skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All intellectual activity is based around the representation of ideas through imperfect media. My personally-preferred medium is writing and one's writing, as with all other skills, improves with repetition. Bouncing ideas around in one's head is all well and good, but it can get tiring. Taking the time to express those thoughts in a medium of choice allows one to exorcise them from the mind. Exposing them, as I do here, to a potential audience (and the attendant risk of criticism) ensures that any such idea will have been thoroughly analysed, and any potential illogicalities headed off in advance. By consolidating disparate thoughts through writing, I improve my understanding of them and my ability to discuss them in person. Other benefits, like being able to point people towards certain pieces for my thoughts on certain topics, are only bonuses—ultimately, writing is my deadlifting.

And, to perhaps make the point more pithily, that is a quote from a blog post I wrote four years ago and which better expresses my thoughts than anything I could have come up with just now.
Bloggers have, in my opinion, influenced tremendously society and in ways that we can't fathom or grasp exactly due to all the chaos. Scott Alexander's blog, the LessWrong community, and so many others have influenced the way I view and think about the world, assisting me in my quest to become a better scientist, and who knows, if something good comes out of it, then they have also helped themselves while remaining oblivious to it.

Disseminating knowledge is paramount to improving our society, and I think that blogs certainly help with that.
A mythology is a story that expresses what the culture telling it wants to be true. It is an expression of values.

For example, our culture loves re-telling the story of Lord of the Rings. Why? We want it to be true that even in a world with much hardship and fallibility, we humans will honor our alliances and face horrors for the sake of each other. If we believe this and if we see that other people around us believe this then you know what happens? People feel more willing to make sacrifices for the sake of standing by their allies than they otherwise would be. Concretely, US representatives are more willing to approve of spending money to station troops in Poland. They worry less that they'll be voted out for how they are spending taxpayer money.

This highlights an interesting property of myths: The re-telling of them makes them more true.

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Santa Claus does in fact exist as a role in society. My grandfather acted as him for many years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffUjwmXt9Go
Until a large company either creates and heavily invests in a new language, or integrates an effect system into a very popular language like C# or Java.

Sadly I don't see that happening anytime soon.
this is what i read also
How to Kill a Cloud (Full Film)
From what I've read they used the low quality Chinese vaccines and vaccination rates among over 60s were under 80%. if you're over 80 and you get COVID you're very likely to die if you're symptomatic.
While I think you're bringing up a very good point, the article says that at least in this particular study

> Out of 13 lung samples, a staggering 11 contained microplastics, with the most common types being pieces of PET, used to make drinks bottles; polypropylene, used for plastic packaging and pipes; and resin, often used as an adhesive or sealant.
Interesting article, but, man, incredibly annoying writing style. It reads like a LinkedIn post. Use normal sentence/paragraph structure and say what you’re going to say.
Wouldn't they use reflective LCDs ? As low as you want brightness, and tiny power consumption !
Lol, my desktop feels a lot faster too, but that's due to a minimal setup with swaywm and not a lot of electron nonsense.

Going through dozens upon dozens of layers (ever increasing) just to draw a rectangular box with some text inside is creeping complexity.

So, yes, I am fine on my beast machine, still the direction is wrong for me.
> To note, a huge market segment is are already paying thousands of dollars per yer, right now, on skin care (for instance the SK-II lineup sells well, and it’s 100-250$ a bottle)

Side question: do these skin care products work? Is anyone here on HN using them and notice any difference?
Strike has officially partnered with Shopify
Vain? Maybe you could consider that the derogatory labels that you seem fond of sticking to random strangers on the internet might be fraught with assumptions and tenuous conclusions. It is not conducive to rational discourse at least.

