skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The argument that you’re not stealing something physical is an old, tired, immature, and naive narrative

And yet here you are, claiming that "pirating" something is somehow bad.

Look, I think our disagreement comes down to definitions. So, let's clarify some things.

For me,

"A thing" is an entity that is capable of being described as "being". For instance, your phone, a bottle, a trip, a word, love, inertia.

"Good" is a desirable quality of "A thing" that by being attached to it adds to its value.

"Bad" on the other hand is an undesirable quality of "A thing", which detracts from it.

"Control" is the ability to do with a thing whatever I want,

"Selling" "A thing" is relinquishing "Control" over it for money,

"Buying" "A thing" is receiving "Control" of a thing in exchange of money

"Renting" "A thing" on the other hand is relinquishing "some" control of that thing for some time in exchange of money.

"Promising" something is agreeing to do that thing; doing the thing that was agreed upon is generally considered "Good".

"Cheating" is "Promising" "A thing" and then doing a different one, which is "Bad"

"Copying" "A thing" is creating "A thing" that is fundamentally interchangeable for "Another Thing"

Given this definitions, it naturally arises that Cheating people into thinking they Bought Things when you only Rented those Things to them is Bad. Which is the entirety of my point.

For you on the other hand all of those terms ostensibly appear to mean "whatever lets me sleep at night" and it seems that this gap is bothering you a lot.

I also see you seem to be conflating your opinion on things with their legality and their moral qualities, which are three entirely disconnected things. It is legal in some countries to kill perceived deviants in a kind of ritual show. Would you call that good? Does that being "legal" make it any better?
The 7th guest was my first "cd-rom game" and to this day I remember some of its cool mechanics. Especially the cool video technique they used which added to the creepiness. Still loving horror games all these years later.
Materialize looks fantastic. Thank you
I generally agree with your thesis that the case here is desperate. However,

> a PhD takes a lot of work and how much of it is actually doing presentation specifically? Yes, I know they do presentations as part of it. But the kind of presentation skill you want is what your typical smooth talker is good at

Step zero of "smooth talk" style rhetoric is to start with the audience and work backwards to the speech.

Doing/understanding something complex and difficult, and then digesting it down to something that a diverse (if specialized) audience can understand, is quite different from what "typical smooth talkers" do. In fact, it's literally reversed. Your message -- the unvarnished complicated truth -- is fixed.

Giving an eloquent speech to a friendly general audience on an easy topic is a good skill, particularly in sales/fundraising/etc. But it's quite different from the communication skills one learns during a phd.

There are many jobs in which the phd-style communication skills are more important than sales-style communication skills. Generally positions where there's a team of folks working on a "hard" and rigid truth that doesn't care about you. E.g., leading/helping/consulting with a team of technologists to understand and solve a hard problem with a physical device or piece of software. "Uhms" and "ahs" don't matter, eye contact is optional, but cleanly communicating about complex ideas with other experts is necessary.
The parent post has some great info, but it's worth noting that it's very specific to lab sciences. PhDs in lots of other fields are quite unlike this.
Sbin and bin separation actually causes problems with portability. A certain bluetooth-related utility wants to run iptables command [1] which can usually be found in `/sbin`. But `/sbin` is not in the PATH so they have hardcoded `/sbin/iptables` into the source. Now distributions that have iptables in `/usr/sbin` have to patch the program.

So it would be better if either there were no `/sbin` or if it was always in the PATH.

[1] https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman/blob/fcef83a01c80...
> But what I believe someguydave was referring to was stuff like smartcard/Yubikey support, not different uses of encryption and signing.

https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/1474941666545086465 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Emails can have "inline" attachments, where an image can be attached in the body of the email itself. So the image shows up without any network access, but it's generally base-64 encoded (costing 4x space) and ends up using a lot of email storage space.
Also, many jobs are probably partially bullshit or mostly bullshit, but also have one critical (often undocumented) function wrapped into them that if eliminated, would cause enormous damage.

Companies often barely have any idea of what employees spend the majority of their day doing. They are never going to catch all the little things.
Replied to wrong comment I think
LastPass has had a history of security incidents (no company can completely avoid incidents, but if security is literally a primary part of your value, you shouldn’t be having so many).

Even worse, they have a history of doing hand-wavy corporate non-explanations for what actually happened in these incidents. The antithesis of being responsible and respecting users in the modern day.
You can do this with LastPass.
Blog post about the design flaws of password managers:

https://www.go350.com/posts/the-design-flaws-of-password-man...
Add a recaptcha that barrely solves in the mix before being able to click on continue, or after logging in.
So if both african countries and one of the large most power country actively destabilize a nation. Why would smaller and less powerful nations be the primary cause instead of the big one? but yeah, the one does not rule out the other
Telling other people what they should and shouldn't do is the basis of society
I see effort at nuance here, but the conclusion is both almost right and also not at all right.

