skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume they aren't emailing Mark Zuckerberg with every account they steal. All it takes is lax internal auditing and a culture where customer service[1] is not valued and this could go on for a very long time.

[1] Ok, this is a little unfair. They do have customer service, but what they don't have is product service, and this guy is just part of the product, not a customer.
I've quit nicotine more than once, but last time I quit with patches too. I switched from cigarettes to e-cig in 2018 and by late 2020 I was consuming way more nicotine than I did before - a JUUL pod or more per day.

I never smoked indoors so when I started e-cigs the habit only got worse and instead of a habit that required a break every hour or two to go outside and have a cigarette, I was just vaping all day throughout any activity.

I finally quit with patches ~10 months ago, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't still have cravings.
So don't use WhatsApp. That's a reasonable decision to make! I don't ever opt into it or recommend it to people (though I'd happily use it in preference to PGP email, which is doubtlessly the most risky secure messaging implementation on the Internet, arguably even more dangerous than simply using ordinary plaintext email with Google Mail).
Clojure it's runtime is fast and lively enough that I can iterate my feedback loop for great developer ergonomics

Then all I need to do is focus on how to pace my thinking and taking regular breaks

My treadmill desk is helping with that and hyperfiddle/rcf is great for TDD practice to ensure I'm moving forwards with small stable increments
Likely a phone call is all it would take and Meta would happily hand it over.
On a related theme, I’d recommend anyone of HN who is not already familiar with them… to take a 30 minute journey down the rabbit hole that is Peter Wright and James Angleton.
People using their platform vs looking for others with the feature.
A document-based app in Swift Playgrounds for iPad
Oops, I indeed got that important detail wrong! Thanks for expanding my dictionary!
I have a buddy who is a lab tech at a university. He is under-paid and under appreciated.

He has a masters in physics. Really smart guy!

I keep telling him: The math background he has would be a huge asset in CS. He should change careers!

He is very skeptical. He feels like he is too old to start( 35 ).

At the end of the day, if he doesn't want to change that is his business, and I don't want to badger him. I just feel like he would be great as a ML/Data engineer.
You're conflating remote work with WFH. You could remotely work in a shared office space that isn't your company's. You would gain some of the benefits you seek from that. Meanwhile, WFH is defined as working at your actual domicile and that's definitely not a socially engaging time.

Maybe you need more extroversion sources outside of 9-5. Places like gyms, classes, sports clubs, cycling clubs, hiking groups, hunting and fishing with others, I'm just spitballing some COVID-friendly solutions. It doesn't matter if you're bad or noob, just getting some shared time with others having fun, that's the rub.

I'm no extrovert but I love leaving my home every day after work, either to buy groceries, play music with friends at a folk jam, go for a hike, see family, see friends, anything to get out of the house, really.

Last point, ask your HR or managers to set up in person events. We meet IRL about once a month and it's just right for my job.
A toddler probably gets as much 'reward' from the Skinner box like iPad games on failure as on success. It makes a noise, flashes an interesting image.

The reason to 'succeed' an older child is to satisfy the conditions and progress in the game, a toddler maybe gets equal reward (at first) because they don't see why driving further is success.

Once the novelty of the first set of sounds and images is exhausted then interaction products new images and so greater 'reward'.

Doesn't seem useful behaviourally?
Serious question: how read into work on cryptography engineering and secure messaging do you feel you are? I'm trying to get a gauge of what it means to be "brand new" for you. What cipher constructions are OK? The CAESAR finalists? The AEADs Rogaway surveys in his papers? The ones GnuPG supports?
Not my school in the US.

Cynical me thinks there is no actual underlying experience driving the observation.
> Easily duplicable cultural products? You’re suggesting that you should be able to take something someone else made because it’s easy to do?

No, I'm not. What's more, that's an easily disprovable lie: My duplicating of a file does not somehow delete the original. My downloading of this page hasn't done anything to your post.

