skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suspecting someone is a fraud is one thing. Implying someone is a fraud in print without clear evidence is another, and it is typically followed up on with at least a threatening letter on corporate lawyer letterhead.

Maybe they could've written another piece. I'm sure they invested a fair bit of time into learning what they did to write the piece they had.

At any rate, none of that matters. The ancestor post that matters was:

> "First ethical rule: If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud."

I disagree with that statement for all of the reasons I have mentioned. In fact, all I did was point out that you were being obtuse, either intentionally or otherwise, because you couldn't make the analogy-leap from "death by trolley" to "your life is now only about this lawsuit and all of your other interests must be ignored for 6-14 months".

> So, just so I get this right: you and MichaelCollins are of the view that anyone who criticizes a corporation is a member of a "death cult"?

No. Those are the words of another commenter. My thinking that it's laughable that people pretend they don't know how analogies work does not logically imply that I share the views of the person that happened to encourage you to demonstrate it.

Anyway, I think he's conceptually right. I wouldn't use the phrase "death cult." Not because there's anything wrong with it - it's just not in my regular vernacular.
O/T, but materials longevity is a trigger for me.

Raise the bar and use diamond.

I used to be in the CVD diamond world. On my honeymoon nearly 30 years ago, my wife and I were hiking in the Himalayas, in Sikkim.

My Dad loved diamonds and used them in his work (geophysical drilling, using diamond bits). He passed a year before my marriage. I wanted to leave a rem meminisse eum a in his honor.

So I grew a 2mm thick x 2.5cm diameter diamond disc. I used some nucleation art to make his first name appear as a texture variation in the faceted growth surface. I left it on a protected ledge at ~ 19,000 feet, with a note that just said “Thanks, Dad”.

That disc, or its fragments, will be around until that mountain gets covered by a lava flow or subducted into the mantle.

Concrete? A thousand years? Let's aim higher. :-)
It might be easier if you simplify it to, "We're trying not to be just the app you choose to run containers with. You can now use non-container runtimes like WASM."
This is the first time I think Lex may regret his guest. Kanye is both hard to follow with extremely fragmented trains of thought, and incredibly offensive.
We’ve had 10-20 years of landfill space ever since I can remember- certainly more than 20 years ago.

Guess what! Nobody builds a landfill for the fun of it, so they wait until they need one.
i misread

https://www.unix.com/302462639-post2.html?s=26c3fb7cf64a858c...
Flimsiest laptop ever, and I’ve owned cheap chrome books…
A lot of their copy seems to indicate the priority is detecting dick picks. I realize those are the vast, vast majority of "unsolicited lewd images", but I do wonder how capable their model is at detecting pussy pics, if at all.
Argh you beat me to it
My product recommendation was a tactical vest that was permanently out of stock on Amazon. Huh?

Primary theme was Defiant
I realize that this isn't exactly Reddit, but good God man, has the capacity for a simple self-deprecating joke been lost here?
So is it possible yet to install a Windows 11 copy on an ARM Mac in VMWare or such? Officially.

Lots of people have Macs already.
> Really, we just need a progress meter that says "don't bother getting up up", "get lunch now", or "come back tomorrow", but don't know that there is one.

It feel like this is gonna lead to another thing like thefuck...
This is fantastic, I only hope it actually happens and other jurisdictions follow.

KTM motorcycles owned by Pierer mobility, a 1.7 billion dollar company have just started pulling this nonsense.

Their latest motorcycle has “Demo mode”. Demo mode means when you purchase the motorcycle it works for 1500km then you get locked out of functionality that is built in and worked at time of purchase. You only get the previous built in functionality back if you pay KTM more money for a software key to unlock it again.

https://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/new-bikes/ktm-890-advent...
Um. Does it? The stated usecase was:

> Dd is super useful for incrementally writing boot loader to /dev device endpoints when offsets are required (multiple images).

