skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You think, but you have no clue about the differences, which are so substantial that it wouldn't be possible to convince arch to change things like this, may it be for legacy reasons because some things are breaking changes or may it be just something the Arch team doesn't care about.

- Arch Linux supports only x86_64 in the main project

- Void supports i686, x86_64, armv6, armv7 and aarch64 with both musl and glibc under one project, one source repository.

- Arch linux does not allow partial updates

- Void linux allows partial updates because the package manager tracks shared libraries and big issues can be avoided by aborting the transaction if a conflict exists

- Arch puts everything into one big package

- Void splits packages, not as much as debian, but at least the development stuff is in a `-devel` subpackage. This reduces the installation size by alot (especially useful for embedded systems, arm...).

- Arch has no repository with debugging symbols

- Void has a repository with -dbg packages containing the debug symbols.

- Arch only maintains two kernels, mainline and lts.

- Void maintains kernels in packages with the a version suffix, `linuxX.XX`. Users can choose which series for how long they want to use. (also great for embedded systems)

- Arch kernel updates remove the old kernel version

- Void keeps the old kernels, the administrators can boot the previous kernel until they decides to purge old kernels with the `vkpurge` script if new kernels work fine.

This are the differences on top of my head, there are plenty more.

But yes tell people they waste resources.
Do you need organic hits?
> you can erase the ink with special eraser

Err, there exist erasable ball-point pens too, such as Pilot's Frixion line.
Ageism is a real factor in tech companies but as the demand grows and tech companies have been around for decades this might go down a bit. May be not for startups but FAANGs definitely will have more aged developers. It’s also important to realize the other factors play in this. Where you are born, your race matters a lot more than many people think. Two people of same age and equal talent but different race aren’t treated the same way in almost any country in the world (Not trying to generalize but it is prevalent)
Off topic, such Social Darwinism is in huge favor around China’s tech industry.
Great idea! I look forward to see more research papers to help. I think that this project addresses a real need, often undervaluated in the academic research. This is the only project active in this space?
Linux KVM Continues Offering Much Better Out of Box Performance Than VirtualBox
I would have loved to earn a degree by watching lectures online of the best teachers, and then having, instead of lecture hours offered in-person, an interactive Q&A session.

But what would be the best is if you are allowed to skip ahead lectures, etc at your own pace. The competitive incentive here would have been a big extra motivator.

Of course, you cant blame stagnating scientific discovery, stagnating prosperity, and soaring academic costs on the Academic Complex. Teachers, especially, are beyond reproach.
I read "of the weak"..
"If you have no time to socialize and network or raise a good family, soon we will be left with a society that only focuses on how to better themselves and not mentoring or preparing the next generation of smart people."

I suspect that there is no "bettering themselves" going on in that scenario. That only happens if you close the loop. Running open loop is just a random walk into crazy-town.
Causation isn’t correlation; zip code is easy to measure, but I’d bet it’s not what actually matters.
I think your definition of suck is different than that of the authors.
Maybe. OTOH, how many people who share your IP addresses use the same browser, OS, and block JS?

Unless you're using a vanilla Tor Browser, you will probably stand out. And if you are, 'tptacek will tell you how it's a bad idea for other reasons.
What are the names of these companies? I would love to send them all a GDPR request asking for my data.
If there's fewer kids born today, there's a likelihood of fewer coders in 20 years.
Fwiw, changing ther colors of many logos violates various rules. I think both apple and Ms don't allow their logos to be altered, not even ther colors.

Displaying logos can be tricky, and it's scary when wealthy companies send legal complaints about their logos.

Edit; phone added odd words.
> I don't know how welfare works in USA, but if it's a federal level program, it would seem California is pulling a pretty clever hack there.

Welfare isn't a program, it's many different programs, almost none of which are fully federally funded, and where (because of its strong aggregate economy despite poor distributional features) California gets less federal cost sharing than most other states (the absolute minimum) in most components that are partly federally funded with a variable federal share. California also has some of the most expansive state (or local) funds only welfare programs.

And, bottom line, California pays more federal taxes than it gets federal spending, unlike lots of poorer states; in summary, it's not hacking anything here.

Also, the 6 vs. 66 number for Texas vs California is almost certainly using the federal poverty line, not the local CoL-adjusted poverty figure as the base universe. California, on average, has a much higher cost of living than Texas, or the US as a whole, and so the comparison doesn't actually represent those actually in poverty.
That's the "I found a 15-year-old bug in our NIC" story that I'd love to read but which will probably never be told. And whoever designed the system is busy obfuscating that on their resume this morning.
Yes, this is exactly what I was doing before I started VLZ. But they weren't necessarily available as SVG, and they always needed tweaking to look nice together.

Plus it is nice to be able to hotlink them from a central location.

