skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
access to people and information
Google’s AI can predict floods with 75% precision
people who are more motivated and knowledgeable (depends) will be the ones contributing

I have contributed to projects where I am neither motivated or knowledgeable.Sometimes its enough to be annoyed by a bug or confusing behaviour.
> $HOME/.local/share

Just look at that path:

"$HOME": It's my home directory. Cool.

".local": It's in my home directory, but local to it, and not somewhere else? This doesn't make a lot of sense, but er, Okay.

"shared": For Christ's sake, what is this? It's in my home, and local within it, but also shared? With whom? How? Why? I give up.

Why would anyone want to do this? What concrete benefit does this path give us? What specific thing does it let you do that ~/.myprogram doesn't? The article is bad, and the XDG standard is bad. The traditional approach is fine.
Net Neutrality’s Day in Court
Check Netgear devices.
But they will be knowledgeable in something that is only tangentially related to systems programming.

You are potentially missing out on a lot of talented systems programmers who are not willing or able to put up with terrible build and packaging infra and therefore stick to another domain.

As for motivation, you are also missing out on anyone who has a small contribution to make but isn’t willing to dedicate hours trawling through Makefiles. That doesn’t seem good either?
Being a couple years late definitely was bad but they also completely blew the performance, especially for ia32 compatibility. Shipping on time would have made the performance gap less bad but I rarely saw it being competitive with what would have been the competition at that time even before you factored cost in. Unless your workload was just Intel’s hand-tuned assembly it was usually cheaper to buy 2 x86 boxes and pocket the difference.
>>and “suggested sales ‘drivers’ based on the ideas that opioids reduce stress and make patients more optimistic and less isolated,”

Not American style justice, but making them take heroin-like painkillers would be poetic justice. If it wasn't good for stress reducing and to make you feel optimistic, McKinsey consultants would not have recommended that line of promotion, no?
The Maduro defense is getting ridiculous.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elecciones_parlamentarias_de_V...

The opposition won the elections, 112 to 55 MP, which, AFAIK, are also electors.
There was a supposed fraud on a few of them, which, on the other hand, was poorly substantiated, and very likely fake on its own.

Sin embargo, apenas una semana después de las declaraciones anteriores, el TSJ difundió oficialmente que había aceptado 7 denuncias de impugnaciones que afectaban a un total de 8 diputados electos para representar a los estados Amazonas, Aragua y Yaracuy,,111 de las cuales 6 fueron posteriormente declaradas improcedentes112 y la séptima aceptada como procedente, consecuentemente siendo declarado por el TSJ que se ordenaba la "suspensión" de los actos de totalización de votos y proclamación de resultados de la elección parlamentaria en todos los circuitos del estado Amazonas,113 afectando a tres diputados electos por la MUD (uno de ellos de la representación indígena por la región sur) y un diputado del PSUV elegido por votación lista.114

Supreme court, nominated by Maduro, then prevents MP from taking oath, which, in effect, makes the assembly non-functional. Maduro then orders the supreme court to install him as president, one more time.

If there was a coup, it was a judicial one, by Maduro, in 2015.
I have both a T-Mobile phone and a Verizon phone, and Verizon often provides me with the experience of my phone saying that I have 4 or 5 bars, but being unable to get any data to flow, or sometimes to even make a call.

I don't know what causes that, but I have learned to ignore the signal strength display on Verizon.
Ubuntu is also a good idea, your webserver is running native and there doesn't have to be some waste of time building a 'vagrant box' or whatever. All the instructions work too, so if you want to get things done with some linux application you just install it as per online instructions rather than find a paid for tool/software as a service workaround.
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Don't even bother with dual boot as Windows is a waste of space on a dual boot Ubuntu machine as you will never use it.

I will note that Windows 10 (Pro at least, not sure about Home) on laptops with appropriate virtualization capabilities can do a heck of a job of running Linux VMs with basically trivial setup. At a quick glance, the Microsoft Store (for installing software in Windows) includes VMs for Ubuntu, Ubuntu LTS, Debian, SUSE Enterprise, openSUSE and Kali.

