skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should walk a day in their shoes. Hand someone a screw and the next day someone else will come up and ask for a new monitor, and when you ask for them to request a monitor in the ticket system they will get all upset and talk about how they heard that you gave out supplies to someone else yesterday. Why can't you do it today?
It is still how some parts of the economy operate. In rural places, you don't buy cabbages from your next door neighbour neither does he buy tomatoes from you. When you have cabbages, more than you and your family can eat, you gift neighbors a bag or three of cabbage. When it's time for tomatoes, they leave a crate for you.

Or another example: drinks between friends. You do not keep a strict tally, simply you buy one round, then next time you meet they buy one round, etc.

Bottom line is it makes no sense to have complex financial instruments, or even money at all, in a small village or tribe where everyone knows each other and there are other mechanisms (cultural and social) to ensure nobody is abusive. An economy based on gift-giving and "indebtedness" makes perfect sense there. This is likely how most small societies operated, even after the advent of agriculture. You only need to break out the gold/silver when trading with strangers.
Windows Server yes -- as a hardware virtualized guest. HyperV and VMware, no: we provide the hypervisor and control plane (and that that's built into the cost of the rack is very much part of the value proposition!).
Exactly, perhaps if you could find the people who were aware of their own luck and the role it had played in their successes to date, they would be the people to back. This would rule out the inflated egos of Elizabeth Homes, Adam Neumann, etc
Regardless of what you think about the company or their products, letting them get away with this sets a dangerous precedent in my opinion. Whether you agree with the specific laws they’ve broken, the precedent would allow companies to break other laws you might agree with more (and do more damage as a result).
I'll have to check out sigstore.

Anything that makes signing/verifying easier is a welcome change.
Visual Studio Code Server untethers developers from their workstations
All you have to do is look at cities where they don’t have Uber and you’ll find a strong taxi mafia. Sometimes a literal taxi mafia like in Budapest.

I was living in Valancia Spain, the first day I got there I remember walking down what turned out to be one of the main streets in the city to find it being blocked by hundreds of taxis in a peaceful protest. Ok fine, I didn’t know why and it was all cosure with the police.

Then a few months later my ability to use a good quality app with verifiable trust (extremely important in some parts of the world) and recourse to the operator was suddenly taken away.

I had to order taxis using one of the crap taxi middlemen apps which offer little to no support for when things go a wrong and I was back to riding in cars where the driver was actively trying to rip you off.

Oh you’ve lived here 10 years but you need to look on the map of where one of the main streets is? Ok great, make sure the meeter is started before you do that.

Oh it’s after 8pm so that short 4.50€ journey is automatically a minimum 6€ Ok great enjoy.

25€ to the airport? I’m sure this used to be 14…

Taxis suck, lack accountability and will do anything it takes to maintain their market share while providing a horrible scammy service.
Ah yes, the good old days where everything was so much more efficient without a computer.
Serious studies of this question:

* https://netzeroamerica.princeton.edu/ (US, but takeaways apply more broadly)

* World-wide: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26355-z

* Stanford's Marc Jacobsen is a proponent of the opposite view

* Rebuttal of Jacobsen, with links to his work: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1610381114
Somebody has to run those „computers in the cloud“. Government-appointed monopoly? Government itself? Which would be interesting, but there could be so many opportunities for corruption...
You only run as many as you want, depending on your compartmentalization strategy. Also, they are typically not all taking 100% CPU simultaneously.
An inevitable step in human progress is to seize control of the planet's climate for ourselves.

We should not accept that the world will change around us, we should make the world fit our interests. On a time scale at which the world changes, time scales which humans are not involved with (eg: global warming), we should be able to fix the problem before it happens.
JavaScript or Typescript with Deno is another option. I haven't tried it myself yet but Deno has a "compile" command to build an app into a single executable

Kotlin/Java could also be used. Also haven't tried this, but it seems like it's become easy to bundle a JRE with a java app to create a single executable https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/86l45p/how_do_people_...
The technology definitely made life easier for passengers, especially in big cities. Prices were cheaper for some time, but only because they were subsidised by investors, so hardly a net gain. Arguably, they made the environment worse by pushing middle income off public transport and into taxis

For drivers, things seem to have got worse. I’ve spoken to various taxi drivers, including current and former Uber drivers, and none of them liked working for Uber. They merely felt trapped.

But there is an argument to say that the local taxi cartels needed breaking up, and only a company prepared to engage in these kind of tactics could have done it. I don’t know what I think about all this.
LE made SSL/TLS easy, we need something similar for sign/verify of packages/software.

