skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked for UNIX/BSD/Linux related news that would be really important, not just usual bullshit, pointless 'small' things or PR from companies.

... and I failed. I was not able to find one or several such news sources.

The nearest thing that I was able to find was 'In Other BSDs' series from https://www.dragonflydigest.com/ page, but it is very limited and small.

In all that I decided to create my own 'Valuable News' series, with latest (weekly) episode available here:
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2019/12/16/valuable-news-2019...

It may sound as shameless self promotion, but I really was not able to find such news source ...

Regards.
> But a core part of being polite, is not hruting others through your actions directly or undirectly. ( or at least trying)

The problem is that in some cultures it's perfectly fine to talk about things that in other cultures it's not. The solution to that is to give people a benefit of a doubt and not assume they are trying to be hurtful, even if your first response is to be hurt. We don't seem to be great at that when dealing with people from other cultures, and we're really not great about it with people of the same culture (but the same thing can apply, since people interpret culture differently).

With the addition that we're currently in a zeitgeist of being very sensitive as a society about how people feel about what has happened to them (I would argue to the point that we're ignoring intention far more than makes sense), and it can be very hard to have sensitive conversations without someone being hurt and/or repercussions resulting, even if the intention was good.
Have you used any pirate streaming websites? They're pure garbage, bad UX, bad image quality, choppy video. The only reason anybody uses them is the price or lack of legal options
Using Node.js to Write Safer Bash Scripts
I’m building this. Care to share more about it? What key map do you use?
More content than any of the silos seems plausible, since all they have to do is aggregate.

More paying subscribers would be a huge.
Both, one is a single data point at a single location, the other is global trend. The medieval warm period wasn‘t warmer than the average on average either, it was just a local fluctuation.
They were just running streaming software in front of existing torrent and NZB content. That's why they could scale relatively easy and why they were caught.
Toilets get cleaned regularly (at most places). Keyboards not really.
Jeff is right.

Training a machine learning model for any common task is getting radically cheaper and more energy efficient.

This is a combination of both better hardware (eg, Google TPUs) and better optimisation of training techniques (which is mostly done outside Google).

Eg, DAWN Bench[1] benchmarks training of ReseNet50 to 93% accuracy. This used to take days.

Now the FastAI group has shown you can do it in 18 minutes on 16 p3.16xlarge on AWS Spot instances. This is a huge energy saving.

Huawei has shown you can do it on 16x8xV100s on their cloud in less than 3 minutes.

[1] https://dawn.cs.stanford.edu/benchmark/
Sure thing! Appreciate that you've figured out what was wrong with that font, too.
The cynic in me would say they did not spend half their time building resumé-ware. But the numbers are probably totally wrong.
Streaming is a service question. Netflix/D+/AMZN offers you a limited catalogue for 10$ or so a month. You select a movie from their website and it starts playing on your phone or computer.

Pirates offer you everything for free. You select a movie from their website and it starts playing on your phone or computer.

Why would any customer pick the more expensive product? Netflix and Friends need to offer a better service and experience at a low price. Notably that will have to include one subscription for everything.

Steam from Valve has been extremely successfull because they offer a very good service for fairly good prices. Now that EGS is trying to bleed customers, video game piracy is going up again because nobody likes exclusives except those that get money for them.
It's just a software in front of existing torrents.
If you can afford it I would forego this employer and look elsewhere for a place where they measure your performance based on what you deliver.

Your repulsion is showing your moral compass points to 'Not okay' for this type of monitoring. Accepting it would influence the way you work, make you feel uncomfortable, self-conscious being watched.

Imho this type of surveillance should not become the norm, and we should resist submitting ourselves to it, whenever we can.
Wondering the same thing. Can’t recall anything like it.
Yeah, when I was looking for AnyBar once before, I kept bumping into BitBar.
Implementing Container Runtime Shim
A new article in the educational series on the experimental container manager development exploring what is a container runtime shim and how to create yet another one.
I second this, I had a Garmin ForeRunner 645 and now a 935. You can have:

- live data at your wrist, streamed to your phone over Bluetooth.

- A chart for the past 4 hours on your wrist.

- Longer charts with zones, averages etc on the app.

- Abnormal heart-rate warning on the watch.

- Export all data via USB to your computer.

Edit: I also got a companion HRM chest-strap (which is more precise and also provides more data related to running), but I only use it for more intense runs/training its not super comfortable.
Mozilla Brings Native MP3 Decoding with Firefox 71 for Windows, Mac OS and Linux
Why would you do this from within the US? The mind boggles.
There is no way they had more paying subscribers than Netflix. Netflix has 160 million paying customers. These two guys had "more" and made only 1 million dollars total. What?

