skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> depraved indifference to others is horrifying

The grievous or depraved indifference of many people cost 6.3m lives worldwide during the pandemic. The US has had > 1m deaths. Yet people had only to wear a mask, distance, and receive a vaccination.

It's easy to be brazen when others are paying for the consequences.
If you had learned OpenOffice calc or write, would that have made much of a difference? Takes a few hours to move 80% from one to the other. Maybe if very specific functions it may take a few minutes more.
Why would I want programmers in charge? I dislike them more than most.
Coal plants are actually not that cheap to build.

Combined cycle gas plants are cheap because 2/3rds of the power output is from the combustion turbine, which needs no heat exchangers. The steam bottoming part needs two: the boiler running off the exhaust from the combustion turbine, and the condenser to transfer heat to the environment.
I have had a long career with many office jobs all across the US and never once has anyone taken issue with me using LibreOffice or similar as long as I got my job done and documents were exported in compatible formats.

Teaching the concept of spreadsheets is totally possible without teaching students products of whatever specific corporation donates the most money or free licenses.
> the TPM enables verification of a particular state of your system, i.e., a particular set of binaries and OS configuration

That is a bit misleading. The TPM is a passive device, it cannot verify any state. It is the OS who measure the system (in Linux via the IMA system). And is the Linux kernel the one that, if you have a TPM, can produce a process where a 3rd party can be sure that the measurements are "true" and "legit" (via PCR#10 extension).

As you state later, it is this 3rd party the one that assert (verify) if you are state considered OK or not.

Maybe I am too simplistic, but I do not see the evil in the TPM here, but only in the 3rd party policy.

TPM can be abused but, as a developer, I am happy that we can use the TPM for good and fair goals in open source projects.

It is the user who can decide to use the TPM or not, and should be noted that in the TCG specification it is stated that the TPM can be disabled and cleared by the user at any moment.
I've been thinking about this problem and this is my thought process:

1. A tool like grammarly is super helpful for the majority of non-english speaking population. So, this is not something like Facebook that we can just ignore and boycott. This is a truly useful category of tooling.

2. But, sending everything that the user types over wire and predicting with a heavy model that can only run on massive servers is evil.

3. The only viable alternative is either come up with a tech that encrypts data over wire, such that sentences cannot be decontstructed back at the server, but knows what indices in the client string. should be replaced - I'm not even sure if something like this is possible.

4. Just ship the entire model to the edge, so that no data gets transferred. Google has managed to ship a light-weight model to its Picel devices, apparently but I'm not sure effective this could be: https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/10/grammar-correction-as-you-...
It is not really a question of how much you trust Google.

The issue is that the US government is entitled access to all data hosted by US companies. This means data hosted by a US company is not safe according to GDPR.
Glad to see that the shamelessness tactic didn't work for Boris Johnson.
The military application would be quite interesting. Nuclear powered aircraft carrier has abundant energy which could be used to produce jet fuel. It would simplify the logistics, which is critical in the times of war.
Group Video Watching with Laravel
very neat thanks, I’ll need to check the originals out.
Governments only get bigger, never smaller.
Or try podcast 99% visible latest episodes about the experience of living in these.

https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodca...

They are more onto their experience of these. I am more trying to learn more of those simple one. If not frank Lloyd Wright or Victorian … then
>If somebody does not care enough to work for us to put in couple of hours of work then they are very likely not a good candidate anyway.
[emphasis mine]

You compensate candidates for their time? I certainly assume you are compensated to interview incoming candidates, but its unusual for the candidate to be compensated (though not unheard of).

I agree with a lot of what you're saying, but I also get the impression having not been on the other side of the process recently has biased your viewpoint significantly. Please correct me if I'm wrong in my assumptions / impressions.
The common component here is Microsoft, not the TPM.
Good laws should prevent crimes, not just punish for committing them.
It also goes well beyond just talking about the imagery itself or the metadata surrounding it, and the standard contains its own network protocol effectively for transmitting data between PACS systems and other endpoints. (I recently worked in medical imaging for over 6 years and know DICOM fairly well, warts and all).

That said, there are absolutely better ways of handling almost any of the cases DICOM supports, the issue is that there is almost no standard that is fully backwards compatible which supports everything DICOM does, so we're sorta shackled to it for better or worse. Otherwise you have to deal with trying to explain to underfunded clinics (not the Mayo or Cleveland type) around the world why their expensive machine that they bought second or third hand is no longer acceptable.
Shamelessness == Societal Decomplexification. Simplify a industrial society and you arrive after a mass death back in a rural community, were shame controls everything. To celebrate Decomplexification is to celebrate the downfall.
Its not true. I only have a correct source in danish: https://www.berlingske.dk/samfund/et-centralt-vaerktoej-for-...

