skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as moving the bits around goes, I think that the scuttlebutt protocol handles it nicely. And if you look at the tokenomics of CirclesUBI there's nothing to prevent partition tolerance--you already have the restriction that tokens can only move across links in the web of trust, so you'd just have to add the additional restriction that the parties involved in a transitive-trust-transaction have to be contactable for verification at the time of the transaction. Although CirclesUBI runs on Ethereum (xdai) and would have to be ported to scuttlebutt.

The plan isn't fully fleshed out: you still need to incentivize running nodes and handle cases where bad behavior on the part of node maintainers becomes transparent so that users can revoke trust in them, but my point is that this is not some blind faith in the ability of the community to adapt, but rather something that I have diagrams on my whiteboard for.
I want to like powershell because of the richer return types, but it has so many strange deviations from normal shell languages that it is hard to get productive in it.

I remember testing out some new languages and toolchains and following the guides, but I would often get many of them that would not work because I was using powershell. Powershell has different syntax for escaping (backtick), starting arrays (parens), etc., that makes many commands completely incompatible (even very short ones).
Why do you think this is an age thing? I know plenty of older people that are wild about anything blockchain related and plenty of younger people who despise it all.
Slippery Slope isn’t a fallacy. It’s literally how things progress from good to worse.
Identifying early signs of Stalin’s rise to power would be called Slippery Slope these days.

As for twitter, their focus removing on information that is damaging to people in power is concerning. These days private corps wield as much or more power than governments.
You can rest assured that if you go into a store and get pitched on a product, if the salesperson works on commission, the product they push the hardest on is the one with the highest profit margin (and consequently the one they make the highest commission on).

Generally, stores will offer a low priced option that they are willing to sell by keeping large quantities in stock, but on which their margin is very small. They'll make money by selling those in volume, and you won't get the hard sell for that. If they sense you walking away, they'll make the low-cost argument to at least get a product in your hands.

There will be the God-level products with enormous markups that only fools will buy. Nobody really tries to sell those, but they'll happily ring you up for the commission.

Then there is the sweet spot in the middle; the products that are moderately high priced that take a value-proposition to sell. You can rest assured these are the money-makers for salespeople.

Sadly, Amazon has found out that the three-fold approach is no longer worth it. They already deal in massive volumes, so there is no need to carry the name brands and make advertising pushes to sell those products. Instead, they focus on the low-end garbage and let the third party sellers go to war each with other for your purchase. The odd God-level-priced product still exists and they'll happily sell it to you, but you'd be a schmuck to buy it from Amazon.
Or for being a part of a network that was doing so. I suspect that it is more likely that they were just part of a system that was promoting tweets and reposting material
I'm not in the tech industry, and I agree. Usually, when I go on about why Amazon sucks to people, they're thrilled somebody is articulating what they've found to be true. For a lot of people, when Amazon/Google don't get them what they want, they blame THEMSELVES, not Amazon or Google. They know they aren't getting what they want, but consider the problem as "I'm not good enough at using Amazon."

It's a relief to them when I lay out the bad decisions Amazon is making and how they're tanking the customer experience.
What you're describing is hard in any corner of the internet because there's a vocal minority of critics, some of whom just won't let go.

On the other hand, I find myself doing it. Take a look at the new tesla model S, a very interesting an innovative car and one of the quickest on the planet. But I can't help but talk about what I think is fatally flawed - the lack of dedicated physical controls and a non-round yoke steering wheel.
I disagree with pretty much your entire comment.

> PowerShell as a scripting language is a major PITA.

Well, except this part.

> After 2 hours the script would abruptly quit because of some syntax error. 2 hours wasted.

As mentioned by another commenter, the PowerShell script is parsed up front, so it probably wasn't a syntax error. My guess is the script lacked error handling and some query or connection to a remote server failed.

> A lot of Microsoft plugins have PowerShell plugins. This is what makes PowerShell valuable, not some attribute of PowerShell itself.

There we go agreeing again. Although, PowerShell is effectively self-documenting, which is good for busy sysadmins.

> Really what Microsoft should have done is to make those plugins available to C#

A lot of them effectively are available to C#, such as System.DirectoryServices.*. In the early days of Active Directory, before PowerShell, this is how we did things. While fun for us programming nerds, it took a hell of a lot more time to write usable tools.

> C# is as easy as most scripting languages in any case

Hard disagree.

> Make C# usable like Dino for TypeScript (i.e., transparent compilation).

A more C#-like scripting language? I'm all for that, but why not just use TypeScript at that point (ala the JScript days).

> Then any syntax errors in the script can be caught ahead of time, instead of after 2 hours of running.

No, you run into the exact same challenges, whether it's PowerShell or C#.