Maybe next time we can discuss issues instead of figments of imagination. Until then, have a good day.
You are simply ignorant.
"For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief" (Ecclesiastes 1:18)

I understand your happiness, but for me it was absolutely disaster to reveal the god is an illusion, because many ideas I have thought in my head was (not became but was all the time) just a useless crap. That was literally my first discovery after I had got an access to Internets. "Thank you" my parents and society for pumping up my head with lies.
Also in China if a person has a heart condition and covid and die. Then it’s recorded as a heart condition. Same reason why seasonal flu rates are like 50 in China compared to 20m in America.
Theory of language based on method of science and game theory
- One could think of Tok Pisin language as made with use of hypothesis testing. There are certain structures in this language that suggest so.

- We use a handful of hypotheses when talking or understanding language. One of them is Schelling's game-theoretical focal point theory.

- This theory of language can be used to solve (or at least clarify) various language riddles put forward by Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations" and "Blue Book". Also one could clarify other philosophical problems with it .
Taler is just a counterexample to "anonymous or pseudonymous online transactions" inherently requiring a blockchain; the userbase is not relevant for this. I could also question the actual userbase of blockchain-based cryptocurrencies when so much of the transaction volume seems to be rooted in speculation and scams rather than someone buying groceries in BTC.

> You haven’t mentioned any drawbacks [to full decentralization and censorship resistance]?

I don't think the specifics matter so much, it suffices to say that there are some. These properties make it easier to launder money and evade taxes, for example.
I don't see where you said "no, you don't" so it's unclear what you mean here. Did you mean that labelling something as misinformation is unwise? Because then I agree with you.
I hadn't read that in years, amazing to revisit it.

There's a paragraph about how expensive recycling is, which is all sourced from "Keep America Beautiful" the green washing group that are the people cited in the recent "corporate America invented recycling to fool you" stories. That organization was set up originally to stop governments introducing 5 cent returns on bottles in the 1950s, which the corporations didn't want, so instead they said it was all the public's fault. The very next paragraph in the article attacks these return schemes as even worse than recycling.
What’s your email address? I’ll send you my toenail moon images.
Stuff like that is the reason I have disabled JS by default.

Access to client side scripts on my machine has to be earned in trust.

Most websites never get that far, because they are broken without js.

Doesn't matter, saves me a lot of time ;)
OP here.

I think part of the message here is to not be afraid to come off as inexperienced as an engineer.

This particular call to rand() was written by a person with decades of experience with writing code like this. This person maybe isn't a starninjarock developer, but definitely experienced. Who did it? Let's git blame the code:

13a3029435b core/lib/random.c (adamdunkels 2009-02-11 11:09:59 +0000 52) return (unsigned short)rand();

(Yep, that's me!)
Maybe they know something we don’t.

Edit: there’s not a lot being talked about in terms of multiple infections over time. It’s not that the MRNA vaccines are effective it’s that the West pivoted to an entirely different public health policy.
First of all, building an OS that works for everyone is tremendously hard. Doing so with a community of volunteers without central governance doubly so. Linux needs to support a wide range of hardware out of the box. And hardware is becoming increasingly complex, modern graphics card drivers e.g. rival the Linux kernel in terms of the total number of lines of code. So I'm actually impressed Linux works that well. Apple, on the other hand, builds a proprietary OS that just needs to run on select hardware, and they have full authority over all decisions down to the hardware level.

Regarding "just works" I'm also not sure MacOS is a good example. I'm using both Kubuntu (5 year old Lenovo T460p) and MacOS (brandnew M1 Macbook Pro) every day and I experience more crashes / freezes on the latter. And despite the vast speed advantage of the M1 (one M1 core is almost as fast as my entire Lenovo CPU) KDE often feels much more snappy and responsive. So yeah, modern Linux is pretty damn impressive in my humble opinion.
Hackintoshes are definitely flakier but mostly due to breaking changes in OpenCore or your boot method, which you want to keep patched so you don’t have issues with macOS updates. If your environment and threat level allow it, you could simply not update once you get a stable config, and just image the entire boot drive. As long as your UEFI config doesn’t get corrupted, you’re fine. I’m sure that could be saved as well through rEFInd or similar tools.

