skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Creating unit files is trivial and you're sure that you're getting high quality service supervision, unlike with home grown scripts.

Seeing the logs of every service is also trivial since it's standardized. No more spelunking through /var/log or some random location.

There's also other parts I'm probably forgetting right now, but in general having a standard interface for service interaction is really, really useful.

Sometimes I get the impression that Linux folks underestimate the benefits of standardization. For example there's still no good, standard way to check the exact name and version of a distribution. If they can't agree about something as banal as that... (I think there is a convergence towards /etc/os-release, but when was the first distro launched? 1992? :) )
I don't think it's that the team is not crucial to delivery, but rather that incentivising that team by giving them such an upfront, guaranteed reward is not ideal.
Related: a 9-year, n=25871 study looking at long-term health outcomes of blind Vitamin D/Omega 3/placebo supplementation just ended and will have results out this summer.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01169259
Well, you can.

"PPAs" are just ubuntu-hosted Apt repos.

I've yet to find a server-focussed package that is both not sufficiently up-to-date in the main or back ports repos and there isn't a vendor repo for it.

Sure, adding a 1 line text file in `/etc/apt/sources.list.d` and a gpg keyring to `/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d` is probably slightly more work than running `apt-add-repository`, but if that's what defines how you pick a server distro, I'd like to very much never work with you please.
I like it too. I might have to find a way to write about the "ambient 4th dimension" that is time.
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>So, the goal is probably aligned more with career progression than stopping drug trade as such

No, you should read the article rather than automatically assuming bad faith.

"Since the takedown, Ras says, they've arrested a dozen of Hansa's top vendors, with more arrests planned for coming weeks"

"While most drug vendors who fled AlphaBay showed up soon after on other dark web drug sites, those who fled Hansa didn't—or if they did, they recreated their online identities thoroughly enough to escape recognition"
(Based on my experience) the best form of job guarantee is another 10-20 employers willing to hire me.
Microsoft Shutters Bizspark in Favor of Microsoft for Startups
I think these two points captures the challenges for the AI to match primitive human abilities .

>just how much we take for granted in that comes "out of the box" with a human brain. Humans can build associations with very few samples, and we come pre-wired with all sorts of tools from primary systems like hearing, visual, sensory systems to complex capabilities like speech and communication abilities.

> DeepMind burned an order of magnitude more than the 20W/hr a typical human brain uses. When we have compute systems with that power density, we may see more emergent behaviors from our silicon-based friends.
Problem being, AFAIK, that solar farms consume vast parts of surface area compared to other forms of power gen.
Tadashi is awesome! I love his video explaining how someone found a prime that looks like the Arms of Trinity Hall [1]. Highly recommend all videos from Numberphile [2] and Fermat's Library [3].

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQQ8IiTWHhg
[2]https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoxcjq-8xIDTYp3uz647V5A
[3]https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSD2RxaYn2Nxkm41gp-eKfA
It's still a categorical "not" as far as international law goes. There are no competing treaties that other countries have signed with different interpretations of the fair use of space. Just because China (and the US, as other replies have pointed out) has broken the rules doesn't change the fact that they are still the rules. A satellite that is behaving itself is one that isn't violating the OST- generally that means not interfering with other satellites and their missions and not carrying nuclear weapons.

62 miles (100 km) altitude is where the border lies.

This is not a gray area at all and there is no money to be made by violating the OST. If you start a company in a country that has signed the OST you will be held to the rules. Any country that isn't a signatory to the OST doesn't have a robust space program and will likely still require you to follow the OST because there will be strong international pressure on them. Even if a country did allow you to violate the OST you wouldn't have a viable business because all the economically developed countries of the world have signed the OST and won't do business with someone that is interfering with their access to space.
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Whereas with publicity-crazed prosecutors, you end up with the highest prison population in the world. Also elected prosecutors have to fundraise, which is a whole other league of legalised corruption in itself. The United States arguably has a worse corruption problem than the UK in its police system, thanks to "forfeiture" and the lack of an effective complaints system.

There was an attempt to import this system to the UK, in the form of "police and crime commissioners" - an almost total failure. They're extremely highly paid, ineffective, and elected on turnouts of about 25%.
>> This tendency leads people to expect something from AI that they can do
quickly and to be shocked when we find AI to be brittle and lacking
fundamental features of human understanding.

Just to be clear- "AI" ≠ classification and even more so, AI ≠ machine
learning ≠ deep neural nets. The article above runs fast and loose with the
terminology, but machine vision and in particular object detection (or
classification of objects in images) is one area and one sub-task of AI in
general. It happens to be one of the two or three areas that have seen strong
empirical results in recent years, but it's by no means the only active area
of research (although, thanks to the funding from large technology companies,
it is probably the fastest growing one).

