skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is not one entity that controls Bitcoin, thus it is centralized. You can argue about degrees of decentralisation, but it is simply far more decentralised than FIAT.

You’re creating an impossible standard, a logical fallacy. Dollars can also be tainted with serial numbers, get damaged, be marked with colors.

Again, your argument only consists of logical fallacies.
You can configure systemd to kill lingering applications, it was defaulted to false because some old UNIX tools liked to linger in the background forever.
Your right. Ive been saying for years that routers should come with 2 networks (vlans) out of the box (colour coded red and blue) to make it easier to seperate out kit/appliances. One side for IoT stuff that you dont trust and the other side for our own equipment. But as you mention, even then consumers need to know how to set the networks up etc. As the old adage goes, you dont know what you dont know.
There is AgStack Foundation[1], an offshoot of Linux Foundation. I have zero idea how successfull it is, though.

[1] https://agstack.org/
Little endian: Least significant byte at Lowest address. It's definitely not meaningless. I also tend to think of it as the Logical one (the significance grows with the address.) All that alliteration aids acceptance and allows accurate agreement.
> It's reported when water is tested positive for sars-cov-2, but then negative aspects of the panic are downplayed by for example reporting the increase in suicide attempts as 22.3% + 39.1% in this article. As we know from surveys the average reader will not understand this adds up to around 70% more suicide attempts since the start of the pandemic, because most people aren't good at math.

I think the article split those numbers out because one was in summer and the other year over year in winter: you can't just sum them because among other reasons there is a seasonality component to suicide I believe.
https://github.com/matter-labs/awesome-zero-knowledge-proofs
I am getting a redirect to their new site. Can you link here where are you getting the original site?
Next you'll be asking whether lockdowns caused more harm than good. Oh-oh. I think we are 10 years too early for that particular discussion.

This is a fascinating topic, though, and I can't help myself. I have two competing perspectives on this:

1. Covid is deadly, but not that deadly, certainly not to children and younger (<60 y.o.) adults. The initial decision to hunker down was warranted, but as the stresses of the various lockdowns begin to pile up, it's no longer obvious that the lockdowns and strict health regimes are worth it. The "stresses" would include suicides, drug overdoses, domestic violence, depression, and general depravity due to lost income.

2. Covid is deadly, and if not for the lockdowns, it would have killed a lot more people than it did. The number of lives saved by shutting down the economy far outweigh the cost of the lockdowns. If we didn't shut down and later push people to vaccinate, millions would have died in the US instead of hundreds of thousands.

Anyone with an educated opinion wanna weigh in? Which perspective is correct?
> But it’s still a big step up and would mean that if Facebook suddenly decided merely blocking forwarding isn’t enough to fight “rumors” or “fake news”, they’d be stopped by the auditors who’d (hopefully) refuse to sign the update that takes out the encryption.

A central auditor, or a bunch of auditors that verify what updates are doing, and work out if they are changing functionality of the protocol?

I mean that's never going to happen. Writing the constitution/contract for that is pretty hard, not to mention the cost. Plus all of this assumes that users will read the information provided (they wont)

Then there is the verification of trust for the auditors, which is difficult.

I do notice that the author makes a bold claim to say that the signal protocol doesn't work, as a way of attacking moxie (fair enough) but then goes on outline the problems with whatsapp. Now, Signal inc were contracted by whatsapp to add e2e on whatsapps "improved" XMPP.

The claim appears to refer to this:

> In 2019 WhatsApp imposed forwarding limits on messages in order to “slow down the spread of rumors, viral messages, and fake news”. This represents a total defeat of the Signal protocol’s cryptographic objectives.