Once you’ve assembled this house of cards, it’s fairly stable, I assure you. Just don’t look at it sideways. :P
Ask HN: Better Hi-Security Phone? Armadillo or Nitrokey for Risk Environments?
Dear HN Community,

i was asking if anyone here has some experience in deploying hi-security phones in risky environments?

I googled a little bit, and found basicly two players, who seem to have a product that is somehow really mature:

1) Armadillo Phone
2) Nitrokey

Has anyone experience here in deploying such devices in your environment?

Thanks!
> One special part of this, which is easily overseen, is the fact that Apple has:

- vertically integrated and sells a very narrow selection of hardware

That's 90% of the "just works". The UX/UI part is the other 90% (yes the math is right)

And to be fair, MacOS is full of weird UX quirks, and sometimes it does not work. But they have the best trackpads, very good usability (and it's not just Cargo Culting) that goes beyond the surface

The limited hardware helps with ACPI/UEFI and most of the general issues around Power/sleeping etc.
It really depends on what exactly you're looking for in the "it just works" experience, but since you mention "screen recording" and "external devices" I'll assume that you're specifically asking about the modern gamer-streamer (w/ mic, hardware-based sound control, multiple inputs, ViV, etc...) setup and not a basic-browser-and-mail setup.

Linux, as in "in the desktop environment", has a HUGE (a can't highlight and stress enough the word HUGE) technical debt. It runs on a graphical server that was designed way before GPUs were even a thing (let alone multi-GPU, variable refresh rate monitors, HDPi, HDR, etc...). And because of all the design limitations, X just can't compete with either Windows nor MacOS (in that specific environment setup that you're asking for). It just can't. Period.

Mir and Wayland were born precisely to fix this entire mess. Mir never really took off (because of community backlash?), while Wayland is... well... it has been "in progress" for +10 years and it's still not "there". It will get there, eventually, at which point it might be able to offer the "it just works" experience. Or it might not. We'll have to wait and see.

The audio system was already fixed. A few times... We jumped from Jack, OSS and Alsa to PulseAudio and now to PipeWire and things look promising, but PipeWire is also in the progress, so we're not entirely there yet either.

Bottom line is: There can't be a distro that "just works", because we're missing the pieces to assemble such a distro.
I've been running Debian on my desktops, laptops (testing/unstable) and servers (stable) for more than 2 decades. It "just works" for me.
>For your whole life the society was communicating to you in different ways, directly and indirectly, that a large share of your value lies in your beauty

Is this really still true? I know of many female professionals who are respected for their skills alone
China used the same Chinese vaccines as Hong Kong and according to ABC News in Australia only 62% of Shanghai residents over 60 have been vaccinated. This is fairly typical; Chinese policy was to focus on vaccinating people of working age. There have been multiple reported outbreaks at elderly care facilities in Shanghai recently. China is still reporting no Covid deaths. Now, a bunch of people have been complaining their relatives at those facilities died, but officially none of them are Covid deaths.
Open source projects are often engineer-driven, and as such they lack the product management and UX design investments that companies like Apple put in to make their products "just work".
My wife is from Europe and loves our National Parks, she would tell you the Grand Canyon was her #1 least favorite by far. Yosemite was probably her favorite.
Well because it wouldn’t make sense, you have a bunch of software that is build in a decentralised way without an overlord oversight, you are not bound to a corporation and to shareholder interests, but the main point is that if you aren’t bound to an approval process, an sdk, policies, then it’s hard to create a unified experience like on OSX. My question is that: if there is OS X, if there is windows, why do people want to turn Linux in a bad copy of those? Just use those. If Linux was easy, unified, behind an approval process then it would make no sense for it to exist, if you want Linux to be like OS X, just fucking use OS X
Those sometimes happen when humans create art, too.
They are paving the way for future feasibility of solar based energy.

