skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be nice to show how many others have subscribed. This is one of those services where people may think,

"i'll do this but i don't want to be the only one." Seeing the scale can be motivating.

It would also be nice to know how this would work at scale. If 100k people sign up, can they support that?
Isn't organizing the notes the hard part whether or not you do it within 30 minutes?
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This is possible, but it requires application support. As a user it is therefore extremely painful and limited still. Standards and libraries for this have only recently become available, and only the first applications are adapting towards it. The nice thing is that these new standards and libraries should support both X11 and Wayland equally as I understand it.

Why is this taking so long on the """Wayland desktop"""? Screen sharing/remote desktop is a problem that Wayland as a protocol does not try to solve (this problem is also not solved by the display protocols on any other platform for the record). And because of that, it requires central coordination in the Linux world to standardize solve. And central coordination in the Linux world always turns out to be a total mess.
>If you don't know, when you run `echo -n foo bar`, the shell splits that according to its syntax and runs `echo` with the arguments, `-n`, `foo`, and `bar`. The array of those 4 strings is argv.

So it does, albeit a better example of the shell doing something nontrivial would be replacing file patterns with filenames, but it doesn't help since my program could be expecting a list of urls instead and has no standardized way to tell the shell this.

>To better expand on what fctorial is probably trying to say, argv is a simple list of strings. Plain text is a nice common ground among the myriad of programming languages that executables can be written in. In order replace options with "a structured, typed, reflective API", argv could no longer be a simple list of strings. There would have to be a common typesystem among all programming languages. It wouldn't just be needed for the understanding of argv, but also for the output, since the output of programs is used to feed the arguments of other programs. This puts heavy restrictions on the liberty programming languages can take in defining their own typesystems while retaining compatibility with such an inter-program typesystem.

Yes, a language-agnostic reflective type system with a shell and supporting language tools, it's a pretty big implementation and coordination effort and an even greater one to retroactively describe the command line semantics of existing commands so not holding my breath here.

>Besides that, it would be more inconvenient to use interactively. For example, if you want to differentiate between a number 5 and a string "5", you're going to have to add syntax, like the quotes I used in this sentence. You can see the inconvenience by setting you shell to be something like python, for example. There would be too much syntax for interactive use.

A matter of preference I suppose as I have been using jupyter/ipython for all "shell" tasks for quite a while.
Right, but what business does tar have compressing anything in the first place? It's a tape archiver. You can pipe its input/output to compress or gzip or bzip2. Early versions didn't have any ability to compress/decompress archives and relied on external tools, but then that functionality was absorbed, increasing the size of the codebase. And as you point out, every time a new compression method is invented, someone needs to update a bunch of tools instead of just installing one new utility.
To be fair firefox 75 is the latest soon and had a ton of Wayland improvements since the version you are referencing.

When you are using wayland best is to bet on a roling distro as of now.
Is there a reason it precesses at that particular speed, some resonance or tidal locking or something? Or is it basically a random initial condition?
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I'm not unsympathetic to his point but pointing out that GE doubled the return on the S&P and then trying to make the case that he was merely in the right place at the right time for a global bull market seems odd.
I haven't used IntelliJ. So I haven't used Cursive.

I did use Eclipse and Counterclockwise for quite a while and enjoyed it very much.
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Ships are full of holes: https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/pen-testing-sh...
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Propagandists and similar types learn the lessons of history excellently. They work to prevent others from learning anything, but their work is not hard: People not only adopt the characteristic customs and conventions of whatever communit(ies) they identify with, they actively seek groups to identify with.
Then again many would counter this by asking “outcompeted by whom in a global recession?”

For example: who is going to outcompete American Airlines/United/Delta if all international flights are grounded or flight restrictions get worse?
But didn't Trump say it was an hoax? If so, are the Trump supporters the ones that are least worried?
The 4th is a need to prop up the economy as much as possible through November.
Year 2000 Problem
Ampere eMAG was X-Gene 3 but Altra appears to have little or no X-Gene IP in it.
Maybe I didn't read the site thoroughly enough but... how do we know that they are doing their part of the bargain? How do we/they measure how much carbon is effectively removed from the atmosphere?
Excellently said
Does this system have the potential for substantial improvements in efficiency if we support it?

Are the efficiencies gained in manufacturing scale or can the actual process / hardware be substantially improved?
How do we know it didn't change anything?
About half the mass of a tree is carbon. Seeds cost a couple cents. Plant a big tree (oak, let’s say) in an area where it’s unlikely to burn down and it’s probably good for 1000kg of carbon storage.

