skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might sound stupid but perhaps it's the same restlessness everyone has?

What do I now after building my home? Doing the garden. Okay what now?

Also a little bit like CK: he was musturbating in front of a few woman in the office and did not get spoken out.

He took the Crimea without real troubles perhaps this combined with him being allowed to poison people around the world and hacking the west gave him the feeling that he can just take Ukraine.

On his level he probably can't even just walk around in a crowd of people. That has to feel to him very unnatural.

If you have everything legacy might become your driving motivation. Unfortunately he doesn't think legacy could mean making as many life's good but territorial restoration.
Why only now? Were the subjects covid vaccinated?

Doesn't mRNA vaccines contain polymers?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-021-01001-3

I think that is a relevant question now for many scientific studies now since a large part of the population has been vaccinated in some places and age groups

Direct reference, only a small vaccine reference
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202...
1. Open security vulnerabilities

sounds like a user problem
From TFA:

> “The first basic messaging features will be user-to-user messages, video and voice calls, as well as basic file transfer (photos, videos), and then over time, more features such as group chats will come,” noted Schwab. “Everything must be end-to-end encrypted.”

(emphasis mine)
Hacker interview – Gummo (2020) [video]
>A buyer, a reseller, and a seller working together to find a price that works by lowering the cost of goods is not a bribe since you know nobody is getting paid.

They're not lowering the price of goods. The non-discounted amount is still charged to the end customer. The difference in the amount charged to the customer and what's paid in licensing to MS is used as a slush fund to bribe the decision maker.

>Trying to say that licenses that were bought that never were used was bribery is just confusing.

Come on, it's not that confusing. They're inflating the value of the contract so that they can skim more off.

>Do some resellers who are external to Microsoft end up violating the FCPA or 'normal US business ethics' in some regions? Definitely. But they aren't in the US, so the right venue for whistleblowing the activity is in whatever-country-in-question under their laws. Just based on the article and whistleblower post it sounds like there is just an assumption that micro problems in his local leadership were macro problems. I am not convinced.

I don't understand how you're not convinced. MS has paid a fine for the exact same behavior across multiple countries in different regions. And here is a person who has been in the thick of it for 20 years alleging the exact same scheme with documents to back it up. It's a slam dunk case.
>When a solution requires running a server, I mentally count it as much more expensive than if it's done locally and synchronously.

Are you comparing server vs local desktop software?

The author's article is actually comparing server-SaaS vs server-on-premise (or server-self-managed-cloud-vm-container).
It's one thing to say "I recognize that individual Russians are not at fault, but in the middle of a total war civilians inevitably get caught in the crossfire. At least with these economic weapons no one is getting killed."

It's another to say "you are all at fault, even if indirectly, and so you all deserve to be punished."

That second comment would violate at least "be kind" and "comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
You’re conflating company with the team and direct peers. You’re right about the company mission but the workers are human and make connections with their peers.
Source? Wikipedia has pages on the various ingredients, which are a lot more complex than I realized, but I’m not seeing plastics…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toothpaste
That’s just opening tabs with each chat service. Not dissimilar to doing that yourself with browser tabs. Which is basically what the clients you mentioned do
I'm sure both are as good as medium rare chicken.
Key Security in a Passwordless World
I’ll wait to see the details but modern messaging apps are super complex and have tons of features. The odds of a third party implementing them all (and correctly) is low. Instead it’ll be like how iMessage “interoperates” with SMS, where non-native users are shunned for breaking everything for the group.
I feel like startups is just a way to do money laundering nowadays. You can say what you want but there is NO way this startup is worth a billion dollars and that this money is actually clean.

Seriously, look at their website: https://www.island.io/
There is not even a SINGLE image of the browser itself, it's just 3D renders, there is no way to test it. At least BREX, Slack and the others are product you can see, it's something that you can know it exists. Even in the use cases for the browser they don't show anything about the browser itself.

This is REALLY disappointing for any entrepreneur working on a REAL product and receiving NO from every single investor they talk to.

I mean: i, a nobody, has a solid product, has paying clients. But because i am not friend of a VC or somebody else i need to listen that my product is not good enough, that it will never scale, that i don't have the right revenue to justify an investment. You can see my product, you can test it if you want. But then a guy comes with something that doesn't even have a proper website and is valuated a billion dollars out of the gate.

It's just sad to see what the startup ecosystem has become.
JEP 419: Foreign Function and Memory API
I think he meant punishement as in sanctions
It's a concern, it is just that it may only knock out space access for a few years instead of hundreds, and it may destabilize nuclear détente, orienting things towards theater missiles for a while.
Those don’t seem like hard controls for Chrome or Edge to support for businesses if the market demand is there. Companies can already lock chrome down to a decent extent.
We once hired a new colleague, and a week later I had a WebEx call to say 'hi' and we chatted about graph algorithms. It was a good-vibes call, and we closed saying we both looked forward to collaborating on research topics of mutual interests.

