skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a former member of the Red Hat desktop team who helped kickstart several of these initiatives (I did a huge chunk of Wayland, before I passed the reins off to Jonas Adahl), I believe in the vision, but like many other things in the Linux space, it's fighting a very uphill battle for a vision that I personally believe is good, but I can't ever imagine coming true, and when it does, one that's far too late.

Immutability is good, splitting the OS from the applications is good, but what that should imply is a commitment to not break anything, and that's not something you can really wrangle from open-source contributors, who are more interested in writing v7, v8, v9, etc. and deprecating everything before them (though I note this is not strictly a Linux problem, we've seen it in npm/pypi/rubygems and we're even now seeing it from even big vendors like Microsoft, Apple, and Google, but it tends to be more associated with FOSS/Linux communities). Flatpak is an attempt at a technical band-aid for a social and cultural problem, but that culture only makes the problem worse, and the solution ineffective.

We see this now manifest in 100 different application distribution formats, all of which have giant tables of "pro's" vs. "con's" on their homepage, all which are fighting for an increasingly miniscule userbase, heightening a war which never should have existed in the first place. Much like the sound server debates of the 2000s, applications can't simply choose one without getting into a large political turf war, and so they have to distribute in every format known to man to quell a userbase each interested in their own ideas of technical superiority. LibreOffice lists Flatpak, Snap, AppImage, alongside all of the individual distribution packages, right on their home page.

This is all to a userbase who's more often interested with tinkering than stability. Linux communities tend to be ones who have self-selected that they want their computers to be toys, rather than tools to just get their jobs done. Or they believe in some form of Linux elitism; that Linux is somehow technically superior to other operating systems, and adapting good ideas from those other systems means losing some form of symbolic war, one which they'll fight hard against. Moving the needle from a fun system that's endlessly tinkerable to a boring system that runs the apps you need and is stable is attempting to move the culture in that direction, and honestly a lot of the desktop Linux community is just uninterested in that vision.

Also, while I was at Red Hat, Colin Walters was probably one of the smartest and most influential people I met, and they're the real powerhouse behind a lot of these ideas (I remember when ostree was hacktree, somewhat made out of frustration so they didn't have to break their laptop while testing new OS versions). Their writing and the conversations I had with them was one of the big things to get me out of the "Linux elitism" spell. I highly recommend their writing on these topics: https://people.gnome.org/~walters/docs/packages.txt https://people.gnome.org/~walters/docs/
Monopoly happened.
I don’t think anyone is about to block or throttle traffic from Cloudflare IP ranges.
How to Deal with Complexity Like a Pilot (Part 1)
Sounds too good to be true. How do they plan on paying for servers if it is free?
I would agree with your statement to a point, but i would like to add something.

vast area's of the service economy are very useful and actually do provide value. But the financing of the economy in modern times is totally out of whack, resulting in firms focusing on financial engineering to extract profit instead of providing goods/services to society.

Things like hedge funds, vast consultancy companies who prop up these measures are also the ones extracting vasts amounts of wealth from the productive side of the economy without contributing anything besides driving up costs and increasing inefficiency.
The Signal desktop application doesn't have such a requirement. Unlike WhatsApp, it doesn't connect to your phone. You just scan a QR code for the initial setup and after that it's completely independent.
How will they make money to live then?
I've never been to Google IO, but I'd imagine that you see more Macs for presentations/sessions because they just work on the go. Working at a big tech company in the past, I had a beefy Linux workstation and a Thinkpad that ran Windows that I would only ever use for giving presentations/teaching classes, or while travelling for work.
Not Jordan Peterson, that's for sure.
Thanks. Turns out graph.org links are not blocked and can be used instead.
A little bird told me a story that AWS will forward abuse reports to customers performing outbound nmap scans.
> Amazon Basics has knocked off Peak Design's Everyday Sling, right down to the shape of the tag--and incredibly, they gave their copy the exact same name.

https://www.core77.com/posts/106033/Amazon-Basics-Knocks-Off...
It kinda feels like how eBay went - just flooded with loads and loads of low quality tat. That is great if you just need something cheap and cheerful, but when you are looking for quality items it is hard unless you know specific brands which is not always obvious - example I had recently was a replacement shower hose after the Amazon-bought one I got two months earlier broke... I have no idea what a reputable brand is there! You end up just basically trying your luck since reviews cannot be trusted.

Can't say fake stuff has been a problem for me in the UK. Stuff is delivered fine, you just can't rely on the item's quality. Amazon win hands-down for delivery - no one else comes close in the UK as you are typically still left with 5-7 day delivery windows Vs reliable same-day/next-day with Amazon.

