skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All right then, can you name an example where this news organization (Center for Investigative Reporting) has misled readers to make them believe the wrong things?
Do you hold similar stance to other things that require effort? For example: recycling?
That's if you are on supported hardware. If your sound/wifi/disk storage/modern GPU lacks support, you are SOL for a long time and have to resort to experimental drivers that may or may not be stable and may or may not be working as expected. Meanwhile, practically all hardware has Windows drivers.
That's strange. I use an early 2015 13" model which happily drives two external 4k displays simultaneously. I'm not running them high-DPI though – the performance there is noticeably worse.
The real challenge is whether the author can do DevOps with tools native to the C64.

What he has done is no different for those working 8bit microcontroller (Atmel AVRs, Intel 8051s and many others).
It's my impression that most Mac (and Linux) users have given Windows a chance. Maybe not the very latest versions, but most Mac users I know (including myself) have switched from Windows at some point in the past. I don't doubt that Windows is less infuriating than it was when I left in 1998, but nothing its more modern incarnations appeals to me in a way that would even make me consider switching back. "Not so infuriating anymore" is a weak value proposition. There is also an element of "fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me".

At the same time, I am perfectly happy with my Macs; I still absolutely love macOS, my work 5k iMac is a delight to use, and my private 2010 MacBook Pro is still going strong (although as of Mojave, it can no longer run the latest OS). My 2008 Mac Mini is nearing end-of-life, but only because I can't justify upgrading its internal storage to an SSD when the computer is stuck on Mountain Lion. I worry about the price hikes, but OTOH, as long as I can expect getting 8-10 years useful life out of a system, I don't mind paying the Apple Tax.
(Author of Dgraph here).

To Drew Devault: Just came across this article, and there's no comments section in your blog post.

> Finally, I have some praise to offer. Dgraph was briefly licensed under Apache plus the Commons Clause, and had the sort of misleading and false information this article decries on their marketing website, docs, and so on. However, they’ve rolled it back, and Dgraph is now using the Apache 2.0 license with no modifications. Thank you!

Please don't "praise" us. When we switched to the clause (back in April 2018), we had changed wordings on our site (we don't do any marketing, so not sure which marketing website you're referring to) to not mention open source but to mention liberally licensed (which I strongly hold that Apache + Commons Clause is, more so than AGPL). There was no false or misleading information. In fact, that was pointed out to you multiple times, but that didn't change your rhetoric.

Dgraph is no longer under Commons Clause and (its core) is under Apache 2.0 license, so I think I can speak as an open-source guy here. There are people like me out there, who'd like to ensure that they can make a livelihood out of writing open source software, without asking for donations, or doing another job. We'd also like to ensure that if we run a company around open source, that company can be sustainable and profitable. If your answer to these people is to switch to closed source, then you're doing a bad job of promoting open source.

In fact, your attitude towards open source is damaging to anybody who is willing to spend their time and effort building open source and expects to make a good living out of it.
There is still massive conflict of interest. They want to continue getting these review units, and Apple is known for "being offended" and blacklisting people from media events and review units.

None of the reviews I've seen from "general public" "reviewers", in the year or so Apple has been doing it, have provided real criticism. It's always "fine", always "great", big issues are glossed upon.

At the very least, Apple picks their target "reviewers" very well based on their bias for Apple products. That's fine in and of itself, but it creates a bad image when these people get their review units before even the media reviewers.
Yes but lots of other fusion projects have had their funding slashed or canceled because governments were spending their fusion budget on ITER.
I'm well aware of booklooker, and it's amazing. There's also bookfinder.com here in America. They're some of the best places to start looking if you want rare/old/niche books.
> native "unix like" shell

Funnily enough, IIRC Darwin isn't unix-like - it's an actual certified UNIX™:) Although in the modern ecosystem, perhaps it's more appropriate and useful to say that it's a Linux-like :-)
> The talent crunch for Exxon and FedEx isn't nearly as bad as the crunch for engineering talent that Amazon is facing.

Not accurate (IMO).

1. ExxonMobil is now, and has been for years, hurting for petroleum engineers. It's a discipline that isn't taught at many universities, so the supply is rather constrained. In recent years new grad petroleum and chemical engineers have been pulling in offers that rival FANG offers.

