skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you read my comment you’ll see I didn’t say they aren’t.

The issue is that you’re creating a single point of failure, as OP was asking. If the office shuts or people leave or you need to leave or there’s some issue at work, you can have lose both your social group and your work in one go.
Yes, I feel like we just get canned responses back. I'm not even sure there's a human involved in the process.
Context matters. With the intellectual property situation as bad as it is right now, the monopolies those companies hold give them a nearly unbeatable advantage in squashing competition. Their IP holdings let them immediately tangle up any new businesses with massive legal hurdles, regardless of the merits of their claims.

DJI being in China means they will lie, cheat, and steal from competitors such that meaningful competition becomes impossible.

Innovation and consumer value suffer. Monopolies automatically and unavoidably hamper competition and have secondary impacts on unrelated products through inflation of pricing, e.g. if a cog is overpriced it's taking spending away from other markets.

Corporations are not people, they are constructs that act toward to goal of self preservation at any cost. Once they exceed a certain size, individual humans in the loop lose meaningful control over the behavior of the company as a whole.

The international legal situation we find ourselves in automatically places Chinese companies outside the reach of accountability to any rules by which most of the rest of the world have to abide.

By themselves, monopolies could be functional participants in a healthy economy, but there are too many factors making that position completely untenable right now.
I have been thinking of doing something similar, what differences has it made? Is it faster at indexing/build system model refreshes?
I'm not saying it's simple. I'm merely pointing out that industry players have other interests at heart than those of their users. They are worried about their position and income, not about empowering people.
Cars are a major source of inconvenience and health damaging pollution to a lot of other tax payers. The only window dressing is how we continue to try and nudge people into doing the right thing with taxes and fees. It is a small amount money to the people who can afford to make better choices. And a large amount to those who can't. Just be straight with people and tell them to stop.
VS for Mac is another code base. Maybe VS is not portable enough.
"Look carefully, ..."

Been that way for many years. It's almost like recursion.

The web has a dominant bias for itself. The users who engage with it the most promote themselves and their own views. It is not a true representation of all people because not all people engage with it on the same level or to the same degree.

This makes it all the more confusing that "9%" of the population can have such influence on the other 91.

https://nypost.com/2021/10/15/airplane-creator-slams-joy-kil...
Lavabit is really the key reference here, no reason to point to revolutions, that goes a bit far. But instead of providing the government with user data Proton had the option to stop operating the compromised email service, or if necessary to fold the company. That is what was necessary to do in this situation. Instead the caved to the (now clear to be illegal!) government request and ratted out their user. That's unacceptable for this kind of service.

Also, iirc, the problem with Proton is that they did not only hand over the data, they collected the data in advance to later possibly hand them over. That would be a systemic failure.
The Epstein-Barr virus is like this. It's the virus that causes mono.
who would you rather have? a politician...?
Thanks for the background and info!
That Forbes article is opinion, not fact. Why do you insist on deception to make your point? Is it because much like your horse paste addled brain, your point is aimless and full of holes?
pretty sure chinese companies will be happy to produce new containers for a small fee
Can we trust a nurse who refuses to be vaccinated to do the Right Thing at this moment?
There is no plausible reason to off yourself. We would surely see its end some day.
For at least 3 years now, probably closer to 5 or more, Imgur have been doing deceptive redirects for "mobile" devices, gaslighting them while leaving "desktop" alone. In fact, it's nearly impossible to get the raw image file on Android/iOS.

I think my older OS was tagged as "mobile" accidentally.
The mayor of Sydney made a few km of our main street pedestrian only (service vehicles can enter early morning/nighttime). Ambulances can cross the distance in a third of the time now and often route through there to cross the CBD, they aren't banned from what was once previously a horrendous congested car hell that even google maps admits will take you longer in a vehicle than on foot in peak hour.

Your predictions are misplaced.
I'm not mad, just looking for retrospective insight. I don't know about you, but i've learnt great lessons by making mistakes, and i've found historical examples like Albert Einstein's reflections to be eye-opening.

Everybody does mistakes, and i'm not here to throw a stone. But i'm looking for lessons to be shared and learnt.
It is too bad for your coworkers, though. A pretty person on the team makes my work satisfaction and motivation just skyrocket. This effect lasts for years and to me almost justifies the wage premium. They must have not been too offended at the sexualizing gaze since we ended up going on work walks or becoming Facebook friends. I think it was pretty much just upside.
Incentives in zero trust systems?
I've been learning about zero trust systems, homomorphic encryption etc. There are new startups in that areas who are trying to provide the technology.

What I have hard time finding are companies using these technologies. It's also unintuitive why would they do it, given that they feed on user data.

I can see how this could work for b2b, in a non-zero sum game where both companies gain by being able to do for eg. zero-knowledge proof, or share some encrypted data for processing.