I mean that's not really the case, Adding client side limits to stop forwarding isn't a defeat of encryption. Its a limit of freedom of speech, perhaps, but not encryption.

but more importantly the author appears to deliberately conflate the software company with the signal protocol
Why stop there! Why trust your phone OS… When it comes to trust it’s turtles all the way down, you have to start somewhere.
I’m also surprised by this and I continue to love Common Lisp over all other languages. But I think one reason is that languages aren’t just languages. The amazing parts of Common Lisp were all standardized in 1992 or whatever. By people who are not at all involved in any kind of Unix, Linux, open source, web, scripting, etc. It’s like a beautiful cultural legacy that’s maintained by some enthusiasts and a couple of insular commercial vendors. Now what I really wonder is why nobody outside of some Scheme dialects have stolen the restartable condition system, which is so amazing and straightforward to implement.
The thing I would like is a program that can browse journalctl files, but from other operating systems.
> this is comparable to bad flu year

Maybe he means the Spanish flu /s
It’s hilarious to me how the NFT app he built got its published NFT art delisted for “violating terms of service”. That pretty much tells you everything you need to know right there. Again, there’s nothing distributed about Web 3.0 and this new system won’t solve any of the “problems” of the current system, real or imagined.

It’s a common fallacy of tech people to think that all problems are of a technical nature, and that if we could just have the right technology they would go away and we would be living in a utopia. The fact is, the problems are with human behavior and any technology created will serve to further that behavior. If anything the past 20 years has shown us, technology has an uncanny ability to bring out and amplify the worst of human behaviors. Make of that what you will, it’s a good thing in some regards but also a bad thing.

Of course, none of this will matter or have anything to do with how successful Web 3.0 will or will not be. Bitcoin never solved any of the problems it was originally intended to solve, and still a lot of people became quite rich from it. So Web 3.0 proponents need not be worried, hype is illogical by nature.
What I think you're getting at is that there is little to no incentive to produce a high-quality version of a (rushed) conference paper.
I suspect aesthetics has more to do with it than people think.

Everyone loves a secret code, and Hollywood has made an art of of technobabble.

When you say "It's fine, we're on a class 2 supply" you sound really cool and high tech and professional.

It's almost like sprinkling in a latin phrase or some legalese, but instead of conveying a very precise meaning, where even the informal general implications are well known, it adds confusion.

There's always a sense of mystique to these "Domain specific natural languages", but not that many reasons to use them, so people are probably kinda drawn to slip them in.
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Yeah I too found the syntax somewhat unintuitive at times. But to answer your question, you would do 'map(.k1)'
I agree that jq's query language is very obtuse and probably my biggest barrier towards learning it. I have found great mileage using gron [1], which is very different from jq, but its goal is to promote exploration of a JSON file through common unix tools such as awk and grep.

1: https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
What is needed to repair this printer when they dry out? Every ink printer I had dried out some day. Is this a solved problem nowadays?
https://github.com/akavel/up is another tool that can be used to make most of commands interactive
> Is there a mental health crisis in North Korea? No their lives are just terrible.

Do they even have poor mental health there? It's quite likely, but most people throughout history lived in terrible conditions, sometimes resorting to cannibalism way back in the day[1], and probably did not have depression from it. It's all about relative expectations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_antecessor#Cannibalism
You just invented private schools, or at least everyone I have experienced ... every child (up to about 14/15 - after which you could scale back) mandatory to do sport, music, 1 extra activity/club.

Organised by the school and generally carried out 3-5pm & Saturday morning.
That has been done as well: https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/94353
The article mentioned something I was not aware of - that WhatsApp has already started sending metadata (the number of times a message has been forwarded) in the clear:

> This is not a theoretical argument. Disabling E2E encryption has already happened, although hardly anyone knows about it. In 2019 WhatsApp imposed forwarding limits on messages in order to “slow down the spread of rumors, viral messages, and fake news”. This represents a total defeat of the Signal protocol’s cryptographic objectives: a basic goal of any modern cryptographic scheme is to ensure the same message encrypted twice doesn’t encrypt to the same bytes. The point of this is to stop the adversary knowing when you’re repeatedly sending the same message and encryption modes that get this wrong (like AES/ECB) are discredited. Yet once Facebook — the adversary — became dominated by authoritarians who see unlimited communication as chaotic, they simply changed the client to include a forwarding counter outside the encrypted part of the message. There was nothing anyone could do about this. It just showed up one day, and all the fancy mathematics designed to stop this “attack” were irrelevant.
What worried me about pluton is essentially both the fact it might set a trend where drm locks out Linux devices and that remote exploits on pluton is a real nightmare scenario.

