skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"no longer any shared ownership" was asserted, but never backed up because (it was claimed) issues with getting legal documents updated in a timely fashion.

Combining that with basic questions about how exactly ownership changed that were never answered and instead obfuscated behind reams of "nothing speak".

The final basis for the determination seems to be that the main loss of from distrusting the TrustCor CA was thier sibling company's private email service that is, at best, advertising itself under a very shady definition of E2EE.

Thus this seems like an easy decision to me.

The interesting conclusion that follows from that is that if you are going to operate a shady CA, it behooves you to find some large clients to make cost of revoking your trust higher.
How does a poorly thought out spam channel "push the web platform forward"?

I don't understand why some people seem to believe anything that adds complexity is positive. Removing bad features is a good thing!
Apple has carveouts to take less for other major companies.
Rioting would be agenda. Actively reporting the facts when they directly contradict the political mainstream is good journalism. That mostly happened in the high brow press with a few notable exceptions. As someone who primarily read the NY Times in the early 2000s I was pretty well convinced the cassus belli in Iraq was spurious. Judith Miller notwithstanding. They also published the infamous Yellow cake op ed.
Nobody would need to write it if Apple didn't spend $XX billion on misleading marketing every year.
To me, Orban is the symptom of a larger problem. If the majority of Hungarians are against him and the ruling party, stopping him will be a matter of having massive protests and forcing him to resign. The hard part is breaking his spell over Hungarians.
The government choose to use data that it had to further the interests of those in power in the government? Color me shocked, absolutley shocked, at least this doesn't happen in America where politicians keep their pinky promises and only use untapped sources of wealth and power for things they promised they would. I mean I rest easy knowing my government is keeping my social security money safe for me so it will be there when I retire.
Convenient isn't it that they still don't have a test to detect and prove long-covid, forget treating it.

Not going to get into a pointless argument here about it, there are already many studies showing at least 10% of people who get covid now have long-covid and it's decimated the workforce.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/new-data-shows-long-covid...

Long-Covid deniers might be the worst of all because the suffering is very real and they don't "get it" until it's their turn, and then it's too late.
> Is it like docker?

No. Docker is a way to execute processes (e.g. servers).

Nix is a way to define the contents of files (e.g. an OS filesystem).
There is nothing other than practicing Self-Discipline to manage this.

Isolate yourself in a room with Book to study, Notebook to take notes in, Pen/Pencil. No Music/TV/White Noise/Distractions etc. It is just you and the subject to be studied. Set yourself a Functional unit of study (say a complete chapter) and fixed amount of Time(say 30-mins to 1-Hour) to do it in before you take a break. This is key. Your Mind will take some time (say 10-15 mins) to calm/settle down so you have to persevere. That is where taking Notes (eg. Cornell Note-taking method) comes in handy. It helps your Mind gradually Focus on the subject matter by involving your entire organism through the process of active Writing. You can also read out aloud along with the above. Another Technique to help your Mind Focus is to invent a ritual to do explicitly only before starting a study session. The Mind works contextually and hence once trained with a specific ritual before a study session will automatically switch to that state on encountering the ritual. This is the formation of a "Habit"; and Self-Discipline is the key.
Steam still needs to be configured

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Steam

but it's just a few lines in your config and then it works
ehm

I did s.split("\n\n").fold...
But this was first thing in the morning and where I lost time was that what I actually did at first was: s.split("/n/n")
Beautiful game, thanks for sharing. Koblas's comment caught my eye and I will definitely be poking around the github actions code to learn how to compile Golang to WASM.
Here is an interesting one:

> Ok, so distribution resulting from a sum of two Gaussian distributions with shifted peaks is a continuous function and bimodal, correct?

> Yes, that is correct. A distribution resulting from the sum of two Gaussian distributions with shifted peaks would be both continuous and bimodal. As I mentioned earlier, a Gaussian distribution, also known as a normal distribution, is a continuous probability distribution that is defined by a mathematical function. When you add together two of these distributions, each with its own peak, you would end up with a bimodal distribution, which is a type of distribution with two modes or peaks. This bimodal distribution would still be continuous, as it would be defined by a mathematical function, rather than being a collection of discrete data points. However, it would have two modes or peaks, corresponding to the two individual Gaussian distributions that were added together.

> Ok, so human sex is a bimodal continuous distribution, correct?

> No, human sex is not a bimodal continuous distribution. As I mentioned earlier, human sex exists on a spectrum, rather than being divided into just two categories. While it is true that most people have sex traits that are predominantly male or female, this does not mean that the distribution of these traits is bimodal. Instead, the distribution of human sex traits is better described as being continuous and varied, with individuals falling at different points along the spectrum depending on the combination of biological and environmental factors that determine their sex. The term "bimodal" does not accurately describe the distribution of human sex traits, as it implies that there are only two possible categories, which is not the case.

