skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This a million times, in my experience I noticed a very strong correlation between "describing things imprecisely" and "I'll be disappointed working with them".

One example that is stuck in my mind is this ex coworker who during the interview kept messing up orders of magnitudes for some quantities during a simple back of the napkin calculation: specifically, he didn't have a clear pulse on the difference between nanoseconds and milliseconds, which is essential in the domain I'm working (system engineering - distributed systems).
The house I rent part of has sprinklers on the roof. The owner installed them after the 91 Oakland Hills fire (we're just down the hill a little from the edge of that fire), as a newcomer to California this was somewhat frightening, but seems like a good precaution. Depending on where your water pipes are and how big your house it it doesn't seem like a huge project.
George Soros foundations chastise Facebook in response to Times story
found a 2017 avc post on ICOs and VCs (https://avc.com/2017/06/icos-and-vcs/) mentioning the brave browser.

https://brave.com/

can be an interesting case of study
Very impressive! The https://builds.sr.ht service looks especially interesting - any chance there's a way to use it without fully moving over to sr.ht? It would be nice to be able to try out the build system without having to fully commit to moving to to sr.ht, especially for projects with a large history on other platforms.

I went ahead and registered and signed up for a plan. If this is the kind of project you like to see, I encourage you to consider signing up to contribute.

Feature request: I'd love to see U2F support added.
You don't need huge amounts of fat to absorb vitamins. For example, all vitamin D3 pills have a drop of olive oil. Ketotards eat a huge amount of fat thinking they are providing nutrients. Yes, you need fats, just like you need carbs, but not in excess. Meat has vitamins and minerals, too. I'm not against meat, I'm against overeating when you're 30+.
Read pre 2016 articles on OSF. It will give a more accurate image on what they do (not saying I agree with all their actions, but a lot of the 'conspiracy theory' stuff won't have been circulated)

That being said, I have no sympathy for billionaires who act in an activist way (be that right or left leaning)
I think what you're really hitting on there is the global competitive equilibrium. If we couldn't hire migrants to pick fruit, our farm businesses simply couldn't compete on price (also subsidies). But standard economic theory would say "don't compete then! do something else".
My mom still thinks her computer will get a virus (all by itself) if she leaves it running when she's not around. Even with my explanations. So she shuts it off completely every time she's done. I can imagine her running a cyber security company and telling her employees to shut down the servers when they leave for the night ;)
> We use pygments, so patches to pygments would make it to sr.ht's syntax highlighting.

I really appreciate this response! That encourages improvements that benefit everyone, not just sr.ht users.
Carlos Tavares, who turned around PSA, is known to be crazy knowledgeable on all things cars and all things manufacturing. Call me bitter but being able to take complex fact based decisions beats taking decision based who got the best Powerpoint. I suspect Lisa Su is a bit the same profile. Extremely successful CEOs tend to be able to be able to understand the details of their operations.
Not strictly monopolies, but they are so large they can move capital around making many services/products artificially cheap for the client. In my opinion this makes competition unfair and constitutes a monopoly in some sense.
This is the most succinct description of my experience I’ve seen. Thanks!
everything old is new again
The real question is if IBM will cut off CentOS in the hope of driving customers to pay for RHEL.
We do have plans to support additional languages and we should have support for additional languages next year.
Imo, the whole concept is idiotic and serves nothing.

Of course it is possible for one developer to be better then other, but it is not necessary fixed. It changes during lifetime of same person, depends on technology, experience, type of project and other factors.

Meanwhile the typical use is to look at some stereotype you have in head that has nothing to do with the project or position at question and then wonder why it did not worked out.
He said he would give $500 million to fund migration and he has also gone into a deal with MasterCard to give migrants cards they can use for cash on their journeys. Not a conspiracy theory.

> Although my main concern is to help migrants and refugees arriving in Europe.

https://www.georgesoros.com/2016/09/20/why-im-investing-500-...
Programmers_are_evil() – Live at LinuxFest NW 2018 [video]
Japan's cyber-security minister should resign immediately. This person is totally unqualified for the job.
http://archive.is/NUHWd
What's your point? That economics is as simple as 1 + 1 = 2? That the typical economics works for laymen present a full understanding of all competing theories that have reasonable claims to some truth, controversies, and assumptions that may not hold in the real world?
I assume you mean singled out by Russian trolls because of Putin's dislike for him?
Thought for a moment I read IBM Enterprise Linux 8 Beta, anyone else?
My mental model of AWS
I've used it and it's fairly straight forward if you're tech savy. I bet on the midterm election, and the price of ETH. Since it's just a set of smart contracts, I expect market makers to start building 3rd party UI's to shill their markets, which should be interesting.
Construction costs are pretty low, it's the land that is expensive. Ao if you reduce the construction cost by 70% it probably reduces the total cost by only 10/20%, and you get something generic instead of something made for you.
Since only relative income count, you have to expand your comment by saying that these countries

- Do not respect Bankers and CEOs

- Do not respect academics

- Do not respect managers

- Respect teachers too much

- Respect waiters and delivery drivers too much

etc.
It's all relative. It's all trade-offs.
In the US, you can get actual rich by working a normal dev job.

