skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll be building a Hackintosh with 64 gb or ram and the latest processors and ssd. There is a strong community for that now and it's apparently more robust than it used to be. Here's a good article by one developer on his experience: https://medium.com/swlh/building-my-1-200-hackintosh-49a1a18...
I had a similar experience within the past few years stemming from hypnosis and meditation in college, and listening to your podcasts have been eerily similar to my experience with mania in particular.

Have you found many other people who experienced similar symptoms stemming from self-reflection triggers?
There is some correlation between success and IQ, but it's absolutely not a given.

If you look at statistics you will see things like 'Average IQ of University Professor is 125 were as average IQ of factory worker is 85'.

That sounds cool and all until you realize that the number of people that work at a university as professors is in the dozens were as the number of people that work at a factory is in the hundreds... and that average IQ spread of factory workers is 70 to 140 and the spread of professors is 110 to 140. These things operate on bell curves.

Which means that there are a lot more high IQ people working at the factory then there are working at the university.

Which means if you want to figure out what people are more likely to succeed in life then you should just ignore IQ and concentrate on what they have already managed to achieve.
about ~1-1.5 watts under full load.
Design, Composition, Performance
I don't know, maybe this discovery has scientific value. But could it be the sometimes scientists report small "breakthroughs" just so that they keep the funding coming ?
It seems you have a very strong opinion about who you can work and socialize with... ;P
Don't believe the media hype, I have a couple of friends doing their residency out of UCSF and loving it. Look at places in East bay (or slightly south of it) online. It is all on the BART so it is convenient to get SF.
Yes, you can't live in SoMa or have a three bedroom house with that salary but SF city is not the center of the universe.
> My audio doesn’t work

From the article.

Not sure why people still pass this around as if it's positive.
I think you make some good points regarding the justice system, in particular the prison system, that are well worth discussing.

I think your argument would be stronger if you didn't include inflammatory and inaccurate statements like "third-world banana republic". The US is neither a banana republic (a country which relies primarily on a single export), nor third world (a developing country, as distinguished from communist bloc or capitalist countries).

If you have other working definitions of these terms, please let me know. I suspect I'm not the only reader that might interpret them in the way I describe.

It makes it too easy for people to dismiss you and your argument when you use language like this.

Please don't take this as a defense of the US! (Or an attack on the US either. I think it's very American to constructively criticize and work to improve the system.) I think there's a lot we can do to improve the US, particularly in the prison and criminal justice systems. Research into the psychological effects of solitary confinement go back to the 1860s, only 50 years after it was introduced in the US.
Tox has DHT bootstrap nodes, but they aren't hardcoded.
This is a prevalent theme of Naomi Klein's "This Changes Everything" (https://thischangeseverything.org/)

That the current system as it stands is not built to let us combat climate change, and we need to change the system too.
Last week we revamped the ActionHero website! We focused mostly on increased legibility and searchability of the documentation section.
Journalists too easily charmed by power, access, and creamy risotto
“Ask two Jews, get three opinions.” - a jewish quip given to me by Rabbi Glickman.
I'm not surprised, and I'm grateful for it. But it has been a long time coming, and it's been a major flaw in Matrix's offerings up to this point.
Back when they went to the unibody design there was a non-pro MacBook with the same design that was quickly replaced by the white shiny plastic one (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook#Unibody_aluminum_model). They have "corrected" stumbles/confusion in the MBP line in the past, I don't see why they wouldn't do it again.
WAT? 0_o What is this?

EDIT: OK I see now, it's really... nothing.
https://github.com/voronianski/go2url.xyz
One thing the article seems to miss is that the Mac Pro wasn't well received when it was released either, so lack of updates isn't an issue. Everything I used to do with those machines is now happily running elsewhere, so an update would be irrelevant.

The same thing could happen with the MBP if enough people are as frustrated as I am.
Yeah, just to clarify: Olm (matrix.org/git/olm) is an entirely independent implementation of the Double Ratchet algorithm (based on Trevor's original public domain spec sketch, which was originally called 'axolotl').

It's not connected to Signal or Signal Protocol or Open Whisper Systems, and subsequently we've added an entirely different new ratchet (Megolm - https://matrix.org/docs/spec/megolm.html) to handle Matrix's specific requirements for E2E.
It probably can be patched with this: https://github.com/toleda/audio_CloverALC

You can also use a USB headset as I do.
I've been almost exclusively playing Overwatch and Rocket League now for a good several months. The amount of offensive content isn't really any more than any other online community. It's rare. You get people who brag maybe, but no one has claimed to have sex with my mother in my entire time I have played that game. I've seen maybe a handful of racist terms dropped here and there, but those people are either chastised or ignored.