Another commenter mentioned sigstore.dev which looks potentially interesting.
It's not only about the "computer" or the software running the matching of passengers to drivers. It's about more boring topics like passenger safety, insurances and education.
The current plague of cryptocurrency proves that, by itself, the mere fact of the market being open source and decentralized doesn't do anything useful; it even makes it worse in a lot of ways. The scammers will do exactly the same thing, except they take a 100% cut of your money when they dump the tokens onto retail investors and then do a rug pull.

Smart contracts are a horrible invention that don't do anything new. The equivalent in a normal SQL database (the original DLT) is just running a transaction; every SQL database under the sun has supported this for ages.
How dare you. Some of my best friends are color blind! You insensitive clod!
Taken from your wiki link with a twist; "spooky correlation at a distance" does seem to be some amount of information. The paul revere joke was entirely out of scope, but the universe does seem to have some way to pull the strings behind the curtain here.
> Used to use Qubes OS, quit because I could not figure out how to move files / share files between VMs securely / easily.

Is this what your're looking for? https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/how-to-copy-and-move-files/
Companies break laws every minute. Basically every US company operating in the EU is breaking GDPR post-Privacy Shield right now: it's illegal to transfer data of EU residents to US data centers.

Oil and gas companies have been blatantly breaking laws for decades.

Volkswagen, along with a majority of car manufacturers have been cheating emissions testing for ages.

Big banks literally rigged LIBOR through intentionally lying about numbers and laughing and not a single executive is in jail.
Ask HN: Best C.S. Master program for Cybersecurity?
I am a long time reader of many hacker/cybersecurity blogs, magazines and listening to tons of Podcasts about that topic.

I have a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and been a SE for over 10 years. I figured: Why not get a formal education in this field to find jobs/switch careers?

Any recommendations from people who‘ve done it and/or can recommend a path? I would also like a to do a formal masters degree in that field!
I read this four times now, but I don't understand what you are saying.
Tech Is Not Representative Government
Prior to housing being investment vehicles and superannuation/401k .. most people had no money in old age.
There's a difference between "every story has a branch" and "you need to create a story for every commit" which is what's implied by TFA.
The first 100+ videos in that series are pretty great. He was often able to obtain the master record and play each track individually. Hearing all these cool little details that usually get lost in the mix really changes your perspective on a song. He also goes over chords and stuff in these videos, but also adds some context and explains why these things work well together in a really simple way.

I feel like this has been missing in more recent videos though.
You need to read the law to understand it better and also understand the current rulings that courts have provided on filming police. This law is none of those things that you state it's simply codifying a distance for what the courts have already upheld that police can do.

If you are party to the police interaction you can film closer than 8 ft. If you are in a car as a passenger you can film the interaction and the police cannot ask you to stop. If you are a non-party person simply watching the interaction the police can now ask you to maintain a distance of 8 ft.

Courts have already upheld routinely that police can ask people who are not party to the interaction to step away and they can create a reasonable area around them and the scene and keep people out of it. The definition of reasonable area varies based upon the situation. This that a reasonable area is a minimum of 8 ft. There are situations where that distance may be greater.

Regardless of what you think of the police they do need to be empowered to keep bystanders out of the middle of an interaction with their cameras in order to conduct their duties. 8 ft for a bystander is a very reasonable distance. At 8 ft your camera can see anything that a human-sized person is doing it to another human-sized person and it can record the audio of that interaction as well at 8 ft.

And as always the person who is party to the interaction can record the interaction and this is codified in this law as well. Laws like this do more to uphold a citizens ability to record the police then it does to take it away. Any reasonable person would understand that because without a law like this the police could argue that 50 ft is a reasonable distance. Now we have a law that says 8 ft is a reasonable distance in Arizona.
> It will not stop and think twice

Of course it won’t. It has no concept of how images will emotionally affect the humans who see them, or humans, or that people see them.
> digital employee experience (DEX)

A handy rule for deciding when someone is worth reading: when they invent a TLA for something obvious, to make it sound like they've actually done something, they are not worth reading.
They are not doing that well at eliminating a state though.
I disagree regarding Hillary Clinton, I think it's a disservice to her academic and professional accomplishments. She has an impressive academic record at Yale while getting her JD, was a very popular senator in NY, and was widely respected SoS. She is far more qualified than most presidential candidates and probably more qualified than her husband. I know she is divisive and I'm going to be downvoted, but all those accomplishments are factual and I left things out. I wish people would pause and reflect about why they dislike her.

I also disagree with you about Trudeau, almost to the point I would characterize your description of him as false. He started in the HoC 15 years ago, took that to a leadership position in a failing Liberal party and revitalized them. I think it's more problematic that Harper led a lobbying group for several years.. I am curious what you think has been disastrous? (never mind, I see your sibling comment) I think he is actually impressively aware of the political coordination with the American and Canadian right-wings.