IMHO, while I'd rather be doing C# programming any day of the week, PowerShell is more approachable for the vast majority of Windows sysadmins out there. Additionally, due to the command... verboseness of PowerShell, it is effectively self-documenting.

Edit: Snover's original Monad Manifesto paper is worth a read for his reasonings about what is now PowerShell: https://www.jsnover.com/Docs/MonadManifesto.pdf

It might be best summarized by this partial quote: "PowerShell replaces fragile, prayer-based text parsing with pipelines of objects (structured data)"
Yeah, there are also many workarounds aside from censoring. Such as allowing people to select filters/their own curation algorithm and so on.

But it seems to be the European model to censor societally undesirable viewpoints, from my understanding. So free speech from the American perspective does not seem to be a universally held belief.

Personally I think it's worth striving for, but providing tools for those who want to live in a bubble.

There will never be a "correct" single algorithm or filter that can be applied globally. These companies are doing a lot of unnecessary damage to themselves by trying to force it to be that way.

I believe all algorithms for curating what you see on the largest social media platforms should be required to be open source/explained, and that third parties should be able to write their own to be used on those platforms. Idea needs to be fleshed out more, but something along those lines. And all speech that's constitutional should be left untouched (in USA). If you don't like it, filter it out.
He's making a sales pitch rather than a factual statement. Linux is file-orientated but it is also API-orientated too. You cannot make syscalls via file descriptors, nor call shared objects via a fd. And most REST APIs in the world are running on top of Linux anyway.

I also think it is disingenuous to talk about HTTP APIs when talking about shell scripting as if it's something that needs to be built into the fabric of the shells design when HTTP APIs can be an abstraction that bolts on top. In fact that's exactly how a lot of CLI tools work (awscli, Terraform, even Powershell scripts will make those API calls in composed functions rather than natively from shell).
I don't have anything they will ruin but I do have the opposite: lots of ideas for plugins, apps, features that I wish someone would build (and profit off of), and I suggest those.
Stronger reminder: Don't play with SSH toys using your work computer, ever, as a sensible way to remain employed
It appears NancyTracker and the Maxwell court case from this thread were run by the same account?

https://gab.com/NancyTracker/posts/107411717342791428

If so - whatever got them suspended (bot farm upvotes usually?) got both accounts suspended. These then aren't separate suspensions but one person's suspension across multiple accounts.
So maybe resubmit your question and take the hardware out of the equation.

"Why does RPi have such a robust ARM Linux ecosystem and why isn't that portable to other modules?"
Not an expert, but I think the problem is in the testing and distribution. Just from a public health POV, it's hard enough tracking who is getting doses of what and all the public communication about what to do that it really needs and deal with hate tweets from Rand Paul. Synthesizing the vaccine could possibly be done in a week.
Read your own ref. Optimistic estimates put the first appearance of life on earth as soon as 50 mill years after oceans formed.

The Petri dish analogy was only supposed to be tounge in cheek but if you want to be pedantic then consider that the medium between the source and destination is a frozen vacuum which means you have billions of years for transmission and spreading.
> But if they're acting on behalf of powerful state actors, how can we say that's not suppression on speech?

Well you would first have to prove that they were acting on the behalf of powerful state actors. Does anyone have that proof?
So is drinking coffee. “Drugs” as an umbrella term is either too broad or too politicized to have much meaning without referring to specific substances. Even classing them by category can be tricky: caffeine and cocaine are both stimulants, for example.
> If I forward the message or show you a screenshot, then the case that the communication happened is significantly stronger. (Of course screenshots can be doctored, but that's another problem)

How is it another problem? If the method purports to be able to strengthen claims of veracity, but immediately after you demonstrate it to be vulnerable to spoofing, then it offered nothing in the first place. It's exactly the same problem.
Unless you get 95% of people to use such an extension, it will be mostly useless. And if somebody succeeded in getting 95% of people to use their extension, they would sell it to the highest bidder in a heartbeat, as has happened many times before. YouTube is dead, it's time to create something new.
Yeah, why not. "States' rights" would be an easy example.
Ask HN: What service does Robinhood use for emails
I always get trade confirmation emails instantly whereas many apps take a few seconds / a minute to deliver forgot password, authentication code, etc. emails. Would love to be able to incorporate whatever service Robinhood uses into apps I build.
You really think Drosten and Priesemann decide measures? That's politicians, the government decided on it. If I remember well, scientists were worried when hospitalization was declared the only truth.

And the RKI predicted the forth basically down to a T, they were a couple of weeks of so. Doesn't matter because they predicted, along with Drosten, already during summer.
Mac and Windows kernels are also written (predominantly) in C. So not sure what industry you're referring to.

If anyone's interested - here's Linus on C++ in the linux kernel: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus
Twitter banned the US president and went out of their way to clarify they are not banning the Taliban.
Their CEO said something here a few days ago about how that was leaving their ToS.
This just sounds like sheer laziness to me, which of course it is.