How exactly does one use cat to overwrite only a specific offset? Say, I have a 512 bootloader that needs to be placed starting at 2048 bytes into the image; how would I invoke cat to do that?
> Qualcomm

The main reason so many Android devices are throwaway junk is Qualcomm. Don't rely on them for anything that you still want to keep running for more than a couple of years.
Yes. I think you're probably saying better what I meant to say -- though again, even the "one username" thing makes things much easier.

I suppose what Mastodon unfortunately misses is that "microblogging" ain't like email: it's supposed to be done publicly -- so, unlike email where you're likely to have a small group of people who mostly know each other -- immediate identification of "who's talking" is far more important?
You don't have to leave. Just document the value you provide, and go negotiate. Yes, you can do that. I have.

> that hurts my employer more than the 20% extra they're paying the other guy.

I.e. there's your leverage. Go make your case. No excuses!
People do talk about all those things. There are plenty of groups dedicated to each of those things individually or which include all of those things in their mission statement.

Unfortunately, we live in a world where getting even the most basic policy changes to protect the environment is a herculean effort, so people rationally focus much of their attention on the largest or most urgent things.

If you had a friend who was playing with Uranium, smoking cigarettes and eating food with artificial colors, it'd be fair to say they should stop doing all of those things to avoid getting cancer. But it'd also be fair to focus mostly on the Uranium.
Taxing the crap out of anything to fix a problem means taking money from one group of people, losing 80% to gov bureaucracy, and giving the remaining 20% to someone else. Likely a campaign donor.

When will people recognize that government is really really bad at solving problems. How is that war on drugs going anyway?
I just retired a MacBook Pro 2008 this year that my wife has been using daily since 2015 because its battery started swelling. That device started its life as my traveling work rig in late 2008 and served me well until 2015 when I gave it to the wife as her personal device.

I think the total lifespan was just over 13 years from unboxing to retirement. Hundreds of flights that device traveled with me. Had two Dells, one lasted 18 months (cracked case). One almost 3 years (broken hinge). Bought a MBA 2018 and it works and looks as well as the day it was unboxed despite tons of time traveling.
The burden of proof lies with the person making the claim. That would be Dr Doom in this case, not throwaway23597.
You’re not wrong, not to mention the problematic nature of conflating Hokkien with “Taiwanese” identity, as that then omits the Hakka, never mind the aboriginal languages. But one could see a Benshengren revival of Taigi nonetheless, even if only as a set of quixotic pan-Green government initiatives.

Also, Hokkien interest is present even outside of that geopolitical flashpoint:

https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/stories-behind-tiktok-...
Don't make the feature subscriptions illegal: make remote controlling any behavior of your car illegal, stop making it illegal to modify the software of devices you own, maybe even stop granting the copyright licenses for closed source software on cars (copyright being a government granted monopoly).
> But I kinda doubt Microsoft will start designing their own.

There were job postings a few months back which would indicate you’re wrong, but who knows if those positions were filled, or if the project is still alive internally. We’ll see, I guess.
I like the old langauges, probably more than the next guy.

Why did you choose APL over something like GnuCOBOL. Ive been pleasantly surprised with how teachable Cobol is to a range of people.
A pig gone feral will adapt very very quickly. The'll get fitter, their hide and hair thicker. Within a year a pink factory pig will be quickly transformed. They're very intelligent and would have no trouble handling that terrain.
Windfall tax would solve this better and faster than interest rate hikes. Not that fucking hard, most of it is clear price gouging to fund stock buybacks.
I think the idea is "automatically block people who send dick pics" and not "silently remove dick pics but allow other messages from the same person".

Considering what Bumble/Tinder are maybe this makes sense?
Everything we know about the White House’s IoT security labeling effort
I don't think he promised Rome would be built in a day; 33% cheaper at this point doesn't worry me; it's the other tech being missing that does. Doesn't mean it won't show up later, of course, but it is worrying. He didn't say batteries would instantly be half the cost, he said in time they'd be half the cost as all these techs were perfected.

