skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are some open-source tools like Amplitude and Kissmetrics?
I am looking for event tracking and a product analytics tool.
But it's true--I grew up very blue collar and had a crappy home life and failing meant having to go back to people who abused and belittled me. Thus, I could never afford to fail because the mental fallout of that would have been too big of a price to pay. I'm sure lots of people have this situation, it didn't feel that unique to me.
My doctor just recommended to me to do the slow carb diet. She says it’s the most reliable way for her patients to lose weight in a healthy way. The good thing about it is there’s a mandatory cheat day once a week, so you can eat all the ice cream / burgers you want (within reason) on that day. Makes it more palpable. Today is day 1 for me... hardest thing will he meal planning for the other 6 days....
Games

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mspfe/2012/09/10/how-to-...

https://github.com/avdaredevil/SnakeMadNess

http://www.twentysidedblog.com/powershell-match-3-game/

Books:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=PowerShell&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

There are a lot of people programming in Powershell. I probably write a few lines every day.
> No mechanism exists to eradicate earthworms from the boreal forest

Surely there must be an worm-eater somewhere.
YC promotes Geoff Ralston to president, while Sam Altman shifts to advisor role
I enjoy gaming though. Some people play sports, some people watch shows, some people build stuff and others read books, because it makes them happy.

If something makes you happy, you should do it. It is not a waste of time if you enjoy it. Also, I find listening to people a waste of time. Work is a waste of time. To be honest everything in a sense is a waste of time.
> At UMD, a good but normal state school, that figure is a little above $85k.

That is probably inflated by many grads getting jobs in NoVa, which is not exactly cheap (unless you want a hellish commute).
Yay! This. Where else do we recommend arbitrary indentation levels? Nowhere. So...which is the "foolish consistency" then? Is it consistent indentation rules? Or consistently lining up arguments with function/method opening parentheses?
Our Average Runner Broke the Sub-Five-Minute Mile
Clearly it's written in Medieval Perl.
Note that unions are specifically exempt from antitrust laws. So just because some conduct would be legal if a union did it doesn’t mean it’s legal without an actual union in place.
You don't think you're mixing up "heritable" with "genetic" here? In my family, liking the Yankees is highly heritable across generations, but my grandfather would've laughed in your face if you claimed it was genetic.
It's sobering to see that most of my peers are already in the $140k+ bucket at a minimum out of undergrad, which is where the legal professionals end up after 40!
I tried this myself and can attest that it worked for at least one year. I basically grabbed some dirt + a ground cover type plant + some water and sealed it in a large glass bottle (1 gallon glass milk jugs work too). So I don’t think you have to be that lucky.
OpenRC: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Comparison_of_init_systems
Hmm. "Apologists." Couldn't be that it's been a lot better for me where I regularly interact with it and has been no worse where I don't. It's gotta be apologism. We have to be out to getcha.

I think you owe me an apology for that one, dude.

More productively: what parts of systemd's ecosystem--aside, apparently, from journald, but the above no-harm-no-foul reply to the sibling still applies as far as I'm concerned--have you had trouble pulling out when you wanted to, out of curiosity?
Here's a little tip: The wife and the kid are far more enriching than anything else you will do in life. So don't jeopardize them.
It seems like a super interesting field. The fact that it all gets labeled under "3D printed" is confusing, granted ... also not wrong.

I was at an exhibit about the space station and they had some tools they 3D printed to make completing some tasks easier. I was thinking "No way this could this go 'outside' of the space station if it is from the same material I've gotten that warns me not to expose it to high temps or high / low humidity, it probabbly would melt / crack instantly".
I’ve always been fascinated by the way Uber has implemented their market dynamics using surge pricing. Uber isn’t a market for rides in the way that, say, a stock exchange is a market for stocks. There aren’t drivers setting their asking price and riders making bids, nor is there an order book where matches are made at a clearing price, and understandably so - I can’t imagine how to build a comprehensible UX around a “true” bid-ask marketplace.

Instead, Uber presumably has historic estimates of the supply and demand curves at different locations, different times of the week, different passenger / rider populations (business travelers or tourists?) and then uses the measured “true” supply and demand to find a clearing price, and therefore decide whether or not a market is going to surge.

The UX of surge is important too - the raison d’être of surge pricing is to bring more drivers to an undersupplied market. That means that when you detect a supply or demand shock that would lead to surge pricing, you want to increase the surge as quickly as possible to send out the “we need more drivers” signal, because there’s a latency in getting more supply (drivers have to relocate). Conversely, Uber doesn’t want to drop the surge price too quickly - they want downward movement to be sticky - because you don’t want to tell drivers “there’s more money to be made over here” just to renege on that promise before the supply can even get there.