If I'm understanding you right, it's more of a problem with machine politics, and I'd agree with you. The solution has always been restrictions on donations, advertising, and otherwise limiting the influence of money on politics but that fight has mostly failed.
For anyone who experienced regret for having the come up idea for uber before it was a thing but never capitalizing on it, this is the article to read.

Uber's success wasn't just the technology, but figuring out how usurp a very well established taxicab industry and not get squashed by regulation.
I can only suspect that Uber paid and politically infulenced its way to untouchability and made concessions where it only absolutely needed to. The airport pickup arrangement is one example I can think of.
My dear brother of Climate, I am so glad you have you accepted Climate into your heart and have been born-again through your commitment to dedicate your life to leaving a lighter footprint. Continue to seek forgiveness for your sins against Climate, dear believer. One day we shall rejoice in the carbon-free heavens of Climate.

Praise be to Climate, for it provides for all. Amen.

/s
Well in many fields, you will have to write that "unnecessary verbiage" anyway, and with good reason as humans are crap at reading metadata or switching between text and another document such as a citation tree.
I definitely do not want to do it, and no matter what someones AI or algorithm will anyway analyze my work, not matter what I do.
any feedback?
it looks not that expensive
> Firstly it punishes those in the worst situations. Those in countries with abusive political systems, those who have no legal representation, etc.

HTTPS offers virtually no defense against a state actor.

> I don't even believe the idea is right in practice "serves to preserve the status quo" is just wrong in this case. HTTPS completely breaks most terrible things ISPs can do. It completely dismantles the system.

HTTPS doesn't dismantle the system at all. You're still stuck with no other option for an ISP, which means you are not going to get favorable terms. And even with HTTPS, you need to look up the IP for the servers you're going to visit, and ISPs can snoop on your DNS traffic and sell information about how you, the IP (or the person), regularly looks up the IP for abortionpills.example.com (or connects to the IP associated with the server).
Yeah it probably is, I'd be interested to see how many people use that pronunciation though
Historically speaking --- cheaper, better technology is a near certainty.

And the push for better battery technology is not at it's end; it is just getting started. It will be the gold rush of the century.
Quantum entanglement cannot be used to transmit information but can be used to check if the message was interrupted, so it's still important for quantum cryptography.
(I'm just a programmer but had a course quite some time ago on quantum computing thought by a physics professor.)
Things Chinese consume all the time that they typically don't know came from somewhere else: baozi (came with the Mongols from Ottoman cuisine), chicken (first domesticated in the Brahmaputra/Bengal/Myanmar region), chilli, corn, peanuts, tea (SEA border of Yunnan, very un-Chinese until recently), tomato. The source(s) of initial rice domestication are still unclear, but much of China (north and central China) did not eat rice as a daily staple for a significant part of Chinese history.
Who pays the volunteers?

You’re jumbling up a lot of things here. Fixing the economic paradigm does not lead straight to crypto. Maybe it’s part of the solution in some areas, but it doesn't prevent capitalism or encourage open source bootstrapped enterprises.

The closest thing IMO to a swing at fixing the economic paradigm would be something like requiring all companies to be nonprofits once they go public or something…
Metapoint. You seem to keep significantly editing your comment, so I don’t know what’s been voted or commented on. Either responding, or editing with the —-EDIT—- line would help there.
When there is a ticket, yes, adding the number is trivial and probably worth it. Where the rule breaks down, in my opinion, is when you have to create a ticket and replicate the commit message in it any time you stumble over a code maintainability issue and fix it in stride.
They "succeeded" because every ride so far was subsidised by investors. It's not a level playing field for the cabs, which have to make a profit.
It even doesn't matter. Passwords should be regularly rotated and encouraging people to use this opens them up to bad practices since no one's going to rotate all their passwords at once, so they'll never do it.
Cryptocurrency as alternative to capitalist, for-profit privately owned networks
My son and nephew are playing lichess right now. It’s been an incredible summer activity for them!
yes fair comment!

happy to update my view
Serving walk-up requests for equipment like monitors is one of the most basic functions of our IT. They ask for your username and file an auto-closing ticket on your behalf right there. When supplies are tight, like with M1 Macs, you have to get on a waiting list. But anything they have in inventory they will give you if you ask.
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32036825
Note that they don't use 100 as the Chernobyl deaths estimate, they use 433. While I think that is very optimistic, there are very valid concerns with estimates made using the linear no-threshold model (which they discuss). And they used 2314 for Fukushima, which Wikipedia [1] agrees with and ascribes largely to the evacuation efforts.

