skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the media bias check website[1], the original reporter (The Daily Beast) has a high Factual score, meaning its literal statements are likely true, and a left-leaning bias, meaning the topics it covers will be of more interest to the leftist politics.

(This post is mostly because I personally don't think business insider is particularly factual, and so did some research to validate its claims.)

1. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-beast/
The last time I tried OpenSUSE, it gave me nothing but problems. Admittedly, this was many years ago and things may have changed -- but I have no real reason to give it another try to find out.
Not to argue, but can you expand on why instead of just saying "this thing sucks"?
Per Wikipedia [1], the satellite just launched in December 2018, so the results of the experiments will be forthcoming after about a year in orbit.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuCROPIS

It's a shame there are no plans for re-entry of the crop. A taste test would be really nice to have. I hope they are growing a good, tasty varietal. We have been cursed with flavorless, 13 mph tomatoes on Earth for too long. Hopefully, the future colonists will be growing Brandywines, Yellow Pears, or similar varieties with lots of flavor.
to look good for clients
This attitude seems to me to be rather obtuse, and a straw-man, at that.

Nobody is saying we should talk in a 100% factual and unbiased way, what they are saying is that we should inspect and minimize the biases we have. The best way to do that is through altering and correcting our use of language to better describe reality, while ensuring it stays convenient.

I don't think anyone is seriously proposing that we speak in the way you proposed in your example. While you are correct that shorter language sequences usually win out, the shorter and just as informative "Alligator lake", did not win out. The just as complex "Alligator-occupied lake", would serve just as well in it's informative capacity, but did not win out either.

We are now in a position where so many critical species have been destroyed or usurped by humans, that a good 70% of the earth's ecosystems are reliant on human maintenance to continue existing. Meanwhile, animals that have survived for millions of years, such as the Alligator and the Crocodile, are becoming endangered and at threat from human-led ecosystem destruction. It is important to note there are still many, many humans with the idea that the human is at the top of the food chain, and that animals exist only for our use.

In this context, the thread-parent makes an incredibly valid point -- the language use in the article carries with it an implicit assumption that animals are 'out of place' or otherwise 'wrong' in their natural habitat. Is it not right that we should examine and attempt to correct biases like these? Given that they were influencing factors that lead to the behaviour and attitudes that cause destruction?

Why shouldn't we question those biases and influences? Why shouldn't we attempt to question implicit ideas that have the power to lead to the genocide and destruction of entire species. Isn't examining our language usage to ensure we are not enabling attitudes like those, part of pushing against those attitudes?
Betteridge's law of headlines...
For SV's demise, I think the pattern to watch for is corporations like Toyota or Honda.

During the decades of their ascendancy, they actually understood the US consumer better than their Detroit counterparts and built cars the US consumer favored. Then they built factories in the US. Yet, they remained truly Japanese companies.
> it puts macOS, built by Apple's army of engineers and dump trucks of money to shame

I don't really think they're designed for the same purpose or audience, so I don't think it shames the Apple engineers.
The elephant in the room here is this is talking about projects made by a single person. Part of the infrastructure mentioned is only in part about delivering reliable service, it's also about enabling deployments and concurrent work. If you go from one to two people, you're going to be thankful you set up a continuous delivery pipeline and the usual things needed to ship code consistently like a working CI build and test suite. Even with one person, making it easy and reliable to deploy changes without some crazy manual steps is a good idea.

(I agree with the whole "don't run k8 et al" for your side project, though obv.)
WhatsApp ~$22B acquisition by Facebook. LinkedIn ~$26B acquisition by Microsoft. Those are two that I can think of from memory.
I'd rather have all the problems of the suburbs time 10 than live in then be ping ponged between the classist snobs that live in well off areas in urban centers and the high crime areas of those not so well off, with all your pollution and your asthma that you're breathing in day in and day out in concentrated ways, while taking my kid out to throw a ball or to walk my dog means i need to hop in a car and go to a park 5 miles away.

Portlandia isn't for everyone.
Maybe just maybe this is not the fault of Nvidia but due to the fact that large parts of the Linux ecosystem are fragile, time consuming to configure and break if you look at them in the wrong way. Professional linux distributions like Ubuntu paper over a lot of that fragility, whereas in Arch Linux you can easily burn days getting basic functionality to work (multiple sound cards come to mind) only for it to break with the next update. And yes I speak from experience, I used Arch Linux ~5 years basically for the fun of doing everything by yourself, because Ubuntu felt too restrictive and opaque.
So announcement of the closure was discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19329600

My comment there was:

"I can't make my mind up on the closures.
I just think, in 5 years time when they're having to sell to average people, not just Tesla fans, how are they going to compete with everyone else. Is your Mum or Dad going to buy a (new fangled electric) car, on the internet, sight unseen?