So if surge is sticky on the way down, these drivers may have found a way to exploit the pricing algorithm - simulate a price shock then reap the rewards. If surge were not sticky on the way down, this strategy might be much less effective - a few drivers would get better fares, but the market would return to equilibrium faster.

None of this is to say that you can’t have cartel behavior in a “bid-ask”-style market too, but I suspect this is a “hack” of Uber’s pricing UX as much as anything else.
Yuval Noah Harari on 'The Bright Side of Nationalism'
This is the MIT Sloan Management Review, not the university itself. The author never attended the university (based on his LinkedIn profile), rather he attended the University of Waterloo.
Parallel decompression of gzip-compressed files
It seems to be an ongoing truism that companies that see themselves as fundamentally hardware-oriented inevitably make terrible, terrible software.

IBM saw itself as a hardware company when it came out with System/360. From what I've seen, System/360 was a good OS for its time.
It's very worrying to see comments like this become more and more common on HN.

Yes, I will take the waste. If it's in the containers we've developed specifically for this purpose, yes. It beats the current situation in the US where everyone stores waste on site because politicians can't decide where to put it because of people like you.

Modern waste, with proper precautions, is safe for long term disposal and storage. I cannot stress this enough.

If you don't believe me, this website has plenty of information regarding nuclear power, straight from the source. It is developed and run by the UN. Based on your misinformation, I strongly urge you to pore over this content and then attempt to reevaluate your own question.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/Information-Library.aspx
All of those issues happened with SysV init, as well — there are literally decades of history of people working around things like unmounting failed filesystems, watchdogs to kill -9 hung daemons, etc.

For example, you mentioned crond startup before the network but that's hardly new with systemd — checking the oldest system I have access to shows that it's configured with two dependencies: “# Required-Start: $local_fs $syslog”. To the extent that systemd changed anything it was exposing that an assumption was wrong — and the nice thing is that you can use a systemd service to replace that cron task with something which _does_ behave the way you thought with precise service dependencies and all of the other benefits to using systemd (e.g. resource management): https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.tim...
I don't hate it, but it has wasted more of my time as a sysadmin than anything else over the last few years.
According to this paper, about 10,000 times as much CO2 is emitted by the forest floor than N2O. So, even though N2O is more potent, the CO2 is a bigger deal (and changes in it are therefore a bigger deal as well).

https://academic.oup.com/forestry/article/90/4/541/3064404

See table 4. Note that NO2 efflux is measured in mg and CO2 is measured in g.
I'm still convinced that the only innovation that ever happened in this space by Uber was the guaranteed ride. They chose to fight (ok, ignore) the taxi regulations, but from a features perspective the taxi apps already did all this. The difference was that any random person off the street could still flag your cab so in practice you rarely got a taxi if you weren't in a "hot spot". Reliability matters.
LIC Ado Notification 2019
Conveniently I just heard this on a podcast, and it's called "escalation of commitment." Basically, people hate to be wrong in public, and the more public person you are, the harder it gets. So instead of admitting a fault, they double-down on what's obviously a false statement.

Details from the podcast -> https://smashnotes.com/p/this-is-your-life-in-silicon-valley...
Do you have anyone in your life that lifts you up, is a cheerleader for you?
Chinese entrepreneurs have been opening factories in Africa, actually.

Relevant podcast:

https://hbr.org/ideacast/2017/11/the-hardscrabble-business-o...
It depends on how big is the base rate of emission of N2O for boreal forest, if it was negligible before an increase of 42% is certainly not good but might not be catastrophic.
Yes, the current practice is such because Oracle wants to tax all creators of java applications. Java is not run anywhere anymore.

The JDK is for "developers only" because it is open and java is not. Oracle cannot tax and legally threaten an open system the same way it can one where you need a license to actually run java.
How do I remove this buggy attack surface from that workflow and why should I have to?
Watch out for the 5x, I've seen 3 in addition to mine die the same way. They start rebooting randomly then boot loop. It's an acknowledged problem with the chipset. You can sort of fix it if you are able to load an alternative kernel [0] on it that disabled the big cores and that bought me another few months before it totally died. If you're willing to risk it you can get a higher RAM version of the motherboard on aliexpress where they may have used better solder.

