skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not the reality on the ground here, though I agree with you with FOSS whining in general.

Purism marketed their phone as the eventual iPhone/Android killer. "Get the hardware, and the software will ripen with every update in your hand", was their claim. Purism created the hardware very slowly and worked on the software in-house themselves in a very "cathedral-esque" paradigm. Without hardware, you don't have passionate *unpaid volunteers* so stuff was slow and incomplete. Developers were also just pleading for something to hack on. Yes, they did some good things that are upstreamed in the kernel and elsewhere, credit where it's due, but it's beyond merciful to call this anything but a botched product.

Pine64 put their phone out relatively quickly for the devs. A weak, early and raw device with big warnings letting people know that this was a DEV DEVICE and it was not for general consumption. Pine created the hardware themselves, but not the software and just cultivated an ecosystem where they'd support and work with third-party software distributions. They even did cycle runs where they'd ship different logos and operating system on the device to support the community. This is the way.

I think people have good reason to call Purism out for their $1200-2000 Librem phones that have overheating issues and alpha-grade software, if they get delivered at all. There's no free pony here sure, but my $600 vapor pony wasn't free either.
You are talking different things IMO. When you say you don't deliver, you don't pay, it means you are investing ur time and money to build an MVP, before someone even pays you a dime. Which is what I am saying too.

Then you mention an example of AI company. Well AI company is delivering value. It doesn't matter its a pdf or a product. Their USP of the company is AI insights. My USP of product is an enterprise product that can be used by ppl in company. Its not an AI insights that I can deliver it via a pdf.
It certainly could be. But even then I'm not sure I consider measures attempting to control a pandemic the height of tyranny. I realize this might sound like I'm pro-lockdown, I'm not, I actually think most countries completely botched their handling with measures both insufficient to have sufficient impact on the actual spread, while limiting enough to ensure significant damage from the measures themselves.

I also take issue with the idea of gun (or rocket launcher ownership) ownership as a means of prevention. I mean look at the top countries for (citizen) gun ownership. Sure you've got the US, Serbia, Canada, Uruguay, Finland up there, not bad, But you've also got Yemen at #3 and Lebanon and #11. If that's the kind of "freedom" private gun ownership ensures, then I'm not buying.

And again I'm not even that pro gun control. I think you should be required to get a background check to get one, I think you should be required to be trained on their use and safety, and I think you should be required to take reasonable measures to protect your firearms against theft. I'd say that's it, but I suppose I'm also against mail order rocket launchers. But for the most part, having met those requirements I think you should be able to buy what you want (within reason, again let's skip the rocket launcher). But as protection against government tyranny? Doubt.
The moderator problem is a tough one, because you want them there to remove spam and illegal content, but that's about it. You can't tell them that, because they personally do it to stroke their ego--like a make-believe New York Times editor, swaying the public.

So how do you continue to trick them into doing their $8/hour broom jobs for free, but prevent them from injecting their dumb politics into everything? I don't think you can.
I agree of course, it's not a violation of any laws. I just thought you were asking for some moral principle to justify pressing a developer to make an API available
This is just unpaid time off, it exists everywhere, no need to pull out the "you dumb americans".
I agree that it can be a lot at times, especially if you watch several in a row, but I dunno, I kind of love that he's keeping that enthusiasm (real or not). I think the world is a brighter place because of it. Just a tiny bit, but still.
Not to mention an entire subreddit dedicated to refining Meth.

https://old.reddit.com/r/BabyBees/
Sorry for the misunderstanding. Whiny in a sense that it is capable of sending notifications (that are of little importance).
You're forgetting that West Chester is the county seat of Chester County PA, the fastest growing and richest county in the entire state (and usually somewhere in the top 25-40 of the US.) So, you have the county courthouse and all the typical government stuff, which Downingtown lacks.

Lancaster is much larger than either, though different cities have varying land areas they count. Lancaster is also the seat of its same named county.

I look at 'college town' as defining somewhere where school(s) are located, and the population count of 18-24 makes up almost 50% of the population. Newark, DE (University of Delaware) and Bloomsburg, PA (Bloomsburg U) seem to fit that better.
Most of your points are also about price. You could subscribe to all of them and also buy all the stuff even from outside market if you had money. I bet that’s still more convenient than hoping to find your whole series in decent quality right now.

> ut not being able to watch a movie because your internet connection is down

Some services allow you to download movies beforehand just like you would have to do with pirated movies.
Mailgun was the service a number of my clients flocked to when Mandrill went paid-only.

Free options seem to be drying up.
I don't think that means much. There were 1500 complaints about the original 12" Macbook's butterfly keyboard in the OG thread[1]. That keyboard went on to be recalled.