Now its still not necessarily a bad decision now to be closing stores they don't need, but is it going to hamper them later?"

Can I claim victory for my foresight?
This resonates. I've got a job in tech I find fairly fulfilling and it pays super well. I work hard, which sometimes means long hours, but more often just means I'm constantly thinking about work at home. I'm able to take care of my family and put away money for the future. I want for basically nothing, and I totally recognize my privilege in that.

But I was a baker for a few years before getting into tech. And I'm a passionate gardener every summer. I love making games and building little technical systems and watching them go.

There's a part of me that wonders... maybe things would be nicer if I was to move out of the city and open a bakery. Or a brewery. Or take on some small contract work enough to fund my side projects and gardening habit. It would mean setting down my income, school options for my child, activities in the city, leaving my friends behind, etc.

It's difficult to reason about. There's a lot of emotional pulls in both directions. I totally understand the author spending a majority of their energy in switching jobs trying to even approach the problem of whether it's worth it. The easy part is quitting, the hard part is figuring out if one should quit.
Physicists solve a beta-decay puzzle with advanced nuclear models
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted, because it's true.

In the '60s or '70s, the Canadian government actually forced a large group of native people to move from their native lands in Nunavik (northern Quebec) to the far north, where nobody or nothing lived, except seals and fish. I believe this was so that the Canada could claim that they had sovereignty over the Arctic because people lived there, unlike Antarctica. Imagine being dumped on a frozen wasteland thousands of km from civilisation with a few supplies and being told to deal with it, with no recourse. Many people died.
> According to the media bias check website[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Bias/Fact_Check:

> The Columbia Journalism Review describes Media Bias/Fact Check as an amateur attempt at categorizing media bias and the owner of the site, Dave Van Zandt, as an "armchair media analyst."[3] Van Zandt describes himself as someone with "more than 20 years as an arm chair researcher on media bias and its role in political influence."[4] The Poynter Institute notes, "Media Bias/Fact Check is a widely cited source for news stories and even studies about misinformation, despite the fact that its method is in no way scientific."[5]
I found it well-written and interesting, but then again I tend to like the human-interest side of tech rather than reading up on the latest Kubernetes release.
H-1B extension rejections rob Indian IT firms of visa power
A VP may be a corporate officer, but probably isn't. You really think a bank has 1,000+ corporate officers? Even low level employees can bind a corporation is they are authorized.

VP means they are a middle manager, nothing more. It also might impress clients.
/might be related

I've seen something similar in regards to a normal DUI case. The defense lawyer talking about 1970's RADAR tech in airplanes, NTFS filesystems, Windows Server, "md5 hashing protocols" and other items "related" to the case.

The judge was all sorts of confused and "phoned a trustworthy friend who worked in a fortune 500 company" for clarity.

That guy got out of a DUI after 5 x 2-3 hour sessions in court. 10+ hours of court to get out of a couple hundred dollar ticket, if that.

I really wonder what the lawyer fees were though. No way was he doing that for free or cheap. It was his first offense and this state is very lenient on DUIs.

Showed me exactly why I never want to be in court, on either side.

/leaving a lot of details out, but man, was it depressing to watch.
Realistically Speaking, US Household Debt Is 15% Lower Than in 2008
So. Should we spend the first 36.8% of our adult lives dating casually, and then settle down with the first person we find who’s better than anyone we’ve dated so far? That would suggest men start seriously looking for a life partner at 39 — and women at 41.

Strawman alert! The rate at which people date varies tremendously with age and life circumstance. To treat someone's dating life like a piece of uniform bar stock which can be cut off at the 36.8% mark is so obviously a bad approach, I'm immediately less sure of the article.

EDIT: It turns out the article's entire point is that the model is too simple. It really rubs me the wrong way that he starts out with an implementation which is way too simple.
Productivity Tips from Hacker News – StartOpz Blog
Great idea—thanks!
It's interesting that no-one mentioned Formula 1 in here.

F1 was one of the biggest industries to embrace tobacco advertising, and indeed was exempt from several tobacco advertising laws in the UK. The Ferrari F1 team still takes sponsorship from Philip Morris International (the company that owns Marlboro), and indeed at the start of this year, the Ferrari team was named "Mission Winnow Ferrari". Mission Winnow is Philip Morris' project looking for Tobacco alternatives. Read: Vaping.

As @satori99 mentioned however, Australia has very strong advertising laws when it comes to tobacco, so as the first race is in a few weeks, the Mission Winnow branding was removed from the Ferrari as it was revealed that the Australian authorities had launched an investigation: https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/141908/ferrari-removes-mis...
I probably missed all that because the one philosophy teacher I had was an obnoxious douche.
IMHO using "open" is just strategy to attract devs and companies that are looking for FOSS solutions, but in reality it's just another way to vendor lock-in. I hope i am wrong.

