skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When a developer requests a Postgres database it may substitute CochroachDB without warning? Sketchy. They could at least use Stolon or something.
Similarily email is irreversible. Sure some providers will stall your email so you have a period of time to cancel/edit the email...

Nothing prevents a crypto client from similarily stalling a payment until you are sure you want to pay...
I was homeschooled for most of my K-12 education, and unschooled in different degrees during that time. At best, unschooling can encourage a child to dig deep for new ideas, and involve them in activities that build on that knowledge. It can also be a great supplement to more typical subject-based homeschooling, and encourage cross-disciplinary thinking.

But unschooling requires serious engagement on the part of the parent as well. I've seen unschooling families get lazy and end up with 18-year old ballerinas who can't do times tables to save their life, or physicists-to-be who might seem advanced to their parents, but get to college and find themselves far behind their peers. The parents' worldview and involvement can easily become a constraint for their child's growth.

I would also caution potential homeschoolers to be mindful of how they frame their choice when they talk to their children. Making it about the child or taking a strong us v. them stance against other options can be very isolating for the child, especially if they ever feel like they're not getting the education they want at home. Be moderate in your explanations, and leave the door open if you can.
Paralysing fatalism is just as bad as living in a denalist fantasy: both embrace doing nothing rather than facing up to the difficult work that needs done.

The IPCC report is not "a complete joke". Nothing in it requires the invention of radical new technology. We're not talking about needing some kind of ATMOS silver bullet. The reality is that there's alot of work to implement it, and it may not get done on time, but it's also not impossible (yet).

The technical challenges of moving to a renewable energy economy are doable, it's the political problem of forcing entire sectors of the economy worth hundreds of billions of dollars to replace themselves or drop out of existence.
But then we wouldn't have had Buffalo Bill and the Silence of the Lambs would have just been some geek in a basement printing skin.
I think the main difference is really that in user space there is an os always doing something in the background. On a gameboy though when you say halt it truly halts the hardware unlike an idle loop which just spins. So an actual hardware interrupt is needed to restart things.

For embedded software without an os it is not uncommon when not explicitly doing something to enter a spin table.
For the record, Maria de Montessori was honorary member of Mussolini’s Fascist Party.
Really? Whenever I'm googling a problem, I just prefix it with "Fedora" or "Ubuntu 18.04" or whatever I'm using, and most everything is relevant. Additionally, the Arch wiki is probably some of the best documentation out there, but I don't find it to hard to translate to either distro.
> By most metrics? Are you kidding? People are making way less now than fifty or sixty years ago and basic necessities cost way more (adjusted for inflation

The Economist article to which I linked gave multiple metrics that contradict this claim.

> And finding an affordable place to live is impossible in some areas, extremely hard almost everywhere that's desirable to live.

True, and I mentioned that there are exceptions to the overall positive tend and specifically noted housing costs. But the solution to this problem is well known: increased the supply of housing.

> And of course, poverty is relative so seeing the rich get healthcare while you and your own family get sick and die has a huge effect on people that probably isn't captured by any metric I know of.

But that's the thing: the data indicates that the poor aren't becoming worse off. Yet we have the perceptions that it is.

I think understanding why this contradictory perceptions exists lies at the heart of a lot of social chsllenges today. Like why people in the US become so strongly against immigration and free trade despite the strong evidence that these things have a positive effect on the country.
The only reason we knew about it the first attempt was because it was leaked, whose to say they won't just try again in the future...
What do you use now, and how does it compare?

I switched to i3 because I was just frustrated with what I had used in the past. I wanted a simple window manager without animations (disabling them on my phone was also a huge gain in terms of usability), that just works and does not get in the way (I had a slow laptop on which Gnome was painfully slow, at the time). The cost was basically to write a configuration file matching what I wanted, learning a few key to switch workspaces and windows, but that was it.

I agree with you that these are micro-optimizations time-wise, but the frustration can be real and it gets in the way when you use your computer all day long. The simpler, the better I'd say (although it doesn't have to be a tiling window manager).
> when pretending to do some ridiculous silly kungfu fu move with your friends

Maybe you just need better friends?

Your anecdotes certainly aren't universal.
> (It's also how they're going to get men used to the idea of wearing makeup, thus doubling the market for cosmetics, isn't it?)

I know this is anecdata but I have several female friends who do not care for make up, except for possibly when going out to a fancy dinner or the likes. They don’t like the tedium of putting it on and wiping it off every day, so they just don’t. Some of them do semi permanent things like getting fake eyelashes and such, and just redo it every 4 weeks or whatever it may be. I reckon this type of device would probably have some appeal to that market as well.