[1] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7063425
Could you elaborate on where dark matter was "falsified"?
Well, these things are all used in crypto. And lots of other Web3 applications. None of them require a blockchain !

https://community.intercoin.org/t/web3-moxie-signal-telegram...
So then healthcare in the US isn't "worse", it's only worse on average. Why would the people with money ever want to change the status quo?
thanks dude! i’m also a fan of Guzey.
Dropbox storage is the lead example in TFA ;-)
Apollo can have analytics disabled. Any 3rd party client defeats ad engagement tracking. You can curl their API yourself and you have defeated tracking. If the client isn't serving ads, like Apollo and Tweetbot, there isn't any engagement to track. It's limited to what you interact with while logged in. This is how every service works. The analytics for 3rd party clients are purely for the developer to improve their app, they don't care about what you do on it, that information isn't relevant to building a 3rd party client.

Security/Privacy all depends on your threat model and what compromises you are willing to make.
> I genuinely believe there is a lot of commentary on this thread from people who have never designed a secure system.

Gosh that's quite the conclusion. I hope my employer never finds out about this discovery of my competency based on some comments on a message board.

I think you've very much lost the thread of what I'm saying here, because at no point have I suggested anything about 100% security or 100% privacy. It would actually be pretty weird for me to be advocating for that while also asserting that you're making maximalist arguments.

I also never said email is inherently more private than phone. I assert that it's a different privacy tradeoff, and one that I'm more comfortable with for various reasons. I could get into those if you want but I don't think they're relevant. (1) is the more interesting question in the end. (3) is just "it's open source you can fix it yourself!" which is .. not very useful on any level. Yes, I can go make my own signal-based platform and talk to precisely no one over it. No I'm not interested in doing that. I've been to the social network rodeo and have the mental scars to prove it.

So ok, assuming we go with email addresses as the alternative mechanism, and the email addresses still require verification same as the phone numbers, and you still have to mutually have each other on our contact lists to communicate through signal: How, specifically, has the threat model been weakened?
I don't know if the bloatware is worse in the USA or something, but as a former TouchWiz hater I have to hard disagree on this. I would take One UI any time over whatever Fisher Price crap Google's designers have been peddling since Android 12.

Stock Android really peaked around version 10. Ever since they have just been messing with things that weren't broken, like the notifications or lock screen.

I thought I never would say this but thankfully Samsung doesn't automatically go along with Google's yearly inflation of whitespace [1] and other UX "improvements".

[1] Example of how ridiculous it has become: https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/qbljd0/the_margins...
Or we could just cut out the middleman of private insurance like most of the developed world? I don't want 100 competing brands of insulin — I want my NovoLog and I want it at cost.
Colour evolution of Betelgeuse over two millennia, derived from records
Destructive devices are NFA items, true. If you want to own a DD, you need to pay the $200 federal transfer tax, which is done by submitting a form to the ATF and getting a tax stamp from them.

It's not a "permit", though. And there are no special limits on who can own one - if you can legally own a gun, you can legally own a DD or any other NFA item. One doesn't even need to be a US citizen or a permanent resident for that, even people on student and work visas can do it.
Maybe using a zero-knowledge proof.
QC35... Switch between One Plus 6 and Envy 2021 2 in 1 seamlessly.

Everything switches seamlessly from LG earbuds to Samsung Galaxy A52 5G, Nintendo Switch, Envy with Pop OS and Windows 11.

I have no idea what people are doing.
Why we need Decentralization and Web3+
Not so much a crank as a person pushing an agenda and being willing to bypass the normal scientific process to do it.
The magic term is this: "single hairline crack".

If there is one continuous crack with no point of impact or other obvious damage, it will generally be covered under warranty (assuming you are under warranty) and not considered accidental damage. That was policy in the past and I doubt it's changed.

If there is more than one, in any way - not covered unless someone's being nice to you.
> Doesn't do spelling correction.

For me this feels like a feature. Or just suggest. I don't want this to seacrh "corrected" keywords by default like Google does.
In some places, the sale itself doesn't require anything, but you need to go to the provider and show an ID to activate.
Bankruptcy means shareholders and debt holders lose their lunch, not employees lose their jobs, if the company is still viable under new ownership.
This doesnt surprise me, I wrote about this not long ago and how the Cloud Providers are only paying basic lip service to MQTT and IoT.
There is not one single Cloud Provider that implements MQTTv5 properly (Azure implements a subset of it), and considering it came out in 2019 after being in "close to final draft" status for several years before that, the clouds have been very slow to pick this up.

I refuse to believe that anyone is actually using IoT Core on AWS or GCP for modern MQTT workloads. Pulling data in from a few "things" - sure, but industrial level capability across multiple systems, I really don't see it.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation Is ‘Deeply Concerned’ About Tornado Cash Ban
Looks interesting. Built on top of IPFS?
Good. All those games should be in the public domain anyway. It's been 30-40 years, Nintendo has been more than adequately compensated.
Is it better than DDG? My experience with it for the time being (last 2 years ish) has been mostly having to fall back to Google multiple times a day.
""How were these people able to transition from founders of a tiny company to successfully running and managing large (people or revenue) companies? Many of them had never done this before so how did they figure out what to do and how to do it?"