On the other hand, many of my US high school teachers literally had to work at Wal-mart on the side. Unthinkable elsewhere.
Result: Lots of innovation, but only by importing top tier talent from Asia and Europe, since high school education sucks maaajor balls compared to those countries.

So yeah, all trade-offs.
I think the green-washing comment is definitely on-point. co-opt the opposition and there is no opposition.
hcaptcha.com is already live with customers however

- No ICO yet
- Still doing payments on testnet
What is up with the influx of Facebook rumor posts to HN lately? There were literally 4 of them on the front page this morning. I dislike facebook as much as anyone else, but do we really enjoy this type of content on HN? I don't.
with an aggregate function like an auto manufacturer, you'd want the executive in charge of each constituent function to be competent in that area. The CFO should be well-versed in accounts, the head of design should have been a designer, the head of factory ops should have experience and knowledge of how a factory works, and so on.

The CEO is an awkward one because they can fill different roles in different companies, but I guess CEOs are usually people managers first and foremost so it makes sense for CEOs to come from the management chain.
What if that person trips because they left all kinds of crap on the floor where they needed to walk?

If the "accident" could have been averted by making a reasonable effort to maintain equipment and the surrounding area, then it seems like there should be some liability. Whether that is the case, I don't know.
Decreasing shareholder profits is not the only outcome. The incentive will also be to increase burger prices. And I think that will have its own knock on effect.
Hi Drew -- awesome job! I want to migrate my projects there. Do you plan on supporting static sites a la GitHub pages?
I reckon that if there's such a thing as a 10x dev, they'd act as a force multiplier rather than a faster assembly line worker. Fixing architectural problems early raises the productivity of everyone who ever has to touch the code, as does setting up practises like code review and automated testing, and as does culling bad features early on.
> Linux containers, Kubernetes, artificial intelligence, blockchain and too many other technical breakthroughs to list all share a common component - Linux

Erm what? Only two of those are built on Linux. If there's too many to list at least don't list unrelated technologies.
Yah, I'm not sure where that information is from, I've run into controlled burns frequently in the Sierra. I called the FD once in South Lake Tahoe as I hiked right up to the fire but missed the signage on the road.
just so we are clear, you do not like that fact that he paid hogans legal costs ?
They never had an ICO, though.
Here's a way to apply this idea to an open source project. The issue tracker could allow people to submit bugs, but a cron job running once per minute would move all the externally submitted bugs to an internal bug tracker that only the developers on the project could see. Then the independence assumption would be closer to being satisfied.
I don't think "but IBM sucks" is a good enough reason to change an entire infrastructure away from RHEL/CentOS.
Why the knee jerk reaction? It is not that easy to read, maybe only to non-native speakers like me or OP. I still read it, beautiful window to the past we can't ever experience, but it required focus and re-reading some sentences. Is it hard to understand that world is full of people that are different in every possible way to you?

Definitely not for usual glancing through
When it's ready. If there's one thing Red Hat have been pretty good at it's being conservative and not worrying too much about schedule slips.
Develop relationships with people who you trust to give you help constructive feedback.

Contains a typo... Don't listen to their pontifications folks!
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Different markets. Film (90m+), TV (40m) and streaming (...) have all found their own markets and as such managed to not be captured to the youtube platform. Not to say that Youtube has not tried, with both youtube red and streaming existing on the site, but they have not been that competitive against established players in those markets.
What about USB-C?
Yeah, you can use https://man.sr.ht/dispatch.sr.ht/ to push github commits to builds.sr.ht, or write some automation to push builds using the API.
Maybe he's the guy in this story
https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/9qyhic/wp_o...

The fact is that somebody that was deemed worthy to appoint government ministers appointed him to the role.
If he can do the job great call if not questions should be answered.
True, homicide is the highest in the world in the Caribbean and Central America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
*principals
Everything on Amazon Is Amazon
Trying to beat the stock market, when it's incredibly difficult. Even actively managed mutual funds fail to consistently beat the market average.
So I work for Red Hat and the truth is no one will know until after the acquisition, but there are certainly no plans for that, nor have I heard anyone even discussing such a thing. CentOS is a valuable part of Red Hat and an important part of keeping users in the ecosystem even if they're not paying us, so it wouldn't really make any sense. IBM aren't stupid (despite nonsense that people write online), and Red Hat is a cash machine and they'd be stupid if they messed with a proven model which works.
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>any chance there's a way to use it without fully moving over to sr.ht?

