skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wouldn't having multiple competing open source window managers be considered a good thing?

I absolutely love this about Linux. However, I think this freedom of choice leads to difficulty of use in the enterprise.

> I'm not sure what you mean by unified desktop experience as well, can you clarify specifically what that means to you?

So one example that comes to mind for me as I am a security engineer is desktop-specific security software (and let me again emphasize I am talking about desktop). For example, on MacOS you have a myriad of effective desktop security tools that predictably work on the platform once it is released. Patrick Wardle's open source Objective See tooling[1] is the best example I can think of, Little Snitch[2] is another one that comes to mind.

As a thought exercise imagine you were to implement a Linux alternative to KnockKnock[3], which enumerates what applications will run at startup to help identify persistently installed malware. How would you do this on Linux? Monitor ~/.config/autostart, crontab, systemd? What if they have a non-systemd system, what if they are using i3 and starting applications in their i3 config, if you want notifications what notification daemon/client do you implement? The list goes on and on as there are a million different variables.

Another example I don't think can exist on Linux is an alternative to one of my favorite MacOS apps named Secretive[4], which allows you to store secure non-retrievable SSH keys in the Mac's secure enclave. Apple has a bit of an unfair advantage as they control the hardware and software that allows users to access the secure enclave -- but on Linux we don't really even have a uniform way to store credentials on the software side that a security vendor could reliably count on: we can use gnome-keyring, KDE's competitor, pass, gnupg, etc.

I am not saying these problems are insurmountable, but I think that if a security vendor were to target desktop Linux in addition to Windows and MacOS they would almost HAVE TO limit the scope to something like a default Ubuntu desktop LTS running GNOME as the DE (or something similar) so they could reliably reproduce results.

And I am not saying that this means desktop Linux shouldn't be used for work -- I exclusively work from my NixOS machine for my day job. But I have compassion for the IT org or product vendor who can't support desktop Linux in the enterprise -- Linux is kind of the wild, wild west on the desktop.

I hope one day we see a large-scale standard adopted by enterprise (i.e. Ubuntu LTS as the distro, GNOME as the DE, etc.) for desktop Linux just so it was more reasonable of an option in the enterprise. And to be clear, I don't mean that I hope choices for Linux go away, I love the amount of choice you have on Linux. But it can be a great weakness if you want standardized desktop builds.

[1] https://objective-see.org/tools.html

[2] https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

[3] https://objective-see.org/products/knockknock.html

[4] https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive
No, dependent types are no the answer - read (or watch) this: https://pron.github.io/posts/correctness-and-complexity
> don’t get to open the books of the company you are being paid to endorse

If you make money peddling a fraud, you’re liable. This is old law. Whether they have liability beyond their earnings is up for debate. But that there is liability is settled.
Good question. Fundamentally, I don't think pharmaceutical advertising should be allowed. Broadly, I agree that the implementation matters and there are lots of edge cases. My primary objective is skin in the game: when people capture the upside of their brand identity, they are also exposed to the downside. If someone isn't trying to use their identity to promote something, it is out of scope.

In the "anonymous actor" situation, they are not trying to use someone's brand/honor so the perverse incentives don't appear to be present.
Also note the absence of politicians who cry about evil billionaires being silent on an actual evil (former) billionaire who stole from the masses.

E.g., all AOC could muster is a self-congratulatory joke about League of Legends.

And he is still scheduled to speak at the NYTimes event next week. NYT has harassed others for much much less (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/business/media/bari-weiss...).

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-arent-you-in-jail-alre...
This is one group that Google works with:
https://www.missingkids.org/theissues/csam

Their definition and yours are not exactly the same. If you read what they have to say, you'll see that the issues are more broad than whatever you personally call abuse, and those issues include exploitation and distribution of images that victims find harmful. Are you a victim of abuse or exploitation? Who are you to determine what a victim finds abusive or exploitative?

I'm not saying I agree with this situation, just that I can see how it happened and why Google won't do anything in this case.
> now every "brand ambassador" must disclose the nature, scope, and amount of compensation they receive in exchange for promotions?

If you’re shilling securities, yes.
The fact that nuclear-tipped multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRV) have never been tested with live explosives is both a good thing, and a missed photographic opportunity :(
Lets try some madlibs...

>Real estate/stocks/bonds/gold/silver/etc is a ponzi scheme because liquidity in it only comes from the next sucker buying in.

Tell me why the above statement is wrong.
> I feel inferior for not being fluent in OCaml

I learned OCaml recently, on my own, for myself. It’s actually a pretty easily language to use and learn, but historically there weren’t EXCELLENT resources for learning it.

There are now excellent resources, predominantly: https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/cover.html

When OCaml 5 settles, its general applicability will be (imho) much larger.

Do I recommend it for everything? No. But you wont hit segfaults like you will in go, and you certainly wont wrastle the compiler like you will rust. Haskell and OCamls lack of fluent programming make them less easy to program in (read: slower iteration), if you get your design right, your final product is just a real treat :chefs_kiss:. Some newer fp langs do have fluent style syntaxes, which are

The ocaml debugging experience stinks, and the lack of builtin (de)serializers for custom/composite types is very obnoxious, to put it kindly. Still, it’s not the obscure thing everyone loves to say about it. Really, its not.

