skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Languages as in knowing two systems. Sort of like how most people don’t need to know international date or thousands/decimal separator conventions, but those functioning internationally—whether due to being well travelled or senior enough to conduct international trade and/or relations—do.

My going to a conference in India and arguing over the lakh/crore system isn’t useful to anyone [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system
CrowdStrike's software should not be installed on an MRI machine, per CrowdStrike's own guidance:

"Neither the offerings nor crowdstrike tools are for use in the operation of [...] direct or indirect life-support systems [...] or any application or installation where failure could result in death, severe physical injury, or property damage."

https://www.crowdstrike.com/terms-conditions/
It was close that EU ruined FOSS in the union by the warranty proposal. I dunno if that should make me optimistic or pessimistic.

A good start would be to ditch MS in schools. If the supply of ready MS users dwindle companies could easier switch to Linux.
> catered exclusively to the privacy crowd for years

Not even that. Firefox on iOS doesn’t have an integrated adblocker. It’s been requested for years at this point, and browsers like Brave do have one. Pure unwillingness. It’s why I got all my non-techie family and friends to switch to Brave.
Olympic drone spying scandal lands Canadian coach a red card
That would only mean we'd add even more tools on top of the tools that currently sit themselves on top of C (in this particular case) to fix our 'sloppy' ways, no?
The bloc described as “whites without a college degree” overlaps most with the “old and comfortable” bloc.
> It would be nice to have a legal framework for companies to increase employee ownership, but be able to do it incrementally with no requirement to go straight to 100%. Or ever.

But this framework exists, and is used by a huge number of firms.
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Running Small Language Models at the Edge
Maybe a better market share graphic without a paywall. A little dated, but close enough.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/wp-content/upl...
> And even when governments have the funding they tend to be horrible at specifying and getting delivery of technology - at least that’s been the case for the US.

This is the dysfunctional contracting model combined with “cost savings” removing technical civil service positions, meaning that the government often lacks people who are qualified to review or manage contractors. Groups like the US digital service, 18F, etc. which have staff have much better track records.
This is the purpose of the mixed economy in which most of us live. The government changes the rules of the game to try to align the profit motive with social good, because they are naturally not aligned.

You haven't said why worker cooperatives optimizing the benefit of their own workers wouldn't add up to more welfare if the entire economy was based around worker cooperatives.

in my opinion worker ownership of the means of production is just socialism, and that doesn't have a good historical track record.
>> So if one of those millionaire employees retires and the company goes bankrupt one year later, the million is worthless all of a sudden.

Right, so everyone is interested in the long term health of the company.

It's a different model, one that may well be better than what most are doing. Of course most CEOs, private equity, and folks on Wall Street want you to think otherwise.
The board members are frequently CEOs of other companies, where the CEO whose salary is decided may be a board member.
Scientists know a fair amount about memory loss and brain capability. There is more to it than the proteins. The fact that we talk so much about reversing it without discussing prevention shows where the money is.

Yes, we can mostly prevent Alz/dimentia based on lifestyle. There are whole groups in the world who mostly didn't get it until they adopted certain lifestyle elements.

For example, when cardiovascular disease you often have clogged arteries that reduce the flow of blood. This also reduces the flow of blood to the brain which impedes its performance and ability to clean things up naturally.

Ref: https://www.amazon.com/Alzheimers-Solution-Breakthrough-Symp... [Note, the book language is played up for a general population audience]
re: SELinux, I think it depends on your use case.

If your system is a flight information display, then you may well have two userspace processes that do anything of significance: the display manager and the actual app. There is no persistent state. At this point, SELinux is purely overhead and extra attack surface — what would it even protect.

If your payload is a container (database server, microservice, whatever), and you’re doing some form of best-practice volume management, then only the database’s own data is mounted for it. SELinux is a real PITA to get working in a context like this, and it’s not really clear what it would add. (Okay, maybe you get fancy and use it to restrict what can talk to the microservice. Or maybe you use network namespaces.)

If you’re running a desktop or a more conventional server setup, then, sure, MAC policy has its place.
the predominant theory is that the length of an organism's lifespan is inverse to the rate of it's metabolism. Look into Kleiber's law. Also worth reading the book Scale by Geoffrey West.
All of the employees of all of those companies combined are still a small group of people compared to the number subjected to the results of their decisions.
"with even very moderate practice, humans can match Ayumu’s performance."

The article is misnamed, the actual score is 1 to 1.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2456409-dit-zijn-de-jongeren-achter-o...

https://nos.nl/artikel/2456322-jongeren-vaker-betrokken-bij-...

https://www.trouw.nl/opinie/daders-van-online-oplichting-moe...

https://www.politie.nl/nieuws/2022/april/4/05-trendbeeld-202...
> Can we leave the cynical antiwork comments out? They aren't helpful. This is obviously not the case for a majority of companies and anecdotes don't help.