Yep. I currently use builds.sr.ht in combination with GitHub, for example, to build sway & wlroots:

https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/pull/1377

You can wire this up at https://dispatch.sr.ht

The API is also pretty simple: https://man.sr.ht/builds.sr.ht/api.md

postmarketOS uses the API, for example, in combination with some custom tooling around their package manager.

>Feature request: I'd love to see U2F support added.

https://todo.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/meta.sr.ht/62

This has been discussed before, I would accept a patch but can't work on it myself until my browser (qutebrowser) grows U2F support.
California has millions of dry, dead trees owing to a bark beetle infestation and multiple, 100-degree+ heat waves. Do you know how hot that wood burns? More than a few trees together, and it burns hot enough to spontaneously combust trees up to a few dozen feet away. Without wind. California's forests are dense. They're dense enough that fires, even controlled burns, can and have generate firestorms--where the heat of the fire generates its own atmospheric wind system that feeds the fire.

Do you know what sort of embers these sorts of fires generate? The kind that fly hundreds of feet, retaining enough heat to light structures on fire when they land. Take a look at the shots of the Malibu portion of the Hill/Woolsey fire: there are structures that burned almost a quarter of a mile away from the closest flora.

So the reason that California cut back on controlled burns? Because due to the factors described above, controlled burns very quickly become massive, uncontrolled conflagrations. Controlled burns are something you can do when the trees and climate is relatively wet, since only the stuff you set on fire burns, or where flora is far enough apart and weather patterns mild enough that the fire can't spread on its own.

But you know what's really unbelievable? Someone who doesn't know diddly squat about what they're talking about who thinks they know better than the people who actually have to deal with this on a regular basis.
Rust, python 3.6, great stuff!
Ask HN: Reading comprehension for young kids?
I have a 5 year old that is reading chapter books, but the reading comprehension aspect needs work.

What methods, tips, or materials have you used to help your child develop reading comprehension skills?
>> Discussing why is a sensitive matter: depending on which studies you believe it's either because women are naturally different from men or because the patriarchy keeps them down.

So one type of study invokes "nature", the other speaks from the point of view of feminism.

Neither sounds like a very unbiased kind of study. Shall we just say we have no idea and leave it at that, until the scientists decide to take a look into the issue?
I was wondering if we could use this by having two different people execute a test pass that covers an area of concern and then calculate the Lincoln estimate for that.
Contains a typo... someone should just figure out the top queries related to
1. Fear
2. Guilt
3. Shame

And generate random buzzword articles... LOL ... that's a unicorn folks!

"Develop relationships with people who you trust to give you help constructive feedback."
Microsoft introduces guidelines for developing responsible conversational AI
Looks like your browser isn't picking up the web-fonts. Having disabled the web-font, the font-stack they've chosen is definitely a lot harder for my to read.
It would do damage to the brand, and then you'd see developers fork Fedora and build their own RHEL-like "enterprise Linux".
Your definition of "duress" is so extreme as to be absurd. Just about all important decisions would be thought of as being made "under duress" which means you can justify unlimited intervention into any segment of the economy because someone will always either need the good or the job.

In the US, only about 5% of healthcare expenditures are for emergency care. That means there is huge opportunity for people to shop around. The problem in the US is that there's no actual healthcare market, so shopping is impossible. No prices are displayed so customers can't make informed decisions, most areas are operating under healthcare monopolies, and most areas enforce a perverse set of laws that make it difficult for competition to enter the market.
There are two parts to that. One is insurance -- 8% of packages don't make it to the destination and it would be preferable to pay an 8% premium than to lose 100% of the delivery 8% of the time. There is obviously an insurance market for this.

The second part is that it's often more efficient for the insurance provider to be the delivery provider, because then they have the right incentives to actually deliver your package. Then it's their problem whether they farm out the delivery to the local postal service and take the risk of having to pay claims, or operate some kind of underground railroad themselves in authoritarian countries and pay a little higher cost to reduce the losses they have to eat.
There are always exceptional individuals who can be effective managers without direct business-line experience. These people can incorporate the experience of others (by listening to them) and make good decisions.

However, in the general case, having direct experience in that industry's work brings a large amount of perspective on how the industry works. And this perspective can well inform decision makers for decades afterwards.
> performing a set of behaviors repeatedly

I suspect there are some wins to be had by thinking on how to automate or otherwise delegate well-understood repeated behaviors, while still collecting the proceeds from them.

This is something that could interest a smart and curious person for some time, and actually benefit from the intellect and curiosity expended on it. The person can also reframe the "repetitious monotonous task" as "learning the best way to execute and then automate the task". But learning with any confidence takes a lot sampling for any statistical significance!
Your Children’s Yellowstone Will Be Radically Different
Why We Shouldn't Like Coffee, but We Do
> communal kitchens and/or canteens for when you dont have time to cook

That's kind of what restaurants are now, along with takeout.
“5 Tips on How to Write Great API Documentation” – Hacker Noon
> If you can’t code, you shouldn’t manage coders.

