skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, you can run any binary you want on MacOS if you disable Gatekeeper or go into the security settings and allow an exception for it. The developer doesn't need to be known or notarized by Apple. If you trust the source, go for it. If it's your wife or child's computer and you're installing spyware on it anyway, why worry?
Whoa. timeout. If I'm reading your post correctly your manager gave you a NI as a noogler (first review cycle)?! WTF. Do NIs make it harder to transfer? sure, but it's not impossible.
Perhaps quotes that make people feel bad are less likely to survive.
> I am mildly concerned about 'company' attempting to monitor wifi traffic

It is possible to do this? Also, would it not be very illegal?
Indeed. As much as few I know trust Yelp, there really isn't anything close to an effective alternative, except for maybe the Uber Eats ratings.

This is why this is not a problem for Amazon. Removing Amazon from my life would require substantially restructuring it and losing a lot more time procuring goods. Have I been burned a few times by shoddy goods? Yes, the alternative is spending time in stores or spending days waiting for packages. I can order something in the morning and have it delivered by the evening.
You could use any other EVM or smart contract platform than Ethereum
From what I recall from seeing mortality curves vs BMI, away from the expected minimum the curve rises much faster for low BMI than high BMI.

Makes one think. In a high-self-control-valuing society, "heavy" is perhaps seen as lacking virtue, but in many societies "skinny" is perhaps seen as lacking utility.
What does that role consist off?
> I don’t understand what problem web3 can solve that a trusted entity cannot.

Trust cannot solve the problem of giving too much power to trustee. The fact that IT giants are collecting people's data to manipulate people's mind is one good example. We should be able to control the level of trust we can provide to other parties.
SO did OS/2. People wanted the defrag of Windows 95 or Norton Utilities but OS/2 defragged in the background.

SSD drives don't need to be defragged.
Ok, maybe we'd better downweight this submission. Thanks.
Amazon is now directly chartering cargo ships: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/10/technology/amazon-cargo-s...

They don't even have to spend cash to price-dump. Wallyworld and the membership warehouses get cheap prices by dangling huge purchase orders in front of companies. "We can always go to your competitor" is the unspoken threat.
Those are public schools that are 100% virtual?
KYC and AML are considered positives by most people, being great ways to cut down on fraud, make banking hard for criminal enterprises etc etc.
Or demoing to stakeholders, gathering business requirements, communicating new content that needs to be received etc. Those are all important reasons to go slower too

Moving too fast doesn't benefit anyone
Why do you feel they don’t understand that?
In a world where tech companies keep disappointing me, Valve continues to be a force for good. Probably because it's still a private company. Publicly traded companies can't see anything further than balance sheets.
It is an odd claim, the largest. I just did a cursory search and found several notable atrocities with larger numbers. Most occurred from over several days to over several months. I guess an argument could be that specifies in a single day or in a single hour but that kind of specificity trivializes the scale of atrocities committed against Poles, Serbs, and Jews.

Large scale massacres includes: Palmiry, Liepaja, Katyn, Bubanj, and Borki

This video is widely viewed and worth the time

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DwKPFT-RioU
Care to elaborate further as to why?
You don't understand; they own the intellectual property and that means anything they say is canon and you have to lap it up like a subservient dog.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/moderna-stock-tanks-covi...

> Moderna expects to deliver between 700 million and 800 million COVID-19 vaccine doses at the 100 µg dose level in 2021, down from the previous guidance of 800 million to 1 billion doses.

Will 700 million recipients of 100 µg doses be informed that Moderna booster's mRNA content has been reduced by 50%, from 100 µg to 50 µg? Pfizer booster is unchanged at 30 µg, same as Pfizer 1st and 2nd shots, https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-....

Can new recipients of Moderna receive the 50 µg dose, which is 166% of Pfizer's mRNA dose, rather than 300%?

Germany, France, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway suspended Moderna for people under 30.
I get unusually annoyed by fake movie trailers. The type that edit together random scenes from previous movies and get 17M views.

