skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have many times, it has almost always been much preferable to my experiences with small landlords. The micromanaging of apartments, corner cutting when it comes to maintenance efforts, bizarre unenforceable stipulations in rental agreements, discrimination and more -- I've seen some of each of these problems in my time renting from both large and small landlords, but the small landlords were almost always worse. Less capital and less experience is part of why I'm guessing. For me, I don't care about my landlord knowing my name if my apartment is managed competently and within local legal guidelines.
But did you do so in order to enjoy different political systems, or more because of unrelated things like work, family, studies, ..., while the political system was something that just was in place and acceptable enough for you? I think that is what GP is aiming at.

What if you cannot find an existing system that is open for you and acceptable enough?
12 Reasons to Be Skeptical of Common Claims About Implicit Bias
> Once you actually understand them, I feel you don’t need explain in most cases; you will simply ‘see’ why certain queries or definitions or structures are bad.

Ummmm.... my experience pushes me strongly in the other direction. The same query's behaviour can be utterly different depending on the distribution of the data it runs on, and the parameters, and the currency of the statistics, and maybe memory and cpu pressure, and more. One of the heads of the team that wrote SQL server said "don't try to outguess the optimiser". That's very good advice that's served me well, otherwise it's exactly like optimising a program without profiling it; just don't (learnt that hte hard way).

All the internal details of how the server works that you learn are 95% useless until you need them, then they're essential, but just profiling is the best bang for the buck by a long way as a first step, and is always the first step (for me anyway).
It could've been Badfinger.
It sounds like the lack of hard neutron flux would also avoid proliferation problems with Pu-239.

https://www.hsfk.de/fileadmin/HSFK/hsfk_downloads/Strong_Neu...
I've heard the same with China and WeChat Pay even pre pandemic. This is just from second hand anecdotes though so take it with a grain of salt.
The core debate here is the meaning of "operating system".

The GNU project does not consider Linux to be its own operating system, because they're coming from the culture of traditional UNIX where the OS interface is libc and the kernel is an implementation detail. Direct descendents of UNIX (for example Solaris and macOS) follow this model.

The article's author, for example, writes:

GNU/Linux is a distinct operating system in the family
of operating systems which use the Linux kernel

Linux developers, and many (most?) users, consider Linux to be an operating system in and of itself. It's practical to run a custom-written userland directly on top of the Linux kernel, with no libc or GNU software present.

To someone who thinks of Linux itself as an OS, for GNU to demand co-branding is a bit like asking for the name to be Mozilla/Linux or KDE/Linux. Why should one particular vendor of userland software be treated specially?

The GNU folks are unlikely to win this because they lost the Linux distribution market share decades ago. The most popular Linux distributions are Android (non-GNU), ChromeOS (non-GNU), and a long tail of embedded appliances. Distributions built on GNU libc/coreutils, including Fedora and Ubuntu, are below the noise floor.
Thanks for the link, I was either thinking of that or someone who was referencing that.
All stockholders have a "voting stake" in a company. C-level execs may get a lot more shares, but their voting power is tiny compared to the institutional investors. Board of Directors have voting power, but often token salaries.

But you said it's the difference between "upper middle class" and rich? So I ask again, what's the cut off?
I've been on the other side of something similar to this. At a previous role, a security researcher was falsely claiming we had a backdoor. We considered litigation, but ultimately decided not to for a variety of reasons, but a major one was that there was no way that the optics would be anything other than "softare giant sues researcher," and we would likely only serve to draw more attention to the claims.

I'd entirely forgotten about the Ubiquiti breach until today.
Is it actually a problem everywhere? I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s not written about much on HN, but my guess is that at least some of the big tech companies will sometimes do large off-cycle performance bonuses. It may depend a lot on the work though, e.g. doing the thing the company actually cares about vs what they say they want or needing to fight one’s case a lot, or needing to have product focused improvements rather than some equivalent savings from efficiency.
we don't - i hate that sites doing such things
Ban satellite propulsion as a legally permissible use of mercury
> userland RNGs are essentially the source of all practical CSPRNG vulnerabilities in the past 2 decades

Is your point that CSPRNGs should not be implemented in userland, but instead should just read from /dev/random or do the equivalent on non-linux opperating systems?
That's just it, when I do my annual taxes (I should do that within the next month btw), all the data - from my employer's wages, all assets at banks including checking-, saving- and investment accounts, and things like mortgage interest (which is still partially deductible) etc are all filed.

The only thing I need to manually add is the EUR value of crypto assets on Jan 1st of the preceding year (good luck figuring that one out, the exchanges are kinda shit), and any charity donations I may have done. (my dad will pettily write down any speeding ticket cost as charity donations)
How hard was it to setup the roaming?