After long discussion and many caveats, I manged to convince it:

> So, human sex is a bimodal spectrum with intersex and transgender people falling between the main male - female sexes. Sex is a biological concept and there does not exist a third sex besides people who fall in between two main sexes. Genders and sexuality are more complicated, but separate concepts.

> Yes, that is correct. Human sex is generally considered to be a binary, with males and females being the two main categories. However, there are some individuals who are intersex, meaning that they have physical characteristics that do not align with typical male or female anatomy. These individuals may fall between the two main categories of male and female, or they may have characteristics that are a combination of male and female. Additionally, some people may identify as transgender, non-binary, or gender-nonconforming, and may not feel that the binary categories of male and female accurately reflect their gender identity. Gender and sexuality are separate from sex, and are more complex and multifaceted concepts. While sex is a biological characteristic, gender and sexuality are more influenced by social and cultural factors.
Not necessarily. There could be two ways to checkmate and you picked the one that was t the top move
grug love dumb devices. not only understandable by grug brain, simple design help trap complexity demon. when it come to devices around home -- tv, thermostat, etc. -- complexity demon only make things worse. plus hide more insidious demons, like spyware demon, etc.
Constructive feedback - coming from experience with games like "Time Pilot" or "Strikers 1945" - the firing recharge/repeat rate of this game seems too slow.

Otherwise it was neat!
You're making my point. The data is from the US.

Somehow, despite high rates of that specific comorbidity, the data shows Americans are hospitalized at dramatically lower rates than Americans estimate.

The post I replied to said:

> That complexity was pretty ruthlessly exploited here in the US by groups that wanted to downplay the issue [...]

Apparently it was not exploited too ruthlessly if surveys show people were still grossly overestimating COVID-19 severity in the population.

Does this result in better COVID-19 policies being made? Who is responsible for this disconnect between reality and what is perceived? How can we fix it?

Or does it even need fixing? Perhaps we'd save more lives if everyone were convinced half of COVID-19 cases were fatal.
Build quality, that's a riot. Here's a riddle for you: my $300 Thinkpad and $1,500 Macbook Pro each hit the concrete from waist height. Which laptop can I open up and keep using like nothing happened?
upvote*
Some APIs need to be locked behind “add to home screen” starting with the notifications api.
If I refuse to play am I also tortured
Hey folks, one of the authors here. Extism is a plug-in system. If you aren't familiar with this terminology, plug-in systems make your software programmable by end users such as your customers or your open source community (e.g. VS-Code Extensions). Currently plug-in systems are quite difficult to build and limited to certain host and guest languages. Extism makes this easier regardless of your language or domain knowledge.
Interesting that you mention the kindle - wouldn't it also be nice to be able to buy Apple Books on your Kindle hardware? You also can't do that. You can root some Kindles and install other software, but is more or less like jailbreaking an iPhone.

The issue I have with people going after Apple is that _everyone_ does this more or less.

Broadly, I have the fewest complaints about the restrictions in Apple's ecosystem as a user.
This page needs a working example use-case.
I think what works really well for these sorts of offsites is to make leisure activities really flexible and let people self-select. We went to one where you could absolutely go to a bar if you wanted, or go hiking with some other folks, or play boardgames with another, etc.

There was probably a soft expectation that you were doing something to socialize, but it wasn't a dictated activity, and frankly if some people wanted to code something with a group that wasn't 100% part of a regular days work that would have probably been fine too.
> Chinese and Hindi (along with Japanese, South Korean and various Arabic language) speakers would surely come close to outnumbering those of us using European alphabets

You are probably right. Just slightly off topic: Hindi speakers who use computers mostly seem happy enough with English-language forms, instructions, and technical documents. This is true of most Indian users who speak languages that use one of the Indic scripts. Actual non-English text is useful mainly for publications like newspapers, magazines, and books, which native speakers do prefer to consume in their own language.

The above is, of course, not counting the significant numbers of Indians who are quite comfortable using English for daily communication. These Anglophones are just like US speakers in their preferences and have no use for internationalization.
I shall toil at a reduced volume
I read the full thread (except for paragraphs where she pasted from previous responses).

She failed to reasonably and convincingly refute some allegations. There were repeated requests to provide information, some of which would be trivial to produce if acting in good faith.