Like… wtf. If an actual content creator uploads something they filmed in their own garage but there’s a sliver of a poster in the background with Mickey Mouse in it, it’s instantly flagged as a copyright violation.

Straight up reposting of 5 minutes of a movie pretending I be a new one? Fine, go ahead…
Indian merchants have to support UPI - another payment mechanism which is secure. I tend to use that in most places so that I dont have to store my card details.
Thanks! I really appreciate your straw man and shameless baiting, but my point was made. To be perfectly clear, if I can dumb it down a bit, though the observation is correct and maybe even mildly interesting, maybe it is even a unique observation no one else has noticed, it is, regardless, not a valid criticism in the same way it is not a valid criticism of garage tools that cars are not made out of them. So criticizing UNIX commands because no major applications are made out of them is, if not wrong-headed, then it is barking up the wrong tree, because, at least my understanding is, major applications are developed with programming language. I suspect there are a myriad of programs that fail to rise to the level to be classified major applications that are basically ugly and slow and strung-together UNIX commands, so it can be done, if desired, just as I expect one could build a vehicle out of garage tools if one had the drive to do so rather than use the appropriate materials. So there is perhaps some question begging in your observation in the hidden and incorrect assumption "UNIX tools are intended to be used as elements of major applications, that's what they're for" so that you may criticize in the precise way that you did. There are plenty of valid criticism of UNIX tools, but yours is not one of them. Though, it seems obvious, you have an keen and interesting mind possibly with a touch of the inability to be disagreed with, nor can tolerate criticism of your observations. Maybe I'm wrong, it just seemed that way just then.
They are currently trying to force me to add my mobile number to gmail. If I get logged out they are going to lock me out until I do.
re: Explorer Patcher, does it allow the (W11/W10) taskbar to be moved to one of the vertical edges? The github page doesn't mention this.

I prefer the taskbar on the left and the fact that a vertical taskbar is not supported on W11 is one of the principal reasons I haven't upgraded from W10.
Anyone on the fence about ditching Windows for Linux should just do it. If you pick a popular distro and hardware you'll likely run into only minimal issues, if any. My sound and wifi worked right out of the box even though I built my own system.

Why anyone still puts up with this garbage, abusive, disrespectful OS is beyond me.
They can communicate, but if they want to agree on shared state between them, they have to solve the same problem that blockchains seek to solve, and the options available to you there are essentially on a spectrum of how many people are going to participate and to what extend you can vet them.
You seem to make the assumption that employee productivity must be reducible to and quantifiable as one-dimensional measurable metrics.

I’m not saying it’s generally wrong to do so but just because it’s tricky for certain positions doesn’t make it a good idea to force it.
A bear case for Bitcoin in 120 years based on the single aspect of the loss of mining rewards. Legit funny!
- Uniswap and Sushiswap allows you to trade different cryptos for one another. If you want to trade gold for some reason in a decentralized manner, you could do that by making trades between gold-pegged crypto and stablecoins

- Aave allows you to lend and borrow different crypto assets. If you wish to short a crypto, or if you wish to borrow against your portfolio so that you're spending fiat rather than your portfolio (a feature offered by traditional assets as well), this lets you do both of those.

- Tornado cash allows you to anonymize your Ethereum, because unfortunately Ethereum just doesn't have strong built-in privacy guarantees like Monero

- All the gambling websites. If gambling is illegal in your jurisdiction, but you'd like to gamble anyway, it's hard to stop you from doing so. Depending on your political sensibilities, this could be a good or bad thing. Personally, I say let adults do what they want, including making dumb decisions for themselves. (Of course, if you want to hide your tracks well, you'd probably want to use the aforementioned Tornado Cash.)
You got down voted a bit for this comment, but it’s the sort of comment I, at least, appreciate.
There are certain things you're not allowed to mention. For example, anything related to shipping speed or delivery issues. Even if the item was shipped direct by the seller.

