skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no due process. Due process would be (1) a hearing prior to your property being confiscated; and (2) the ability to face your accuser. None of these happen with any existing red flag laws and violate multiple items in the Bill of Rights. Additionally, in most states' implementations of these laws, there are no codified repercussions for false reportings. It's effectively legalized SWATting.

They have led to the death of one man in Maryland [0] and an erroneous confiscation of one man in Florida [1] so far.

[0]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/maryland-officers-serving-red-f...

[1]: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/08/19/red-fla...
Another pragmatic aspect of Python as I see it.
The Art of Finding Ideas
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People partake in those behaviors that are harmful to the planet because they're convenient. Software and automation can provide solutions that shift the convenience to options that will reduce our carbon footprint.
The first product that popped into my mind when I read the subject's name in the title was Gnu Ring. My jaw dropped several inches before I remembered that Gnu Ring changed its name from Ring to Jami in Jan of this year.

> https://blog.savoirfairelinux.com/en-ca/card/ring-becomes-ja...
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Show HN: DebOps – Ansible framework for managing Debian-based environments
The term flexitarian was invented to describe this sort of eating pattern.
I seem to remember Feynman talking about how he "said" numbers in his head as he counted and ran across someone who saw numbers tick by visually.

Of course if you count symbols ticking by visually as "language" then yes, at the root the brain is going to use some sort of symbol to represent increasing quantity.
I don't see Turkey on the list :(
Hello, DebOps author here. I thought that I'd write an overview of the
project here for new or interested users.

On a basic level, DebOps is a set of Ansible roles and playbooks that manage
different services and applications on Debian / Ubuntu hosts. The project was
originally designed to manage a data center, but it works fine with a single
host as well.

I'm using and have been actively developing it for the last 6 years at
a medical university where I'm a full time sysadmin, managing 135 virtual
machines spread across 17 on-premise servers. But others who are using DebOps
are using it on the cloud while hosting it on Digital Ocean, Hetzner, AWS and
other cloud hosting providers. Supported operating systems include Debian,
Ubuntu, Raspbian or Devuan.

DebOps has over 160+ Ansible roles and playbooks to set everything you need
from the ground up. This ranges from lower level services such as your host's
firewall to fully fledged applications like GitLab and Nextcloud.

You'll have all the tools you need to set up common web applications written in
various runtimes such as Python, Ruby, Node, PHP, Go and many others. But
DebOps isn't limited to just web applications running on a single server. You
can set up an entire cluster of servers running any workload you want and it's
all secured over TLS. Or if you prefer a Docker / LXC environment, there are
feature-rich Docker and LXC roles to set up a server to run your containerized
applications.

All of the above services are defined as self-contained Ansible roles that can
be used as is or you can mix and match any of DebOps' roles with your own
custom roles and playbooks. To help get you started in a new server
environment, DebOps comes equipped with a common playbook that has a set of
roles that are commonly used on all hosts managed by the project, including
user management, basic services like NTP, OpenSSH, locale configuration,
firewall, and so on.

If you want to start using it, check out the quick start[1] and getting started
guides[2]. The quick start has instructions for getting up and running quickly
with Docker[3] or Vagrant. The getting started guide gives you step by step
instructions on how to configure your DebOps managed environment.

If you have any questions, write a comment here or drop by IRC on Freenode in
the #debops channel.

[1]: https://docs.debops.org/en/master/introduction/quick-start.h...

[2]: https://docs.debops.org/en/master/introduction/getting-start...

[3]: docker run -it --rm debops/debops
It's nice to see such clear language about the language release process.
If amazon is any indication, this is how you review a novel:

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1 star!

Worst vacuum cleaner ever. Wouldn't get dirt out of anything

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3 stars

Insert in depth literary analysis commenting on grammar, boring plot, and flat characterization.

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5 stars!

Kindly find book is best book every!

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The problems aren't really a tooling issue.

Slack + JIRA + Github + Google suite already does everything.

The biggest problems that need solving with remote work are social - things like politics, getting recognition, raises, etc.
Vegan can also mean food that doesn't involve the exploitation of animals. That version of veganism means no food that requires insect pollinators.

A cutting-edge vegan discussion is whether lab-grown meant can be vegan. An animal need not have a brain to be an animal. And an animal grown in a vat is still an animal.
I find it really dishonest that Google will repeatedly lie on stage at tech conferences saying that Google runs on kubernetes when it doesn't.
This comment is surely too late, but I feel like it's worth preserving. I think the woodworking community is more prone to that than the metalworking community. I hate to say it, but I think it's a question of barrier to entry. It's hard to be dilettante in metalworking when it requires a huge investment and moving tens of thousands of pounds of equipment.
Then you're launching a second chromium instance and practically recreating Electron.
> and homeowners can decline the requests

And is it opt-in or opt-out?
Is it really cheap as shit? I've taken cabs and Ubers around Seattle and never found that one is particularly more expensive.
I will try it. Thanks.
Don't try to roll it out all in one shot. Just work on solving problems. Database is timing out? Add some logging there. Requests getting dropped between proxy and app servers? Add some logging there.

