skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>b) feels like a weird choice to drop the openldap-server packages but not the openldap-clients package. Are they going to provide a replacement for the OpenLDAP client libraries eventually as well? Is there even a good alternative (ie. API compatible and replacements for all the command line utilities) to openldap-clients?

They have no choice here, they use OpenLDAP's libraries. Mozilla/Netscape's own LDAP SDK has been unmaintained for more than a decade; it's abandonware.
Rough terrain on bikes was already solved with suspension or larger tires I doubt they managed to create something that worked better than that.
> One of the painful early lessons for the industry was the discovery that minimizing operational costs (particularly fuel and maintenance) trumps every other value. A pioneering containerized shipping company went bankrupt pursuing a high-speed shipping strategy that cost marginally more than low-speed competition.

I’m not convinced that this is static — as far as I can see it should depend on the prevailing rate of interest. The more a company pays in interest on a loan, the faster it should want to realize its investment (which doesn’t happen by goods sitting in a container).

I’m not sure what the equilibrium interest rate is, exactly, but at some level of interest it should become cheaper to ship the goods faster, since you will save more in interest payments than the extra you pay for shipping (due to your investment becoming operational sooner, allowing you to pay back the loan).
Shifting solid bulk cargoes: an explanation of the process and dangers
> 2) a good model for Canonical to support (non-corporate?) users

What on Earth made you think Canonical cares about supporting non-corporate users :-)?
> However, in June 2018 I answered a call from the Canonical Desktop Team to look at old untouched Firefox bugs with the aim of removing at least 250 of them from Launchpad after verifying that they were no longer valid. I am currently, as at August 2018, also looking at other packages and I estimate that I will remove in excess of 1000 bug reports from Launchpad relating to the following applications:

That might explains some thing.
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TL;DR Emotions are somewhat studied in terms of how to deal with them, check Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
Check out Feeling Good by Burns[1], there are specific chapters addressing perfectionism. And his podcast on this topic "“I don’t feel like doing it!” Quick Cure for Procrastinators""[2] (suggest to find it on iTunes[3]/Spotify to listen with 1.5x speed, episode 053)

I'm going through a stage in my life when I don't enjoy doing things anymore. Obviously, if a task is considered somewhat hard and I know I will barely enjoy it, there is very little internal emotional support (motivation?) for doing it, thus procrastination.

I did an exercise from the book which was to list tasks I did during the day and mark a satisfaction rate as well as an efficiency rate. All the tasks are like 10% satisfaction, 99% efficiency. Seems like a mismatch. Then I asked myself a question "What would a person who does useful and efficient things tell himself to feel that miserable? What would he think about?".

I got the following, which goes really deep into my internal motivations and fears:
"All these tasks are worth nothing. I shouldn't be happy with them because I can forget that I don't grow and don't accomplish much in general. I may end up being a silly guy who only chills and has fun but in fact, has nothing meaningful going in his life. I shouldn't forget that things are not that good at the moment and it's too early to relax, to enjoy small accomplishments. A person becomes weak if he always enjoys what's going on around."

So if you experience a huge mismatch between satisfaction and efficiency (paradoxically I naturally have lots of fun doing things I am like 0% efficient in because I don't know yet how perfect result looks like), I suggest you to ask the same question "what thoughts could make a person that miserable?".

After listing advantages of believing the above and deep appreciation of my beliefs, it became clear that some of them are crazy self-sadistic. Even though they have the best intentions in the universe (making my life better) what they in fact achieved was getting me to the verge of having suicidal thoughts. And now I am doing exercises mentioned in the book and the podcast to give up these beliefs.

[1] - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Feeling-Good-New-Mood-Therapy/dp/03...
[2] - https://feelinggood.com/2017/09/18/053-ask-david-i-dont-feel...
[3] - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/feeling-good-podcast-tea...
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I’m always amazed to see how people don’t give up on a great idea. Boy, I wish I was more like that.

Also: quite a nice landing page!
The Focus is dead because Ford is abandoning autos in general. The "Focus Active" was named as such to try to trick USA consumers that there was something in common with the Focus line, which (unlike the Fiesta and Fusion) was USA-built.
This doesn't excuse many of the other things they do, like (often badly) patching upstream code and not sending the patches upstream.

It's one thing when you simply don't have the resources or the manpower to respond to all the bugs. That's understandable -- you deal with the really important ones and oh well.

It's totally another thing when even the ones you deal with, you deal with poorly. Especially when, more often than not, upstreams tend to be helpful, especially with large distributions like Ubuntu. A bad patch can always be made better. No communication leaves things exactly as they were. A bad patch and no communication makes them even worse.
All the other references to seriously heinous and potentially more destructive things don't seem to bother not much anyone or at least can not be used to rile up controversy to the same degree as racist imagery or references. It seems to be ok to glorify killing or at least portray it in totally acceptable or neutral light but any reference to possible prejudice or separation or claims of inferiority of certain groups or species compared to others is a no go?

