skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you sure it was "capitalism" that led to the "collapse of trust"? Did Soviet citizens trust the local healthcare system when the quality of care you received depended on your party rank?

From a Wikipedia article on the Soviet healthcare system[1]

"Many medical treatments and diagnoses were unsophisticated and substandard (with doctors often making diagnoses by interviewing patients without conducting any medical tests), the standard of care provided by healthcare providers was poor, and there was a high risk of infection from surgery. The Soviet healthcare system was plagued by shortages of medical equipment, drugs, and diagnostic chemicals, and lacked many medications and medical technologies available in the Western world. Its facilities had low technical standards, and medical personnel underwent mediocre training. Soviet hospitals also offered poor hotel amenities such as food and linen. Special hospitals and clinics existed for the nomenklatura which offered a higher standard of care, but one still often below Western standards"

I think the problem more generally is that of adverse incentives, whether in "capitalist" or "socialist" systems. I worked in the UK National Health Service which is "free at the point of use" which often results in rationing via waiting list. In my experience, many patients believe that their GP is inappropriately limiting their treatment to save money, particularly with respect to limiting testing, which is unsurprising because "gatekeeping" is often an explicit responsibility for general practitioners in the NHS [2][3]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Russia#Early_S...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2001/sep/15/NHS

[3] https://bjgp.org/content/69/681/e224
N-not really…
Everyone that feels like it is outrageous to believe this is evil and there is likely a super reasonable explanation for this should consider that this is not a novel thing. At Netflix and Amazon Prime limit the resolution on Linux to 1080p and 720 respectively. Of course the reason is a different one, but Xbox Cloud would simply get in line with other major video streaming providers. It's natural to assume that it might be true and the reasons are silly, just like they are for every other platform.
I think oil and gas stocks may be persistently underpriced because ESG investors underweight them. With the online broker Merrill Edge you get access to BoA research reports, and with Charles Schwab you get the reports of Credit Suisse and Morningstar. BoA and Credit Suisse analysts publish weekly reports on oil and gas stocks with price targets (and thus total return forecasts). I have used them to make some investments.
> the pain mixing machines

That sounds ... dystopian.
>For those unaware of how opencl works: an API is provided by the standard, to which software can be written by people - even those without signed NDAs

And no one has made it work as well as CUDA - developers that want performance will choose CUDA. If OpenCL worked as well people would choose it, but it simply doesn't.

>I seriously doubt they'd give it much thought at all.

Having talked to people at both companies about exactly this, they have put serious thought into it - it amounts to powering their multi-billion dollar cloud AI infrastructure. The alternatives are simply so bad that they choose CUDA/NVidia stuff, as do their clients. Watching them (and AWS and MS) choose NVidia for their cloud offerings is not because all are stupid of cannot make new APIs if needed - they choose it because it works.

>Surely NVIDIA would never sandbag opencl...

So fix it. There's enough people that can and do reverse engineer such things that one would have likely found such conspiracies. Or publish the proof. Reverse engineering is not that hard that if this mythical problem existed that you could not find it and prove it and write it up, or even fix it. There's enough companies besides NVidia that could fix OpenCL, or make a better API for NVidia and sell that, yet neither of those have happened. If you really believe it is possible, you are sitting on a huge opportunity.

Or, alternatively, NVidia has made really compelling hardware and the best software API so far, and people use that because it works.

Open source fails at many real world tasks. Choose the tool best suited to solve the problem you want solved, regardless of religious beliefs.
You have disqualified yourself from this discussion by pretending that the US Civil War was not at its very root about the right to own slaves. Three of the articles of secession refer to slavery specifically.

When you carry the water for people who lie about these basic facts, you are working against basic truth yourself, so don’t be surprised to be counted among them.
Once you read this utterly true and appalling state of affairs it changes your frustration to disillusionment around corporate leadership.

Large consultancies have subverted many large organisations with a revolving door hiring system - jump into a consultancy, jump back out and bring your consultancy in to fix the company, years later jump back out to the consultancy in a senior role that's low effort as a reward.

Before I worked with consultants directly at large banks I thought they must have all been geniuses but that's not the case, they're merely people from good universities who follow the instructions of the more senior people inside the consultancy rather than independent thinking. Basically they're bodies.
As a former caretaker of a diabetic pet, I wish that had an measurable impact on the quality of care in the pet space, but it doesn’t.
There is so much here touched upon one can only speculate in terms of experiential humanity…

* natural human tendency for us to become curmudgeons

* you may be involved in a conspiracy

Curmudgeons

Consider yourself, how do you feel during first week of a new job? Like you can do anything and your eager to go out of your way to make it all perfect?

Or the last week of a job you respect, when you wanted to make sure you’ve left nothing hanging?