Idk, I just don't see what you see. What do you play?
I can highly recommend hub [1], which does steps 3, 4, and 5 in one command:

hub fork username/repo

1: https://github.com/github/hub
are you part of that knife fight? calling the article writer a hipster in this comment, and what seems to amount to "It's not wrong to criticize Signal. but don't because telegram is worse and more likely to win" in your other comment (since they arn't asking for libresignal to take over, just for a decent alternative to exist which currently probably does not)

It seems a really strong and a bit aggressive of an attitude to have against a person's opinions
That seems hyperbolic.

If nothing else, the thoughts in my own head are secret enough.
XNU combines a BSD-like kernel (providing POSIXish services) with Mach. The BSD portion of the kernel runs in supervisor mode like the Mach portion.
What's your point? "If you want power and discrete graphics get a desktop." is true about any notebook. Every notebook - except maybe those built from actual desktop hardware (which is mainly a configuration difference anyway) - will be far less powerful and more noisy than a desktop at the same price point.

Depending on the brand you'll always pay a 2-6 times premium for laptop hardware.

Re. battery life; it obviously depends a lot on the model. Some are quite okay, the gaming ones aren't.
That was not a strawman, unless you think I missed something about your position.

The question I asked was how much we should value the extent to which people "deserve" longer life against the moral value inhernet in extended life. You have to show that the fact that the rich have done nothing to "deserve" extended life (which I'll assume is true for the sake of argument) is bad enough to outweigh a million people getting an extra 1000 years of life, regardless of who those people are.
Read a Dickens novel and tell me about how great the social safety nets in Victorian England were.
> Ellison in the flesh is quite personable.

Sounds oddly familiar...
I could not find this anywhere; do Ring uses a server (NAT traversal, or similar)? Thanks!
I've lived near Richmond my whole life, and moved to SF within the last 2 years. I have friends who live and work in Tech (in Richmond).

Getting a new job can be hard. Your options for big companies that hire tech people in the area is GE, Altria (Phillip Morris if you're okay working for a tobacco co ), CapTech, UPS, VCU... But it isn't like Google, Apple, etc. Your options for smaller companies are bad. Some startups have popped up there over the years but they have pretty unanimously been bad.

You get paid less. It's harder to advance in your career. You can't really get by without a car like many do in bigger cities.

Richmond is a very nice city, and I enjoy going back there for a week every June, but to call it a New Silicon City is crazy. Sure you can buy a house if that's what you want to do. There's a reason talented engineers flock FROM these areas, though.
why can't they triangulate your location by your cell signal (using a stingray, for example)?
>This is actually a great idea from Perl. Essentially an anti-monad.

This is an old and deep idea in computer security.

DoD was (is?) interested in systems where, i.e. if a process reads a Top Secret document, then the OS enforces that it can longer write to merely Secret or Unclassified files/IO devices. That way, even a fully compromised process dealing in Top Secret files can't exfiltrate them to a less secure place.

It turns out that in systems designed around this "taint" (they call it "label") construct, everything tends to collect the taint/labels, so things having taint can't be restricted very much or the program can't do anything useful.

I'm in the middle of this security engineering textbook [0] and I love it.

[0] https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/security-engi...
'I think it would not be sane to expect your containers to "just keep working".'

Why?
For many projects, Github is just a place to publish yet another public repo. Using github issues and pull requests is a sure fire way to feel ignored. If you want to contribute, e-mail the lead maintainer. Do not submit patches to the ether. Do not think anyone will look at your patches. Having started several large open source projects, and started / worked for a number of open source companies, I can tell you the best way to get involved is to work on your personal relationship with the other developers. If that means hanging out in IRC or Slack, that's what it takes. Github is a terrible form of communication, especially when your org / developers have 100+ repos.
There are a few steps missing. Before the push, we need to pull on master and rebase the branch on top of master.
See triangular workflow in this page [https://github.com/blog/2042-git-2-5-including-multiple-work...]
The term "junior" itself has certain negative connotations. Among the various dictionary entries we have, for example:

adj. Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.

n. One of less experience or inferior standing in his profession than another, who is called his senior; one employed as the subordinate of another, especially at the bar.

n. term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male

I'm cherry-picking these, of course (out of a body of mostly neutral variants), but the point is, these negative touches do carry across.

