skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always surprised to see discussions about desktop Linux software place such a heavy emphasis on the security aspect. In practice, malicious software (which is ubiquitous on other platforms in the form of adware and apps stealing personal information) is almost a non-issue on the Linux desktop platform. And I don't see it becoming a bigger issue in the future either. The desktop Linux market is too small and too fragmented, and its clientele are too tech-savvy and privacy-aware on average, to be of interest to Big Ads and co.

The elephant-in-the-room issue, and the one that any debate about the Linux desktop as a platform must necessarily focus on, is: How do I get my application to my users? For historical reasons, there hasn't been a good answer to this question for a long, long time, and anything that improves on the status quo (Flatpak, Snap, AppImage) is indeed (part of) "the future".

Of course, this being Linux, "the future" won't consist of "this one thing that everybody uses". If that's the goal, it was unattainable from the beginning. I love that Flatpak is repository-agnostic. I love that Snap applications update automatically. But most importantly, I love that I have a choice between the two.
IT admin gets 7 years for wiping his company's servers to prove a point
This very similar how Voltaire got his fortune exploiting a national lottery.
Yay, some local history... Bigfoot's Hazelwood, MO location (just outside St. Louis) was just a few miles from my house. The birthplace of the "monster truck". They used to leave the first model parked out by the highway.
Correct, the 4th amendment doesn't give you an unrestricted right to privacy, but the court argued that such a right existed through other precedent and Roe v Wade.

So by that argument: Do you agree that the government has the right to ban encryption and other details relating to privacy? Because if you want to argue that there is no constitutional right to privacy then that's the route you get to go down. Alito is arguing that if it's not directly in the constitution it does not exist.

Frankly I'm not willing to accept any challenge to Roe v Wade because the people doing so aim to destroy abortion no matter how many other rights or precedent they have to trample over. If abortion is banned they will stop at nothing to destroy encryption and privacy in order to prosecute anyone that ever has an abortion, even across state lines.
When I hear "HQ" I was expecting something like Amazon's HQ2. An office with a couple hundred/thousand workers is not as exciting.
You can choose to give your consent to activities like exploiting code though. You can consent to being in a fight (e.g. boxing or mutual combat states). You can consent do whatever with your code (e.g. CTF style sites). To me, it seems like saying "Code is law" or allowing people to create arbitrary proposals and voting on them with loaned money is kind of consenting to whatever happens.
Opening a tiny gate to let one particular particle go through is definitely the kind of thing that Maxwell meant by "more delicate observations and experiments which we may suppose made by one who can perceive and handle the individual molecules which we deal with only in large masses".

It's the very example that he was discussing, which he had described just before: "Now let us suppose that such a vessel is divided into two portions, A and B, by a division in which there is a small hole, and that a being, who can see the individual molecules, opens and closes this hole, so as to allow only the swifter molecules to pass from A to B, and only the swifter molecules to pass from A to B, and only the slower ones to pass from B to A."

Another interesting quote of his: "Available energy is energy which we can direct into any desired channel. Dissipated energy is energy we cannot lay hold of and direct at pleasure, such as the energy of the confused agitation of molecules which we call heat. Now, confusion, like the correlative term order, is not a property of material things in themselves, but only in relation to the mind which perceives them. A memorandum-book does not, provided it is neatly written, appear confused to an illiterate person, or to the owner who understands thoroughly, but to any other person able to read it appears to be inextricably confused. Similarly the notion of dissipated energy could not occur to a being who could not turn any of the energies of nature to his own account, or to one who could trace the motion of every molecule and seize it at the right moment. It is only to a being in the intermediate stage, who can lay hold of some forms of energy while others elude his grasp, that energy appears to be passing inevitably from the available to the dissipated state."
Even better if you can get a S-Class back seat with recliner/calf support.
And what does that salary get you in the bay area? Living in a tiny apartment with a homeless guy outside. No thanks.
Of humans and their performance.
You need sugar to live as far as I know, you hardly need cyanide to live. You're comparing apples to oranges.

PS: I'm not watching and hour 30m long video for you to get your point through, excessive sugar is bad yes (if that's your point).
There aren’t Buddhist meditation practises that have no risk of causing this. Any meditation practise that involves mindfulness and concentration done for more than 15 or 20 mins a day carries this risk

I agree that the goals of Buddhism contradict the goals we have in western society though. That said, Steve Jobs was a devout Zen Buddhist, so he sat many thousands of hours of zazen

I do find it funny though when companies train their employees in mindfulness. It’s almost like they want workers who have less emotional connection with their work. As I said elsewhere, it’s all a matter of whether you follow the instructions. If you do, it will have adverse effects.
Is it though? It clearly invalidates your over-generalization of the region.
I decide my own work so yeah. I realise not everyone gets that luxury.
Thanks for the comment (/ reminder) about mobile CSS -- it's on my todo queue, but there's been a lot of stuff popped on top recently. If the iPhone has a "desktop mode" feature, that might make it easier to read for now.