And the long interim in between? The daily grind, the now familiarity, comfort zone dividing what is expected and responsible for you, and how not to get caught up in “extra work”.

Psychologically unlocking this human capacity for change may require reshuffling the org, or a incentive level redirect of priorities.

Conspiracy

Worth mentioning (about humans). What causes conspiracy? Job security and haters to name a few. Solution? Reshuffle the org as appropriate.
Push makes sense to me actually, branches and tags are both aliases to a particular commit. What makes them different is that the branch pointer gets updated on commit, while the tag pointer is (meant to be) static.

But I do in general agree that the cli leaves much to be desired. I really have to give credit to magit for making a git ui that is simultaneously easy to use, powerful, and has actually made me more proficient at using the regular cli (the commands that underlie the operations are echoed so whenever I do something new I take a peek at how it's done).
Sure, that's fine if you want to tell a (nearly)zero-to-(overpowered)hero story. Which I did for some time (played a bit of 1e, 2e, and DMed a lot of 5e). But, genre aside, for any other kind of story you're better off finding something else.

e.g. trying to do https://bullypulpitgames.com/games/grey-ranks/ in any edition of D&D won't work well.
My personal take on smart home advice for techies:
1. If a device isn't open and managed locally, you're renting it. Some IoT companies will die off within a few years, so try to buy devices you can DIY or control locally.
2. HomeAssistant is amazing. Try to get hardware that can be compatible, though most things already are.
3. Spend some time to make your home network reliable and secure. In particular, most of my smart devices can't connect to the internet, especially when it comes to network cameras and more risky devices.
4. Think about safety. If it is in any way dangerous - don't automate. The risk to human life and property isn't worth it.
5. Start small - outdoor lights and lights in public areas are a great example since you can get them to work well without too much frustration.
It is better to pick your battles than dive too deep. Lights for your bedroom are a bad choice, an alert when the washing machine is done is relatively easy.
6. Your smart home should work for you. No need to do something that's cool but isn't valuable.
> But Bernie Sanders is, in fact, a socialist

and calls himself one, making the situation non-comparable. The burden is on you to prove the analogy makes sense.

> only if there is a better common word to describe that group

what is the alternative to "SJW"? In this case "gander critical" is the alternative.

> one that is not self aggrandizing or overly obscure

says who? why do you get to decide the criteria for some out-groups' labels?

> JK Rowling's position on trans rights in one word

"gender critical", disregarding the arbitrary constraint on needing one word.

> it's a meaningless combination of words in itself

so is TERF, given "exclusion" is as vague as "critical.".

> but that seems just a way to obscure their beliefs

It doesn't matter, a term needn't be self describing. Also TERF isn't a clear description, much like "anti-trans" isn't either.

The clarification, it seems, is b/c users of the term want is to reduce the topic to two sides (trans, anti-trans), and make it clear which side TERFs are on. This fight over control of the context, versus "feminists" vs trans-women framing, seems to be the point of these descriptors - each side want the power to "describe" their opponents.
Using a service like rsync.net (happy customer here!) gives secure and safe backups but without the ability to run services. Which also means pretty much no matter how much I mess up, I can't expose my data to the Internet at large by mistake.

I will (and do) run Internet-facing services, but I can definitely empathise with the desire not to. And I'll only do it myself if the benefit over keeping it private outweighs the risk.
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fwiw, and surely anecdotal, but i don’t know anybody who knows the dark arts of the git cli and uses some client (magit, lazygit, etc) who prefers to use the former
As a fantasy series, it seems the ethnicities of the actors are quite irrelevant. I can understand that it can be a bit odd in historical dramas, but male actors used to play the female roles in plays. It seems pretty secondary unless the plot is explicitly about race. And historical accuracy, even in historical dramas is usually tenuous at best anyway.

I’d suggest that when you say “blackwashing” people are going to take that as a signal that you have some pretty toxic politics.
Not always, but if you only do some of those incantations a few times per year, and what you remember is that you tended to get them wrong... it's a bit of a pain. This is partially why I switched to GUI clients for day to day. Tower (and maybe others) have an 'undo' which gives me a bit more confidence to try/test out things, because I know if it's wrong I can hit 'cmd-z' and be back where I was (at least until I push!).
Ports. Knew that before reading. It's expensive to build a ship; it's an order of magnitude more expensive to build a port. So ships follow ports in design.

And ports are constrained by their neighborhood (cities and development) and the geography (harbors).