"Senior" is a bit different, somehow (mostly because it's no intrinsically defined in terms of negative attributes like "inexperienced" or "subordinate").
Is ansible still python 2.7 only?
Yeah as long as you're using what everyone else is using and stay "inside the lines" it's OK. But step off into special territory, you're better off on Linux.
I agree. I remember learning to program on my graphing calculator in the early 2000's. Nobody cared, unless i could make a game they could play. Flash forward to now, I enjoy making web apps. None of my friends care unless I can make an app they can use.

Nothing has really changed. Being a maker is still as uncommon/weird as it always was. It might seem like everybody likes tech today, but they liked tv and video games and phones too. I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same...
Oh, wow, thank you! I totally had conflated those two in my head. (Let this go down as a rare instance of a HN commenter not doubling down on being wrong...)
the Olm audit is done; we're hoping to publish it week of Nov 14 (alongside iOS & Android support).

Encrypted attachments was PRed this week: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/pull/533 (for the web; mobile will follow shortly)
I update my database servers for the same reason I update my proxy servers: more features, security fixes, better performance, increased stability.
Oh interesting--I didn't realize that was the case. I guess it is correct to call the kernel BSD in that sense!
helping with documentation + website

I am not a programmer. I do copywriting for pay and I have run a bunch of different personal websites over the years (15+ years, I think). I know a little HTML and CSS.

I am interested in getting involved in open source via first working on copywriting and website stuff, since that is what I already have a background in. I am finding it extremely opaque to figure out how on earth to do that.

I left a couple of related comments on HN recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12860294

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12851361

I do have a github account and I recently went through the Hello World on how to do pull requests.

Any tips on how to begin interacting with open source projects on the copywriting and website development piece of things?

Thanks.
Sure. I'm not saying it is; you're welcome to implement that choice voluntarily. What's the benefit of being required to make that choice as part of being a GNU project?
Hype? It's an hour+ commute between East Bay and UCSF. All my friends doing a residency put in close to 80 hours a week at other facilities.

I'm not sure how that's remotely sustainable to waste that much time commuting.
It's unavoidable. Most PC motherboards everything is swappable to the Mac equivalent. You can change the wifi daughter card for a compatible model. You can change the video card for a compatible model. You can't change the built in audio chip that's on the motherboard. But you can alleviate it with a superior USB DAC
https://stallman.org/notes/current.html#31_October_2016_(Dow...

"A new noninvasive test for Down's syndrome will eliminate the small risk of the current test.

"This might lead more women to get tested, and abort fetuses that have Down's syndrome. Let's hope so! It is very wrong to intentionally subject a person to life with a serious disability, given the option to abort and try again."
They look similar I say that much.
You are obviously a white male. You have no credibility when it comes to denying discrimination. You have never been in danger of being fired or lynched for some intrinsic characteristic.
Doesn't have to be development related try editing 4K video with 16GB of ram.
The scary thing is that we can't understand what it feels like to have Alzheimer. Once progressed you become unable to judge the situation like you are used to. The world looks different from a patient's perspective.
Places to consider (from the article):

- Richmond, Virginia
- Eugene, Oregon
- Manchester, New Hampshire
- Huntsville, Alabama
iWatch is not a flop why Apple do not publish sales figures[0],
It fundamentaly flawed product like tablet with stylus :P Apple wanted to sell 50 milion of iWatches maybe 12-30mil was actually sold.

Sure that people are buying MacBook Pro after waiting for so many years..... Your reference from macrumors may be not most objective. Just on HackerNews there was multiple articles with less than enthusiastic views.

Apple became iPhone company, they relase new versions every year. Dell can release like 20 new laptops models but apple need 4 years to relase one ????

[0] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3152514/Apple...
> Utter nonsense. Being part of GNU doesn't imply agreeing with every word Stallman utters on any topic.

Of course it doesn't. But associating yourself with GNU is, very straightforwardly, associating yourself with Stallman. What is the advantage of doing so?

If there is such an advantage, then yeah, I think it's totally fair to dissociate yourself from his political views. But it seems to me like joining GNU is solely a political statement and a sign of agreement with Stallman's views on morality (since he frames free software / computing freedom as a moral issue). I don't know why anyone would want to make that statement unless they actually want to be associated with his political and moral views. That's all I'm asking. Is there another reason to associate yourself with GNU?
I would add "Make sure the maintainer of the repo will merge (or even look at) your PRs". I more than once had very reasonable PRs (bugfixes) waiting to be merged forever.
And what does it do any better than doing the same (keeping database on an
NFS/iSCSI/AoE share) on physical or virtual machines?
Often I find the opposite, a better understanding of something means that you have to very clearly understand both its pros and its cons.

