skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> he has a mortgage to pay and dealing with protesting students doesn’t really interest him

The great irony being it's decisions like this that are undermining support for the University of California. We're not there yet. But a few more of these, and I could see an off-year proposition that dramatically cuts the UC budget.
Yup. So the vaunted "brain damage of OOP" is more a matter of the "brain damage" of C++'s / Java's choice of which of these traits to implement and call the result "OOP".

(Personally, I largely agree -- and I say that as a fan of a basically very similar OO language, Object Pascal [as seen in Delphi and Free Pascal / Lazarus], which could also be seen as an imperative language with bolted-on inheritable templates of records with method pointers called classes. It just made a slightly different, and better [IMO], choice of exactly which of these traits to implement, and that makes a all the difference to me.)
While that's a lot for most home users it's a drop in the ocean of cloud storage and search data processing
That sounds like DRM. Wouldn't less DRM be a bigger win for end users?
Not a "paperclip optimizer", but a "weather prediction optimizer" - nice!
May I ask price, at what part of the USA are you in?

I foresee buying one.
Huh? I've never updated my CPU microcode in other distros, nor did I receive warnings about it.

Do you have a better example?
But in order to pull it off, they had to ask you for a secret over the telephone at one point, which you gave them, correct?
I understand what NFTs are, but torrents are ephemeral and recreatable and frequently replaced even for the same source data, more akin to indices. Proving you had a copy in the past or traded for said proof conveys nothing if no seeders exist anymore, and abandonment rates are huge outside of archival communities.

Other than the mystery and the joke what's the meaning of a NFT for the URL of a deleted tweet?
Pretty basic. The receiving process usually has an input thread that just puts the messages into a queue. Then a processing thread processes (maybe logic, maybe disk writes, maybe send) the messages and queues up periodic batch acks to the sender. The sender uses these acks to clear its own queue. The receiver persists the last acked sequence number, so that in case of a restart, it can tell upstream senders to restart sending messages from that point.
> "Another open question is whether the Virtuous Victim effect occurs across cultures, including in populations that are not “WEIRD” (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic). As just articulated, our theorizing predicts that the generalizability of the Virtuous Victim effect across cultures is likely to depend on the universality of incentives for punishing perpetrators and helping victims. For example, in cultures and contexts where victims are seen as contaminated and helping them is not socially rewarded, we predict that the Virtuous Victim effect may disappear (or even reverse)."

This would be the more interesting question to study as I frequently find that social justice (as projected in the popular culture) is perceived somewhat differently, especially around situations where a victim acted in a manner that was more likely to lead to the bad outcome i.e. "victim-blaming"
Clearly, niceties like medical privacy are completely irrelevant when it comes to COVID vaccination. Government already went there and a thousand miles beyond so who cares. Replace the names with numbers and call ita day The consequences of bad things being hidden in this data are drastically higher than a few people being deanonymized.
Carl Sagan Keynote Speech at Emerging Issues Forum (1990) [video]
Yes you have, it's done automatically.
You might have, without realising it. It's supplied as a package in nearly every distro.

Here's the Debian package for the Intel microcode, for example:

https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/intel-microcode

Debian hides it away in their "non-free" repo but it's in the default install in many other distros.
This is exactly right. It was almost always deltas in favor of snapshots. One of the downsides was that sometimes, debugging an issue required replaying the entire market up to the point of the crash/bug.
Me too. I consider it rude to be called on my phone, actually, even by people I know.
It was a proprietary messaging middleware library. We actually found even FAST FIX slow.
... yes, because your distro did the right thing and does provide updated packages and loads them for you (it's not persistent, but rather done on each boot), and thus you don't need to do anything and also don't see warnings about your distro failing to do so. Whereas linux-libre doesn't want you to know if your distro isn't loading updated microcode, because it's "better" (according to them) to run vulnerable non-updated microcode than letting you get tempted to use non-free updates to the non-free firmware in your CPU.
> If you look at twenty years ago, there's far more content available now, for far less money. Your minimum cable outlay back then would still cover the cost of a couple streaming services.

That's an odd argument and reminds me of the situation with science publishers that led to scihub and friends: Publishers were offering package deals to universities which technically had a wealth of content, except the vast majority of it was garbage. Nevertheless, universities had to buy the packages, because of the few flagship journals that were embedded in the packages.

> Careful what you wish for? The big desire then was a la carte, and right now you can bounce between streaming services at will, and they're all still far easier to cancel than cable.