I'm planning to make the -wordmark version take the parent css color, but otherwise dark or mono versions will have to come from the community.
fair, I mixed that up.
I love Mermaid! Here’s a live editor that’s really handy:

https://mermaidjs.github.io/mermaid-live-editor/
In Google Scholar you can find a link to the PDF file in the right side of the research title.
And when you do see a 20-something, they're often kind of sketchy, since good ones are preferentially siphoned of into the valley.
Feynman said that if he couldn't teach something to undergrads, he didn't understand it well enough.
Thanks a lot. Sure, more papers will be added in the future.
The 50 Most Inspiring Architecture Photographs of 2018
Well, lets try. For the embeddings, you'll have to search the internet for details, and this may be not a "proper" ML. But the general idea is that if you have some nice euclidean algorithm, like k-means, and you want to cluster some data w.r.t a different metric, you could try putting the data in the euclidean space without distorting the distances too much and then apply the algo. there. For k-means in particular the nearest neighbor search in Euclidean space can be made efficient, I think. This didn't take off much because most of the results were unfortunately negative. Although there were some recent positive results, even with discussion here [1]. Bourgain had some early results on the embeddability of finite metric spaces into classical spaces.

The concentration of covariance matrices is fundamental for most "spectral" methods, in particular spectral clustering. See for instance [2]. People proved and reproved these concentration results a lot of times, but Bourgain's was the earliest with N\log N sample complexity for log concave measures, improving on a result of Lovazs et al. (!!!)
More importantly, the method with which he proved this, controlling the concentration by decomposing into bounded and "rarely non-zero" parts is now all around in statistical learning theory. So each time people want to prove uniform law of large numbers and nothing standard works, people try to find a good decomposition.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17752836
[2] Clustering with Spectral Norm and the k-means Algorithm, Amit Kumar and Ravindran Kannan (Section 6...)
List of the 1000 Most Asked Questions on Google
> I wonder what went into the decision process to include each of these libraries.

The decision making process was a survey [0]. The two criteria used were (1) usage of software inside and outside the EU and (2) critical nature of the software for institutions and users.

[0] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/results-eu-fossa-survey
"A startup that really wants people working 80 hours a week" sounds like the most US thing I've heard/read this month.

The US work culture is utterly insane. They say that the Japanese work extreme long hours, but from my experience, it's quite similar for big cities in the US.

Sounds like a sure way to a burnout, getting fat, and losing your family.
I used to believe it was a strong positive, but some japanese said it was a burden to them. I'd love to know more about the topic though. I know that subpar family relationships can remove a lot of good things in your life (family reunions, holidays, birthdays etc) and that isolation costs financially and emotionally.
Building Pi-Holes Automatically
Speaking as someone who has relatives in the field, a ranch is a problem.
GRON and KVIN are better because: (1) I wrote KVIN as a long term joke to give my boss a stroke; and, (2) I like GRON’s author’s style.

KVIN: https://github.com/jaroslov/kvin

GRON: I can’t find the spec; sorry.
... which should be mentioned with numbers. Otherwise go by what's in the article - 2 anecdotes. My anecdote is that I'm > 40 but highly saught after engineer,by several CEOs far younger than me. But I know it does not mean that's the general pattern.

Edit: everything in the article was a good read, except the generalization in its title
Yep. It sounds like the packets were coming from this nic and the backbone routers had no logic to filter out those kinds of invalid packets. No SRC/DST/TTL should be a big red flag, but it seems like they didn't have a rule for that.

Talk about a needle in a hay stack.
The next time you are in that situation: exercise half, keep the other half in case they go up further. Protect your downside.
Should you be interested in the science and research behind it, I warmly recommend reading the book "Make It Stick" where the concepts are discussed in length. [1]

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18770267-make-it-stick
AdGuard Pro with facebook.com and facebook.net added to its DNS blacklist.

When the app attempts to connect to graph.facebook.com it gets NXDOMAIN.
Funny you mentioned that- before it was forked bake had doxygen & test framework integration. I'm working on porting the test/doxygen drivers as we speak.
The Real Engineering channel has deteriorated into drivel. He spent half the video discussing ion engines for spacecraft, presumably in a bid to drive up enthusiasm around efficiency and top speed, before embarrassing himself with his discussion of the ion plane experiment. This technology is stillborn for the reasons he himself gives, though he dances around that, hoping against hope that few enough users will understand that the video is a flimsy excuse for a SkillShare ad, so that he can continue wringing sponsorship dollars from his increasingly pathetic offerings.
I know, blue states are subsidizing the red states. Even California pays more per capita to feds than Texas.
If you're doing the same thing for 30+ years you probably are doing something wrong anyway unless it happens to be the thing that you enjoy doing most.
Diagram Designer:
http://logicnet.dk/DiagramDesigner/

Windows only but works really well in wine.
I'm still fuzzy on lipids, but olive oil promotes HDL which removes cholesterol from bloodstream.
The social conservatism about cannabis was created and stoked by propaganda and laws created in large part due to industrial lobbying, if you look back a generation or two.
Yes, it's in Google's interest to be able to uniquely identify each user so they can also serve "better" ads...
Developing Secure Android Apps
This is great! I'm glad to see FreeBSD on the To Do list. If you're taking requests, do one for Vim.