America's deeply unequal political system WILL NOT ever get us better equality. It's *incidental*, a symptom of the political reality that discouraging cars would be done in a way that exacerbates inequality.

Almost any policy can be done in ways that exacerbate inequality. And a more equitable political system would be needed in order to have more equitable policies.

There's nothing specific to cars about this stuff. So, there's no point in focusing on discouraging cars as inherently part of this trend. Gentrification is a real issue. But don't blame yoga for gentrification just because yoga studios are in gentrified areas. Policies that encourage healthy tree canopy also exacerbate inequality because richer areas can hire urban foresters and so on. I mean, every single worthwhile thing you can think of exacerbates inequality if the policies are set up to make the worthwhile thing go along with already-wealthier places. None of the worthwhile things are themselves the cause of inequality.
I, for one, would ditch telecoms in a heartbeat if this were a thing.

Why?

> VZ Msg: Introducing Verizon Custom Experience. VZ content & offers are more relevant using web browsing & app usage info. For info or to opt-out: m.vzw.com/CE

Received this earlier this month. Verizon and others can go fuck themselves.
I think GP was asking what happens when you remove a package that has thelib.so as a dependency. Is thelib.so removed? Does the previous existing thelib.so used as a replacement?
This is framed so negatively toward LastPass, which is unfortunate. They stopped all usage of correct passwords they believed were compromised, which is exactly what I'd want them to do in this situation. Them warning users their master passwords are compromised is a good thing! Yet it's framed as though they're admitting to something.

"However, users receiving these warnings have stated that their passwords are unique to LastPass and not used elsewhere." That's really hard to verify. I think most users would say that rather than admit they re-used passwords (or used similar passwords that were easy to reverse engineer). Since there only seems to be 2-3 reports of this, and they're self-reported and not cited, it doesn't seem like LastPass was compromised.

I'm not saying I like LastPass (I use 1Password and find LastPass to be much worse), but I haven't seen any indication at this point that LastPass has been compromised at all.

(To be clear, it's very possible I'm wrong and this message won't age well. But so far, it seems like LastPass is doing its job, and I'd want to see more than this before jumping on the blame-LastPass bandwagon.)
The onus is on the person making the claim (you) I'm afraid.

> in the time when they didn't capture the market yet

Big Tobacco entered the market around 2012-2013.
I used DDG in 2015-2018. Now switched to Qwant. Unlike DDG, it's not US-based. It's also faster, because they have their own index, and need not to go to Bing for search results. Search quality is better, in my subjective opinion.
Just as hard as I remember
AC costs money, in most of the world they would do without and have extra heat from the PC. Also, limited range of motion plus extremely long workweek quickly results in RSI.
I'm confused what you mean? The prototypes need not be performant, they just must be correct and not outrageously naive to demonstrate the better abstractions/layering is working.

The questions are: is the code beautiful and dose it work?
I wish I had known this before I recently installed Racket because I'm currently reading SICP.
I'm curious how this is different from the terrible dystopia you described in your root comment. Google is telling you which cables you can and cannot use.
How someone working somewhere for 2 years not valuable? 2 years into a position and I already have a laundry list of deliverables.

It’s not like we are all working in a legacy codebase that never changes. I just don’t get it.

Even consultants swap clients often enough to where as far as work an impact goes it’s not more than a year usually.
Ethereum PoW won't immediately disappear, and I'm sure bitcoin folk will be all too happy to grab those extra GPUs
Protip: even if you don't use LastPass any more, check if you deleted your account when leaving the service.
Even in-person jobs now have all the terrible aspects of remote work.

You go to an office full of strangers that you don’t work with, just to fight over a few private phone booths to take meetings at with your distributed team. There’s still a JIRA sprint board where you have to write bloviated stories for everything that you do. And then weekly, monthly and quarterly status updates. You still get hundreds of emails a day from automated management tools. You still have to live on Slack or Teams or whatever. Your day is still consumed by pointless 100-person meetings.

But now you’re stuck in an office. Woohoo.

There is no in-person work anymore for white-collar professionals. The good news is that blue-collar work now pays more, you get lots of people to talk to, as long as it’s about athletes or exes or politicians, and you don’t have to worry about getting fired for anything you do say.

I’ve considered the possibility of a strict office-only policy. As in, common hours, in-person only, no laptops, no phones, no remote meetings, no chat rooms, no management tools other than maybe GitHub, no social media, no non-work at work. I realize that you’d probably have to do on-site daycare, and today that implies liability.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/13/technology/instagram-hand...

Her Instagram Handle Was ‘Metaverse.’ Last Month, It Vanished.
As I was reading Graeber, it's useful to imagine useless job economies of the past. Is a medieval abbey "useless?" Clergy? Servants to the clergy? How about courtiers? Courtiers' dress makers?