Honest question, besides not paying licenses, is there any technical reason to do this?
The other problem is that people/choices aren't strictly ordered... they each have various strengths and weaknesses across a multitude of attributes that are not readily comparable. Imagine you are choosing a car, and one is cheaper but the other has higher top speed... how important is each factor? Is a 1mph speed increase worth $1000? Even if you were able to figure out the ratio, it wouldn't be constant, you would get diminishing returns.
Nah, when I was a kid, I lived in a house in the suburbs with a front and back yard, and my mom always used a rake to take care of the leaves. We never even owned a leaf blower.
>Is there any doubt as to whether I can understand language?

According to your own metric, yes! You, not I, are the one who claimed

> If you want to claim a model represents a concept, you have to be able to show where in the model's structure that concept is represented.

So by your own metric, I must question whether or not you understand language, since you have yet to point out to me where you represent that understanding.

(To be clear, I think you absolutely do understand language, but I think the whole idea that the structure matters is absurd. It clearly doesn't to you or I, so why hold a statistical model to a higher standard of "understanding" than you hold yourself to?)
Facebook wants to be WeChat and it’s best done with cryptocurrency
> The industry is immature and is bottom heavy.

I'm not entirely sure what "bottom" you refer to here. From what I see, there's a misalignment: Lots of senior people lose time doing work that doesn't require senior people, because there aren't enough non-senior people available to do that work. The solution to this is seen as hiring more senior people, which fails, because while there are lots of junior people, no one is making them into senior people. This results in very little hiring at all, and what hiring there is is focused on shuffling senior people between companies that does little to address the problems.

Then you end up with a lot of people with "senior" titles, but their actual seniority of experience varies wildly. Lots of talented people fall to the wayside because the primary way of becoming "senior" (in terms of capability) is giving you time and seeing if you draw all the correct conclusions and lessons by yourself (which also requires the work you get to help teach you those lessons).

So the industry (in terms of people experience) is bottom-heavy in the work pool. Places that can afford it are top heavy in talent+experience, and everyone else is bottom-heavy in low experience, and neither type of place is doing anything to really address their problems long-term.
Learn by Doing Vol. 45 – Unsung Hero: Serverless Application Repository
This might finally get me to migrate away from awesome-wm, which I've been using for basically as long as it's existed. As far as I can tell, awesome-wm has been dead for a while, with only one release over the last two years or so.
Isomorphic Apps with Node.js
Florida lawmakers introduce bill to end daylight saving clock change
At first I was hesitant to read this, as it sounded like the musings of yet another software engineer who, upon attaining career success and financial security, starts to become restless and chase vague goals like "happiness" because now they're too successful and there's nothing more for them to work towards. It's one of those problems you have to be extremely fortunate to have, and I can't relate to it at this point in my life. Actually reading to the end, though, it sounds as though what he was really seeking was more along the lines of spiritual fulfillment - and it sounds like he found it, through a series of inquiries and experiments that don't necessarily align with what society tells us we're supposed to find meaning in. Even for people not experiencing the particular problem of existential ennui plaguing the socio-economically privileged, I think this article has useful things to say about how to figure out what to do with your life - especially if financial security is a non-issue, whether because it's virtually guaranteed or because it's extremely improbable no matter what path you choose.
You can use a bar chart
Well, at least they got a bit creative in the click-bait headline. The whole 837 steps but actually 15 steps is a fun little twist. I wonder if someone has some data on the optimal click through number for numbers in headlines, and does it vary from industry to industry?
FWIW, I am happily planning to expend my 3500 magic internet points promoting unions, worker's rights, and democracy in the strongly antidemocratic USA. In fact, I am looking forward to it.
> Because it signals to me that the only one who understands this piece of business logic that we have applied to our code base is a test, which is a piece of code.

That...makes no sense. Tests do not understand rules, nor do they (or are they intended to) fully encapsulate them. They are intended to capture specific instances of application of the rules that have been verified with the person(s) defining expectations—the customer for acceptance tests or unit tests of key business functions, but possibly the team itself when the test is a unit test of an implementation detail.

The test isn't the only one that understands the ruler, it's the output of a process that validates that the test writers (who are humans on the team) understand the rule, and also concrete examples which aid anyone who comes.later in understanding the rule.

To me, not having defined test scenarios (whether automated and thus part of the code base or not) is a signal that the team probably doesn't (and almost definitely doesn't if there has been turnover so that the implementors of the functionality are no longer on the team) fully understand the intended function of the code.
Shocker: Game theory falls apart in the real world.

Shocker: People aren't always rational.

Shocker: Initial conditions do not stay constant.

Shocker: People's priorities wildly vacillate even on short and medium scales.