But only one local county have been forbidden from processing personal data on school chromebooks as they did not do any analysis of the consequences.
They did voice overs on one (some?) of his early movies when he was known as 'Arnold Strong'. It's weird watching them since I know how he should sound.
Privacy implies security as well
Hey since you claim to be a knowledgeable VRC user - which I have no reasons to doubt - do you think it’s all about those crashers or could it be also to stop avatar rips, maybe foreshadowing microtransactions?

I’m completely uninitiated on VRC, but I do see some artists who have been offering VRC avatars and accessories through external services like booth.pm for couple years by now. Rips and thrown-together pirated models was a huge problem at least initially, and I would imagine would only be helped by mods.

Could this be that VRC is finally moving onto integrating avatar/editor marketplace and locking down on “illegal” avatars as part of that move?
I think you misread the last comment.
People won't learn the underlying principles, they will rigidly learn the menu structure of the tool at hand. As such, their time will be wasted learning LibreOffice instead of getting a grip on the latest ribbongate spectacle from MS.
It depends crucially on the game you want to play instead.

The problem with this article is the example. When the article says:

> It’s important to note that people were dismissive of Paris because validating her playbook would mean admitting that they were playing an inferior game.

It has failed to establish conviction that Paris was playing a superior game.

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Suppose however you are working on a design team for the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri. You've found yourself taking longer than expected on verifying the structural properties of the walkway.The game your boss wants to play is "get this project done on-time and under-budget". The game you want to play is "do respectable reliable engineering work."

You could feel ashamed about your work being behind and over-budget and take actions to wrap up the project. Or you could decide that your game is superior and act shamelessly to get more time/budget. Shamelessness as a strategy relies on well-founded conviction that you are playing a superior game.
The password was pretty low entropy, I wonder if that makes it harder for tools like GitLeaks to find? But the email address, yes I guess
I was a big fan of Protonmail but there recent outages have been far from ideal. Might be worth considering other alternatives if 24/7 access to emails is a must
What happened with Nebula? I have been genuinely considering trying out that service and this is the first negative thing I've seen about it.
One of my first introductions to tech was installing a keylogger to see how it works

I've been avoidant of anything that does similar since, it really shaped my view of privacy instantly seeing (all my own) passwords, private messages, heck even delete and tab key presses, everything being dumped to a log file in real-time.

Imagine if they got hacked.

tldr: too creepy for me
Or later: https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%A4%A1+%F0%9F%95%B7%EF%B...
Open has nothing todo with opensource but with "open" abi.

Same with OpenServer from SCO
"For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury."
Do you have any say whatsoever how your data and content are used by, say, Facebook? Or what kind of content is allowed/disallowed?
Depends on how low you start.

I’ve done 7x in Japan, and I think 4x is possible in the Netherlands (minimum wage is higher, and maximum lower).
Keep a personal resume doc going. List out the projects you’ve done, how you contributed, who benefitted, and quantify the benefit if you can.

Keeping a running list like this is how you can build confidence and see a bigger picture to your career. I did this recently at my current job as I was approaching burnout. It helped me reset that tailspin.
The fact that the word "excel" is nowdays synonymous with "spreadsheet software" is exactly the reason why we should NOT teach kids how to use MS Excel.

There are many free implementations of spreadsheet software. Kids can get even more experience using different kinds of software, teaching them ways in which software can differ while still being able to do the same things. Ironically, this would probably make kids more skilled with MS Excel, if they were ever forced to use it.

There's no reason to teach kids MS Excel in particular, unless you think memorizing positions of buttons is a useful skill in the real world.
What a weird comment - there's multiple drug emojis (syringe, pill, whisky, beer, cocktail, cigarette, sake), tragedies (gravestone, sad faces, sick faces, hospital, ambulance, bandage, casket, skull and crossbones). There's even a middle finger.

The sex ones are peach, eggplant, squirt, bed, volcano, pointing finger hand followed by ok hand, lips, and love hotel.
?? It's entirely identical to the desktop version. Desktop is just an electron wrapper that adds fancy integration like rich presence and in-game overlays and whatever else.
In my little experience the EU is rather incapable of rolling out easy to implement rules.

The EU members get all of the privacy downsides and none of the financial upside from the American behemoths hence the legislative gymnastics to find them for $N millions every quarter and now further protectionist moves.
They also have an online shop [1] shared with other organisations like the red cross.

[1] https://www.label-emmaus.co
Using batteries to store weeks worth of energy would be foolish. Batteries are too expensive per unit of energy storage capacity. They're suited for diurnal storage.

Long term storage doesn't need to be efficient, because the number of charge/discharge cycles is small and the "cost of inefficiency" is proportional to the number of such cycles.
Ask HN: Why is NASA confident with Artemis 1 given its less testing than SpaceX?
Shouldn't NASA try some less ambitious tests first before going to the Moon?
Actual statement:

https://www-datatilsynet-dk.translate.goog/afgoerelser/afgoe...