What you're saying is that you're willing to trade any sense of assured quality for the convenience of not having to do anything other than do the simplest of processes. Granted, this describes the majority of people, but let's at least be willing to admit what it is.
I took a class in logic for my Math BA (dual major w/ Physics) and the content of the class was close to one of the major themes in GEB. The stuff with classical music (e.g. "themes"), Achilles and the Turtle and quite a bit of it is something that I think somebody could appreciate or not appreciate.
Phizer is immune to bad reputation and they know it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_pharmaceutical...

Phizer holds single largest criminal fine in human history at 1.3$ Billion USD (to my knowledge). They have many reasons to lie; while I'm not suggesting they are (I have no idea how I would determine truth from falsehood in the realm of scientific information) it's quite ignorant to make the statement "Why would they lie". They would lie because it's something innate to humans and Phizer is no exception. They stand to make ludicrous amounts of money if boosters become mandated - now boosters may ultimately be the best option for the protection of human life! But this doesn't mean we shouldn't be incredibly skeptical of every word that comes from this organization.

While I am fully vaccinated (ironically with 2x Phizer), I am and will remain hesitant at accepting information provided by pharmaceutical companies at face value until the day I'm dead.
> Vaccine formulations that have been developed against SARS-CoV not only fail to protect animal models of aged populations, but also result in immunopathology in younger populations, where SARS disease is enhanced in vaccinated groups that are subsequently challenged with SARS-CoV.

> In addition, vaccines generate memory immune responses to specific pathogens, and no vaccine formulations have been developed that are effective against multiple CoVs. Due to the diversity of BatCoVs, it seems unlikely that current therapeutic strategies targeting specific SARS-CoV or MERSCoV antigens will be efficacious against future coronaviruses that emerge into the human population.

That's from 2019 [0] about the original SARS-CoV, I'm not aware of any research breakthroughs, since then and now, that suddenly made SARS-CoV vaccines more viable compared to back then.

All I see is how there was suddenly a massive political needs for vaccines, sold with unrealistic tales about sterile heard immunity, and an absolute insistence how side-effects are impossible.

Now we've entered a phase were big chunks of the world still ain't vaccinated, but the original round of vaccinations are already running out, with death streaks in elderly homes, so now "boosters" are supposed to be the solution.

And that's with the vaccination campaigns not being able to keep up in many places, even right at the source, in Germany [1].

[0] https://sci-hub.ru/10.1080/17460441.2019.1581171

[1] https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/dachau/dachau-corona-im...
Worth an experiment, even as simple as "I own crypto"

- Disclosure: I own crypto
US Gov Launches ML Competition To Predict Snow Water From Remote Sensing Data
The podcast TrueAnon is covering the trial with daily updates.

https://twitter.com/TrueAnonPod

https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod
The only thing I pay Amazon for now is for the TV streaming service, since they have a better back catalogue than Netflix.

For books I'll use bookshop.org, and for anything else I'll shop around for anywhere that isn't Amazon. I really don't care about next day or same day delivery; rarely do I require something so urgently that I can't wait a few days or a week or two.

Amazon itself is total trash these days, and it's getting steadily worse.
I think so. Its typically the equivalent of 'nudge, nudge, wink wink' so if it was subtle people would miss the point
The new "private information" policy has been widely abused in the last week or so. A lot of accounts of this nature are going up and down as people war over false reports.

Bunch of examples: https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1465833079952625664
For work sure, but it also sounds to me that it was built during personal time.

If I use my own time to make something, work isn’t getting it without paying for it. I don’t care what the contract says about personal projects (although I‘ve also never signed one of those “we own everything you do outside of work” clauses because I find them exploitative and abusive)
You can probably make a good guess though. If you have conversations at work like

bob: "hey come and check out this cool thing I made, I think it could save you a load of time"

me: "woah, nice one bob, that's amazing! Let's roll this out to the other devs"

then you're probably not working with someone like gp.
I'm so confused by your comment -- it doesn't tell a great story for anyone, regardless of vaccination status. We're all in this together, and a potential escape variant harms both vaccinated (by loss of protection) and unvaccinated (by increased transmission risk since vaccinated aren't protected).
The feeling's mutual, i assure you.
For me most of the questions I ask are mostly answered and have multiple up votes. For me SO is definitely FAQ and one that is done well.
I don't doubt that you can pay in Crypto by exchanging BTC against USD. But prices are still denominated in USD and the reciever most likely has to hedge against potential losses due to quickly fluctuating exchange rates.
Facebook and Snapchat iOS Apps Still Tracking Users Despite Opt-Out
Pff lost track of it all. Probably 15 things went wrong along the way, some obvious and some very subtle problems, iirc I even recompiled the kernel at one stage. I've read that the newer ones(2060 being among them), the process is far less painful. I just checked and I'm on a Quadro M5000 which is from 2015(I found it dirt cheap so I went with it).
I find it encouraging. A virus that’s endemic and doesn’t kill people who are vaccinated is not a big deal. Like yeah it would be great if we eradicated it, but this is really fine.
Different is not the same as better. Multiple studies show benefits for each under different conditions such as time since exposure and consistency of protection. The best fit for available evidence seems to be that getting COVID (or at least a positive test result) doesn’t guarantee a robust long term immunity for every individual. But it can result in a better long term immunity for many.