The next day the news came that he had died from a hard attack. It was very sad, and also strange to have someone pass so soon after joining, and even more strange to know that, perhaps apart from his wife, I was the last person he may have talked to. Like in the poster's case there was a time zone difference, and we never met in real life.

I was sorry for the family. I also reflected on the situation: I had (virtually) crossed roads with yet another nice person, he conveyed his passion for knowledge in one of the last acts in his life, then passed in his sleep; the premature time of death aside, that is actually a positive ending in a way. Recalling that memory from years ago, I do not remember his name, but I clearly envisage the shared excitement about the beauty of graphs; that is the impression that stayed with me until today. May he R.I.P.

As a suggestion, I propose to those teams affected to hold a remembrance event for a lost colleague, where stories and images can be shared, ideally in person and in commection with a meal, but if not possible at least as a virtual shared meal.
I am finding that everything is just becoming more and more fragmented. Programming languages, ecosystems, frameworks, blah.

I have had ideas for some applications, but can’t do them because the libraries I need are written in different languages, which don’t interoperate well (and one I am not familiar in).

Every post here looking for recommendations has many responses with different packages/ecosystems doing the same thing.

Sometimes I feel like there are too many developers and not enough of them really interested in the actual hard problems. So they just make another python package manager or webapp framework.
> Suicide is a tragedy without peer, the result of pain, illness, and some part selfishness.

Well at least they won’t have to deal with your judging looks.
This isn't completely true (though it might as well be).

It's possible to install Android apps without the Play store.
Societies and health care aren’t as similar as one might think in the Nordics. Sweden is surprisingly diverse, unequal, urbanized etc. It’s more “continental” than its neighbors in a lot of ways.
This is ridiculous. You are expecting people to take aassive downgrade in standard of living. I spend years working to make more money than everybody so I can live better, not worse. And you are wrong, my kids will live much better as well, because I will pass on that money.
- Sorry about the outage yesterday. It lasted about 1 hour but service was promptly restored.

- As Zoom employees, our primary objective is now to bring the technology at play in Keybase to Zoom products.

- We are still making regular updates to Keybase. These updates consist primarily of bugfixes, security fixes, performance improvements and patches and updates to third party libraries. For instance, the app is currently undergoing a major rewrite to be compatible with recent versions of React and React Native. We are not currently pursuing any major new features. The paper trail for these updates is visible for all to see here: https://github.com/keybase/client/tags

- The current plan -- which can be inferred from our ongoing maintenance to the product -- is to keep Keybase running in a performant, usable, free, E2EE, high-security form for the foreseeable future. Should this plan change, we promise to give as much advance notice as possible.
The FB One at least probably doesn’t include group chats.
Over manual install - snap/flatpak is typically way faster and easier to install and configure. Installing Nextcloud manually if you’re not familiar with the process is an hour or more of setting up all the essential and optional dependencies. It’s a few seconds of snap install nextcloud.

Over distro repos - no dependency version hell.

I don’t really love snap/flatpak (too much “magic”, hard to tweak installs) but I see why they get used.
Whether the article is accurate or at least reasonable I don't know, however this criticism smells fishy - the kind of damages you're ascribing to the lockdown Sweden did suffer from, and not dramatically less so than nearby countries AFAIK. For economic indicators at least the data is available, and IMHO clearly shows Sweden was not unusual, e.g. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1274468/gdp-per-capita-n...

Suppressed human interaction and stress causes harms, I'll postulate to that - but clearly even without any government intervention at all the pandemic will see to that. Whether formal social-distancing measures make that worse is not obvious; they could even conceivably make it better (if coordination helps pick those that work best and reduces their overall length, for instance); and surely the details of the measures, including timing and duration, matter.

Ascribing pandemic related damages to lockdowns is wrong. Now, that doesn't mean lockdowns are always harmless, nor that this article is sane; but let's not delude ourselves that it's obvious "lockdowns" in general are terribly harmful, by comparing them to a false baseline of pre-pandemic normality.
FB one doesn’t provide group chats as far as I’m aware. Maybe not Google one either?
When I lived in Wisconsin, a group of moose were frequently (and humorously) referred to as meese.

We all knew the correct pluralization, which is why using the wrong one was funny. The fact that it annoyed sticklers to proper form was just icing on the cake.
This is great. The only thing that bothers me is the price tag. Seems the US is either neglecting infrastructure or building in super expensive ways. They should have looked into way cheaper approaches that can actually be deployed on larger scale without breaking the bank.
For a personal desktop, I wouldn’t recommend it unless you’re willing to run sid, because while the outdated software collection is no big deal most of the time, it’s a tremendous pain when you really do need a new version of something, and you ultimately just give up and instal the whole thing from source into /usr/local, which in a half-dozen years predictably evolves into a mess.