One downside, I'm not sure how it is for spinning up multiple instances.
Maybe you should send your code to the PyPy team. I bet they will look into it and see how they could improve their JIT compiler. Last time I checked the project, they had a full benchmark running for each release to spot regressions and to track improvements
Piling on charges over charges for the same deed is something that doesn't happen outside the US, AFAIK. If you kill somebody and steal a car to drive his body into the desert to bury it, you won't get charged for theft, "Withholding Evidence", "Obstruction Of Justice" and what not, not even for trying to break out of jail later. You will be charged for the murder.
Keep educating anyone who might ever serve on a jury about jury nullification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification and make then feel ok about using it aggressively.
I do care about nutrition, currently anything but soy milk is just water. Still environmentally friendly. Almond Milk has a couple of almonds in the bottle.
Summary : America has done a lot of terrible things in South America.(agreed)

They tried to depose a lot of legitimate leaders. (agreed)

A couple of times the nytimes argued it was the right thing to do when it probably wasn't. (I'll take their word for it.)

But none of the article argues that Maduro is a legitimate leader. And I don't know if I buy the argument that because we tried to depose a lot of legitimate leaders in the past with illegitimate ones we should now support an illegitimate leader instead of the legitimate one.
Did you actually read the article? It's about a lot more than just the Venezuelan coup.
It's about everything but Venezuela.

It spent more space on the nytimes making a bad call about Iran in the 50s, then on Maduro or Venezuela.
Agreed but IT bosses just picks up these keywords and start throwing them around as benefits of cloud. Heck I had a CIO getting excited about moving to micro services when his entire landscape had only COTS application.
capitalism IS control, at the most basic level control of private property ensured by the state
IQ is a measure of how easy it is for someone to acquire a new skill, not really about which specific skills they have.
Not your keys, not your coins.

Pretty irresponsible to not store the encryption key in something like a bank safety deposit box or sharded across multiple people that don't know each but come together like in the event of a death to reconstruct the key.
Just to add up, an old and obsolete atom-based netbook is a super powerful platform for OpenWrt that you may already have lying around. If it's not too old and you tweak the BIOS and configure power management, it will draw not too much electricity. x64/x86 OpenWrt targets work great, you just need to be careful with the WiFi hardware regarding driver compatibility. Consult wikidevi.com and OpenWrt wiki. It may even be possible to use an integrated wifi.

If it's not enough, you can try to run OpenWRT inside a VM/LXD container and use a host OS for the greater good. It's lots of fun!

Thanks for the tip on the dongle.
On my fedora ec2 created with a standard ami, docker doesn't work without sudo (didn't try to reconfigure, so it may if I hack), so that behavior is understandable, though not desirable.
I'm thinking about doing just that!
We just had this one too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19025957
this is a bad fucking idea to allow your DNA sequences to be shared with the government.

but seems like a trend now, just to blindly copy what celebrities endorse so

more power to you folks who submitted your DNA, you can never take it back, and they have it forever.

Any crime your descendants or you commit in the future or the propensity to commit crime under the right psychosexual circumstances carefully driven by subliminal messaging, are fucked.
I agree, not linking to the original source is very annoying and makes it difficult to understand what's going on and form an opinion.

But, doing a (very) little investigation, "seapunk" is the creator of this Threader [1] web page, and is apparently spamming the service here [2].

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18400319

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=seapunk
https://bandit.host
I have chosen the wrong flight dates because your date picker is broken
Older developers can usually do in one day what takes a hotshot 20-something a week.

More importantly what we deliver costs significantly less to maintain.

For managers in for-profit [1] companies there's a clear argument for why you'd want to hire us:

a) There is a significant $$$ value that comes with a 5x increase in project throughput. [2]

b) Maintenance costs make up >= 60% of the TCO for your software. [3]

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[1] I realise this excludes most of the companies represented by the folk who frequent HN these days.