> That being the strictness of JSON means if someone submits incorrect
> JSON then it should fail rather than silently correct it (and in ways
> that might even corrupt the data).

The JSON document {"a": 1e2} is valid JSON. If you put it into a regular JSON parser (for example browser devtools), the correct result will come out:

>>> JSON.parse('{"a": 1e2}')
{a: 100}

The issue is that it's also a valid YAML document, and (critically) the correct YAML parse is different than the correct JSON parse.
Taking a break from anything that demands constant attention does that.

- news

- work

- kids

- spouse

- day-trading

- etc.

This is known. Very well known. Reported on many times? How is this news?

Is it just news because HN wants to comment on it? Again?
No, the OP is wrong. Exchanging value (not just content) online without having to trust a third party is a game-changer and that is why Web 3 is a big deal. You have to be P2P aka decentralized to do that. Yes, lots of fluffy marketing hype obfuscating that reality.
Right assumption, thanks :)
old school forums were the single greatest thing that human kind has ever invented, including all medicine that has ever been invented. In fact, we should all be using old school forums.
This mirrors my experience. By making the opinionated choice for Postgres it is possible to use e.g functions and triggers to replace a lot of code that would normally live in the backend. It is quite common to come from ORM-land and treat the database as just a dumb tablestore with some keys. Which does not do justice to the incredible featureset of Postgres. All of that makes it possible to avoid writing a lot of boilerplate and was a huge productivity boost for me. YMMV ofc.
Could you provide a source for these statements? In another comment I gave a link to a publication that summarized the literature comparing heel striking to forefoot striking, which showed no consensus on which is better.
This is genius (although I do wonder how you get your war news, then. Do you not follow the Russia war at all? Would it change if you had relevates there? Would it change if the war came to your backyard? Say another 9/11? War reporting is essential, but it would break your rule of not following live reporting.
In Turkish propaganda, any form of Kurds organizing themselves, be it inside Turkey our outside in Iran, Iraq or Syria, is "terrorism". Even though most of this activity is political and from a democratic standpoint quite "legitimate". Even much of what the PKK has been doing historically falls under that umbrella.

Also the Kurds are forming a state in parts of Syria and Iraq, where the "original" state is not able to restore order, especially against islamic militants. On top of that, the Turkish security forces have a long history of prosecuting Kurdish civilians. This makes the whole label of "terrorism" extremely murky and what Erdogan wants of NATO is much less nice than support against terrorists: He wants support and acquiescence in his war against Kurdish forces, including outside Turkey.
Why is this getting down-voted? It seems worthy of a little discussion.
Projects making use of Sitecore, Dynamics, SharePoint, SQL Server CLR,... GUI frameworks out of Redmond

Graphical tooling to deal with process dumps, etw data, and profiler information only available on VS.
https://archive.ph/3IqB5
The right to privacy as it pertains to Roe v Wade and many other precedents primarily stems from the 14th amendment's guarantee of due process, not the 4th amendment's freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.
This is spot on.

I only buy orange juice when people visit. Last time that happened I was at the store looking for Tropicana, but couldn’t find it. After several scans of the shelves I finally saw it under the new label.

I never noticed the cap was an orange either.
I happen to work on a lot of profiling and debugging tools and I’ve been wondering if the wasm spec has included anything about the “debugability” of wasm binaries. After a quick scan of the table of contents I couldn’t find it but I’d be curious to hear from anyone who might know. I fear that with an explosion of wasm runtimes (this looks super cool but also I think the 4th or 5th wasm runtime I’ve noticed) that debugability will be a nightmare if it’s not in the spec.
It's funny how state rates seem to work, quite often, as a one way street. And they are "in for life". See the fugitive slave act, ehich definitely infringed on non-slave states. Now the same thing with abortions, you are a Trxan resident which means you can't even have a legal abortion elsewhere.
> Are things better elsewhere? Python has excellent libraries. But these are big monoliths that not only do not compose well, but are also hard to understand deeply as they are essentially a thin layer over C, C++, Fortran, etc.

I dunno.

Things like the use of scipy.spatial.distance metrics[1] by in sklearn clustering[2] seems a great example of composability that is easy to learn and very efficient.

And the sklearrn side isn't a "thing layer over C, C++, Fortran" even if scikit is (sort of) this.

[1] https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/spatial.distance....

[2] https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.me...
> The idle power draw of the Pi is tiny

This is... uh... news to me?
You are just optimising for different things. One side is optimising for gender equality and statistical diversity. You are trying to optimise for competency.

