skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that will be the case for social security for much longer. The trust is on the path to running dry over the next 10-15 years and benefits will need to be cut. Romney recently breached the idea of raising retirement age for current workers. Frankly I'm shocked by how few young workers realize how bad of a deal they're getting with the current system
Scot Adams. Full stop.
Post a link, please?
From what I gathered, it was used as a placeholder for user accounts that were created via federated login. So the user would never actually be logging in to Gitlab directly with a password.
Was there a postmortem on what led to the layoffs of 2020?

https://layoffs.fyi/2020/05/18/credit-card-startup-petal-con...
What European countries?
It looks pretty FedEx-y.
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“I don’t think you should be able to tweet racist messages for example.”

we live in a world where saying “all lives matter” makes you adolf hitler 2.0. crime statistics are banned on twitter. if you say “its ok to be white” you will be called a nazi, and fired from your job. THAT’S racism.
Same with going along with the crowd
Bloom was saying it was unethical to use other scientists' unpublished data. In normal circumstances, that would be heavily frowned upon, and maybe even lead to some sort of censure.

Basically, imagine you find out a rival scientific group accidentally made a dataset public. Imagine that you found out how to reverse-engineer an AWS URL at which you could access the data. Now, you analyze this data and publish your own paper on it. Most scientists would view that as a form of theft.

In this case, Bloom can say that the data was so much in the public interest that what he did was ethical. However, the data didn't actually shed any light on the origins of SARS-CoV-2.

I'm inclined to say the way he obtained the data isn't such a big issue, since the raw data itself isn't useful, and because the Chinese team had already published a paper that described the only interesting parts of the data. What I do fault Bloom for is making unfounded accusations against his Chinese colleagues. That's something he should apologize to them for.
Which is it, was he duped or was he complicit? These are very different accusations, and exactly what I mean by begging the question of his knowledge. You (and it seems ubiquiti) are assuming he knew this at some point where he claims he didn't, which makes him not just a victim of misinformation but an active perpetrator.

Proving that in court seems like it's going to be very hard. Never mind proving that he did it intentionally and with malice. It's not like he gains anything really by not expanding on the story as we know it, and as I've mentioned, it's not even clear what ubiquiti gains from expecting him to talk about new facts that make them look bad.
> Churchill summed it up best, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few

I’m disillusioned, discovering that it wasn’t Spock (Nemoy) uttering this as his dying words.

Did someone eventually tell Churchill that sometimes “the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many?” Or do I have to wait many years in the future to hear that sentiment?
I've been watching the Hummer conversion project from JerryRigEverything. It's a great series because he's not an expert on EVs, but he's competent with tools. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxkPuEmIX4U&list=PL0vZL9uwyf...
If you leave the quires in place you don't have that issue, though. Do your eight multiplies, feed them to a single adder, collapse the result.
You shouldn't have to wear adult diapers to work to avoid getting fired because you need to go to the bathroom twice during a shift and they're a 10 minute walk away, & good luck hitting your performance targets with that chunk of time lost.
And fedora is amazing. OP has no idea what's going on.
Thats not meant to cover the cost of distribution of the app nor the associated per use costs. Thats paying for access to developer services.
> This is exactly why "hate speech" laws are so dangerous.

If you think any single example of a law being applied in a manner that is technically defensible but (arguably) morally wrong should rule out an entire category of laws - you'd have no laws left.

My guess is that most laws are occasionally abused. The trick is to distinguish between those laws that invite it and those that don't.
Linux on the desktop works basically fine for people who are technically inclined and have any interest in Linux, less well for people who aren't and don't, and there doesn't appear to be any effective movement in changing the status quo.

Getting volunteer coders to work in the customer-service style that is required to make a desktop for non-technical people just doesn't seem to work. And turning a volunteer community into a profit seeking one usually seems to hit these roadblocks.

We should just accept that success for Linux on the desktop looks like what we have now. Which seems fine to me. Everyone who wants it has it. Unending lust for growth is a trait of megacoroprations and cancers, not great company to keep IMO.
April fool's joke : we'll pretend that bugs in software are distributed as a homogeneous Poisson process, AND that Poisson distributions are bounded, while we're at it.