Comes with a lot of other benefits too.
It's very hard to have an informed opinion on the virus. Different actors have different incentives. Medias try to sell ads, politicians want to be elected (or not held responsible), institutions like WHO are political (I don't really trust them after seeing their treatment of Taiwan) and have their own agendd, even experts have their own biases and are selected by medias. And we are all deeply biased, and tend to look up exactly what we want to hear.

After reading a lot of information, my bet is that the virus itself is in the same league as a bad seasonal flu (I heard that from at least two experts, and from my MD), and we'll suffer more from our bad handling of the situation, rather than from the virus itself. We should deal with this virus exactly how we deal with seasonal flu. Stay home and wear a surgical mask when we're sick, go to see our MD (wearing a mask) if we have mild symptoms, and go to hospital if we have severe symptoms. Generally, avoid close contacts, don't shake hands and so on.

That being said, better be safe than sorry. I personally will work remotely and avoid public transportations for the following month until we have more information.
He and the public are familiar with Waymo's solution to edge cases, but after thinking on it, it's unacceptable to get into an accident every 20,000 miles just because the car doesn't realize it needs to dial out to a remote operator
Edit: See reply below

Am I reading the repos correctly? It looks like Extractable copied Tabula (MIT) to its own repo rather than forking it, removed the attribution, and then tried to re-license it as Apache 2.0. If so, that would be pretty fucked up.

https://github.com/tabulapdf

https://github.com/ExtractTable/tabulapro
> Most fan-run conventions run on a barely-above-breakeven budget at the best of times.

Ya, I've had local races get cancelled due to weather, and they also have a no-refund policy. Much of the revenue has already been spent, so I understand.
I dunno about their take on older kids, but for the young ones I think the Montessori method has exactly the right idea: focus on leveling them up on basic stuff like taking things out and putting them away, and on building intuition for how their bodies and how objects in the world move. Pouring water, building with blocks, that kind of thing. Cleaning stuff (they're terrible at, naturally, and can't be trusted with anything serious it so it's not like it's helpful, but they love wiping things down with soapy water then drying them off at young ages) and assembling simple food platters, especially if it's to share and not just for themselves. That sort of thing. Watering plants. They don't need robots and shit at age 3. Stuff that rolls, stuff that stacks, stuff that pours, stuff that sticks together.
CFA is not ZT. It is "simply" moving the auth point to the CF gateway. It's still a VPN (or bastion, if you will).

ZT is when you move [strong] authn and authz to the endpoint itself.
Windows Defender ATP is also on linux: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro...
that....doesn't necessarily correlate with making housing more expensive, though. There are government-funded housing programs in other countries that they may be referencing as a model, for example.
> I'm not passionate about this field

What are you passionate about?

> I'm unemployed.

Now is the best time to really ask yourself what you're passionate about and how you really want to spend your finite time on earth.

> I basically want to get as far away from Node and React and CSS as possible. What's a good path out?

It's hard to give any suggestions without know what you want to get more into? Do you enjoy web development but hate what it has become? If so, you're not alone for example the NoScript extension has 1,688,456 users in the Firefox Add-on store. You can still make web applications with 0 lines of JavaScript. Just hare React? Well, jQuery didn't stop working when React was invented.
I flew from UK to Canada recently, and KLM was offering to "offset my CO2 emissions" for something stupid like $5. Surely....that's not actually a thing? What can they do for $5 that would offset so much CO2?
what? How can you speak of the civilization, as if them were unified at either of these points in times?

Koine probably marked unification at least in writing, not earlier than 300 BC if I recall correctly.

On top of that, Linear A is not even clearly identified yet.

A very interesting topic.
Totally agreed.

If I was CEO this wouldn't be rocket science, you fire a bunch of people prior to reporting numbers. Expenses go way down, stock goes up, repeat this. Throw in some M&A's and you are good to go.

Not that I would do this, but that's how you maximize "shareholder value". Of course, it's not good for the actual business in the long term.
The screen-grabbing app would have to interface with the compositor instead of the display server. For example, krfb is adding Wayland screen sharing support with KDE.
No, learc83 has a point, in the abstract. If you borrow to spend the money, and the rate of return on what you spend it on is higher than the interest rate, then it's a good idea to go ahead and do it. That's true... in the abstract.

