skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Broadly, this corresponds to the use "threshold model" and "linear no-threshold model" in toxicology, which describe whether the risk/harm from a substance has a safe 'cliff' or declines smoothly down to 0 dose.

It's well understood that carcinogens are LNT hazards. The old quip that "even breathing causes cancer" is literally true, so there's no such thing as a safe dose of a carcinogen, just an acceptable dose. (Interestingly, effectively-safe doses decline as lifespans - and therefore cumulative risk - rise.) Increasingly, we seem to be finding that non-carcinogenic risks which have been filed under 'threshold' are actually LNT threats for which the low-end risk gets lost in other noise.

I'm not particularly sold on the 'synthetic' framing here, though. Lead exposure is almost certainly LNT at least in childhood. Copper and zinc are linked to Alzheimer's in some uncertain-but-suspicious way. While endocrine disruptors like BPA are synthetic, they're acting on the same pathways as 'natural' disruptors like phytoestrogens. 2.5nm particulate pollution now appears to be not only carcinogenic but also development-inhibiting; the primary sources are man-made but the primary agents (NOx, SO2) are naturally occurring at much lower doses.

Very broadly, I do expect many thing we're exposed to today will eventually be viewed as horrible errors like leaded gasoline (if hopefully less severe). But I'm not sure 'synthetic' is a meaningful metric, and I'm not sure bioaccumulation of the compound is actually a very common pathway relative to accumulative damage.
Valve pretty much abandoned developing everything but Steam. You'll still see a few token projects come out of Valve, but it seems like they've basically turned into Steam, Inc.
You can run a myriad of different editors in linux. Probably the same ones you're used to in OSX, baring x code.
Heh, I've noticed that I seem to be more resistant to the the usual effects of solitary confinement and wondered if I could exploit that "superpower" to make money.
Did you use tlp or any power tool on linux?
Yes, that doesn't contradict my point.

Systemd is a much worse implementation of a Launchd concept, just as Windows is a worse implementation of a Mac like GUI concept...
Seems quite comprehensive, perhaps more than any web developer needs to know, but a good resource nonetheless.

For FE, I'm glad DOM manipulation is in there somewhere. These days with modern frameworks becoming a big thing an all, I feel DOM manipulation as a skill is falling by the wayside.
Phriction which is a part of phabricator is an excellent tool, it supports all of that and the ability to 'watch'.

'Watching' a document is a very important feature which is required in documentation tools. API specs change all the time and developers depending on an evolving API need to check the document on a frequent basis which can be a timesink.

Confluence is also a brilliant tool which supports watching and all the other features listed above, though it can be a bit pricey.
Might be this recent thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18692108
And as you get truly senior you've picked out the stack you like best out of the ones you've tried, the stack that lets you do anything you want to do with the least friction for your own personal style. And you realize there's little value to always being on the treadmill of replacing skills to swap their various pros and cons while your overall capabilities don't grow.
MacBook implies MacOS and the article is comparing that hardware+OS combination with just an OS. It would have been nice to hear what hardware solution the author ended up with, along with Linux, for a fuller comparison. Mostly because I'm in the same boat as the author and will be moving away from a Mac after 15 years to Linux, but am lost on the hardware front. Right now really wanting a Lenovo Yoga C930, maybe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermaphrodite
We just this week moved our sprints from Airtable to Notion. Seems like it will do everything we need--finally, we can have our sprints and our RFCs and other documentation in one place!

I cannot recommend notion enough!
One of the big features Macs have for me is that I can call customer service any time of day and they can work through any serious issue I have with my Mac. I've only had to call a few times, but they were able to work out some pretty serious issues quickly each time. I think the longest I was on the phone was 1.5hrs to find out that my own IT dept had screwed up Casper settings that I couldn't fix.

For a work machine I don't really want to do that kind of debugging myself. I just want it to work. I've been running Linux at home for about a decade and usually have no issues, but when I do I'm not dead in the water with project deadline hanging over my head.
Great. I'm happy for you.