Still, as he never tires of repeating; actually producing new inventions in volume is usually a bear-sized problem; the invention is (in some ways) the easy part.

Other car companies have had severe problems with their batteries recently as well. Tesla won't hesitate to switch to other tech if it proves better; as it may. I haven't seen any indication that other techs have been all locked up with exclusive contracts that prevent sales to Tesla; nor do I expect to. Tesla's the big EV market and will probably keep that lead, it would be unwise to just refuse to sell to them. Still, that is a possibility and the most likely way for Tesla to fail (which I don't expect.)
Ok. I have no idea what you are talking about, I remember very clearly that libraries existed at the 20th century.

But in case you still don't get the joke, no the OP is not written by AI. Instead, it is a common point of view.
Things can cost less in other countries. I get a small fraction of the average US developer but have a pretty good life and we're raising our children on a single income.
Display bytes using Braille cells
I don't read it that way. He calls out that 'weird' command specifically. But indeed he doesn't specify.

I wonder what cat does in terms of buffers, I kinda doubt it has any special optimisations though I would guess the shell redirect might have. As that's really the thing doing the work there, not cat. Edit: Nope, I'm wrong there!!

Also that command does more than just specify the memory buffer like he says. That's my point, it's useful for tuning which can be super helpful with huge images.

It can also lead to some dangerous gotchas as well when working with files. But with full disk images these don't apply generally.
You're making a lot of assumptions here. Of course containers will be a thing, I'm not arguing against that and I run plenty myself. My point was that for simple tasks, you don't need to immediately jump into a technology you might not necessarily understand or won't be around in the future. Start with the basics and understand the core concepts.
Have you tried asking people to send you pictures of hotdogs.
More likely is people making adversarial dick pics to get past the filter, which is very quick to do when you have the parameters of a differentiable model. I noticed they were careful to state that they are releasing a model instead of the model they are using though.
Bumble is an app for meeting new people, not general-purpose socialization. I’d assume that if it had an auto-block feature for lewd images, it would remove the conversation from the inbox and there would most likely be no further contact.
Not to defend counterfeits products, but I wouldn't trust even the best SD card on earth to store something I care about.
Doing that sort of mental arithmetic in a high pressure situation has very little to do with an accounting degree. Yes, it should be easy but I imagine I could make a lot of people flail at questions that they could answer easily sitting around a coffee table.
Re the Dock: it may not be easily discoverable, but you can resize the Dock by hovering over a vertical bar between icon groups, then dragging up and down. Hold down the Option key to snap to (what I presume is one of a number of) unscaled icon sizes.

One of the first things I do on a new install (as well as turning on the Finder status bar) is option-clicking on the Dock and shrinking it down by one step (or maybe two on a 13" MacBook).
The issue isn't that it's self-deprecating, it's that it's not funny, esp. given the context. "Read the room" type of thing.
As a bonus, you're more likely to get an offer by researching the company beforehand and demonstrating familiarity with it.
Seems more like you do have these problems but they don't matter to you personally.
Can you tell us more about the circumstances? Do you mean airport security screening or do you means customs and immigration? Why were picked? Did they ask for your login / BIOS / disk encryption passwords? For how long were they away with your laptop? What did you do afterward (like wipe the disk in case they installed a surveillance tool)?
This is an ironic example because Apple fans (and Apple execs themselves!) spent years blaming IBM, and then years blaming Intel.

The good thing is they found a solution. But despite being a hundred billion dollar plus company it took then anywhere from 5-10 years to find solutions in both cases.

That a new startup hasn't been able to resolve it in less than a couple of years is significantly less worse than the blaming Apple and its fans have done.

Edit: I was looking up some supporting articles and I completely forgot that before Intel and IBM, Apple was blaming Motorola:

https://www.theregister.com/2004/07/15/apple_cpu_grumbles/
There's probably a ton of employers that passed them up without even contacting them. I know I certainly would pass on this candidate if I saw the data from this page.
I do wish I could put a SIM card in my Macbook and not have to buy a phone.
> and/or whose execs don't want to pay income taxes.