These jokers in this thread “oh rust isnt hard! Ohhh they probably didnt try much.” Respectfully, get outta here. I love rust. Taken the doubly linked list tutorial? How about needed to use anything with Pin? Rust requires a huge surface area of foundational knowledge to be productive, full stop—the author is absolutely within his right to make this very fair claim about rust being onerous, relative to his candidate pool
Can there be too much affordable housing in one neighborhood?
Timothy Morton’s Hyper-Pandemic (2021)
So we need to bring back public beatings (canings) ?
Or wanting to operate in New York State as of this week!
Fun fact: high precision/high accuracy inertial navigation systems for modern avionics/missile guidance/similar are some of the most sensitive and controlled ITAR items.

For when you want your $10 million UAV to successfully navigate in a GPS denied/jammed environment or similar.

They also have a number of applications for submarines.

Modern INS are considerably smaller than the thing in the photo and implemented from totally different technology.

More directly related to the thing in the post: Google "peacekeeper rail garrison". For a while there was a plan to have whole fleets of ICBM-equipped disguised cargo trains that could travel randomly around the US midwest and mountain states.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=peacekeep...
I wasn’t suggesting either of the technologies wholesale. The “signed rotation” commonality seemed interesting, with subtle differences. I’m curious to see where DIDs go, I’ve seen those crop up a few places.

UCAN also seems interesting, JWT with extra steps and attenuation. But orthogonal to this issue for the most part.
My experience in America (even up here in the "mean" northeast) is that we do tend to treat our families and neighbors very decently, which suggests that we're not exactly devoid of compassion.

However, I believe this is different than what the parent poster is talking about.

The parent poster refers not to a generalized lack of compassion from Americans, but a peculiar lack of respect for shared, public spaces.

I think it's an interesting distinction.

It's like we have a very focused version of communalism. Most of us instinctively want to help those in our "clans" - friends, neighbors, family. But we see much less value in places and institutions that are shared by the wider public: libraries, streets, town squares, etc.
Aurora Botnet: A rising stealer flying under the radar
Audible cheesecake?: How to become a better listener
I don't think safety or correctness can be over-emphasized.
Same issue in France fyi
Second this- it's my go-to when I just need some quick notes that won't be saved. I've thought about making a version with little markdown helps like automatic bulleting, but I like the simplicity as-is.
I sure look forward to watching "Guide to turn Earth Into a Telescope". I'd expect it to be be a different video.
Transistor counts keep going up
The ones talked about in TFA are three staged, with the third stage being liquid. Can you launch an orbital solid fueled rocket? I thought that liquid (oxygen) was needed.
> if Merck hires some actor to advertise a new prescription painkiller, and that drug later turns out to cause heart attacks, should the actor be held legally accountable?

Of course. Nobody is sending them to jail. But at the very least, their earnings should go the victims. (Analogy: if your employer perpetuates fraud, they go to jail and you lose your job.)
It certainly appears so.

He might also be relying on them coming back once the dust settles and it turns out his subscribers aren't really that bad.
I can only hope! Makes no sense around here since there is no holiday on the preceding Thursday but every retailer seems to advertise a Friday sale.
Militaries may need solid fueled satellite launchers to fight future high-intensity conflicts. They are increasingly reliant on satellites for communications, navigation, reconnaissance, targeting, and weather. But anti-satellite weapons are also advancing rapidly, and we can expect satellites to be destroyed quickly once the shooting starts. So there will be a requirement to replace attrition losses by launching replacement satellites within hours.
I'm aware but honestly I already have way too many cables running under my desk and I don't download games on my switch often enough to justify adding one more.
Do you feel all employees of FTX are partially liable? Where do you draw that line?

People endorsing products have zero inputs in the decision making processes that lead to these meltdowns so I don’t really see how they can be held accountable.
The problem you're describing is exactly why I'm working on https://primo.so.

WordPress makes content editing easier, but damages the developer experience. So devs reach for JS frameworks in search of more productivity, but then the content editing experience suffers.

I found the solution was to embed a code editor in the CMS itself. As strange as it sounds, removing the distance between the content and code means that devs can build and modify components and whole sites (which are made of both) in a tenth of the time while giving content editors the page-building powers they love.
I think you are overestimating the expressive power of lifetime annotations in rust, and how smart the borrow checker is
> Anything where the boundaries of the lifetimes are easily determined at runtime but unknown at compile time is extremely easy to model safely in C,

I don't even know how to respond to this seriously. I guess just imagine me pointing to every blatant instance of this not being true.
M1 was based on the A14 cores, the M2 is based on the A15 cores.
Stealing Open Source Code from Textual
Google has a secretive project that could reduce the need for human engineers
I agree someone broke the law at HSBC, although I doubt they could identify who. I doubt anyone broke any law in the economic collapse of 2008 where such law breaking was a major contributor to the collapse (Im sure some people used the chaos to steal money for instance). Other than the hackers, im not sure what law you think anyone involved in MtGox broke.

I'm willing to bet money SBF ends up in prison.