However I think there's a difference between "with care, runtime errors are rare", and "by default, number of runtime errors is zero".
Wouldn't it atrophy your ability to see? Like, the brain getting anomalous, low-signal data for such a long time?
6 Red Flags(That Are Actually Green Flags)When Hiring a Programmer
Rather than spend money on a new laptop that I wasn't sure I even wanted, I tried out a Pinebook. For $99 I got a fairly usable Linux machine, albeit with its own quirks. 11.6" IPS, 64 bit ARM CPU, 10,000 mAH battery, 2GB RAM.

Overall, I chuckled at what I got (keyboard remapping helped since it's based on an Android layout), but some weeks afterwards I marveled at the minimalist utility and how well it held charge.

Evaluating it was an interesting exercise. Google docs aren't fast enough on the machine for comfort (try writing a novel) so a comparable Chromebook is a superior choice. But, KDE Kate is great. Terminal, of course, flies as fast as anywhere.

If you haven't seen it, I'd recommend to look at it as a point of minimalist reference if nothing else.
What pulls me to linux over my MacBook is the package managers. The apt-get system is much better than homebrew in my experience.
>The name "Ruby" originated during an online chat session between Matsumoto and Keiju Ishitsuka on February 24, 1993

>The first public release of Ruby 0.95 was announced on Japanese domestic newsgroups on December 21, 1995
Mainly facebook, twitter, and some of the seedier areas of reddit (AFAIK, depends on who you follow) ... it's also quite concerning how many of these memes and conspiracies seem to originate in 4chan; a literal hive of scum and villainy (and trolls, foremost). I never would have imagined I'd see the day when I would see prominent personalities and politicians literally tweeting screenshots of 4chan threads
Re: your article - there are no Thunderbolt monitors with an integrated GPU. There were rumors about this happening some day, but it hasn’t yet.

Also, your review omits battery life... Why? It’s one of the most important considerations.
Your right. This is about the hosting company running Unity software on the cloud -- something that clearly needs to be licensed by Unity.

From Ars https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/01/unity-engine-tos-chan...

> The newly updated clause 2.4 of the Terms of Service now specifically excludes "managed service[s] running on cloud infrastructure" which "install or execute the Unity Runtime on the cloud or a remote server."
I also recently started using nextcloud syncing (among other files) text files; though i use the nextcloud mobile client to actually edit/draft notes on the go. Previous to this I was using dropbox...which was totally fine, functionally speaking. Their mobile file editor was decent enough. I just moved to nexcloud for reasons of privacy, control, and principle.
It's an alternative if your favorite part about D&D is fighting (if so I'd recommend 4th instead of 5th). The role playing you do in Gloomhaven is non-existent in comparison.
I try to avoid me too posts, especially on HN, but I recently ditched my MBP for an XPS 13 running Mint. I'm very impressed with how much software is natively available now, Wine 4.0 staging is reaching amazing levels of support, and even Steam gaming with native titles and Windows games running under Proton. I'm very pleased with the transition and recommend that if you're on the fence, give it a shot and see if it works for you. Ignore how things were last time you tried.
There are clipboard applications which will pull everything into a single clipboard. KDE Plasma, for instance, has a great built-in clipboard which does this and which also handles at least images as well.

> The second dream wish would be for consistent keybindings in all text input boxes, like in Mac OS. Such as make Ctrl-A always go to the beginning of line, Ctrl-E always to the end, and Ctrl-K always kill whatever is in there.