I'm not claiming it as a 100% accurate source, as it was just what I found with a quick google - I agree using a range of data points for each energy source would be more rigorous. Do you have a better source that uses ranges for the different energy options?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...
And they all set dangerous precedents, and now uber is setting yet another. And we all got dumber by taking the discussion to this direction. Enough defeatism.
And only having biliography/endnotes is annoying. If I want to check sth, I do not want to scroll all the way to the end first, so footnotes ftw. And for those, having long extra things in them like links is annoying. Though admittedly of course this depends on personal preferences and discipline.
Not that I disagree with you but I don't see what the course is promising as anything close to what you juts described and rant about, and neither does it claim that it won't take time. Were you perhaps attempting to respond to someone else's comment?
I used to have some faith in the consistency of the appeals circuits but it has become a farce in my lifetime
It's too bad there's no publicly traded Big Law
How about pandoc?

Examples: https://pandoc.org/demos.html

You can style the output using the --css flag: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#option--css
2 wrongs don't make a right. Uber operates like the mafia. I'm not going to take their defense just because they are a "just an app" or that the competition is as bad...

Uber became popular because it leveraged VC and cheap credit to subsidized rides, it's becoming much less popular as we speak since ride fares are going up fast and it now needs to actually make money.
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32036291
Sounds though like an orthogonal problem that could have been solved independent of destroying the entire industry?
People tend to value skills they themselves possess. If you have a leader with good technical skills then he will probably pick people with good technical skills. So socially competent leaders look for socially competent underlings, leaders who got there via nepotism probably applies nepotism as well when choosing etc.
Yes Denmark is a great example of high proportion of Wind power where it could make a big difference. I'm not sure what the hour-based variable rates are - do you know what the price is so you can change usage? Is power free or very cheap on windy days?
Agreed! And they should be held accountable too!
Replacing a corrupt system with a different corrupt system isn't progress.
They make a whole footnote much longer. Even when not blue and underlined.
And now they enter the "ask for forgiveness" stage, get a slap on the wrist and get to bank their billions.
I was thinking you were laying it on a bit thick and then I saw the kinds of responses you've been getting.
The original law it was proposed to be at 15 ft and they changed it to be 8 ft because of questions like this. Since courts have already upheld that police can keep non-party bystanders away from a scene at a reasonable distance codifying an 8 ft limit as a minimum reasonable distance is unlikely to be overturned by a court.

Considering that police training routinely would keep people 20 to 25 ft away codifying this minimum distance at 8 ft is actually a big win and is probably closer than what courts would allow should it be challenged.

It's also important to keep in mind that this distance does not apply to people who are party to the police interaction nor does it apply to passengers in a vehicle that are. It also does not apply to people in a house or a confined private space who are not a party to the police interaction. There are a great many exceptions to this if you actually read the law. Basically the 8-ft distance only applies to people who are not a party to the police interaction.
> the state does not have a catalog or any way of knowing about all fertilized eggs, so how does it know when to investigate?

> The state has no right to know about a woman's IUD, but does have a right to know if she has taken steps to stop that fertilized egg from developing further, if I understand your position correctly.

The state can make something illegal without needing intrusive investigative powers to be able to find it. Consider that CSAM is illegal, even though we don't have a national registry of cameras or hard drives, and the government isn't allowed to search your cameras or hard drives for CSAM without probable cause.
i have this exact issue. forgot my jacket in a bar one day.
Now i can see my jacket is inside a big apartment building for a year and have never moved. But i have no way to get it back because i dont know which appartement it’s part of and everybody ignore the lost message.
"Simplistic" is the word OP was groping for.
Even their expenses are open source!

https://lichess.org/costs
The debate shouldn’t be between capitalism vs socialism. That’s a false dichotomy.

UBI + Gift Economies may be a far better system, wherein participants have disposable time that they can use to collaborate on stuff they like (wikipedia, science, open source software and drugs, creative commons and more)
I don't think your recall of events is correct here and I'm not quite following what you're saying.
never attribute to malice (or conspiracy) what can be explained by incompetence (or bugs).
I've tried a few of these, kind of cool to play with, but for my work so far irrelevant.
I'm not sure what your point is.

IIRC, Volkswagen were fined several billion, and a number of senior executives were charged.
> An inevitable step in human progress is to seize control of the planet's climate for ourselves.

An inevitable step is human progress it to realize that there is no controlling the planet's climate.

We might be at the top of the food chain, but we are still at the bottom of the interplanetary dust chain, and always will be.
I take you up on that challenge good sir
Why not? Exponential growth is all that i see around me. Exponential growth is the universe & all signs point to infinite.

We have an unbelievable amount of resources in our galaxy alone. I don't see anything slowing down in the near future.
https://www.qubes-os.org/faq/#why-is-vt-damd-viamd-iommu-imp...