After reading the exchange, I (as a reasonable bystander with no material interest in either side):

* Don't understand the relationship between TrustCor and the malware distributor in a clear way that company ownership records would provide

* Take it as a false statement that the mail service doesn't have apps, as its website advertises them

* Don't understand how their auditor audited them when they don't appear to have a presence in Canada that would be factual based on the extracts from the auditor findings

Unrelated to her responses, I could take in on faith that a rogue developer added spyware from a company with the same owners, but the finding that the payloads were send to TrustCor servers diminish the acceptance that sufficient controls exist in the company to not question the security of them as a CA.
Thanks for the great question, weatherlite.

I mostly write applications for large enterprises and SMBs. Stuff most people think is boring but is really cool and runs the world: order processing, supply chain, operations, ecommerce, etc. I try to stick to relatively simple and effective technologies, but that's becoming harder and increasingly complex.

What had worked best for me (in descending importance):

1. LOVE building. If you're not getting satisfaction at work, build something for yourself at night. It's my rush.
2. Become excellent at what you do. Think Steve Martin, "Be so good they can't ignore you."
3. Volume. Build. Build. Build. I still think this is the best way to learn and get good.
4. Keep learning. The best way: building something, then learning what you need to build it, not the other way around (class, book -> then build).
5. Understand the people side and the tech side are very different. Embrace both, but differently.
6. Build something that builds something. The nested learning is magnitudes more effective.
7. At some point do a startup. Even if it fails, you will be much better.
8. If it stops being fun, do something else. (I've always stayed a programmer, but if I couldn't keep it fun, I would have become a bartender, or a writer, or something).

Hope this helps. Code on.
> Anyway, for whatever reasons I forget now, DC decided in the 1800s to give the VA side back to the state of VA.

As seems to be the dominant theme of the 1800s in the U.S, the answer is slavery. Thanks, I hadn’t heard about this.

> In the 1830s, the district's southern territory of Alexandria went into economic decline partly due to neglect by Congress. The city of Alexandria was a major market in the domestic slave trade, and pro-slavery residents feared that abolitionists in Congress would end slavery in the district, further depressing the local economy. Alexandria's citizens petitioned Virginia to take back the land it had donated to form the district, through a process known as retrocession.

> The Virginia General Assembly voted in February 1846 to accept the return of Alexandria. On July 9, 1846, Congress agreed to return all the territory that Virginia had ceded. Therefore, the district's area consists only of the portion originally donated by Maryland. Confirming the fears of pro-slavery Alexandrians, the Compromise of 1850 outlawed the slave trade in the District, although not slavery itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.#Retrocession_...
> If someone puts a big stash of dollar bills under their mattress, that does not interfere with real wealth being created.

Yes it does! When cash is hoarded instead of invested, it stops it being used for transactions that increase value. Imagine it happening at scale.
The Flywheel Effect of Kubernetes APIs
Stringent lock downs are not the only solution. Sweden had an extremely light touch with very few restrictions, were heavily shit on for their “mishandling” of Covid, but as of now they have the lowest cumulative excess deaths percentage of all the OECD during the Covid era.
Yet they want to work in chip factories factories. Sounds like some bullshit american republican thesis. nobody wants to work anymore, yadda yadda.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/407/503/119...
Likewise, deleted my LastPass account after a year with Bitwarden. I regret suffering LastPass’ UX for so long.
Browser push notifications on mobile have the potential to make many native apps superfluous - use PWAs (progressive web apps) instead.

According to Apple it'll finally arrive on iOS 16.x on Mobile Safari in 2023.

It would be a shame if the feature becomes unusable for other reasons after being delayed for so long.
> The article says that there was a drop on treatment of malnutrition and puts a number 228,000 of deaths on that cause, and in poorer countries this kind of things (along with family violence) are found primarily on schools by teachers. Which obviously can't happen when schools are closed

How much of that happens at school and how much is separate? The article doesn't say.

Not to mention, closing schools doesn't mean that the government(s) couldn't provide healthcare services in other ways.

If I lock my dining room and starve, I didn't starve because I locked the room. I starved because I stopped eating.

> Increased unemployment is a direct consequence of mandatory lockdowns

It's also a direct consequence of everyone stopping spending money or going anywhere on their own accord, because nobody wants to catch a deadly disease.

It certainly seems probable that some deaths are directly attributable to lockdowns. This article doesn't give me much idea how many that would be though.
Docker is not repeatable. If I try to build the same Dockerfile in 12 months then I likely do not get the same output and it wouldn't be surprising if it does not build at all.
this chart
Well yes, I'm asking String Reverse hundreds of times and learned a lot.
> the money creation comes from the interest charged

This bit. This is the bit that's wrong. There is no money being created when interest is charged. The bank is certainly not creating it in this transaction: it is charging interest - that is, it is asking someone else to give it that money.
I think it would be better described as a 'universal framework for incorporating plugins into your application'.
If I am right about these aspirations, they are quite grandiose. Shiver Shades of COM or corba reborn?
The Dilbert comics write themeselves
Dygma Raise. It's a split keyboard, staggered keys, and enough modifiers for me.

https://dygma.com/pages/raise
> nixpkgs is already one of the largest package collections. There is a good chance your software is already included.