So... Every single exec?
does anyone actually use bumble and enjoy it? serious question
That is the furriest furry blog I have seen in some time.
What weight is nix carrying here? I’ve seen Haskell packages fully composed(?) using nix, and nix is supposed to be hermetic, too. Right?

I’m more familiar with Bazel. Though I don’t “love it”, I spend plenty of time with it every day. Gazelle like rules for java would be nice.
I just recently used dd to binary patch some files. I needed to read n bytes from offset p in file1 and write them to offset q in file2:

dd if=file1 of=file2 bs=1 skip=p seek=q count=n conv=notrunc

Very useful.
This would be awesome if we had open and auditable FPGAs...
What you're describing is not really atheism. Atheism is not a positive statement about anything, it's a lack of religion/belief in gods.

I don't know if there's anything for us after death, but I have no good reason to think that there is. My lack of belief in an afterlife (or afterlives) is a functional assumption based on available evidence rather than an assertion of fact.
This is nothing new, 27 years ago the Apache web server came out and pretty soon there were lots of web hosting companies using it for free, some of those contributed back to make it better or hired Apache devs to improve it or set it up for them. The same happened with Linux, PHP, Debian and countless other pieces of software. The only difference now is that devs are complaining about it. At least these days with Patreon and other things, there are more ways for people to pay for development time. Check out the FOSSjobs site and wiki for more options.

https://www.fossjobs.net/
https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources
If they don't have enough soft-skills the hard skills aren't worth retaining in a typical corporation.
Maybe we should have more Newtons and Leibnizes, rather than fewer.
It is impossible to create a perpetual motion machine but it does seem possible to create a perpetual dick pic machine.
Aluminum hydroxide and phosphoric acid, I think, mixed with enough suitable aggregate that it doesn't explode when you mix it. Look up recipes for castable refractory. Refractory materials aren't always more durable at ordinary temperatures — olivine sand in particular will serpentinize if allowed to weather — but many of them are.

There are actually lots of artificial materials that weather more slowly than rebar-reinforced portland-cement concrete. But buildings are huge — a small house commonly contains many tons of building materials, and a large building contains thousands of tons — so the overriding consideration for building materials is that they be cheap as dirt.

In fact, buildings — then and now — are to a very large extent literally made of dirt. And rocks. Bricks? That's clay, which is a kind of dirt. Mortar? That's sand, which is a kind of dirt, glued together with typically a small amount of ordinary portland cement with an even smaller amount of additives. Drywall? That's gypsum, which is the kind of dirt White Sands National Monument is made out of (as well as, in its mineral form, many stunning ancient Egyptian vases) although a significant amount of modern gypsum is sourced from flue-gas desulfurization. Plaster? That's sand glued together with cooked gypsum, except when it's sand glued together with quicklime, which is made by cooking chalk. And of course adobe is sand glued together with unfired clay.

The issue is that costs that seem totally reasonable when you're dealing with gram or kilogram quantities of a material become totally unmanageable when you need a hundred tonnes of it. You can use glass, wood, or steel (the cheapest metal) in more modest amounts, but they generally can't replace OPC.

So, there's a pretty short list of materials that are both strong enough and cheap enough to use as building cements, and which can additionally be synthesized on a building site between grains of sand (as opposed to, say, in a furnace isolated for oxygen, or at 500°). You have:

· the above gypsum, quicklime, ordinary portland cement ("OPC"), and unfired clay;

· tar (asphalt);

· geopolymer cements (milled metakaolin polymerized with waterglass);

· waterglass itself;

· Sorel cement (magnesium oxychloride);

· magnesium oxysulfate;

· calcium aluminates; and

· the phosphates of aluminum, magnesium, and occasionally calcium or even zinc.

Of these, some have worse weathering properties than OPC: unfired clay, Sorel cement, magnesium oxysulfate, and (if cured improperly, in a famous nationwide disaster in Spain a few decades ago which wasn't discovered for years) calcium aluminates.

