skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a quality of leftish ideas and initiatives that people find discomfiting, even those with liberal values like myself.

"Speech is violence" is an over-simplification of this quality. It is easy to dismiss in its sensationalism, and its lack of prominent examples.

It's a special case of the real insidiousness - what you should really be looking for when people say things that don't sound right to you:

You are not only responsible for what you do and say, but for what anyone chooses to do or say as a result, at *any* time.

The legal definition of incitement is something like "the deliberate encouragement of imminent lawless action". Remove "imminent" and replace "deliberate" with "inadvertent" and you'll have something resembling a explanation of the impulse behind "speech is violence".

"Speech is violence" means that by expressing opinions that are critical of X (or arguments for policy that protects X), you are making it more likely that bad actors will commit violence against X.
No, the author(s) of the journal article still retain their copyright in most cases. This is about access to the articles without having to pay a charge to read it.
I was going to add "and Faraday Cage" until I got to

For the current experiment, researchers argue that malware that managed to infect an air-gapped [offline] computer can transform and modulate locally stored files into audio signals and relay them to another nearby computer via connected speakers, headphones, earphones, or earbuds.

Which still require infecting offline computer somehow (and connected machine in close proximity as well).

Point taken though, nothing is perfect. And if everything else fails, there's always social engineering :)
I wonder why something like this takes 4 years to roll out?

Is there a legitimate reason? Or is it lobbyist dollars at work already, buying time?
Hashcash's proof of work is an embarrassingly parallel problem, and I'm typing this on a CPU with 24 cores.
Good question. I think the real hitch comes in using the App Store for updates. You can download Mac updates: https://support.apple.com/downloads/macos

They have quite a privacy policy: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/

Which makes me think of Paul Graham's essay when he says "Lucy, you've got a lot explaining to do!" http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html .

I don't think you can pay on the App store without a credit card. Most top tier Mac developers have their software available for purchase outside of the app store, but it'll certainly get tied to your hardware IDs. Providing false information probably technically violates the terms of service, but I haven't checked. You can probably use gift cards and fake information.

I'd say maybe possible, depending on how you construe the problem.

It beats Windows, but if you care that much about privacy, you'd have to use an ethics (freedom) motivated OS. Microsoft certainly wants you to create an account to install Windows and seems pretty motivated to get something going with tracking you. I've started considering running Linux on M1. I don't think you have to compromise your privacy more than anywhere else to buy Mac hardware, per se.

I think you have to separate the hardware issue from the software issue, although the Mac platform seems a bit less compelling if you just want to install Linux/FreeBSD/whatever.
White House Orders Journals to Drop Paywalls on Publicly Funded Research
An anecdote about collection agencies:

I got this email for a charge of $50 on K-Mart, 20 years ago! Incredible. There actually still are K-Marts, but the closest one to me is 60 miles away.

Anyhow, they said "it's too late for us to garnish or do anything else with this, but here's how you can clear it up." So no threats.

First of all, I was pretty sure I didn't have a $50 charge with K-Mart 20 years ago, and in any case... 20 years!! They didn't offer any data on what it was. So I sent them all to the Spam folder.

Amazingly, they sent one every day for two months. When I finally looked in the Spam folder, there they all were. They just wouldn't give up.

Finally, I figured out that they were assuming I was someone else with a similar name. I answered the email and said "I'm not him." The emails stopped.
Sick reference bro
Cliff Stoll is a real character. I remember attending an author event for him at Computer Literacy in Sunnyvale, for his subsequent book “Silicon Snake Oil”. This would have been 1995 or so. The place was packed. He talked about the book a little bit, but he basically told stories nonstop for about two hours.

I forget most of the stories, but one was about a grandfather clock (a tall pendulum clock) that was being thrown out because somebody thought it was useless —- it ran fast by four minutes a day. But the clock had been set that way deliberately. Why? Clue: the clock was found near the astronomy department.