[0] https://www.xda-developers.com/nexus-5x-bootloop-fix-boot-ph...
Someone pointed me to this thread today based on a tool that I just built that emails you all the bookmarks you set at the end of the day. You can find it at linkdrop.co.
I had been using bluetooth headphones without issues for a few years. After moving into a new apartment, I started having all kinds of intermittent problems. Turns out the microwaves in the apartment complex were pretty bad, causing a ton of 2.4GHz noise. The Chromecast would also start dropping video streams whenever my roommate would cook stuff. Is there a source of a ton of 2.4GHz noise causing your problems?
That fading animation on the homepage is super terrible.
I'd say 'more mechanical' instead of easier, but yeah, pretty much
NOAA Releases Global Climate Report – April 2019
Plus, surely we'd need some kind of way to decide which of our current leaders get the guillotine... maybe by asking everyone to write down their opinion, and counting up the results...
You seem to assume US.
Contractors can set rates. They cannot make agreements with other contractors to not accept jobs for below a certain rate.
Crossplane composes fully-managed services in Kubernetes to deploy multicloud
I'm not arguing against student loans, in general, I'm arguing against our specific instantiation of the concept. As others in this thread have pointed out, a university education is not actually that expensive (roughly $10k/year for a state university; but even less for people who can't afford that, since they would qualify for grants, financial aid, etc.). That is surely out of reach for some people, so what should we do about it? In my opinion, the option we have chosen is the most insane option you could choose (or nearly so; providing free university education to whoever wants it would be more insane). There are so many perverse incentives. We've given 18 year olds the ability to take on hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt that they have no way of getting out of. This means that the other party in this transaction (the university) has no incentive to make sure that they're providing an education that A) provides real value, and B) is cost effective. And then we've decided that our children and grandchildren should hold the risk when this whole thing explodes.

It's nuts.

Especially given that we already have a way for students to earn a free university education by serving in the military. And if we wanted a sane system of increasing access to student loans, it would probably look something like garnishing up to 10% of a student's wages for up to 10 years, after which the student can file for bankruptcy to clear out any remaining loan balance. And get the government out of securing student loans. Students would still carry a significant burden, but lenders and institutions would also have to pay a lot of attention to the economic benefit of their offering, and it would leave me and my descendants out of this whole thing.
They're interested in making money, not providing a social service. There's certainly a problem there, but it's not the VCs' responsibility.

You are more likely to succeed in your business if you have the experience of building scalable systems, like at google, and if you have a similar friend group to recruit talent from, which is extremely hard at an early startup unless you already know the kinds of people you disproportionately meet at top universities and tech companies, and if you have family/friends that can help you out while you're struggling at the beginning of the startup, etc.

You are less likely to succeed if you have the financial encumberances that are common outside of the upper middle class, or if you have an unstable family structure that leans weight on you, if you don't have a safety net to lean on to get you through rough periods without personal income, and if you don't have the kind of network that a top school, top company, or connected family brings.

I came from a working class background, taught myself how to build products, made my own connections and raised some money for a startup and had to leave and return the money because there was a nonzero chance I'd have to adopt my nephew to keep him from the foster system, and couldn't possibly do that with the hours and volatility of that game. It is perfectly logical to avoid startups that have those kinds of additional risks when the game is already risky.

We absolutely should try to assuage those biases to improve economic mobility, but the answer isn't just to yell at VCs for trying to make money.
Clever and insane are not mutually exclusive. At least he didn't say there would be millions of robo taxis on Mars next year.
UMD is ranked in the top 50 for CS[1] (out of thousands). It is a top-tier CS program, not a normal one.

[1] https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/best-colleges-for-comp...
> What will it take for environmentalists, and progressives (who push the anti-nuclear Green New Deal) to support nuclear power?

Better marketing. Back in the 90s, the GOP hired a PR firm, who came up with the idea of renaming the estate tax to the death tax. In doing so, they managed to get even hardcore liberals on board with "eliminating the death tax", even though those same people were very much for increasing the estate tax.

Nuclear needs a similar PR boost. Call it something else and get the environmentalists and progressives on board.

The new marketing would have to tout both the newer "meltdown free" reactors as well as put a new spin on the Yucca mountain storage facility.
> You have two computers with the same program running on the same exact same inputs—so totally deterministic. You pause one of them at an arbitrary point in its execution. What data would you need to send to the other computer to be able to stop it exactly as far along as the first one was?

What Dijkstra is really getting at here is that there is an "approximate computer" in the programmer's head whenever they are reasoning about the program, and that minimising the amount of information that needs to be transferred into the programmer's head (and keeping it local, rather than scattered about the program!) helps hugely.
That's why you use MicroG. Battery life is considerably better without Google services.
This comes off like you're mainly trying to justify your moral views to yourself.

How do you figure "the user already has access to their own data" when the author never received their explicitly requested location/device/wireless history (which FB definitely has)?

Does the GDPR only apply to publicly available data? I was under the impression the company was obligated to give the user everything, public and private.
I use void now on everything, work, home even my Raspberry PIs.
Can confirm that installation is a PITA. If you want something more fancy than the standard installation like an encrypted boot disk you won't get anything running without touching chroot a few times.

But once it runs it runs! The most "stable" rolling release distro I have tried so far. Something that can not be said about Gentoo.
Cringe.