Obviously they have to be smart but I think it's a lot about ambition to be willing to do what it takes. Most people simply don't have the drive to keep pushing forward once they have reached a certain level of wealth.
Not a full service but partial features like S3 Bittorrent support was removed.
Reimbursement for a home gym membership or home gym equipment.
> The value you get from a good Reddit conversation is like a good Wikipedia page

Reddit cannot be compared to wikipedia. It's social media vs an internet encyclopedia. Wikipedia does not allow opinions.
I'm not saying they need to grow. I'm saying that arguments resting on the importance of phone numbers to the growth of their social graph are also resting on the idea that signal must grow. I am, in fact, saying that while this may be important to them it is not strictly important to me.

And I never said everyone I need to talk to is on it. I have like 6 different messaging apps and accounts because nothing has everyone. And I'm pretty conservative about which ones I'll use compared to most people I know.

I would rather use signal than most of those, other than the fact that I also frequently need to communicate with people who have no business knowing my phone number.
Ideally, the fact that you're working on internal maintenance shouldn't even be known to external customers.

My rule of thumb is that 1/3 of engineering time needs to be spent on maintenance.
Thank you.

I was simply looking for the substantive version of your position.

I believe you've expressed it.
I think the USA has seen the good side of free speech for a while. Most of the former British colonies see the bad side - riots, deaths, civil wars.

The Sunni vs Shia wars and torture in the Middle East. Israel. The race riots in SE Asia. India's Muslim vs Hindu conflicts, as well as Pakistan. You need a minority whose votes are negligible enough. Often those with enough power to be a viable threat (Jews, Chinese billionaires, hardworking educated immigrants).

Trump/MAGA is just following the standard politician playbook of vilifying minorities for votes. When it works, future politicians do the same because it's easy and proven. And then the hatred turns to violence. It's not just MAGA, it's also the people who compare Trump to Hitler and compare MAGA to Nazis.
No song, movie or show can escape the digital age’s revisionist urges
They can't find stuff on Facebook or TikTok now. Not really useless though.
Based on the posted title, not so much the article, Bible-code type analysis meets TAOCP:

If you print the lsb of the source to volume 1 of TAOCP in 42 columns, converting 1 and 0 to '*' and '_', the result of move 37 can be found on the 2nd page.
If it’s blockchain it’s not decentralized.
Samsung is not a good choice for custom ROM due to Knox warranty hard fuse, Snapdragon/Exynos split on the "same" model, etc.

Xiaomi and other Chinese brands seem to be the way to go for flashing ROM's. There is still a huge community for those.
first of all you said there was nobody immune to prejudice, but when called on proving it you turn it into a question about my own immunity, which I never claimed to possess.

second of all this seems like a variation of that old interview question - tell me a reason why we should hire you over any other candidate that had your same skills but had X (I was asked once why should we hire you instead of someone who speaks our language better) to which I replied obviously if you have someone who has all the same skills but one thing better than me you should hire that person.

Going back to the problems that were initially under discussion; The problem that is supposed to be addressed is not candidates who have all the same skills and abilities and how to choose one because at that point you might as well just draw lots. The problem is candidates who have superior skills but are not taken, candidates with inferior skills but right social markers being preferred.

> it'll be a contorted mess of statue plus case law plus HR policies plus things you can clearly articulate in advance in the job criteria

HR policies and clear articulation of job criteria are things the company controls, but in your scenario they seem to be some insurmountable barrier put in place to catch them out. An organization that is damaged by its own HR policies and job criteria should do something to fix that.

>and prove to some jury against a plantiff with a sob story.

If you chose a candidate from a list of candidates that all were exactly the same qualified it seems doubtful that the sob story will be much good.

Finally:

candidate number 1 doesn't seem likely to me because my prejudices tells me the candidate with face tattoos AND ear gauges is most likely a member of Earth First, and is not going to roll coal but will probably have gotten to the interview on skateboard or something else generally environment friendly.

Candidate number 2 so you're saying HR made a mistake and he did not pass the speaks English requirement adequately.

I don't think I would care much about differences between 3 and 4.
"Maintained by Private Internet Access".

PIA is owned by Kape Technologies, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Sagi#Kape_Technologies_p...
Rendering a Car From Scratch in C++ [video]
Which beaches are within two or three hours? Thanks.
The Linux kernel ABIs are explicitly documented as stable. If they change and user space programs break, it's a bug in the kernel.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Another variation is "Why are you dieting? You're not fat!"
Turns out George Lucas was ahead of his time with his constant "special editions"
I've been brainstorming a site that uses HN usernames to validate identity and have a comment floor of 500 on HN to participate. It would be like HN but for political and non tech articles.
Very flexible hours. I have them, and it's very useful. I can break up my day, work at night, whatever.