In the light of america's past treatment of minorities starting from natives and then blacks and even discrimination of specific groups of whites it is perhaps understandable people are wary of it but try to see the situation objectively without any historical bias or taking sides and simply the first principles of what is portrayed or stated.
This article is older now but is still a great read. It has a different list which I liked a lot (the below is directly from the article):

Self-Serving Bias – basically: if something is good, it’s probably because of something I did or thought of. If it’s bad, it’s probably the doing of someone else.

Fundamental Attribution Error – basically: the bad results that someone else got from his work must have something to do with how he is, personally (stupid, clumsy, sloppy, etc.) whereas if I get bad results, it’s because of the context that I was in, the pressure I was under, the situation I was in, etc.

Hindsight Bias – (it is said that this is the most-studied phenomenon in the history of modern psychology) basically: after an untoward or negative event (a severe bug, an outage, etc.) “I knew it all along!”. It is the very strong tendency to view the past more simply than it was in reality. You can tell there is Hindsight Bias going on when descriptions involve counterfactuals, or “…they should have…”, or “…how did they not see that, it’s so obvious!”.

Outcome Bias – like above, this comes up after a surprising or negative event. If the event was very damaging, expensive to clean up, or severe, then the decisions or actions that contributed to that event are judged to be very stupid, reckless, or negligent. The judgement is proportional to how severe the event was.

Planning Fallacy – (related to the point about making estimates under uncertainty, above) basically: being more optimistic about forecasting the time a particular project will take.

From: https://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/10/25/on-being-a-senior-eng...
Meh. If the backing store is not SQL, why would a SaaS provide a (much harder to implement) SQL layer with all its standards (92, 99, 2003) and quirks instead of writing a (probably) much simpler custom query language?
Contrary to what the post says, I usually have the same experience filing bug reports on Debian: most of the time no one replies. However, even though I no longer really expect anyone to react, I still think it's useful to report bugs. Indeed, when I have a problem and am searching for explanations, it's often very useful to find a bug report even if the bug has not been fixed: it can help you confirm that the problem is not specific to your setup, can give you hints about what is causing it, can suggest possible workarounds, etc. So even "giving up" on Ubuntu bug reports doesn't mean it's not useful to report bugs, IMHO.
I wonder what a developer needs to do to tell the kernel to do its best to schedule thread A to the faster cores while threads B and C can be scheduled to the slowest ones without much trouble.

Or, perhaps, the kernel could migrate the threads according to how CPU bound they are without much intervention from the programmer. If you have a lot of IO bound threads, they'll saturate the slow cores before allocating to the faster ones and vice-versa.

Also manually setting priorities could reflect on which core to use. I do a lot of stuff with `nice -n 19` while I work on something else.

When I saw a demo of an ODROID board with 8 2-tier cores they noted GIMP started faster on a 4 core machine than on the ODROID but didn't make the connection that it was probably because some threads were being scheduled to the slow cores and needed to sync with the threads on fast cores before initialization concluded.
Its also good to see if something is a bug and not user error
No known features?
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Rolling-release distributions (Gentoo, Arch) are very hard to use in a work environment. When it's the last day before release and I have two bugs to squash and eight hours for it, the last thing I want to do is babysit my computer through whatever broke at the last update.

Fedora is the same, except the breakage happens every six months. No thanks.

I'm happy to run these in a VM for development, or at home, but not at work, the place where I have absolutely zero intention of spending more than the fixed daily amount in my contract.
Funny how suddendly commercial software makes sense
Articles on container implementation
Rust and Servo are indeed impressive projects. Too bad Servo is jumping the shark by moving away from building a functional web engine to doing VR experiments. :(
Here's an automated transcript to start off with.

https://scribie.com/transcript/6946cef33e3c4e3596a819daaac73...
Also a lot of the bugs will affect such a tiny percent like users with some obscure Bluetooth card trying to use some uncommon feature. Ubuntu could spend all year closing obscure bugs and almost none of their users would benefit.
Fair enough, although I would expect some sort of loss-leader level of support that isn't entirely useless, if you are to drive enterprise adoption from the bottom-up.
I am pretty sure neither "affordable" nor "luxury" is the part of their PR.
Centralized Government vs. Yet Bigger Data
related: http://softwheel.technology/
This wouldn't be an issue if support charged for the amount of time spent. If the user spends their money getting stupid non issues looked at then thats their issue.
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Interesting idea for a new type of golf tournament: at the start, everybody gets a closed bag of random golf clubs, they pick one to keep, and pass the rest of the bag to the golfer to the left while they get to choose their next club from the bag they get from the right.
I think what he's asking is that people allow a flat file export, which you would have to map and import yourself. This seems reasonable to me.