Title seems dramatized, not surprising when it’s a blog post from a competitor eager to sell a replacement to said schools. Probably should switch to a better source.
Pretty much - no “long term” passive investment in crypto.

Its a casino, but one with extremely good odds for players if you time it right.
> Oddly, Linux is hard, if not impossible, to run on many Chromebooks as root. A lot of Chromebooks only support “linux beta” (aka Crostini) as a subsystem of ChromeOS and the hardware doesn’t support running Linux as root from boot; frequently the low end models.

Does any one know the reason for this -- was there ever a good description given by someone technical on the project as to why it worked out that way? All I can imagine is malice/ill-intent and I'd like to be wrong. It just seems so unlikely that somehow it was cheaper/easier to have the hardware not boot linux.

I remember seeing the chromebook story on HN lately[0][1] and I was kind of disgusted by it. The technical aspects might be great, but completely beside the point that those machines are basically on-ramps to google's surveillance ecosystem.

I can only think of them as the hardware version of Facebook's internet.org push -- If a whole generation grows up to think that running programs is launching domains that end in google.com, who benefits? Maybe a whole new generation will have easier access to VS Code and be able to build cool new stuff, and they'll run linux in VMs/crostini or whatever, but I can't fight the nagging feeling that a bunch of people will just stick with consumption. Figuring out how to install a program was hard, but it engendered a feeling of self-determination and control. Seems like Google wants to build the WALL-E future.

All that said, in recent memory this world has also produced:

- System76

- Framework

- Pinebook

- RISCV

- Tons of SBCs that are more and more performant and can function as full blown computing devices for cheap

And Google makes huge contributions (monetary and otherwise) to open source software and hardware, organizations, and projects.

Are things good or bad? Yes, I guess.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32198762

[1]: https://mobile.twitter.com/timsneath/status/1550598445248811...
I use Ginkgo CAD on linux. Unfortunately a lot of good free DICOM viewers have become abandonware in Linux and shareware on OSX. Don't know about Windows.
True,

But Moshix has pretty good videos:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR1ajTWGiUtiAv8X-hpBY7w
But there are, there's even a site categorising them:

https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers
Most people (software engineers at least) will be geezers with a paid off mortgage at 60. That makes the advice kind of relevant?

Hell, I’m 34 now, and there’s not that much difference.
> The standard includes a file format definition and a network communications protocol that uses TCP/IP to communicate between systems.

Is this as cursed as it sounds?
His point was that you could do that for 911, not for actual roaming service.

I'm no expert but I feel like roaming still require some sort of "authentication" over the original network and obviously Rogers would have failed on that part.
Google Workspace is free to schools. Therefore it 'costs' significantly less than running the infrastructure to service accounts for several 100's to 1000's of staff and kids using a FOSS solution. Of course, there are other email providers, but they are rarely free. They'll also still need to put security solutions in front of it, or indeed Exchange Online, because the offerings are rudimentary to say the least, but they are more solid out-of-the-box than OSS solutions and provide for a lower overall TCO and cost-to-serve. Pragmatism, where technology decisions and tax-payers money are concerned, should trump ideology every time.
Doesn’t mean that you stop trying and hand it all over to Zuckerberg on a platter.
I think this could be a really bad thing for Amazon. I have Prime right now, but I'm extremely marginal. I'll check what's on Amazon prime video just because I have it, and I'll go to Amazon to buy stuff because I have prime. But really, I can definitely do without it and if I do cancel my subscription there's basically no reason for me to buy anything from Amazon. All the stuff that I would just hop on prime for now, I'd just add to the weekly shopping list and pick it up then. I work in London so I can pick stuff up on the way to or from work very easily. I wonder if I'm in a tiny minority or if there's lots of people out there like me.
It kind of sounds like you put your employer on a PIP.
Related:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32108164
The difference between those people is not east and west. It's that the first three built their own companies using their own skills and experience in the face of an awful lot of people saying No, while the last one was born a prince to a Trillion-air royal family and grew up surrounded by people terrified to say anything but Yes.

But that's really beside the point. The real issue is this project is a monumental waste of resources. Innovating on advanced technology takes a huge amount of investment, but it doesn't follow that a huge amount of investment, by itself, will result in useful advanced technology.
One of the forms the Thing took while escaping from the Antarctic base.
Not really. It actually is about privacy.

If Google set up a subsidiary in Europe, that ran the service for european users and was the only entity that had access to the data, this would not be a problem. The problem here is Google's insistence that US entities will be allowed to access european data.
Yes, I guess it does address the lack of exposure to the outside ; my point is that it must be quite difficult to disconnect from "the city" -- advertising billboards, noise... In this case, the outside is even completely devoid of life.