Poisson d'avril!
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No. That sentence should have read "There is no way I am paying someone $15/hr to put screws into holes".

The problem this forced wage has created is that you can't hire people without some pretty solid justification for what they will deliver in exchange. Businesses are forced to make an ROI choice on everything, including people and their wages. This is why you are seeing things like burger flipping and fries making robots. You just can't pay people that much and stay in business.

There will be plenty of high paid jobs. Just not jobs that cannot justify an artificially forced minimum wage that is not sustainable in the context of a global economy.

I'll give you a simple and real example from a recent job we sent out to bid to nearly two dozen manufacturers in the US and China. It consists of a part made by a wire forming machine and with some manual labor. The average US-cost for that part was in the order of $6.00 per unit PLUS shipping. The average cost of the same part made in China INCLUDING shipping, was $1.00. Now, somebody tell me how we can make that part in the US when minimum wage, taxes, regulatory costs, etc. make it impossible to get anywhere even close to Chinese prices. I mean, you can't make the part in the US for even TWICE the Chinese price. And, keep in mind that shipping from China costs 10x more today that it did not too long ago.

People might not like what I have to say. That does not invalidate the truth of it, you can't invalidate reality with a down-vote. Like it or not. Most people replying to my comment have never even tried to manufacture something at a non-trivial scale in the US. In other words, they don't even know what they are talking about, yet they are quick to have an opinion because words like mine hurt their feelings. Well, economics cares not one bit about feelings. Again, like it or not.
Thanks. Welcome to the world of startups.
> Seems like a great way to fuck over the folks who made a big life change to join you.

Most companies are motivated by profit, and will, therefore, gladly pay someone to fill a role that earns them more money than it costs. I don't see severing a non-mutually beneficial relationship as fucking someone over.

If you are in a position that being let go would be horribly detrimental to your personal and financial goals, looking for a company that is very slow to fire may be a good way to go. However, that is for your benefit, not the company's. I was targeting my advice at employers.
> It is possible to control our desire for status

This is a narrow view of status. In many ways, any type of validation you get from working with others can be considered status. Most animals achieve status through physical aggression, while humans (and chimps) achieve status through cooperation and contributing to the group. Our minds are wired to get pleasure from working with others and being validated and appreciated for our work. That is part of status. If you enjoy doing the work you do and it makes you happy, that's because your brain is wired for status. Nothing wrong with it. There are of course negative sides of status like conspicuous consumption, social media addiction, etc. But just because you learn to avoid the pitfalls of status doesn't mean you aren't playing the game.
IMO that's the easy part, the hard part is to do all the boring stuff around that. Both of these things require different types of grit or energy or what ever and some freedom and organizational skills, but the tricky problems are the most exciting and motivating.
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I'm not sure I get that, really. If you care about the material conditions of workers today, as they are experiencing them, the greatest threat to their agency by far is the asset owners they work for.

There is probably an abstract, theoretical future where worker freedom is significantly curtailed by union power, I guess. But being more concerned with that hypothetical than with the genuine exploitation that is the baseline for low wage labor doesn't read as caring about worker rights to me.
There's no such thing as racism against Romanians, since it's not a race, but it could be xenophobia. Or maybe you're making a confusion with Romani (Roma, gypsies) people.
There’s something I find holistically loathesome that a) other people read twitter at all, leading to b) it actually matters and has to fall under legal jurisdiction. If people moved on and quit reading twitter, this just wouldn’t matter.
Software defects are not harmful. Backwards long jumps are just a bounds-checking error, and without them, it would take over five minutes to beat Super Mario 64. The A-Button Challenge wouldn't be possible at all if it weren't for bugs. Bugs are an important part of the software ecosystem and should be included whenever necessary.
IMO, this only makes sense if you assume that NaNs can propagate useful information. In the real world, seeing a NaN basically just means that your math is wrong. From my perspective, the only 2 possibly useful semantics for NaN are to either just always throw an error (and not have NaN), or to say that it's equal to itself. Any other option means that == isn't an equivalence relation which pretty much completely breaks math.
Russian soldier dies from radiation poisoning in Chernobyl
I feel like everyone is beating around the bush here: NPM is a garbage fire, from the interface to the tooling implementation to the theory to the governance. We can talk at each other back and forth about theoretical benefits, and "friction" vs. "usability" or whatever, but NPM has been and continues to be an unmitigated security disaster. The module proxy could have a package takeover a month for the next three years and still not even come close to the ridiculous shit that has happened on NPM.
How about verify until we feel like we can trust again and then keep verifying.
Meta-irony, I love it
ok, so you define something that isn't understanding (symbolic manipulation, use of a magic rule book).