2. If Amazon, or any other FANG, was really hurting for talent they would do something about their false negative problem in interviews. That they aren't indicates to me that they are either passing enough people or just being choosing beggars.
T2 Security Chip Preventing Linux Installs on New Macs Even with Secure Boot Off
Except that System76 or who ever would need to be capable of building iPad-like hardware. I really don‘t see that, at least not a a competitive price point.
Nothing. Climate change happens with or without humans. I'm so sick of the climate change fearmongering already. What we will do is adapt, like we always have. The earth is always in a state of "climate change". Humans have experienced experienced climate change for much of our existence. We even lived through a "global warming" and a "little ice age" just a few hundred years ago.

https://www.britannica.com/science/Little-Ice-Age

These people always have to sell fear. The climate change fearmongering is no different than the failed malthusian prophecy of the 19th century. Or the global cooling fearmongering the BBC and much of the media were peddling before "global warming" became the "cool" thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling

If the BBC was truly worried about climate change, why don't they shut down their operation? How many kids, vacations, cars, etc are created because BBC exists? Why not follow their own rules?

BBC should lead by example if they truly believed the nonsense they spout everyday.
Huh, I never thought about Switzerland being a third world country.
Bezos is spending a billion a year on colonizing space.
Also see: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/463422/2018-macbook...
"Nofap" is based on completely misunderstood studies and reaches absurd conclusions from them and from random individual experiences though.
I've heard many variations on the same theme, it's what I alluded to. Feels good at first but it's not a long term solution. :)
Or paying your housecleaner to take a picture and email it to them...
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Really nice of him to spend time on OSS tools for VSCode. On the other hand, I feel like the IDEs lugins can do most of these things for me without plugins.

I feel less need to install plugins for their products. And the one plugin that I use in IntelliJ is something I wrote for fun and which doesn't help at all with development. (It shows a random XKCD comic each time I open a new project.)

But it's nice that there is a free IDE available with a rich ecosystem! As a student, I had to deal with Eclipse / Netbeans which seems to me to have been a worse experience than VSCode is these days.

EDIT: fixed some typos.
About 7 or 8 years ago I used to optimize for the 5%.

I remember thinking exactly what you wrote about customizing your shell. Back then I wouldn't even use aliases because "what if the server I'm on doesn't have it". Such a silly way of thinking but it made so much sense back then.

Now I have tons of customizations in the environment I spend 95% of my time and it's way better.
A huge chunk of that is the SSD. It's actually very reasonably priced, especially considering that you get a Mac ecosystem along with the computer.
Windows makes sense for game devs, Android devs, and Windows app devs. It’s my impression that HN devs are mostly web devs, with some mobile devs. Windows is not best for those types of devs.

IOS devs need to run Xcode.

Server devs can and usually should use remote servers for development. So their local machine’s OS doesn’t matter. It could be Windows, but they are mostly ssh-ing to Linux boxes or VMs for work.
Ask HN: Transition from Operations to Development?
The last few years I have been getting the bug to transition from operations in to development. The main drivers being that I miss writing code, looking for a new challenge, reduce stress(??)/off-hours work, adding flexibility to my job prospects in case I would like to move. I’ve been in the industry for about 17 years, with most of that experience in the enterprise content management specialization. While primarily architecting and building/supporting ECM infrastructure, I’ve written code whenever I have the opportunity—things such as lower level system monitors and performance modules.
Given that it is specialized/niche field, the compensation is pretty good, but I’m at the point in my career, where it might be time to try something new, otherwise I’ll be doing this for the next 20 years. I have a pretty good knowledge of backend, and plenty of side projects I’ve coded, but don’t have experience as a developer in an enterprise environment, so it would be essentially starting over.

I’m curious if there are others on HN who have made the transition from Ops -> Development.

How did the transition go? What did/didn’t work well?

Any thoughts are much appreciated.
The difference I see.

All democratic governments today allow decisions to be made even over the dissent of a minority of voters.

Whereas the (Republic) Constitution and the Bill of Rights protect (or are supposed to protect) the individual rights.

The individual being the smallest minority.

This is the difference I see. It is a small difference with a huge impact.

John Locke

[Civic power] can have no right except as this is derived from the individual right of each man to protect himself and his property. The legislative and executive power used by government to protect property is nothing except the natural power of each man resigned into the hands of the community…and it is justified merely because it is a better way of protecting natural right than the self-help to which each man is naturally entitled.[1]:532
Congratulations to everyone at Heptio!
These days, they know that you are a dalmatian whippet cross, the exact time when you last went for walkies and the colour, texture and shape of your favourite chew toy.
It can definitely indicate a major problem beyond that of voting.

But what does that have to do with voting? Should they have a harder time voting because they already have other major problems anyway?
I seem to remember JDEdwards marked up their PDF output in a way that made it easy to parse out the data.
Can this also store heat from electricity?

If so I’m wondering if this couldnrevolutionitize the lowly water heater.

I believe they use a lot of energy just keeping their tanks at the right temp.
I also started using Fedora on Core 4 :)

IBM's Fedora doesn't seem like something that will survive 10 years?