[2] https://books.google.com/books?id=PPm4EkDnAx8C&pg=PA203

[3] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3477706/development-cost...
On a long enough horizon, every Bitcoin will be lost.
> Is the information on the snopes page false or incorrect? No, it isn't.

It is both false and incorrect. Saying that "every one with an x has since been voted out of congress" When not every one with an x has since been voted out of congress is false. I mean even the article quotes a tweet listing 10 people who were incorrectly marked. You should see what Snopes does every time a right wing person says something not 100% correct.

> "snopes occasionally makes editorial decisions I disagree with" is not the same as "snopes is fake and unreliable".

Again, the Snopes article is blatantly false.

> Sorry, I must have missed it the first time, tell me again why you continue to rely on an overtly racist blog to be your arbiter of "ethics"?

Sorry, I missed why you think that I continue to rely on a racist blog to be my arbiter of ethics.
1) Google already has that cookie, it defaults to SafeSearch but you can turn it off.

2) Sex workers don't need to display sexualized nudity to organize. I'm talking about not wanting to see explicit hardcore stills from pornos in my search results by default. I would never argue against anyone's right to organize and be heard, and I don't think many other people are arguing for that either.

3) There's no evidence that what happened to Tumblr is a systemic problem of the internet as a whole. Digg and Reader also shot themselves in the foot -- sometimes companies make dumb mistakes, that's all.
Yes. In particular, I like the potential for:

* using Rust's borrow-checking to develop new lightweight/shared-memory multiprocessing tools for Python (think "import SharedMemoryPool from multiprocessing") without having to mess with the GIL, so as to maintain compatibility with existing libraries;

* using Rust's type inference on Python code for applications in which type safety is highly desirable; and

* compiling Python code for speed, targeting all architectures and platforms supported by Rust (e.g., WebAssembly).
Ah, just like on Windows, where one has to create a second My Documents folder to maintain sanity.

Ew.
MIPS today isn't what it used to be. It mostly occupies the "we're too cheap to use ARM" segment of the market these days, which is an ignominious fate for what used to be a great architecture. But it's well known and it still has its wonderful instruction set, so maybe someone can make it shine again once it goes fully open.
I'm still not sure about privacy side of the 23andMe. Whole testing procedure could be designed to be completely anonymous, yet upfront I have to provide name, address, birthday and e-mail.

Why do people willingly provide DNA samples together with personal information?
You're absolutely right, hence my hesitancy. IA-32 emulation performance was one particular weak spot. A fellow analyst at the time said something along the lines of "Itanium's IA-32 performance was not only not in the ballpark; it was not in the parking lot outside the ballpark."

Itanium was also, in many ways, designed for a world where ILP, rather than TLP, ruled. That distinction wouldn't become terribly important for a few more years but it would have eventually. Intel made a number of decisions in this vein. See also NetBurst Architecture. (An Intel exec told me, at some point after it had become obvious that multi-core was the future, that Microsoft had really pressured Intel to go down the few/fast cores route.)
I have long deplored the sheer amount of config files that clutter the top level of any project nowadays. .gitignore, package.json, webpack.config.js, babelrc, travis.yml, it’s endless. This very short list is really the tip of the iceberg. These things need to be in a dedicated config folder.

It’s so nice to see this article at the top of HN. I had long thought I was the only one who felt this way.
who pays any attention to what someone on 4chan says?
> Establishment media organizations in the Anglo world are so reluctant to criticize of the Government line on anything related to foreign policy.

How did you miss the fact that virtually every US newspaper has criticized the current president's foreign policy on deep breath Syria, Russia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Canada, South Korea, Russia, most of our allies, etc?