Hope this helps.
Stroke threatens the brain. We have a million of them a year. Been here since the start of modern medicine. A neurological therapeutic is complicated because of neurotransmitters, chemical synapses, and the lack of neural regeneration.
Water cannon deployed in The Hague, The Netherlands
It bothers me that it's mainly moving unused blocks around.
from the perspective of the scammer, there is a huge and liquid market. way more liquid than the market for fenced goods. we're talking tens billions of dollars eth traded a day on many exchanges. that is like 1000x as much stolen by this one kid. the market is big enough to support a lot of criminals. plus, many of them are not going to be cashing out.
This is such a solve-able problem that it can only be purposeful.
This particular case is weird because they doubled-down on their use of NFTs, then 20 minutes later they did a full backpedal.
It's trivial to take the direct approach of "Let's just treat the symptom."

Symptoms are caused by underlying disease. If you have people killing themselves in excessive numbers, one should not look at the means they employed as the problem. Doing so, is having a hammer, therefore the nail (removal of the offending thing, in this case the instrument of suicide.)

Treat. The. Disease. Why are they suicidal?

Overly high standards/expectation? High stress? Corrupt systems? Social stigma? Failure to teach/communicate/cross cultural divides? Miscalibrated assessment methodologies? Lack of opportunity or alternatives in the face of failure? Physical stressors? Bad nutrition, poor food, unsafe environment?

To stop at "just get rid of offensive thing" in this particular case is to indulge in willful ignorance of the root cause of suicidal ideation; the final conclusive cessation of suffering. What is causing them to suffer?

Relieve that. Engage in 2nd and higher order thinking.
Like watching an AI speedrun 1-dimensional Tetris.
Faster disk access was one selling point. But as I recall the primary reason to defrag was to prevent problems caused by long FAT chains. And when something did go wrong, contiguous files were easier to recover from the damaged filesystem.
In my world, the solution depends on the requirement. I can't take all the criticism of each as if they are competition to each other. Also, multiple monolithic (can't stand that word as well) can be applied to distribute resources and data, and to reduce dependencies.

Compute, storage, and other services have gotten to the point where they are unlimited, they were originally designed for what was considered monolithic applications. Shared tenancy is not good in the age of multiple dependencies and in terms of security needs for mission-critical applications and data.

Cloud host providers got too eager in seeking to create new lines of business and pushed micro-service architectures far too early to maturity, and now we're just beginning to see it's faults, many which can't be fixed without major changes that will likely make them pretty much useless, or alternatively just similar to monolithic architectures anyway.

Profit and monopolistic goals shouldn't drive this type of IT innovation, solving critical problems should. We shouldn't just throw away all that we've engineered over the past decade and reinvent the wheel... Heck, many liars are still running FINTECH on COBOL.
1GB is a giant swap partition; linux regularly ran with swap partitions of 10s of MB in the 90s. The only reason to scale swap with ram is if you want to fit coredumps (or suspend to disk) in swap.
> I put my work computer on it's own vlan this week, no rules to talk to anything else in the network. I keep the laptop closed so the camera doesn't catch anything ether. Really just peace of mind things.

What do you do about the laptop’s microphone?
One thing I don't get, maybe someone can shed some light; what happens if some trademarked content is added to the blockchain metadata or on something like arweave. If a DMCA comes in - from my reading, blockchains or ipfs stores won't take the item down, but will make it so the address the item is stored at returns nothing. So, it's the equivalent of some entity controlling the DNS? Sure, the item at the address is immutable, but you might not be able to get it. If that's accurate it's 'mostly' immutable, which is not immutable. Am I way off?
I would decline. There are other jobs out there.