I would like to hear your take on these questions:
- have your company used FHE? where & why?
- can you think of b2c where business have incentive to use FHE?
- do you think that because there will be zero-trust alternatives, users will choose those, and other will have to follow?

thanks & have a good Sunday!
Yes-ish:
https://db.in.tum.de/~leis/papers/ART.pdf
Trader Joe’s has the same prices nationally, so in NYC they are very cheap.

For example, their jarred tomato sauce, which is pretty good quality, is $1.99 - the grocery store closest to me has bad tomato sauce starting at $4.99, the pretty good ones are more like $6.99 to $8.99.

While not everything is this good of a deal, this is what makes it worth dealing with their crazy lines and limited selection!
An analysis of 7M NFT transactions on the Ethereum blockchain [pdf]
You mean, just like Apple did?
> But, pushing a leaky vaccine across a large population is a license to get mutations and cause new variants in a large population.

Fact check: vaccines do not cause variants.

Citation: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-021-00544-9

Sense check: most variants of concern emerged in countries prior to mass vaccination.

Short version: why would vaccine-induced immunity provide materially different selection pressure to naturally-acquired-via-infection immunity? Neither are 100% effective, and will therefore allow immune-escape mutations through.
From which vaccine? There are a number of vaccines, and it is expected for the body to "fall ill" a bit since the anti-bodies are being built. This is usually the case with all vaccines in general. I was an infact when I had received the various mandatory vaccines in India, but I recall taking the yellow fever vaccine when I was 32 and I had five days of fever

Similarly, I had a fever + 4 days of 20 hours of sleep after receiving the second Pfizer-Biontech dose.
Relevant tweets from self:

https://twitter.com/GavinRayDev/status/1446459866059612162

https://twitter.com/GavinRayDev/status/1446460168389136395

WINE and the very popular/well maintained Linux distros have gotten so good in recent years that the scenario is nearly identical to Windows + WSL2, except with the DE reversed.

And WINE is never going to run entirely as smooth/easy as regular Windows, though it's pretty damn close.

I prefer Linux DE, both for aesthetic and resource (but mostly resource) purposes.

I think Win11 looks great despite internet's opinion, but wow-ee I cannot justify/cope with the amount of resources (modern) Windows takes just to idle and run explorer.exe

Now -- OLD Windows? Windows 98, Windows 2000? That was (is) some good stuff.

ReactOS recently released an x64 compatible build and I've booted into QEMU with it and toyed with the idea of trying to use it as a daily driver/work, even for a week as an experiment.

https://reactos.org/blogs/newsletter-101/

Feels nearly identical to Windows 2000 or so.

Can check news announcement here and get the x64 MSVC build from the nightly page + boot into it using QEMU or whatnot (I used LiveCD to test):

https://reactos.org/getbuilds/
In your example the bet is between A and B

But that bet is not symmetrical. If B is of the opinion that the price will stay flat, it still makes sense for them to lend the share because they make a profit of $10.

So we have two participants:

A thinks the price will go down.
B thinks the price will stay flat.

Looks asymmetrical to me.
And the comment about ambulances is also ridiculous considering how often cars obstruct cities. You get to the hospital quickly because dense cities have lots of hospitals.
I've called out people in the past on works they seemed proud of. In this case, parent commenter explicitly acknowledges that their work had unintended consequences that they did not foresee. So i'm asking for critical lessons/insights they may have gained on the way.

Calling out is "hey you're doing such bullshit". "How do you feel that what you did had this consequence?" is opening a debate to share experiences, not "calling out".
Literally everything, from startup to indexing to window / menu painting to font zooming with the mouse wheel (the last one on Linux is worthless on JBR 11).

I am very annoyed with JB for keeping customers stuck working in molasses. Changing from JBR 11 to Azul Zulu 15 puts the "Jet" back in JetBrains!
Forbes has a Medium-like program for writers, which is what that article was published under. It's more of a blog article than an actual Forbes article.
How does one determine the correct "market value" of a property where government zoning laws prevent building more dense housing?

Perhaps you advocate for removing these zoning laws and then letting the market clear?
Seems to be up again now: https://youtu.be/CRjO52VOITo?t=34

I think you could argue "Pandemic ain't real, they just planned it" is not medically accurate and might discourage the fans from taking precautions against the thing.
How do you know they’re from the vaccine?
I would add 2 things: 1) use libraries that are stable and well documented, 2) use things that work well out-of-the-box.

For 2 I'd like to give you the example of Grafana. To get it up and running all you have to do is install an RPM and start the service. That's it, you can immediately start playing around with the software. The out-of-the-box configuration is fine for 90% of the use cases. Upgrades are equally smooth as well, everything is done for you. Just install the newer version and restart the service. Database is upgraded automatically. By default an SQLite database is used to store everything, but if for some reason that becomes a bottleneck you can upgrade to MySQL, at which point also some more advanced skills are needed. But that's kind of the point I'm trying to make, it works well OOTB but can be tailored to fit outside of its default configuration.