I wonder if a sea-based port makes any sense. A floating rail line or undersea train tunnel or skyway or something. To escape the bounds on port design.
Why do known actors matter? When I see Chris Pratt in a movie I just think oh it's Andy from parks and rec. I see Forrest Gump but in a different movie or Jim Halbert in a horror movie. Known actors make it hard to be immersed.
Being black is now called "politically correct"? Why not just say black?
One thing that bothers me with Home Assistant and could never find a way to fix it:

Is there a way to disable it from automatically spying on every single logged in mobile phone? E.g. if I install HASS app on an Android phone and login, it'll automatically start tracking everything from location, connected wifi, charging timing, all of it. And I need to go and disable this manually from every entity separately... and it randomly reenables itself if the device reauthenticates.

Since I don't want to track every single step my family makes, did anyone find a configuration option on the server to turn this off for all clients?
Yes, that's it exactly its primary purpose: to replace X forwarding.

> waypipe should be installed on both the local and remote computers. There is
a user-friendly command line pattern which prefixes a call to ssh and
automatically sets up a reverse tunnel for protocol data. For example,

waypipe ssh user@theserver weston-terminal

will run ssh, connect to theserver, and remotely run weston-terminal,
using local and remote waypipe processes to synchronize the shared memory
buffers used by Wayland clients between both computers.
It's interactive.
Binance CEO confirmed this version: https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1543905416748359680
It is generally a positive that a manager understands what and how to do the things that the people they manage do, however it is not a requirement for a good manager. To an extent, a manager will never fully be versed in everything that their direct reports do, however, a good manager knows the limits and trusts their employees to make the right call.
Was it Disaster Area?
Also the voice actor for the emperor's son in The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. I'd say he was pretty well known and a bit of a star given that he was sought out for such roles and used in marketing, although not obscenely famous.
Yup. You don’t want to pass EDITOR or VISUAL through sudo so update-alternatives it is.

It’s weird. I know distros are trying to be friendly to new users. But aren’t we past “new users” now for server OSes?

I’d get it on a Raspberry Pi or whatever, where you’re going after kids.

But really, the learning curve and foreign nature of the tools is what got me hooked on Unix in 1997. That and not getting cryptic error messages from Win NT that I could actually dig all the way down and troubleshoot. >:[
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Not that I am interested in defending Amazon's series, which I think will be a disaster, but I don't think the comparison with the Hobbit movies holds.

True, the material they have rights to is from the appendixes of The Lord of the Rings. The difference, though, is that in this case they are going to create a completely new story. So, they can fill as many episodes they want.

With the Hobbit, instead, they had the story already and they had to stretch it to create a trilogy.
technical enough that we can have technical discussions when needed, but not too technical to think they can do my job (and if you can than stop being a manager and join me as my peer).
1-based indexing is pretty common among technical programming languages (R, Matlab, Julia, etc.) Not that VB is typically used for this, but people who think 0-based is universal have pretty much only been exposed to C and languages that copy its conventions.
Jokes on them, I have Vimium (vim plugin for browsers) and used G (Shift + g) to skip scrolling.
It is useful when you think about that you might actually be evaluated like this in the future.
Could someone put this in context?

Is this big news that could lead physics out of its long stasis? Or "just" relatively small details?
Didn't his father sell off the film rights for £10,000 - no wonder he is slightly grumpy about any movies!
I suspect your problem is behavioral not information.

These “sensitive” clients may be your hassle.

My prior comment was speculative sauce inspired by a decade of tough management decisions.

In practicality, you should provide the best service you can for them and not take their failures to heart.

Avoid “sensitive” clients unless that is your specialization.
I personally started a new framework and I went for io_uring for simplicity, that is already giving most of what I need -- asynchronous I/O with no context switching.

DPDK is huge and inflexible, it does a lot of things which I'd rather be in control of myself and I think it's easier to just do my own userspace vfio.
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It is discourteous to claim that someone who says something you disagree with actually intended to say something else.

And believe me, I know a thing or two about being discourteous.
5echnical enough that we can have technical discussions when needed, but not too technical to think they can do my job instead (and if they can, then stop being my manager and join me as my peer).
And if they’re objectively wrong, then what?
I find it nowhere near as accessible. The browser's scrollbar is disabled, for example. Ctrl+Home/End doesn't work either.

It may share the idea, but not the spirit.
> Having a known actor and playing against type (nice guy when usually villain) just underscores the surprise.

Normally you'd be right, except Sean Bean always dies.
Governments have been collecting (and poorly securing) this sort of information and more for most of recorded history. It's not to say that I like it, or would work for somewhere like Meta or the like, but plenty of these major data leaks have been from places that used to collect and store physical data bases of this stuff since before most of us were alive.