Another alternative might be to install it into a VM or old but freshly-paved computer.
I find the idea of snooping horrific and yet strangely find myself agreeing with the parent, because it may be the lesser of two evils at this point. So much of what's online and what can happen to a kid online is even more horrific. FWIW, I don't have kids, so I'm not sure what I'd do. But I know I had my first sex chat on IRC when I was 12, in the dialup days, and it could have gone pretty badly if I hadn't been paranoid enough not to give out my phone number or address to the "14 year old girl" I was chatting with. Things are much, much, much worse now.
I agree that there is that implicit pressure, but really it should (as in the ideal case) be fine to just say "I've been thinking about A, B, and C" and leave it at that. That still gives you the room to say that issue C has blocker X etc if it needs to be resolved in the team.
I lament that it seems to start out with a 80-90% free disk and ends with a 60-70% full disk and reads mostly blocks that are free. And when it's done it just restarts with a fragmented disk...
There are some videogames I play that only work on Windows :/
I'm a better beginner than an expert at anything I do. I mainly attribute this to the excitement around learning and the rate of returns I'm the initial part of the learning journey.
Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation
NVME drives still like some TLC optimisation, i.e running TRIM on a regular basis.
>I'm not aware of centralized tools built in to Teams that are used to systematically evaluate people,

Oh boy are you wrong.
I just find it funny that it's so unclear if this is an insurrection or a protest that they have to have polls about it
I associate click of death with IOMega drives
Verizon, previously called NYNEX, has always been a sleazy outfit.

https://it.qiq.wiki/wiki/NYNEX#Criticism
Not just companies. Philippine Embassy requires some documents to be sent to an @gmail address...
Ah, natural language. I'd interpreted you as meaning that you host the apps yourself rather than let someone do it for you (hence "self-hosting"), and you host these apps for others to use.

I mean, yes, but if your use case is only yourself as the sole user, that's quite different from the majority of businesses out there who need to service many users. This is truly like comparing apples and oranges.
Why Biden Can’t Win on Inflation
none of these will be resolvable hostnames in an unmodified desktop operating system or networking device with default configuration
World governments are panicking because inflation is around 6% when compared to a year of deep pandemic restrictions. 6% is a joke for crypto, both up and down.
It doesn’t even have to be collusion. There are strong incentives for export nations to devalue their currency. The US has been accusing/criticizing China of doing so, for example.

It’s a race to the bottom.

The existence of BTC as a deflationary asset is a threat to the power of central banks to keep their economy under control; there is a way out for individuals and businesses.
For the site you mentioned:

- The hostname is resolved from Cloudflare's authoritative DNS nameservers

- It has a TLS cert issued by Cloudflare

- The backend IP resolves to Cloudflare's server range

- It is a pretty standard React front end served entirely from https://app.uniswap.org

- I can't say about the compute, but it's pretty obvious that the site isn't running on 1/5,000 the power of a Raspberry Pi for $250 a second (aka Smart Contract).

So, what part of it is distributed and resilient to takedowns?
It's no longer considered the only way though, nor are companies selling software based on how object-oriented it is.

They did in the 90s.

OO is now one of several styles, and we no longer have the drive for OO purity we did back then - modern languages and modern versions of languages tend to mix up paradigms and make pragmatic choices, rather than insist on OO everything being the only way.
> Heh. The above assumes that world governments will not collude to inflate their currency.

... or default.

It will be interesting after the midterms next year if Biden ends up a lame duck President, and Mitch manages to block any further raising of the US debt ceiling. Everyone says it's practically impossible for America to default given its debt denominated in U.S. dollars, but blocking its ability to borrow more so it's unable to pay bond coupons will trigger a default.

I wouldn't discount cryptocurrencies as a store of value just yet.
Yup. That's the one.
ive had to break down and at least have a windows vm. ive picked up making music as a hobby and all the various production and plugin-in software is a no go with linux. Same with VR related things. I would love to get a mac, but unfortunately arm isn't really supported for my other use cases (ros middleware robotics)
You are deeply misinterpreting this.
> "Jacob, a 23-year-old living in Baltimore, told me. (He asked to be identified by his first name only because his job doesn’t permit him to talk with the press.)"

> "Kelsey, a 24-year-old HR professional in Tampa, told me. (She asked to be identified by only her first name because her employer prohibits her from talking with the press.)"