But where do you define what it is? "grasping what a symbol refers to" is another way of saying "understand" - it doesn't define what it means to "grasp".
The big tech companies like to have big audacious mission statements. I personally don't have any experiences with Amazon that have soured my attitude towards them, and have found customer service to be just fine.
I am surprised, that there is no mention of concurrency or running things in parallel in the article. That is one of the areas, where you profit the most from avoiding mutating state. Was there any parallelization effort for the example project "Archetype"? If any, how did that go? What were the problems with parallelizing to make things run faster?

I think there might also be another idea to avoid too heavy updating in case of the many many functional updates to the 30K data, but it depends on how Archetype works and what it does. It might be possible to not apply some updates immediately, but group them together with other updates or simplify multiple subsequent updates into one update in clever ways. This might be difficult to implement though and as I said, might not be appropriate for all situations, as you might want to give immediate feedback in the GUI for any change.
Right, so here's how the government can easily crack down on Bitcoin - through non-digital communication channels: you get officers to pretend to be normal people, you give them Bitcoin for something you buy from them (legal item or illegal), or they give you something in exchange for Bitcoin, then they arrest you - take your Bitcoin on you, get a warrant to confiscate/search all of your equipment and take any Bitcoin they find or just keep the equipment if it's encrypted - as part of a sting operation.

So does your answer stay the same with the above scenario?
It's true that economic status is sticky (or in other words, social mobility is limited), but with black people in the US it goes beyond that into underfunding, predatory policing, gentrification etc that serve to compound existing inequities. While I think that we should aim to uplift poor people more generally through economic reform, in the specific case of black people in the US there are still definite institutional thumbs on the scale.
Ah yes, business and science clashing. Classic
Everyone realizes their world view as an adolescent was incomplete as they get older, doesn't matter if it’s "status doesn't matter personal/relationship happiness is all that matters" or "accruing status is crucial for personal/relationship success and therefore happiness" or whatever. They are all overly simplified.
Can you expand on this? This sounds really interesting.
> Wired is what a light bulb is to a switch.

lol this is a good one. might have to steal it ;)
I really like that Gitea is operationally simple and can run on a potato. If your team's fairly small, you can use SQLite to make it even simpler. GitLab's way, way too heavy.
> Patents by definition are public information.

But you don't always have the right to use them, or share them.

If company A owns a patent, and company B buys a license, company B may not have the rights to release their code to GPL and share it into mainline linux.
Linus Torvalds also has many criticisms of the Linux desktop.[1] None of the commercial applications I have bought will run on Linux without wasting time tinkering. For programming, I'm forced to use Xcode because it's required on the App Store. I couldn't use Linux even if I did want to use something worse than macOS.

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Hah, yes; the number of times I've accidentally run ansible with --check (dry run) and then wondered why the server wasn't restarting...
Thomas rarely speaks in Court but he's a prolific writer. He wrote the most opinions in 8 of the last 10 terms: https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/07/in-barretts-first-term-co.... E.g. 23 last year versus 14 for Breyer and 11 each for Roberts and Kagan.

Which makes me skeptical that your opinion of him is actually based on what he's written. For example, his extensive writing on patent law: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3822741.
Isn't that the US model? And yes, it's a disaster.
PCI-passthrough support for gaming is pretty niche (I say this having set it up myself), and I can understand vendors not wanting to support it. Those support tickets would be a pain.