I've grown to loathe software where much manual setup is needed. Creating databases, importing the schema and bootstrap data, going over a myriad of configuration options because the defaults don't work OOTB, having to configure things that could easily be auto detected by code, requiring dependencies that are not available on your distro, moving files around and setting permissions yourself... All feels needlessly complex, isn't the computer supposed to work _for me_?

Over time I've started to feel that the OOTB experience is directly proportional to the quality of the software. Using tools that just straight up work and drop those that require intensive tinkering to get going has definitely improved my work experience.
Memcpy doesnt fix endianess
Hey, things will get better.

Nothing good comes out of being pessimistic (by definition), sometimes I get into a state where I confuse my pessimism with realism, but remember: everywhere you look you see what you are looking for.
A ~month ago I complained in the presence of my tech lead that the raises we got this year were below inflation. Last week I got a raise above inflation.

That and the fact that I don't want to go work in blockchain/smart bulbs contribute to my decision to stay where I am for now.
‘We don’t need to buy more stuff’: the people who kit out their homes for free
If I remember correctly from my time there many of SF's homeless are migrants: they're not people who lived in SF and became destitute, but people who moved in/were moved (tales of cities putting homeless en masse on Greyhounds to SF abound) from places with worse weather and economies.

In that sense I understand Newsom's position: if homeless are already migrating from all over the US due to life being easier in San Francisco, it might only get worse in the city if conditions improve for individuals. It sucks, but we can't expect SF to solve America's homeless problem alone.
This sentiment echoes Socrates' famous position regarding the written word:

>If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls. They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.

Both his point about writing and your point about Copilot are likely true in part or in whole. Ultimately it doesn't matter — the technology is here to stay and its adoption will be determined by the utility it provides its user.
Firefox's behavior here is massively better. Why in the world would anyone actually LIKE the tiny tiny icon-only tabs?!
Oh experimental schools are so cool usually. Too bad after a few years the ministry usually comes in and tears down everything because the experiments were so successful [0].

If you ever write about your experiences there and what worked and what didn't, i'd be very interested in a link to the post! :)

[0] For example in France, the public ministry of Education has been running test programs with "Montessori" education techniques for several decades (the techniques are >100y old). All of these experiments have been strong successes, and that's precisely why they were never implemented globally. The government doesn't want people to get too smart.. they'd rather have docile wage-slaves who bow before the flag.
Wow, that sounds way more interesting that I've been led to believe! Did you just get lucky? What was your role?
> Killing hosts isn't beneficial to the virus survival, quite the opposite in fact. An infection that super aggressively reproduces but due to antibodies fails to gain a foothold beyond the nasopharynx in vaccinated people doing little damage to the host but spreading effectively to both vaccinated individuals who largely have the above experience and unvaccinated who get miserably sick and sometimes drown in their own mucus could be very fit in evolutionary terms in a mostly vaccinated population.

Yes. This is what that Quanta article was all about. Here's the link once more: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-vaccines-can-drive-pathog...

> The odds are overwhelming that if covid does get worse despite our work in developing increasingly effective therapies the unvaccinated will have it much worse.

Agreed. There's a tragedy of the commons there.
Threading doesn't compensate for that degree of slowdown, and itself has overhead. You'll get something back, but not much.
At that point the number of hospitalisations will be so low it’ll lose statistical significance.

With enough samples we can start for the next differentiator, if one exists.
The criticism that people in these communities come up with is limited to button placement and pixel-to-pixel tab bar height, I wouldn't take any of it seriously. Especially in the current web browser climate, it's laughable. It's our moral obligation, as people with knowledge on the subject, to use Firefox.

I've expressed my distaste for the way Mozilla is managed again and again, and I hate the stupid stuff they do from the bottom of my heart, but there simply is no other choice.
Hmm yesterday the post had PKD's name in the description, now it's gone. Could be important. I, for one, wouldn't have clicked on it without the name.
> They're almost never just normal folks who have fallen on hard times

Why do those have to be two distinct types of people? It seems to me that normal people who fall on hard times might have a tendency to become "non-neuronormative and/or drug abusers"? I wonder how strong that conversion is.
The first one helps to discredit the litigation.

The paragraph’s first sentence is supposed to insinuate that Google is lying about not selling people’s data, and the rest of the paragraph says that Google is not selling data. And then the last sentence makes a completely false claim using popular buzzwords.

What was the point of the paragraph, other than to invoke unnecessary emotions for no reason?
"Dan would eventually find out about the free kernels, even entire free operating systems, that had existed around the turn of the century. But not only were they illegal, like debuggers—you could not install one if you had one, without knowing your computer's root password. And neither the FBI nor Microsoft Support would tell you that."