> Movies often costs tens to hundreds of millions to produce, and they only take on that level of risk because of the financial return of people who pay to watch them.

Financial return that, according to themselves, is at best terrible? And that you, too, keep mentioning, despite loudly proclaiming they are of noone's interest?

> Do you have a job? Do you work for a company that makes money? Would you be okay with the product you’re working on being taken for free by people who insist they shouldn’t have to pay for it?

My job does not rely on handing copies of our product's binaries to people if they pinky promise they'll only use it in a way we approve of though. And if we, too rented garbled copies of it with time-limited access to the ungarbling machinery, we probably should disclose that beforehand so that prospective customers don't end up feeling like they've been defrauded.

> you’re also ignoring all smaller businesses that aren’t making enormous profits but can’t afford to give away their content for free

I'm not asking anyone to give anything away for free. And in any case the fact that the gatekeeping-culture-industrial-complex also exploits other smaller creators could easily also be considered problematic in and by itself.

> The amount of money someone makes is not any of your business

Oh but it is, specifically when they make it into a battle cry to invade my privacy and impede my agency in a deeply dumb search of unapproved copies of whatever they feel like claiming to own.
I've never talked to anyone like this, not sure where you get it from.

You get people that are suspicious and cautious about big corp sponsorship of OSM, and rightly so, EEE was and still is a thing. But in OSM, contributors are contributors, plain and simple.
Nobody should be using GnuPG casually; if you're still using it in 2021, you should have a really clear reason for doing so. You're virtually always better off using any other well-known tool. The reasons you've provided in the past for defaulting to GnuPG --- such as its avoidance of authenticated encryption being a good data recovery mechanism --- have, to put it gently, not seemed especially informed by cryptographic best practices. It seems like more of a social cause for you than an engineering decisions. Which is fine as far as it goes, but it'd be better if you were clearer about that.
I'd auction and sell it and be done with the headache personally. It's likely one day your meta well will dry up and that will be it, years of back and forth to see the handle gone and promoting crypto eventually or some crap.
He'd be fine at anything non-specialized in tech. Regular application programming is so much easier than physics that it's laughable.
Tonight, set aside 30 minutes to an hour, pour yourself a glass of wine, put on some half-interesting sitcom in the background and start unsubscribing from every undesirable source of email you find, from latest to least-latest. If you can't find a direct unsub button, use a service like Say Mine[0] to automate GDPR requests and have your name scrubbed from their records.

Yes, it takes a little bit of up-front effort. The payoff is fantastic though; a nice, clean inbox for the first time since you made your account so many years ago.

[0] https://saymine.com/
Publicly pondering a theory is an accusation now?
Yeah, but that price tag is mostly due to the fact that HVDC isn't a widespread technology yet. Once factors of scale come into play, the situation will look different and the prices come down.

Additionally, the price of copper is already at an/near the all-time high and it's not going to get cheaper, and the land on which huge transformers sit is shooting up in value... so in the end, market forces may push towards solid-state technology anyway.
Our hosted postgres instance (GCP) gets nightly backups automatically. Restoring to a new instance is a few buttonclicks in the UI.

This is infrastructure level stuff that someone else should run.
Yep, 27" 4k at 1.5x (plasma) I can have 50/50 or 60/40 with font size 14 and get 110+ characters, not just 80. 60/40 would be for an IDE with a bar or two on the side and still get almost 110 columns in the editor/console comfortably without eye strain. With 144 DPI fonts on plasma (using Hack), fonts seem plenty crisp to me down to size 5.

For screen size, I think there is some screen size that's most comfortable to view, and I want to say that's like ~40% of the human FOV... so, I think a 24" monitor and 15" laptop are most comfortable for me, but 27" might be a bit nicer if you're using it for media as well.
I don’t know how you can say they can’t. The eSIM is just a number. An attacker can install it exactly the same way I did: I copy-pasted some numbers from an eSIM provider’s app.