These classes represented a small part of most societies in the past, though not always that small. In any case, it's obvious that whatever needs these jobs serve are cultural. Don't underestimate culture. Money is a cultural construct. Power. Politics. Macroeconomics. Etc.

That's what's going on here.
Witcher, for example.
"In Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, David Graeber makes the case that a sizable chunk of the labour economy is essentially people performing useless work."

I would treat a bullshit job as any job/living that requires you to do useless work.
How do you define "useless work"?
Seems like proper dogfooding

The "it wasn't part of the job description" engineer would be on my short list for reevaluation. In a dynamic org, change is constant, and stick-in-the-mud complainers like this range from underproductive to actively toxic. If it's just an isolated bad day, fine, but if it's an underlying 'not-my'job' attitude, then they're likely better employed elsewhere.

This practice should be pretty standard, as well as flexible roles & responsibilities, mentoring/interning, etc. to spread & grow knowledge as much as possible.
I believe it's a proposal at the moment, not totally sure the timeline:

https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/eu-commission-euro-7...

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

And there's been plenty in the automotive press saying how it will negatively affect the car manufacturers, e.g:

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry-news-tech%2C-dev...
Watched 1 minute of the content, felt the need to comment: hah, I thought that was actually Hillary Clinton. Choosing her would be odd, she would go on to have a history of blaming video games for society's problems. And Leslie Nielsen's comment about "I sure hope she has health insurance" is bleakly funny in 2021, considering that 2.8 decades later, healthcare is still a fucked up thing in the US (here come the defenders...), and back there Hillary was working for her husband promoting a healthcare reform program: https://ballotpedia.org/%22Hillarycare%22_(The_proposed_Heal...
Yea I hear ya. The more I've observed it in my own life, the more I notice that a lot of the blame I give others is blame that I have been privately giving myself.

Blaming my family for an Xmas event where I may have been exposed to covid? Mostly just blaming myself for choosing to go against my own desire. So on and so forth for soooo many situations.
You should tie your IG account to a Google Voice number instead of a your cell that way it cant be SIM swapped.
So a Ponzi scheme works like this:

* You take money from investors

* You then claim that you are making money from some legitimate business

* You return money to earlier investors by just feeding them the money later investors put in

So who are the early investors here, what's the legitimate business, and how are we taking money from later investors to give to early investors?

EDIT: Guys, it's not a zero-sum game. You can breed new axies, etc. By the logic espoused by everyone in the responses, the stock market is a ponzi scheme because later participants buy stock from earlier participants. This may be my fault with the defn lacking some things, but clearly the stock market isn't a ponzi scheme, so something is wrong.
Chicago, London and Singapore are also good places, although nowadays there are funds everywhere (Boston, SF, Miami).

This is a wild overgeneralisation but in descending order of fun levels/friendliness of HFT teams it goes Chicago, London, Singapore, NYC.

Seems to hold across most HFTs I have met/worked at. Not sure about hedge funds or other finance roles.

Edit: Crypto HFT firms also abound but they are generally more remote-friendly than TradFi (the latter have regulators that need you to have an office and stuff).
I’m fine with telling them that they shouldn’t.

We already went through all this with bs degrees that leave people in massive debt and without sufficient income to pay it back.
This is a honeypot for new hacking ideas, right?
But converting (even just-in-time) between two architectures is not that hard — if every new code could get some better performance/efficiency at minimal overhead for “legacy” applications, it may well worth it.
Why? To see if I could. This is Hacker News.
How to Install Nginx Windows
Can be simply read as OriGinal
Show HN: An (eventually encrypted) private photo album
> Not sure why boards of directors don't require this of all their CxOs.

There's a belief among managers that "profesionnal management" is a thing and that there's no need to understand what you are managing; only the art of management itself.

Think about Apple under John Sculley or Boeing since the merger with McDonald Douglas...
I don’t know where you’re pulling these claims out from but here are the specs:

https://www.gsma.com/esim/esim-specification/

In addition you can get ST micro data sheets for full blown electrical and mechanical data sheets for free
The definition of search engine is not "whatever Google does". A search engine should find things and present what it finds without distortion, let alone life-threatening distortion.
Well ... situated as they are in the frozen North, you couldn't blame them for wanting a slightly warmer world.
Many companies forbid the sale of usernames in their terms of service, so an attempt to auction it off could result in it being revoked. Generally, when sales of usernames do happen, it’s in private so there’s little reason to take action… it’s why there’s no reputable marketplace for usernames.
So, it's brand new. Got it.

Hell, I have shirts older than the language it's written in.

In 20 years, I might not even be able to find a working compiler to build it, after the shiny-object crowd moves on to something else.

You know what I'll still be able to decrypt? An ASCII-armored, GPG encrypted, TAR archive.

