skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently I think the official LXD packages will be snap packages for all distros, with the exception of the Ubuntu LTS releases.
That is, in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS you get LXD as an official deb package.

Obviously, this does not preclude the distributions from packaging LXD in their own packaging format.

Apart from the AlpineLinux effort to package LXD, there is also a Debian effort, https://wiki.debian.org/LXD
The Epic Games Store is the best thing that could happen to Steam
ReactJS UI Dashboard
Senator McConnell is not known for his support of anything that doesn't benefit him, his donors, or his party. If he's swinging this way it's because he's got an agenda and he's horse-trading, in the same way that Bismark was alright with reforms like public education since it quieted down the radicals and kids who knew Trig could make better artillery officers. Hell, McConnell's official memoir is titled "The Long Game."

I'm reminded of a Vox analysis of McConnell behavior[1]:

“The cardinal rule of McConnell is he will do anything to acquire more power, or to achieve an outcome he thinks achieves his political interest,” says Adam Jentleson, a former aide to ex-Democratic leader Harry Reid.

“I don’t think he’s a conservative; I think he’s a transactionalist. I think he wants to keep the title of majority leader,” says Jason Pye of the conservative activist group Freedomworks. “His vested interest is taking power.”

[1] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/17/15970034/m...
I reflexively downvote "This.". This time I didn't.
How People Get Paid to Travel: Understanding the Term TRAVEL INFLUENCER
Hello yes checking in, not a HUGE fan but love her!
I work in an office job. Here are some of my reasons for owning a pickup truck, yet not a mining dump truck.

- I volunteer at a community garden and move mulch/plants/soil

- I cycle, kayak, and go camping and it's easier to transport my gear

- I am a homeowner, and do the repairs and maintenance myself. It's hard to haul things like lumber and miter saw in the trunk of a civic.

- Taking tree trimmings and other wood mulch to a dump site

- When buying new furniture, I can move it myself instead of renting/borrowing a truck
Cookiebot – GDPR and ePrivacy compliant tool
Tourist Falls into Ultra-Black Artwork That Looks Like a Cartoon Hole
Exceptions take space.
But cold brew (which has same amount of caffeine but less acids) tastes less mild than decaf, so it’s probably acidity as well.
Cyber Hotel Business Hack
Yes, big pickups get better fuel economy than big pickups from a decade ago, but the entire compact pickup market has been eliminated in North America.

I inherited my first pickup (a Nissan Hardbody), a couple decades ago from my father, who'd used it for years for beekeeping work, and the F-150 still doesn't match it for fuel economy.
Wouldn't have known about hemp and William R. Hearst if not for JRE podcast.
That is my first thought. It makes you wonder who they think they are. I am sure this is all covered pretty well in the TOS, but that doesn't mean it is alright.

If this is the stuff they make public about what they can do with all their data, you can only imagine the type of thing that they wouldn't share with the public.
It's not about performance. I have no problem with jupyter notebook. I use ein-mode in emacs which is basically a better frontend for jupyter notebook AND you get all benefits of emacs since cells are individual emacs buffers. It's also not about browsers. Writing code in a medium that's not designed to write code encourages bad behavior. Jupyter notebook is supposed to be optimized for Julia, Python and R but somehow writing Python code is next to impossible because it doesn't understand what to do with indentation. There is almost no word suggestion, when I type a few characters and click tab I almost always get horrible suggestion and have to navigate with arrow keys. I cannot use C-q to comment stuff out/in intelligently (comment-dwim), I cannot use regex, I cannot fuzzy search, I cannot use multiple cursors, I cannot use replace-text, I cannot highlight SQL embedded in python. I can go on for days. And this is not a problem of jupyter notebook. Why reinvent the wheel? We already have text editors and IDEs that solve the problem of inputing code, why would you ever want to type code in a web input box? That is, unless someone spends more money and makes a full-fledged IDE in local javascript. So much wasted effort for a problem that was solved in 1960s.
Yeah i guess the UI isnt that bad. Performance > UI in many cases for me though. Hopefully responsiveness times are something people consider more in designing an interface.
You forgot "the government", which is really #3. Developers usually sit somewhere between "astronauts" and "things that from distance look like flies".
Tech employees are very cheap for the community.
They take very little government aid, their use of roads is quite moderate (and is getting lower as "working from home" picks pace), and they usually pay enough property taxes to pay for local schools.

On the other hand the benefits they bring to the community are enormous.
Norton Commander and derivatives.
Open Camera – Open Source Camera App for Android Phones and Tablets
LOL "stablecoin"
The Titanic made history in large part because rich people where impacted and survived to talk about it. By comparison many slave ships with 800+ people sank with little impact.
One weird regularity of the stock market
New revenue model for local businesses: MenaPay Reseller Network
If you use the command "lxc" to manage your container, then you are using LXD. The command "lxc" communicates with the LXD supervisor over REST for you.