This concern doesn't stop me from being fascinated by urban megastructures such as the "LINE", I'm just not sure I would like to live in them (and I love living in a crowded city nonetheless!).
The right time for server-side SQLite
Against Steelmanning
ICOs, which are executive and non-judiciary, are responsible for compliance and enforcement. In the same way that if you're polluting, the respective executive agency will fine you and order you to stop. With, of course, you having the option to appeal to the judiciary branch.
> is there hard evidence of misuse of Gmail user data?

Yes, the Snowden leaks.

It doesn't matter whether Google themselves takes privacy seriously, they are a US company and therefor when handling personal information we must always assume that everything that is uploaded to their servers is sent straight to the NSA as well. Because that's what US law allows for.

I'm not even exaggerating, according to the latest rulings by EDPB, storing personal information on US servers is pretty much always forbidden unless you store it in encrypted form and control the encryption key.
Agree and wealth is even then only a substitute up to a certain threshold.
You can still use Wireshark even with anti-cheat.
...good riddance...
MIT named that.
Teach them LibreOffice. Or better yet, teach them how to learn themselves.
I think it is actually better for the company if you go somewhere else for a few years and come back.

You need exposure to many different environments before you can truly be good.
Dude, that was 28 years ago.
Delusion Out of Space, a Ukrainian fantasy game about a person lost in space
The authors describe Delusion Out of Space as Lovecraftian space fiction with aliens using gas technology and a giant terraformer ship. The main character of the game gets on the ship of aliens, gets acquainted with its artificial intelligence and looks for a way to return home.
Excel is a far different beast than what Libre Calc offers, and then what Google Sheets offers. It has some formulas that are exclusive (mind you Liber likely has some that Excel no longer has), outside of startups it is effectively the industry standard as well and is used in all kinds of industries and roles.

Libre also has different features than Excel which has different features than Sheets, etc, but Excel is the "standard". You're going to see Excel far more than Sheets in the workplace and I've never seen a job listing mention Libre Calc.

I know Excel, I started at a startup 4 months ago using Sheets, the first few weeks I had to 'unlearn' half of what I knew and try and figure out how to do similar in Sheets. If I only knew sheets, I'd probably have been even more lost going to Excel because Microsoft doesn't hold your hand like Sheets does with every formula you start to type. I'm guessing something like Libre Calc is worse than Excel and Sheets in that regard.

>Teaching the concept of spreadsheets is totally possible

Sure, but teaching someone to drive a 4-cylinder automatic driver's ed car doesn't prepare them to say operate a manual tri-axle or a an excavator. Sure they understand steering, acceleration and stopping, but all of the unique mechanics of say Excel are different than random free software.
Are those code samples formatted correctly? (they are difficult to read as is)
I used to know excel pretty well but spent the last 8? Years using Google spread sheets.

Excel is really difficult to use now.

I don’t imagine moving from libreoffice calc to excel would be easy.
protectionism is allowable for EU countries don't you know. I hope the next batch of US legislators isn't afraid to 'regulate' EU products
It's fully binary and is document as a Lisp, as far as I remember. It's very nightmarish, but it's from the 80s, so it has its merits for staying for so long.
Though if you want to do any contributions, you have to install SourceHut on your machine, which includes setting up a PostgreSQL database.
I realise my comment sounded like I was saying the features of Excel are not comparable. What I really meant was simply that, like MS Word (which I hate with a passion), it's so ubiquitous that guaranteeing compatibility between businesses is often worth a significant amount of dollars in time saved.
I think if I pick two groups: all iPhone users, and all PC users, PC users en bloc are in greater general digital danger than iPhone users. By digital danger, I'm thinking of malware, ransomware, phishing and successful hacking. And I think this is because of how tightly Apple controls their devices. And so, I'd consider an iPhone a safe choice - for example a safe recommendation for someone who doesn't want to spend time managing their device.

This makes sense to entities providing a service, and also for many who doesn't mind not having control over their something, which is, I think, very similar to how we don't really have control over a great many of things. This is the point I wanted to get across to the original commenter, who protested "god forbid you have control of your own PC?".
Show HN: Playback your code using macros on VSCode
Litoshow helps you to improve your coding content creation recording your code previously.
I remember when Microsoft introduced driver signing, i remember articles in Slashdot and TheRegister going wild about how Microsoft was about block side-loading third party software, and only allow software which they specifically authorized to run on Windows or that they would charge large % fees to allow 3rd party software to be installed.

When those these restrictive practices were introduced with iOS and to a much lesser extent various Android distributions (not just phone, but other types of appliances), i was genuinely surprised about how quiet the same type of people are, who I thought protested out of principal.

Its the same pattern, like poltics, where people are just basically trying to sell or advocate for you to buy into or sell another product.
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