Running sid is an option, but the amount of fiddly Debian magic you end up needing to learn when it breaks is IME not smaller than the effort of setting up a mostly-unpatched rolling-release like Arch (and I’m sure there are other options). Given that e.g. Arch’s packaging is simple enough it’s no big deal to package even your personal collection of handy scripts (and so the system does not develop funny-looking mold and bits of mystery food all over the place), I don’t really see the point. Just don’t update it when you’re on a deadline.

You can see that my arguments here are to a great extent a matter of preference and personal circumstances, though: do you have a reliable Internet connection for troubleshooting? do you prefer a more solid system that you have to fight and that fails badly but rarely or a less solid one that fails more often but in small ways? does getting locked out of the graphical environment every couple of years count as small?

(Offer not applicable on machines with cursed hardware like nVidia or Broadcom.)
I can hear IT salivating. Cut-and-paste will be disabled and I will have to manually transcribe from StackOverflow.

Like many enterprise things, this will be a lose-lose. Jobs will be harder, but no one will be more secure. No one will even get a bonus for pretending to make something more secure.

I guess that faceless IT group in every company that loves locking things down will get some sort of satisfaction. Not sure if that counts as a win.
I’d be surprised if this isn’t what happens
OK but even Apple lets you toggle automatic updates on or off.
The moment you realize HR is there to serve the company's interests, not the employee's, your expectation of them changes.
google for venture capitalist. You will be amazed.
Ultimately, the only legitimate way to remove Putin is for its people to evict him, either through election or protestation. There are only so many ways to increase the pressure at the international level that won't impact the lives of the casual citizen of Russia.
FWIW, I've used Fedora's KDE spin [1] and its very polished. That said, if I was still using linux on the desktop these days I'd go with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed[2]. With KDE my experience was that they made big improvements with every release, and tumbleweed was a nice way to get a stable-ish rolling release distribution that gets all the nice KDE updates without me having to wait another 6-8 months.

[1] https://spins.fedoraproject.org/en/kde/

[2] https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed
this is not fair in the slightest. At worst this will make for a fascinating and insightful experiment that will inform many future policy decisions
I'd be curious to hear a good explanation as well from someone who knows more about this than me. My feeling (and feelings/suspicions are all I've really got) is that there are 2 factors driving it - maintaining repos is mundane work, and containers are fashionable again.
this isn’t work related, this is human meeds and suffering. i understand management is ass, don’t become an ass yourself
Thank you for your feedback.

> I gather it just allows one to run the same command over multiple hosts (filtered by name or tag), but nothing beyond that?

For now. I intend to carefully extend it to other features, like in said in the original post:

- mimic the "gather facts" feature from ansible so you can query it with `jq`
- provide an API in a few programming languages so that you can choose whatever fits your needs to "script" the logic (and with Rust/Go, distributing a single binary as a 'setup.exe' should be plenty enough)
- probably a plugin system similar to kubectl (as in subcommands look in PATH for a binary named `tricorder-subcommand`)

I'd like to see it becoming a real replacement for YAML based workflows, but I started small because I don't want to repeat the same mistakes. I'd like to see how people would use this before building on it.
What happens when human adaptivity outpaces our species’ ability to accurately perceive and adequately understand the impact of our own adaptivity?

We seem to be becoming increasingly reliant upon technology which is increasingly untested to solve problems that are increasingly a result of this adaptivity. It’s a vicious cycle in which humans identify a problem but lack the necessary perspective to identify and solve the root cause of the problem so we end up with inadequate solutions that mostly prolong and exacerbate the original problem rather than actually solving it. Adaptivity aside, I just don’t think humans are at a point in which we possess the necessary perspective for us to safely engage in large scale commercial genetic modification of life without it backfiring on us in some horribly spectacular way.
https://www.mapcontrib.xyz/t/e5c83c-OpenPianosMap
Wonder how long it will take until Google copies these features for Chrome Enterprise. Just like they did with Google Calendar and Clockwise.
That's the federal ban. Individual states restricted sales of raw milk prior to that.

I just find it weird that we start applying germ theory to combating tubercolosis outbreaks, find out raw milk is a problem, FDA makes recommendations to limit the sale of raw milk and sell only pasteurized milk back in the 1920's.

Now there's this whole rejection of past experience and known dangers because of a belief in the naturalistic fallacy. Not everything "natural" is good for you. Drinking milk as an adult isn't even natural. It's nice sure, but it's not natural.
A git server is just a computer with ssh access, though. Git itself is designed in a way where it doesn't even need a server.