Gur craqhyhz jnf nqwhfgrq fb gung gur pybpx xrcg fvqrerny gvzr.

It was an incredibly fun and extremely nerdy event.
Absolutely. You start with nothing then you write magical words that DO things.
> Photoshop worked on M1 on day 1.

Complete and absolute nonsense.

From [0]:

As of March 2021, Photoshop now runs natively on Apple computers using the Apple Silicon M1 chip with 1.5X the speed of similarly configured previous generation systems.

Even before that it wasn't supported or designed to run on M1, hence the frequent crashes and freezing users were getting. Therefore, it wasn't working.

So how exactly is waiting until March 2021 for a stable M1 version of Photoshop, "working on day 1"?

[0] https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/photoshop/kb/photoshop-for-apple-...
Heroku make their development roadmap public on GitHub
Ask HN: Can a pass system work? (movie pass, etc.)
Movie pass failed but I used to think it was cool. Why do pass systems fail, and can they ever work?

What are some examples of pass system that work?
Good point, lower frequency band could have been introduced.
I totally agree with this and also hope the HN crowd would be more respectful than “this”. But… would also not recommend OP making the repo/ICs public
Yeah that's true. I have a friend that fired all his staff and has never been happier. For him not having to deal with others to get the job done is a much better experience.

Personally I've always loved working along side others. Having my ideas challenged and coming up with something other than my own vision.

Different people have different preferences I guess.
Yeah, that's a great one.
Another good introduction is "Worldviews" by Richard DeWitt. It's a introductory book on the philosophy of science but a big part of it discusses this.
The atmosphere is transparent at typical cell phone frequencies (and the part that can be a problem are clouds and the ionosphere).
Hey I'd like to expand on this a little bit. I hope I'm not presuming too much but as someone who recently had to leave their job due to burnout, I feel like I'm seeing signs of burnout here, and wanted to bring them to your attention.

You sound really frustrated because you're being asked to do things that you feel aren't or shouldn't be part of your job, and perhaps it's taking time from your other responsibilities and creating a larger workload for you. It seems like maybe you've come to resent your coworkers and their individual preferences for the complexity it creates and the stress it causes you. It seems like what you want to do is erase that complexity, take away their agency, and centralize on a solution that works well for you.

There's a couple of things to consider. For one, what you're asking is for your coworkers to have a degraded work experience so that your work experience can be better, which is totally understandable but not reasonable.

Another one is that this is a pretty well understood problem with known solutions - why is it you can't get them implemented? Is there something going on in the politics or culture of your workplace that is stopping you? Is there some kind of elephant in the room, and would things get better if you called it out?

The last one is, are you getting burned out? Were you always this frustrated? Should you take some time off? Should you start looking for other jobs?

I can really feel the stress and frustration in your tone, and that sucks. I hope things get better for you.
> what kind of user did I just create?

Do y’all look at the import path at the top of a file to understand a function on line 450?

Any editor I can think of provides a way to show what you’re using here. I don’t think import path intelligibility should really be that high on the list of concerns.

> (most of the time) code-complete automation also doesn't work

They’re pretty great these days, in my experience.
>You wouldn’t say it’s not a hamburger unless it’s from Hamburg"

Hamburg is not the origin of hamburgers --at least it's rather contested, Frankfurters on the other hand...

That said, Buffalo wings are best in Buffalo. And keep in mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...
> I don't work well when tired.

Then you'll probably need to take off at least 4 months until their sleep cycles stabilize, if you're lucky and are good with sleep discipline. OR if you have someone else that can take care of that. You didn't mention your full situation.

For me my work def suffered in terms of time spent on deliverables. That said I didn't miss any deadlines.
Insularity and obesity.
Right, it’s a perspective thing. I think your perspective is not wrong, but wanted to provide another for those reading:

It’s good to remember kids aren’t just short adults. They are irrational, creative, come up with strange assumptions…

Also good to remember that kids don’t choose to be born, or who their parents are, or where they live.