In the real world, though, Congress decides where to spend the money - not based on any kind of return on investment calculation, but based on political calculations. So in reality, a positive return, if it happens at all, will only happen by coincidence.
(Attempting) suicide is a crime in parts of the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_legislation), and used to be in the UK up to 1961 (https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-14374296), in Canada until 1972 (https://www.suicideinfo.ca/resource/faqs/), and in some sense still is in India (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_309_of_the_Indian_Pe...)
Fossil fuels are the bedrock of modern western civilization. Period, full stop. Moving away from fossil fuels requires us to take a huge hit in our current standard of living, at least in the short to medium term. Everything we purchase or interact with is dependent on fossil fuels. Those trucks you vilify are transporting all manner of goods. Taxing fuel raises prices on all goods, from fresh cauliflower to XBoxes.

There is no plastic without fossil fuels. All goods are dependent on plastic in some form or another; many goods are made entirely of plastic. Eliminating plastic requires anywhere from minor to major redesign of a given good and a correspondingly increased bill of materials, both for the cost of redesign and cost of sourcing the alternative, and these costs will be passed directly onto the customer, thereby raising the prices of everything. Put those two together, it will become apparent that living in a modern western society with the abundance we are used to becomes quickly unsustainable for everyone except the very wealthy. You may think you can bear the cost on an SV salary but most people in America cannot. You are asking people in America to accept a non-trivial downgrade in their standard of living and they will fight you tooth and nail to preserve it, at the ballot box and elsewhere. That’s just how human beings are wired. In terms of other countries, they are all looking to attain the same standard of life available in the west and will happily consume more fossil fuels to get there. Any lack of demand on the west’s side results in cheaper prices, spurring increased consumption in emerging markets.

Furthermore, lets say you do succeed in increased fuel costs, thus reducing our collective standard of living. It will probably backfire when that happens, as your SV salary depends on their high standard of living. If the avg person’s purchasing power plummets, their demand for tech goods also plummets. After all, the overwhelming majority of tech goods satisfy wants, not needs, and discretionary purchases of new phones, Alexas and Sonos speakers are the first things to go out the window when survival is at stake. There goes that large salary and vested stocks. Now you’re stuck fighting for survival too. It’s a race to the bottom.

There are only two real solutions: A source of energy more dense or portable than gasoline, or some form of population control. The first is difficult, the second is currently unthinkable for most people.
Can you recommend good technical newsletters to follow?
I am looking for good people to follow that deliver constant quality content to people via their blog and newsletter. No matter the particular technology and the targeted demographic (beginners or not).

As a reference, two guys I am following and I like are Oren Ellenbogen and Flavio Copes.
They have a nice graph on this page describing the problematic nature of that comment:

https://climeworks.shop/how-it-works/

EG the land area + fresh water cost to support a similar revmoval of C02 through forestation is an untenable strategy
If it's true that there is a three week latency period while you can still be infectious then we are screwed. There's basically nothing you can do because quarantine becomes impossible short of forcibly quarantining everyone.

If even Xi Jinping doesn't have the political cover to pull it off, the US political leadership surely won't.
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Coronavirus has been circulating for months now. Many of us have already beaten it. That's why spread is linear and not gripping the world like it should be at this point: The "spread" is a measurement of panic and vigilant diagnosis. This is most carefully observed cold of all time.

I was stocking up on dry goods and such like everybody else. After the past few days I feel like a panicked fool. Almost every single death report: "Had underlying health conditions."
Yeah, and dogs can use their gaze to indicate to a human where the problem or whatever is though dogs can't read each other's gaze the way a human can.
> Use a good text parsing library. Regexes are probably not enough for your use case. In case you are not aware of the limitations of regexes you may want to learn about Chomsky hierarchy of formal languages.

Most programming languages offer a regex engine capable of matching non-regular languages. I agree though, if you are actually trying to _parse_ text then a regex is not the right tool. It just depends on your use case.
"most factory workers fit in that cohort of people in that the virus effects the least so I don't see supply chains suffering."

I think supply chains are more affected by government attempts to contain the virus (quarantines/social distancing/restrictions on travel and trade) than by the virus itself, no?
+0 tonnes is not equivalent to -1 tonne of C02 emission, because maths.

Reducing current C02 levels is more difficult and expensive than just reducing C02 output, and has a greater impact on overall reduction, but both are moves in the right direction.
This is not accurate. See: https://www.themoneyillusion.com/the-actual-ammunition-issue...
From what I've seen, the Who is Hiring thread consists of companies that already have CTOs / VPs that post their dev roles.