Despite the fact I in a way do think tpm like components are a good thing.
i hate vendor lock-in. hence, i will never buy apple products or anything like this.
What's frustrating for me is that there is clearly a place for a new vision for the web beyond what the "Web 2.0" vision provided: client-first rich web applications that offered desktop-like capabilities. Along with that are the social/centralization/managed "pros/cons" that a lot of commenters decry. But this was the economic model, not the technical one.

"Web 3.0" should be indeed be about decentralization-- but more in the sense of building applications that take advantage of the enhanced client abilities and de-emphasize central control. The colloqiual term is the "Fediverse". The modern web has brought about offline support (ServiceWorker), multi-processing (Web Workers), local capabilities (Filesystem API, local/DB storage, peripheral APIs) interprocess communication (Broadcast Channels), peer to peer (via disinterested party HTTP/WebSockets coordination), verifiable privacy via encryption, backend server federation (see Mastodon, Matrix, diaspora, PeerTube, etc).

Web 3.0 already exists, we just hadn't named it yet, but there's so much more there to be built.
iOS users see those too in SMS mode? In that case the Android users might actually have the cleaner experience after the latest update: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/11/google-messages-upda...

I get the impression that even without RCS, Apple could have done more to keep the experience usable for the iOS users in SMS fallback mode.
My bad luck is knowing Postgresql. It brings me great suffering when working with Oracle which is unnecessarily complicated and excessively buggy.

You don't need support to work with Postgresql. Everything is simple and works as documented.
Linux the kernel doesn’t respect the Unix philosophy either by a huge margin. Also, Unix philosophy is not even the Saint script — it can be good for some problems but terrible for others. In certain cases a distributed between 34 small programs is just a worse approach that will be bug prone and hard to test.
Support or a joke? Recent experiences with Uber
BBC article has some mistakes.

NOMINATION age between is 58-67. Lower for deputy / provincial levels. Provincial leaders has to retire by 60-65. National leaders have no formal retirement age, but are expected to retire at 70-75. There's also other norms like "seven up, eight down" for standing committee. Xi hasn't broken any age limit rules / norms so far, despite heavy speculation (Qang Qishan in 2017). I would say age limit is treated also sacricant vs term limits, which doesn't even apply to the most important positions for ruling PRC in case of Xi - general secretary, chairman of PLA. There's no good reason for west to throw conniptions over Xi being a dictator for life for another 5-7 years.
e.g. [...]/joyce/joyce_intro.html
Is there a missing dot in line 189? Otherwise domains like zhulu.com would match, wouldn’t it?
And in the next N releases of macOS those features will be quietly removed since 99% users are running properly notarized binaries anyway...
I was once upon a time working heavily with JSON back-ends and wrote a node.js script which, when piped json and lambdas, ran the data thorough the lambda and outputted the result. It was very productive.

But then I discovered LINQPad[0] and, "The Legendary Dump".

[0]: https://www.linqpad.net/
Heck, the amount of work it takes just to install gdb and debug another process on Mac OS is insane. There's no clear instructions on apple's website: the best thing to do is follow a stack overflow post with something like 14 instructions on how to generate the right kind of self-signed cert, acknowledge all the warning messages, and then follow the various comments for os-version specific alterations. It took me ages.
That's easily spotted if they preregister their experiments.
I think that article is leaving out some of the other problems (which is understandable, it already covers plenty of downsides). The whole point of keeping the cold side cold is so that it doesn't emit any IR radiation (otherwise the JWST couldn't work). So by design it's "dark" to an IR or thermal camera in the same way it's dark to a visible light camera. Certainly you can build a camera to see it anyway (without extra lights), but the question then becomes how big that camera has to be, and I would assume it's way to big to be realistic.
You mean the completely democratic vote done multiple times by Debian?
Isn’t the tangle-untangle process fundamental in literate programming?
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Newer versions of MySQL are better, but it wasn't long ago that it didn't even check column types or constraints.