If instead you are using commands like "lxc-start", then you are using "LXC".

There are two possible aspects of confusion:

1. LXD uses the "lxc" command line utility for all the management of LXD containers.

2. LXC is both the name for the Linux kernel "Linux Containers" functionality and the first/early implementation of tools (those "lxc-????") for Linux Containers.
And these people really need big ass trucks.. to haul exactly what? I bet the great majority of people really don't need it for work or anything.
KDE Applications 18.12 released
Add me as another HN Swiftie!

There are dozens of us!
Like Google (mentioned in another comment), Facebook and Amazon also have large campuses in London with similar headcount, as well as large offices in cities like Dublin.
AI approaches to "reading" the Voynich manuscript have not been terribly successful.
Jack Herer's book 'The Emperor Wears No Clothes' highlights this and is the source for a lot of the pro-hemp sentiment. It is also available online, here is a link to the chapter that highlights the paper industry lobbying to make hemp illegal - https://jackherer.com/emperor-3/chapter-4/
Why not? There's already a need for more of it, and doesnt the cost of living indicates that any new housing would be filled instantly?
Have you ever run FreeBSD on a laptop? From what I hear it runs nice, but I'm specifically wondering about the battery life. Any experience?
You don't have to buy a utility vehicle if you only use it once a month. Renting is both cheaper and better for the environment. Where I live many people don't own a car at all and rent one when they need it. For example I needed a car twice in the last three years.
Show HN: Cantor – Follow GitHub organizations to be notified of new repos
The video itself has become a litmus test in the media so it's definitely relevant. The media are particularly obsessed with whether or not Trump has seen the tape, with the implication that it would influence his view on the matter.

There is a lot of pressure in the media (including leaks of the transcript by the CIA) for the President to watch the tape.

Headline of this article: "Khashoggi
Trump refuses to listen to audio tape of Jamal Khashoggi's 'vicious' murder"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/18/jamal-khashogg...

edit: *leaks

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/12/10/cant-breathe-...
At that age,he is still trying to get more money and power. Comical
How it can be ethical?
I think this article and title is a little misleading.

I, for one, assumed the hole did not have any depth. Mentioning it halfway through the article isn't the best way to express that.
How can you justify yourself in good conscience to be anti development when CoL is so high?

Bear in mind too that a fair number of people either can't or won't understand basic economics. I can't tell you how many times I've had or heard conversations that go like this:

Person A: We should kick out all the greedy developers who are raising the price of housing.

Person B: Housing costs are set by supply and demand; if the supply does not increase, prices will rise further.

A: That's not true! When new housing gets built, it's more expensive than existing housing.

B: That might be true of a particular unit, but that's because most people prefer new housing to old housing, and it's extremely hard to construct anything.

A: Just look at that new development: it's more expensive. We need to ban new housing. Plus, I don't want my neighborhood to look like Manhattan.

B: Missing Middle housing will not turn your neighborhood into Manhattan: http://missingmiddlehousing.com/

A: I've lived here for five years and I still don't want to see the neighborhood change.

You can go on for a long time in this vein, with more or less invective.
It's a popular story in conspiracy circles. That various industries tried to ban hemp tp favor their own materials as a more performant substitute.
People use the 'set in stone' phrase all the time, it puts a different spin on it when 6000 years later, we are still analyzing some poor guys tax returns. This is fascinating stuff, too bad data mining the mundane lives of social media users pays better.
I've never noticed rendering errors, but my problem with the browser built-in PDF viewers is that they can't handle big complex PDFs, especially on older machines. They'll gobble up 4GB of RAM like it's nothing and start swapping on PDFs that Acroread or xpdf display in less than a second.
Doesn't almost every community of living creatures retain memories that outlast the lifespans of individuals?
I used to own a large pickup truck. Traded in as part of my Tesla Model S purchase. Slapped a hitch on the Model S (2500 lb towing capacity) and I can do everything I did before with my pickup with my electric car (arguably easier with a lower platform for loading and unloading, and my trailer has a higher load limit than my pickup truck bed did).

Unless you’re hauling thousand of pounds behind that truck every day (above smaller vehicle tow limits, which is a legitimate use case if you're someone who is a shipper/transporter or contractor with a heavy trailer of some sort), it’s a waste, but to each their own.
Blockchain CTF Version 2
You can use CTRL [ in vi to do the same function as the ESC key.
Sending Alerts After a Terminal Command Is Finished
Hi, author here. There is a staggering amount of low hanging fruit. I have been half-seriously blaming GEMM in correspondence. When you have a problem that looks like GEMM, it's such an attractive hammer to pick up that people just don't look beyond it to other techniques!

