skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds interesting. Are EU startups known for less interest in uni credentials than US startups?
Thanks for sharing that! It does look very similar — I wish I had documented my process as neatly as the author of that video.
Moving my parents' PC to Elementary cut down the support time to single-digit hours per annum.

That and making sure Firefox has uBlock Origin configured.
> There is no true self in figuring out the meaning of something. Meaning comes from personally conducting the chaos of one's life (which is "the way"). To philosophize (or similar) something is to step too far into order (e.g. classifying objects instead of seeing an object as an action/existence), and to submit, yield, or do nothing is to step too far into chaos.

That's a great explanation.
Also, if metadata gets damaged, there is an option to roll back the filesystem to an earlier transaction using "zpool import -F".
Haven't read the book, but there was definitely something off about the Netflix series. It was good and worth watching. While Samin is a wonderful, jolly personality and a large brained chef, she is not interesting enough to carry the series.
Thank you! I will certainly do what I can to not make this little change affect my curl commitment in a negative manner...
Yeah I struggled with grip after a point, would use the hangboard all the time. My frame is thin. Also just a lot of understanding how to move is hard to get.
This is a fine thing to do with $1.8B and that amount could be used in worse ways. Still:

Together, the federal and state governments should make a new commitment to improving access to college and reducing the often prohibitive burdens debt places on so many students and families.

There may be no better investment that we can make in the future of the American dream — and the promise of equal opportunity for all.

At the moment, zero incentivizes colleges to reduce costs. If they can get a student in the door, the federal government will ensure that student loans are available and that the college gets paid no matter what happens to the student. Regulators, in the meantime, work hard to ensure that colleges and especially universities face little competition.

So we get an array of problems: we are all, in a way, paying for the party: https://jakeseliger.com/2014/04/27/paying-for-the-party-eliz.... Already prestigious schools like Hopkins compete primarily to raise their own prestige, rather than improve access. Why do most such schools admit fewer students per capita than they did in 1950? Why are they so interested in discriminatory children-of-alumni admissions?

While I don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth, I've been involved in post-secondary education for too long, and read too many books on it (Tyler Cowen's The Great Stagnation is recommended, as is his book The Complacent Class), to think that "more money, same system" is the answer. We need comprehensive, systemic reform, starting with the accreditation bodies, before we pour more money in.
Sure they take care of it real well... in the OS.. can’t wait till this comes to windows by default.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-42...
Developers, developers, developers! [1]

That has always been Microsoft's strength: their ability to bring developers to their ecosystem.

It doesn't matter if your OS is the best, most modern and revolutionary: it means nothing if you can't do anything with it.

The same mistake almost bit the iPhone when it was launched.[2]

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs
[2]:https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/07/10/the-revolution-st...
I need to start this tradition at work. Different teams have their own candy but not one has them for everyone.
Until you won't fix hiring discrimination based on school name, you can't fix the problem. Just see around in silicon valley you can find the example.
White was winning twice as many points as black (64 points for white, 36 for black; draws give 0.5 points to both players) and points difference is all that matters for Elo. As a matter of fact, 64-36 is pretty much exactly what you'd expect when two players have 100 Elo difference.

Your incorrect perception comes from the fact that, at very high levels (as shown by this match as well), draws become way more common than for lower levels. A 3400 vs 3300 Elo match might be 28-72-0, a 1400 vs 1300 match might be 60-8-32. At the lower level, you see one player winning twice as many games as the other, at the higher level you see one player losing all the time; that looks different to you, but as far as Elo difference is concerned the two results are exactly the same.
I think you might be arguing with someone else with some context about which I'm not aware?

Direct cut and paste from the Chomsky quote:

"...you don’t care whether other people’s kids can go to school, or can afford food to eat, or things like that. In the United States, that’s called “libertarian” "

Don't be taken in by the reverse ordering in the phrasing. He's just equated libertarians with total uncaring, self-centred selfishness as being their only possible motivation. In this world view libertarians are foul human beings.

Rant:

F() that right off. Put that quote with similar accusations that all socialists are unpatriotic traitors, posing to get laid or whatever other silly smear - there's plenty of such smears around. All such comments, including this one from Chomsky are puerile nonsense and deserve to be treated with contempt. Reasonable people who are kind, gentle, empathetic and smart can differ on the best way forward in policy informed by differing ideology in a way that is reasonable and assumes the good faith of their opponent until shown otherwise (at which point a reasonable exchange of ideas is not possible). I'm not a libertarian and I bristle from that Chomsky piece of nonsense. (Which it should go without saying, is not a comment on other points he might make about other things in other contexts, better phrased. That quote is complete rubbish in my opinion and I'm saying so. It should also go without saying I'm not claiming all libertarians are people of wondrous perfection or anything like it.)