It’s also good to learn a bit of child psychology along the way. And to truly listen.

All that stuff you mentioned- the negotiating, the crazy constant messes, getting dinner on the table… It sucks.

But it only sucks when I’m living in the imaginary world in my head, which is not reality. I can think of all sorts of things I would do if I wasn’t a parent.

In the real world, I have kids, and I make the choice to be here for them. I don’t know about anyone else here, but my Dad really sucked at being a father.
Congratulations. Kids are wonderful.

I have one. I don’t know how people have more than one. The first several months are hard, especially is your wife is up every four hours for feeding and pumping milk. It gets better when the baby can eat other foods and sleep through the night.

You do not appreciate how much time and freedom you used to have. You will find yourself far less mobile and flexible.

Okay. Now that I’ve said that stuff: There is a tremendous joy that comes from seeing your kid do new things that everyone does. I was just commenting to my wife that it makes me super happy when my child successfully poops in the toilet. That sounds ridiculous, until you live for years without it.

Kids can bring you a lot of joy. I encourage you to enjoy it, and hope it is fulfilling for you.
Amen. Yeah statistics never say much (they always say a lot less than basic common sense).

Interesting side note unrelated to the VR part: although I'm all for moderate recreational psychedelic use (or not moderate...you do you), it seems there's a weird rebranding of psychedelics being done by the pharmaceutical industry (who is now repackaging and selling psychedelics, e.g. esketamine).

I think what is happening is (1) they're looking for new growth opportunities, and (2) some drugs like SSRIs have a worse rap now, so pivoting to psychedelics gives this appearance, like "Look we are helping to liberate you. We're on your side. Free love and free drugs, man."

But viewing this in a more cynical way, we could perhaps see it as a way to keep making money while avoiding the fact that these drugs, like SSRIs, do not really treat mental illness (merely induce alternative states of mind that have different symptomology), and that the real causes of mental illness are usually more social/societal.

https://joannamoncrieff.com/2021/09/02/psychedelics-the-new-...
I'm obviously not going to change your mind so you do you
Completely agree on their support. I used to get support from actual engineers who would resolve my issues quickly, but now I get agents who know nothing and eventually connect me to an engineer after days of back and forth “tech support.”
It's just another way for Musk to keep Spacex from going bankrupt. This will not work well for TMobile but SpaceX will get some money to stay afloat. Another Musk's scam.
I've been in that different universe for a while. I'm in my very late 30s so most of my friends have had kids for most of the last decade.
This doesn't seem right. Instead, the author should be forced to send a copy to the whitehouse when they send it to the journal, and the whithouse should make it available for free as a government output.
In the main thread on Hacker News, you still haven't addressed any of the issues raised by developers on closing down the free tier. What alternatives did you consider? What stats? What about folks who have both free and paid dynos?

Also, please read all the feedback on the communication style in the blogpost.
Perhaps Orcas nibble at eachothers tails for fun, but multiple cases of breakage seems less-than-playful
Isn't that how gyms usually work? From Planet Fitness you can buy a black card that gets you into all of the franchises for whatever time you are paid.
FWIW, 5G isn’t really to “thank” for increased range. LTE was widely deployed on the 700Mhz band in the early 2010s and line of sight range could easily exceed 10 miles for useable data.
Not gonna lie - "Raw Sewage network" is pretty spot on. A huge part of zero trust principles is that all networks are untrustworthy, raw sewage networks.

So the types of attacks that this protects against are all the 0day CVEs that are AV:N/PR:N. (attack vector=network, privileges required=none). That's the sort of thing like log4shell and the like. The only devices that could leverage those types of attacks would be trusted and authorized identities. That's probably a small number of machines, making the attack that much harder.

Also DoS attacks are a lot harder because the "server" (whatever accepts connections) is generally dark to the network and only available over the overlay network. Being on the same subnet (or you know, the whole internet) doesn't help if you're not authorized to access the service in the first place.