I’m not talking about getting the number from the phone, but directly from the operator.
This is a weird dichotomy, given that the Roman state has its origin in a series of tribal unifications and that "technologically advanced" is a relative term (i.e., relative to neighboring societies and groups) when doing anthropological research on ancient civilizations.
In isolation, nothing.
Oh man I hate this game so much. What a blast from the past :) Very cool to see it reproduced like this though!
I don't think this document has anything contrary to existing knowledge, but it does emphasize another significant reason that WhatsApp is not a great choice for privacy despite the use of E2EE. They readily hand over substantially more metadata, and while this is less likely to be enough evidence to convict someone of anything it is more than enough to seriously compromise privacy.

> Search warrant: Provides address book contacts and WhatsApp users who have the target in their address book contacts.

> Pen register: Sent every 15 minutes, provides source and destination for each message.
If there’s too much noise just lower the dropout probability from 50 to 30%. ;)

Joking aside, it is interesting how much noise and quantization these neural networks can work with. I think there’s a lot of room for low precision noisy computation here.
This seems like a publicity stunt.

Any employee in a C-level position isn't going to be managing front-line processes, and getting down to that level of detail betrays a mistrust of your management teams and/or a failure of process feedback mechanisms that move information about inefficient or ineffective processes up to the C-suite.

Also, I would hope that a C-level manager would have an understanding not only of how the front-end processes work, but also how they affect the company's "big picture".
Touching on your points:

1. "99% of remote workers are working from home" - we're in the middle of a massive pandemic so it's hard not to.

2. "(...) avoiding offices and commutes altogether, not replacing it with a different micro office (...)" - if you happen to cowork, there is a massive difference between being able to choose the location of your office (or whatever we'd like to call the place where the work happens) vs being dictated one by your employer. You're in charge of your physical location and you have the freedom to optimise your commute and context that works best for you. Cutting your commute by 1 hour a day and assuming that you do 260, 8 hour working days a year yields over a month of work freed up (~32 full-time working days).

3. "It’s reasonable to assume that remote and work from home are the same thing" - I think that this way of thinking is not only grossly inaccurate but will also hurt remote work trends in the future. WFH and remote work are two sets that sometimes intersect but are not equal. They're not the same thing. To clarify that, a couple examples:

- Most of my family are artists (painters) working from home. They're not working remotely because there is no remote entity that they are answering to. They have their art studios where they live. It's WFH, not remote.

- Let's say I have a client, employer or any entity that I answer to that's in a different location. I have a contractual agreement which states I don't need to appear in their place of work and everything happens over the internet. I choose to work from an office that I have rented. I am working remotely but not working from where I sleep. It's remote without the WFH.

- I got stuck at home working remotely for my employer because we're in a nasty lockdown or I simply chose to do so. In this case, those sets intersect. It's WFH and Remote.
Krugman is nothing but an idiotic hack. He has been so consistently out of touch and wrong about everything that I almost consider him to be malicious. He just blatantly is a spinster for the democratic party, but hides behind his pedigree and pretends like his opinion is obviously correct. It's that classic snooty elitism, the grandstanding, the self-righteousness - the same things that alienate moderates from the democratic party.
And for Apple, Rosetta 2 was developed in-house and doesn't require continuous licensing fees to keep around (not that I'm particularly sympathetic to Apple's pocketbook.)

I don't think any of those things matter; Apple will stop supporting Rosetta 2 as quickly as they can. They announced the transition to Apple Silicon will be two years and unless something unforeseen happens, that's what it's going to be.

I suspect that Rosetta 2 won't be available for new Apple Silicon Macs running macOS five years from now.

Of course, no matter how many years in advance Apple warns that a particular technology is going to be deprecated, that never stops people from complaining vociferously when it happens.