If you try to add logging across the entire infrastructure in one shot, you won't know what logs you actually need. And when it comes time to diagnose a problem, you probably won't be capturing the correct data.
Sounds like a fishing scam
I'll agree that it was better than most.

I still feel like they wasted my time. I told them my compensation expectations up front, went through the entire interview process, and then got an "non-negotiable" offer about 30% under what I told them.

They tried to justify it based on a very optimistic valuation of their equity. I'm already working at a unicorn that skimps on salary with the promise of the equity being worth something, and it would have been a significant cut in take-home pay to accept their offer.
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Yeah. Pretty much half the economy is too.
Sometimes you just have to send a very strongly worded message in the form of nuclear fallout in order to get the point across. I don't think the Japanese would have given up as easily if a not insignificant portion of their country wasn't turned to glass in an instant.
exFAT in the Linux kernel
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"Investor reports reveal riders only pay 41 percent of the full cost of each ride, with investors footing the remaining 59 percent."

I hope this explains it more clearly.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9a3vye/uber-true-cost-uh-...
Searching for Life Underneath the Lost City
TransferWise has a dedicated team working on a pretty similar tool to compare fees and rates for sending money abroad. They have a lot of banks and other fintech companies: https://transferwise.com/gb/compare/

Are you just using their data and adding your affiliate link to it?
You can view it as certified gold, where the certificate is stamped directly on the item by the CA (refinery). There is a certain added value in the marking because the marked piece is standardised in purity and weight, so one used to be sure they were getting the real deal. Well, not anymore. That's exactly what the forgers are speculating: the market price difference between regular and marked gold.
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For a lot of them, the answer is most certainly yes, and if humans were in their positions, they'd say so too.
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From the article: "The bulk of the funds would come from restructuring the company under a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing that would transform it from a private company into a “public beneficiary trust.” That would allow the profits from all drug sales, including the opioid painkiller OxyContin, to go to the plaintiffs — largely states, cities, towns and tribes."

That sounds like nationalization under another name to me...
Thank you for the link! this is awesome.
Rust really does seem to be taking off in the realm of native languages. Personally I would've preferred something simpler, such as nim or Kotlin Native.

However I'm excited for the future of system-level programming: we were stuck with C/C++ for a long, long time and maybe that's finally changing thanks to Rust!
"LIGO and Virgo are not mechanically capable of detecting the collisions of supermassive black holes"

Anyone have ideas why this might be?
I wonder when Microsoft ‘accidentally’ introduces the first reliability issue.
Do the animals experience more suffering than if they lived in the wild? Is industrial slaughter more or less traumatic than death in the wild? Are there any benefits animals experience living in captivity vs living in the wild? Is there anything positive about more such animals getting to live in the first place due to demand for meat?
For initial interactive exploration, I like to use "less - S" (no line wrap mode). This also shows a screenfull of leftmost columns, but allows left-right scrolling using arrow keys.
thats why people should have guns
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Same thing as 'vegan' imitation leather products: a vegan doesn't intend on eating their wallet or belt, but they won't buy genuine leather goods for ethical reasons. Thus, a vegan belt. For the same reason, a vegan would avoid animal fat based soaps.

Still humorous though, reminds me of the bleach drinking memes.
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I tend to think the article is trying to inject some shadow over gold market, like in "careful with buying gold, you'll probably end up buying a bar of rusty iron". You have to read four paragraphs to read the first explanation that there's no problem with the gold quality.

Gold may be the dirtiest commodity out there. There are plenty of people that buys gold without worrying about its origins, to immediately melt it into something else. People that doesn't care where a meth head got this 24k gold necklace, will trade it for about 10% its value and melt it into jewelry again.

I'm sure the last worry of people buying gold bars is the source of them, specially if you can get them at a small discount. "Hey, look: I'm getting rich selling tobacco to children, weapons to both sides of a war, paying doctors to prescribe my drugs, flooding the oceans with crude oil... but that gold origin is what worries me at the end of the day."
I've always admired Sun Microsystem's ambigram logo:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/SUN_micr...
And then you take it to court, and you get a mechanical engineer and a racing instructor to say that a 215/45R60 is not going to cause an accident that a 205/45R60 wouldn't have caused, since tread wear, hardness, speed rating, structural design, and road conditions all are the most important factors in traction. Identical tires with a 10mm width difference will perform nearly identically, but the same size tire using different manufacturing processes will result in completely different traction. Tires of the same size rating but different manufacture can have comparatively narrower or wider (due to sidewall stiffness) or flatter or bulging (tread patterns) geometries.

