skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a very fair point, and it is most _definitely_ possible (and not even particularly hard) to brick a linux system.

However, I think the difference is that it's always due to an action you take.

I do think this is something qualitatively different to when your machine decides to automatically update to windows 10, when your machine is not compatible with windows 10, and it bricks itself.

If you randomly turn on a computer and it says "hold on, I'm updating" and then never turns on again without you ever agreeing to an update, I think you'd quite rightly be somewhat upset with it.

Now, I don't even mind windows that much. I prefer other things, but I recognize the strengths of windows and I understand why people like to use it. At the same time, I think it makes sense to recognize the frustrations that windows can sometimes bring to some users.
You would need a very expensive filtering system for most South East asian water supplies to reach western safety standards. Boiling, bathing and washing is what that water is used for.
https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/git-bash
My Dell developer laptop didn't get full support of obscure peripherals for about a year, for very obscure ones for almost five years. It was speaking DCI to a monitor over their Thunderbolt dock, IIRC. I had worked around it with an extra hdmi cable, so never got to enjoy the supposed single-cable detach that was promised. By the time it was fixed and deployed to distributions, I was ready to move on to my new Framework. It's the nature of the beast with Linux.

I think expecting Apple level R&D from a startup is unrealistic. Dell I expected a bit more of, but they did acceptably. Remember when wi-fi was a crapshoot!?
6 figure salary for an executive assistant in Tennesse is quite nice. A lot of engineers I know dont make that much and the skillset gap required between both professions is quite large IMO.
I really enjoyed the post, even though I wasn't clear what part was fictional and what part was truthful.

You might be interested in Lucio Russo's book The Forgotten Revolution. He describes how the Hellenistic scientific and technical culture which gave us Heron's aeolipile, Greek fire, the Antikythera mechanism, Archimedes' method of exhaustion, Eratosthenes' measurement of the Earth's size, Eucid's axiomatization of geometry, etc.†, was lost. Basically what happens was that when centers of science like Syracuse and Alexandria were conquered by the pre-scientific Romans, the philosophers who weren't massacred were dispersed to the four winds, preserving their knowledge in foreign lands if at all. In later generations, Christian fanatics lynched Hypatia and threw down the Egyptian temples, extinguishing the millennia-long knowledge of hieroglyphics.

Russo reaches some conclusions that aren't generally accepted, but much of the history he reviews in the book is uncontroversial, if little-known — but starkly horrifying.

It wasn't a gradual process of forgetting, but a series of genocidal catastrophes. Similar processes obliterated the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, the Maya codices, the khipu, and in our own time most of the world's languages and folklore, much of the Timbuktu libraries, the Afghan relics of early Buddhism, and the collections of the archaeological museums in Iraq.

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† I have omitted Roman cement and the separation of gold from silver because I don't have any reason to believe they came from the Hellenistic world.
The only true statement above is that UE5 and other modern engines are moving quite a bit of stuff to compute. I'm not sure where you're getting the other stuff from, but it's all provably false, except for maybe the last bit, which hinges on speculation.
My conclusion is that olive oil consumption has no effect on mortality. Finding an effect in 1/2 of your data, and not in the other half, is a classic sign of p-hacking.
When I was in Japan they explained why Gingko trees are often planted near temples (apart from looking awesome), they say that the water content in the leaves and their apparent readiness to drop when stressed make them a great fire suppressant, and that fires in Autumn often failed to spread when there are gingko leaves on the ground, protecting the temple itself.
I argue GNOME is the problem on Linux desktop. I should say thanks for their massive work, but I feel everything is wrong on GNOME.
It doesn't matter, the US is perverting its own citizens already with their own tools and products

If you only target TikTok then you are blind, or your are part of the problem

Tracking users should be a criminal offense, and Data should be a personal protected asset

Facebook should have been banned years ago, Instagram is the same, content is filled with what's destroying the youth

At least TikTok is creative oriented
I heard good things about the System76 Lemur Pro, though I haven't owned one for myself. Buyer beware?: https://system76.com/laptops/lemur
Oracle is quietly cutting more jobs as layoffs hit one of its cloud divisions
ADOM - The game where understanding Conways Game of Life helps you farm herbs in a dungeon.
I'm working on this at the moment. Currently I'm using Bitlocker on a virtual disk. I'm going to test using Keypass to unlock it soon (which in turn unlocks at the beginning of the session with a long passphrase, but unlocks after that with Windows Hello face recognition). I've identified some potentially sensitive data could be in session logs or screenshots, so I've set up the default location for my logging and screenshot apps to be in the Bitlocker virtual disk. In the case of logs, I was already syncing them between machines using Syncthing, so I'm now syncing between encrypted volumes. I'm not syncing the screenshots, but I am also implementing encyrpted backups, so I'll probably include the screenshots folders.