This is why it’s recommended for people to get vaccinated even after infection. They might already have robust immunity, or they might not. The vaccines are so incredibly safe and cheap it’s simply not worth the risk.
From what I've learned about the previous variants, hospitalizations are usually delayed by as much as two weeks following the increase in cases. The increase in deaths would likely follow a couple of weeks after that.

I'd still remain careful but agree the data we have now look promising. I also agree that if the Omicron variant is less dangerous it would be advantageous if it took over the delta variant
I'd guess that if you bought quality products from a reputable retailer* that didn't suck, you would probably not be need to use the return option nearly as much.

*I no longer consider Amazon a reputable retailer
I hate "DRM" as much as the next person, but ... am I the only person that sees this as a great feature in the particular content it is implemented for?

This isn't like classical DRM where the intent is to stop you from owning content you already purchased.

This is effectively a way for group/page holders to ensure control over content that is not meant to be shared beyond that context.

Yes I know that technically if you post a picture of your kids in the group someone could still take a physical screenshot from another phone, but the point is reasonable friction, not an insurmountable tech barrier.
I have personally reported this (and related "tracker" accounts) for disinformation multiple times, so for one, I am glad to see it suspended. Despite the innocent sounding name, it's not just "coverage of the trial" as you would expect. The "tracker" accounts have all signs of belonging to a Russian troll farm and pushing a hostile agenda, which has absolutely nothing to do with justice one way or another.

I expect to see more of these accounts suspended in coming days.
> Governments are notoriously bad at investments

Not all governments, check Norway for a great example of great investment.
I used to use my bank's mobile web interface to monitor my balances (with Zabbix, it even alerted when I'd been paid haha)

The mobile page asked for the full passcode whereas the regular page asked for specific digits which, while still automatable, wasn't as easy

The code/method might have been useful to others at the time (especially your Mints and that) but I didn't want them changing it. The mobile site was, as far as I could tell, a relic from an older era that I stumbled across by accident

Everything's starting to catch up now so it's no longer needed. My bank now (Monzo) even does webhooks for transactions if you set them up :)

On the topic of YouTube I really don't get the reaction to removing dislikes, seems a bit overblown. I am biased in that I've never noticed them other than that one Futurama neutral video that keeps them synced with the positive votes though (which ofc is now broken)

Incidentally removing the number and replacing it with a big DISLIKE in caps makes it much more noticeable. I am way more likely to click it if the video is bad now, for whatever that matters

Edit for OP edit:

> Now w/o the dislikes count, all devs have a much harder time filtering useless videos

This is the only argument I've seen opposing the removal of dislikes so far. Are there any others? Even silly reasons, anything other than "bad tutorials tho"
Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act of 2021 (U.S.)
MacRumors summary of the paywalled FT article: https://www.ft.com/content/69396795-f6e1-4624-95d8-121e4e5d7...
Seriously, Stop Disabling SELinux
I had no idea this feature existed! Thanks!
Everyone should do key based auth anyway - so I don't even see use for fail2ban anymore in context of SSH.
Thank you for posting! Maybe you can include the game of Arimaa [1]. Arimaa was designed to be hard(er) for computers and level the playing field for humans. Algorithms were developed eventually, though I have not kept up to know where that stands today.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arimaa
Twitter didn't suspend the account for not being reputable. They suspended the account for being part of a network that was artificially promoting tweets and content. You're arguing a point that Twitter never made
I kind of agree... we need a new YT
Typically with busted messages, an early and easy thing to do is to just shunt them off into a "dead-letter queue". That's just the name of another queue where messages are manually handled.
Vaccination Surveys Fell Victim to the “Big Data Paradox”
If one’s a dog, I suppose.
At some point, you have to use your judgement and evaluate things for yourself. It is regrettable that a label like "patriot" has become something that instantly discredits something for a good chunk of the population. But we have to be vigilant about calling everything a dog-whistle because you risk becoming trapped within your own worldview.
> (although I‘ve also never signed one of those “we own everything you do outside of work” clauses because I find them explosive and abusive)

Me too. I always ask that it be removed from the contract, and so far, it always has been.
The abstract claims they beat the "strongest openly available agent in heads-up no-limit Texas hold'em poker". To a non-expert that certainly sounds like they're claiming to be the best