For this, you should really just run Emacs. But this isn't a Linux issue really, but a more general 'problem' of competing conventions (Emacs, vi, CUA, etc.) for keyboard shortcuts.
Depends on where. Location, can increase your salary by 50% or more and increase your cost of living by 200% to 600% or more.
The problem is that "modern python" really includes Python 2 in addition to 3. You can't practically ignore it the way you can ignore ruby 1.x. Yes, things are very slowly moving to python 3, but there is a reason most systems have python 2 and python 3 and even now it isn't uncommon for /usr/bin/python be python 2.
Probably the latter: neutral, unbiased, centrist viewpoints are now given -- by folks throughout the entire spectrum -- a "left" label.
Ubuntu gave a lease of life to my old(2013) laptop after an update in Win10 locked me out of my account.

I use a company-issued MacBook Pro for work and was considering an identical machine as my personal daily driver until I did a comparison which revealed what an absolute monster of a laptop I could have for the same price instead.

I mean - the Apple ecosystem is great an all but I need some raw computing power from time to time and Linux is currently able to provide that.
There was a heavy influence from the GNOME camp, both upstream and within Debian, by mandating the use of systemd with GNOME. At the time, I wasn't particularly happy at the disproportionate influence for a specific desktop use case at the expense of other use cases e.g. embedded, server and others.
Confluence.

It's not bad. It's not great either. Which is pretty much the best way to describe all Atlassian products. It's unbearable on slow or spotty internet connections. It's riddled with bugs (just the other day my spacebar literally stopped working in their edit view). The formatting gets in your way more than markdown, but at least not as much as something like OneNote.

But, it's powerful. Like any Atlassian product, you can script it to do basically whatever you want. You can organize your company workspaces however you'd like. You can set up tables which can automatically pull summary lines of any other page labeled with a specific label, which is great for automatically building indexes or tables of content.

Overall, I haven't found anything better, and I write a lot of technical documentation for our company.

For comparison's sake:

- Github/Gitlab wikis are pretty bad. There's almost no advantage to using them over just storing markdown in the repository.

- Which, we did for a while, and it works fine, but in its simplicity it misses some of the key features that I do like about Confluence (like those automated index pages and page comments).

- We also used Dropbox Paper for a while; I really like it, but its primarily useful for, let's call them "transactional" documentation (write, get feedback, never look at again); It's not very good at being a Wiki, storing long-term long-form information. And given that Confluence can handle both pretty well, there's not a great argument for adopting a new service from an entirely different company we don't otherwise use.

- We have G-Suite and thus Drive/Docs. The inability to easily write technical documentation with inline/block code makes it a non-starter. No thanks. If Drive added a markdown editor like Dropbox Paper I'd probably push to switch; the search is pretty great, its a platform we already have, and you get a full, amazing document editor for those documents where it makes sense.

- I've never used Quip in a real work setting.
CNN fired Donna Brazile as a contributor after that.

CNN's statement:

>"On October 14th, CNN accepted Donna Brazile's resignation as a CNN contributor. (Her deal had previously been suspended in July when she became the interim head of the DNC.) CNN never gave Brazile access to any questions, prep material, attendee list, background information or meetings in advance of a town hall or debate. We are completely uncomfortable with what we have learned about her interactions with the Clinton campaign while she was a CNN contributor."

When mainstream media catches individual journos making stuff up they get fired as it should be. Brazile was not even a journalist or employee. She was running the campaign.
In this case, not really:

1) economy destroyed to the point of famines. They promised food if they won the election and blocking of everything if they lost.

2) they attacked (including with machine guns) the opposition. Tortured opposition candidates. Forced others out of the country, ...

3) They attacked voters at polling stations.

4) They attacked the parliament, a number of parlementarians, and several judges, before, during and after counting the ballots.

I mean it's no mystery how these people got "elected": they didn't.

Nothing shows socialism like these people do:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/26/chavez-daughte...
Godot and Phaser are not "Suck Big Time" engines. It depends what you are making, but again there is no reason why we must be stuck with closed source engines.
You're probably thinking about pottery. Think about bricks and glasses.

