skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is my Minority Opinion

The biggest problem is that no operating system supports capability based security. Until that happens, we're all using a system with a kernel in the millions of lines of code, that can't protect itself, let alone programs run by users.

This affects all computing, regardless of it being open or closed source.

Blaming the programmers, users, or anything else is a waste of resources in the long run.
>That may be overly cynical.

If you're a developer that has automated something that does something faster/cheaper/more accurately than a person and haven't had this thrown at you, then you're missing out! It's like a rite of passage.

No cynicism intended. Hence the ;-)
I wonder what this means for his $100 million contract
BOTW was a huge factor in the switch's early success IMO. Not just because it was a Nintendo exclusive but because it was such an amazing game. For me GTA IV AND GTA V are the pinnacles of their time for great games. BOTW was the equivalent but for a wider audience.

Unfortunately for my kids it was one of the first games they really played, so they have been spoilt, very few games will ever get close to that, especially in a world of Fortnite.
Oh man 6 days ago and I'm just seeing this now. Thanks for the kind words. I'll shoot you an email that's for sure. :-)

> But also there are no secrets, is that correct?

The topic is the secret. You can make it as easy or complex as you like. If that's not enough for you, as of the latest version [Android app update pending], you can add users and manage access with an ACL.
I don't understand the problem this is solving.

Perhaps it's the sparse explanation from the github page? I dunno.

What I do know is; I have a Windows VM under libvirt/Kvm/Qemu and it's everything this thing claims to be - if I understood the broken English of it - I have passed through my RTX2070super GPU and I am basically running Windows+"apps" - including a few Windows games, and I'm using Looking-Glass to do it all, meaning I have full speed graphical access to Windows I need.

Can somebody please explain to me what this thing is and why it's any different or better than what I have now?
This seems disingenuous to me, but my personal experience with Coinbase colors my opinion.

I had my Coinbase accounts canceled more than 5 years ago. Despite my merchant account with them processing over 1MM USD a year in BTC, they refused to tell me why they terminated my merchant and personal account.

At the time, I was buying physical giftcards in bulk from official wholesale distributors for 90c on the dollar, scanning and OCR'ing the redemption codes, and was selling those for the BTC equivalent of $1.05 on the dollar.

At the time, some of those merchants had their own plans for digital giftcard distribution and said they didn't want to be associated with cryptocurrencies. I ignored their pressure because I was staying true to the law in regards to various resale doctrines.

I suspect some of the larger merchants pressured their financial partners to represent them and put pressure on Coinbase.

I didn't mind writing my own bespoke payment processing system to replace them, but the loss of an easy USD <-> BTC gateway did make life quite a bit harder. Since my move to NY, it's been even more difficult because there are few companies that are allowed to operate here.
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Sometimes, it is not related to performance loss, it is related to implementation cleanness and complexity.
No emergency power should extend beyond the next legislative session.

Emergency powers should be a stop gap only until lawmakers can meet, at which point every emergency rule expires and cannot be reinstated without lawmaker approval.

No more of these open ended blessed dictatorships.
A couple of years ago I had a coworker ask me if I had ever seen the Milky Way, after he had finally seen it for the first time. He must have been maybe 25 at the time. I was taken aback by the question, and felt sad for him that he had never experienced this awesome sight.

It's never too late I guess, but this made me wonder what proportion of people had never had this opportunity. I've read stories of people calling 911 to report strange lights in the clear skies when it was visible; some of those are likely apocryphal but I'm sure it happens.
I originally wanted to reply to this comment saying _"The age of MIDI music in games wasn't that short, was it?"_. I thought I'd look it up first, and you're right. It looks like by around 1994 most computer games were using PCM music. It looks like the Sega Mega Drive with its FM chip was released in 1988. The first Sound Blaster card with an integral FM synth was released in 1989. General MIDI was only standardised in 1991. So I guess it didn't last as long as I thought.