Solo entrepreneur full-rewrites are almost always churn inducing, feature stagnation, time sucks.

I'd advocate working on improvements to the current platform, one-by-one. Focus on features that increase your bottom line until you're at a MRR where losing 30% of your customers will be worth the cost of improvements.
GitHub: https://github.com/Piezoid/pugz.

From the readme:

"Contrary to the pigz program which does single-threaded decompression (see https://github.com/madler/pigz/blob/master/pigz.c#L232), pugz found a way to do truly parallel decompression. In a nutshell: the compressed file is splitted into consecutive sections, processed one after the other. Sections are in turn splitted into chunks (one chunk per thread) and will be decompressed in parallel. A first pass decompresses chunks and keeps track of back-references (see e.g. our paper for the definition of that term), but is unable to resolve them. Then, a quick sequential pass is done to resolve the contexts of all chunks. A final parallel pass translates all unresolved back-references and outputs the file."
It is futile because you think that the only country with this issue is the US.

I can guarantee that China and Russia have similar if not worst storage problem - the difference is that the US allows this information to exist in the public. Even if those governments allowed the information to be public, what are you going to do, not for the Party/Putin? That sounds like a great way to win a free trip to Siberia or the re-education camp.
This is where it gets hard to fight climate change. As awareness increases, so does funding for "climate change". Now everyone environmental scientist with an issue will link that issue with climate change, with the hopes of drawing press, awareness, and funding. It may or may not actually be an issue, but I think we need to focus on the top causes of climate change first.
As a former GCP support rep, this is actually true. Their strict hiring practices prevented them from scaling up support along with their platform, so they had to contract with other IT companies to provide the necessary manpower. Unfortunately, that also meant that Google's support was manned by people not up to Google's own standards. This started to change over the last year when they got sick of the lackluster support from their contractors, but I still doubt they are able to get enough Google qualified engineers willing to work in customer support. It's definitely not for a lack of trying, though. The problem is that if you're good enough to pass a Google whiteboard exam, wouldn't you rather build things, rather than coach other people building things? I sure did.
It's not rude but it does miss the point, entirely, and is a little condescending as a result.
Custom Kubernetes Scaling via Envoy Metrics
https://www.antidopamine.com/nofap/confidence/
Seems like make?
> Lyft and Uber have a vested interest in making their objection seem "pro-consumer," when they're primarily anti-worker;

Given that Lyft and Uber are losing money, there is no difference between the two. Uber and Lyft are just vehicles (hah) for consumers to make taxi drivers work for less than what taxi drivers used to make. People use Lyft and Uber because it’s cheaper than taxis. Since Uber and Lyft don’t make any money, those savings are coming out of the pockets of drivers.
And in other parts of the world, earth worms are dying in large..
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/after-the-deluge-k...

Earthworms more important than panda if you want to save the earth...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/earthworms-are-mo...
A quote from paper that cites the one you link,

>For instance, IQ was believed to be one generic measure of human intelligence, on which Young’s meritocracy was based. But a century of research on IQ and life success has largely dispelled the once widely spread myth about the importance of IQ (Arrow et al., 2000; Gardner, 1983; Goleman, 1995; Gould, 1996; Zhao, 2016). Based on longitudinal studies on IQ and life’s success that lasted multiple decades, researchers conclude that: “the value of the IQ scores should not be overestimated” (Firkowska-Mankiewicz, 2002, p. 41).

https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/josi.1...

Besides that, even if an analytical weighting cannot be given, it doesn't mean we can't examine the effects qualitatively.

>The results demonstrate that intelligence is a powerful predictor of success but, on the whole, not an overwhelmingly better predictor than parental SES or grades. Moderator analyses showed that the relationship between intelligence and success is dependent on the age of the sample but there is little evidence of any historical trend in the relationship.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016028960...
"How do I remove" - I dunno, because I don't care to remove it. Somebody's probably done it. Search on Google? It's open source, so look at the code, submit a patch, fork if you gotta?

"Buggy attack surface" - I am unaware of attacks that target journald; can you point me to a practicable PoC attack?

"Why should I have to" - because other people are building your distros, expending their effort on open source projects, and as part of doing that they made decisions on your behalf. Feel free to not use those distros for ones that make decisions you prefer; the choice is yours.
What 60 Minutes got wrong about Bitcoin
They can’t run away, but, automation will make millions unemployed, that is almost a worse problem, none to blame !
I'm still puzzled by the meat being transported along packed freeways every day. Other than the segments of the economy that require face to face interaction, it is stupid, wasteful, dangerous and destructive.
> Journald is also not part of systemd core--at least, I think so; this one I've never really looked at myself.

You really should. journald is not optional.
It does one thing, everything.