The big problem is that the sun shines very strong/bright in the middle of the day. So you need to store energy for the night. But what if your batteries are fully charged already? Then who will use all the excess energy? You are pissing away profits if you do not spend/sell that energy.

Hooking up some old and payed-off bitcoin mining machines that are only economically making sense when energy is (near) free is a great idea: you recuperate some of your solar panel investment costs.
Please stop using "it just works", you're not Apple's marketing department. Sure it just works for some people, but Linux distros and Windows also just work for some people. I've had and I've experienced a fair share of Apple WTFs and some stuff I could never get working properly. Computers are hard, "It just works" is a marketing slogan, nothing more.
"am I simply ignorant of the current state of Linux distros?"

You knew the correct answer
The formatting of this type of article is counterproductive, it's hard to read and the emotional conditioning from using HN is that gray text = questionable comment.

@dang: why? :)
Hong Kong had the highest death rate per capita globally in the last weeks when their containment policy failed. Leading to a mortality of over 0.1% in a short time. Hong Kong is a very rich area. Many other areas would fare much worse.

The rest of the world is not "all-in" with vaccines. Vaccines are combined with waves of infection for the unvaccinated and vaccinated which lead to the death of 0.1% to 0.6% of the population in many countries. With each infection the immunity rises - leading to less severe infections in the future. The deaths are a high price to pay but many people think it's worth it to have a somewhat normal life again.

As we know now, China was not very wise with their choice of vaccine and seemingly has no exit plan. Omicron is spreading very fast and due to a low prior immunity it would put an immense load on their medical system for months.

Here's the link to an interactive graph showing the death rate per capita: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
Stories are fine (and good!) so long as you're not pretending they're literally true.
macOS doesn't "just work", it works on computers specifically made for it.
There are lots of computers made for Linux and they all "just work".
I use Qube Money (app-controlled debit card with virtual budget envelopes).
I think you’ve just made my point clearer that Amazon is good at brainwashing. You’re basing peoples capabilities to fit in so rigidly, and worse yet, in such an uncouth way.
A new version of command-line-based operating system, Peropesis 1.6.1, released
The market has a lot less strong of a grip on society so it is less urgent to simply wish the virus away by reopening everything at a huge human cost.
Aristotle had a view of the good life as a middle path between
excesses of virtue and vice. I hope you are not offended (by
identifying with economics too strongly), if I tell you I share the
view of Varoufakis that economics is currently so drained of human
values it really requires a complete reboot. It must be tempered to
keep it on a middle path. If you choose to go "into Tech" in the way
you describe then studying computer science and politics might be of
benefit. Knowing what you're doing and why may avert the tragedy of
elevating models above the reality they are intended to help manage,
or becoming a tool of those with less than benevolent plans for
humanity.
I don’t get it. Why does newlib malloc in rand() instead of just storing the global state in a static variable?
> I actually don't think this is about personal preference.

The person who made this website apparently prefers something different to you and me.
I think this 100%. The problem with Linux is that it’s not controlled by a single company, there are many components developed by different contributors which have different interests. There is no single gui framework, no design guidelines so even the out-of-the-box software you get with any mainstream distribution doesn’t look cohesive. It simply lacks the polish of macOS.

Hardware wise I think if you use modern (i.e not older than 5 years) and also not just released hardware you are mostly ok. I haven’t had any driver problems, but that’s not to dismiss other peoples’ experience.
OP writes:

> I am talking about a distro, that you don't have to configure anything for. A distro that handles things like external devices screen recording without weird glitches.

I don't read this as a plea for better HIG? This is HN, so I'm assuming most of us live in the terminal anyway. I'll never understand why people prefer MacOS for development. From my experience, it is clearly worse in pretty much every respect (package management, container support, configurability, just to mention a few things).
Horrible UI but would be cool otherwise. On an Android and the performance was fine but way too much finger swiping.
This is great and as it should be, but I don't believe it applies to the society at large.
> my choices

You are a very lucky person then, and your situation is by far not the norm, regardless of which city (or country, for that matter) you live in.
We live in incredible times, don't we?
For me, Fedora has worked pretty well.