Still, I grew up in the 90s, and this kind of MIDI music in games was ubiquitous, and instantly recognisable to anyone in my generation. Even though it didn't last long. It had a huge impact.
Oh no, why Dave Foley? What did he do?
I'm playing the role of the the smart one who thinks they have it figured it all out, and you're playing the pedantic one, right?

I definitely adopt a Hacker News voice when commenting here. But in my experience both HN and Reddit are different from most social products because I engage in lots of disparate conversations rather than having to to present a consistent personality and be building a brand and set of followers.
Title is misleading? Could be that the podcast owner removed them?
If our executives didn’t make millions and millions of dollars, how could they possibly lead us?
Sure it is, just a recent one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30121581 on "Suicide hotline shares data with for-profit spinoff, raising ethical questions" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/28/suicide-hotline-sil...
In Defense of the Wordcel
>"You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time."

-- Abe Lincoln
there's a subtle distinction here in that what exec does going in and coming out of the kernel, and what are presented to main() by the libc preamble (which is what the C standard is about) are different (though very very related) things
Why would Joe Rogan remove his own episodes?
> How is open access to information not a fundamental human right?

Someone has to provide that for you. If someone has to provide it for you, who is going to be forced to do so in the absence of such? What right do you have to force them into labor if they choose not to provide it? How does your fundamental right exist then - you'd have to enslave someone/s to enable it.

And thus, it's not a fundamental right. It has to be provisioned to you by someone's efforts, often at significant effort and cost overall.

Material goods that have to be produced by someone's labor inherently can't be fundamental rights (what right do you have to their labor?), even if some silly societies wish to label them under that for propaganda purposes.
Game Maker’s s Toolkit had a great take on this,

Nintendo - Putting Play First

https://youtu.be/2u6HTG8LuXQ
I can't stand youtube ads, especially the ones one with conversational tones!

The worst thing about youtube is, when I do a search, it intentionally throws in videos that have absolutely nothing to do with my search.
The American constitution is a vaguely worded 18th century document whose interpretation depends entirely on the whims of nine political appointees.

A liability shield isn’t much of a shield if every content moderation decision is potential liability under the extremely murky standard of American constitutionality.
Google's only way to seriously grow revenue is to throw more ads in front of their users. This always, eventually, hits a breaking point where the ads become too much and erode the user experience.

Any company that relies primarily on ad revenue is built on a house of cards. It can be highly profitable, but it is fragile.
Yup the game gear was technically better but the cost difference meant the Gameboy was more ubiquitous and so that's what sold.

Also for the switch, a lot of kids who had Gameboy's when they came out are now working and can afford a souped up handheld alongside their main console.
1) surely.

2) just read:

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/SXsgdpRK-mE/m/CT7UjJ3aBAAJ

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/ZrVIhHCrR9o

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/lEKehHH7kZY/m/SRmCtXDZAAAJ
Let’s just make a deal, any episode with a Newsradio cast member goes away.
A handful of poorly thought out corporate DEI trainings does not retroactively redefine the decades of research and writing on critical race theory. But I’ll bite. Let’s take the first article.

> The document suggests that employees reflect on the diversity of their personal and professional networks. Employees should also consider how other dimensions of their identities "give (or do not give) you access and advantage." Furthermore, workers are encouraged to "work through feelings of guilt, shame, and defensiveness to understand what is beneath them and what needs to be healed."

> Part of the challenge involves completing a "white privilege checklist." The checklist asks if a person has ever experienced racist slurs, discrimination for their skin color, threats due to their gender or sexual orientation, bullying or conditions of poverty.

Nowhere in the article are the words “blame” or “responsible” or “accountable”. None of this can reasonably be construed as “blaming” people. As the article tells it, the goal of the training is to help people understand their racial privilege.
>Nintendo has finally sued too many smart people, and shut down too many fan projects.