--Richard Stallman, "The Right To Read"
Maybe its time for you to find a therapist, because having these kind of thoughts really isn't mentally healthy. Sounds to me youve given far too much attention to the 24/7 doom and gloom covid news cycle.
Ironically I have been using Linux via VMWare for about 10 years now, because I got fed up with Year of Linux Desktop, which to this day still doesn't provide a proper experience to anyone that cares about graphics programming and usable UI/UX tooling.

When my Asus Netbook dies (1215B with XUbuntu), the next UNIX travel laptop will be an Air.

So you can spare the talk about how much GNU/Linux has progressed, since I see it every time I take that netbook into use.
People publishing their opinion on the internet don't owe you anything.
Use the IDE as a structural editor, not a glorified text painter.
There are policies that increase homelessness. But even if you do everything right, you won't be able to solve the problem completely in liberal societies. In some more authoritarian countries, homeless people are simply arrested, taken back to their hometowns, put in institutions or just driven out of the cities. That's one way to deal with it.

It's absolutely right to put emphasis on self agency, there's actually a very concerning trend in society that people expect the government to solve all problems and ideally even pay them for simply existing (see the antiwork movement). Should this sort of thinking gain popular support the problem is going to get much bigger than it already is.
License plate scanners were supposed to bring peace of mind
Homelessness of this kind has very little to do with housing, if at all. What you've said here is all true as it relates to the affordability of housing, but that's not why these people are homeless. I've said it before, and I'll said it again: people seem to act as if the only two options are having a house in the most expensive city in the world, or being homeless in the most expensive city in the world. If I can't afford a house in the most expensive city in the world, my immediate thought isn't going to be "well I guess I can't live anywhere then, streets it is."
The real scandal about Ivermectin is stuff like this.

https://cnn.it/3zHAAgm

When the Surgeon General deliberately lies about a drug. How come everyone misses it.
COVID slows down all the time. Have you ever looked at a case graph? It comes and goes and the risk is not 0.2% per day, it's 0.2% or lower per infection which given that natural immunity works better than vaccination, basically happens and for many people (like me) appears to have actually never happened. But even if you assume a 100% chance of being eventually infected, it's not anything close to 0.2% per day.
I would love all this, but I detest the JVM.
This is true. But switching jobs this fast a lot doesn't look that good on resume.
Just putting the Adsense code on a website is what a hobbyist who's making a few bucks/month would do, not someone who is running a business or making a living from their service.

It makes sense that the case is not focused on this group, the extremely low-end/hobbyist range of ads is not really the same ecosystem and is not remotely as important.
Quantimg 1.0
If you're interested in some of the better Japanese curry and other such b-grade gourmet types, feel free to dm me. That particular type of food has been one of my favourites for some time. Not so much on the high end though.
Let's not pretend Mozilla is a saint or Firefox is close. Mozilla made a huge number of questionable moves over the years ("death by a thousand cuts")

I personally felt that the 2014 introduction of in-browser ads (pitched as "user-enhancing") marked a huge shift. For others it was the deep integration of the proprietary Pocket extension. For still others it was the weird Mr Robot cross-promotion that was pushed via a side channel or the Cliqz in-browser tracking or the booking.com in-browser ads.

At this point, it really feels like Mozilla and FF are "controlled opposition" / defense against anti-trust claims, and many of the naysayers would probably jump to a clean implementation that isn't bogged down by the lack of trust.
> no reason to point to revolutions

I did not exactly mention revolution, but that's an important topic. The government needs to keep tabs on everyone because they're unjust and therefore fear the mob. The only way to deal with this problem entirely is not via legal/technical means but via a global revolution that does away with "government" entirely.

> they collected the data in advance to later possibly hand them over.

My understanding (from previous reads) is that they had to enable IP logging precisely for this user that was targeted. If they had just done nothing, there would have been no data to give away or seize.
> they did nothing to target single mothers specifically

It was example of the outcome, not a declaration of the actual law.

The Victorian government now has more cases than ever before and is amusingly opening up, dropping nearly all restrictions/curfews, they've been dragged kicking and screaming though this whole thing and have prided themselves on being the strictest state government possible with a tough on covid approach. Despite that, having the toughest restrictions and the world record for lockdowns, they still end up with the most deaths and infections in the country. Clearly whatever they are doing isn't working, yet the rusted-on types will support them no matter what while ignoring the clear and plain facts about the massive differential between state policy outcomes in Australia.
Trekkies will use the Talarian form:

Picard, his head down, his palm covering his face.
It shouldn't. Arguments on HN are often reduced to China vs West where the tech world is much more global nowadays, e.g. Israel, India, Brazil.
I too avoid using Google services not to dull my internal something.