A great example is 32-bit apps, where Apple gave something like an 8-year heads-up that 32-bit apps were going away, which happened a few years ago but it's not hard to find threads on HN where people are still complaining about it.
Antarctic oceanographers use seals to do research where ships fear to go
It's PascalCase, rather than camelCase, but I still agree with your point - capitalisation in a Linux file system just feels... weird!
But it does, because of the effect just mentioned. 99.999% of people can take the path of least resistance while the 1 in 100,000 exception bears all of the friction for all of them.

Perhaps though the real friction is not exactly technical but that the piracy sites don't have the same attention-capturing "feed" or recommendation mechanisms set up. Just the friction of having to make choices.
yep, you can have multiple eSIM and just swap on the fly
KDE/Gnome Wayland vs. X.org Radeon Linux Gaming Performance
That should have been a “.xyzzy” TLD instead.

reference: https://www.definitions.net/definition/XYZZY
> Today if your phone fails, you can pop a sim in another phone and regain your phone service identity within minutes. No SIM, it could take days or even weeks.

This doesn’t make any sense. Anything that can be done using a physical sim, you can do faster with e-sim (input data into fields).

What if you don’t have another physical sim ready to go? It’s the middle of the night and stores are closed. Your car won’t start. You lost your wallet and don’t have currency. Traveling in a foreign nation and don’t know where the SIM store is. (Yes these are extreme situations, but that’s exactly when you need your phone to work)
This PGP-style concept of persistent identity is almost always the opposite of what you want from a secure messenger, where meta-information about who's exchanging messages with whom is often just as valuable as the message content itself. When the NSA identified Reality Winner communicating with The Intercept, they didn't so much care about what was in those messages; once the link was established, they had better ways of extracting the rest of the information they wanted than trying to defeat a cryptosystem.
> And my money is that they'll use whatever volume they free up to mindlessly make the phone thinner.

For some reason this is what the phone manufacturers seem to think that people want and I don't know why. I don't think getting thinner and smaller phones has given me any extra value in the past decade. I would rather have a thicker phone with bigger battery.
leaning over is just as much a context switch. “just being asked” something is often a rude interruption of concentration.

over chat i have the opportunity to take a minute to wrap up what i’m doing. I also walk away with a written record, so if ive asked for help, i have reference to go back to. which can then serve as a starting point for documentation. or others in the chat can read and passively absorb information. or contribute to the conversation.
Dingding
Exactly!
This is a neat idea - and not without precedent.

Installing each package into it's own directory, and maintaining symlinks into that directory structure, was an approach explored for large system installations in the 90s and 00s.

NIST depot, Xheir, CMU, and Nix all did this in varying ways. The advantage of this approach was that packages could be installed once on an NFS, scoped by version/configuration, and mounted into the filesystem of every work station on a campus. The workstations then just needed to maintain references to the files on the NFS for their particular software configurations. There is also some interesting exploration of composable configuration templates that allow workstations to inherit and extend a particular configuration (i.e. the physics department might have a base template).

Nix is easily the most successful in this space. It even uses something similar to the NFS approach! It can maintain a remote cache of observed configurations to pull from instead of redoing work.

Reading these LISA papers is a lot of fun. If you work in system administration (i.e. maintaining an Artifactory instance for your company) and have a day to spare - I'd very much recommend reading them, starting with the Nix paper!

To get you started:

Nix - https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa-04/nix-safe-and-polic...

Depot Lite - https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa-viii/depot-lite-mecha...
There's also a first-class Rust implementation.
I think the article is just incorrect and every system uses allocation on first read.
Of course not, the situation is already far better than it was 5 or 10 years ago. If anything, we’re slowly exiting the 0-click era, not entering it.
Well, i got into 30 cigs a day zone and started to realize this is not gonna end well. I had to draw a line in the sand and tell the damn cravings to fuck off and stick to my guns. Freedom is worth much more than some stinky stick that'll give you cancer.