I think it’s a really cool device, and if it works as well as advertised in the (low resolution as it may be) video then I’d probably be one of those men who is in the market for One of these. I have decent skin but a few spots I wouldn’t mind to “get rid off” but can’t be bothered with make up.
True, Gnome is nearly as un-customizable as OSX, but with even fewer add on apps to "fix" it. I find KDE to be a much better user experience out-of-the-box, and also more customizable and extendable.
For a self-hosted alternative: https://guacamole.apache.org/
Wow. Just now I noticed that I've never seen emojis here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The GPU backend is (and so's the CPU backend, but that's currently too slow to get much information from). The TPU backend isn't (which is why we targeted XLA in the first place).
So, again, what responsibility would be particularly suited to a boy over a woman?
Yeah, that's exactly what the Church said about atheists.

"as an atheist what is the meaning of life? What is then the meaning of society? What is the meaning of ... ? "

It would be a lot simpler if we all simply served the commercial bankers, or perhaps the central bank or ... because then we wouldn't have to carry "the burden of having to ponder the meaning of our lives"

edit: slightly modified
There is lots of things you can purchase directly with bitcoin.
I tried this experiment last year. Bought a DELL XPS 13 at Costco, put Ubuntu 18.04 on it and dove in. I've been a Mac guy for ~10y just like the author. Worked at MS prior to that, so lots of Windows.

My experience is that it's one of those things that seems great on day 1, OK on day 1, and so on.

Spoiler, after about 6 months I gave up and went back to Win10, which is really improving rapidly with WSL, etc. I run an Ubuntu VM in Hyper-V if I need "real" Linux for something.

It's death of a thousand cuts. Beyond random Linux config issues, the UI can be laggy, the power management is terrible, etc.

I enjoyed the fiddling but just don't have time for it.
In terms of a violation of their privacy, sure. Any stronger claim than that, however, requires evidence no matter who says it.
So, MS shipped their first feature in Github :-)

errrrr, actually - second (after unlimited private repos)
> Paralysing fatalism is just as bad as living in a denalist fantasy: both embrace doing nothing rather than facing up to the difficult work that needs done.

Well said!

I am looking forward to the ride ahead - whether it's bumpy or far worse.

Hard work will be required from us as a society and personally as individuals.
I think you may have misunderstood. I think OP meant that you have to explicitly "freeze" or "halt" the program to save on battery. In other forms of software development, it's not common to explicitly state in your code that you're waiting for the kernel to interrupt you. The kernel's scheduler decides when to interrupt and pre-empts the running process. There are definitely systems out there where the running process gives processor control back to the kernel scheduler but I don't think it's common.
Good point! These issues are so vague that in reality the “arguments” are simply assertions in favor of whatever point you want to claim.
Opensource.dev an Introduction to Open Source from Google
> I really do not believe that there is someone so powerful to make RedHat, Debian, SUSE and Canonical, to name a few, to harm themselves in one and the same, very specific way.

Let's go through these one by one then.

* RedHat could certainly have adopted it because they saw it as a way to take control of the development of a central piece of GNU/Linux software architecture. An init system is the one piece of software (other than a kernel) that you can't run two of at the same time on the same bare metal, so this is obviously a tempting piece of real estate to capture to provide a competitive advantage in a commoditised landscape.

* SUSE didn't want to be seen to be left behind with "old fashioned" sysvinit, and didn't have the resources to invest in their own competing init system, especially after Canonical had already thrown their own resources at Upstart. Siding with the RPM distro over the DEB based one was also an obvious choice.

* Debian had a contentious debate about which init system should be the default (and, in practice, after choosing systemd, the only) fully supported init system. The decision was placed in the hands of the Technical Committee, who were split down the middle between choosing systemd or Upstart. The tie was resolved by a single vote, that of the committee's chairman, Bdale Garbee:

https://lwn.net/Articles/585363/

He is, no doubt, an honourable man, but he is also a cheerleader for HPE:

https://www.linux.com/NEWS/LINUX-LEADER-BDALE-GARBEE-TOUTS-P...

despite SUSE being HPE's preferred Linux distro:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/sweet-suse-hpe-snags-itself-a-...

* Canonical (that is, Ubuntu) went with systemd shortly after the Debian vote, once it became clear that single-handedly supporting Upstart was an unsustainable option for the company, especially as packages were starting to add dependencies on systemd:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/after-linux-civil-war-ubuntu-t...

* With all these top tier distros succumbing to systemd, more and more packages started to depend on it as the init system, to the point that it became all but impossible for another distro to ship packages that didn't depend on systemd in its base system.