I've never heard the NEWSmedia accuse a politician of violating a specific law with zero evidence. Any examples of it done flagrantly? (I'm sure some reasonable errors slipped through). But even then, it's purposefully much harder for political actors to prove libel or slander suits.
Not GP.

In my experience, “language golf” is very popular in Rust, Scala and Haskell communities.
"There are very few applications requiring such precise guidance and independence from external references. In fact, beyond ICBM guidance, none have been identified."

Ballistic missile submarines need very low drift inertial navigation, because they stay submerged for a long time without outside references. The submarines provides a starting position for missiles, so missile error is added to submarine error. Size and weight aren't major issues, so they can use much larger gyros.

There's continuing interest in inertial navigation. Projects show up on DARPA.[1] The military assumes that GPS will be jammed much of the time in wartime, so they want inertial backup.

[1] https://www.darpa.mil/program/micro-technology-for-positioni...
PonyExpress: Type-Safe Notifications in Swift
Swift's `NotificationCenter` leaves the possibility for code-errors with mistyped `userInfo` keys or observer method types. PonyExpress enforces observer method and notification types at compile time.
> Since no sane person would invest in crypto in the short to medium term, I don't see how the industry will recover from that.

There are always marks to go around.
In the UK, I’m seeing blue and grey coloured check-marks - the latter is for official accounts.

I think it looks odd to see one account labelled with two checks, which is how an official account can be labelled.

I wonder if the strategy of multiple checkmarks runs the risk of ‘breaking the UI’. Currently the official check-marks appear to be incorrectly aligned to the ‘Official’ label.

I wonder if so many colours would simply look overwhelming and confusing.
Maybe they should be. If no actor is willing to take the risk then would we be worse off with less ads for prescription drugs being advertised on TV.
No reason for article not to be consistent, but as a piece of trivia it seems it was originally called the "Peacemaker" before undergoing a name change[1].

November 1982 article[2]:

> In addition to the hard time the Reagan Administration had in finding a home for the MX missile, the Government also had a hard time finding a name for the new weapon.

> Until today, the experimental missile was to have been called "Peacemaker." But at the last minute, according to Administration officials, it was changed to "Peacekeeper."

> The officials said someone decided that "Peacemaker" was too close to "pacemaker."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-118_Peacekeeper#Deployment

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/23/us/peacemaker-loses-missi...
> We shouldn't brush [MacOS being dog shit for this kind of stuff] under the rug because doing so gives Apple no incentive to fix their shit.

I can totally agree with you on that. MacOS completely sucks (for me) without open source tooling such as Brew and Lima.

I was more responding to the vibe of "you should be on Linux if you actually want real containers" which bugs me because many orgs and product vendors have a tough time targeting desktop Linux due to the lack of standardization on the desktop.
> Analogy: if your employer perpetuates fraud, they go to jail and you lose your job.

My previous earnings aren’t taken. None of the contractors that did work for the company get their payments clawed back.
The severance is presumably a constant. The question is if you can get an additional six figure bonus for a day and then get fired.
NPR quoting Media Matters seems a little off.

NPR used to be fairly neutral. What happened?
> "fascism" which seems to mean literally anything

No, no, that one's simple: "fascism" means anything that isn't anarchism. And "anarchism" means anything that isn't fascism. This is definitely a coherent and useful set of terminology.
I must qualify this by pointing out that I have mixed feelings about the 988 line.

It streamlines the hospital pipeline for committing people who are DTS/DTO (5150) status, and let me tell you, that is an easy status to earn or gain.

The hospitals profit immensely from admitting mental patients in a way that jails and police don't profit from locking up people who act crazy.

Every time there is a mass shooting in these United States, the Legislature swoops in and throws more cash-money at mental health programs. Therefore more mass shootings will tangibly "improve" your mental health care (if improvement is gained from larger budgets) and the more insurance money available, the more crazies they can lock up and the longer they can hold you in the hospital "just to make sure" you're responding well to treatment and that you'll be a permanent customer after your release.

So call 988 at your own peril, because the mental health system is a roach motel for many of us. Welcome to the Hotel California.
We've taken the biosphere to the brink of devastation through this kind of carefree approach with CO2.

The precautionary principle needs to at the forefront any large project involving hydrocarbons. Maybe instead of trusting the companies that got us into this mess we should, do the opposite, and not trust their claims?
Cool site, but I almost missed the content. I’m on mobile and just scrolling for pictures I blew past the index and saw

> Wait for it!
> Look for the first installment soon!

You might want change that into a big “next article” button or something :)
Honestly, "don't worry about the CO2, we can confine it" sounds a lot like "don't worry about the plastic, we'll recycle it".
Honestly its the NFL that should be liable. They are the ones running ads with seemingly little due diligence.
FTX employees are fully liable. Except probably the janitor. FTX/Alameda were obvious scams.
> they go to jail and you lose your job

You don't have to give your paycheck back though.
I still have a Zak McKraken disk, and a Commodore 64 to run it. I really should go back and beat it some time...
How do you make a SLA were the compliance guy doesn't randomly kick you off, because he found your dark theme scary or don't understand your business model?