But outside of a perfect mathematical universe competency is multi dimensional and difficult to measure. Bias does creep in. Treating it as a scientific process seems just as reductive as reducing a person to just their gender.
That doesn't sound unprecedented..
Sure, but all of that is primitive by the standards of version control systems used in software engineering. An incrementing number to designate a specific revision is not comparable to having branches, merge strategies, cherry-picking, bisecting etc.
20-30 seconds? I thought VSCode was slow and that only takes about 10 (with lots of heavy extensions).
I think this is less social media problems and more American cultural hegemony problems, especially in English-language media of all types.
No, the original claim is that meditation _can_ be dangerous unless you are doing Buddhism right. You are claiming that if meditation had dangers, it would be trivially easy to find data about it, and thus it doesn't. We aren't claiming it's always dangerous, we are claiming that it can be if traditional advice is ignored. You are the one shifting the goalposts. Re-read the thread and reflect
So you stand by the assertion that meditation has no negative effects?
At least you are not talking about assets anymore. Yet:

> technology isn't meant for being used as a storage medium for 'world logic"

Au contraire. Perhaps a better terminology would be "world state", which is exactly the function of blockchains. It's not about the game data. It's just the "save file" for the users. And only about the data that needs to be shared and agreed upon all users.

> the games that try to utilize it in this manner will be both expensive and terrible

Why? There are scaling solutions to handle with this. State channel technology is quite appropriate for this scenario. Or highly specialized roll-ups for the different types of games. The "world state" would be secure in the blockchain, but all the complicated interactions could be done off-chain.

> they have the common sense not to do stupid things that will fail miserably.

Please, go tell that to the execs at Animoca Brands: https://medium.com/star-atlas/animoca-brands-joins-star-atla...

Mind you, I am not saying that this game specifically will be a success. I am also never going to claim that all future games are going to be "on the blockchain". What I am saying is blockchain tech brings disintermediation, and that opens up the possibility of having games not controlled by any single entity.
I haven't read Tour. Is his argument anything like Michael Behe's?
“More women on corporate boards means better decisions and businesses that outperform the competition,” Atkins said

This is an odd way to defend a law. If he actually believed this were true, why would he need to mandate it? Just let the better companies outcompete.
Brainwave for Meditation/Trance
This is a really bad idea. Your shoulders and back muscles will go for a toss because a move along the y-axis on a desk translates to a Z-axis move when laying on your back.

I used to use an iPad laying down, and tiny movements that required me to move my shoulder up and down messed me up royally. I speak from experience.
Politics: it is what most impacts your life, yet you cannot change it, at all.
So you're claiming that it's mostly placebo? That is absurd to me. Why wouldn't sitting down and doing a specific mental activity for 30 minutes a day (e.g. paying attention to breath) change something? It seems very obvious to me that it would train the mind in some way. This is a genuinely bizarre take
I think it’s like combining the addictiveness of tobacco with the time sink of television.

Tobacco is addictive but I’m not sure if it is a time sink.
And seek out heirloom varieties. They might be ugly but the taste is beyond compare.
And Canada likely has better reporting as well (because countries with low crime usually tend to have better reporting and countries with high crime tend to have worse), so the true difference may be even higher.
Fruit trees are often prolific.
can you think of a scenario where you need something like that.

I can only recall a company that used Perforce's image diff.

And a book author, Stoyan Stefanov, suggesting Git for book edits.
https://blog.stoyanstefanov.com/dear-technical-copyeditors/
It's an obstacle on the path to surpass, it's just that most people do go through it to some degree. For some it's severe: my old teacher told me about a co-student who solved Mu and then became extremely arrogant and left the sangha saying he doesn't need them anymore. For some it's much more mild
I always get suspicious in threads about GPT-3 about how many comments are generated by GPT-3
> Are all of the unconstitutional ratchet laws that were passed during the Roe era political grandstanding? Or do you think their authors and legislators passed them hoping for changes in the judicial branch that would render them “good law”?

If we're being real, it's obviously a mix of both. Political grandstanding with plainly dumb laws is definitely a thing that happens. And politicians passing dodgy laws hoping it will work is also something that happens.
Cuba - given it is not embargoed by one of the biggest economies of the world that is close to it as well.
Germany to reject EU green investment label for nuclear power
If you only want actionable information, why bother reading a history book?

Questioning "why know things" is a weird take on HN, which is itself a news aggregator.
If you want two incompatible tools to work you need an abstraction. However because of extra layer of abstraction you suffer performance loss.
Yep, I've heard of multiple people with these exact symptoms. It's a very familiar story
Youtube is considered social media. If you only go there once a month to watch some informative video, then obviously not.
It's similar to smartphones. Android users express hate for iPhones and Apple way more than the reverse. Also I'd bet there's a correlation between smartphone brand and animal preference, with Android users preferring dogs and iPhone users preferring cats.
I was wondering that as well because I remember a long time ago when Bill Gates threatened to move the MS HQ to Canada because of something political that I don't recall anymore.
>A government that does not respect the bodily autonomy of women isn't going to respect privacy for too long if it enables the former.