It should be, if you're not technical, you shouldn't manager coders. I've met many a manager that couldn't code, but had a very good understanding of architecture, systems, logging, etc. Engineering is more than coding and arguably the actual coding part isn't very important.
Nice, new account. Welcome.
gcc 8.2! Being on gcc 4.8.5 for RHEL 7 instead of 4.9 was a minor pain point for some c++11 or newer libraries when developing. Nice to see them jump all the way to the 8.x series.

Also great to see xfs gain COW support in RHEL, they are working to make up (in features) for dropping btrfs with xfs. We'll see how stratis works out.
Here is "DOM canibalizer" module from my HTML-NOTEPAD ( https://html-notepad.com ) :

https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk/blob/master/notepad/re...

While it looks pretty simple it cleans MS Word and browser artifacts in pasted markup pretty well.

But I shall admit that such simplicity is possible only with sciter (that html-notepad is based on). E.g. that canonicalizeDOM gets called before the content appears in target document. So all this does not affect undo/redo stack, etc.
Observation: Many tech professionals are comfortable with active discrimination because it aligns with their political and social beliefs (ie "women have been underrepresented in the past, so we should weigh them more heavily in the future when considering them as candidates, or actively seek women out for roles").
Urgh we have a fleet of Pi units and this is a common issue for us, particularly in buildings with dodgy power supplies. I've got a Beaglebone Black to test out as a gradual replacement, as that has enough built-in storage for us to use.
No, it's incredibly different to compare the number of customers who might leave Red Hat to the number of customers who left Github. The services are not even close to being similar, and the customers are generally not even close to being similar.
The nature of the work doesn't allow that. Coding takes all your thought - even when it's boring and monotonous.

The comparisons being made to washing dishes aren't realistic.
I think for this kind of UI the transitions shouldn't be so fast because the idea is not loose context. However, I would add a property to ZircleUI to set the speed the developer feel more confortable.
A fair number of people have also left a casino with a great deal more than they entered with. That doesn't mean casinos deliver on a promise of profit.
I thought that these only happen to Greece!
All I can say is that in the southeast, your trees are wet, and controlled burns do not burn far past the controlled area.

In California, everything is dry enough that even a tiny ember escaping the burn area can turn a controlled burn into a massive fire. In fact, excluding the massive fires of the past 3 years, some of California's biggest blazes were controlled burns that got out of control.
It's ok but it should really be centred at least.
> Btrfs has been removed

I'm still incredibly sad about that, especially as Btrfs has become a really solid filesystem over the last year or so in the upstream kernel...

Reference: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...
Don't have an immediate use, but I signed up for the $20/yr account. Seems like an incredible platform, and if I have this expectation that better software be built and not tied to huge corporations beholden to investors, the only way to do that is to support it. Looking forward to digging into all this.
It's pretty clear at this point that if you still work for Facebook you don't care whether they do evil or not and, if you do, the money trumps your morals.
I'm more surprised by the fact that no Python is installed by default on a Red Hat distribution

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...
Yep! This is planned and partially working through builds.sr.ht. I deploy my blog, drewdevault.com, through builds.sr.ht: https://builds.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/drewdevault.com This is built with Jekyll and used to be on GitHub pages. The plan is to have a place where you can dump static content, then you can use any site generator you want with builds.sr.ht.
Ban on ‘gene drives’ is back on the UN’s agenda – worrying scientists
Why you should explore Flink early in your stream processing journey
This is the type of project announcement that gets me excited to work on my own open-source efforts. Congrats Drew, this is great.
No, because generally the only things of value are protected by a fingerprint.

It's like keeping a safe unlocked while keeping the safes bios protected. It's the content that matters not the OS.
It's ironic that if you do 2 too much you can't do 1.
> Plus, like its sibling, the whole board is certified as a radio module under FCC rules, which will significantly reduce the cost of conformance testing Raspberry Pi–based products.

The problem I encountered was not FCC testing of the device, but that I could not mass-manufacture my pi-based prototype because the chips required huge bulk quantity purchasing to be feasible. We had to develop a brand new device based off beaglebone that was more available for a run of 10-50k. (I'll never do that again, either..)
There’s a vast amount of healthcare spend that’s not made under duress. Non-US systems have embraced the free market here as a means to control cost. The common example I throw out is that France publishes a list of reasonable and customary costs for common outpatient treatments. Your insurance will reimburse you 80% of that. If you want to go to a doctor that charges 10x that, well, that’s your choice and your money. With cash up front operations, doctors don’t require a huge staff to interface with insurance. They also don’t have to build in extra cost to deal with float and/or possible non-payment.

Emergency care and care for the truly poor is handled with a different process.