But my bet is it's more a matter of following a contract than whether it actually caused an issue; either way I can see not wanting to deal with the potential hassle.
Looks like it's now fixed.
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Is a Global Recession Coming? When?
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> But I reduced my consumption more and more. It was surprising to see how my taste changed.

I experienced the same, which was really odd. I guess you can learn to like (or dislike) a taste.

The other thing I noticed that concerns about suffering started to weigh far stronger for me once the environmental concerns made me stop eating meat. I think that I subconsciously ignored or trivialised a lot of the information I got about what was and is actually happening in that sector.
Could Tesla Model 3 Performance Match Taycan’s 24-Hr Endurance Record?
Yeah, I think that would be super valuable. Each of them is focusing on a slightly different niche for now though, even if their goals overlap a lot, and I think that's okay!

Picking a specific goal and optimizing for that is safer than rocking all the boats at once: https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
That's why my example was religious wear, which is a bit harder to ban in the states.
I think it is a case of "riding crop makers demand cars and trains use more horses". Self interested willful ignorance that it doesn't work that way and besides - if you want nothing is stopping you from maintaining your own lists on YouTube - but it probably won't be popular. They need to earn the position they want - not getting handed to them after demanding it.
Couldn't this lead to unneeded waste? Let's say of that $500 30 day, I only needed $400.00 of it to cover my needs. I'm left with either the choice of paying essentially a "tax" to convert it to a longer period or spend on products I don't need. We already have a lot of consumer waste that, in part, has led to major environmental issues. I worry a policy like this could exasperate the issue.
Is bitcoin an option worth comparing
Perl 6 or math? why choose?
And this is no different than the typical phone financing plan.

You pay for the phone over 24 months but they “bundle” the cost of an additional line. You would pay for the cost of the line over 24 months but no one would call that “interest”. You could buy the phone outright and just use it over WiFi just like you can use a Peleton without the subscription. But, in both cases, it reduces the functionality of the product.
Yes, that's why I'm hopeful that the FP3 will be better.
Amazing; I'm actually planning to be there in a few weeks so will check it out. Thanks!
I'm in the same camp as you are, a funny method that would "kinda work" would be to use something like https://github.com/yudai/gotty but I feel like that's a pretty hacky solution haha.
> They are burning through VC money by subsidizing the cost of each ride, thus artificially deflating its actual cost.

They're not losing money on rides.

Uber is two things. A moderately profitable ride sharing company, and a loss-making VC-backed R&D enterprise working on things like self-driving cars. If they shut down or spin off their R&D they could continue on as a ride sharing company indefinitely -- they could probably lower prices because they're not using that money to supplement the VC money they're spending on R&D.

But you only separate the R&D if you think it won't ultimately lead anywhere. If they eventually actually get self-driving cars working then it's obviously to their advantage to be the same company that people are already using for car service.
I think, in the case of brevity, the article probably glossed over some important parts of this topic. (Which rightly could be their own article.)

There's a clear difference between giving an unusual or unconventional idea a chance; versus allowing an idea guy to let his imagination run away.

In the former, giving an unusual or unconventional idea a chance, is how progress is made. Fundamentally, a startup is always taking a chance on an unusual or unconventional idea. (When I worked for a successful startup, a lot of people at networking events thought what we were doing was weird and unconventional. It wasn't.)

In the latter case, when an idea guy is allowed to let his imagination run away, it just kills the company. Either he's wasting all his time, or even worse, wasting everyone else's time. (These are the kind of people who's whine that "we're supposed to be optimistic" when everyone in the room clearly rejects their ideas.)
I often see people try to "prove" the solution to this problem as the author did, using a large number of trials to approximate the long-term probabilities.

But I don't think this method really proves it, nor does the proof require so much work.

Consider that C = car and G = goat. There are three possible configurations of cars and goats, represented by rows of the matrix, and the three doors are represented by the columns:

C G G
G C G
G G C

Suppose you chose door #1 (it doesn't matter which door); you then have 1/3 chance of winning:

(C) G G
(G) C G
(G) G C

The host reveals another door with a goat. That door is X'd out:

(C) X G
(G) C X
(G) X C

Thus, if you stay with your original choice, you retain a 1/3 chance of winning, shown by the set [C, G, G].

