agile has helped reduce the problem if anything)

As an ops person I've had to explain the devs own architecture to them; they didn't know how it sent mail -- nothing to do with SMTP; they just hadn't shared the knowledge among themselves of the db/java app interaction.

I once had a developer tell me ridiculous things like "my java app can't write to java.tmpdir". They couldn't even tell me what file they were trying to write. I had to dive into apache docs and send it to them. I turned out to be a bug in an apache project code, nothing to do with tmpdir writeability.

The lack of basic responsibility and ownership was appalling.
Usually materials that are more hard are also more brittle. I don't read anything about that in this article. Anyone any idea?
> Bringing Development and Operations together

Yep, because developer might not know what ops needs in terms of traceability, logs and so on, to be able to run their code in production without having to wake them up at 2AM. Similarly Ops knows a lot about what can be done with existing infrastructure, or off the shelf components, which can save a huge amount of work, while providing a more stable system.

I do mostly operations now, and I'm lucky enough to work with really talents developers, who care to listen to input, before writing 5000 lines of code. I also work with customers, who have their own developers, with their own weird ideas about the world.

The biggest problem I see right now, except for occasions cowboy pretending to be a professional developer, is developer picking technologies without understanding it. We work with customer who picked technologies because they're interesting, not because it's what they need. When performance is terrible it becomes and operations issue and being told "Kafka is not actually a database and should be used as one" often isn't the answer they want. Or try telling a developer that the code he worked on for three months can be done by the existing load balancer in a few hours or that the ORM is actually writing terrible queries.

DevOps team, as in: "We use the shared knowledge of both parties" is fantastic, but operations is frequently an afterthought and not involved in the design fase.

If we're to take "DevOps" as developers doing operation, I'd prefer that we do the opposite and let operations do development. I think we'd get better results.
Too bad they didn't insist on some shares in the deal. That would have paid off quite well!
I think someone is angry he failed his interview in Redmond...
Wow, this is stunning! I foresee this as a frontend visualisation tool for a Brilliant.org competitor (something I have been wanting to do for a while, but haven't been able to find time for)
So this group of good hardened souls...That from the description could exist at Apple...and went to speak to their management about all the good thinks they need to do. Do they also speak up to their management about all the activities Apple is complicit with, so as to keep their presence in the Chinese market?
That's what we get from the "grow as fast as possible today" mentality. People aren't thinking about how to maximize economic output. That is probably the biggest failing of capitalism. People think maximum growth is the same thing as maximum output.
My use of a gas powered doesn’t match the output of most energy companies.
> Uhm...isn't the whole basis of modern cryptography the idea that you can have keys that only the good guys know?

No it in any way, but based on your other examples, maybe you're thinking about certificate authorities?
How Mushroom Time-Lapses Are Filmed [video]
I was pleasantly surprised to find out that diamond and silicon share a tetragonal crystal structure, and here they mention their buckyball material here is harder than diamond and more conductive to boot. So what advantages could carbon computers have over silicon I wonder?

"The resulting material’s physical properties depend on the ratio of sp2 to sp3 carbons. Raising the temperature during synthesis increases the sp3 fraction, producing a harder material." - I know silicon is doped with impurities to make it more or less conductive, so if you can control the band-gap during synthesis, perhaps transistors could be baked directly into this carbon-glass bucky-stuff.
Day 1: Product idea. Day 2: Core values
It's going to be a lot better thanks to proton. I cannot stress enough how well proton works. And if you have games that are not on steam take a look at Lutris. Lutris has worked wonders managing my Wine versions for online games such as Elder Scrolls Online and Guild Wars 2.

https://www.protondb.com/

https://lutris.net/
Apple still monitors executable files when you try to run them.

Who says they aren't using this as a fingerprint, or worse, as a way to correlate your behavior with that of a CP offender, or other types of criminal.
Don't forget public safety matters ("but COVID!")
The HashFlag Nation Podcast
I am curious about how far Apple might delve into the iOS-ification of their MacOS line. Mac is a much smaller amount of revenue, probably at a much lower margin than everything else they make money on. I think for least at some leaders at Apple, MacOS is "the thing that runs Xcode to make apps for iOS".
I’m not quite at that point of “fuck it, I’m vaccinated, come at me”, but I have to travel soon and the country I’m transiting through (Iceland) now requires a test.

I’m nervous about it because I’m vaccinated, so I very well could have a mild infection and not know it, and get denied boarding and quarantined at home.

At least it’s an antigen test and those miss most non-symptomatic infection anyway.
I expect them to care and work with kernel developers in order to make things better for everyone. Intel does, why can't nvidia? Intel drivers are part of the kernel and they literally just work. I avoid nvidia products like the plague now.
Are there any examples of this manifesto being implemented in a holistic way? I am trying to understand the bigger pictures as most of what I understand as reactive show up as user interface libraries.
This reaks of "WhatsApp ToS update".