I've always wondered, with Nintendo's history of being rather litigious and forcing fans to take down gameplay videos, etc, how have they not sued Roblox out of existence yet? Practically every game I see my kids play on Roblox makes heavy use of unlicensed Nintendo IP: models/images of Mario, Yoshi, Pikachu, well known music and sound effects from various Nintendo games, and so on. Robolox is not some obscure app, AFAIK it has over 150 million users and rakes in money from these games that are making extensive use of Nintendo's IP. IANAL but this seems like a slam dunk, what gives?
> They just "get it" in ways that Sony and Microsoft don't (or at least, haven't "got" since the original PS2/Xbox era).

I fundamentally disagree. There are some great games for the switch out there but they are absolutely hampered by Nintendo's outright refusal to provide modern features. Animal crossing was a lovely game except for the fact that it didn't support more than one island meaning either me or my girlfriend had to skip it. the "visit your friends island" experience is reminiscent of the late 90s in online gaming. Their support for peripherals has lead to this [0] being considered a reasonable solution to voice chat.

That's before you get into the whole ninetendo switch online + expansion pack.

[0] https://www.gamesradar.com/reactions-to-nintendo-switchs-ter...
From a quick look it still leverages viper integration for 12 Factor Apps, and since most of Coral’s features are well listed and detailed I’m going to make a presumption that Coral does not support reading environment variables (yet? Seems easy, maybe an opinionated decision?) not from external key value stores like Consul and Etcd. Client libraries for those would certainly cause a lot of extra dependencies.
Markets for those exist because people use those things. Bitcoin is used as a speculation device, that's converted back into fiat, not as a thing by itself.

The government won't ban the use of bitcoin, it'll ban the legal on-ramps and off-ramps for converting between cryptocurrencies and fiat. The value of cryptocurrencies is based on hype. When most people can't legally invest, the liquidity will dry up and the price will plummet. That'll lead to less hype, which will lead to lower interest, and so on.

Most likely, the bubble will burst, normal people will lose lots of money, the rich will make a lot of money, and the government will regulate cryptocurrency.
I guess you imagine the control room is joy-sticking / flipping each individual switch?

The processes are automatically executed, but are check-pointed rather than run end-to-end. This is to make sure partial failures can be detected.

Building the self-sensing and error-recovery logic to support a "level 5" automated unfolding is wasteful of taxpayer money when a few folks can just take a little longer to do it stepwise -- with much less development, hardware, and software cost overall.
Am I crazy or isn’t the simplest solution being the kernel filling in argv[0] with the executable path when argc is 0 (thus changing it to 1)? What would be the downside in that?
This isn't the first time that JRE episodes have been removed from Spotify:

[April 13, 2021] https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-rogan-experience-podcast...
It's definitely being routed over fibers, sure, but while faxes in theory can routed over the internet (T.38, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.38, which what Google Fiber is using https://support.google.com/fiber/answer/6377387), in most POTS cases it's still done outside internet because of latency and compatibility concerns (unlike VoIP that human perception can mask small jitters), it's just transformed into light and back for long-distance calls (or if the machine at the end uses EPON T.38).
As Omicron peaks, the US healthcare system is left ‘broken beyond repair’
That sounds nice, but it seems optimistic to think that one can please all of the people, even once.
Pilots have recourses, passengers as cargo do not.
Nobody's saying that this has anything to do with legality under current laws. Neither does whataboutism that this is usually in response to, for the record.
I'm really confused -- why does anyone care so much to delete these episodes? What is so important to be gained by deleting episodes like this?
This reads like a load of BS.
At best slack does nothing, more often then not it harms your productivity.

