skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All a matter of selectivity. Most drugs affecting the Sheraton in receptions have nanomolar or better selectivity for 5-ht2A, while 1000x less binding at 5-ht2b, which in biological terms is almost inactive at normal dosing.
Yes, that’s why the Chinese chose the technology. Whereas America was already used to POS’s everywhere, and square makes relatively affordable receiver NFC POS hardware for phones.
A team of high-performance individuals with low agreeableness does not constitute a high-performance _team_.
Level of the language has little to do with the complexity of code.

- a modern OS has anywhere upwards of 50 million lines of code (Linux kernel alone is ~30 million lines of code) [1]

- a modern browser is anywhere upwards of 30 million lines of code [2]

- there are over 3.5 million individual packages available for the various Linuxes [3]

And so on. The pretence that there are people and resources readily available to analyse those sources, and understand them well enough to uncover complex vulnerabilities is just that: a pretence, a myth. As evidenced by high-profile bugs that existed in popular codebases for years.

Does the availability of source code make analysis somewhat easier? Yes. There's a difference though between reviewing left-pad on GitHub and auditing OpenSSL, for example. There are thousands of people who can do the former, and perhaps 5 who can do the latter.

That is why "the number of people who can properly analyse complex software to uncover what it actually does is a line asymptotically approaching zero".

[1] https://www.linux.com/news/linux-in-2020-27-8-million-lines-...

[2] https://www.openhub.net/p/chrome/analyses/latest/languages_s...

[3] https://repology.org/repositories/packages
https://spring.io/blog/2022/03/31/spring-framework-rce-early...
Does it still prompt you to pick a key if all you have are Security Keys enrolled? I can see if you've got other options they might want to check first before doing the WebAuthn process.
There have been attempts by police where I live to exploit such setups as loopholes to request data from companies in foreign jurisdictions that they wouldn't be able to obtain from domestic ones, and since there is no "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine over here, such evidence has actually been admitted in court, or at the least used to enable parallel construction. Given that the Aussies are doubling down on their police state, I'd rather not expose myself to such shenanigans (and if my data ends up in some predictive policing data warehouse, I'd prefer if it was just one, not two).

As for advertisement surveillance, I'd have to take Fastmail's word, whereas with a domestic provider, there's the GDPR that is a lot harder to evade for them than for some Australian company.
You are talking to a hammer asking why it isn’t a screwdriver.
This was one of the first apps I added to run on PikaPods. So free to use during beta and I hope to set up a revenue sharing agreement with the project soon:

https://www.pikapods.com/apps
Heya! We have a couple of different sources. In the beginning, our team was summarizing the best resources that we found online to address common challenges that users reported (and linking to the full version).

These days, we're also collaborating directly with coaches and other contributors from our community. We've found that the "magic" of Bunch comes from the little a-ha moments you get from reading new or different perspectives on a topic, so we try and create those moments.
"read" should be available in addition to "look"
If people can come up with new genders, why not new races?

My race you ask? A Hacker! Haha
As someone noted above we were already a 90-95% cashless society before contactless payments took over. The majority of us already kept all our wealth in digital form. I continued to use 100% cash day to day many years after all my colleagues had switched to contactless (only switched when I got Monzo around 2017/2018). But I wasn't walking around with a wad of cash and I didn't keep my salary in a vault at home. It was in a current account and I took out at the very most £100 at a time. If someone had shut down all my non-cash payment mechanisms and froze my account I'd still only have enough money for a week.

I understand and emphasise with some of the concerns raised about a cashless society and the effects it has on a minority of disenfranchised people. And I 100% agree that we need regulations in place. But let's not pretend our reliance on payment networks is in anyway new, it's just more obvious than it used to be.
Obviously they want to sell balls, but in addition to that, adapting to a new ball is a skill that itself can be developed and is regularly put to test.

changing the equipment that all participants have been used to in the previous years is a weird idea.

Does the Italian Serie A use the same ball year to year? Do they use the same ball as the Spanish La Liga? Does either league use the same ball as the Champions League? Usually not. Top players are used to working new balls pretty regularly. It is part of the game.
Ukraine says major cyberattack against telecom has been ‘neutralized’
Cobol and Fortran are still around, they even support modules, some form of generics and OOP, yet you don't see many people jump of joy writing new libraries in them.
I think there's a lot of naivety around understanding what a distribution does and why they do things the way they do. This article is full of that. And yet, most people in the ecosystem depend on the product.

In other words, I'm questioning whether a revamp is needed at all (as opposed to incremental improvements which are happening all the time). This article might be making some claims in that direction, but has had most of its points debunked in this HN thread already.
You're a professional. I try to be, as well.