Personally, I am not interested in the latest evolutionary improvements on file formats. Evolution produces a lot of interesting things; most of them are dead ends. What I want is the cockroach of file formats. The coelacanth.
Something like Axie Infinity just seems _incredibly_ cynical. I sometimes joke that stuff like professional sports are just financial instruments, which only incidentally involve a ball of some sort. Play-to-earn and many crypto schemes seem to self-consciously be minimal veils to rope in people who otherwise wouldn't care about financial products.
The thing is, a postdoc is a classic case of credential inflation. You don't really need a postdoc, especially if an industry job is your goal. The purpose of an academic postdoc is to strictly increase the items in your CV to make you more marketable for academic employment. Industries are hiring senior postdocs strictly because more postdocs are applying for such jobs. And this is a side effect of poor mentorship in academia in general, with freshly minted PhDs drifting into postdocs just because.

Very few graduate students think seriously about their destination during their doctoral program and are happy to be in the lab all day meeting goals their advisor sets out for them. And advisors are also happy to let this be the state of affairs since you are getting highly trained, motivated workers for pennies. This passivity starts dissipating only during a postdoc and not always. Poor mentorship can be excused in industry, but this is inexcusable when academics are paid to be mentors; it's literally in a professor's job description. NSF/DOE/NIH grants all have significant mentorship sections - and they are there for a reason.
Charlie Booker had a similar take back in 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjGh_lE6EGY
Very similar story here.. I had a few party hats in Runescape which made the whole NFT thing and to a lesser extent Bitcoin so much easier to understand.
Oddly, YouTube recommended me a Numberphile video about this a couple of days ago - "Zero Knowledge Proof (Avi Wigderson)" from Feb 2021. Covers the same kind of ground although extended to "you can turn any proof into a 3 colour graph and use that in your zero knowledge proof" areas (in which I am completely bereft of knowledge.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ovdoxnfFVc
The wikipedia article has examples from David Graeber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
https://www.apple.com/us/shop/trade-in

> It’s easy to trade in your eligible device for credit toward your next purchase, or get an Apple Gift Card you can use anytime. If your device isn’t eligible for credit, we’ll recycle it for free.
Important to note that this is only true for domestic transfers, and even then it’s not necessarily an easy task https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/dec/07/i-lost-my-1930...

Also this is only true for erroneous transfers, fraud puts you in a completely different situations.

And in any case, erroneous transfers seem like an easy problem to solve. No? Cryptocurrency addresses have already mostly solved typos with checksums.
Dont hate the player, hate the game.
If you reread my comment I said Jared Diamond takes the first theory of resource abundance as the reason.

It's still just a theory.

It also begs the question of why African Am. and Latin peoples don't do well when integrated into western society statistically as a whole.

Whereas Asians and Indians appear to do well.

This is probably inappropriate conversation for a place like HN, so I'm bowing out.

;)
Play-to-earn will die a painful death, but the takeaway here (which this article dodges) is that players should own their in-game assets. This is really where blockchain comes into play. Diablo 3 tried to do this, but they were too early and too greedy. If done correctly, owning your digital items is certainly more preferable than not.

Again, this is touched in half a paragraph, but this is the real revolutionary aspect of NFTs. And, paradoxically, it's nothing new: Steam store "items" are basically NFTs. Fortnite skins are basically NFTs. It's just that without a decentralized marketplace, you can't sell them.
> Is there a there there without an underlying token that's gone up XX% in the last N months and everyone hopes will still go up XX% in the next N months?

Alternatively, even simpler: where is the money coming from? A bunch of people playing a game are a closed system, and no value is created by playing the game. If the only reason why players are earning money from this game is because more people are continually buying into the game and entering that system, that sounds more like a pyramid scheme than anything.
The noise will be simply horrendous. I bought 4 some time ago, and they sounded like a jet taking off...
This article mentions that there were users with unique LastPass passwords who had this occur. Also, I guess they have no incentive to admit a breach
A simple rubber hose would do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis
> due to confusion on the part of PGP's designers on the distinction between authentication and signatures

I'm not sure where you're heading when you think that the general populace would be any less confused about that.
I recently picked up OSM mapping. The tools are way better than ten years ago when I had a look: I like both the web editor and the "Go Map!!" iOS application. My motivation is mostly so that I can have accurate results when visiting or re-visiting a place. In a few months (or weeks), the sheer number of OSM consumers allow you to receive the benefit of your own changes. Write once, read everywhere.

I don't advance this is necessarily sufficient or OSM is getting a great deal for its value, but it's what got me involved after a long period watching from the sidelines: it was a wise suggestion from an AllTrails staff member on a support ticket.
It's an AT&T thing in the US. They don't allow non-AT&T locked phones (except for iPhones...) to access VoLTE/wifi calling. It's complete bullshit.
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