To answer your other questions: we already have auto load balancing and primitive fusion, albeit rudimentary, but optimizing scheduling is the obvious next step. We've extended this stuff to use ILP, and we're on our way to press at the moment!

Re: tree width: the tree widths are huge, but the solver library we're using handles them :)
[Investigation] What to do with Coinhive if you find it on your website?
The Data New York Gave to Amazon
Places without free WiFi aren’t meant for the likes of you and me: those that pay their own way. It’s meant for people that are going to expense it. I would never stay at a Hilton property if I were paying. I have to wonder if the staff don’t have a chuckle over the couple “treating themselves” by staying at the Hilton when Best Western offers a better stay for less.
but isn't find() an O(n) operation already?
Apple to build $1B Austin campus, add thousands of jobs in US expansion
Yes, and Microsoft donated the characters and both books to CNCF, which relicensed them all CC-BY. More info and links to HTML, PDF, and source of the books at https://phippy.io.

(Disclosure: I'm executive director of CNCF and helped arrange the donation and relicensing.)
The scientists behind this research called it "tea." The actual paper isn't clear on what the species is but it appears to be genus Camellia. The reason it has no caffeine is a mutation in the caffeine synthase gene, not a lack of any attempt at a caffeine-producing structure at all (as with brewing other plants' leaves).
I reacted to that, too, and it made me think.

Had this happened in 1919, I think it would have been forgotten already, as it would seem pale compared to WW1. In 1912, people were quite innocent, so this was seen as a big event.

Was WW1, at least in part, something that was allowed to happen before most people had forgotten earlier big wars? Roughly 100 years had passed since Napoleon, after all.

When authors today again consider Titantic to be "unthinkable", what does it mean?

I consider it perfectly thinkable that something in our lifetime will trigger a nuclear war, killing billions of people.

Especially if we start to take global stability for granted.
It is really too bad we can't implement a revenue neutral carbon dioxide tax. Start at a low level and gradually ramp it up until we are carbon dioxide neutral or a bit negative. Pay for taking CO2 out of the air at the same rate as the tax and let American ingenuity do the rest. Even the oil companies are not against a CO2 tax if you bring it on slowly. Seems like if Congress could just ignore the crazies on either side for a bit, most people would agree this the best way forward to reduce CO2 emissions working with the strengths of American culture instead of going against it.
My understanding is most of the time when the donor says they'll match up to $X, they're unlikely to actually give a smaller amount, regardless of the outcome of the drive. It's mostly just a manipulative, but rather effective advertising technique.
Hong Kong sailors' close encounter with North Sentinel Island's isolated tribe
For a simple helper for testing scripts, I might also suggest https://scripttest.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
How does that work economically? Isn't a 30 year old truck engine massively less efficient than a modern one?
Docker's first public appearance (2013)
As start, It does not use cookie for tracking, nor it track IP addresses. Furthermore, It mask all the texts of the page on client side while recording, so no sensitive information will be transmitted and there is no way to identify user who recording was performed on. See the sample: https://imgur.com/a/tlnibjX
One developer's road: Programming and mental illness
In fact the worst shipwreck in history just occurred in 1987, killing more than 4,000 people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Do%C3%B1a_Paz
See my comment above :)
$85 cordless impact driver (Ryobi) has been my new favorite tool by far. It doesn't do everything a standard drill can do (i.e. drill...) but it is far superior for driving stubborn screws and bolts in and out, especially when they are beginning to strip! It is easier to hold since you do not need to counter the torque continuously like you do with a regular drill.

Plus it makes a fun hammering noise which makes me feel like I am doing something important.
Pagan is the Greek word for Peasant. It was used by Christians as a pejorative for anyone that had not yet converted and applied to a myriad of religions. I don't have any references handy. Perhaps some day I will blog about this.
As a user you should be unaffected by the packaging of software as long as it works.

A Linux distribution can repackage LXD in their native packaging format and some distributions are doing it already (Debian, Alpine, Fedora, etc). If you are familiar with packaging, you can help promote those packages to the official repositories.

Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/LXD

Fedora: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ganto/lxd/

Alpine: https://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/testing/lxd?h=m...
In this case, the script is not a problem. The article is about bulk machine translation of a lot ancient texts.
That seems like a reasonable alternative, but I like to also do maintenance on my own vehicle and have been working on combustion engines my whole life.