I attend meetings whenever they're booked through the day, but otherwise work as I want and track my time with a tool to ensure I'm playing fair. I also take time to socialize a decent amount with other developers.

I justify this for the company by not spending my worst hours (when tired or distracted) sitting at the desk and having low productivity; 9-11AM usually aren't great for my focus.
Nvidia's Open-Source Drivers Will Impact Linux Gamers
Why was it chosen and why did you regret that choice? Could you explain a bit more?
>This is the no-brainer choice for anything that can be immediately replaced/ordered.

Well, at least until C-19 hit then you realize that 'immediate replace/reorder' doesn't actually exist any longer, and now your forklift parts are actually going to take 2 months to show up on a delayed boat and nobody in the US has any replacements.
I wonder if Tim Cook has a lot invested in rare earth mining companies or something.
Catastrophism and uniformitarianism are models. All models are wrong, some models are useful.

Reality has always been a mix of sudden and long-running processes.
If anything, the fact that its federal land probably makes it more feasible to run those sorts of clear-cut transmission lines through areas. You don't need to establish easements or eminent domain private property to build such things.

There are some challenges with transmission, but I think the bigger ones isn't necessarily building the infrastructure -- it's making the transmission lines themselves more efficient and reducing losses. We can't build all our solar in the southwest of the US and then distribute that all over the country; Our current transmission technology would produce too much loss over such distances.
CLI to Manage Iptables Forwards
Agreed, and they are influencing others, like the company in this article, which is following their model of "opening" things.
Especially when you generate one-off passwords with enough entropy to busy an attacker until the heat death of the universe. OTPs are not meaningfully increasing security in that scenario.
> If you’re a grey haired old school Unix wiz who’s one of a handful of devs on the team

Is grey hair a new dependency on using wget? Upstream hasn’t updated their dependencies apparently.
Exactly; IIRC that was Moxie's main point in the original article, that because you're still relying on third party servers to interact with the blockchain, "web3" is still centralized but with extra steps.
training up myself over the past few months, it's a mix of reading KB articles, support cases, internal wiki confluence docs, tons of asking for help, asking questions to all sorts of fellow and senior techies, listening and learning and note-taking and further research from customer calls, a good amount of self-learning-by-doing (installing/modifying software, etc.), etc. -- much of it as not-so-technical stuff -- just, how does this business work? how do we do things? what products/processes are changing day to day?

i've been working on a KB-with-built-in-knowledge-certification feature that would, in theory, help address this (it's in perpetual pre-MVP).

use cases might be new Sales / Support Engineers, or Account / Success Managers, who need to learn 300 or so pieces of information -- enough to at least get dangerous quickly -- but they need a way to prove -- to themselves at least -- that they know the material in the KB.

the information doesn't necessarily get stale 'fast', but it def does get stale.

diff folks can give you diff answers.
Since the page is loading slowly, an archive link:

http://web.archive.org/web/20220816012342/https://www.pageta...
> scientific consensus

Science doesn't advance by consensus. It advances by constructing models and comparing their predictions with observations. As Einstein famously remarked when someone mentioned to him that a hundred scientists had signed a letter saying they were doubtful of his theory of relativity: "If the theory were wrong, one would have been enough." We don't believe our best current theories because there is a consensus. We believe them because they have made accurate predictions that have been confirmed by experimental data to many decimal places.
Phone through carriers are heavily discounted with 2 year contracts. Apple also offers zero APR financing to pay for a new phone. Humans have a harder time reasoning about buy now/pay later.
Cool solution! Almost like cache wrapping a hard disk.

I am curious as to why they can’t tolerate Disk failures though, and why they need to use the Google persistent storage rather than an attached SSD for their workload.

I would have expected a fault tolerant design with multiple copies of the data, so even if a single disk dies, who cares.
I've been doing the same thing and also have gotten no spam to the non-main address. That said, I don't get much spam at all. I recently decided to stop the practice.
> the important thing to focus on is to actually deploy lots of solar

Why?

What do you think, expect or hope this will accomplish?
Agreed, I thought this was a great writeup about how they solved an interesting problems with standard, battle-tested Unix tools.

Related, I hope GCP is listening and builds an "out-of-the-box" solution that automatically combines this write-through caching solution into one offering. Just like I shouldn't have to worry (much) about how the different levels of RAM caching work on a server, I shouldn't have to worry much about different caching layers of disk in the cloud.
Science fiction idea: a “universe” is actually an egg, a race of godlike beings’ method of reproduction and we’re the embryo. When consciousness grows to encompass the entire infinite extent with every particle contributing, it hatches.