It helps to run on less than bleeding edge hardware for which the drivers are mature. Also, while you still can, to disable Wayland in favour of Xorg.

With that done, on the typical 5 year old laptop, you tend to get (no guarantee, but in my experience) flawless suspend/resume, decent battery life/thermal management, wifi, bluetooth (with the very latest Fedora 35 and Pipewire, bluetooth headphones finally work reliably with all audio profiles), the custom buttons on the keyboard, performant WebGL and so on.

That being said, nothing is perfect. For example you still can't drag a window halfway across between the laptop's screen and an external HiDPI display and expect it to scale so that the two halves are the same size. And some recent gadgets may only "sort of" work. Example, a USB audio dongle (for headphone jack-less smartphones) from the dollar store. Works but only exposes three volume levels: Off, medium and crazy loud. But what do you expect, if the open source drivers all need to be updated by volunteers after the gadget is already out there, use gadgets that are more mature.

What does work is that the resulting machine will be stable. So much so that you can leave it with your 80 year old mom, who lives 8 hours' drive away, and expect less trouble than with a Windows machine (we don't have Apple products).
OpenSSH is very well regarded in security community, has seen no major vulnerability for a long time.
the deracination in this comment is astounding. I grew up in rural India all my life and this cartoonish casteism is no longer part of the mainstream Indian society. There will be isolated cases, but I’ve seen times and again people freely drinking water from a _pyau_ irrespective of the caste of the person.

I implore you to take a rational look at Indian society and not rely on WaPo/NYT to know your own land.
The Power of Narrative
Well, there is the proof that it "cut a half hour", when you're talking about format. The rest doesn't really consist of confident assertions: it's pretty clear that it's the author's opinion. And it doesn't seem to be wrong.

Article is from 2019, BTW, for those who like to know that kind of thing beforehand.
Hahaha, new account created 11 minutes ago. Tell me why I should even dignify your blatant whataboutism with a response.

Meanwhile me, 8 year old account with 11k karma. I have the courage to say what I want tied to this identity while you don’t.
Most common reason why i lie: Working around other people's thinking.

A common lie is that I'm in a relationship with my "girlfriend". In truth we just live together in a flat, spend some time together for some needs, but are otherwise independent persons. If i say we are together, people draw wrong conclusions. If i say we are just flatmates, people draw wrong conclusions.

With people projecting their own ideas of the world onto everything, truthful talking stops being useful. So i fall back to replaying some common stereotypes so people don't bother me anymore and let me do my own stuff.
In case any Mutt users are interested, here’s how this can be accomplished.

# When replying to an email, use the To: address of the original email as the
# From: address in the reply (requires that the To: address be recognised by
# Mutt as being one of my alternate addresses).
set reverse_name

# Regex to let Mutt know what other email addresses are used by me.
alternates @example

I had been thinking of writing a script to dynamically create a file of alternative addresses from /etc/aliases but this isn’t necessary. There’s no need to individually list all my alternate addresses as – currently – all name@example.com and name@example.info addresses are me so it is enough to just match the `@example` regular expression.

Edit: For composing a new message (not a reply), I have this set:

# When composing a message, edit the headers along with the message body.
# This should make it easier to see that the correct From address is being used
# and to fix this if necessary.
set edit_headers
Quantum innovation advances low-cost alternative solar technology
And yet Americans in Germany are called expats, but Eastern Europeans or Africans or Middle Easterners in Germany are called immigrants.
Getting 404 on this page - https://pipedream.com/code/python/
That effort is clearly what's backing Swift Playgrounds.
Yes. https://gobuffalo.io/