Even before our current president plumbed unheard of depths in foreign policy idiocies, I've long seen criticism of foreign policy. The drone assassination program was a big one. The virtues of the surges in Iraq and Afghanistan was certainly a spirited debate.
You do get used to it, but it is also a different experience. Most plant based milks won't be fresh (both in taste and literally) or neutral in taste. If I drink soy milk for awhile I can appreciate it, but I still wouldn't drink it as a standalone beverage. On the other hand I don't really have a need to drink milk as a beverage either.
Maybe you CAN take it with you.
Actually most insurance companies pay out more money in losses than they take in via premiums.

The real business models for insurance companies isn't underwriting profits, it's arbitraging the time value of money (pay premiums now, pay claims later) via investing the float.
.DS_Store contains the positions of file icons, the last view mode (list, icons, etc.), and other stuff for Finder. You can avoid creating it by not using Finder, and you can probably also avoid it if you carefully avoid not dragging icons around. If it bothers you because you keep committing it into your Git repo, then you can exclude it in a global .gitignore[0].

[0]: http://egorsmirnov.me/2015/05/04/global-gitignore-file.html
Dont forget .cache. Both chromium and firefox dump gigabytes of space there!
That was my intention with the original post. How make a living by value investing. What all would one need to do.
I've only been using Linux for around 10 years as my only desk and laptop OS and this is the first I heard of XDG user dirs! This laptop runs Arch. Thanks for the heads up.

I'll drop "/etc/papersize" in return. If you are not familiar with this and do not print to letter paper then you will find it very, very useful.
I wonder if something new could emerge to help with massive parallelism, beyond what gpus already do.
I don't think too many people are confusing general nudity (like the nudist lifestyle, totally non-sexual) or a few topless advertisements with softcore porn. They're completely different things.

So no, I don't think Europe counts as an example here.
I prefer to use `ls -lah` which always shows the dot files. It sure would be nice if these were placed in a different folder. Maybe ~/.../ to put all the things. Sure, cat ~/.bash_history would need to be cat ~/.../.bash_history which isn't as convenient.

But, I sure do agree with the frustration. My work machine has nearly a hundred hidden things. My Chrome usually downloads things to ~/Downloads/ but Firefox often likes to store the file in ~ which then is often hard to find when I jump over to a console.

I've made an effort to clean things up. Trying to set firefox to download to the Downloads folder, deleting everything personal out of the home folder. But, of course, then that just goes to prove that I do not have control of my ~ folder. I'm doing everything I can to keep my own stuff out of it. Which is sad.
I think the US does more of it, but it does happen elsewhere. Here's one in Denmark: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/25/peter-madsen-s...

Murder, sexual assault, desecrating a corpse. That was a particularly gruesome case though.

The US does tend to do a lot of upgrading charges from misdemeanor to felony, or felony b to felony a, etc. Often based on unrelated prior convictions.
I wonder if it’s time for software engineers to form our own union or guild to combat misusing our profession in corrupt and immoral ways. We would have immense power as a group, but on our own we’re all beholden to our employers which makes us complicit in doing work without thought to the long term societal damage we do.
I’d suggest it is unhealthy. We don’t even know what all is in the food we eat, so to pretend we can combine a bunch of synthetic stuff into some well rounded meal for daily consumption I believe is dangerous.
Ok, we changed the URL to the NYT from https://threader.app/thread/1091690262718496768.

Submitters: the HN guidelines say "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
For development or just playing around, you can run it in a virtual machine.
It can be just as hard to say what should be local and what should be roaming.
What Happens When Your Town Lands on the Hate Map (2018)
I doubt he was walking through the factory floors of every company he considered. That kind of approach can’t scale. I think he might have done something like that but without being physically there for companies that he narrowed down to 1 or 2. Specially before he was warren buffet. Company’s don’t allow (give time of the day) to rando’s who are investors and want to evaluate them
They will absolutely cover acts of war. It is simple - just ask them to and hand over the extra money.

There is essentially no risk that cannot be insured, but the standard pricing is going to exclude a bunch of tail risks that would be prohibitively expensive to include by default
I don't think the nytimes is trying to back the governments opinion. One the author is cherry picking times when the nytimes supported the government. But I'm sure someone else could find plenty of times when they didn't.