Meanwhile, I've realised that my scanned receipts should also be encrypted, so I'll probably use a similar sync-between-encrypted-virtual-disks process with them. Unfortunately my first virtual disk is too small and I haven't yet checked how easy it will be to expand.

I'm mostly Windows, so I only really have to solve for that. Fortunately, Keepass is cross-platform (even works on my Pine Phone, along with Syncthing - same for my Android tablet, but my iPhone is trickier), so if I want to expand this to my Linux or Mac laptops it's not hard.

I was trying to solve saving authenticator seeds (which is something I regred not doing up to this point) securely outside of my main password manager. That was using an obscure archiver with a password protection option. This turned out to be way to clumsy to be practical. For small stuff like that, It's going in the password manager database for now.
You don’t work with the large enterprises that I work with everyday. Let’s not pretend that K8s doesn’t bring its own set of complications. Not to mention enterprises that have 500+ servers, some running Windows, some running COTS, etc.

Much of the time it is easier just to spend up a VM and install whatever you need.
Isn't this 'choose your algorithm' mean the client app chooses, and the federated system is more of just a database / data feed? Maybe my really quick overview of the AT stuff missed the point however.

This would mean your comment about the UI is more up to the user/client app, so this stuff is up for conversation. Unlike tiktok.
Not sure how the original message was phrased, but if it was anything along the lines of: “If it bothers you, you can also submit a PR here” then I don’t see the issue.
It’s often described that way, but tacking doesn’t really let you sail directly into the wind.

Instead you combine two vectors which on net result in the ship moving in the direction you want on average. But, with noticeable limitations if you also want to avoid obstacles etc.
A lot of people on the Internet would rather be right than liked. The medium lends itself to this: there's little point in having random people you will never meet like you.

I thought OP was making an interesting point about economics, personally - that there's sort of a law of "conservation of unpleasantness" in a market economy, and if it wasn't the landfill, there would be some other thing objectionable about your property. You approach your career very differently (and by capitalist standards, usually more successfully) if you figure that you're going to dislike some things anyway, but might as well be deliberate in choosing what you dislike.
I cannot claim to be surprised how ignorant the HN crowd is on basic economic matters. Its bizarre to think that some bizarre financial engineering produces the returns, instead of actual young people providing labor.

The downvotes to your original comment is very typical of the HN crowd.
That Mad Max Looking Wave Pool “What's It Like?”
Probably global brand management, language adaptation, marketing etc.

If you assume it's a global product, almost everything geometrically multiplies.

After that you need your managers, hr, etc
I don't know why people here primary blame about Windows Update so much. Restart is sometimes pain but please update. Microsoft cares security. There are many other complains about Windows, like Win11 taskbar, ads, pushing Edge, Microsoft account, and so on
Stemming the Plastic Tide: 10 Rivers Contribute Most of the Plastic in the Ocean
I saw this only had 5 comments, and was excited I might get to make this reference/joke. Rats!
I'm just going to remove that bit. It's apparently causing more trouble than it's worth.
BTW, I have a friend who, when he interviews candidates for professional positions like accounting and such, asks them "how much is 20% of $20,000?"

A significant fraction, even those with masters degrees, even those who claim to be accountants, are flummoxed by it.

There's a lot of resume inflation going on.
Although there is still some amount of self-interest there (presumably the North American Olive Oil Association still indirectly benefits from increased olive oil consumption, even if it's not olive oil sold by one of its members), it's quite refreshing to see a certification organization straightforwardly assess the risk to consumers from getting a non-certified product with absolutely no waffling about. Too often certification organizations resort to FUD to play up the amount of danger in getting something without their stamp of approval.
Normally, homes have water purifiers or get large reused bottles. Small bottles are used by tourist/travellers. Though, yeah waste segregation and disposal is a problem.
Yeah, but once the humans are gone, why keep the simulation running?

/s
Same here. I (for reasons) set up new Linux distros with abandon and just go with Ubuntu and its defaults (swapping control and CapsLock is mostly all I change).

The #1 thing that holds me to macOS is family sharing with iCloud (and Messages). If I could access that from Linux ...
Practically all tech is run by liberals, and large percentage are hard-left progressives. Their values are being pumped through the tech industry they've created and it is imposed through all platforms around the world.