Seriously I can't even think of a worst company to buy Red Hat for Fedora then IBM.
One of the other common checks is to look at your hands though. Those definitely aren't new

(I did that once, and iirc I had 2 fingers on one hand and 7 on the other? Or something like that)
I agree with you that a lot of vendor software is garbage. If the hardware you use is supported by your Linux distro of choice, I'd agree it could be a better experience than installing any driver. But at least there is always a driver. That has not been the case for desktops and laptops I have had in recent years. Always something missing in plethora of Linux distributions, and the ways to solve those issues are not straightforward even for a 10-year experience software engineer. That is not something I want to think about when buying new hardware.
did you mean Gordon Brown?
I think computer science is another field that individuals can potentially break through the academic wall, because you would only need a decent desktop to do your research... (I think quite a lot of resarchers do stuff in AI, graphics, etc using gaming-level PCs instead of huge workstations/servers)
And America falls below Germany for social mobility, precisely because it doesn't have those things: https://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobi...
Because when you register, that registration document is public record. And it has what you declared. If you want to vote, you HAVE to do this step. No choice in that matter.

I walked in our election central and they gave it to me.
That's a great collection! Thank you.
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But Apple's strategy has never been to go after the price-sensitive market. Complaining that their prices are way higher than commodity parts you can piece together yourself makes zero sense. That's like complaining that a Ferrari is way more expensive than a Honda.
MIT's ARC is designed to make that easy. The reactor opens right up and you just lift out the inner wall and drop in a new one.

They've already tested joints in the REBCO tape, and found that they introduce very little electrical resistance.
I unfortunately took a job at a company that thought they were being fashionable and progressive by forcing each employee to use a Mac. They saw it as a benefit. It was idiotic.

95% of their workforce was using Excel for reporting tasks. But, of course, this was Mac Office 20xx (08, 12?), when the rest of the world was on Office2016+. Half the features weren't available, or required people to hold down 8 keys simultaneously to work.
Linux School Distro saved Autonomous Region of Spain 36 mil in taxpayer money
Well the person in charge of safety at Tesla, Laurie Shelby (https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurie-shelby-cih-csp-8142435/), worked at Alcoa before (https://www.businessinsider.com/how-changing-one-habit-quint...). Alcoa has a pretty good track record in actually caring.

Gaining true knowledge about a situation is not possible without establishing a chain of trust. Whose reporting do you trust ? Each person in the chain needs to be evaluated individually and re-evaluated when new information comes to light.

Right now I rather trust what Tesla says when I hear horrendous claims like until proven otherwise. Especially since news media are not independent.
They rely almost entirely on advertisement which is a direct relation to "most eyeballs moved away from other 'free' options", which is directly related to the impact of the headline.
> In under 30 minutes we migrated our code to Stadiamaps without prior knowledge of their API, including deployment.

This surprised me. I'm completely ignorant with respects to geoinformation providers, but for some reason, I somewhat expected vendor lock-in to be much tighter.
I joked recently that NASA should start selling closed-loop systems for consumers..
I'm just waiting for the same article but for Macbooks.

I can't wait to throw my money at Apple when they bring back MagSafe and scissor switches.

Not holding my breath though.
It's a shame XPS never took off, it is superior to PDF in nearly every way but obviously failed in the market.
Just stick the Pi to the back of your TV with some self-adhesive PCB risers. No case required.
"...we commissioned an independent human rights impact assessment ..."

Once commissioned I would say they are no longer independent?
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It's more like saying that you'd save fuel by running an equivalent ICE at home. You'd be unlikely to save money, because of economies of scale.
Isn't that a step down from teaching people VBA macros?

I hope it isn't for a CS class. They should be learning principles rather than creating toy plug-ins which is something anyone can do for a hobby if they wanted.
Have you looked at SSD prices lately!?
I agree with parent that this whole thread comes off as extremely hyperbolic.

I've known this information about my friends and neighbors for the better part of the last decade. In most states this is public info and you can even look it up from a web form using name, zip, and dob.

But now it's in an app so the world is ending.
You're right, it's not impossible. Just a mark of moral cowardice.

It's useful in life to know good from bad. Start caring more about people's political opinions. It's good to judge people on their political opinions.

This is in stark contrast to, say, sports, where it is totally fine to talk about the rules of the game at a purely meta level. The difference between politics and sports is that politics affects people's lives.
"...violation of the idea of a secret ballot"?

Maybe not. But a twist on gerrymandering (i.e., manipulation of the market)? Yes. Absolutely.

A collusion by the two ruling parties to corner the market in a cartel-ish sort of way? Yes again.

Sure, it's been normalized, but that doesn't make it healthy.