It's also very strange to see "brittleness" as a criticism of deep neural
networks in particular (the attacks described only work on convolutional
neural nets as far as I know). In the past, the type of AI system criticised
as "brittle" was the hand-crafted rule-based expert system type of AI. And the
reason why that kind of AI was criticised as brittle is because it did not
deal very well with the noise in real-world domains, such as in photography or
speech etc. Deep neural nets in particular are extremely robust to noise,
which is why they work so well in speech and image processing.

I think what you really mean by "brittle" is the tendency of deep nets to be,
well, a little too good in dealing with noise. Specifically, they have a
tendency to overfit to the noise, because they produce models with very high
variance. Indeed, the whole adversarial examples thing is probably best
understood as a result of overfitting.

As to "lacking fundamental features of human understanding" what you mean, I
think, is that image classifiers only do classification and nothing more- which
is true, but then that's what they 're designed to do. Nobody expects an image
classifier to have any understanding of the images it's classifying.
Yeah I really wonder about the origin of these awful hardcoded target platforms is. Fun fact, however, is that BFD ld and gold can both be compiled supporting all platforms.
Having been on a lot of teams with various processes, it seems to ultimately come down to trust. I’ve seen teams where there’s a ton of trust and mutual respect, where even a very structured agile approach has allowed for sprints focused entirely on innovation and exploration. Process is just another tool; how it’s used — and the environment — matters a lot.
https://www.twitch.tv/jessicamak

C++, OpenGL, and ingenious offbeat procedural animation.
No reason we couldn't expand into doing that!
If you're talking about IMAGE it was known where it was NASA just didn't know that it was still transmitting. IIRC the discoverer actually used the orbital elements to determine what satellite he was seeing. They still had an active and accurate TLE for it they'd just stopped checking because NASA thought it was dead in space after the eclipse a couple years ago failed to reset the broken power supply. [0]

[0] https://skyriddles.wordpress.com/2018/01/21/nasas-long-dead-...
Thanks to those keeping AI claims grounded in truth and not hype.
Expressing inter-daemon/inter-service dependencies (restart this, want X, Y, and Z restarted subsequently) has repeatedly bitten our team under SysV init (in say, RHEL <= 6), but becomes a totally solvable issue under SystemD.

(It should be noted that while our company runs an awful lot of 1st party stuff, what our team works with is exclusively 3rd party stuff over which we have precisely no control)
Interesting, I didn't know about Debian slim.

For comparison, I just found this blog post [1], claiming the following:

> According to the docker images command, the debian:jessie-slim container clocks in at 88MB, compared to the full-fat debian:jessie container at 123MB. For reference, the ubuntu:xenial and centos:7 base containers are 130MB and 193MB respectively, where as the alpine base container is only 4MB, as mentioned in my post about the alpine base container.

[1] https://elegantinfrastructure.com/containers/cotw-debian-jes...
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NASA Satellites Recreate Solar Eruption in 3-D
I use the new language to write a non-trivial program (several thousands of lines) that I've written before several times, knowing all the algorithmic and design pitfalls so I can be certain that I need to learn the language's own tricks only.
The prbolem is the drugs not the currency.
Drugs dealer using dollar away before bitcoin exists, and sill using it until now.
Should we worry about dollars too?
There is also the problem of the fossil-fuel lobby that just can't accept their source of income is going to become less relevant by the year and hopefully fades into the pages of history within the century.
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Who would sweep floors then?

I see three possibilities. (1) Well-paid cleaners, because cleaning will become necessarily expensive. (2) Workers that do other, much more productive things 95% of the time. (3) Machines.

I assume that the list above is sorted by increased probability, on a 5-year horizon.
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An example that stuck with me was on a windy day when I saw a seagull approach a telephone pole, coming in with the wind, turning 180 degrees and landing neatly facing the wind.

The brain of those creatures are tiny. No scientists are handholding them as they grow up.

Yet they manage to search vast areas for food, learn new ideas like stealing from shops and tourists and even as you mention - self replicate.

Yes, while AI is improving we are orders of magnitude away from replicating animals.
I tried to move to Germany recently, only gave up because family in UK needed help with parent with Alzheimer’s.

As an EU citizens, I have a right to go there and work. Work requires a tax code. Tax code requires a permanent address in Germany. Most places you can live require a job and good credit history.

I could bootstrap that by buying a place in Germany, and I might still do that if I am confident I understand foreclosure auctions well enough, but it’s amazing what a little creative bureaucracy can do to slow things down.
Declarative system service configuration (i.e. init scripts or unit files in systemd language) are definitely an advantage.

I was initial skeptical about their benefit - after all, an init script is just shell, it can be debugged literally with `sh -x`.