Who was wishing for anything here? Streaming has always been pushed by the industry as an acceptable alternative to piracy. The supppsed benefits of streaming were always part of the sales push.
I can appreciate their ambition but I can't imagine it being very pleasant to do all three in one year. I would find it far more enjoyable to do them in separate years and take more time.
The future or Meta (and why Facebooks approach is smart but not smart enough yet
> Sure, I documented all the requirements that my leaders needed to give sign-off on. But did I fail to document something more fundamental? The requirement to feel?

Gets me every time
Yeah, I still use the boomer vocabulary: there is system software, and application software. The first category is called "operating system", and everything that runs on top of it is an "application". And outside of the old quip ("Great OS, shame about the editor") Emacs is AFAIK not an operating system but runs on top of one, so it's an application.

Lazy young whippersnappers should come up with their own damn terms for new concepts in stead of just trying to co-opt and redefine existing ones.
I have the feeling there is no interest in fixing these things in the US. Too many people making money of certain outdated services. From printing paper checks to minting pennies.

Like everything, it will require a gigantic scandal before anything is fixed/changed and it will open the door for new issues.
So ladies, next try.

Will there be a version you can somehow integrate into a stair-case without much structural changes on or in the building?

Then you may outcompete stairlifts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stairlift
You don't want a goverment to fail.

The point of a government is to avoid war. The ruling class is made up of the more intelligent and more aggressive population, who make a pact of no aggression among them and that evolves into a government.

The whole European Union was born because of fears of repeating the WWII tragedy. WWI hadn't ended with a surrender, it had been an armistice. Defeated germany polarized and Hitler ascended to power. So, after WWII, France wasn't allowed to grab the coal and iron mines from Germany, and so on.

You want to improve a government and to stabilize it. War has a few winners and the rest are losers. And not inconvenienced losers, dead or enslaved losers.
How does Nix work with less sophisticated package managers that run on top of it, e.g. Python's "pip"?
this use is void
Reengineer this mechanism to run along inclined rails.

If cantilevering from rails on one side is impractical, make it detach from the opposite rail at the top/bottom and swing out of the way.
I don't live in a big city or even in a super-internet-embracing country like for example South Korea - but even in my neck of the woods, dentists, doctors, vets, barber shops, car mechanics, contractors, etc. all have shifted to messaging instead of calling. Unfortunately most are using WhatsApp because of peer pressure. But I'll even swallow that bitter Zuckerberg pill because it's so much more convenient than doing appointments over the phone.
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This makes me sad as I feel low on friendships right now, maybe that’ll change but I have a lot of trauma and energy/fatigue issues to overcome just to have the friendships let alone the friends making stuff together which sounds like a beautiful dream!
I used to select library books on the basis of whether I liked their covers, and take the book to the left of the one I wanted. That way I discovered lots of new authors, a few of which were worth reading.
I find average mechanical keyboards to be perfect for my typing style. They never cause me hand strain, stress, tension, etc. Membrane keyboards, however - and especially whatever you call the keyboards on Macbooks - feel like I'm trying to finger drum on glass. I end up with tons of hand pain.

However -- the qualifying fact is that I am a pianist, from the age of 5. I believe that a lot of the biomechanics I learned at the piano keyboard transfer to the computer keyboard, whether I want them to or not. I can't help but try to type the way I play piano to some degree -- in large part, this means an elevated wrist, a pretty high finger force and more of a hammer-type finger action rather than a pressing-type acting.

A very important part of any instrument training is learning correct technique, and a large reason for this is the prevention of injury. I've had decades to adopt the correct technique for keeping my wrists elevated and my fingers hanging down without tension. And I'm sure the increased finger strength helps, too.
That theory has a predictive power of saying which gender will dominate in a highly pay profession in a country where the gender discrimination is fought for real.

My own anecdotal observation for Norway matches this. Norway is the top of charts regarding gender equality. Yet for example, family lawyers, a highly paid profession, here are mostly women, a complete reversal of situation that was 50 years ago.

In software development the gender inequality increased during the last 20 years especially if one accounts that many women in IT here are immigrants. They find it is easier to get a job without good knowledge of Norwegian (in IT in Norway English is typically enough) even if such jobs are not something that they prefer all other things considered equal.
Row two "Amsterdam" is also Rotterdam, although a different organization manages the metro's (RET instead of GVB).
This looks seriously cool.

I might install it in a VM like Palemoon (because security) and try use it as a main non-work browser to see how it fares.

IMO the world badly needs a truly independent browser.
Ever tried any linear type switches? Silent silver, silent red, silent black...

I am a guitar and bass player, and I love just having a linear switch that you can either hammer on and bottom out (=loud) or silently hover and move 1mm to activate it inaudibly. All depending on mood.
Ah, Zaurus. Those devices were way before their time. Maybe Pinephone will eventually fill that space.
There's no double standard. All the other secretaries of state and presidents are, of course, also war criminals.
Climate is just a side effect, that same management also allows a lot more cows on the same unit of land.