If we truly want more and more diverse voices to be heard then we must be willing to address the system(s) that in one way or another prevent that from happening (i.e., maintain the status quo).
It had leadership problems, but those have been corrected with the new boss. That's not a political problem per se, it's really just a "big project with a bad boss" problem.
This right here. When you are allowed to use a gun registration but not a student ID, that tells you everything you need to know about what the intended purpose is.
DevOps job statistics
Freaky! Also, this was surprising: "Only 1 in 4 people living in Sweden uses cash at least once a week."
Here's a response horseRad posted that comes from Tesla's side - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18389796 - and that is from https://electrek.co/2018/11/06/tesla-fremont-factory-clinic-...
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HiDPI worked / works great in UbuntuGNOME. I spend most of my time in a text editor, terminal or browser, but even things like games for my kid (Tux and Tux Kart) supported HiDPI without requiring any magic tricks.

/edit setting a different scalefactor on my external (non-HiDPI) monitor was frustrating in that it worked... sometimes
Another problem with Google that you cannot really experiment with it for free. You have to add your credit card and there is no concept of using only the free quota.

E.g. I'd put up an experimental site which uses google maps free qouta only and I don't want to pay anything, since it's only an experiment, I'd be happy with my access blocked automatically for the rest of the month after the free quota is exhausted.

But AFAIK it cannot be done. You have to track you spendings and shut down the site manually when you are near the end of the free quota.

Google in the past helped people experimenting with its platform. This is not the case anymore with google maps.
Small struct that is declared as

public readonly ref struct Span<T>
{
private readonly ref T _pointer;
private readonly int _length;
...
}

But the important parts are not _pointer or _length. Most of the implementation effort went into the `ref struct` part, which was released at the same time as Span<T> and is precisely what makes Span<T> powerful. It is a big thing.
I disagree. I think the underlying logic of the reporting blaming Facebook is that it was used as a tool to foment hatred against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar. Both the statements “The Myanmar government is waging genocide against the Rohingya minority” and “Facebook doesn’t have a complete grasp of what its platform is being used to accomplish” can be true.
I don't know anything about SSDs (hint) but that SSD looks like it's on sale at Amazon right now for $393. I'm more than happy to pay Apple a premium of $200 or whatever to just get what I want out of the box and not have to think about this, research options and compatibility, worry about drivers or who knows what else, etc.
This is indeed an excellent description of one security model. I would, however, add a note to the reader that there has been some discussion over the last few years about whether it's actually safe to have an inner trusted zone, or whether every single house has to be completely defended to the point where a compromise of the outer wall is almost a non-event. (Google's BeyondCorp being the best known example)
Author here ( @codemonkeyism ), ready to answer questions. Blog seems down, we're haven't been slashdotted for a long time, sorry!

[Added some more caching, site works again slowly]
There's a fine line between optimize and overfit. It takes a lot of experience to differentiate the two.
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And indeed, this will likely always be the case, as the true purpose of proving a mathematical result is almost never to actually get the boolean true/false output, but to illustrate how to solve the problem in the first place and what methods were helpful for that.

Which means that the proof doesn't have to be machine-checkable; in fact, it'd be less effective at doing its job if it included every trivial step. It's not code. It's pseudocode; the purpose is to communicate to humans.
also, why not have official mini-ambulance 'carbulances' for just such lower-risk injuries ? They could be Teslas
Totally agree with you. The thought of someone advising another person on whether or not to use an ambulance when they ask for one is unimaginable. Maybe there are some people that abuse the system, but I think the overwhelming majority of people know when to call an ambulance without having to be advised on it. Either there are some hardcore Tesla fanboys on this forum or seems to me there might be some Tesla PR going on here, don't know what to make of some of the comments and of course can't prove where they originate from.
Geo coding took longer as the meta information about city districts etc. which needs to be mapped is different, but changing maps was easy. That said Open Cage was nice as their data was cleaner and we didn't have to manually change data as we had to do with Google.
I don't understand how are other limitations that goes with not having id an argument? Apparently those people exists and either don't do all those things or id needed for alcohol buy is different then one for voting.

Which based on what I read about issue is often the case. You can buy alcohol on pretty much any piece of paper (student id) while the one for voting has more requirements. You can loose driving license for variety of things, including health, not paying court fees, etc.
Mac ships with their own posix subsystem, WSL allows you to install a bunch of popular flavours of linux on top of Windows. I personally run Arch Linux and have access to a lot more bleeding edge packages.
Salary range is the most strategically left out signal that most job seekers look for.

In most cases it is a waste of time for both sides. But I guess that companies have an advantage in the end by creating this opaqueness.
I think what's being missed in this specific situation is that Tesla has doctors on staff 24/7 to look at and access/deal with any injuries. Surely if it was something they can't handle they would refer them to a hospital, and if need be have an ambulance transport them.
Truth be told, social mobility and poverty are two separate concepts.