But there are all kinds of extremely stable materials that would last much, much longer than concrete in the weather, but which are just too expensive to make buildings out of, or which nobody knows how to make big enough pieces of. Soda-lime glass (though foamed glass and fiberglass have uses), aluminum, titanium, aluminum bronze, epoxy "granite", gold, silver, polytetrafluorethylene, sapphire, yttria-stabilized zirconia, yttria, carborundum, silicon, the rubber used for car tires, and so on.
Speak for yourself, I found it chuckle worthy
From what you describe we actually strongly agree. This stuff should work and be invisible to the user. I just meant that the environment should expose the DPI details to the programmer and not pretend everything is low dpi like it's always been.

Wayland is about a bunch of amateur programmers learning for the first time how graphics work, individually and separately all in parallel. Wayland needed to have a bigger, definitive core library designed by experienced developers. What we've got now instead is a myriad of low-level graphics implementations, none of which handle edge cases very well.
It's important to look at the actual study.

Organic cotton bags have some kind of footprint 20,000 times higher than a plastic bag.

For climate impact specifically, you have to reuse a cotton bag 52 times. And an organic cotton bag 149 times. The really big numbers are based on things like ozone impact and fertilizer runoff, which are worth considering but should be taken in comparison with daily life and not just plastic bags.
Once upon a time there was an app called Bump.
It does not matter who owns the body parts in the images. Unwanted genitalia is unwanted genitalia, no matter the sex or the purpose.

I think a lot of unsolicited female genitalia is sent for spam/scam proposes. A particularly pernicious sort is in the form of sextortion [1]. Images of female genitalia may be sent by a criminal to entice a (typically young or teenage) boy into believing he’s engaging in an online romantic relationship with a real girl. When he reciprocates with images of his own body (as requested to do so), the criminal responds by using those images to blackmail him into paying money with the threat of exposing him to friends and family. This sort of attack has also been used to target girls, though recently the targeting of boys has grown much faster. If I had to speculate, criminals likely see young boys as easier targets who can be enticed with images of the female body.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextortion
The one thing I really miss from rvm is the ability to do this only in the current session rather than globally.
> The reason it's regulated/nearly banned is because the asbestos industry hid the dangers of it and got exposed in a very public way which generated heavy public outcry. We treat it like this not because it's rational, but because of public outrage.

I recently learned that in the mid 20th century there was a huge scandal when it came out that TV game shows were rigged. The public was outraged and a law was passed prohibiting the fixing of "purportedly bona fide contests of intellectual knowledge or intellectual skill". You can go to prison for up to a year for this.

Because we need to be protected from that. ( https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/509 )

Fixing a purportedly bona fide professional wrestling match was and remains completely legal, of course, because that's not a contest of intellectual skill. Fixed quiz shows are a scourge upon the public, but fixed sporting events are just good fun.
mbuffer does the job
Amazing name.
> These are two common scenarios I see:

There is a 3rd scenario that I've occasionally seen: Two employees with the same title on the same team. Employee One is unhappy because they are paid 10% less than Employee Two, despite same experience and title. Employee Two ALSO unhappy because in practice they do 50% more work than Employee One for 10% more pay.

I still don't see the parent's connection of transparency to lower pay, but there is a rich scientific literature on the concept of "Comparison is the thief of joy" -- I hypothesize that turnover rates might positively correlate with transparency because they could promote intra-team competitive feelings.

The exception would be if there were a rigid structure that you know going in, similar to how e.g. government pay scales work. Since you know going in that the only input is seniority, you won't care that exceptional work is not rewarded because that was made clear from the get-go, and if that would have bothered you you wouldn't have accepted the offer in the first place.

The natural counterargument to that is that if the only input to compensation is seniority, then there is reduced incentivization for performing "above and beyond", possibly cultivating a culture of mediocrity.

It also would promote pay equity, however, since e.g. employees' implicit biases and social conditioning would not come into play under subjective evaluations.