Secondly when they made the wrong call, I bet at least part of the reason was 2002 was a less connected time, and there was more trust in government. So if a bunch of government offficials tell the journalist Chavez is a terrible regime. And you happen to know a handful of anti Chavez individuals in Venezuela the journalist could easily make the wrong call.
That sounds pretty funny, it reminds me of [UAP](https://blog.codinghorror.com/windows-vista-security-through...).
I'm not convinced that she was "sick to her stomach". Maybe she was either always this way, or maybe the nature of the work has blunted her to this point, but she reminds me of psychopaths blending in. They know that the people around them have morality and that they're expected to have morality too, and they try to fake it, and often they get it fairly close, but sometimes they just get it wrong. Not saying she's a psychopath (there are many reasons to fake morality), but this jarring boundary in morality feels similar; makes me think it's faked.
i think if you are in 50s and still looking to work for someone else then you are doing something wrong, no matter how great are your experiences
The texture of oat milk is offputting for me. So thick
Thank you for the excerpt.
The important phrase there is engineering mistake.

Intelligibility and ongoing responsible measurement creates a performance metric, and a line of responsibility.

To many, especially if they receive large pay but are incompetent and/or face legal risks if found liable, these are significant benefits.

/depressing, I know...
That’s what the article talks about. How applications should use $XDG_DATA_HOME, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $XDG_CACHE_HOME and some defaults if they’re not set.
Yep, Google NY. The building in the cover art on the article is 111 8th Ave (with some creative liberties).
It’s really perplexing that Marin county would have one of the highest rates of non-vaccinated children.
"IQ based neo-racism"

Somehow his talks about IQ seemed like the only reasonable to me.
AdaCore Joins the RISC-V Foundation to Provide C and Ada Compilation Support
Typically we have shortening 5-year cycles in tech that cause clamoring for new skills. First it was the internet (“HTML! Perl! PHP!”) then mobile apps (“Android! Objective C! React Native! Flutter!”) and now cloud (“AWS Certification! DevOps! SecOps!”). IoT and machine learning are probably next. The technology itself doesn’t really matter — companies just want an army of tactical workers to build this stuff tirelessly.

It's Kubernetes and microservices! Even though Kubernetes is what, four years old, where I am, numerous employers are chomping at the bit and demanding that you be an expert at these. Now, I'm a crusty old Linux sysadmin/programmer who puts "SRE" and "DevOps" on his resume, and I'm noticeably getting spurned because I don't have "5 years experience" with "containers".

At first I was worried that my skills were obsoleted, having worked in large enterprise environments doing infrastructure engineering for over 15 years. I worried that I was too "systemsy" and not enough "cloud-y". Oh, and even though I spent years using TeamCity and Jenkins, I was also spurned because I didn't use the right lingo within "CI/CD pipelines" and demonstrate a Docker deployment system exactly like they used.

Then I realized something.

The job descriptions are asking for five years experience total, number one, and the second red flag: the salaries and contract rates are lower than the rates for large enterprise-y type jobs (minus management).

Conclusion: hipster tech coincides with youth and coincides with companies following trends and buzzwords over wisdom and experience.

Back to the point. Someone with a strong basis in the core disciplines of systems design, infrastructure automation, perimeter security and so forth are going to be able to adapt to AWS knowledge, as I have (for the record I have two AWS Associate certs and didn't find them hard). And as the author points out, there are these 5 year cycles where all we look for is experience in certain tech. Is it any wonder that there are horror stories about fragile and insecure cloud environments?

It goes back to the incompetence of the hiring process which we see again and again discussed on HN.
They store attributes used by the Finder for the they're within [0]. You can set a Mac to prevent their creation on mounted network volumes [1] but to my knowledge there isn't an option to prevent their creation on local volumes. For Samba shares, you can configure it to prevent their creation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.DS_Store

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208209

[2] https://e-rave.nl/disable-creation-of-ds_store-files-on-samb...