I supposed it is as unnecessary as anything in life, no more or less so than a Tesla, Civic, motorcycle, or scooter

Edit: I will concede that a mining dump truck would be unnecessary, in response to the parent comment
For the record, I was not confusing anything here, it was you thinking that I was first listing languages then frameworks, which was not the case.
That isn’t my observation. They displace other communities entirely by driving up cost of living.
Well, partially true. Fat is very energy rich so low fat diets will typically have less calories and calories are basically the only thing you need to worry about when trying to lose weight.
Can you elaborate on these laws?
Person A: we should make greedy developers to build cheaper houses

Person B: (points out the cost of unionized workforce)

Person A throws a tantrum.
Why would they need those laws? One of the benefits of the Five Eyes establishment is that you can share intelligence. Having an allied partner able to do collection and analysis neatly side steps protections design to stop your own country from doing this type of activity on their own citizens.
> “And pretty much all the concrete methods sold as “Agile” are processes that have been used successfully somewhere, too, that's usually what motivates documenting them.”

Agile is a gimmick to sell. That’s what motivates documenting different examples of so-called Agile.

It’s similar to the age old scam of sending out mailers to 2^n different sequences of buy / sell advice for n different investment decisions, and then only focusing on the people who received the advice that turned out to be correct in every case.

Say that some organization “uses Agile” (whatever that means), but that the engineers deliver a product in spite of the processes that exist “because of Agile” and would have delivered better results with less risk had those processes not existed.

In that case, Agile will still be labeled as a success story and trumpeted around as a documented example for consultants to sell, despite Agile having a negative effect.

It boils down to a causal inference problem: what would have been delivered in the counterfactual situation of some methodology that did not impose any “Agile” processes?

I’m just pointing out that in every implementation of Agile I’ve personally worked in, heard about from friends or read about in HN comments (including this thread), all of the details appear to suggest it really is just this counterfactual problem.

Agile has a subtractive, hindering effect on a process of delivering software, and due to engineers doing extra work to overcome Agile and deliver things in spite of it, the end result is that, no thanks to Agile, organizations still ship things and make customer’s happy. Just not as happy as if they did not approach work with Agile process management.
Darpa finally explained (The debate on racism cont)
BTW what is the definition of "'randomness' factor or level of pattern obscurity"?
Even recreational boats do this. Modern ones. Today.
I think the objective (at least of the printed version) is for Microsoft to have something unusual to hand out at their conference booths that will drive traffic to them.
In addition to the usual suspects of tmux, random window managers + friends, here are the applications I have to install to function

rofi - Fast, phenomenally good launcher

terminator - Terminal that allows splitting, tabbing, and more importantly bonding

redshift - Literally, shift my red light levels by time of day

retext - I write a lot of markdown. Seeing it real-time previewed makes life significantly better for me.

steam - A distraction now and then certainly helps
What? Lot's of webpages look different after simply resizing the window! The fact that this is on purpose, doesn't mean it doesn't happen (quite the opposite!).
Can't sell a Sumerian a new model iPhone.

And to play devil's advocate here, what does this old data potentially get us? Like OP said, it may just be some dude's tax info. Nice to have, and maybe useful for painting a picture of day-to-day life, but that's not going to do anything for climate change, stagnant wages, or Mutually Assured Destruction?
I like in Houston. Yes there are plenty of trucks and many people driving them “unnecessarily” whatever that means. But I have worked in the northeast, mid west and west coast. Despite what you may want to believe, there are not that many more trucks in Texas than elsewhere. The F-150 would not be the best selling vehicle in the US if only Texans bought them. I personally can’t daily drive a truck because I like sportier vehicles. But I can’t be mad at someone who chooses to. They’re roomy, convenient when buying large items and as of late not earth destroying bro dozers that they seem to have a reputation for in some circles. If we truly want to make progress towards less oil dependence and cleaner vehicles then we have to get off this tribal greenies vs MAGAs nonsense that really only serves to entrench two sides. I’m somewhat interested in the auto industry, I like cars. I love old muscle cars that get 10 mpg and have horrible emissions. I also would love to own a Tesla. I would like to see future cars more in line with a model S or model X than the gas swilling muscle car. I think that the left thinks that mandates are the only way to get there. That may be partially true but I also think that mandates are pushing opposing goals. Cars have to be safer so you build heavier larger cars. That requires more horsepower so we need larger engines or forced induction. Setting a deadline for mpg and emissions is only going to make cars very expensive. Electric cars are not going to cover all use cases and there is a real problem of lithium availability and battery capacity. There have been great strides to solving these issues but it isn’t there yet. As other comments have said, passenger cars and trucks are low on the list of polluters compared to planes, semis, trains, cargo ships. Believe it or not, I think the folks in the auto industry do want to make cleaner more efficient cars and trucks, but they also are in a business where a misstep can bankrupt the company so bold moves are not on the road map.