And I was surprised to see SEPTA on the home page. Are you in Philadelphia?
The once beloved company Google turned into a gigantic evil company with absolutely no compassion towards its developers and users. Everything they do is presented and marketed as something good, but deep under it is shady, controversial and goes straight into our norms of a good society. Imagine if companies like Google, Amazon, apple etc are dictating the rules. It won't be far of a regime in China. Expelled from society based on automated bits and false information. We shouldn't accept that kind of behaviour. We all should standup and knock this evil thing over.
Time for some hefty GDPR fines.
I've tried to link to the official guidelines (and have an "-official" version).

I prefer not to mess with the logos other than to make them fit.

Hopefully companies that care enough to send legal threats will care enough to have a nice looking version to begin with, and I won't need to mess with it at all.

And I'm happy to take submissions from official sources!
Make sure to never listen to guidance counselors. They’re idiots who push you in the wrong direction.
I see. I may as well add now, that’s roughly the experience I have receiving care in my home state with Medicaid. The people at the state even said I should never be presented with any sort of bill. Out of state, though, it’s been more difficult to arrange as hospitals in other states may or may not be able to bill my Medicaid, restricted either by lack of agreements or competence.
If you're only interested in monochrome versions then https://simpleicons.org is a very good source of SVG icons too.
I wonder if I'm just a lousy human being, or are these startups full of cheats. For me, working 25-30 hours a week (really working, not pretending to work or sitting disengaged in meetings) is probably a long-term maximum of sustainable effort. How the hell are these people working 80 hours a week?
What are PECR?
A variant is to 'explain it to your spouse'. (Ignoring these days your partner might be better educated than you.)
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A former symbol of Silicon Valley’s crush it culture now regrets working so much
> one gentleman pushing 70 recently came out of retirement to work on Ethereum.

I think we are talking about 45 yr old with 2 kids and a mortgage.
Innovative anti-phishing app comes to iPhones
Non-AMP link: https://thehill.com//finance/412928-middle-class-is-disappea...
> I also deal with this a lot, like many others, mostly centered around logging activity, saving information and todos

I used to preserve and organise all my digital life as well, but at some point I found it really liberating to just let things go. Storage might be cheap, but maintaining a comprehensive archive takes effort which could be better spent on future projects. In fact, I realised that treating historical data as ephemeral helps me achieve more and obsess less about perfection.

Of course this is just my personal opinion, different approaches work for different people.
I'm guessing because each one is only set up to bill a particular NHS Trust? But you're right, it should be possible keyed just off an NI number or something.

There is a hospital in my town but it's A&E was closed in 2007 IIRC, so if you can't see a GP you can't even go there, you have to drive a couple of towns over.
If you are ever in a similar situation you might want to look at what Mark Cuban did to manage this risk - described here: http://investmentxyz.blogspot.com/2006/05/cubans-collar-anat...
From Encrypting the Web to Encrypting the Net: 2018 Year in Review
Protect Personal Information When Shopping Online (2017)
No, because I have no reason to believe that anyone is capable of reliably finding news and articles I want to see most. If even Google and the other big sites can't manage it, I doubt any smaller organization can.
Yes, SVGPorn is great, and I've used a bunch of his icons. I even made a report (https://www.vectorlogo.zone/report/icon-vs-svgporn.html) that compares them!

But I wanted images that included the company name, so the credits section can be 100% images, not icon image + text.
I know you're not disagreeing with me, but the issue you raise only distracts and lends ammo to the defenders of these prolific tracking mechanisms. It's the Nirvana fallacy.

I'm sure there's a Google rep somewhere that will tell you that their "advertising ID" is better than the status quo on the web because the user can rotate it and, because it's reliable and easy for app devs to use, they are discouraged from being more nefarious and sneaky in tracking users.

This is all a bloody distraction from the point: it should not be an acceptable norm for this tracking to happen and it should be as hard as possible to pull off without informed user consent.