Major companies are regularly prosecuted for conspiracy to suppress wages. It if weren't for government intervention your wages would be much lower and there wouldn't be anything you can do about it.

This blind faith that billion dollar corporations would behave ethically is highly inappropriate

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-tech-jo...
I do. Few of my friends. Few strangers that +1 my comments on this matter in the past on HN.

What’s so surprising?

And what other alternative can even remotely represent actual work conditions that a candidate would have?
JSDoc absolutely does not scale and allows for very limited type programming.

It's fine on toy projects, and somewhat I would say, for 99% of users that don't even know what a mapped or intersection type is.
Olimex's dual core RISC-V open hardware ESP32 P4 board is almost ready
Falcon provides many levels of protection (in principle - in practice, given the extreme incompetence demonstrated in this case, I doubt they do much more than sell snake oil), some of which have OS-native alternatives, some of which do not, and most of which Linux definitely doesn't have built-in. For example, the Linux kernel team doesn't have a DB of known malware signatures that the kernel or init system runs or shell runs any new software component against - Falcon does this. Another example - neither Linux nor any common Linux userspace natively integrates with with a fleet management system to check if the current user is allowed to run a particular piece of software. And there are many other similar questions.

Finally, even when the OS does natively provide services like these (Enterprise versions of Windows do provide all the features I mentioned above), it's perfectly reasonable to prefer a different vendor for those solutions. Maybe people trust CrowdStrike's malware signature lists more than they do Microsoft's, for example: a good reason to buy CrowdStrike instead of using Windows Defender.

I'm not trying to defend CrowdStrike or Windows here. But I think it's obvious that there are many features that fall under the umbrella of security that you wouldn't want to build into the OS itself, and even when a version of them exists built-in, that a company may wish to source from a different vendor.
You linked a database of Tau proteins naturally expressed by different species of animals. The mice in this study are a breed of mutants that express the human version of the Tau protein.
This is a much harder problem than prevention, which is what the OS should be doing.
I think the idea is, every company should be managed and owned by its employees. Employees in total should own about 51% of the stocks, as a start. Nowadays you see so many examples of management and even the owning entities (VC and other funds) mismanage the companies, simply to benefit themselves, and leave employees in the wind.
Most normal users aren't technology experts. This makes supporting the free web that much more important for those in a position to know better.
They can in the short term because they have tons of companies way too invested in their ecosystem to change.

See what VMWare did after the broadcom takeover. They did exactly that.
Companies needs money, money came from revenues but typically it's not sufficient and loan are not cheap. So companies try to get money from third parties, it's a bit cheaper but still not so cheap, stocks are cheaper, and if you have stocks while employees can buy them, have options and so on, they likely have not enough money so you can't keep the ownership "inside". Similarly you can "give ownership" to those who are new hired and get back ownership" from those who left for some reasons.

To resolve current very unbalanced society we need another thing: public money. We need to ANNIHILATE central banks and the current banking system. Money must be created by the government with public investments, so the government propose a new road, the parliament accept the proposal, some will make the new road getting "new" money from the State. Doing so regulate enough to avoid hyper inflation but still tie money on a physical substrate, tied to the real world resources avoiding pure finance.
I'm talking about local filesystem. Things like reflecting git status in $PS1 take many hundreds of milliseconds...
>2. A business-first, citizens-second approach to society.

This is meaningless. Businesses are activities undertaken by people. Everything resolves back to the people -- the same aggregation of the same individual people in all cases. Reifying the abstraction of "business" to treat it like some separate entity that's at odds with the very people who are engaging in the actual activity that term describes is a monumental confusion of ideas.
That ignores the costs (time spent) of finding another company and assumes one has information to conclude that it does indeed suck less without actually having the experience of working there to know.
That’s not what I’m saying. Obviously you can’t run multiple tests on one set of data. If you have a hypothesis, test it on multiple data sets in multiple ways and find supporting evidence rather than finding a single p=.05 and writing a story around it.
My problem with Chase: they stopped integrating with bill pay so I couldn’t automatically pay off the balance. It was always manual.

I talked to customer service and that was a unique experience. After about trying to blame me for 99% of the call, they finally admitted it was a feature.
I used Winamp Skins under GNU/Linux since XMMS.
I was asked to invent this algorithm on a whiteboard in 30 minutes. Loved it.
How much bullshit is there and how often are there consequences for this?

I don’t often read about anyone actually being fined for wrong, unnecessary or petty emergency calls

Local news the other day: a couple in their 60s forgot where they placed their parking ticket and called police which then came by and ordered the attendant to let them drive out for free. No consequences
https://toolguyd.com/amazon-sent-me-used-broken-knipex-plier...