(I tried to leave a negative review of the shower hose that broke after 2 months - very matter-of-fact and even-headed wording... the review was rejected for not meeting "community guidelines" or something which I thought says a lot about the review problem with Amazon)
I avoided them for a while, but where I live Amazon is unfortunately the only online company that will ship to me and the local stores are very limited in the tiny nearby town. I still avoid electronics and anything not directly fulfilled by Amazon and anything that has a small number of reviews. I will for sure never buy anything computer related from them again. Standard household items, common supplements, clothing that is fulfilled by them directly, those have all been fine for me.
I think WinDbg has a steeper learning curve; but needing to repeatedly and quickly type in the same (long) commands is not something that "getting used to" will ever overcome. All that happens is you get increasingly irritated and ask yourself "why couldn't they make it shorter" every time. Another example is showing the state of all threads:

GDB: i th
LLDB: th i
WinDbg: ~
Why would it matter? If a website tries to undermine a dictator with long hands, the website's owner needs a better defense than tech buzzwords.
My experience trying to buy a camera on Amazon was awful.

I try to buy when I see the price a bit lower, it turns out it's always scammers that will cancel the order (by mistake according to them) and then proceed asking you to directly transfer the money to their bank account with a discount for the trouble of cancelling.

I got refunded by Amazon without a problem each time and never did the transfer to the scammers, but still is an awful waste of time to deal with this when it's so easy for them to sport this scam.
Also, it does not take into account that most people want to live in a place where they belong to a community (usually one they are familiar with).

People do not stay in a place purely for economic reasons. Things like being around family, friends and a community is a reason not to move for a lot of people.
Sadly, this is something which is hardly taken into account when discussing housing policy.
This is how it works and HN complains about it a lot, ie. when some service or program doesn't support Linux or Firefox.
>Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it, and you can bet if people started divesting from the USD into gold and silver, gold and silver would be quickly made illegal to own

I'll bet you an ounce of gold that doesn't happen while I'm still alive. As such, I don't care.
That's an excellent article. I would love to see it used as a "template" for transparency articles by other providers.
A friend recently wanted to post something anonymously. Turns out that finding a webhost depends on having an email address, and email hosts depend on having a phone number, and phone numbers depend on a payment mechanism and - in case of prepaid - a government ID needs to be shown. Telegra.ph seems to be one of the few places where you can (with a reasonable amount of markup) just post things at will. I didn't know it was censored on popular media, that's an interesting twist to the degree to which you can still anonymously post things online.
The people who miss the office are the ones who used to charm people in other groups or sections to gain influence and importance. Playing politics. This article calls that something else but that's what it is.
If lots of people wouldn't go to work, salaries for all the other jobs would eventually go up and families could survive on one salary
Technology Agnostic Tips for Front End Developers
So blindly believing in something is fine unless you're right in the end?
Not really, the median house price for the US is quite cheap. Perhaps the other solution is get jobs to the places that have cheap housing. Remote work helps.
Nobody that is not in a system administrator / dev ops role needs to know about it. I do not want to know about it. I am not explaining react reconciliation in my scrum updates, so stop giving me updates about Kubernetes.
Did a Chinese hack kill Nortel? (2020)
Amazon appears to be more interested in bottom line than being a curator of reliable content.
I've only used amazon to actually order things twice, but I've looked at products and searched for things many times.

The reviews, listings, search and product-pages have always been terrible in my experience. In a some cases even ebay has more structured product info. The search experience and categorization feels like it's trying to steer me to buy all the things I don't want to buy and I never find the things I do.
People believe in quantum mechanics not because they personally understand it, but because they believe/trust in the experts. How do the experts demonstrate their authority? ...by making electronics that do magic.

The difference between a belief of religious person and say a scientist is that the former asks you to trust them on blind faith while the latter asks you to trust them by proving they have more control over something than you do.
Also nearly every paywalled media site
Right, paying upwards $1000 for a hobby development tool is not common, even though there are more expensive hobbys.

LispWorks has the no-cost Personal Edition to get an impression and one can get trial licenses of the whole product.

Generally I fear that there is very little money to be made from a low-price (say: $100 - $300) Lisp implementation (the market is still small) and that few people will upgrade to a more expensive version of it (what would be the reason to do so?).
> The difference between religion and other groups is that it provides an impenetrable shield to those who wield it, and virtually anything can be deflected

Yeah, other groups have this as well. I once had the temerity to observe that Bush did a lot to quell anti-Islamic sentiment by appealing to other people of faith in post-9/11 speeches. I recounted my own experience as a brown guy with a Muslim name living in the south in 2002-2003.