Gaming VMs are likely going to die anyway, at least for competitive gaming. Virtualization is just too powerful a tool for cheating. Many anti-cheats already ban it.
Can someone clarify?
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The GDS is fundamentally the best UX team I’ve ever seen in the wild delivering large projects consistently.
Desktop segment is "dying" and "filled with proprietary apps"? While desktop PC is no longer common as a home entertainment device, there is no replacement for it as a workstation. It is also the only platform where the software and hardware are (at least somehow) independent. You can install custom software on SOME phones, but other than that, contemporary electronic devices just come with their proprietary software you're not allowed to touch.
Comparing key size isn't really meaningful here because the main reason for moving away from RSA is that it needs way bigger keys to achieve the same security.
There seems to be great variation in vividness and occurrence of involuntary mental images as well. I have to put effort in if I want to picture something, so most of the time I'm reading books I don't have any mental image of what is happening.

My wife, on the other hand, involuntarily forms rather vivid mental images of stories she is reading, to the point where she has to avoid violent literature in the same manner that she avoids gory movies.

Our subjective experience of reading any given book is so different that it sometimes feels like we read different books when discussing them afterwards.
He sounds totally normal to me, honest and serious, but very much normal. Maybe we’ve become so accustomed to bullshit and sugarcoating that we’ve unwittingly reframed seriousness and rigor into seeming ludicrous?
Good observation and if I may I think a great term for this is just 'sandbox' gameplay.
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Well I work on the kernel for a living, so I feel like I have at least some idea. The quality of a distro on your hardware has nothing to do with it. I don't think you understood anything I said about why it's a failed segment.
One thing I couldn't find in the post is how big the estimated error rate is. Particularly false positives or negatives. Probably impossible to track by definition, but I'm not so much interested in reducing the number of captchas as I am in ensuring bad actors are kept out, even if it has the unfortunate side effect of inconveniencing legitimate traffic.
Fair call - that sounds more like they did get radiation poisoning.

Hard to tell fact from fiction, but I will be more careful to vet information before passing it on.
cough mysql_real_escape_string cough
A business wants business-level support.

It looks like the core Elementary team was just two people. The length of time between releases makes me think they were understaffed for a while.

A business would rather get support from a larger distro with a larger support team. That market already has a number of established vendors: Red Hat, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Amazon Linux, Ubuntu server...
I really don't understand the hate. Honestly. This isn't merely disagreement.
It surely seems like it can only be used for badness.
Looks like UK could learn a thing or two from the United States based on this story. Damn, I never thought I'd see myself saying _that_ .
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Cmd-H seems very underused to me, even by Mac power users. The reason might be that many recent Mac users are converts from Windows or Linux, where the concept of hiding an app doesn't exist. I love and extensively use this feature since I started using Macs about 25+ years ago. It's so much more convenient than minimizing an app's window(s) into the dock, and it's so nicely complemented by the app switcher.
The baseline condition of labor, that those doing it must continue to do it or they will die, is inherently much more authoritarian than this.

I'm not at all arguing for an "ends justify the means" position here, just pointing out that the condition we're talking about is already a morally compromised one, and so people won't always have the freedom to operate purely in line with their moral preferences. Or yours.

Because, importantly, which specific things "should be accomplished voluntarily" is an idealogical position we won't always share. There is already much coercion foundational to our society, maybe you can find another one to oppose on purely abstract moral grounds.
> Is it reasonable to expect developers to manually keep tabs on what could be dozens of libraries that may or may not intersect with the dependencies of any other apps you have on the go?

Well, in the NPM model you need at least one transitive dependency to notice it and upgrade, and you need to notice your transitive dependency upgraded. But also, it might upgrade despite nobody asking for it just because you set up a new dependency.

In the Go model... you need at least one transitive dependency to notice it and upgrade, and you need to notice your transitive dependency upgraded. But at least it won't ever upgrade unless someone asked for it.
My first car was a 22 year old (at the time) 1964 Triumph TR4 that my dad and I found in a barn. A lot of the issues in this 914 were present on my car as well. My car had a minor engine oil leak, and the oil would drip onto the exhaust system and fill the cabin with smoke. I remember when the brakes went out and I drove the car ~25 miles with nothing but the parking brake.

The best was when I got out of this tiny car with manual everything and drove the land-yacht Pontiac Parisienne we used for driver's ed in highschool. Its brakes were so sensitive, and I was so used to having to use a LOT of force to stop the TR4, that the first few times I'd stop the car everybody's seatbelt would lock up.
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