More (sync) communications isn't always needed and doesn't unlock combinatorial explosion, otherwise we wouldn't actively try to limit meetings.
Apple's insistence on setting the terms of the sale is also problematic and all the more reason to support another store. I absolutely loathe IAP. The last thing I want to do is download an app and guess what parts are going to get unlocked when I pay for something. I'm in favor of having a paid upgrade path. And I'd love to see a trial option that wasn't tied to a subscription. And I think app prices are too low. It's another case of having made a few bad initial moves and then pushing the whole industry that way. The top selling app on the Google Play Store is a slot machine. This is not good for society.
That's what I don't get did Spotify hand Rogan a bucket of cash or is there a contract with clauses that can end the contract. That would seem to be obvious and the point of a contract.

It would be nice to know how much Rogan is costing Spotify versus what he makes for them. At some point there will be a change in which way the cash flows and suddenly the show will be a problem for Spotify.
I work for one of the big Japanese banks in the US. Up until covid, whenever we had to get documents approved by Tokyo, we had to get it stamped, then overnight the physical paper to Japan for management to review and stamp it. Depending on the situation/document, they'd overnight the paper back to the US.

Only after covid did the bank start implementing electronic signatures.
I know this is basically a doomer piece. But unfortunately it also echoes what friends who have been working in ER environments the whole time have been telling me.
Most of the network, no, and I wasn't insinuating that. Carl Tuckerson is very much alt-right. His program is white power hour.
Pressure?
I think you got a key word wrong.
Remember all those times you have seen gaslighting ideologues saying "nobody is actually calling for [canceling/deleting/censorship]", remember how they couch any argument with "private company can do what it wants". I don't care about Joe Rogan in particular, but you're deluding yourself if you think there isn't some relevance here.

A lot of people now suddenly hate Joe, the same way they hate Jordan Peterson, the same way they hated Trump. Every comment will have a preface or disclaimer: "I'm not a fan" in so many words. I did it above.

In a short time that will turn from "I don't support him but..." into something akin to "I see you referenced him, therefore I disregard anything else said"
Yes, but we are not all children, and should be treated as such.
I'm still on dogpile. It gets me where I need to go most of the time.
Absolutely agree on Breath of the Wild. I think every successful console has The Game that really differentiates it (speaking as someone who never had a console growing up, just Sierra games).

Having got a Switch for my son - Breath of the Wild is that game for Switch, but is also possibly the best game made so far. If you haven't played it, don't argue - just play it.
It is interesting to see where immigrants settled in the 1800s. Primarily the North and West. Extremely few in the South. I assume this is related to slavery. These are also the most racist states. I’ve always assumed that was related to slavery, which it probably primarily is, but now I’m wondering if a bit of it can also be connected to the paucity of immigrants.
Blockchain fixes this.

But on a serious note, podcasting was originally just mp3 files freely distributed to be played on ipods. It's anathema to ever have a centralized platform like Spotify hoarding exclusive rights and control.
I think Joe Rogan is an idiot. But, if anything, Spotify should have just posted a disclaimer somewhere stating these aren’t their views, with some links to reputable sources - even their own “Science Vs” podcast.

It’s not like now the people who believed what he was saying are going to shrug their shoulders and start reading the “New England Journal of Medicine”.
I compared the Control “cloud” demo on Switch and a disc copy on the PS4.

The Switch version looked superior, where the PS4 version had obvious texture downgrading and popin. I still played it on PS4 though because the input lag was less and I preferred to have a physical copy.
Podcasting 2.0 is one of the likely answers to this. In the meantime, I'm sure a lot of people will cancel their accounts on Spotify.
Pay the Apple 30% tax to get 30% brighter pixels
This is more the domain of tech like IPFS and BitTorrent than blockchains.
PLEASE DRINK A VERIFICATION CAN

https://i.imgur.com/dgGvgKF.png
While I agree with you, that is an impressively humble attitude. Having watched some of the early history, you can take at least partial credit for building some of those contributors as well.

It was a different time, but Linux did not come so far so fast.

Damn Scandinavians!
I like my pixel phone. It runs GrapheneOS, and it only took a few hours of futzing to get the camera to perform like stock.