Probably their total pageviews vs Netflix's total paying customers or something dumb like that.
A few weeks of regular use and practice will overcome muscle memory. You just have to force yourself to never touch the old layout during that time. I think that's where most people stumble, because adapting a new layout while trying to do work is kinda frustrating.
Nope. ptrauth needs a good hash in Hardware. There's only crc32c, aes, sha1 (-160) and sha256 (i.e. sha2-256). Of these crc32c is entirely insecure, aes not applicable, so we are left with AMD, Intel laptops (Goldmont), armv8 and Power8.
For sure we don't care about any SHA vulnerabilities here, only about speed.

Blake2 is about a factor of 1000 slower.
Secure hashes are not really applicable for pointer hashing (i.e. 48bit). Some need 16byte alignment (but you can use a stack word for that), some need excessive padding. Here the padding will kill you.
According to this[1] that graph is frequently used by climate skeptics but it is outdated and incorrect.

[1] https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-what-greenland-ice-cor...
I think it is in an error in the reporting. The press release from the FBI only mentions content, not subscribers.

I actually remember JetFlix and wondering how they had so much content. They were acting like a real company, IIRC.
Because the current streaming service landscape is kind of awful?
Reaper is awesome. I've made a lot of my (bad) music sound very great with it !

I've used it for more than 10 years, and it's my go-to DAW ever since.
Transaction Isolation Levels from the Trenches
Thanks, you're actually proving my point: DDG is only successful if you use the exact wording used on the pages. Google is obviously much smarter, since it uses a semantic model that determines that 'building kodi' is the same as compiling it, that 'idx' refers to a subtitle format and 'converting' and 'migrating' are similar things.
Chinese ambassador accused of threatening German car industry if Huawei excluded
Only if we ignore that HF is volatile, meaning that you're dealing with much more (not dissociated) HF evolving from your reagents. Even with a fume hood, you've got much more HF in your face versus a 5% concentration. Calcium gluconate gel will do nothing for HF in your lungs.
Why having months at all if they don't correspond to moon?
One trick to finding JXA documentation is simply to look at the AppleScript documentation and translate the code to JavaScript syntax, or, depending on what you've doing, look at the Objective-C Cocoa documentation and translate the syntax.

For example, to obtain the current date and one day from now, in Objective-C you might write:

NSDate *now = [NSDate date];
NSDate *tmr = [date dateByAddingTimeInterval: 86400];

The equivalent in JavaScript is simply

var now = $.NSDate.date;
var tmr = now.dateByAddingTimeInterval(86400);
Or law enforcement trumping up a number that’s larger than any reasonable number of subscribers they actually had.
Anyone interested in this topic might find a search for the phrase 'preference falsification' interesting. For a great resource in book form, I highly recommend "Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification" by Timur Kuran. He was recently in The Portal podcast for an even shorter intro.
Historical civilisations were very vulnerable to changes in local climate as they were heavily reliant on local food production, whereas we routinely ship food across oceans. Events like the [Little Ice Age](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age) barely show up in the global climate record.

Earth's climate has varied greatly over time but its the current rate of change that is so alarming. During the last ice age it was about 4.5 degrees colder but it took 10,000 years to reach modern temperatures. We're currently on a path to changes of that magnitude within the next 70-100 years.
> One of the platforms reportedly had more paying subscribers than Netflix, Hulu and other popular licensed streaming platforms.

So it was’t a free service?
Who else is going to do it? Your local municipal cops?
Why didn't FBI get involved against Napster?
I think what he means is why didn't they do this from a country that doesn't care about movie copyrights.
Someone recently linked me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation which seems very closely related to this.
Why have a horsepower if it doesn’t correspond to a horse?
Setting Up the Perfect Elasticsearch Test Environment
For many years, bordering on a decade, I have entertained the idea of purchasing a keyboard from a particular Maker who partakes [now partook?] in creating gothic, retro, and similar-style keyboards to the tune of several thousand USD.

I have since not dipped in, but the marbles roll around in my mind.

To me, such purchase opportunities inspire both money-spending as well as creative inspirations.
Popcorn Time’s UI is very easy to use, and rarely has problems.
"it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images".

This was about television and other mass media? It seems to apply better to Snapchat.
I completely agree that it always depends on the goal. I'd also add a second vector: experience. If you've already worked with distributed and/or storage systems and have understanding of the field, you can jump straight to papers and code. However, for people who are just starting, it may be beneficial to read an overview book and get familiar with a field. This book attempts to be that a starting point that can help to navigate database papers and code.

Some of the folks I talked to who have already worked with databases a lot mentioned they've benefited from the book as well, since there were some concepts they were less familiar with or never had to learn (for example, transactional processing for the folks who have mostly worked with on eventually consistent databases; or B-Tree details for the folks who have mostly worked on LSM-Based storage engine)

Disclaimer: I'm author of this book.
WASM advocates keep rediscovering the benefits from bytecodes as portable execution format, while presenting them as something great made possible only by WASM.