But I know many people who call themselves "PHP devs" or "React engineers" or "Wordpress gurus". This service is perfect for them.
Ya, seems reasonable enough. You have control over the gate, either to teach or to work something out. People are allowed to have an opinion on this in general.
Transparency and accountability are good but not quite what GP is talking about.

The problem is that "we simply need to make the government good" is not realistic. That's the single biggest reason people want limited government.
Ubiquiti vs. Krebs
Would you be willing to put out 40$/mo with your 10 friends though? The product seems super expensive in my (totally unprofessional) opinion.
IMVHO the real point is another, that's just an experiment to see if and how we can change agriculture. The point is can we automate agriculture in a way to run on solar in a semi-autonomous way?

If so berry-picking robots, these etc are just test pilot. Surely so far they are too costly, as any new thing, but if they prove to be reliable and usable enough things might change.

We already have a certain dose of tech in agriculture but that's not good tech (cloud-bound by choice of the vendor, abusing the mean ignorance of their customers) but not something like "hey can we get rid of tractors and still be productive?", "can we farm poultry in automated fashion?", "can we harvest various crops in autonomous semi-self-sustainable ways?".

We are probably 20 years behind, but we must start from something in a world who really lack public research...
>but rather the fact that there are hundreds of independent development processes, each controlling a small fraction of the whole system. Doing any kind of cross-subsystem work in that environment becomes a significant undertaking

Hi Andreas, hope you are doing well. This is very wrong. There are a lot of distributions of Linux and BSD that try very hard to ship as one cohesive system. Your issue doesn't make any sense. You would find it even more the case if you tried to do something like create a whole userspace from scratch and ship that, but you've already shown otherwise how that's possible. You need to get over this false reasoning or you will find yourself in the same narrow box that a lot of Linux distributions get trapped in. That's my experience anyway from seeing a lot of failures in Linux distributions with poorly defined goals. In any case thanks for making this project, I hope it's not the last OS you design.
The Ukrainian Cyberwar That Wasn’t
> Staff at the site have previously described the invading troops as having been sent on a ‘suicide’ mission, saying their vehicles and equipment had no anti-radiation protection.

Color me skeptical. I've seen a few videos in YouTube of idiots visiting Chernóbil to take photos, and other about going to Chernobyl with a Geiger detector to find a radioactive speck. I guess you need some dust mask to dig trenches, but I don't think you need a special vehicle to move around. [Anyway, I prefer to be far away, just in case.]
The get higher accuracy requires more precise hardware / additional hardware on the receiving end which drastically drives up the cost.

Systems like this [1] which you may have seen being used on construction sites allow much higher accuracy.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_GPS
I can't speak to the other countries but in the United States there are in fact more or less 2 political parties. It's a winner take all system which tends to drive that for good or ill.

I wouldn't take too much from that. What if for example the Republican party changed it's name tomorrow to the Democracy party. Would anything change from that? No, not really - it's all the same people with the same ideas. The politics are all the same.

Now, what if the politics changed. What if the people who actually voted for the Republicans changed? What if these different people had different ideas and different interests? In that case the name would be the same but the party would be different.
I don't think it's even possible to have a small government presiding over a large thing. That thing might be a region, an economy, or really anything -- as soon as the thing gets too many resources, the government either grows or is replaced. If you try to keep government small, you don't end up removing power and corruption. You just move them to other entities. Those other entities may not use the word government, but the word is obviously not the problem.

It's easy enough to justify this by looking at the opposite end of the spectrum: are there any examples of small government that have succeeded other than by presiding over only very few resources? I'm having even more trouble thinking of any than thinking of examples of successful large government.
"Massive" is your framing, it's abnormal to you but not to others.

You probably wouldn't say that I have a "massive" amount of clothes because I have enough for a couple of weeks without washing them.

I see having about the same in cash as being fairly normal.
I use gitlab for ci/cd, a gitlab-runner runs on a windows based system (legacy aka not .net core so can only build with msbuild.exe). Now I have to copy this release to another windows based system. Are you calling me stupid for using scp via openssh? Would like to hear an alternative? Took me like 5 minutes to set openssh up.
Focusing on corruption is just bluntly stupid on many fronts. It’s a prestige from someone comes from a constitutional republic but lacks understanding of local context. It is extremely ignorant to claim corruptions shaped history when corruptions were always the symptom not the cause.

This superficial worldview caused horrible errors in American foreign policy decisions. The US gave up Chinese government during China’s civil war, so let the communists took over. Did the same thing in Vietnam. Similarly in Iraq and Afghanistan and many other places, given up the government and let terrorists took the country.

All because the corruptions in their governments. The fact is that those governments were deemed to be corrupted no matter who is in charge. You cannot just command them out of corruptions. So instead of living with the imperfect reality of the historical and cultural context, we choose to let the worst to take over so that we can close eyes and make nice postures.
Funny, just two weeks ago I wrote this [1] just for fun (in german) and was wondering if there were other math songs/poems out there.