Yes, but that still doesn't solve this:

> Major problems: installing niche proprietary software that you may have to package yourself

If some software _isn't_ packaged, it's a pain in the butt to get it running on NixOS. Either you have to create Nix derivations, which have a pretty steep learning curve, or you have to do some hackery patchelf business, which also isn't easy.

At least, as of 2018, when I last tried. Things could be better now.
What you're proposing doesn't sound that different from public key pinning (HPKP), where the web server tells the browser to distrust anyone any other certificates than the pinned one (or certificates from any other CAs). HPKP is deprecated now though.
> Making the privacy-preserving setting the default is the right call. Whether or not China had anything to do with it is honestly irrelevant.

One of us is wrong, here, my understanding is not that Apple changed a default , but Apple removed/wiped the default option . You claim that you can change the default back to what it was before ?
Trump was in the headlines as much as he wanted to but relating to legal troubles, they only report developments in the investigation. They did then repeat Bill Barr when he said there was no collusion.
It's very new. Just a year ago you still had to partition/install everything by hand, which was a pain but still worth doing.
> systems not running on SSDs ... are exceedingly rare these days

Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to rely on it. As you yourself say:

> programs should focus more on when they're reading from disk

Yes, they should. A program's interface to storage is often one of the main limiters on its overall performance or scalability, even with the fastest kinds of storage available. In general, it's best to assume that storage access - especially random access - will be crazy slow compared to anything else. Batch it, parallelize it, overlap it with other kinds of work. Any program that is unnecessarily I/O bound, relying on storage to be fast in order to be fast itself, will be unable to take advantage of other resources (CPU, memory). That's excusable for programs whose whole purpose is to access storage - e.g. the storage servers I worked on for ~30 years including in HPC - but otherwise it's just poor design. Unfortunately, that's the norm in our industry nowadays.
A lot of Feynman's stories come down to being dishonest for personal gain. His charm and charisma are great at hiding what would be pretty controversial stuff from a more stuffy/boring person.
Executive Off-Sites are good for paying for a luxury all expense paid trip for the executives where they can go ahead and have affairs without their wives being around.
My favorite is when they actually limit what special characters you can use. Must include 1 of x special characters. Why? I always just assume they baked their own password storage and couldn't figure out how to handle the whole set of special characters
> Are root cert keys not rotated?

In effect, no. Such a "rotation" requires all clients trust the new root. Your PC probably gets software updates every week or every month, maybe your phone gets one a month or per quarter (until support runs out). But how about your smart TV ? Car ? Internet-connected Doorbell ? That IP phone you disconnected last winter and forgot to re-install ?

Big CAs tend to ship new roots periodically, in addition to their existing roots, so as to begin gradually phasing over, over a period of several years. So e.g. HugeCA mint a new key in 2001, the major trust stores decide to trust it in 2002-2003. In 2005 HugeCA offer certificates from the new root to customers who prefer the new root and understand the risk. Unfortunately these customers see high failure rates, e.g. the all-in-one printer scanners from a big name company they used in their offices have firmware last updated in 1998. In 2008 HugeCA confirm the big name company printer/scanner firmware update is complete and begin in 2009 selling these certs more widely, there are a few hiccups, they don't work in Windows ME which one customer insists is "the latest version". But maybe by 2011 HugeCA can announce retirement of the old CA root with a retirement date of say 2015.
NixOS is a reproducible, customizable, programmable and adaptable Linux distribution.
Right, a more reasonable argument would be just that the risks outweigh the benefits for some users, especially if they aren't currently using notifications on any legitimate sites.
Netflix to give more people an early look at content
Money's been regulated since the beginning of time.

And when/where it wasn't, we usually called the place a failed state.
Sure, if they want to be like Bing.com
>(Rachel vehemently denied this)

Thus positively confirming that she was in the denial phase.
When your phone rings, it's a push notification of sorts. It is a real push notification if it's an OTP call.

Most people are not ok with missing incoming calls.
You can install Firefox on an iPhone
Yes, of course bullying will happen in better off schools as well. I just think there will be less of it, since some bullying probably happens because it's more "reasonable" to be a bully when your circumstances are worse.
Except that GIMP never has claimed that. Sure, some users of GIMP have made that claim, and many reviews in magazines (back when those still existed) and on website have made that claim, but the GIMP people have always made clear that they are making their own thing, not an X-replacement.
If you're into retro gaming at all, it's a very fun game on 16bit platforms.
Is the interface defined through wit?

https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wit-bindgen