That speech doesn't seem very free.
Look into the 4% rule. Once you have 25 to 30x your yearly expenses invested, you’ll be in the right ballpark.
I remember vaguely Diskeeper on OpenVMS, still wonder if it helped or not.
Big legal issues for the video/audio monitoring. That's essentially wiretapping. Also other data privacy issue if your housemate also works from home in an industry like financial or healthcare and has to routinely discuss customer/patient information.
Evidence-Based Software Engineering: based on the publicly available data

http://www.knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/
Email is fine, thanks.
Legislation requiring a backdoor in e2e encryption, such as WhatsApp, is also considered a positive by most people even now, but wait after it's been in place for 10 years, it will be as universally unquestioned as KYC or AML policies.
>native game is the way to drive adoption up

No, the way to drive adoption is to improve wine / dxvk. Allowing developers to target a single set of APIs is key to making it easy for games to work and not rot from developers not testing on Linux.
Wireshark can pick up any traffic on your WiFi network so they could run something similar.
I would almost prefer a Chromium monoculture over having to deal with supporting WebKit, and I say this as a Firefox user.
So, no explanation or elaboration as to why it is 'irrelevant'.

So it has been admitted and my point is still not refuted.
> I consider myself very competent in my field even though I stopped doing purely technical work some time ago, but there are a lot of very good coders out there, but not enough "lazy pragmatists" like me.

I have found many times that junior developers really love to write code (I did too early in my career). Most of my time is spent stopping people from writing more code. As in, why are you doing this instead of using this library? Why are you even thinking about writing code to do date/time manipulation? Why are even thinking about doing something custom when it’s security related?

I guess it’s because modern development is actually mostly boring so anything that looks challenging people love to think they can finally apply that algo/leet code shit they’ve been prepping for. In NormalCorp you can forget about it. It’s my job to actively make sure no one is trying to be clever by writing unnecessary fun code.
Edit— this was in response to an earlier comment that wouldn't stick to the thread for some reason. As a layman, I asked if a rug pull had ever happened in a coin run by someone with real credibility. Someone responded saying I should check out the Squid rug pull. Not sure if they were using that as an example of a currency run by credible people, but it seemed so. Here's my answer.

So I looked it up— it was just some anonymous people on the internet having nothing to do with Netflix whatsoever, right?

I assumed I was just missing the tricky part... people really serially put cash into unvetted ecosystems which you can only assume will behave the way anonymous developers say it will, indefinitely? It's all run by who would almost certainly be better off themselves if they just took the cash and ran? And they assume that windfall profits are a likely outcome for this behavior?

Unless I'm missing something, that's not investing— that's a gambling addiction. And at least the small time bookie who doesn't hide his organized crime ties has a professional reputation at stake if he doesn't pay out.
No, we get it. There are transactions we want to shutdown - child porn, bribes to public officials, money laundering, black market arms trades. There are transactions we want to reverse: mistakes, ransomware.

The gatekeepers are important and play a role. There are real arguments to be made about how we can make the gatekeepers more efficient, but not that they aren’t necessary.
I don't think I work more than 2 or 3 hours a day if that at a large - but not evil - social media company.

I've been amazed. My previous job was much more involved - easy to hit 6-9 hours of work every day.

It depends a lot on the company, pace of work, expectations etc.

If you're happy with this, enjoy it and ride it out. It's the best deal possible. If you're unhappy with not having enough work then it may be worthwhile trying to find a job at a smaller company or one with more active projects.
I always read (from sources like LKML, not random blog posts) that defrag on SSD is simply useless because you never know the actual physical placement of your blocks. You can write a sequential 512 MB chunk of data in a single file and have it exploded in 500k+ 4k blocks in different locations (or vice versa — a bunch of random writes to different sectors can be compacted into a single linear block).

If you really need to defrag SSD (which somewhat helps IME if it was heavily used up to 100% capacity), copy everything to other storage, wipe it (preferably with NVMe/SATA commands, or at least do a full TRIM), and then copy everything back.