But that also means a) people write/ship fucking terrible init scripts, mostly because b) it's not necessarily simple to write an init script in pure shell.

The problem with systemd is the politics and the project's approach to the community (including their self-defined role/goals).
Yeah, many diseases are related to the microbiome (although there is the question of where does the cause/effect arrow point?), but current probiotics are for the most part not sticking around in the gut. The usual suspects just have an indirect effect on the bacteria you already have, and get excreted within days/weeks. Spore forming bacteria survive longer, but might become a problem of their own if overpopulated. Also.. if your goal is a more diverse microbiome, then supplementing the most abundant L-bacillus strains might not be a particularly effective option?

And the microbiome is so vast that it’s hard to influence on the long term. With a very strong probiotic you get 5 * 10^10 bacteria (of which most die in the stomach and small intestine), but at the same time you have 3.8 * 10^13 native bacteria settled and accustomed to your body, feeding on the sugar you have just eaten. You need a lot of those tablets to have a meaningful impact.

Just like a great body, a great microbiome gets made in the kitchen. AFAIK dietary changes work way faster than popping probiotics. With the exception that you are missing certain strains (eliminated by antibiotics?), which should be replaced.
I believe that the EU is fueling those tendencies. I'm referring to financial policies primarily and immigration crisis response secondarily actively pushing Europe towards extremism.

Extreme right wing (mostly) and left wing political forces are setting the agenda of every member's election of the last 4 years.
Maybe they are only paid if they are productive?
Well, then yes, please, be my guest and look into it.

And kindly point to me any study (may I say the countless studies) that can support your claim: 'Children do learn faster than adults. Countless study's support that.'.
> NRO gave NASA two space telescopes no one knew they even had

The only reference I can find for this says the NRO satellites won't be launch till 2020. They're not up in orbit.

[0] https://www.space.com/16000-spy-satellites-space-telescopes-...
I am curious when anxiety happened in your case? For me if I fast for few days the second night (like 28-30 hours without food) is sleepless due to anxiety.
Do you understand the cynicism? Is the vitriol real or imagined?

If you have ideas that are both "complete" and relevant to the business, you're right to be ticked.

If you're just spitballing about "things that could be better" without concrete information about what quantifies "better", you're probably not being taken seriously.
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I write a simple address book type app. Basically covers all CRUD operations and allows me to create a nice ui on top. Also handy to have demonstratable code to show your boss or a potential new gig.
Besides experimenting with polyphasic sleep and such, I could never think that sleep deprivation could become a therapy.

Regardless of the validity of these claims, I welcome this new idea into my brain.
"better and more stable." How so? I never had any issue on the desktop using Ubuntu and it has better driver support. Debian has only old packages and the only way to get new one is to use testing / unstable.
Non-paywall archive version: http://archive.is/76nw0
I'm doing that too and I'm always extending my estimation of work to include those potential researches. Smart people said, estimate work to be done and multiply it to Pi. If I'm feeling uncertain, I'm additionally multiplying it to E. Result estimation might be a bit pessimistic, but I've found that it's better than wrong estimate resulting in missed deadlines and work at nights.
What about The Ukraine? We can learn a lesson from their choice to give up their nuclear arsenal too. South Africa gave up a program, Ukraine gave up an arsenal.
The military's always hiring.
Yes, I agree it doesn't fit into the standard definition of "FU money". And how much you'd need certainly depends on the job market for your specialty and location.

But what I'm describing shouldn't be the "Lose your home" buffer. This is on top of that rainy-day fund, and saved up specifically so that you have that flexibility to be between jobs for a bit without having to snap up the first mediocre opportunity that comes your way - whether it's because you left voluntarily, you got fired/downsized, or the company you worked for just plain went under.
I want them dead. It's very rewarding to dump out 50-100 dead bugs into the trash knowing they won't be reproducing.
There's an option to disable it waking up and displaying things, so I've never seen adverts on mine (but maybe there's other things shown you do want to see?)
You say that like it's an inviolable law of nature to be fucked by your employer.
Summary: Blankenship is saying coders get really hard to manage because their managers dismiss the coders' contributions to deciding WHAT to do. Blankenship says the coders then retreat to safety: HOW to do things is safety for a coder, because of the coder's greater expertise in the area of HOW. But with this type of manager, HOW is often ignored as well. That's why the coders get frantic, or worse, the coders stop commenting on HOW, and start working to rule (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule). Pretty quickly, the coders have forgotten any attempts at contributing to WHAT to do. In a follow up, Blankenship says a solution is "Be humble. Listen more. Ask more than tell." (https://hackernoon.com/a-wake-up-call-for-tech-managers-d041...) and he says the 1-on-1 is the place to start. That's where you want to end up, but I'm skeptical that advice is going to do the trick. Sometimes you need to tell people to do B so they end up doing A. For example, it's not a great strategy to try to make yourself happy by choosing to be happy; instead choose to be grateful (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3010965/). I think this may work better: 1) "Try not to appear insane (and stupid) to the people you supervise", 2) "Make sure your reports understand what you're thinking and doing enough so they could replace you and accurately speak for you in any meeting", and 3) "Don't waste the intelligence of your reports: capitalize on their insights and perspectives." That has worked in my own managing (says the man who just got "laid off" :) ), but I haven't yet tried it out on other people.
It's a good quote, but you should know you're really quoting the zeigeist there, as was your professor.
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Debian stable has never been terribly old for several generations now.