This is exactly the sort of slow creeping spread that systemd is notorious for, using the momentum gained from each small victory to help crush bigger and bigger targets, until it is unavoidable.

The worst part, though, is the historical revisionism, and the suggestion that everyone just accepted systemd and abandoned all the software it replaces, based purely on the merits of systemd. Most people had to accept systemd whether they liked it or not. systemd is not a "suite of programs which play nice together", it is a suite of programs which only play nicely together, and which bully all the other programs into submission, despite systemd's technical flaws.
The name is not nautical in theme, seems sketchy.
I really hope some desktop first experience from librem will do it.

The only other new device that captured my attention little was the essential, but their camera did their phone in. I hope Librem can get past that.
Cocos on the original Game Boy? There are some C libraries like GBDK, but nothing as high level as Cocos, we're talking about a very limited hardware.
Ironically, the site doesn't.
The idle loop of an OS usually halts the core and waits for an actual hardware interrupt, too. And if your user space program is e.g. waiting on a disk read, there is a pretty good chance that the OS has nothing else to do and hits that loop, halting the core, until the disk delivers, or maybe a timer interrupt kicks in.

So there's not much difference between a Game Boy and a modern computer in that particular regard, other than the many thick abstraction layers between the system call invocation and the halt instruction.
The Wikipedia picture is from Senegal.

When I visited, these were chaotic, but by some means the passengers would get to the destination. I spent one journey with my head between my knees, since the whole floor of the bus was loaded with sacks of grain and sugar women had bought at the market. Another journey, I was wedged amongst about 20 children — there is always room for an additional child on a car rapide. The windows were kept closed (I have no idea why), it was about 40° inside.

I particularly remember being asked to get off the bus, but for the first time, there was also a confused African man. He was from Guinea, and like me had no idea what was happening. I understood bits of the French explanation, he understood bits of the Mandinka, and we found the replacement bus together.
Enter the Carousel. This is the time of renewal. Be strong and you will be renewed. Identify.
There is ofcourse more to it than that.

"Getting back up" after life knocks you down is a huge factor in their success. There are very few successful adults protected from life's blows given the competitive, cut throat world we live in. They all know something about getting thrown into deep holes and climbing back out.

However, I will say that a majority of successful adults, learn how to be resilient at the expense of the people around them.

Not because they are evil, but because no one has shown them better ways of how to handle situations they haven't faced before.

People don't realize how bad this used to be in the past. Nowadays we have much more access to info, better understanding of the right ways to "cope", better understanding of what to avoid, and the right people/environments that will pull one out of life's deep holes. It's nowhere near perfect but it's much better (if you have the resources as you pointed out).

In the past people were mostly just winging it. It's why you see a whole lot successful people who are also ruthless. And regret it towards the end of their lives as they tally the costs and see examples of better routes they could have traveled.
It's no coincidence that SF is the only part of the Bay Area where it's truly viable to live without a car.
what does anything you have to say have to do with child pornography?
I'm not much more comfortable with your response. You seem to be saying "simple possession" is not really harmful, but we'll pretend that is (and that's how the courts treat it — in fact, victims can recover damages from people in possession of their materials) in order to preemptively punish people that may actually do real harm.
"th" can still have several different sounds depending on accent and word. The more obvious are t' ie the northern english eg t' mill (its quite hard to write down for those unacquainted with it). Then, of course we have t'ing for thing in some areas. Often the th in that becomes closer in sound to f when compared to the th in this. I personally have a slightly varied accent that generally homes in on RP and I can make "th" sound quite distinct in different words and contexts from a hard ending to "the" to something sounding similar to "fee" (also "the").

The above variations are in a tiny subset of en_ and across a probably tiny piece of time. Nowadays we have phones and TV etc which I think probably works towards homogenising our vocalisations.

I suspect that Old English was a bit more complex than is generally thought, if care is not taken.
The demographic it's targeting is people who use GitHub for daily work professionally, not volunteer open source maintainers (just as the demographic Slack targets is people who are paid to have Slack open 8 hours a day, not community chat rooms, and their product decisions make more sense in that context). But even volunteer open source maintainers are likely to find "On vacation until mm/dd" useful.
That and the lack of a headphone jack.
> Maybe that magical technology to reverse things will appear

Or maybe the OP will dissociate their identity from inherited ideas of endless 'progress' etc? After all, it would be an astonishing feat of exaptation for a cluster of cognitive/conative/affective processes evolved for a species to cope with challenges faced by small-scale tribal societies to also just happen to be a good fit for managing a network of planetary ecologies. It was never very likely to happen, and it didn't. No great surprise.
Think of the children! I know thousands of people our out of work or working un-paid, but this is horrendous. Getting the government back online to prioritize Hubble repairs should be #1 priority!
I see the graph. When I first read it, I instantly inferred from that graph that they simply were adjusting to the lichess platform because (1) everybody starts with a rating of 1200 on chess.com and 1500 on lichess--the two biggest chess playing sites by far--so you naturally 'raise your rating' if you're simply better than the website's guess at average and (2) it just takes a bit of adjustment to a new platform.
> it should be illegal to push people to commit crimes.