So by understanding something you dislike well, you need to appreciate its pros, which will lead to a weaker negative opinion about it. Conversely, understanding something you like well, means you need to come to terms with its cons as well, which should lead to moderation as well.
Cheers Uber’s self-driving truck delivers 50,000+ cans of beer
And of course, the fact that there is always a grammar. That grammar might be images being linked together, it might be text, but it ultimately comes down to learning a grammar, breaking down your problem to fit it, and then building a solution using that grammar. Changing the grammar only really makes the first part approachable, and that's not actually the hard part.
Author from the original article here.

>>> * Docker encourages fully disposable infrastructure => I'd consider that incorrect and/or misleading

Docker is meant to manage disposable (i.e. stateless) applications. They are expected to be killed/stopped/restarted at any time, no persistent state, no data.

An application is either disposable OR not disposable by its design, docker doesn't change that. (For instance, don't try to dockerize databases).

Docker gives you a quick, nice and easy way to package your applications with dependencies (as Docker image) AND deploy them. [This is valuable]

It's especially great for development and test environments because you can run many containers (i.e. applications) on a dev/test machine, without dependency/deployment hell. [This is very valuable]

>>> * Docker containers can be more secure then traditional environments => No. Just No.

Docker has nothing to do with security.

>>> * Docker provides for idempotent environments agnostic of hardware concerns etc

Docker gets to ignore the hardware. You do not.

You get to buy, setup and manage servers. Maintain a full environment that can run docker.

It can be an undertaking full of dangers, as told by this article and mine :D

>>> * Container management software (Kubernetes, etc.) makes Docker much more powerful/useful and is only going to get better

Docker allows to package and deploy an application. It doesn't do anything about infrastructure at all (i.e. machines, load balancers, DNS, discovery), which you still have to manage and it's a HARD problem.

The orchestration systems is supposed to help you manage all of that. As a result, it will be able to automatically kill/restart/move/add containers across a cluster and make the necessary [physical or virtual] infrastructure changes.

Container + Orchestration will be a [r]evolution to manage entire giant fleets of hosts and applications. [This will be infinitely valuable (allowing me to automate the work of 10 people, all freeing all my time to enjoy unlimited free drinks and foods)]

IMO: In the current state of affairs. Having docker without orchestration is like having cars without roads.
Visualizing Dynamic Systems
Does a copy exist that's not a mangled PDF of an OCR of a scan that someone reassembled from a shredder's output bin?
Now it's fixed, good work!
Wow! When you want to fix a typo, it can be as little as two hours!
I think people are hopeless because while we are starting to move in the right direction, it's probably too little and too late. Moderation of CO2 emissions might have been enough 20-30 years ago, but now we need immediate radical action to prevent extreme changes in the planet's climate and that's not happening.

Regardless of how much money there is to be made in this market (and you're right, there's a lot), Earth is going to be a very different place to live in 50 years unless we rapidly make dramatic and fundamental changes to the way we produce and use energy.
Ask HN: Headphones when you wear glasses?
I'm looking for comfortable headphones. Some of you certainly know the pressure caused by the headphones and the glasses on the head. Thank you HN.
Congratulations on your first OSS project! It definitely seems I could use this.
How about while idle? It seems like you'd still need a fair bit of power to refresh them, but I'd be interested to see the actual numbers.

For comparison the 13" MacBook Pro has a 50wh battery, so apple's 10 hour battery claim depends on the machine averaging 5 watts of power consumption during normal use. Adding 1 watt of consumption would reduce the battery life by 2 hours.
It's actually right in line.
I attached an external ssd on my old 2011 Mac mini and it performs just as faster than my 2015 MacBook Pro. This makes me realize that OS X still runs very fast even on older models and makes me wonder if this is the reason why apple isn't really keen on providing macs with faster cpus or even more ram. So to those of you who asks for more ram or CPU, unless you run very memory / CPU intensive apps, it's most likely you don't require them.
Given the size of the study was any other outcome expected.
Legal Pot Has the Potential to Spread Further This Election Year
My ClojureScript-fu is not strong, could someone add a rule to prevent the script walk too close to already carved blocks?
Edit: I mean, I've been trying add a rule so it checks the candidate blocks neighbours and couldn't. And I wanna see how it would work.
The "Lessons Learned" at the end are priceless. I have created my fair share of single purpose easy to use utilities that made some money. They are fun to build.
But probably a removeable battery.