Anyone who disagrees with me is a lesser human. That's an idea worth opposing across the entirety of the political spectrum including the centre, for mine. It's the worst kind of arrogance at best. Without saying anything at all about the rest of his life and works I believe Chomsky is guilty of it here where I'm calling it.

So yeah, it's about this Chomsky quote and not much else. I hate it. You obviously don't have to agree but I hope you understand my reaction.
The author of this book probably agrees with most of your critique, apart from the importance of whether or not his book costs you 5Mb to download (I imagine doesn't care so much about that). But most of his recommendations --- many of which distill to "less is more, make careful rather than flashy choices" --- won't cost you a nybble to implement.
It's really ironic how, with all that effort, your dude went with justified alignment. I can't even read justified text these days because my brain keeps muttering that it is wrong.

Also the text could use some margins when displayed on a phone.
I'd say the language is critical in Rust for its type system.
Respectfully dude, I clicked through to your sites because I was curious to see how you apply your own design advice. It seems that mostly, you don't. Your blog [1] even employs the monochrome, typo-centric style that Butterick seems to like.

[1] https://geoff.greer.fm
Ask HN: Why are good tech articles in “new” being flagged?
Its becoming common to see some good developer/tech content getting flagged for no good apparent reason.

Is this the SEO related? In that case HN needs to fix the moderation algos. Can we attach a reason for flagging? so for example, dups can remain flagged.
and a very recent newcomer, https://mircart.org/ !
The Hiroshima-Equivalent: A Modest Proposal
https://piln.xyz/ has earned me 918 satoshis so far.
You can do the math but my estimates are that the energy costs would still be too high for exascale with pure-CPU compute. Accelerators are the way anyone actually planning to build an exascale machine is getting there.
Ah, the recurring pipe dream of business people: software without coding!

A few billion dollars must have been flushed down this toilet bowl already; I wonder how much is yet to come...
Guess who’s coming to the House?
The Problem with Miracle Cancer Cures
There are certainly many many professional python projects because the world is a giant place but in general, I see it as a less professional language (unless you're talking about data science).

As a full stack dev, I'd rarely if ever recommend python for any of the problems I face professionally. For data science problems, Jupyter + Pandas + Scipy makes a pretty awesome combination.

As for unit tests, I think that misses the point of my argument completely. This is the situation I would evaluate python: you're starting from scratch, what types of problems would you use python to solve? The answer is there aren't that many. I think the most common reason people choose python is that that's the language they feel comfortable with.
Try Scotland. It used to be a thing there.
In many cases, they are the same.
Here is another example of this type of approach from a top-tier, peer reviewed software engineering journal:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02312
Archive link for Europeans: https://archive.fo/XBlG0
I don't buy that the probability of a new grad being successful is independent of the name of the school from which they received their degree. Sure, maybe the link isn't as strong as it's made out to be by hiring practices but it can't be nonexistent.
They commit fraud to test their credit cards, not because they're interested in the product. Patio11 has a good article on this phenomenon.
I wear headphones. Even to the grocery store etc. People won’t talk to you because they assume I can’t hear them.
>Why were there no military actions against Russia for the DNC hacks then?

Probably because the “evidence” Russia hacked the DNC is dubious at best.
Ask HN: Is YouTube down?
Is YouTube.com down?
But can someone who knows only two or three fields out of so many that exist now be really called generalist?
GCP products, for the most part, have a name that describes it very well. https://cloud.google.com/products/
If this trend continues, it won't be long before this no longer makes the front page.
> Everywhere I know of rent control only applies to significantly older buildings. Which means that new buildings can charge much higher prices, which means that rent control actually encourages new buildings.

How do you replace old buildings with new buildings in this process?
If the electrical grid in the US to go down for greater than 2 weeks I think that could be an example of systematic shutdown that would be something big enough to sufficiently scare people into radically different habits.
> It's like pouring sand into the gears of an engine: everything starts to break down.

While true in general, cheating in that environment is also sometimes necessary to get on with your life unharmed. And sometimes cheating the system is actually regarded highly by the fellow citizens, because the people do not believe in the imposed system. Cheating is not beneficial to the system, but it often is to the people. Now, what is more ethical, doing what benefits the people or doing what benefits such system?
Well, this is all obviously speculation, but here are some things that I think contributed to it: First of all I think that it's a reaction to a generation of people growing up with chain restaurants and ready to cook meals. They see that it's unhealthy, there's more to food, and they want to move past that. Similarly they maybe didn't have someone to teach them about food and cooking growing up so they have to fill that space and lack of experience. Notice how a nearly every book or show has to involve some line about how cooking this way, or the inspiration for this or that, has been passed down from generation to generation? Also, you could look at it partially as an environmental/economic thing. People feel good consuming local/seasonal/organic/natural/whatever food. But knowing how to do that properly requires some amount of knowledge that they don't have. Lastly there's a certain amount of cultural cache to knowing things about food that other people might not know. You feel like you get brownie points for knowing about a local spot no one's been to that has good food. Being able to make a good meal has been built up as a sort of unique and desirable skill to have, while at the same time being a really easy skill to attain. People take pride in things like being able to make the "best" barbecue sauce or bake a decadent, attractive cake.
>>Expanding a RAID vdev is not possible, instead the recommendation is to waste 50% of storage for a pool of mirrored devices to get the same protection as a RAID1 of two drives, which isn't much for some people

>Or make a new vdev. It takes a bit of planning, but it's not some massive hurdle.