(The wireless charging stand is a different story. It has a fan, and the only way to disable the fan involves running some system extension that requires deep kernel integration with the factory version of Android. Other than that, it's been remarkably trouble free.)
If Spotify is trying to effect or create the appearance of a willingness to reach a compromise in response to the recent singer pressure campaign, then it is doing nothing other than signal weakness.
Happy alone: the young South Koreans embracing single life
The Keck telescope, which is a ground-based telescope with 36 actively aligned mirrors, is aligned automatically twice a second.[1] The original control system used a VAXstation II, but they've probably upgrade by now. The Keck has a tougher alignment problem - gravity warps the mirrors as the telescope is pointed, so they're constantly making corrections.

The Webb telescope is 10 light-seconds out, so manual adjustment will be really slow. NASA is being very cautious. It can't be serviced, and the US will probably never launch another one.

[1] https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6240189-alignment-calibration-ke...
Blockchain et al allow the government complete visibility into any transaction. It provides a tool for complete gov control.
That's also why that guy was asked (he didn't say whether it was Amazon, LinkedIn, or someone else) to take that post down.
Honestly I’ve been interrupted by relentless pleas so many times for YouTube premium that I just don’t consider it a “positive” thing. I could cancel my Patreon payments to the content creators and redirect that money to Google, who would then give a small fraction of it to the creators. That doesn’t seem like I’m dealing with an ethical hosting service.

I’ll probably look through the Patreon pages in a few weeks, see who I still care about, and see if they have alternative video feeds that aren’t so ad littered. Those can remain, the rest I’ll cancel.
This could just be a server going down for a few hours or something.
I think by 1988 the world was well and truly suffering from "DX7 preset fatigue". To quote Philip Oakey from Human League:

"They get really bland after a while. And when we get into what I call the DX Sound Hunt, it drives me up the wall. Someone in the studio will say, ‘Okay! Let’s have a bell sound.’ Then we start going through the 128 sounds on our DX —we have the Sycologic MX1 expander board— and playing every one, including the whistle, the train, and the bombs. If we find something we like, it has probably turned up on 50 records that have been made over the past few years..." [0]

I was wondering whether the Korg M1 was really what turned the tide against the digital synth revolution that the DX7 kicked off, and whether it really was the first of its kind. I looked up Yamaha's synth chronology[1], and it really seems like Yamaha didn't produce anything between 1983-1990 that wasn't an FM synth. I'm actually very surprised. My internal chronology was off. I had thought Yamaha had started making PCM-based synths before that!

[0] https://meganlavengood.com/the-yamaha-dx7-in-synthesizer-his...
[1] https://usa.yamaha.com/products/contents/music_production/sy...
Learning What You Don't Know by Virtual Outlier Synthesis (VOS)
I don't take most quotes seriously because they are pseudo-wisdom, a tiny aspect of a quote is valid under some conditions doesn't make it a mathematical statements to be taken seriously all of the time.
I believe more specifically it is PFOS from the pre-70s. Interestingly, this was ww2 nation state technology that helped make missile components, then everyone wanted it to fight fires in ammo yards.
That's sort of the point. They want to pay underperformers less in the hopes that they leave, while paying overperformers more to make sure they stay.
The merchant will probably report gross income for tax purposes and will only reveal details at an invoice level if an audit is triggered. Even then most likely only a sampling of the transactions will be analyzed.

However since the transactions are cash, no identifying information will be shown, so it's anonymous.

As the buyer I have the CHOICE to declare it as a deduction or not. So it is also anonymous at my discretion.
cynically, to increase the controversy (I doubt that's what happened though)
Visibility is not the issue. Lack of distribution is.

How does a decentralized registry mean complete government control?
I think the switch just runs a modified freebsd for an OS too.
Am I to understand that the minions who clean toilets and garden and serve food continue to be outsourced so Mr Google can say it doesn't exploit its workforce?

Mountain View paradise has an underclass?