If you keep it simple, it stays simple.
Me too, though nix (https://nixos.org) and eventually nickel (https://nickel-lang.org) get you very close today.
that is not same as profiteering. leeching maybe but "profiteering" is what brave does with replacing google ads with their own so that they show their ads and earn instead of google.
that is not what anyone with ad block is doing..

nothing in life is free. everyone knows that. you and me know that. we use adblock regardless of that knowledge. how is this argument used against vanced now since we have accepted the necessity for ublock orign?
> Yeah I think mindfulness is not about ignoring your problems. It's more about not letting your mind wander unnecessarily.

Learning to focus is one of the hidden lessons in "Kung Fu Panda." Po's journey allows him to finally reveal to his father his true passion because he learns to focus on his own destiny rather than letting the pressures of the larger society, as represented by his father's expectations, control him.
VC-funded startups are legitimized MLM schemes
You're angry. I understand. No one likes having services taken away.

I work with Russians. I see accounts getting cut off or threatened to be cut off. But none of the firms are saying "we'll stop providing services to Russians". They are saying "we'll stop doing business in the Russian economy". Russian citizens are still very much using Figma, for example. But not in Russia, through Russian companies, using Russian credit cards. Conversely, non-Russian immigrants in Russia are also cut off. Ukrainians working in Russia are getting cut off.

The reason is the sanctions and the difficulty of complying with them. It's way easier to implement via geofencing, or by denying Russian-registered payment cards, than by checking users and companies against the ever-changing sanctions lists manually. And yes, many companies are horrified by the war and want to do something about it. Maybe something more than the sanctions require.

The purpose is to punish the Russian state and curtail its finance of the war. It doesn't really matter if Vasya Designer from Voronezh curses Putin and the war over tea at the dining room table every day. Putin doesn't care what Vasya thinks. So long as he keeps working, making money, paying his taxes, he contributes to the economy. His inner feelings do not affect the war. Even if there are many like him, it's unclear how they will change policy. 15 years, torture stories, and footage of crackdowns from Minsk to Almaty are pretty scary. They keep Putin from having to care what Vasya thinks, or how many think like him.

I know good people in Russia who can't leave and won't leave. It makes me sad, too, seeing them cut off, isolated, worried about money and their children. But it's the news from Ukraine that makes me truly angry.
In Bavaria, displaying the “Z” sign, will face legal repercussions
Subscriptions are how you lock customers (companies) in and companies have fat wallets and are slow to migrate away.
Isn’t it… the opposite of a blow to Apple? If there interoperability, why would I ever use anything than my phone’s default messaging app? (Especially if E2E encryption is a requirement, which it looks like it is)

This is just regulatory capture cementing the OS owners above app developers.
It'd be pretty cool if someone could organize an "Internet Wild West" archive specifically for that kind of content and host it using torrents and I2P so that it can't be easily challenged. Yeah, there's probably a lot of problems with that, but there's nevertheless parts of the Before Time that I'd like preserved.

This is why I download and archive locally things I enjoy repeatedly and find significant. If I remember something I once loved or laughed hysterically at back in the old days, I use yt-dlp to download it because I know someday it'll get erased and a shrinking minority of people will even remember what it was.

To me, it's about personal culture. There are videos and other online content that became an institution in my young brain, but inevitably faded into irrelevance, eventually disappearing entirely in some cases. If I remember a piece of media but find that it's been lost for good, it's like I've lost a small part of myself.

In any case, I definitely recommend creating a personal archive. I agree that the Internet Archive is an amazing thing and that we are blessed to have it, but clearly not everything has an obvious place on it and I think it's only a matter of time before the Cathedral, if you will, recognizes its existence and subverts or destroys it.
like Medium does ?
The “better detection” excuse is always there. The major source of microplastics is probably clothes dryers according to one recent study. That means you can associate its risk to probably clothes dryers, microfiber cloths, and plastics in clothing. Adoption of those is going to have accelerated dramatically in the last 30 years or so.
Such mandatory face-time—and mandatory social interaction in general—can make things better or worse. It can make things better because someone might need more social interaction. On the other hand it can make things worse because some people are more lonely in a crowd rather than when they are by themselves.
I’m more interested in understanding what it will take to replace YouTube entirely with a decentralized solution that can’t be censored.

No government or corporation has the right to decide who may speak or what they are allowed to say.

For example, just in the last few days YouTube tried to censor @WIONews, and was forced to relent as millions of Indian citizens protested via #YouTubeUnblockWION: https://www.youtube.com/embed/WQ7vy2JxH0U
Paris has a population density of 9,800/sq mi across 1,101.7 sq mi and an inner core of 53,000/sq mi across 40.7 sq mi.

Stockholm’s urban area of 11,000/sq mi across 147.35 sq mi, is comparable to Paris, but it’s inner core 73 sq mi is a much lower density 13,000/sq mi. Even if you assumed all those people lived in a 40 square mile “inner inner” core you still don’t get close to 53,000/sq mi.