I would not choose MySQL over Postgresql because of this, never mind all the other features.
So labor is wealth now? This is the same argument again. I could also discover oil on my property, or build a bigger house on it with my own labor, or all the other houses could get destroyed in an earthquake. Or, on the other side, someone could invent a new process or tool that makes your skills obsolete. Or a million immigrants could show up and bid labor prices down. These all change the amount of labor I will want in return for my house. But none are wealth transfer. Labor is how wealth is produced but it is not wealth itself.
They do all of that, while speed reading their arguments at you!

Btw, for former debaters, OP of this thread is talking about topicality, theory/framework (which makes the gamework!), and reverse voting issues (RVIs)
Yes of course. I meant this protocol extension is needed to get the history while disconnected from the network.

And it can be fast enough to work smoothly with scroll/PgUp, I successfully did this with Gamja + https://github.com/progval/matrix2051 + Synapse, it almost felt like the history was stored locally.
Seems like Michael Burry thinks they should be shorted, but the mechanics to short aren't there:
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/15/michael-burry-of-the-big-sho...
Potentially? Yes. In practice, not so much. Do you think we'll get there?
The assets went up because the US economy is healthy. This is a much better alternative than 2008 where we failed to fix deflation. Basically printing money is awesome.

> Inflation has eaten into real wages even with increases.

Interestingly not true for homeowners because of fixed-rate mortgages. Or people not currently purchasing a car.
Maybe Hubble could be used to take images of it?
This rhetoric about evil """the government""" spying on you because terrorists is at this point quite out of date or even stale.

I'm far more worried about companies locking things down due to legitimate concern (security) with malicious intent.

Than being arrested for being mistaken for osama bin laden because I decided to grow a beard.
>> Got bored. Needed a little more stimulus.

Naturally, we are inclined to one of two reactions to stuff like this:

1. Resist, f.e. keep listening to music no matter what
2. Bow and look for the next exciting thing

Try something different. Try watching the feeling of "getting bored" without judging it, just watch. You will notice that it swiftly goes away and is replaced by other feeling.
I kind of disagree. Our brains are very good at learning new words given the correct circumstances. Learning words is an effortless process that occurs through seeing them in context, and the nuance of having specific terminology is often extremely useful.

As a concrete example, if you say "I'm thinking slowly right now", someone might assume you have brain fog or some sort of trouble concentrating unless they've read a particular book. If you say you are using System II-thinking, they either get it because they've read that book, or they understand that they don't and can save themselves a lot of time and confusion and ask what you mean.

Using a simpler word for endianness does not spare you from having to understand endianness, but it might mislead you into thinking you do when you don't.

Re-using simple words can be confusing, and understanding that you do not not understand a word can actually be a feature, especially in technical writing.

As a good counter example, the word 'service' is used way too much in too many different ways. If someone says 'the service isn't working', they could mean the entire web application is down, the kubernetes Service-abstraction is misconfgiured, what it's running is broken, or some piece of code ending in "Service" doesn't compile.
What city is this ?
Mint w/Xfce works for me. They purge snap by default, and support debian/Ubuntu packages.