Amazon put tons of stuff back on the shelf. It’s not quite as bad as Fry’s Electronics where every single thing they sold had obviously been opened and shrink up, but it’s getting close.
Tell me you haven't used Windows 10 without telling me you haven't used Windows 10.
Or even more basic government-enforced restrictions like IP laws. If you want a survival of the fittest anarchy economy then those won't exist either. Neither will legal protections against espionage or circumvention of whatever technical means you come up to try and get all that back.
Pretty sure many people see the point of having Falcon as a reason to not have an internal security team.

Outsource everything.
Oh that’s what it is. That’s why I unsubscribed there’s a lag playing anything.
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To be sure, it's not shadowy. You can track awarded contracts. You can track employment of persons from 3-5 letter agencies into private sector. You can look on Amazon Science page from 2019, where plans for "ambient intelligence" begin.
I guess it depends if the guy in the call center has Apple or Android.
It will lead to hyper-inflation unless we're somehow already in post-scarcity abundance (and one look at the housing market shows that isn't true!).

Just look at the consequences of the COVID payments and imagine that on an even larger scale.
Well, not bad for RR then, it's 2024.
What do you mean by unsound exactly.

I'm asking because there's no accepted definition of what an unsound type system is.

What I often see is that the word unsound is used to mean that a type system can accept types different to what has been declared, and in that case there's nothing unsound about ts since it won't allow you to do so.
Because eBay will respond very angrily when people report getting the fake piece of junk. Walmart doesn’t care if you are intelligent work hard at it. You don’t even have to give them your drivers license and they never know.
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It depends i guess.

Technically many public companies are partially owned by employees - and corporate as hell at the same time.

Clarify the question, it is very vague.
I have seen this book get recommended before. My father is starting to show some signs of cognitive decline (and potentially dementia), and I've been struggling to figure out if there are any particular directions I should nudge him in.

Have you read that book? Is it decent?
"ns" instead of "l" and "n" instead of "el" would have been my choice (seen in Haskell code).
This cannot happen. Microsoft writes digital laws in most EU member states.
Moderate drinking not better for health than abstaining, analysis suggests
In mice. I like how they depict a human and only mention it is in mice later in the article. Those mice are not a great model of alzeihmer, a lot of things work of them that have 0 effect on humans. And it is not even clear that the tau protein accumulation is the cause of issues in humans and could just be the consequence of other mechanisms.
Given that wealth is continually being concentrated towards the very rich I don't think this is accurate. As a whole the working class is producing more value than they are consuming, but the excess is going to the rich not those producing the value
The only valid one is the last (3rd) one:

Accessing commits on a private fork when it's upstream is made public

The other 2 are just common sense... push something to a public repo and it's public forever. Everyone knows once somethings on the internet it's already too late to make it secret again.
> it would send really wrong signals if this doesn't end up with CrowdStrike closing their doors

I thought the same until I saw the damage estimates. They’re in the single-digit billions. That’s well below CrowdStrike’s market cap. Unless we’re going hard for retributive justice, liability should be enough.
To be fair to Costco you have to understand that the way they do that is they just send the item back to the vendor and deduct it from the next purchase. The vendors only option is to not sell stuff to Costco anymore.
ah oops didn't notice the typo. But still, it doesn't work for me for some reason.

I just get the regular search page.

https://imgur.com/a/2lXvSVW
A 10 minute walk through Israel ...

"But the dominant group in Israel has internal diversity; therefore it can't be the dominant group" -- is that the counterargument, here?
I think getting a recorded, time stamped record will have a lot of value for investigations. Right now, people often have to decide between recording and calling 911.

Yes, maybe the phone can already do both but people are going to have a hard time figuring out how under pressure.
Yes. Both namespaces and enums (and probably the "private" keyword on class methods) are an early addition to the language, which would have never been added if typescript from the very start aligned closely with Ecmascript.
>then apply types once your happy paths start working for the first time to start catching the unhappy ones.

I.e. the "I'll go back and add safety later" strategy. Somehow I never seem to get around to doing it.
One of the small freedoms gained in leaving the Old Country is freedom from the "would you like fries with that" shiny happy service people smiles :-)

EDIT: > https://youtu.be/N1jhynHVMSw

The street fishmonger at 3:20 explains Gazmanov's « ... тебя как рыбу к пиву подают. »

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-CnWwbeetE

EDIT: I see Pugacheva has vocal credits for "The Irony of Fate"; that means the Pugachevous period spans from the Brezhnevian through the Putinian epochs...
I’m guilty - all do my annotated screenshots for tickets use comic sans
It is even more important for you to start taking the right steps. The earlier you take care of your health the better the outcome will be later in life.
Right, exactly! Improving Apple Maps is a good investment because it makes you:

1. less reliant on your worst competitor

2. get to give your users something everyone else has to pay for (with money or data)
This is good, but it really bothers me that so much research funding seems to be oriented towards click-generating headlines these days.
Imo the issue is undergrad cs programs have an identity crisis.