Reading a bit of mainframe history would do some good it seems.
Obviously you can't, and the end result is that this dramatically amplifies the effect of catching someone out in an insincerity. The stronger your belief that someone is truthful, the larger a portion of their actions you need to re-examine once catching them out in a significant lie, and the longer it will take for you to re-build your original belief that they were generally truthful.

(Statistics isn't my strong suit but I believe this is perfectly in line with modeling a person's trustworthiness as a Bayesian process?)
Location: Moscow, Berlin

Remote: Yes (Worldwide)

Willing to relocate: Yes (Berlin)

Technologies: Java, Rust, P2P

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomashpolsky/

Github: https://github.com/atomashpolskiy

Email: nordmann89 at google mail

I am a backend/systems developer with strong affinity for data processing and storage, messaging, distributed and decentralized systems.

I have a successful track record of leading and delivering complex projects at well-known financial institutions and software product companies.

I would love to join a small focused team of experts, especially in the area of systems development.

Additionally, I am the author of:

- a popular BitTorrent library (Java),

- a face detection library (Rust),

- an application for EEG research, developed for a French medical research institution (Java),

and a leading contributor to several other OSS projects.
> and eventually by the FAA after it’s arm was twisted enough

There's a big part of the problem.
> look at the AppleScript documentation and translate the code to JavaScript syntax

Yeah, I can’t do this. It’s non-obvious to me how it translates until I actually stumble upon the correct thing.
Create a Java Function with OpenFaaS
They’d have to go out of their way to even see it. The gate may or may not have windows into the tarmac and the jet bridge goes all the way to the door usually.
There may be some way the problem set I used is computationally tractable, but I am not aware of such. I have not published the work yet.

But, the bigger point is why are not others doing this kind of research? It does not seem out of the realm of conceptual possibility, since someone as myself came up with a test. And the question is prior to all the big AI projects we currently have going on.
You're welcome buddy
GitHub daemon for automating your translation pipeline – Loki
This. Small unobstrusive ads, with a custom CSS so they are either for mobile or PC. No flash, no popus, no moving banners. Just a small square with a picture/promotion.
But, particularly in American culture it is the imbalance in "enforcement" of principles that is the problem.

It is perfectly fine to be super-nice as often as possible. But, the culture is "do not offend" dominate and almost void of "do not take offense".

This imbalance of cultural enforcement is likely a driving factor behind the younger generations view on enforcing standards of political correctness, social justice, etc. If you are offended then you are in the right, always, and without question.
Art and Technology
Interesting response. OK.

> 1) by relating experiences and impressions, 2) and listening to those of others with an open mind

1) may not be correct (plus my own impression that SO isn't terrible doesn't count?) and 2) I've a perfectly open mind, that's why I asked the question. I asked for evidence. That's a reasonable request.

> it can be very obnoxious to ... to keep things on track

I've experienced some of that, in a minor form. That people are having trouble showing much evidence is what I keep coming back to. It may be that you're asking higher level questions than I am.

> What I've just said is true...

That's useless to me or to this argument. I want evidence.

> few examples I have would link you to my SO account

well, OK, I can sympathise with that - to an extent.

> people might be reluctant to jump through the precise hoops you've laid out for them.

Garbage. What 'precise hoops'? I asked that those hard done by post some personal evidence, which is easily found (if it exists).
ObjectNet: An image dataset for pushing the limits of object recognition models
Notably that was another case that was widely seen as the FAA treating an American company especially gently.
Sure thing. I think learning SQL is never wasted time.

Try looking into SQL functions & TRIGGERs, LATERAL JOINs, ROLLUP & CUBE.

If you have even more time, check out the different things an SQL server can do when you DROP a row that contains references, how you define CONSTRAINTs, and some particular features that only some subset of SQL dialects have, such as LISTEN/NOTIFY for PostgreSQL.
wasmer [1] has a LLVM backend, WAVM [2] uses LLVM as the bakend, I could be wrong but last time I checked, cranelift is only meant to be the next generation WASM engine used in Firefox, it is not yet in production.

And actually the argument is: all of v8, Firefox/Cranelift and LLVM used in wasmer requires non-trivial work to make WASM fast, which shouldn't be needed given a different model.

[1] https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/tree/master/lib/llvm-back...
[2] https://github.com/WAVM/WAVM
Great advice thank you
Not to mention as Portugal showed us, criminalizing narcotics has zero positive effect. They decriminalized all drugs in 2001 and usage went down, and so did all negative consequences normally ascribed to drug use itself [1].