That has been my (one?) major complaint with my Ubiquiti APs - I have four of them scattered around my house/garage and moving between them always suffers a bit of a delay in handing over (or refusing to hand over at all).

I recently migrated a router (not Ubiquiti) over to OpenWRT and have been happy with the stability. I read a bit about roaming, but thought it looked a little daunting.
Good source. It sounds a bit like they were destroying the evidence with that move then. Like throwing a match into a gasoline-doused crime scene.
A society that literally enable cheaters is not going to go far..

As a permanent policy, sure. That wouldn't work.

However, a society that allows landlords to force people to move when everyone is meant to be quarantined will have significantly bigger problems than a temporary block on evictions even if that hurts landlords.
> "I'm not contacting the internet unless you ask me to"

I think there kind of is? Like, most Linux distros actually?

Yes, Ubuntu has snaps which try to talk to the internet and autoupdate, and yes this is absolutely terrible. Yes, sometimes a distro might notify you there are updates available. Yes, sometimes a distro talks to a ntp server to sync the time. But, generally, I don't feel internet usage is inflicted on me, I inflict it on myself.

In what ways which bother you does your Linux distro contact the internet without asking?
Accidentally released the April fools article a day early i see
My father had the same framing hammer for about 30 years. He refused to give up that hammer. When he helped my brother and I redo our house we bought, he was prepared to hammer the whole floor down with just his hammer. We convinced him to use a nail gun instead, just to prevent another bout of carpal tunnel syndrome. However, he was attached to that thing, out of all his tools, it was the one I precisely remember, particularly when I had to help him growing up.

I haven't had the same computer for 30 years, but I am attached to what I have as it continues to do exactly I want in terms of its ergonomics. :)
Laying aside the questionable sources of these claims, I did try and pay for a meal in cash at the weekend and the pub I was in said "Oh no, we don't take cash" and frankly I think that's just unacceptable. Fine yes, 99% of the time I have a card, but on the occasions where I do want to pay in cash I should be able to and it's just crappy service to refuse. It's not like they don't have tills, they just decided it was easier for them not to bother.
You might as well, but if one is more fun to you than the other, there is nothing inherently better with a "real" instrument.
I did indeed not read that properly. I'd have to check the actual publication. It's at least suspicious that they don't mention it, since obesity is probably the first thing you should think of when saying diabetes.
Instead of writing a malware exploiting a bug to simulate an attack to defend against the exploit, you could have just fixed the damn thing in the first place.
Same situation with me. I go to office 3 days but most of the time the meetings are taken from the desk, on zoom. This is because most tech employees have bigger monitors which is convenient compared to tiny laptop screens.
IMO remote is extremely popular among employees and many will jump ship if given remote option. Any eventual plans for mandatory all 5-day at office will be suicidal for knowledge work companies.
Do we actually have any cases of governments using malware for good?

Guns aren't a great comparison because the use can (and usually is) wholly defensive or acts as a deterrent -- i.e if you are known to be armed then you'd be left alone.

Malware on the other hand is almost exclusively offensive and governments around the world almost exclusively use it for nefarious reasons (i.e NSO Group's clientele and published usages).
It takes me about 250ms to load hackernews as seen on the browser debug network tab. The total compute for that request is minimal. Speeding this up may reduce total infrastructure costs, where if everything is kept static you will see benefits long term, but in terms of reducing total latency, it will be next to irrelevant.
> to enjoy different political systems, or more because of unrelated things like work, family, studies

Ah, pretending that "work, family, studies" don't depend on political systems is peak HN.

> What if you cannot find an existing system that is open for you and acceptable enough?

Life is a series of compromises
I think that people coming in and being alone or not talking whole day are things that will solve themselves over time. People/management will start to coordinate when who comes. People will start to socialize again.

But, omg, I really don't want to go back to office. I like not having to travel there. I like breakfast in peace taking my sweet time for it and lunch at home. I like extra sleep I am getting in the morning. I like extra exercise I am getting. I like being at home when kids come, have quick chat with them before returning to work.
I played Guitar Hero for years before I picked up the real instrument. I still enjoy the game.

Let people have fun.
I'm going to be that guy and just say that I wince at the use of emoji instead of words. It's not very accessible and I surely hope nobody actually uses emoji word replacements professionally.
Wouldn’t it be easier to patch their startup scripts than freezing their kernel?
> For one, in many jurisdictions it can take two, three, even four months to evict a non-paying tenant.

Eviction is a legal proceeding for a lot of good reasons for both tenant and rentier. You could say the process could be faster, but it is fair.