Actually I went a bit further and use i3 as WM. Tiling windows as God meant it to be.
I want to vouch for gron as well. Apart from being grepable, I found it is easier to orient myself where I am in a very large JSON structure. The location in the hierarchy is present on every single line, no need to scroll up or down to figure it out. Granted, many other tools can help with this as well, but gron does it well.
And if there is a logical error, what's the correction mechanism?
"Trivial" is overstating it, for exactly the reasons posted in that blogpost. People can and do verify keys out-of-band, and for that reason there is an extremely low chance that whatsapp (or signal) is wholesale MITMing connections. If you are concerned you will be targeted specifically you can treat key changes with much more suspicion.
Fortunately, no, not necessarily: not in the schools I have been to. In the schools of my youth, you had to understand the taught, not just remember it. Students were evaluated for how well they had processed the information, for their mastery in its "handling".
It's because

- people couldn't go on vacation so they all switched to buying durable goods at the same time. (that's why supply chains don't hold up, it's a crisis of abundance not deprivation.)

- workers in some industries died (like meatpacking) or quit (like restaurants).

- we haven't built enough houses since 1970 and everyone decided to buy a house at once.

It's not because of stimulus though; making people poorer so they can't buy cars is not a good solution to cars being too expensive.
> systemd developers pushed the community

[citation needed]

I remember spending days reading the arguments on the Debian mailing list. There was no push from systemd devs. (Endless threads about upstart, how tweaking upstart would solve everything and it's already in Ubuntu, and a lots of questions about guarantees. Are openrc/upstart/systemd maintainers willing to guarantee this or that? And as far as I remember, there were no guarantees, obviously.)

Before that when the hwdb and udev merged into systemd, people got the pitchforks out, it was the decision by Kay, but obviously "systemd devs" were somehow behind it.

When Greg KH supported kdbus, somehow it was again those meddling systemd devs.

Somehow OSS veterans just lost their agency overnight and became puppets? Nah.
While I agree that the bug fixing capabilities of the flutter team could be improved, it‘s still reasonable to assume that they‘re primarily caring about Google‘s issues - given Google pays the party.
Still, you comparison isn‘t really a good fit IMHO because it seems you’re „just“ wrapping html content into the native ecosystem, which defeats somehow the purpose of actual native apps.
And even if you‘ll only target iOS I‘d say Flutter is still a more pleasant and more productive tech to use compared to f.e. SwiftUI - of course this only applies for actual native code.
Still interesting to read, thx for the article.
I might modify the title though since I wouldn’t consider a html wrapper a native app you‘re migrating to flutter.
> we use technical terms not to be human friendly but to be technical.

What does that even mean? Arbitrary useless names are better because they are so devoid of meaning? Making things needlessly hard is “professional”? “Professionals” are superior “technical” people that do not respond to inferior human mechanisms such as “making sense”?
Be the change you want to see. It is a trivial binary format, not some DRM.

Also, you can store plain-text logs as well if you prefer by exporting journald’s output.
> I'll join the chorus of the other sibling commenters here by expressing skepticism that any medication will at all help with anything. (emphasis mine)

Right there in the first line. "Any medication", "at all", and "with anything." Come on :)
Had the same experience. That's why I've written jql[0], which puts a uniform lispy spin on CLI JSON processing. I now use it almost exclusively instead of jq. Check it out if you're looking for alternatives.

And by the way, you can achieve live preview with any of these CLI tools by using fzf. This is the snippet for jql for example: `echo '' | fzf --print-query --preview-window wrap --preview 'cat test.json | jql {q}'` (substitute jql for jq or anything else)

P.S.: jql might seem dead, as there are no recent commits, but it's not. It's just finished.

[0]: https://github.com/cube2222/jql
> they thought like you and didn't care that it was miserable and boring

If kids were allowed to not do things they identify as find miserable and boring, practically everything in the world would be off the table and the next generatation would be totally and utterly fucked.
It's possible you're thinking of Swiss Tables, Google's unordered hash map (and hash set) implementation for C++. There's a CPPCon presentation where the conceit is Hyrum interrupts the presenter each time some minor improvement to the design trips real users, reflecting Google's real experience doing this.

But Python's dict type had such terrible performance characteristics that they actually made it much faster [edited to add: and smaller!] while also adding guaranteed ordering in current 3.x versions, which is pretty extraordinary for such an important built-in data structure.