Though farmers are interested in selling carbon credits. This still needs figuring out, but of they can make some side cash they will.
Totally agree. Could be cantilevered from rails on one side or detach from an opposite rail at top/bottom of the run and swing out of the way.
I'm not spreading false information, this is my first hand account of spending time in China, both for business and personal reasons over the last ~8 years. If you disagree fine, but this is purely my experience not a statement of fact.
What was baffling is how very big chains didn't (or still don't) accept cashless payments until recently. IIRC Saizeriya started to accept credit cards this year.
Why do owners of Tesla cars need an App to use their car? What is the advantage of needing a central infrastructure + app just to start your car?
yeah but I'm a single person so 19 TB is kind a big deal for me. But sure corps handle much more.
Yet it is factually almost correct. Obviously its unhealthy to drop everything on circumstances and I understand what you are trying to say, however research shows: a person's home country explains two-thirds of the variation of income differences between all people in the world. This means where you are born is more important for how poor or rich you are than everything else put together.
I don't think the comparison holds well enough. The vast majority is in it in the hopes to get richer.

its closer to tulip mania with a 'distributed' MLM pyramid scheme twist.
People in 150 cities globally standing up to authoritarian controls on freedoms
The NYT should leave the NYT for Substack
Somewhat analogous is PowerPoint, where I delighted in making games and movies as a child. It was possible to trigger actions when buttons and on screen elements were clicked.

I used it as a poor man's Flash.

Whilst it isn't versatile like I hear HyperCard was, it taught me computers could be used to create interactive media. It taught me that software can be stretched beyond its stated goal. And eventually I became a programmer.

I have never tried a chrome book, but I hope there are still similar offerings in software for children looking to explore.
That's true, it's just another medium of execution via cryptographic signatures exposed as on-chain tokens. The legal foundation is still being figured out (mostly due to transparency and global jurisdiction issues) but there is something unique about having a much more programmable system.

It's like DocuSign + APIs + banking + decentralized security and governance all rolled into one, and I think societal and economic changes will catch up to make this new system of transactions much more valuable.
Not everything in life has to have utility.
Very Remote Debugging
Neutron stars have an atmosphere and layers like any other [1] . Very strange and theoretical ones to be sure, but one of the more entertaining.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pasta
I guess I'm biased based on experience at the companies I've worked at but FAST never seemed to have good libraries or tooling
Maybe one of the biggest risks of AI is reifying it, or treating it like a real thing. We may romantically desire AI as an agent with independence, but in my view, this is always a serious mistake. “AI thinking” causes executives to treat classes of technology like a magical black box add-on and causes engineers to remove human involvement. So long as human input is required, the intelligence isn’t artificial— and that leads to disasters like Zillow’s AI algorithm.

This is all a matter of design. We shouldn’t try to design artificial Intelligence, we should design intelligent systems (ones that support systemic success and wellbeing). ML, GANs, transformers, bots and other technologies are cool tools. Let’s not fool others or ourselves by calling them AI.

The clear and present danger is the creation of powerful intelligent systems that we can’t control and that decrease overall system success/wellbeing. Like corporations that aren’t beholden to broader societal interests. That’s the real “AI“ challenge we need to address. And, how do we enable the governing systems in our society to act intelligently? We desperately need more functional governance at scale.
Nix may not have a LTS release, but it certainly does have stable releases. The biannual releases are there precisely for this reason [1].

What's more, the issues you have with package pinning are more of a problem with traditional package managers. The situation is better on Nix and Guix because it provides you with more control and flexibility over packages.

With traditional system-level package managers, you can't really pin a subset of installed packages. Since all packages are installed into a shared location and depend on each other both explicitly and inexplicitly, packages in a distro release are tightly coupled together. It's just not possible to swap out or pin a subset of packages without the risk of breakage. As a result, a dedicated distro release consisting of old packages is needed to keep using older versions of packages.

This is not the case for Nix and Guix, which installs different packages in their own isolated locations. Packages are more loosely coupled, and you can mix packages from stable channels, unstable channels, and even specific git commits of those channels. Using pinned versions of critical system package is also less of a risk because different versions of the same package can coexist on a single system. Even if something does break, you can always roll back.

Finally, Nix and Guix provides ways to fix issues for pinned packages. With Nix/Guix packages, you're not stuck with whatever the distro provides you with. They're more flexible and allows you to create your own custom packages out of existing ones. For example, here's how you can backport patches for a pinned package on Nix:

existingPackage.overrideAttrs (old: {
patches = old.patches ++ [
(fetchpatch { url = "..."; sha256 = "..."; })
];
})

So while the lack of a LTS may be a bit disappointing, I wouldn't consider it a complete dealbreaker because the features and tooling makes up for it.