The degree to which platforms are defensive against it is a different issue to whether or not they actively encourage it by design... which shouldn't even be open to debate.
These app stores need to be made accountable for their decisions to do this. A sympathetic judge setting a precedent is all thats needed for this process to be more transparent.
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2018 – the year 'Big Tech' lost its innocence
To block this on android without root, install dns66 from f-droid (an adblocker that emulates a VPN and works with hosts files) and add https://a.uchi.moe/jwmkqn.txt as a host file.
I think when first installing there still is a 'bug' where you have to edit the url of included Peter Lowe's list from http to https before you can update the lists.
It's affect, not effect.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/affect-vs-effect/
1. This reply seems like "forget hard data, here are two anecdotes" which seems like a poor approach if you're trying to convince [good] engineers.

2. 62.9% of the world has cell phones. The global median income is likely less than $5,000 and it seems difficult to reconcile the two without many poor people - and not just in the US- owning cell phones. More to the point, do you know how hard it is to get a job or a house without a phone? Cell phones are very hard to do without in this age, especially if you're homeless.

3. Education should help to ensure people can make better decisions, but access to decent education is terribly unequal in the US, so kids attending schools in poor districts are even less likely to learn what they need to get ahead. You're ignoring structural issues if you think people are just making "stupid decisions" and ignore the facts about inequality of education.
> probably roughly evenly distributed among the sexes and races

While some studies disagree, we can assume its true for the sake for discussion.

> so in fields which are dominated by white men, you're actually at an advantage if you manage to hire women and/or minorities as you are able to hire some of the very best humans effectively at an enormous discount

There is a logical error here. The assumption is that the missing non-white men in the evenly distributed population would not be working. Instead what we see in countries like Sweden is that people segregate, so you got the non-white men dominating some fields, and white men dominating other fields, and so forth. A field which is dominated by white men that want non-white men has to compete with fields that are dominated by non-white men. Similar, there is no discount to get white men into fields that are dominated by non-white men because they have to compete with fields that are dominated by white men.

> if everyone did this, the discount would disappear and we'd have meritocratic equality

Logical error #2. If everything was equal we would not see every field being exactly 50% men and women, with exact race distribution as proportional to the population. Randomness would still apply. Unless the population is infinitive you will get random variation.
Exactly, interactive rebase and cherry-picking do the job.
JavaScript versus Data Science
I use Netguard (https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard) and block out access to Facebook's Graph API by every app on my phone. Works very well.
These people are only barely doctors.
I'm not claiming it's perfect. Our cluster of > 15 Kafka nodes and 3 node zk ensemble has had no major issues in over 4 years in production. That's something. And from the bug - "GC logging/tuning is clearly where I dropped the ball, just using the defaults;"
In my town we have something called The Science Cafe. The presenter has describe an interesting topic in 20 minutes without [computer] slides, followed by Q&A. This is not easy now that conference talks and course lectures heavily use powerpoint. TED science talks are similar.
Yes, other formats were considered. There is some irony here, as I've been a vocal critic of JSON in the past (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/may-time-stop-using-json-sand...). I ultimately went with JSON because it's ubiquitous, it has been used for similar purposes (NPM) and it has a great parser (parson) that was easy to embed without adding more dependencies to bake.

Time will tell whether JSON scales, but so far it has held up pretty well. Bake has been used by small & big organizations, while building large numbers of packages simultaneously (150+). The most complex bake project.json I've seen was still far less verbose than the average CMake file (using CMake as a benchmark since it has been widely adopted).
This is really groundbreaking but it got less noise than I thought it would.
Adhell (an app that is capable of doing system wide ad blocking along with many other things thanks to Knox which is Samsung-only capability) was the main reason I stayed with Samsung for years. Now every phone with Android Pie will be to use dns based ad blocking in all networks without running an annoying app in the background.
I've written init replacements and it's not trivial, but it's not hard either. The majority of the starting of an operating system can be put in a single shell script (and in fact that used to be standard). But if you want to get really complicated, you can turn every boot operation into a service.

Services are a common feature of modern operating systems. You have a dependency graph, you start something based on it, you either watch the process or wait for one to die, you reap it, you figure out what to do next (which is usually "restart the things I need to keep that thing running" or "die and warn the admin").

All of that is useful for daemons, things that need to keep running. For 99% of the rest of system booting, it's one-shot loading of stuff. So, many people (myself included) like just having a shell script to keep all that in, as one a system is built, the boot-up rarely changes. By keeping booting and a service manager separate, you can change things out as you wish.

You can do that easily if all pid 1 does is kick off the boot-time stuff, which itself kicks off the service manager. You can't do that if the service manager is the boot manager and both are pid 1. Or at least, now you need to kick off a second service manager from the first one and pretend the first one doesn't exist, which is non-trivial. The more responsibilities you take over, the more crap you need to support.

So as a result, systemd is an entire kitchen sink, because it needs to be for you to get anything done, due to its design decisions. With a different design they could offer any functionality and you could pick and choose what to use, but from what I understand now it's more like you have no choice.
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