Are they the entry into the world of computer science. Should they teach set theory, computer organization, language theory, etc.

OR

are they trying to prepare the new wave of workers. Should they teach protocols like http, industry tools like Java and python, and good test practices?

A well rounded engineer should have a grasp on it all, but with only 4 years, what will attract more funding and more students?
Nothing fundamentally different from current state of the art, only gradual improvements.

So essentially we gonna have better and cheaper smart google alternative and advanced code (picture, audio, video, text) auto complete.

Unless another breakthrough happens.

Which can happen tomorrow, or in 50 years. You never know.
The cat-and-mouse game is between OS security features and hackers. AV software is not a crutch, it's an extra level of defense. All OS kernels are vulnerable to malware - this is a 100% given at this moment in history. The question is how to mitigate this problem, and AV is one component of that, as are firewalls, network-level intrusion prevention systems, and a whole host of other security software.

Maybe some day someone will write an OS that is "fully secure" and then they'll be able to confidently run a system whose users can confidently click a link in an email, download an .exe from there, and run it, without fear of losing or leaking a single bit of data. That day is definitely not here, and until then, we all do the best we can through education and security appliances.
My grandfather founded a construction company by himself many decades ago. He built it up over many years to a behemoth in the region and created a culture where people worked there for life. When he retired, he sold the entire company to the employees with everyone getting a cut.

His funeral was full of so many faces I had never seen before. Somebody pointed out to me that these were the dozens of people that he made millionaires by deliberately deciding to do right by the employees. It was really moving to talk with so many people who had reaped the benefits of their labor and were grateful for his decision.

That to me is the model that I want to work for. Yes, people at the top made more than at the bottom. But they had been there for decades longer, and the gap was not as extreme at every other company I’ve worked for. Wealth was collectively shared.

My family could have been a lot wealthier if he had kept a cut of the company. But he retired comfortably and didn’t feel that he deserved any more money that others earned for him. I really admire that decision.
Old people vote
The fact that Java forced you to write types, and then made everything implicitly nullable so that you still get NullPointerExceptions at runtime after writing out all those types, was probably a big reason why dynamically-typed languages became popular.
Is tau protein accumulation beneficial?
https://archive.ph/rhvXM
> just like how communism

There is some kind of derangement in the English speaking West, any attempt to reign in power of capital must be communist.

If free public libraries didn't exist and were proposed today, they'd be accused of communism. If free public legal deference did not exist today, anyone proposing it would be accused of being a communist. Also notice that using public money to hurt a person, i.e. prosecution, is never accused of an ideology.

These sort of comparisons are deeply unhelpful and only betray illiteracy of the accuser.
There’s also the self-titled “Cracking the Cryptic” app that has a bunch of handmade Sudoku & friends puzzles that range in difficulty from pretty tricky up to fiendish.

https://crackingthecryptic.com/#apps
Unfortunately those mice are really not a great model. They express the human tau yes, but that expression is sensitive to a lot of factors which makes human-inactive treatment work well on them.
It's not. Because the chimp got an immense amount of practice. Humans would beat it at this rate.
Cloudflare's Silk Privacy Pass Extension: Unexpected Opening of New Tab
Hey everyone,

I've been using Privacy Pass to help cut down on those annoying CAPTCHAs while on VPN but I noticed something odd with the recent update that I wanted to get your thoughts on.

Pros:

- Helps reduce CAPTCHAs on some sites
- Open-source and maintained by Cloudflare

Cons:

- Recently started opening new tabs without my permission
- Asks for "attester" verification in a kind of intrusive way
- Interrupts browsing unexpectedly

So, here's the deal: the extension now opens a new tab without any warning, asking you to verify an "attester." I get that this might be for transparency, but it feels pretty disruptive and unexpected.

Has anyone else noticed this? How are you feeling about it? This new behavior seems a bit off, especially for an add-on that's supposed to make browsing smoother. It also seems to clash with Firefox's policies on unexpected actions and user experience but this is unconfirmed.

I've already reported this to Mozilla, hoping they'll take a look. In the meantime, I wanted to give everyone a heads-up. If you value a smooth browsing experience without unexpected interruptions, you might want to hold off.

What do you all think? How can Cloudflare developers balance transparency with keeping things user-friendly? Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
It's no longer a wrench, it's a wireless corporate-run ad-powered e-wrench which needs printer ink for bolt-screwning.

Perfect.