And I agree. I wasn't involved in writing NRQL but statistics queries at New Relic during my time were already approaching turing completeness, so it was just a matter of time. Timeseries data in particular really doesn't map well to SQL at all, sadly, as a SQL fan working with a lot of timeseries data over the decade+ now.
> If I have to start from scratch I can only start if I have the perfect picture in my head or it is better to do nothing and go hiking.

People often wonder why I ask not only so many questions but so many detailed ones when we are working on a project from scratch where I possess none of the information and the people asking me to code things for them hold all of that information, know I need it, and yet somehow do not recognize that I can not conjure up a website magically with the knowledge from their heads, or inboxes, or asses -- who really knows?
In their FAQ they say they're working on MTB wheels, but that the challenge is the (lack of) lateral stiffness in a bigger wheel, which makes sense. The larger the diameter the spring needs to cross, the harder it is to have it only flex in one dimension.
Why does that QR Code go to justinsomnia.org? (2011)
Proprietary software just wouldn't have a bug tracker for you to use.
Gadgetbridge allows you to use your Pebble, Mi Band, Amazfit Bip etc device
The org that they send from will legally have nothing but patents so they are safe from counter attacks.
I was rear-ended once because of that: stopped smoothly at a just toggled red light, driver behind received a phone call and compulsively looked at his phone briefly, not paying attention to neither the light nor me being fully stopped for a split second, covered the distance which should have been safe were he paying due attention, and impacted without braking. Luckily he was going below the legal speed or else both cars would have to be written off.
Roads do. Compare the size of the gap between vehicles. Fixed rail is a really inefficient use of land. Most of the time, the rail is just sitting there without a train anywhere in sight. It is normal for the rail to be idle for long periods of time. The density of a packed-full train does not make up for this. Of course, many systems are running trains that are far from being packed full.
Though one of the cool elements of the game is that you can also play a game with a random stranger you just met. That happened a lot back when I was playing a lot in the 1990s. But that game is less likely to be balanced, and it got increasingly less balanced as more cards came out and balance and ideas started shifting around.
Better way to state this is: Make sure you have 14hr period where you are not consuming any food (i.e. fasting period).
I’ve largely disconnected from email, both work and personal. I guess one day I just smelled another internal phishing campaign and decided that it would be the last I participated in. After that I informed my bosses that if they needed to reach me then to do so in team chat. The unspoken part of that was, “and if that’s a problem, then fire me, please.”
>I think what he's asking is that people allow a flat file export,

I don't get this though. If you want to export your data as some flat file, why use MixPanel at all? Just store the events in your own database and query it yourself. Why pay the cost of both solutions?
"Student's spelling leaves a lot to be desired, but is worryingly good on occult subjects."
Technically the Ethereum network is majority owned by Vitalik Buterin and the folks who payed 0.50 USD (likely much less, if paid in BTC mined earlier).

72,009,99 of the 101,684,297 Ether means the Ethereum network has a worse Gini coefficient than North Korea or really any Fiat based economy.

See also: "Quantifying decentralization"

https://news.earn.com/quantifying-decentralization-e39db233c...
To avoid obscure ORM syntax and resulting garbage queries, as well as cumbersome inline SQL blocks, just implement your complex queries as stored procedures / views etc.
More like two minutes I hear?

https://thebulletin.org/sites/default/files/2018%20Doomsday%...
> You're not supposed to stop at a yield sign if there isn't traffic preventing you from merging. That's why it's a yield sign, not a stop sign.

That's what I meant; you're supposed to stop if there's oncoming traffic. That's what I assume the car was programmed to do. I have no idea what the other car was doing or what it was thinking–there's always the chance that it was someone who was distracted.
That “smart kids say no to DSLs” meme is funny but also a garbage take if taken at face value. DSLs are important because specializing will generally make you / your tool more effective. Splunk has a special query language that reflects the product’s architecture. If you want to become productive with a piece of software you need to learn its language.

Edit: To clarify my position, Domain specific languages mean domain specific ideas. As soon as a product is no longer meant for general queries, but for queries over specific ki day of information in a specific kind of system, we can use that knowledge to make a powerful language in that domain.
Same here, IDSPISPOPD will probably never leave my brain.

By the way, a few years back, I was considering writing a POP3 server implementation, just so that I could name it that. :)
Mining pools form due to the transaction costs of decentralization.