The breaking point was when I decided to see an addiction specialist instead of trying to wage the war on my own
Nicotine in particular is a bitch to quit - I don't understand how a substance that addictive can be legal, especially considering how violent a withdrawl can feel. Breaking off a pot addiction or a heavy drinking stint seems like a cinch by comparison.

My advice is to buy some flavored toothpicks. I bought some minty ones from Amazon and they do a great job of satisfying any oral fixation you've got, and placating the habit of wanting to do something with your hands when you've got a free moment. It admittedly doesn't make quitting cold-turkey any more fun, but it certainly helps to trick your brain for a while.
Downvoted ? - the title is clickbait: nor the kids are challenging (hard cases), nor challenging others (only confronting, maybe to help), neither they are challenged at any point to do that - but if they do, they are not rule breakers but 'rule breakers' - keepers and conformists to what they been taught (the only rule breaking are the researchers, their challenge is to mess with kids, not being challenged self).
> Hinge, OKCupid, POF, Match

All of these are owned by Match Group, the same parent company as Tinder.
Make them eat their own dog food at least once quarterly, under a pseudonym, with no special treatment. That'd change a whole lot of companies.
Ever look at a link included in a comment chain?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuko#/media/File:Schuko_plug...
Strongly disagree. Everyone in a large organization already OUGHT to distrust the effectiveness of feedback mechanisms that move information up the chain of command.

This is a good exercise. “I would hope” is no substitute for ACTUALLY seeing how the sausage is made.
To me this article reads like "I want to get a job paid by the big players". The fact is, it's not a one way street, they're contributing back with data. We all benefit from this.

While I dislike what these companies stand for (I use a Linux desktop and a degoogled phone) in this case I don't think they're in the wrong.
If any of them really wanted so, they would've build a small clandestine reactor somewhere long time ago.

Nuclear bombs are forties technology. Industrial output of forties USA is met by dozens of countries today.

People continuing to advocate for non-proliferation cannot believe the that the most basic point of theirs is false: from technical viewpoint, from logical, political, and military one.
Costa Ricans Live Longer Than We [Americans] Do. What’s the Secret?
That would require damages. If the child were injured, that would be provable. Otherwise the claimants will be in for a long and drawn-out process of manufacturing lasting emotional distress.
> Jared Diamond posits the first theory, as well, in Guns, Germs, Steel.

No, he doesn't. GGS explicitly rejects any sort of pseudo-racial theory of civilizational superiority. The entire book is a methodical dissection of why different regions experienced different paces of development in the pre-colonial era, with climate, geography, and endemic food species being the leading factors.
Plus most people had an identical copy locally, effectively working as a backup.
Mix up a cup of fiber supplement (I use BeneFiber) and drink it 10 min before you plan to eat. You will eat less and feel fuller for longer (eating slowly increases the effect). If you're already choosing healthy foods, portion control is the last barrier to conquering waistlines.

Many people don't get enough fiber in their diet anyway. Just be sure to start drinking more water to overcome the, err, digestive difficulties of higher fiber consumption.
All you guys living with the virus are going to enjoy the decreased life bars of everyone in the office thanks to long COVID. Enjoy having 20% of your friends disabled and early onset dementia with sporadic large outbreaks of system overwhelming disease.
Or - You replied while I was still editing.

>because he/she can't seem to find value in anything and has to ask people.

That's the point - I think your interpretation is incorrect.
> Those exists in macro assemblers, for they are extremely thin abstractions, no thicker than jumping to a label instead of jumping to an absolute or relative address.

They’re much more than that because of type aliasing, which is what lets you write -> . = operations all day without each one literally being a memory access in asm.
What are the contemporary moral considerations for who gets to ‘own’ ancient artifacts like these?

The government currently controlling the surrounding land? Ethnic tribalism? Genetic essentialism? Protection of the artifact? Exposure/accessibility of the artifact? ‘Feelings’-based reasons like ‘spiritual’ significance or paternalistic rich nations graciously returning things to the poors?

Much to ponder