> Many cities will give free attorneys to tenants being evicted. So now the landlord has a bunch of factually dubious to difficult to dispute allegations made against them.

This sounds oddly specific.
RIP, Douglas. I had such fun reading the books, watching the movies.
I think nukes are a better analogy than guns. There's legitimate reasons why you might want your government to develop and own them, but there's no good reason that it should be legal for private companies or individuals to sell or buy them.
Incredible, it's like the next up selfishness level from a mask with a valve. Holy heck. Really is hard to believe this isn't a joke.
> any attractive boy band with a catchy beat

No need to beat around the bush : surely you mean the Stones.
Wow TIL -- I'm going to try this out and see how well it works between a browser and my Roku, thanks!
> you might as well learn to play the real thing

You could argue the same with almost every other game thats a copy of real life actions. Racing, Soccer, Martial Arts games... the list is long and does not even end with FPS games. There was lots of arguing the early days of "killer games" if they actually make people violent. No they don't. Competitive FPS games were and are about skills and being better, faster and able to outplay your opponent.

My GFs sisters family was all about classical music education and her sister is already known international for playing her instrument. She also plays guitar hero (and competitive FPS shooter). Its just an entirely different skillset. Guitar hero needs absolutely no education in any music stuff, therefore the entry level is much much lower.

You cannot really compare it. Guitar hero is like mastering any other video game like tetris or pong. Mastering a music instrument is another level of education. At least yet. Sooner or later it will comparable maybe. When children start to play a video game with the age of like 4 and keep doing it basically their entire life 6+ hours a day - that's the amount of time a professional classical musician invests in their profession.
Capitalism without cronyism isn't something people would recognize as capitalism.

Americans would probably still decry it as socialism or communism even though it is very far away from those.
You take whole wheat, bleach it, then add nutrients back into it so you can have the original product... now call it Wonder Bread.

Michael Pollan commonly writes about this. https://michaelpollan.com/books/in-defense-of-food/
Dependent types seem like they would have to be explicitly static, but gradual typing interacts well with "fully static" fragments of your program. (In fact, having entire program modules be statically typed is needed anyway to get proper optimization and reduce the overhead of dynamic checking and conversion.)
Yeah, I work in University IT, and everything we purchase goes through separation of duties. If I prepare an order, someone else has to do the order approval, and someone else has to mark the item received before it will be paid.
This is it.
Online complaints will go into a system where they are monitored by (very) senior management and reported to regulators.
Don’t forget the financial and political cost of training and losing the crew.
Speed running Guitar Hero and conflicting over its validity does not sound very fun to me.

This is the embarrassing point where fun have been lost already but productivity is not there also.
Ok, not-insurance, and "only between you and us", but I am failing to understand how it works in practice.

There are/will be not-claims about damaged items, cuts and burns, delivered with video proofs.

Will these not-claims be not-examined by a not-inspector and somehow estimated to a (unknown) value that will be either covered or not-covered by coverage, possibly depending on a number of (unknown) factors?
I personally vividly hallucinate tabs, chords, shapes and scales while playing. Sometimes with it overlaying on the fretboard.

Arguably this depends on how you learn and memorize, but I don't think you can discount the visual element of playing instruments. We do have the dots in the fretboard after all.
Not just that but if it is a private meeting and you are not on a laptop, then you have a problem unless all parties are in the office. Management meetings where you might be discussing problems in the team need to be made in private.
A User Experience Retrospective (2004)
> Instagram is not only a cultural and social hub — it’s a place where people come to discover and connect with brands.

im so glad i never even tried that one
> Computers... I don't care about a lot of the things I cared about. I cannot extract pleasure any longer for studying yet another random language. Now, if I want to truly get impressed learning Kotlin (to say something, fine language) doesn't cut it, I need quantum computing or dependent types or whatever.

I feel similarly. It's not actually a problem though, is it? I haven't looked into quantum computing, but dependent types are quite an exciting rabbit hole.
This is strange thinking. just because it's got the word 'guitar' in the title you think they should pick up the real thing. Well it's got nothing to do with a guitar other than the fantasy. They are playing a rhythm game. Why not ask them to play the piano or sing opera. Do you tell people who are good at driving games to go learn to be a race car driver?
> Then they coupled in "shutdown on low battery" and refuse to allow it to be disabled.

Isn't that to protect user's data? There's been numerous reports that modern-day high performance SSD's don't actually neatly write data to physical storage after a flush command; I wouldn't want to lose data if my system unexpectedly shuts down due to power / voltage issues.

Or is there additional low power protections at a hardware level?
> "work, family, studies" don't depend on political systems

Not strictly. Especially not if you switch four times.