Where it's really cool is that you don't need to worry about cloud ACLs. Pick your laptop from one raw sewage network to another and it doesn't matter. You don't need to whitelist a new IP in the ACL. That's really convenient for today's road warriors. Similarly, you don't need to whitelist the whole enterprise's exit IP to the cloud.

So that sort of thing. Hopefully that answers your question enough but if not lemme know
Haven’t tried that yet. We started with using Docker directly because we were very familiar with it, and thought users might want to “preview” a dockerfile before asking devbox to build a container (we don’t have that yet, but can easily add it)

That said, I do want to experiment with building the container directly through nix and seeing if there’s advantages to doing that. I just haven’t had the time yet.
Missouri school district revives paddling to discipline students
Wow what an ignorant and goofy take.

No you are absolutely wrong. Laziness is not a factor.

Have you ever had to develop and release an application across 5 operating systems all with different UI APIs while also offering a web based UI too? Perhaps it actually makes a lot of sense to consolidate your code base so you can focus on feature development instead of OS compatibility issues and managing many versions of your software across os targets? This is why electron is appealing. In my experience most people who dislike electron apps are speaking from ignorance. They usually have some sort of irrational prejudice against web technologies.
Somebody seemed to have the info a little early:

https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/156296104641942732...
[NSFW]

Not only do they lack results but they also unabashedly censor information. Try a search for “ how big should a cocaine line be?” on google vs bing. Its night and day which search engine actually tries to find results.
You may be right but my position here hasn't changed over the decades, while my politics generally have. :)
> Microsoft hired the main architect of VMS, Dave Cutler, away from DEC to design Windows NT.

Not sure why you mice words. Cutler developed NT at Digital. That's better.
In 1988, Cutler took his work (the literal data, the MICA OS code from DEC's cancelled Prism RISC project) and his engineering team at DEC with him to Microsoft. I believe it was much less like poaching and much more like defecting. DEC ultimately forced Microsoft into an alliance under threat of lawsuit for the IP theft to migrate the VMS user base to NT, with Microsoft paying quite a lot, $180M, to avoid lawsuit, for, get this... training DEC engineers to use NT. In 1995, someone at MIT found large chunks of DEC MICA code unaltered, including comments, in Windows NT.
Old news. This led me to discover ddg and sparked an interest in how tech works in general which eventually led me here where i have learned so much.
Apparently some old OpenGL games are already playable!

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-6.html
I'm sorry, but it's not that simple. Transitioning should start before puberty, for best outcome. There's no way to not "think of the children" since the best outcome requires children: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31682347/
What did you want to use it for, if you don't mind me asking?
1. Get the cheapest wine you can.

2. Drink it all.

3. Try any random mustard, it will all taste the same.

Problem solved
Makes sense. I'll keep an eye out. Tilting at other windmills for now, myself. Congrats on the great start :)
Same thing with French fries. I'm actually kinda surprised you say that about Buffalo, I would would have assumed that because of it's insane popularity, low barrier to entry, no real "secret sauce" heh, and the sheer number of iterations that the odds of the best Buffalo wings happening to be in Buffalo was pretty low. Neat.
We asked more of our software and technology improved.
So we need Big Brother to protect us from facts that will harm us.
Since LDS children are a subset of children, they should be required to take a comprehensive and accurate sex ed course in school. You have the right to teach your kids anything you want. You do not have the right to keep them ignorant of anything you want.
Guide of plain English alternatives to the pompous words and phrases in writing
Huh, thanks for calling me out on that. My brain must have been in a different gear.
It just needs the cost to service be below the revenue.

Moviepass failed because they never got the movie studios onboard.

They’re trying to start up again somehow lol (I bet lousy streaming service).
A sword fight doesn’t determine who’s right, just who’s left.
If you are right, T-Mobile's effort to get Apple onboard with making the necessary changes to separate iMessage payload from regular cell data on these special low-bandwidth space-cells could be a challenge.
In philosophy good is known as a simple notion, that is it cannot be reduced further. We cannot define its length, breadth etc., even adding very or little to it doesn't put a measure on it. Saying '0.5' or '10%' of good is essentially meaningless.