I had a 3 disk, 6TB RAIDZ (3x 3TB drives). I bought a fourth 3TB disk when I started running low on space, not knowing that this limitation existed. I ended up using an intermediate, 8TB external drive to copy data off, re-create the RAIDZ with 4 disks, and then copy the data back.

This sucked. What should I have done instead?
Do you mean [dead] or [flagged]? I paginate and can't see a single [flagged] in the last 300 submissions.
Growing Mushrooms on Grass (2017)
The app is down for me.
The charge of the chatbots: how do you tell who’s human online?
> I returned the book.

Wait, what? You read the book, returned it, and feel no shame in admitting it?
Yes, this is similar to my fairly recent experience with btrfs. While it's competitive on paper and there are several meta-arguments in its favor (being in mainline, for example), the cold hard facts just don't stack up. btrfs fares far worse and requires much more tuning than a generic ZFS installation.

A great example is that if you ever try to run a database or a large virtual machine on a btrfs mount, you'll quickly become acquainted with chattr +C for "nocow". Any write-intensive applications grinds the filesystem to a halt until you disable the copy-on-write functionality for that file specifically, making it so snapshots, etc., are ineffective and the FS stops tracking the changes that would make them possible.

Whereas on ZFS, like any application that uses fixed block sizes, virtualization and databases _may_ require some alignment tuning to avoid a read-modify-write cycle, and ZFS works without fuss from that moment on.

I know that Facebook is investing heavily in btrfs right now, but to be frank, I don't see the point. btrfs doesn't have its youth as an excuse anymore and the core issues that exist seem like they're pretty fundamental.

It's a gargantuan waste of effort when people could just take the tack that Ubuntu has taken and decide all that FUD around the CDDL, kicked up by fears that the commercial Unices were plotting to take their revenge on Linux, that maybe all that isn't super relevant anymore, and they can just start shipping ZoL.
This is bizarre I think. Are we supposed to pretend all CS degrees in the world (or US?) have the same value as MIT, Stanford, Berkeley et al?
"Drop a title here" wtf what does the app doesn't create one for me when I double click (maybe ask me for confirmation if you think user intent is not clear)

Don't create your own icons, use already known icons, Ab and Ab-but-with-underline doesn't clearly mean "Text" and "Link" but the word "Text" and the famous anchor icon do.
Eric Weinstein just needs to teach the world how to self-teach yourself anything. He's given plenty proof he's managed to do it himself, and he says he knows the secret. But I still eagerly await him to explicitly describe the polymath recipe.
Although the prices of the computers and the extreme price reductions seems interesting, I think even more so is the companies and brand names that have disappeared from the "consumer market" due to saturating the market (Texas Instrument and Atari). I think it is very interesting that the desktop (personal computer) exploded over the next couple decades and yet the overages in supply actually sunk these market leaders to the point where they never recovered.

I think properly forecasting market size and growing your inventory, surpluses, and work-in-progress properly while pouring extra engineering capacity into research and development is a delicate balancing act which we can all learn from.
She signed a deal with a traditional publisher in 2015, reputedly for several million dollars. She has the delightfully named website hockingbooks.com
That makes me wonder, why didn't this eruption leave a more of a trail in popular culture of the time? Shouldn't it have been the THING everybody would talk about non-stop for a few years afterwards?
Yep, seems mostly broken for me.
Exactly this. All of these systems are so complex that we can only ever make the crudest estimates. Similarly, people want to "fix" something by changing X and don't bother to account for all of the ripple effects of said change.
How has the market changed since 2011? Is there a current list of top trending authors with a way to calculate revenue? Is kindle still a strong ebook platform to publish on?
Nice to know! I was wondering about that when I watched the Space shuttle launch.
Women aren't naturally less interested in or good at chess. There must be some other explanation for the top 90 chess players all being male.
> You may not be in that population but you have to solve for them as well. Removing rent control is only going to price them out.

A recipient of rent control has had enormous subsidies and economic appreciation, and even then it is not enough, you need to give them more.