[1]: https://static.laszlokorte.de/infinite-impulse-rhapsodie/
NOAA Space Weather Scales :
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation

Dashboards

==============

Aviation: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aviation-community-das...

Electric Power: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/electric-power-communi...

Emergency Management: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/emergency-management

Global Positioning System: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/global-positioning-sys...

Radio: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/radio-communications

Satellites: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/satellites

Space Weather Enthusiasts: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/space-weather-enthusia...
Are those the same people who said Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation?
Tangent here, what are better solutions?
Probably some combination of knowledge, experience, time and interest.
Frankly it sounds like kind of an intimidating ask. Do you have special knowledge that makes this seem simple, or is it actually not challenging once you really get all the pieces involved? I'd love to be confident that I could see a statement like the one you replied to and immediately execute on it, so if you have any tips to share please do!
Why yes, yes it does. Thank you sweet baby Jesus! I'm off to grab a candy bar from my bug-out bag.
But that's a very human-centric view of reality, isn't it? Sure, we are humans, so we can't (don't want to?) think in a different way. Other living entities in this planet do not experiment all the 3 points above (or at least that's what we know). Who knows what other living entities experiment out there in the universe?

It's difficult to extrapolate meaning about reality with a sample of N=1 (humanity), but I guess we can't do better for the moment.
Not OP, but my laptop lives long enough for me to get to a plug point if needed. I have power at work and home and I have suspend turned on when I close the lid. I can live with a few seconds of wake up time, when I have no accessible power for long periods of time. It is really not that complicated.
I've pulled a lot of my money out into crypto currency now. Often my wallet is worth more than my checking account.
There will be a new big thing in five years or so. Meta makes enough money to bridge to that. They don't need to win every generation of social media.
> I'm shocked this manager didn't have you fired. I would never tolerate someone doing what they want instead of what I instructed them to do.

You seem to think it is the job of a manager to instruct people what to do.

Moreover, you seem to think that if a manager manages someone, that person is automatically a subordinate.

This is not always the case, especially for more senior positions or in organizations such as certain tech companies where engineering has most of the power and may well be at the same level as the manager.

Managers and bosses are not the same thing.

Moreover, some people are unwilling to do bad work, even if they are told to do so. Sometimes these people are harder to replace than a manager, especially one who defaults to trying to fire people that don’t do what they say.
I think the syntax is 'get ye flask'
Treat it like a puzzle game :) The game isn't hard but you've got to be willing to keep trying. If that's not your thing, that's completely fine - it's just that I felt the same way when I first started playing Demon Souls and when I went back after giving up it finally clicked for me.
good enough, especially with optimisations.
Transparency, and hence able to checked by others, is the only solution I can see.
If this were true, rich people would already have cars with chaffers and beds in them. They don't because the form factor isn't practical without compromising all the other things that you'd want to use your car for. The second scenario basically already exists in the form of bay area tech shuttlesbuses; most people who use them find them a (barely) tolerable tradeoff for living in San Francisco rather than something to be relished.
Thats a refreshingly honest statement, especially contrasted with claims by Musk that Tesla Lvl 5 will be easy to do and available to purchase by 2020.
True, but the way they are exposed to the programmers matter.

Languages like Modula-2 or Ada, to use two C like languages, don't suffer from pointer abuse as much as C, because they provide better abstractions, thus raw pointer tricks aren't as dangerous to the whole system stability.

While JIT and runtimes could make use of tagging as well, Lisp and Ada machines kind of proved the point that with memory safe runtimes, the CPU specialy extensions aren't as useful as general purpose CPUs hence why they moved away from such solutions.

So there is a certain irony that we are now going back into C Machines as the ultimate mitigation.
I agree that it's not about small. I think it's about limited.

There have to be limits on the government's power, whether they come from the constitution, the country's legal system, or the traditional culture and character of the people.
I don't read the internet just to enjoy the wonders of efficient, plain web design.

I'm not gonna stop reading the newspapers or blogs I consider most trustworthy (or less bad) just because I don't like their design choices!
Honest question: how would you define it? This question has come up in my team and everyone has a different definition for it.
Pre-pandemic it was still very common in the UK, despite having an extremely high uptake of contactless payments for years. It was mostly takeaways and small businesses like butchers etc. It was changing before the pandemic but I still instinctively ask "Do you take card?" before ordering at a takeaway.
Yep. They met and fell in love while working on Tron. Doubtless Bonnie thought that MCP Alan was talking about made a cool villain name. Also, Tron's programmer Alan Bradley is named after Kay.