I'd like to see more diversity of ideas, not some 100 people writing Twitter algorithms in SV where they have zero clue about how the rest of the world works.
> Does it use a just-in-time compilation?

It's a caching JIT that'll squirrel away the translations to use across program invocations, and even shared between different programs in the case of .dlls.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/apps-on-arm-x8...
I agree that it's F100 oriented, but you're in the bubble everyone prefer Apple.
My problem is that I know what it's for, but I don't understand how it works. The referenced page contains a "How It Works" section, but it gives me no useful information:

> Once asdf core is set up with your Shell configuration, plugins are installed to manage particular tools. When a tool is installed by a plugin, the executables that are installed have shims created for each of them. When you try and run one of these executables, the shim is run instead, allowing asdf to identify which version of the tool is set in .tool-versions and execute that version.

There is a hyperlink on word shims to the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shim_(computing) that explains the generic concept of shims. Not helpful.
Other thoughts:

A 2-of-3 secret sharing scheme can guarantee that a breach of any single server would not result in any information being revealed, and the destruction of any single server would not result in any information loss.

A more costly 6-of-8 scheme can guarantee that 5 servers can be breached without information revealed and 2 servers can be destroyed without information loss.

The more servers the data is spread between, the greater the guarantees of privacy and redundancy become.

Space usage is similar but worse than error correcting codes. 10 1TB shares can store 7TB of secrets while tolerating two failures. 10 1TB drives in RAID can store 7TB of data while tolerating 3 failures.

Latency is not multiplied but you get the worse case more often.
Yep, WSL is the way to go, specifically WSL2 if you want more IO performance.

Very convenient on my work laptop where I can't replace the OS.
If you genuinely think you have a better way to do it, propose it. Don't sit back with the terrible attitude of "my company does it this way which sucks" - why not try to make things better?

There are two possibilities - a) you are right, you know something your company doesn't, and by proposing your new plan in a constructive manner you might make life better for everyone b) you are wrong, you don't fully comprehend the surface area of the software you are working on, and your suggestion is short sighted and doesn't account for all of the requirements.

Either way it is helpful to put it out there - so long as you do it from the right place, with the right intention. Either you'll humble yourself, or you will eliminate an unnecessary dependency and make life easier for your team.
I mapped Capslock to another Ctrl and haven't paid attention in years.

But yes, Framework firmware FTW.
Good readable historical overview, IMO.

The referenced "The Rise of the Data Engineer" article proved quite prescient.

The present overview seems less good on future predictions (it's hard!). Also, some mention of "data science" could've been a propos – though it's difficult to find consensus on what DS actually entails.

Overall, I think a good framework to navigate this space is to think of 2 overarching disciplines:

1) Engineering: scaling data & software.

2) Science: getting actionable insights from data combined with subject matter/domain expertise

Usually, #1 is a platform for #2 – but getting #1 good seems just as, if not more, important, and is perhaps harder.

EDIT: formatting
Our straws were stolen by fools crying over turtles who shipped our "recycling" to third world countries, who threw it in the gd rivers.

Its all so tiring.
not patentable
"Apple should adopt Dell's business model, it will work briliantly" is a thing that Apple have heard for a long time.

When they tried in the 90s they went broke and had to be bailed out by Microsoft.
China does indeed have poor labor standards. However, Chinese factories aren't really forced to uphold their minimal standards.

Here's an article from a week ago:

https://www.thecut.com/2022/10/shein-is-treating-workers-eve...
Asdf is a great boon when upgrading language versions in a git branch and needing to switch back and forth between that branch and another feature branch without the upgraded language version.

Switching back and forth between branches with .tool-versions seamlessly switches to the correct version of the language and it “just works”. Trying to accomplish the same purely via docker is slow and painful.
It's not about disagreeable messages, it's about the total inauthenticity of those messages.

Having ten bots reproduce your messages makes it apparent that your message can't stand on its own and needs to use a dark pattern against human cognitive bias. In the case of bots, that's repetition.
Symptoms of a Broken Product Culture
This is just a very narrow frame to view these concepts from. It's not per say wrong, it's a useful model much of the time, but it's silly to insist that it is the only way to look at things and will needlessly cut off useful avenues of analysis. For instance, things can have value, even if they are never a part of a transaction. My work ethic has economic value to me, and if I were to lose it my income would be reduced by 100%, but it's impossible for me to sell it because it is impossible for anyone else to possess it; it's price is undefined. Similarly, no one has ever paid the algae and plants to produce oxygen, and no one has ever paid the sun to shine. But without these ecosystem services, the GDP of the world would be reduced by 100%.