Does what you do with your computer matter? Then you probably want to consider doing it on a stable platform.

Do you want to experiment? Sure thing, have fun — but be aware that you may lose data as a result.

Debian stable has been an excellent platform for me for the better part of a decade. But I'm unafraid to install newer version of some software where appropriate (e.g. emacs, or graphics drivers).
Depending on the food people can gain weight with IF. My impression is that with IF it is easier to follow diets to reduce weight, IF alone is somewhat orthogonal to weight management.
Last season of xfiles have a funny episode about the stuff you think happened, but didnt :)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Art_of_Forehead_Swe...
It sound like he did multiple investigations, each producing one page long summary.

A detailed investigation can easily take a month and then you just make summary of why you rejected it - brevity is often advantage.
It's not exactly a huge update:

Geany 1.33 (February 25, 2018)

Bug fixes
* Fix the symbols tree hierarchy when several tags have the same name
(PR#1598).

Interface
* Add a tooltip showing the full path on menu items representing documents
(PR#1706).
* Add a note for applying the indent settings in the project preferences
(PR#1650).
* Enable popup menu on sidebar and message window notebooks (PR#1726).
* Show status message on attempt to execute empty context action
(Lars Paulsen, PR#1642).
* GTK3 theming improvements and documentation (PR#1382).

Filetypes
* CSS: Update Grid properties (Issue#1705).

Internationalization
* Updated translations: de, el, es, fr, it, lv, pl, pt, tr, ru, zh_CN
Same here-- designed a system used by half a dozen major companies (MS etc).

Was having design decision overridden by a PM wh had never worked a day as an engineer.
I'm sorry but we're not talking about unemployed people on benefits, we're talking about low skilled workers who pay taxes and are exercising their right to free movement. Emphasis on "right".

Baring a few exceptional cases such as criminal activity, I am not aware of any limitations the UK can implement to control this (for now).
If you are tired maybe you don’t think too much, thinking too much is part of depression
Lack of willpower/inability to build good habits.
I don't disagree, but how do you define a "mature" developer in this context without getting into a circular definition? Like "professional", it can easily boil down to "does what I like the way I like" if we don't share an understanding of any objective reference.
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>Hah. No. I was talking explicitly about the many professors that specialized in law and economics relating to the EU

Who couldn't be more out of touch. In 2008 the Queen was at the LSE talking to exactly these kinds of people and, quite famously asked "why did none of you see the financial crisis coming?". None of them had a good answer.

Their reputation is literally "the guys who were completely blindsided by the last economic storm". In 2016 they staked their reputation on there being another storm - high unemployment and recession to follow the vote. Two years later we can look back and confirm that once again, they were wrong. We still haven't had a contractionary quarter and unemployment is slightly down.

Now they are telling us that once we finally exit that the promised spike in unemployment and recession will happen. Frankly they might be right this time, but they'll still simply be useful idiots.

>No. What I described above is the effect of Brexit.

No, you didn't. Among other things, you mentioned negotiating a trade deal. If we stay in the common market there is no need for that. That option was firmly on the table during the vote and even now it still hasn't been taken completely off.

>Eh? Teresa May has been consistent that she wants a "hard brexit"

No she hasn't. Originally when she asked what Brexit meant she famously said "Brexit means Brexit" much to the chagrin of... well, everybody.

She's flip flopped all over the place since then.

>You seem to be at a severe information deficit concerning the information available to the public about brexit. Please read https://voxeu.org/article/economics-brexit-pre-referendum-vi....

Yeah? Try reading your article from 2016. Pay attention specifically to the bit where they promised high unemployment and recession following the cataclysmic effect of the vote and went "this is probably right, but it's too early to tell". Well, it's 2018 and it's no longer too early to tell! Unemployment went slightly down and we've yet to experience a single quarter of contraction (and it's not like those are rare, I think 2013 was the last one?).

Try comparing your economists' predictions to reality once in a while. You might be surprised.

Ironically, I find a lot of people who are pro Brexit to be less surprised about the facts I've just shared. That's not because they're smarter, it's just because they are fed a different kind of propaganda.