> Life is a series of compromises

Of course it is. That's why living in a democracy and fiat system while also using crypto is totally fine.
EABO link: https://www.marines.mil/News/News-Display/Article/2708120/ex...
At what point does "you made a willfully wrong program" override "we don't break userland"? Normally I would expect something like "we don't break documented and intended behavior we told userland to expect". It makes sense that Linux tries for a bit more than that, but if you do it too much you get almost instant ossification, which is bad.
The BIOS screen says the CPU fan runs at the same speed regardless of the cowl, but I'm not sure if this is accurately measuring RPM, or just estimating it from some other variable (e.g. the outgoing pulse-width modulation signal).
I want to see the picture
The fact that some Linuxes don't use GNU (Android, ChromeOS) can be used as an argument that when GNU is being used, one can (_should_ is perhaps a bit much) mention that it's GNU/Linux to clear up confusion.
Social Security they will never see a dime of.
Good! Phineas Fisher will be pleased ;)
I believe there are quite a few systems that generate and install their own private-keys / certificates at boot time. Those should be rather unpredictable, being private-keys and all.
Can confirm this is extremely frequent, especially when it comes to harmony. Not everyone can be Herbie Hancock on a keyboard, but with just enough theory and a good ear, you can write complex progressions into a DAW, for example.

This subject always reminds me of Squarepusher's Music for Robots [1], which was made to be played by robots instead of humans.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_for_Robots_(EP)
PMD and Sonar are not that good in detecting possible NullPointerExceptions. You would need something like the Checker Framework additionally.

The (not) nullability story is much better in Kotlin.
We need a term for unixy software distributions, or what is vulgarly called Linux. Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, Arch are all "linuxes", but so are Alpine and OpenWrt. If you remember early SUSE distributions, they came with binary packages on a CD and no compiler, I would call that also "linux" but only barely. Android is clearly not a "linux". The OS that runs on Quectel cellular modems has a Linux kernel, but unless you gain serial access, there is no "linux".

Controversely, I would also say some BSDs and macOS are, in some fashion, a "linux". Like a wooden horse is a horse, but at the same time it of course isn't a real horse.

For something to qualify as a "linux" in my mind it needs to run most of the GNU/Linux software I need, with little modification. This can be headless software or GUIs. It uses posix conventions ("/" path separator, "/usr" and so on), and it has development tools preinstalled or one command away. There is a command line, and you can use all the familiar tools like ls or vi. That's why I - half jokingly of course - consider macOS to be a great alternative "linux" (although weirdly locked down, and with a lot of NIH proprietary parts). It's also fun TBH to tease the "I'd like to interject for a moment" crowd :-)
Gnu/glibc/Linux or BusyBox/musl/Linux would make more sense.
"Nothing really new" - or in other deliberately twisted around but I think still valid as a point words "it's always the same atoms only in a different configuration. This universe is so boring".

Your perception of "new" depends on your accuracy of perception. With a very low-res eye a lot of things look the same and boring that a higher resolution perception sees as very different and interesting.

What's true for eyes and visual perception also is true for brains: If differences in reality always map to the same neurological pathways and create the same wave patterns in the brain it does not mean it actually is the same. More likely is the viewer either lacks the detailed perception and/or the detailed pathways for processing and reacting to it.

Too much abstraction can make things look boring and create a wrong impression of sameness. "History always repeats itself" - only that it never does, unless you filter out everything until what is left matches what your assumptions. Which actually also is what the brain does, once you see a certain pattern the brain steers you towards seeing it. For example, there are pictures where you can see one of two different things, and once you see one pattern you have to make a conscious effort to unsee it and see the other one.

So, a large part of it is that you see what yo expect to see. If you already determined things are the same you will subconsciously filter out that which does not fit your assumption.

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In any case, I always suggest to programmers interested in something truly new to go into biology and bio-chemistry. All programming we do ends up on similar von Neumann architecture hardware, so it's not wrong that there is not that much difference between programming languages, compared to quantum computing or "biological computing".

Trying to understand - never mind create your own - biological systems is truly something entirely different and should satisfy the bored aging CS and programmer person. Just to clarify: I'm not talking about brains (although that would apply too), but the much more low level biology.

I suggest edx.org for a starting point. Some very good hig-level but introductory and free classes on biochemistry, biology, genetics, statistics (for life sciences with appropriate examples), etc.
Which canton? As I recall, Zug is near Zürich and has very low tax rates. Many highly paid professionals make the daily commute.
Pretty sure competent people anywhere in the world get the same salary in remote only companies.

That has actually become a trend in Portugal: people are quitting local companies to get US/German/UK salaries working remotely for US/German/UK companies.