If these examples are too abstract for your taste, there are many other examples. No one pays for volunteer work (by definition), but there's lots of volunteer work that, if people stopped doing it, our society would grind to a halt. One example is open source software; most of the work which goes into it is unpaid, yet our industry cannot function without it. Another is parenting; most people aren't compensated for having & raising children - indeed, it costs them huge amounts of money - but there is no economy without people performing this function.

I submit there are more things in the economy than are dreamt of in this philosophy.
If you read the parent comment, then you would know that I'm correcting the claim that not using XDG Base Dir Spec is the de-facto standard. It's not, so I'm simply stating that
Zingerman's product selection is great, but their customer service is truly next level. I send folks gifts via Zingerman's frequently, and Zingerman's sends me random unsolicited gifts in return. I don't know how I couldn't continue to patronize them.
I think at smaller companies you can be anything you want. Having it on a business card makes it somehow more official though.

Principal Engineer doesn’t sound nearly as fun as Supreme and Exalted Overlord.
I see many people are happy to work in Amazon or AWS....is it accurate for majority of Amazonians?
> They'll hide things like stretches in jail.

Why would a company pay someone less because they've been in jail?
SeeFood says: not hotdog
FWIW Fairfax now has purple bins scattered around for recycling glass, which then gets crushed up and used in place of fill gravel in county projects. It's a pain to drop it all off yourself but at least it is actually getting used. BTW I highly recommend wearing ear protection, it can be really loud dropping the glass into the container.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/publicworks/recycling-trash/gl...
I've had people sabotage me in a company I was working in as a contractor on $2,500 per day.

The most bizarre one was a very formal review where I was told I needed to stop taking long lunches and be at my desk. I asked where in my contract it said I had to work at a desk rather than a picnic table. They couldn't point it out. In the end they terminated me four weeks before the end of my year long contract and had to pay out 6 weeks of severance.

I'm still deeply confused about the whole thing.
Sandbox (computer security) > Implementations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_(computer_security)

- [x] Linux containers

- [ ] WASM with or without WASI

eWASM has costed opcodes; basically like dynamic tracing in CPython.

Are there side channels for many or most of these sandboxing methods; even at the CPU level?
> Also, most of the ocean plastic comes from a small number of rivers in the less developed world. [1] Rich countries aren't really the problem.

I don't have a source for this, so take it for what it's worth, but as I recall rich countries remain a significant part of the problem. TFA mentions it, but, iirc, the US used to ship its plastic waste to China for recycling, but the "single stream" approach to recycling resulted in a contaminated waste stream that was more expensive to handle. So China stopped accepting our recyclable waste. In turn, we started shipping our recyclables to Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries instead. They're happy for the business, but they don't have the infra to handle the amount of waste we're sending, and general mismanagement is widely recognized [0]. As a result US plastic waste intended for "recycling" ends up in dump sites, landfills, etc. in SEA countries and eventially accumulates in rivers, sewers, and eventually the ocean.

I don't disagree with you regarding landfills. There was a post here recently that seemed to lean more towards just throwing plastic away, that way it ends up in a landfill, rather than "recycling" it and having it end up in the ocean by way of the Philippines

[0] https://www.pemsea.org/publications/reports/reducing-plastic...
IANAL but it seems to me like using the name "sonic" and a hedgehog mascot together teeters on the edge of IP infringement
He doesn’t have to respond to any requests to fix it either.
> You get power ups as you progress and lose them when you die.

That's every shmup!
You can gather info on companies just as well.
Not a bubble in terms of cloud adoption but a lot of customers reduced their cloud bill. What happened was that many companies didn't invest time and effort in being more efficient in how they use the cloud and suddenly when money is tight everyone realizes they can save a lot of money by being more responsible. For example, don't use the most expensive GPU instance when training your ML model. Kill the instance once you don't need it. Train smaller models. Etc.
What I posted as a comment:

Nah, I'm good.

What I said in my head:

Having shipped a goodly number of video games, both as part of a team and as solo developer over a 20+ year career in professional game development, and a further 20 years as a hobbyist developer since leaving the game development industry, I strongly disagree with your statement. And based on the fact I am more than capable of composing my own music score, and really, I'd simply be pulling from my back catalogue AKA raiding either of my soundcloud accounts or my "abandoned ideas" directory, for several of the pieces, I don't think I should outsource one of my competencies.
Right, but that’s normally in extremely expensive US cities which is an entirely different league cost of living wise than Barcelona.
I take ocrevus and it's supposed to slow progression.