The word "brickbat" refers to a piece of brick used as a weapon. In modern times, since bricks are small and guns exist, it is likely describing half of a broken building or paving brick, thrown at a line of police with plastic riot shields. In ancient times, it could have been a literal brick on a literal bat.

Imagine how durable a wooden baseball bat is. It's a pretty decent weapon on its own, but if you whack anything harder than flesh with it, you might damage it. So you soak the wood, coat the end with clay, inscribe a two-page treatise on how your enemies are total bastards and they just suck so much, and put it in the kiln. Now you have a hard and brittle brick-ceramic surface, over a softer but more durable wooden core. The composite weapon is superior to an all-brick club, which would snap off at the shaft whenever you hit someone with it, and a wooden club, which would split with the grain if you hit something hard with too much force. The brick coating keeps the wood from splitting. The wood core keeps the brick head from shattering.

The modern example is tightly wrapping a baseball bat with a coil of barbed wire or baling wire. The tensile strength of the wire keeps the bat from splitting. Ceramic technology has advanced a lot since the bronze age, too. The auto-glass windshield on your car is a sandwich of hard glass and soft plastic, that is at once clear enough to see through, hard enough to deflect flying debris without scratching, and durable enough to sometimes also deflect hard objects without cracking. In addition, if it does break, it doesn't turn itself into sharp knives that could cut you.

The ancients used wood (and leather) the way we now use plastic. If you sandwich wood and brick, it's not as good as sandwiching glass and plastic, but it's the same concept.
> On a Mac, you can cut/copy/paste using predictable keystrokes in any application, anywhere

Interesting, because Linux is my daily driver, and when I borrow my spouse's MacBook one of the things I get tripped up on is some programs seem to use Ctrl+C/V and other programs use Command+C/V for copying/pasting
Nobody is trying to say that driver assist systems will be perfect. But we're trying to get you to understand that perfect isn't the goal. The scenarios you outline are relatively far-fetched and their consequences are less severe than the crashes automatic emergency braking and lane keeping assistance are designed to prevent. Simply constructing a hypothetical situation in which these technologies might be less than perfect does nothing to support your position that they are not a net improvement to safety.
You're not really planning on installing this version on linux on your servers because of how the GUI looks right?
That is how my setup works in the terminal. MPD (music player daemon) runs from the start in the background and I can start ncmpcpp in the terminal to choose a album/playlist and then I can close it again or leave it on a different workspace.

Play Pause etc. just work without the terminal. The biggest advantage in comparison most graphical players for me is that there is no startup time. If I want to play a song I can do so immediately and even without leaving the terminal I am currently working in.
Collecting this data and making a few nice correlation graph looks like a nice project for a blog post I'd like to read.
That reply was pretty bad as well. But at least he didn't tell someone to shove things up their butt.... :-)
To a first approximation, yes. But it breaks apart quite quickly -> otherwise we'd the world pop would be much higher.

thought experiment, if every rich family in Flrnc had a million decedents, and there were (at least) a thousand families in Italy, then there would be a billion ppl in Italy today.

What happens? Well first high child mortality, or death before reproduction. Then you send most of your daughters off to the nunnery. Your youngest son becomes the family priest. You marry within the group (actually not that dangerous, genetically). End result? The numbers stay low.

Still many of us are probably related to these rich families. For example, otherwise normal, boss is related to the Eastern European royalty... through a courtesan. He didn't get squat from them (although he ironically ended up with their name by sheer coincidence).
also you can't store more than 1 premove.
Yeah, alas the proximity principle isn't on the map.
Objective-Smalltalk on Linux via GNUstep and Docker
My personal experience has been it's almost exclusively on FB in the U.S. I've heard it's big on WhatsApp in Brazil which is strange, but believable.
Why people vote for dodgy leaders the first time is a big question. But it's not the question the article is talking about.

Dodgy leaders, once in power, have ways of making it very hard for people to vote for anyone else the second time. If you arrest enough opposition leaders, and own the papers and TV, and control the vote counters, you can make it very difficult for anyone else to win the election.