Ahhh, so Snoop Dogg's music should be illegal, then? Since it's supporting the consumption of Marijuana, a drug banned at the federal level in the US.

Or on a more serious note, should encouraging civil disobedience during the civil rights era have been illegal?

That is a stupidly broad statement, and it has consequences that I don't think you'd like.

> We could design strongly addictive porn that would significantly increase the market for production of actual child abuse.

We could also do it with some future form of ML-assisted CGI - which is also currently illegal in the states. I'd say that's a pretty close substitute good for the kind of CP that requires hurting kids.

But really, I don't think the number of people willing to commit a major felony on camera and distribute the video would go up significantly if the end product wasn't illegal to possess. I may have too high an estimation of how intelligent people are...
Tell HN: We are now closer to the Y2K38 problem than the Y2K problem
For those of you who remember Dec 31, 1999, this might amuse you: https://imgur.com/a/dQo0y8B
See also: https://rook.io/
> because we would en passant to capture any piece that was left or right of a pawn. I still remember my first non-dad opponent’s very weird face when I en passant captured his knight.

I remember as a kid, learning chess, I never heard of the 'en passant' rule and thus never used it. When I played my cousin one day and he used that capture, I actually leapt up in livid outrage and scattered the board pieces at this 'cheating' move he played. When I learned it was actually a legitimate move, I was totally red faced and humbled.
Usually I do want to know about the hour-to-hour business of the people I am professionally developing software with, and I want them to know about mine. When I send a code review to people elsewhere in the company and it's timely, I want some expectation of whether they're around or I should find another reviewer.
Indeed. Some people believe these “unshielded” periods might had some influence on the evolution of the species. Without those, the rate of change is just not enough to get to humans...
AT&T says it’ll stop selling location data amid calls for federal investigation
That's an absurd proposition for most people. Rolling out our own worked for Minecraft. It also may work for bigger companies (Frontier Developments, Bethesda?).

Successful releases using open-source engines are rare.

For the overwhelmingly majority, they are much better off just using one of the big game engines, even after paying them.
Honestly, not really. A bad shot at it would be:

Private school wasn't any "better" than public school. Homeschooling didn't make me anti-social. Kids are the reflection of their mentors, the system of education applied to children is mostly a political talking point.

Will Hunting: See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you're gonna staht doin some thinkin on your own and you're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certaintees in life. One, don't do that. And Two, you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a fuckin education you coulda got for a dollah fifty in late chahges at the public library
Stupid question about that website, how can you see what character is being spoken to? I'm curious what the context would be for telling a female child "you're the man of the family", so I'd like to dig into those if possible.
I wonder if it will affect animals that use the magnetic field to navigate. There are birds that migrate between Siberia and Australia, for example.
How old is the battery in the nexus 5? It's a 5 year old phone at this point. Daily charging could have put it through 1000 or more charge cycles at this point.
I’d argue (generally) no, because literally every transaction is in the ledger. Then there are two ways to get value back out:

1. At some point you want to get fiat back out, thus associating your identity to transactions. While there are some exchanges that are less stringent on verification requirements, the tie is pretty simple to see via the surveilled central banking system in most countries that tends to maintain the strict-ish verifications.

2. Exchange for goods. Unless this is off-chain, it’s again pairing a physical good back out somehow in an exchange of things.
There should be a distinct difference then between whether the paper is only referenced in the bibliography, or whether it is also cited.

I wonder how many of the papers actually cite the article? An article that is only referenced is pretty meaningless. Like a function that is implemented but never called. Or should be. Perhaps the problem is the way indexers assume references equal citations.

To continue yesterday's interesting discussion of Latex, references should not appear unless they are cited. I used to use a huge master bibliography for everything, and assumed that Bib/Latex would sort out the things I actually cited.
Muni data is not at all accurate.
Twitter Users in China Face Detention and Threats in New Beijing Crackdown
It's horrible that it has taken this much time get them to take action against their bottom line.