If you switch, you have a 2/3 chance of winning shown by the remaining set [C, C, G].
> "Android security patch level", which says March 2019

On LineageOS, at least, "Android security patch level" seems to be the OS only and doesn't include the kernel or firmware blobs (eg. the radio stack).
I'm a fan of SONOS's logo: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Px2Steg_XRM/AAAAAAAAAAI/A...
Tell that to furniture stores that have had 5+ years of no interest financing forever. Of course they raise the prices to pay for the “free financing”.
A NaN is any value where the 7-bit (for 32-bit floats) exponent is all 1s, except for +/-inf. So a quick approximation is that 1/128 ~= 0.78% of the space is NaN.

That means there's 25 bits that we can change while still being either a NaN or an inf. But two of those values are infs, so we need to remove them. Divide that by the entire range and we have (2^25 - 2) / 2^32 = 16777215/2147483648, or about 0.78124995%.
The fact that expected utility theory isn't nearly as scrutinized as the labor theory of value, whilst being at least as flawed, tells you something about the "value free" nature of modern econ.
Absolutely nothing hyperbole about it. You haven't been paying attention if you think it is.

Our phones have numerous parties (besides the telcos) all slurping up their own version of data about our lives. We have 0 ability to opt out of any of it. Retorting with "just don't use a mobile phone" is fine, but it's also not practical. Why should we be subject to all this surveillance?

Go ahead and continue to downvote me, you fucking corporate shills. The truth hurts, I know.
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I would highly recommend Interactive Brokers! You trade on the spot market and avoid all the fees except a $2 flat trading fee.
Last time I got called for jury duty (but didn't get chosen), I forget what the per diem rate was but basically it wouldn't have covered parking (or at least not by much).
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The site still can’t be scrolled past the opening image easily on Safari iOS, but the initial image can now be zoomed - thank you!
> Interesting, but lots of wealthy people do finance their purchases, especially if they are active investors.

The wealthy borrow in order to get tax-advantaged liquidity (borrowing against, instead of selling their securities which attracts immediate tax obligations). I'm also certain the wealthy are not borrowing at 27% APR - they'll likely get a 5% APR loan from a bank and use a small fraction of it to buy the Peloton bike in cash.
Maybe he didn't word his post perfectly but he's still pointing out an important distinction. If you could conjure a star of 0.001 solar masses, or one of 1000 solar masses, the first would be a gaseous planet incapable of sustaining a nuclear chain reaction and the second would produce enough energy to overcome the force of gravity at its periphery, blowing away its outer mass and shrinking. Those masses are impossible for stars

A 1000M black hole would be stable, there's just no likely way to end up with one in the first place.
Not too surprised by this. I have always been curious though about folks who came across gold in one form (like a sunken treasure, or pillaging a museum in a war zone) and wanted to turn it into cash, what prevents them from just melting it down into bars and selling it that way. Saving themselves the step of actually going to a refinery which is going to ask uncomfortable questions seems like a logical step to me.
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I bought a new HP Envy for 900€ but spent more than an hour getting rid of all the bloat. There's McAfee and HP stuff due to McAffee but it's my first new win10 laptop (previously just upgrade 8->10 and I am utterly appalled by the amount of crapware Microsoft included. Pre-installed MS software, and ads and unwanted products everywhere. Candy crush and similar junk included in a fresh clean start menu. Microsoft OneDrive in autostart. Cortana permissions pretty much make you agree to ads and constant listening (no thanks!). Lots of telemetry. Self-installing updates that reset settings. Nags to use Edge and Microsoft services everywhere. It took me far too long to even find (and even recognise) all the different always-hidden and ambiguously phrased buttons to switch all these features off - and the next update will turn them on again.

Why do I pay around €80 of the sales price for a license and still have to deal with all this intrusive upselling and ads?
Thanks for the lists. Aside from ITA and Northwestern University, most of those were new to me. I was kinda hoping for some big commonly-known brands.

I'm trying to convince my boss to let me learn Lisp on company time.
According to Wikipedia, Vantablack absorbs visible light, converts it and dissipates it as heat.

Can some materials engineer/physicist chime in and talk about its impact to warming relative to “regular” car paints/coatings?

I can’t imagine it being good for the environment.
Just subscribe and pay for good journalism. it's like asking for a workaround for the SAAS website people here work on.
It's like, how much more black could this car be? And the answer is none. None more black.
Radiation shielding is a straightforward engineering problem. Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field provide significant protection, but viable colonization requires an actual solution to this just as much it needs to supply oxygen.
I like his Harry Potter review: https://ew.com/article/2007/08/10/stephen-king-last-word-har...
I have been using Insomnia since it was shown in HN. One of my recent favorite features is request chaining introduced in v6.4.2.