There are multiple ways to bust this open. The first one is allowing rent controllees to sublet. If you want to maintain their status, at least let them profit by housing more people, making themselves richer and lowering rents for the whole market.
Scientists unravel secret of cube-shaped wombat faeces
> meaning 256-bit AVX operations no longer need to be cracked into two 128-bit micro-ops per instruction

The instruction set stayed the same. And in the current instruction set, a lot of these AVX instruction still operate on 128 bit lanes. Instructions like vpshufd, vshufps, vpblendw only shuffle/blend/permute within 128-bit lanes, so do AVX512 equivalents.
Typechecked inline-HTML macro for Rust
Free surf avec vpn
I think the first half of "Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat" is a good companion for the "how to cook everything" books. If you have other resources you like for recipes and techniques, you can read it just for how it breaks down the flavor of dishes, the title concept, and skim the rest.

The show is very different from the book. It's a great pleasure to watch, even though I don't feel like I learn anything that improves my cooking. I agree that the cooking demos don't add much. It feels like she isn't as comfortable looking at the camera as she is conversing in front of it, and she's already said everything so well in the book, you might as well skip to the next episode.
I recently got into climbing (+ bouldering). Although I get super bored at regular gyms, I never bore of climbing, I think, because it's like programming -- for the body. Problem solving applied to an element that is both sociable and physical.
I have an actual answer for Times New Roman.

TNR was derived from a newspaper typeface that addressed two problems:

1. Newspapers are laid out in lots of narrow columns. You want to be able to pack a lot of letters in a short line.
2. Newsprint is a very think paper that absorbs ink, so you need think lines to minimize bleeding

Most people today don't write in tiny columns, so they throw TNR on an 8.5x11 document or a the main block of a website, and you wind up with line lengths that are too long. In use cases with narrow columns, that's fine, but it doesn't fit very well for the main body of text.

The second item is irrelevant. Instead, the thin lines are just harder to read on a screen.

You can test this: go to the new york times on your browser, open an article with dev tools, set the second paragraph in Times New Roman and the third in Georgia, and observe how well each one reads compared to the default font.

Georgia has a large x-height, is wider, has a variety of thin and think lines, all things meant to make it easier to read on low res screens that were the norm in the 90's. Georgia might not be the sleekest option on a retina screen, but it's still very readable.

All of this is more of an art than a science. You can have (or borrow) strong opinions, and have good reasons behind them, without anyone else being wrong.
Fax is not more secure than email.
China Steps Up Trade Secret Theft from US Companies
First off, this is a great thing for Michael Bloomberg to do so props to him, but I think there needs to be a much broader discussion about moving away from college as a sort of 'eye of the needle' mechanism for upwards mobility in the United States.

I'm German so my perspective may be biased, but over here you can pick up an apprenticeship, a dual university/work program and still earn comparable wages to college graduates, and if you enter a family business, potentially even more as they are starving for the next generation to take over.

In the US there seems to be a huge gap between prestigious universities degrees and the fear of ending up working for Starbucks your entire life. Expanding access to universities is fine, but a university education is not for everyone, and should not be a prerequisite for a good shot at life.
You - and everyone on Earth - should probably be thankful Krakatoa wasn't trying to play rock music.
It's not any more silly than plenty of other things we are expected to pretend.

Edit: HN downvotes tell me I'm supposed to pretend that I'm not supposed to pretend silly things. Neat really.
I’m more into mountain stuff when it comes to climbing, but I will be the first to say bouldering is such a beautiful balance of strength and finesse. It kind of has a “yoga” feel to it, in that it’s all about deliberate motion through the moves.
I recently had a nightmare about eating circuit boards while going down one of those dreadful 90s style 3d tunnel graphics demos.

Has tech gone too far??
I had a related thought that maybe someone here can answer. We've been approaching peak phosphorus, where we're using up the easy sources in much the way we do with oil. Like oil, we'll likely just find other sources as scarcity raises the price. Also like oil, the used product ends up distributed in the environment.

My question is, if photosynthetic carbon capture is nutrient limited, what happens when we are adding both CO2 and phosphorus to the environment? Does everything grow better? And what's the next limiting nutrient?
I was actually underwhelmed by the post, what exactly is the "pretty bold" change?
AI Artist Gives “Perfect” Ted Talk as Cyborg
And it's back up again
In my many years of design and development I have NEVER seen a 5mb css file, yet alone one as a result of a custom font.

If we left typography up to developers then we’d have the web equivalent of Linux - “good enough”.

Typography has a place in design. What you see with grey thin fonts is amateur work by designers who follow trends. To generalize this observation to the whole of design is not fair.
This article reads like a top-secret spy story. Its very worrying how deep their intellectual theft goes.
Weird. I had no problems cancelling earlier this year.
>[O]ne in five Americans rely on their smartphone as their sole access to the internet.

That’s just not right. Imagine needing to do research for a school paper and your only options are the limited time available on a school computer or your parent’s smartphone?