I'm pretty sure Maduro is going to run Venezuela until the military decides that he has to go. And Maduro probably knows this - he certainly takes care to make sure that the military doesn't go hungry...
Most of the additional functionality is optional, and in separate binaries. Apple also has similar functionality (seat management, resolver management, etc), and nobody is bothered by that.
Founders Should Prototype More
> What does "display/compositor fragmentation" mean to end-user?

My 1Password FireFox extension (ubuntu 18.04 LTS) doesn't work on X unless I log in through the website but it works just fine on Wayland.
Agreed. I feel that ES6 is very ruby-like with the functional programming parts. I'm also very happy about Groovy, Elixir, and other languages that are Ruby-inspired.
The 'doomsday' scenario:  what happens if the shutdown drags on
Here's a big one: Unity is a full suite of tools for game dev, plus a marketplace, plus a community.

People generally only have time to learn one development platform well. So it makes sense to use Unity.
Early in my career, I only "knew" a little C++ from a high school programming class I had taken, and I knew a tiny bit about Java.

Then I found Ruby, and people talked very highly of it. But it had all these "Gems", I couldn't figure out what a Gem was. I didn't know enough. I thought it was like a compiler plugin or something. I thought that just like there were different versions of Java, there were different versions of Ruby called Gems.

Then I found Python, it had "libraries", I knew what a library was, it was something you could download and use in your code. I learned Python and liked it a lot. If Ruby had "libraries" instead of "Gems" I would have learned Ruby instead since I was exposed to it first.
Do you have any experience with Django? I haven't used rails myself, but I'm told they are very similar in the "look at what I'm not doing" regard.
I have been happily running Debian (with xmonad) on a 13 inch Macbook with 16GB of memory and the retina display for almost five years now. The screen works great and I have had great success plugging into multiple external monitors including a recently purchased 3840x2160 monitor.

I think it might still dual boot into MacOS, but I don't think I have tested that for four years . . .
Thanks - I suspected you were saying as much. MongoDB aside, can you share examples of this process?
so what happens to the male chicks that are born in the egg industry? They get killed, by gassing, suffocation or being thrown into a grinder. Why does a dairy cow produce milk? because she has a baby. Where does that baby go after birth? I mean, the milk is for the humans, not the baby cow, right? Baby cow gets taken from mother causing intense emotional pain for both, and if male, sold into incredibly cruel veal industry or beef industry or just killed. If female she goes through the same lifelong torture of repeated rape, then having her baby stolen, then being milked raw by machines, in lonely terror, as her mother, for around 4 years, before her poor body is spent and she is shot as humans have no use for her. Dairy cows have possibly an even crueler fate than beef cows. How is any of this humane? Why would I ever go to see any of this happening? There is so much written and video evidence available online, I don't need to go and see it happening myself. Think about how much meat, cheese and eggs people in America alone throw down their throats every day. There is no way this demand could ever be met by anything other than the most cruel and heartless industrial scale production methods where animals are no more than a commodity to be exploited.
Even better, you don't have to 'choose' - in the sense that you can simultaneously connect to mpd via different interfaces (in this same thread I mention how I use ncmpcpp for some things, and cantata for other things).
Please point to the line of the spec requiring stack probing.
Looking back, I'm wondering how I could have ever expected anything else ... all this amazing and eye-wateringly expensive network infrastructure provided for free! On a more positive note however, I do believe the pendulum swings back. Sometimes you've just got to stand back and watch the mistakes be made. I think a lot of this fascination with retro tech is in part an attempt to find a safe-space to operate while waiting for it all to blow over .. kind of like the Magratheans [https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Magrathea].
> Fluidkeys automatically fetches keys based on the verified email address and encrypts the secret to the key.

Fetches from where? Public key servers?

Anybody can upload a key for you@your-company.com to a public key server.
And getting some GitHub stars.