I instead used the Who Wants to be Hired thread to find a VP / CTO role (but no luck yet):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19800051
Discussed here recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22443363
as a father of a 12yo boy, 8yo girl, and 3yo boy, I have some experience here. Anything where he can take apart and reassemble which requires trial and error, and creative new ways of doing things is great. I love Thomas train tracks, legos (yes not duplo, actual legos because my kids never put things in their mouth), Lincoln logs, puzzles. All of that play leads to things like Snap Circuits, etc.
OK. Now Im getting lots of robocalls. What a shame
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Facebook and Twitter pull out of the SXSW conference
I've been a subscriber for over a year due to my belief that me doing something in this space is better than me doing nothing. But I didn't do a ton of research first. I'm curious about what options are out there and how they break down in terms of cost effectiveness for sequestration.

This service is like 26 Euros for 46% of average travel. I know some companies use this company to offset their travel. https://pachama.com/. Anyone have advice on others?
Where in the report does it say that "cases have declined in China ONLY BECAUSE OF the extreme measures"?
But katmannthree didn't say "Trump called COVID-19 a hoax". So airstrike is arguing a strawman and katmannthree is simply reiterating what he originally said with quotes from the primary sources.
In my opinion Megabloks are better than Duplo. You can build much larger things with Megabloks, and your structures are more resilient because the connectors are stronger. Legos are far better than knockoff legos but for kids small enough to eat legos, the best block-building toys are Megabloks.
No, we know quite a bit about it at this point. The incubation period can range from 1-14 days but is 5 days on average[1][2]. The virus spreads through physical contact with commonly touched surfaces and through the air via droplets of saliva or mucus[2]. The deadliness of the disease is also becoming clear as time progresses. The current fatality rate is ~3% (likely overestimated) and most (almost all) deaths are either elderly or people with pre-existing heart or lung conditions[2][3].

Please refrain from fearmongering. Yes, COVID-19 is serious, but dishonestly inducing a public panic only makes matters worse.

[1]: https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses

[2]: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/as-coronavirus-spreads-m...

[3]: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...
missing the mark by half a millenium at least though
Mortgage rates do not move in lockstep with the fed overnight rate.
The _main_ goal is to never have to look into that crappy pdf again, which eats way too much time and so is in effect very bad for repetition. Here follows my method. I don't learn much at all this way before tests.

If you do understand enough and the topic is knowledege-based (not example based like code or math) you can write down the structure alone and do lookups into the organizers' pdf if you forgot a point.

This is like a map where the key points are put down in collections.

Key points can have explanations/clarifications too:

Java Agent. Interpreter-feature.

or

Dynamic. Modifcation & addition.

Example for java code analysis: https://pastebin.com/HZRReG1W

Note: It fails where examples/code/math is needed. I'll probably write my own app one day, but what I imagine is the best way includes versioning, learnability, sharing etc which makes the endeavor quite complicated due to sheer the amount of moving parts. The ability to learn anything is too good a dream though so I cant give it up ever haha!
> how do you manage information from digital content, e.g., notes from reading technical/research articles or blog posts?

If I could always remember the right keywords to search for the articles I had in mind, I'd just do that.

For online content, most of the time I'll wait for a later 'cache miss' before any bookmarks/notes.
(I'd either come across content when procrastinating on HN/etc., or from looking for it while doing a task. For the former, it's low-effort consumption. For the latter, it's hard to know if it's going to something I have difficulty finding later. IMO, it's not worth putting easy-to-Google things in; lots of stuff is easy to Google for).

For storing stuff, I prefer bookmarks to end up in pinboard, and notes to end up somewhere in org-mode. I've found the zetteldeft package to be useful for me. https://www.eliasstorms.net/zetteldeft/ (builds upon deft. https://jblevins.org/projects/deft/ ). - If in rare cases I find I want to remember some key idea or jargon without having to look it up, then I'll go to the effort of adding it to Anki.
I switched from note-taking to taskmaking. I have been using Todoist for about 6 months now with a huge boost to my productivity. It allows me a place to both keep light notes and force myself to confront tasks that I have been putting off. It also integrated with my google calendar.
There were already netcat and similar tools that worked together with bash to provide this functionality.
taking things apart is so important. Give him the knack!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx6HojLBsnw
So given the fiduciary responsibility to maximize shareholder value that is hard right now, but the existence of

Edit: The above is apparently more cultural than legal but I still like the below option.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation

Give's me hope as a mode to found a company, the gist is:

"that includes positive impact on society, workers, the community and the environment in addition to profit as its legally defined goals"

My understanding is that in the context of the current startup climate is that it is harder but not impossible to raise money under that type of corp though I haven't seen it myself yet.
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