[1]: https://nixos.org/blog/announcements.html
I just wanted to say: Great article! It made me wanna try out Guix!
Master Foo and the Ten Thousand Lines
The Pigeon Puzzle
> Then the fraudster will say, ‘I’m going to send you the password and you’re going to read it back to me over the phone.'”

In the UK, banks have put in quite a lot of messaging around the fact that they'll never ask for a password -- so the above line from the article ought to set off alarm bells in most customers' minds.

Of course, there are people, particularly older or vulnerable users, who are impacted by this as they might not be aware. Phone scams to get 2FA codes aren't going away anytime soon, sadly.

Also, as an industry, I wish we could move away from SMS-based 2FA. It's kind of amazing that SMSes these days are a barren wasteland -- mostly automated messages, scams, ... and two-factor codes. And some institutions still use SMSes to deliver two factor codes ... including Paypal in the UK.
That study was not rigorous and their claim easily falsifiable. You can't prove wash trading on centralized exchanges. It's a study specifically made for people to quote in arguments such as yours.

Not commenting on the general sentiment.
Sure, but that has to do just as much to do with voter apathy. The primary elections are almost always a ghost town. And with the advent of the internet, it is easier and less expensive to run for office than ever.
Wow so edgy and deep
like a tom cotton ? most people don't realize how close that reality is to come to fruition.
Bit disappointing something like this needs to be approved in the first place.

I believe Lobsters had a reputation over 100 years ago as being 'insectey'. Also tried insect myself and its just a social reason imo we don't eat them as willingly.
> Is there a reason neither Guix nor Nix have made an LTS-type repo?

Nix and Guix are already esoteric enough to scare people away, I don't imagine how these projects would be able to reliably manage LTS releases unless they get serious financial support or enough manpower willing to deal with backporting security and bug fixes.

You might wanna look at Fedora Silverblue and the OSTree technology making its way into RHEL/CentOS/Rocky/ALMA etc.
The overdubbing in this video is creepy, like these auto-generated voiceover videos. Why show peoples faces over completely different narration?
Guix System works great on a ThinkPad T440p besides the default WLAN card. I removed mine for now. If you flash coreboot (to get around the hardware whitelist), you should be able to put in one compatible with linux-libre. There's also the USB dongle solution if you're into that.
Given the authors deleting of tickets on the matter it stands to reason that he didn't want to actually go through the trouble of pulling all images and is kind of being a fraud.

Of course, given enough unreasonably scepticism someone might instead intuit that 18.99 TB of 19TB of data has disappeared.
Trying to stylise the letter M to be distinctive is pretty circuitous - just use an icon of a train! You remove the problem almost entirely, and get a symbol which is easily recognisable even to people who don’t speak the local language.

In Sydney, in the last 10 years our icons have been replaced by stylised letters. T stands for train (not Taxi or Tram), except when it doesn’t and M stands for Metro (which everyone still just calls the train), L stands for light rail (which everyone calls Trams)… it was so much more clear when there were just icons.
<Blame the voters. Voters have agency. The voters are the enablers of the politicians.

And then we have gerrymandering and voter suppression, good luck with getting a vote that counts.
Lonely Software Engineers can chat with recruiters on LinkedIn instead. They have such sweet things to whisper in your ear.
> VM like Palemoon

umm, what?
Same here. I also have a BoA account for most of my day-to-day stuff.

I use credit cards (in particular, an Apple Card) for almost every transaction. In fact, I seldom carry cash, which has been a problem, from time to time.

I won’t use Venmo, or PayPal with direct bank account connection. It has earned me scorn, but you really only need to have a problem once, to learn religion. I don’t use credit cards for Venmo or PayPal for cash transactions, because cash advance fees.

I always pay my account in full, every month. It also means I get Apple Cash, for a slush fund.

I do use direct bank account connection for a few things like utility bills, but that is a fairly primitive setup process, where there is no doubt about the other end. Even so, many outfits now allow bill pay, via credit card.
There is more to art than a legal framework. That's an intentionally myopic view. Art NFTs are a social signal.
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They decided to make GTK4 apps exclusive to the desktop environment for which the app was built for. You could use it outside the intended DE but it will look alien.
> being on the bleeding edge as 64-bit went mainstream, compiling kernels (and everything else) on Gentoo, to more recently VFIO and then Proton

That’s a very unique definition of “fun”.
Manually set up a VPN with no third-party applications
The number of times people have "invented" ASN.1 now is ridiculous.