The major conflict in Tron is also themed after Kay's thought: Whom should a computer serve, its users or the bureaucracy that administrates it? Kay believed in user-centric computing, and was profoundly influential in making that happen, but it's clear that this struggle still goes on today.
Bodycams on police are a great start.
Thought I'd plug my friend's company (a former boss and cofounder of my previous work): Table Needs

Instead of a tablets and kiosks, you order on your phone with the app. I've not inquired however how they do receipts. I'd imagine a webhook to the printer or a computer plugged into the printer.
I feel completely opposite, but I'm curious where you come from here? Could you say some words to explain what you mean?
> it is extremely bad at batch jobs - like compilers.
> What language is the Go compiler written in? Go.

I do not see what are you trying to say?

The Go compiler is plenty fast in my experience, especially compared to say `javac`. The startup time of `javac` (and most java programs) is atrocious.
Still not as good as Windows but much better than it used to be, especially if you're using well tested hardware like a Thinkpad
I'd like to throw my two cents in on Devuan. This is a fork of Debian that simply doesn't include systemd, but does include all the other work that Debian has done, and tracks all the Debian releases.

This is my daily driver for both home and work. I've completely ditched Windows and other versions of Linux. Steam runs fine, and with Proton, I have compatibility good enough not to miss Windows at all. Some games (Dark Messiah is one) that won't even run in Windows anymore run great in Proton.

The company I work for does a lot of container-based work, and aside from a couple tweaks to apt sources that naively assume release names, everything "just works".
That seems... Dangerous
Corruption is using public trust for private gain. It's quite independent of centralization, and it happens in all organizations, not only government ones.

The countries seen as least corrupt by their citizens all have what you would call "large governments".
Corruption does not happen only at the governmental level. It happens in all hierarchies.

The government is the one hierarchy so far that we have figured how to democratize.

Corporations are also corrupt and are always autocratic.
You're naming a lot of projects that aren't under the GNU umbrella. Why shouldn't "Linux" systems be called "systemd/Linux" instead? Why not "imagemagick/Linux" even?

It seems very silly to name a family of operating systems just for the C library alone. Sure, there are apps that depend on GNU extensions, but beside systemd I don't know whether the rest are really true. (Pretty sure Vim and Imagemagick work fine without glibc...)

I don't think Richard Stallman would have gone so far to attach the GNU name just because of libc. Back then when he was advocating for GNU/Linux, it was because GNU basically had a unix clone implemented and ready (libc, compiler, shell and common utilities), but people eventually named the system by the kernel, the only component that they failed to get right. At that point it was probably apt to call the system GNU/Linux, but these days when many of the original GNU parts are replaceable or faded into obscurity, I don't know whether the argument holds any more.
It's a classic appeal to authority. Rather than accept that people actually like what they're playing, they fall back to what they've been told is correct by their design professors. I find it darkly humorous that the UX designer who made that first "Elden Ring got 97 on metacritic. My life is a lie" statement on twitter never really reflected on it.
I'm pretty sure they are saying that any use is childish, not just overuse.
Simple case of distributed costs and concentrated benefits. Imagine a corrupt bureaucrat who demands a small bribe from every person who needs them to perform a service. It's a pain, but the bribe is small and it's just this one bureaucrat this one time. The bureaucrat, of course, is doing this to everybody, so they amass a great sum even though every person pays a small amount. The bureaucrat can put a lot of effort into maintaining his corrupt position. But for the people who pay the bribes, it's not worth it to upend their own lives in a crusade against that one corrupt official over the matter of a small bribe.
In my own past I’ve pointed out issues non-confrontationally. But I smile and go along with it if the feedback is discarded. I’ve seen tens of millions of dollars lost to bad tech decisions. Occasionally someone will mention that I predicted the failure a year or two prior, and I shrug.
Not everything has to be "modern" (a term which also gets thrown around a lot without reference) to be useful.

With regards to design patterns I would recommend the Gang of Four book on the subject. It's old (to the point where it makes me feel young) but still relevant as most of the patterns you'll see in the wild will be described there or be slight variations.

For security I've heard people describe the OWASP Top Ten as the software equivalent of the Ten Commandments. It's been around for almost two decades and is also still very much relevant today, perhaps even more so going by the comment you replied to.
> Eventually, if they genuinely are incorrect, they'll be dismissed due to poor decisions and performance.

I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I've never seen it happen. Managers don't tend to get fired for making the people under them miserable, unless it's causing problems for the company's bottom line.

And even then, I've seen such managers who are excellent at blaming the people under them.

You have to ask yourself, "Is this worth getting fired over?" Sometimes the answer is, "yes."
My go-to is trying to visualise and rotate various 3D shapes, like a cube, trihedron, dodecahedron…
If you say so,

"HERO: On the Chaos When PATH Meets Modules"

https://cs.nju.edu.cn/changxu/1_publications/21/ICSE21_02.pd...