Time to do something worthwhile with that enforcement power.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radic...
I still know some VIM users who prefer that all completions come in a separate window at the bottom and don't like popups that block their code.

For the rest of us normal users though, popup windows are terrific.
My [alarm] clock displays unix time and a count down in seconds. After a few years I've only partially got used to it. The half alseep version of me does appericate the count down a lot. I just remembered I should experiment counting the seconds of the day.
"Just be yourself" is terrible advice to people to whom this stuff does not come naturally. Especially at work, hardly anyone brings their "true self" to work and it was very apparent in the threads on Google that a lot of people thought that those bringing their whole selves to work were idiots who should be fired.
Tired: Distribute on Google Play

Wired: Distribute on F-Droid

Enlightened: make && make install
For example, if you're in an unincorporated pocket of land within a larger city, city taxes won't apply, yet you'll generally have a city mailing address.

I once lived in an apartment complex with a San Jose address but was on unincorporated land, so San Jose rent control ordinances didn't apply.
In 1991, the number of deaths in air crashes was also nearly 5x the number of deaths in 2017. A plane crashing in 1991 was, for better or worse, just news.

But today, a plane crashing due to an engineering failure is rare enough that it makes headlines that people don't forget easily
I would argue it is the other way around. If people are truly unbiased whether we are computable or not, then they would give my argument consideration. It is those with a priori computational bias that will not be phased by what I say.
To be clear are you suggesting the private sector would do a better job managing this? After all, we're criticizing their transfer of the TLD to the private sector. They can't be both the hero and the villain in the same story can they? Surely I'm missing something?

At least the goal of the public sector is to serve the public whereas the goal of the private sector is to serve the interests of there shareholders.

If this was a private company on both sides wouldn't we just be hailing it as a big win for shareholders and/or demanding the government step in and intervene?
Gitlab 12.5 gains OpenFaaS runtime support
by up to a week over a 6 year period rather than up to a day over a 4 year period.
Chart in xkcd is for global and smoothed temperature (proxy measurements with 200 years resolution), so it downplays abrupt and regional temperature changes like in Greenland or Younger Dryas

https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/9103/how-do...
How much less? How does it depend on exactly how much they drank (linear, quadratic)? How much does it differ from person to person? ...?

It is obvious that it has some impact, but not at all obvious how this works in detail.
Not to mention the infrastructure, even if they didn’t host the video content themselves (which I doubt?) just handling that many paying customers would be a major operation.
That is not an issue regarding bytecode formats in general, given that in some platforms only the kernel does the final compilation to machine code, and they are a common executable format since early 60's.

However I do agree with WASM everywhere fashion complaint.
For me it shows the hexcode of the name but not the name itself.
Russia blocks Premier League broadcasts by Amazon's Twitch over lawsuit
Yes, but if it didn't exist people would say git's bad because everyone copies the same alias from StackOverflow, and it should just be built-in.
Thinking of my own experience with family, my guess is that a bone breaking is a symptom and not a cause here for this statistic. People lose their balance and get confused with Alzheimer’s and the like and my uninformed guess is that the breaking bone highlights that someone is on the way out anyway, and isn’t the reason for it.
What if they were using something like webtorrent to reduce their bandwidth costs?
In that setup the evidence makes the uncomputable partial Oracle the most likely hypothesis, since the space of uncomputable partial oracles is much much larger (infinitely so) than either computable minds or perfect halting oracles.
I would want to live another few years even being frail in fact most people would.
You would have to force Android manufacturers to also provide Google free versions of their products. One only has to look at Microsofts history to see that backroom deals will keep alternatives of the table unless forced.
Because Mozilla went political and came up with asm.js as counter technology.
My take on it:

They will in a month, or just after new year, issue a press release, that they studied/talked to all "relevant" parties (and information) and request one meaningless (in the long run) change in the deal and then bless it to go forward.

It's damage control.
Thats exactly wHat GUIs are good for. Make infrequenlty used features and options accessible.
Kali Linux
Code to run advance wifilite on kali terminal console.
Open source LLVM IR is machine specific, it doesn't have to be, as proven by watchOS bitcode, or PNaCL.
well for me not looking at the schema made it more fun and I guess the plot was also pretty involving ^^
VR optics and why inter-pupillary distance (IPD) means too many things
Software Development at Startups
As a developer you are already monitored, every line of code you write or change or delete is tracked. So it is already possible to see how much you get done.

No, you are not hypersensitive. I don't wanna know how much else is wrong with a company like that.
Apple kind of disagrees with watchOS bitcode.
How cloud computing impacts the environment
And, for anyone looking to pick up the basics: These ancient websites got me up to speed ages ago:

www.sqlcourse.com

www.sqlcourse2.com
Website Creation
The best compiler to build and run a website.