For the record, I don't have a problem with abortion. Obviously I think it should be a last resort, but the impression I get is that most people who get abortions view it that way too.

That said, framing the debate around abortion purely as a question of bodily autonomy always seemed to be a very dishonest way of engaging with the debate. The issue at stake for most people(again, I don't care!) who oppose abortion is not that women are getting a medical procedure done to themselves, but that, in their view, a 2nd and entirely different person is killed as the result of this procedure.

But, many people who bring up the slogans of bodily autonomy already know this. By ignoring the core debate and taking this alternate tack, they get to:

1.) Smear their opponents' position as purely misogynist and obfuscate the core of the debate, and

2.) Signal their own loyalty to their political tribe, by demonstrating their unwillingness to even engage with the "other side."

The real question at the center of abortion rights legislation is not "should women be allowed to do what they want with their own bodies," it's "at what point does a fetus become a person, entitled to the same legal protections that other people have."

The inverse of this question is actually very interesting:

"What is it that makes a fetus NOT a person?" Maybe it's the lack of consciousnessness/low brain activity? Then, should we be allowed to kill braindead and comatose people arbitrarily? And anyway, we don't even know what consciousness is to begin with.

Or maybe, they just don't look like people, so we don't have to treat them that way? Well, that opens up a pretty ugly can of worms.

Or maybe it's the fact that the fetus is completely physically dependent on the mother's body? That's an interesting proposition, but then again, so is every baby until just days before it leaves the womb, and almost nobody is arguing the morality of ultra-late-stage abortions.

So you immediately end up with all these (admittedly) edge-cases that demonstrate some of the moral and legislative complexity of this issue, not to mention its entanglement with the federal-state-local American legal system, which is what Roe v. Wade really addresses to begin with. I'm not doing this as some kind of "gotcha!" or takedown of the whole concept of abortion. Just asking that on this forum we don't trick ourselves into believing the sound-bite version of things.

Yet again, I don't really care either way whether people get abortions or not. In general it seems like something that's impossible to legislate out of existence anyway. But I always fail to see how this is a simple question of women's bodies and evil government overreach.
Well, don't build freedoms on bad legalistic theories if you don't want to lose them to legalistic arguments.

"It's hard to care about foundation repair when you're lying in the rubble with broken bones." Well sure! You had decades to care!
To me, it looks like a reference to a Braun phonosuper sk 4.
https://braunaudio.de/en/snowwhitecoffin-sk4-dieter-rams-han...
Contact your local County Extension office. They should have useful info specific to your location.

https://pickyourown.org/countyextensionagentoffices.htm
Tether’s operators have said the token is backed by a basket of dollar-based assets equal to the size of the tokens outstanding, but it has not released granular details of these reserves

Trust me, dude!

Meanwhile:

Stablecoin holders could not claim deposit insurance to recoup any losses and operators were not able to access bank standing facilities

This (the losing all of your money, thing) happened in 1929 to a lot of people. Yes, it is possible to lose all your money. Yes, this can go to zero. There is a long, long way down. I just don't see how anyone in their right mind has the appetite for risk to stay in Cryptosecurities right now.
> It lets people with savings invest those savings in companies that produce real world goods and services.

You can invest in cryptos that you think will perform some sort of electronic service, like Ether, in expectation that the value will go up if it grows in usage.

It's admittedly pretty hard to make a connection to the physical world. So staying within the virtual world, ownership is an interesting application outside of finance. NFTs are the most prominent but (as art) least interesting examples of blockchain ownership. More interesting is the intersection with gaming, like what you see with Crypto Kitties and Gods Unchained (deck building game where card ownership and scarcity is blockchain driven). Another example is ENS: decentralized domain names.

> A bank can loan money to people who want to spend now what they will earn later.

This topic is much easier. Finance is the first application of blockchain, and there are tons of traditional financial instruments which exist in cryptospace already.

CDPs[1] offer a decentralized way to borrow money.

Compound[2] offers a way to both lend and borrow.

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/collateralized...

[2] https://compound.finance/
> More often than not, it is a matter of not wanting to use C++ than it not being available.

That's perfectly valid. I reach for C when I need to write fairly small programs. When C does not fill my needs anymore, I don't reach for C++. There are better high-level languages.

C++ is not a replacement for C. When one of the worlds foremost experts on C++ complains that the language is too complex to understand[1], passing on C++ is a reasonable position.

[1] https://steven.brokaw.org/posts/scott-meyers-cant-remember-c...
I know what you mean, but just think of the page as the screen.
(Set it to horizontal layout, or increase the size a lot)