Good and bad, etc. are metaphysical constructs and thus we have a fundamental problem when using these terms in connection with Science which intrinsically and inextricability measurement-driven.

We need to be very careful using these terms when we're referring to or discussing Science and scientific research or conflict will be inevitable.
I just set up a docker dev environment on Mac and I would not call it slow anymore. If you were referring to volume mounts, they are 10x faster now. Definitely fast enough for our work.
Oh you should've rot13'd the clue too, too easy! :P
The concern here is not about who "commit" this, the concern is who "click the merge button" in this case.
If I knew at 30 what I know now, I'd have ensured I stayed in that universe. That was a great place. Enjoy it!
The package you want on Debian is called nix-systemd-setup or something like that, not nix-bin. (nix-bin just gives you the Nix binary, and I guess if you created /nix yourself you could use it for a single-user install.) The expectation is that you want a multiuser install, which requires a running daemon and the creation of some system users, and the nix setup package handles that. I think the package descriptions do outline this, and FTR you almost never want just a `-bin` package on Debian-based distros. The convention is used to allow minimal installation of just the binaries from packages when they're likely to be used by other parts of the system rather than end users.

The Nix package for Debian has some other deviations in the way it's plugged into the system and the initial setup. The default channel (source of packages) doesn't get set up for you, the PATH ordering is different, and NIX_PATH and the NIX_PROFILES_PATH (and maybe PATH?) aren't configured for `env_keep` with PAM's `sudo` configuration so interactions with `sudo` are different. Anyway failure to find any packages is probably due to the lack of enabled channels or the setup not being completed (needing that systemd-setup package).

(All of this stuff is up to the maintainers of the Debian package and Debian policy. It's fine, but it violates the assumptions of some third-party Nix tooling.)
Yah but that is a bit of an extreme situation, you can't blame an intelligent sentient being that needs stimulation and freedom from turning murderous after it was abducted from its family in the wild and caged up in a tiny pool for an excrutiatingly decades long life. The violent part is putting orcas into that situation in the first place, they are orders of magnitude too smart and curious for that. The murder that followed can't really be said to be an example of a species being prone to attacking a human in general, it is a very specific set of circumstances.
The typical gym is essentially a pass system. Planet Money did a good episode on it: https://www.npr.org/2019/06/12/731987365/episode-590-the-pla...

The goal (if you have an exclusive good, where someone using the good prevents someone else from doig so) is to get folks who will pay the pass rate ("it's a deal") but use it less than the value of the pass.
For the NSF at least, most grants are awarded for 3-5 years. When the last policy shift happened (all grant-supported publications need to be publicly released into the NSF's publication archive), it applied to newly awarded grants. 4 years should give most existing grants a chance to cycle out.
August 25, 2022

Dear respondent,

Your points are duly noted. However; may I suggest you write in a more formal register? Your prose reflects the lack of effort with which I am displaying by using this very form of writing. A higher degree of effort on your part will demonstrate the level of commitment to the written word that this audience expects. Please respond in kind.

Yours Truly,

kelseyfrog
> And about airplane mode. Yes “disconnecting is a choice”, but if the internet is just the flip of a button away, I’ve found I’m not able to keep that button off.

Leave your SIM card home
The Passion Paradigm and the Spectacle of Doing What You Love
You've got it backwards. Digital cancelled Cutler's pet project and he shopped himself, and Digital's IP, to Microsoft. VMS and NT have a lot of similarities, but NT is not VMS, though they have a common ancestor: MICA = NT

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_MICA
> societal disagreements were more civil several decades ago.

That's because white people violently killed, lynched, and massacred everyone that dared to cause "trouble" prior to the Civil Rights Movement.