An acquaintance, a young white atheist lady, told me that I needed to “educate myself” about the “damage” that “Islamaphobia does to brown people in America.”

I didn’t even engage further because it was clear I was dealing with someone’s quasi-religious belief.

Everyone has belief systems and everyone’s belief systems necessarily include things taken as axiomatic.
Yes, and this is the most puzzling lie in Durov’s post.

He knows he’s lying. Personally I think he’s found a common ground with Kremlin behind the scenes.
Yup, but frankly, those interfaces should be only accessible by trusted systems, if you care about that stuff.
I was not full carnivore until 6 months ago. I have a serious addiction to sugar. I was on and off of it for the first year. I kicked it for good six months ago. I’m the sugar was coming from chocolate bars, mostly.
I think the Wikipedia page is correct, along with the comment above about this being CIE color matching functions. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28651997

The CIE color matching functions are a very interesting topic, and a subtle distinction between cone response and perceived ability to match a given color. The main issue being that we haven’t had any ways until recently to directly measure cone response. The color matching functions are derived from clever experiments that attempt to figure out cone response based on what humans think they see, without opening their heads.

This article also has a decent introductory explanation of the color matching functions and where the left hump comes from. https://medium.com/hipster-color-science/a-beginners-guide-t...
ChromeOS is a Linux based OS to run Chrome. Although Freon is not a Wayland compositor, I still think you are mostly safe for the time being. I think in next ten years we can have a few sad surprises in desktop Linux.
This is just the pro-choice position for having an abortion because having a child would be fiscally inconvenient.
It could easily be a natural virus that was collected, but leaked from a the lab that studied it. To me, it makes sense to look at biohazard lab safety procedures if there was even a chance the lab was a factor in its spread. It’s possible to make mistakes while following best practices, or that those practices themselves need improved. It’s sad that it’s become a blame game of who caused the pandemic, when what we really need is an impartial account to prevent the next pandemic.
Entropy itself is somewhat dubious as Carlo Rovelli gets into with the idea of relative entropy and course-graining. Entropy only exists with regard to a representation / set of observable operators. When you change your basis, you get a new entropy. So the cold ant, looks like it has low entropy because you've used the temperature observable. Under the structural/integrated-information observables, it would have a much higher entropy.

Read more here:
Is Time’s Arrow Perspectival? - Carlo Rovelli

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.01125.pdf
~50% of children born into poverty remain in poverty for at least half their lives.

https://www.urban.org/research/publication/childhood-poverty...
The "my actions are THEIR fault" excuse only works in The Manchurian Candidate.
They got me with Whole Foods discount, which was already where my family bought most of its groceries. 5% cashback on $15k/year is $750. Next best alternative is 2% ($300).

I 100% agree with the downhill trajectory of the web store, but don’t cancel because it’s cheaper than free.
I love this Akathist, and it should be noted that Metropolitan Tryphon wrote it in a literal gulag. The ability to see and be thankful for the beauty of our world, even under those conditions, is a testament to the power of religion, and some would say God.
And I think tech should share fair share of the blame. How much value does all the advertising bring to society? Ofc, there is some needed, but could it be that we are vastly beyond that point.

And then we have the platforms like gig economy, that aim to extract vast cuts of any activity they are in. At least compared to true value they provide.
Nix is not mutually exclusive with Flatpaks though. You can easily enable flatpaks on a NixOS install. You don't need to choose between them.
I find that branchiness (and mutation of the variable) harder to follow. Personally, I’d just take “parse, don’t validate” to its logical conclusion and go for:

const parseUrl = url => validateUrl(url) ? url : null;
return parseUrl(url) || parseUrl('http://'+url) || null;
I'm attending a series of lectures on project management, and the first one was great. I mean, it didn't contain any earth shattering information, but it was paced perfectly.

The second one was surprising by comparison, because while it wasn't that bad, it illuminated all the things that were spot on in the first one. For instance, it was just a little too fast for me to easily type everything on the slides as notes, which I think is approximately the pace at which I absorb information. At the same time, there was too much redundancy and filler so I tended to get lost figuring out where information should go in my outline.

If someone is otherwise a good and prepared speaker, a heavy accent can be adjusted to.

Go a little slower and prune the verbiage a little more seem to me like principles to come back to.
> The transaction appeared to complete instantly.

I recently made a donation from a new bank account that took ~20-30 hours to finish processing. Meanwhile Monero trasactions have the 10-15 blocks needed for irreversibility mined in ~20-30 minutes, and the first block in ~2.
They won't do anything that threatens the money fire hose. If they start enforcing rules around fake reviews, counterfeits, used or returned items being sold as "new", or co-mingling, that might increase costs and decrease sales.