Shocker: The economic ideal of the perfectly informed and rational consumer is a complete fantasy and violates multiple physical, computational, and biological theories.
Sam Altman here to shake things up it seems!
I routinely make Debian packages. It's not actually that hard -- unless you're intending to submit them for inclusion in the Debian repository. I don't do that, so I can ignore a lot of the most painful stuff.
There's an interview with Ellison "Oracle is destined to beat Amazon at cloud database" oct 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrzMYL901AQ

where he's chatting about some of his customers hating Oracle and wanting to get off, specifically Amazon and SAP. But he says they don't because the Oracle database is better and the other systems don't work properly.
Anna Loulou, Jaffa's underground bar shuts down
Personal opinion of course, but exactly what I thought. I even tried skipping parts to see if it was going somewhere. It didn't. Tries to sound smart but it's all emptiness. No useful information. Useless anecdotes that fill space. Pretty much resumed by someone describing herself as technophile and technophobe. Tries to sound interesting and smart but totally fails at it.
Who checks the purported bias checkers?
Cry harder libtards.
If you are using AWS ESS I would imagine using this distro locally and in testing will be a closer match to what's running in prod.
Mellanox made the HCAs (aka network cards) and Voltaire made the switches. Mellanox had their own drivers and their own MOFED (their incompatible fork of openfabrics upstream OFED with Mellanox specific enhancements).
Our family was scheduled to fly Southwest this month. Checked the flights and sometimes they’re 737 Max 8’s. Cancelled the flights last night.
Presumably this is about Karger and Schell (1974). A 2002 reprint with nicer formatting is at

https://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics-orig.pdf

It's sometimes said that they discovered or anticipated a lot of things that would preoccupy us over the next decades. I was personally familiar with them because David Wheeler mentioned that they anticipated the "trusting trust" issue with a compromised compiler.

Some of their terminology is different from current terminology, but there is, for example, a discussion of tampering with the stack in order to alter variables or control flow. I'm not sure whether the buffer overflow mechanism is discussed because the part that I think I understand is a different means of stack manipulation, specific to this environment.

An obituary for Paul Karger:

https://www.ieee-security.org/Cipher/Newsbriefs/2010/karger....
I've been using sway nearly exclusively for about a year and love it. Nearly everything I do with it just works. Additionally, I keep seeing Drew all over the net with various projects, blogposts, and other useful contributions. sr.ht is an interesting project I would recommend people take a look at.
Not without unmounting it first.
From the linked study:

"While non-organic sexual dysfunctions have been presumed psychological in origin, and therefore the province of mental health experts, the unexplained sexual dysfunctions now rising sharply in young men (ED, difficulty orgasming, low sexual desire) are, to the extent they are reversible by quitting Internet pornography, not arising from “performance anxiety” (that is, psychosexual dysfunction, ICD-9 code 302.7), although performance anxiety may certainly accompany them."

It seems they fall short of saying porn is "making" these men impotent, but rather that quitting porn does improve the situation.
It may be the Guardian that is making men impotent, they seem to run endless articles promoting womens right and undermining men's confidence
What can digital agencies learn about business ethics from the Fyre Festival?
The term is used for different distributions of Hadoop and Kubernetes, for example.
Looks like something where you can take free https://newsapi.org json data and put it into a vue.js single view web app in about 2 hours. Good idea. If you add login, signup, saved articles, and paid / ads you would have something.
This isn't a cast iron law. There are many, many, 100's of examples even, where this law isn't true.
I was trying to implement ES previously but kept running into things I thought we're included "open source" but turned out to be an extra paid feature. With this I know what I'm getting.

There is no more vendor lock-in with this than with Elastic.
No. News at 11. Leno after. You won’t stay up for midnight at the Apollo.
Reminds me of Port Hood Island in Nova Scotia.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/port-hood-island-...
This statistic always bothers me. The statement is made true by reporting deaths per mile, versus deaths per trip. Most of the risk is during takeoff and landing, with thousands of miles in between. In contrast car trips are short with most the risk during the actual miles. IIRC, going by deaths per trip makes a flight about 3x more dangerous.

Now that's not a whole lot still, and the per mile stat is still important in that one should not choose a cross state drive over a flight for safety reasons.
> On the other hand I think the only reason they are getting bad press is because they are a large corp.

I think that's true, but understandable. Amazon is widely known and extremely successful, so stories about it will attract more interest, and its scope justifies the expenditure of significant resources. Also, pervasive problems at large company are harder to dismiss as being merely the result of "one bad boss" or something like that.

Hopefully negative coverage of large companies like Amazon will lead to work protection reforms that can also be used to help small business employees.
Interesting! I've been using F# lately, which perhaps shows the limits of the idea. I find myself wishing all of the expressions were parenthesized. Which surprises me a bit because my day-to-day language is Python and I'm entirely comfortable with significant whitespace in a procedural context.
Let's also add a time stipulation: all lawn care must be between the hours of 13:00 and 17:00. No loud noises in the morning and the evenings.