Taking some time to let the news wave blow ove... errr reconsider and make improvements, i mean
How about when the surgical masks get reused?
I'm also ethically opposed to phone conversations whilst driving, for the same reasons as above.
Surely Fortune 100 firms want a docile workforce. People who will stay with the firm even when passed over for promotion and opportunity multiple times. These people tend to be easy to manage badly. You are better off finding your next job at a new firm and that firm being grateful you accepted versus staying at your current firm and you being grateful they promoted you.
I wonder how much Intel appreciates that MS show closely tied Windows to their chips?
Lol what? So musicians shouldn’t get value when people play their music? I guess you’d have them starve? Same with all the others?
.NET 5 saw renewed development in WPF, including some useful improvements over WPF in .NET 4.x. They've given the impression that WPF is fully "undeprecated" and current documentation points to WPF as the best way to utilize WinUI 3.0 controls (modern Windows controls) in .NET today.

(WinForms also saw a bunch of reinvestment in .NET 5 and also has a road to migrate to WinUI 3.0 controls if you really want, but I would argue that WinForms was never a "good desktop UI framework".)
This is how I use it. If I want an empty list as a default argument for some function, I do something like this:

def foo(things: Optional[List[str]] = None) -> None:
thing_list = things if things else []
...
This is very very hard to do if you want to go from software engineer to manager. Almost impossible - I have tried sending out hundreds of resumes over periods of years. You need to be promoted internally - but that is impossible unless you know someone. The internal job postings are a sham. I absolutely HATE software development but have been stuck in this role for 15 years and 5 years since I genuinely started loathing it. But there is no escape unless I want to go work in Tescos. I've not seen a promotion into management in my 15 years in the industry across 7 different companies. For all intents and purposes it does not happen and if you go into software, you aren't getting out.
Wouldn't that entirely depend on the quality of observation?

I live in a state with a lot of flooding. I've personally witnessed several floods in the past 30 years, including those described as 100 year and 500 year flood levels. I've never seen anyone die in a flood, and nobody died due to flood waters in the two events above. Should I then conclude that flood waters, though very damaging to property, are safe?
This is literally what the book being reviewed in the linked article (and summarized in the linked article) is about.
> The (unauditable) database of processed CSAM images will be distributed in the operating system (OS)

How much disk space will this require?
Ask HN: Is there a tool for managing application config for B2B purposes?
For the last two companies I’ve worked for we’ve had to build a custom service and UI for managing config for our customers. This config isn’t for service/platform use but for toggling and configuring various features that are built for customers. These sort of settings are only updated internally so there’s not much reason to spend front end engineer time building a nice UI/UX just for the controls.

Reason I’m asking is I’m considering building something generic to solve this problem, with a UI that can support user permissions, audit trail, and a very simple way to add new config where controls will be generated from the schema. I’d imagine it might also be useful to cover feature flagging too, where a feature flag is an option in the config schema (which could support AB testing/rolling deployment).
There's a second side to misinformation. That side is the mainstream media censuring and suppressing true information.

In my opinion, the whole "misinformation" scare tactic is just a way to increase information suppression. The media cries about misinformation so that when your friend attempts to bring suppressed information to your attention, you'll be primed by the "misinformation" propaganda to reject it outright just because of its source. This increases the polarization as huge proportion of the population is simply unaware of critical information.

What kinds of suppressed information?

- Information about covid early in the pandemic. Information about masks early during the pandemic (when the mainstream opinion was against them).

- Information about the source of covid being the Wuhan lab.

- Information about the safety of mail in voting (to remind you, they claimed before the election that fraud is super rare, 0.0001%, she shifted into a much weaker position of fraud happening frequently but not enough to change the result. )

- Information about hunter Biden laptop and about hunter Biden fbi investigation.

- Information about the vaccines being nearly ready - they lied about it right up until the election, and proceeded to confirm the vaccines are ready just a week after the election!

- Information about election irregularities.

I can keep on going. The levels of information suppression that have been revealed in the last two years is unreal. What's even more astonishing is the "misinformation" campaign being so effective at making people construct their own information firewalls. They have managed to convince so many people to ignore true information from their friends because of a straw man "fake news".
Then go lookup how much hospitals get per COVID case they record.
>Who in the mainstream proposing police violence, bodily or financial harm?

This is what you do whenever you propose a fine. Ultimately fines are paid because otherwise men with guns will threaten you if you don't hand over the money.

We spruce it up with layers and layers, but at the end of it if it comes down to it, it is enforced by men with guns.