I'm talking calmly about this because people have been screaming in my ear about it for 20 years, and I listened. And then I lived my life around the fact that this was going to be happening whether you scream yourself hoarse or not, at least for now.
Impossible. Family is on the other side of the planet. And also, flying and holidays are the best thing in the world. I will never give it up.
incredibly apologetic for an industry that’s wholly unnecessary, that without we could just have the “peer to peer” communication and patient interest in mind. that would be terrible though, as some folks would have to pay more than they would’ve if they were able to live their whole life without needing medical care.
Further reading:

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-2274
I have a morbid fear that studios want the “conflict” as it’s 1) news and any news is good news, 2) set up a right vs wrong narrative that puts their tv show on the right side against whatever jerks are being racist/sexist/whatever.

So it seems like a non-creative way to get free promotion, but I think it distracts from storytelling.

The example I remember is how bad the 2016 ghostbusters reboot was. And the studio had this whole narrative about how sexist trolls were maligning the movie and this got repeated with any criticism. It seemed like astroturf that highlighted a small amount of internet sexist complaining and used it to smear any criticism for any reason. That seems like something that would be attractive to a beancounter-type.
Nobody becomes known if they don’t have their first time.
I think it is not bad at all.
This is a ... theory in why some of the earlier MMORPG's (OSRS, Everquest, ...) have nostalgia, yes, but something more than that. Newer versions play the "You're the chosen one, seek your destiny..." game. Guild Wars 2 is exactly this, but the older ones were way more, "You're a character, like every other character in the world. Prove yourself."
Many superhero films, especially marvel films, are not heroic journeys. They’re entirely different concepts entirely. To pick the most recent one, Dr strange and the multiverse of madness, his (imo awkwardly executed) character arc is trying to figure out if he’s happy with his life and what superhero’ing has gained and lost him. The latest Spider-Man certainly had a great deal of personal loss if that’s what you must have.

Risk of personal death is tough to pull off convincingly. Risk of death to those they’re trying to protect is much better. And happens pretty frequently.
> Chattel slavery wants a word with you

Chattel slavery underlines the point. What is and isn’t property is decided, arbitrarily, by people. Because property is a social construct.

What is and isn’t someone’s body does not depend on others accepting it has meaning. How it’s treated does. But my body has inherent value to me independent of others’ perceptions of it. This is, at its core, the problem with slavery.

If we reject property being a social construct we reject the fact that the government, a social construct itself, could have legalised and then outlawed slavery. Because if property is inherently meaningful, how can the government poof it away?
Anime isn't that mainstream in Japan. Lots of people watched anime as a kid then stopped.

At least all the Jap people I talked to at hostels were like that. Was very weird.
At least in the case of Star Wars, the inverse happened, too: https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2015/12/21/understa...
He was in the Sharpe movies as well
Doesn't detect the location of my face properly. Not sure if that's a good or a bad thing :-)
Where is the guilt tripping. The advice is sound, get a car seat, consider a belt extender.
I live in a big city where my face is captured in millions of frames by security cameras everyday.

I used android devices, now I use an iphone, and I keep cloud accounts and personal photos backups with both companies. I have linked-in, facebook, instagram and handful of other accounts with varying levels of personal information.

This cat is already out of the bag, and has been for quite some time.
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Considering Microsoft Front Page embedded Internet Explorer specific instructions automatically anti-alias image edges to make them look better on IE, and worse in Netscape, this kind of behavior doesn't surprise us anymore.

Microsoft used up all its credit by abusing its power, tech, and goodwill of its users over the years.

They also did it again with VSCode by close-sourcing more parts of it.

There's no reason to think that Microsoft did it unintentionally.

The burden of proof is theirs.
I share a propensity for getting interested in things like this more than I perhaps should(!) In most cases, Everest doesn't really look particularly impressive given its low prominence in relation to its neighbors, although Wikipedia seems to treat sea level as being its true "base" as a sort of special case so it still comes in at #1 on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mountain_peaks_by_prom... !

Chimborazo is a fun one and I would accept a strident enough argument for it to be #1. It truly looks like a magnificent mountain too, indeed perhaps the archetypal 'mountain', if we can take aesthetics into account ;-)
What do yo do?
You can't trust what the company says regardless.

A sudden layoff can happen to anyone.
That's a good question - the client engaged us to help them find ways to complete the work faster. There are several changes we've identified (parallelisation, re-sequencing tasks, batching etc) but the parallelisation is hindered by the knowledge silos. Work often funnels through a few key people that don't document what they do, so adding more people/teams would only exacerbate the contention on those key people.
Yeah, Wheel of Time was really bad. I tried so hard to like it but it had little to redeem it.
> is very useful though

Totally agree! Most social constructs are! That’s why we keep them. Something being a social construct isn’t a diminishment of it. Governments, laws, families and religions are all social constructs and all highly useful.
> I've had many VMs with literally years of uptime running without issue.

I hope they all have fully patched base libraries and kernels, security auditing is getting to a much more common requirement these days even among very small companies. For example, anybody using Facebook Login.