That, and complacency and coasting on customers' good will that was built up in the years to decades prior. My older relatives, for example, use Amazon out of habit.
Search at least is nearly useless, because of the sponsored results that are extremely similar visually to desired results. I've also searched for books and gotten results that weren't sponsored, but didn't fit my keywords, just randomly placed in the list. Amazon also habitually combines reviews for different versions of a product.

Also, their drivers drop things off at your front door even if your apartment has a lockbox for that purpose, and there is no way to complain about it because the complaint process for "problem with order" only allows you to report "other issue" problems to the seller, not to Amazon.

And you can't turn off recommendations, but Amazon will happily make recommendations based on any porn you searched or purchased, so you can't use Amazon in front of other people without exposing your porn preferences.
Because you’re a single mother, and must at least attempt to work full time.

Our society to single mothers with poor career prospects: get a job, you mooch! We don’t care that it won’t pay enough for decent childcare and your other basic living expenses.

Our society to married mothers with poor-to-mediocre job prospects and husbands earning non-professional wages: stay home with your kids. Think about going back to school part time to finish that degree that might or might not pay back your loans. Oooh, have you heard about this great new company that helps young moms like you build their own businesses selling awesome cosmetics/supplements/leggings? You can do it from home!

Our society to married mothers with well-earning husbands and careers they love and would like to continue part time while their kids are small: since you can’t really be serious about your work if you don’t have to do it full time, you can forget your real career and go be a glorified administrative assistant for awhile, and possibly till you retire.

Or, there’s what Germany and similar do. I pay about 400 EUR/mo for 7:00-16:00 daycare, and my employer has to allow me to work a job with similar qualifications as the one I was hired for with a 15-30 hr/wk schedule (my choice) until my kid is 3. At that point, they are obligated to allow me to work part time permanently, or for me to switch back to my original contracted hours. My employer chooses to allow us to work part time longer and still switch back to full time later.

Did I pay an absolute fortune in higher income tax the decade before I had a kid, and could have paid for my own maternity leave and unsubsidized daycare with the money I could have saved? Quite likely.

Do I feel like it’s still worth it? Absolutely. A year of maternity leave and several years of serious part time work is so common and accepted here in large part because it’s affordable to people who make less and pay less in taxes (or who would save less even at higher income).

Seeing the daycare vs work outside the home decision as only a function of immediate daycare costs vs. current earnings is extremely short-sighted. A college friend of mine freely admitted that they barely broke even on daycare for two in Boston the year after she had her second, but that in preserving her future earning power, it made long-term financial sense (and personal sense - she loves her work).
He mentioned that Telegram used Google and Apple's notifications to push fresh ip addresses to the app. Russian authorities can't block notifications selectively to the Telegram app, only to all apps that use Google's and Apple's infrastructure.
>If they started enforcing rules around fake reviews, counterfeits, used or returned items being sold as "new", or co-mingling, that might increase costs and decrease sales.

Didn't they literally ban 400 chinese brands for fake reviews?
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The reason it specifically looks like "purple and green" squares is because of how it's organized.

Each of those smaller squares is made by having red at 0 and blue at 0 at the top left corner, then increasing each along one of the x/y axes until you have red 255 and blue 255 at the bottom right corner. The "green" value is constant for each square, and just increases by one for each subsequent square packed in. At distant/normal viewing you're not going to resolve all those individual colors but more see the averages (to say nothing of the computer itself averaging things to make a zoomed out view or a smaller-dimension rendering).

So you basically have subsquares that start, on average, as "purple" (or let's say magenta). They have no or very little green and mostly are mixtures of red and blue. As you go toward the bottom, green increasingly dominates as what were once the darkest parts of each sub-square become just green and what were the magenta parts tend toward white. Blur your vision a little and the image just looks like a magenta-to-green gradient.

You would be able to construct this image so it would still contain "all the RGB colors" but looked from afar instead like "yellow and blue squares" or "cyan and red squares" instead, just by changing your method for constructing/organizing it. There'll be variation in how well these different variants "blend" and so on just based on how we perceive the different colors, of course.

In terms of that perceptual variation, take for example this: https://allrgb.com/thingy , in particular the little preview in the left. This is what would be the "yellow to blue" kind of ordering, but it doesn't really "blend" as much. The bottom subsquares in particular read as "cyan/magenta/blue" combinations rather than just "blue", and in the top "yellow" isn't really as dominant either. Blur your vision again though and it's a yellow-to-blue gradient.
That's exactly what they do (even middle class people)
The problems start when they can't afford to live on one salary.
It's in the air, aerosolized, and even enables pathogens like covid to be spread!