Better explained as a result of the mining protocol being winner takes all, and is granted write access authority (for guessing a increasingly larger random number), that by pooling everyone's lottery tickets together and paying the pool operator, the agree to take a small sum of each successful guess from the pool (assuming the pool fairly pays out participants).

"decentralized" except not.
Union activities are essentially price-fixing. We let employees in unions "collude" and "exert anti-competitive influence" because we want to give them more market power relative to companies.

When you talk about giving unions as free associations, it's fair to ask whether companies should share the same rights -- if tech workers can get together and agree not to work without a pay rise, shouldn't tech companies be allowed to get together and agree not to increase pay?

I think if we're going to distinguish between those cases it should be on pragmatic grounds, because I don't think talking about principles (or any "natural right" divorced from the simple letter of the law) here is terribly useful.
Do not stand at my grave and weep

Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sun on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft star-shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there; I did not die.
I can assure you the par times are more than achievable. And I’m not a speed-runner by any stretch of the imagination.

Here’s the details:
It’s only achievable on Hurt Me Plenty.*
You have to start with the pistol: carry-over is cheating.
If you’re having trouble, switch on invulnerability to plan out your route. Many peoples routes through levels are too slow.

A great example of the last one: in suburbs there’s a teleporter that take you up really high. It’s heavily used to kill spider demons on Ultraviolence. However, if you go _backwards_ from there, you skip 80% of the level. So the path is:

Pick up final key: clean out the ledge near the start “enough” then use the teleporter to go right to the end of the level.

Oh yes, and auto-aim is amazingly forgiving, you really don’t need to line up your shots especially when the monsters are close and there’s lots of them.

*Some are doable on UV, but sometime you literally can’t shoot them fast enough. However, there’s a separate UV challenge: get 100% kills starting with the pistol. This is easier than the par times (modulo monsters that clip out of the map).
I was going to post earlier that IMO the level they should be aiming at is that of a brilliant racer, otherwise who needs them.

There was a vid on here recently of the Porsche 919 beating the lap record at the Ring, and one of the comments was "I don't have the balls to drive that fast in a video game" such is the skill level of humans at the wheel-a few to be sure, but still and all there it is.

Here's the vid btw. And it is ridiculous...

"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQmSUHhP3ug"
Umm... yes... I built a whole tool to figure out the best combination of stations and it's been fairly popular.
That's copyright infringement, you'd be creating derived works.
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I disagree with the ORM hate generally, being a massive fan of ActiveRecord for making it easy to build queries and still drop down to SQL as required.

But I’m right on board with the “stop inventing rubbish pseudo query languages” idea. I’ve rarely seen an example that wouldn’t be better if it were it just “SQL subset with some additional features”.
This seems to be the issue with me. I am more like 'laptop' guy who is rather good in researching. I am also keen on observing things.

But sales stuffs, cold calling give me chills. How do I overcome it?
Rail wars?
Split keyboard did it for me too. It allowed me to correct the whole posture.
Less and less every year. Five years ago the entire DC used third-party networking gear from top to bottom. The top of rack switch was the first thing to go, replaced with an in-house device that could do the job well and that provided flexibility for future plans. Load balancers (there was almost a contest to see who could get to be the ones to take a sledgehammer to those F5 pieces of shit) and cluster switches were next; at that point you had an entire fabric of custom-made kit that would do rack-level BGP. Intra-cluster and gateway switches are the remaining big iron, or at least were when I left, and I am not sure it will ever be worthwhile for Facebook to invest in the hardware necessary for those tasks. Expensive kit for sure, but the spend with third-party networking gear companies dropped by at least an order of magnitude over less than a decade.
Why you should stop worrying about being lazy
More effective at what, other than using the DSL?

The article was about ORMs, not Splunk, and consequently their DSLs
All of this seems to be using word embeddings, but most languages don't have all that many words. You're effectively trying to train with just a few thousand data points, and will quickly overfit.

Wouldn't the method work better with n-gram embeddings, where n=3 or 4?
Please just say 'correct'.
Michelle evelyn keene walks on the wind
shell belle your bowstring still sings in my ears
I'm still disappointed that Segway hasn't become more popular as a concept.
I am just reading an incredible book on the subject:

"How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence"

Highly recommend it.

https://www.amazon.com/Change-Your-Mind-Consciousness-Transc...
I was sad when I read the book. I remember reading about how Carmack and Romero drifted apart. Though the consensus seems to be that it was better for id that Romero left, I believe that their games could have been so much more creative had things turned out otherwise.
Good point. What are people going to do when they’re sitting in their autonomous vehicles? Probably a great time to display an ad for the week’s best selling AR game.
And yet LINQ seems to be so popular...

Of course some standardisation amongst ORMs would be good. That would also help them be less "garbage".