skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may find this interesting:

Gelman, Yao - Holes in Bayesian Statistics

> Every philosophy has holes, and it is the responsibility of proponents of a philosophy to point out these problems. Here are a few holes in Bayesian data analysis: (1) the usual rules of conditional probability fail in the quantum realm, (2) flat or weak priors lead to terrible inferences about things we care about, (3) subjective priors are incoherent, (4) Bayes factors fail in the presence of flat or weak priors, (5) for Cantorian reasons we need to check our models, but this destroys the coherence of Bayesian inference.

In particular, you may appreciate the example and discussion in section 2:

> Probability theory isn’t true (quantum physics)

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/ba...
Positional Scarcity and the Virus
I think in this specific case both terms are being used in merged meanings. They are talking about using a national surveillance (as in surveillance state) data collection to help perform public heath surveillance.

What is being proposed from a public health surveillance perspective is reliant on a multifold and invasive surveillance state data collection and mining perspective.
Child selectors (including eg "adjacent siblings") can solve the hardest part of this problem. Some layouts require a wrapper element, but that is just a minor inconvenience, doesn't have to be a blocker. See https://every-layout.dev
Coronavirus Quarantine Survival Guide
It's the same argument I would make in general: ubiquity does not signify popularity, and ubiquity does not signify quality. This is especially prevalent when a language becomes the 'de facto' sole option for a given environment.
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Few successful business start out with loads of features. They start out with the most important subset of features they need to get enough clients in the beginning to survive. Then come the enterprise contracts strong arming them into developing niche features that almost no one else needs, growth targets that requiring catering to lots of individual users who each need their own niche feature X and Y to sell it to their boss, and competitors that require them to differentiate just to stay shiny in customers' eyes. The general advice for startups is to find a niche. Even if they're VC funded, they're supposed to find a niche at first because thats a way of delaying all that expensive development they will have to do to catch up with competitors until they can afford it.

The key is that feature development productivity is inverse to company size and revenue. The bigger they are, the more customers they have, and the more money they make, the more time and effort they have to spend just keeping everyone aware of changes, let alone actually deciding how to move forward and executing. This is the complete opposite of almost every other industry where economies of scale dominate so unless your niche has extreme network effects like Google's Search business or Facebook's social network, there will always be room for more competition.
Sure I don't want to diminish its use in business but my point was that its continued use by academics is what made it viable for some businesses. It likely would have died out if it relied on business (and other non-academic) users.
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Permanent existence doesn’t have to be nightmarish. For instance, imagine simply reliving your current life forever. You don’t know you’re in a loop, but the feelings you had and the people you’ve known you will always feel again. So make it a good life, and make it good for others as well.
Chinese county says in lockdown after coronavirus cases
One thing I find useful is to config default usernames.

You can do this by adding a line like below into ~/.ssh/config

Host alias domain.com
HostName domain.com
User aUser

This allows you to just write `ssh alias` and it will convert it to ssh aUser@domain.com.
The special projects videos in that game are some of the best science fiction creative work ever made, IMO. Also, something I still think is predictive and sends chills up my neck, "as the Americans painfully learned in Earth's final century" (presumably the 21st):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY57ErBkFFE

Text of the whole spoken:

"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
-- Commissioner Pravin Lal, "U.N. Declaration of Rights""

All special projects video text, starting with 0-24:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24OXzIRIiMQ

Cutscene vids start here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evs0nFCufNM&list=PL8407FAE1D...

Although a bit dated, I still don't see this kind of intellectual quality in most games. Paradox Interactive's Stellaris is about the closest thing to a spiritual successor to SMAC, but it's also its own beast and next-gen 4X.
It's not really MITM that's the issue. It's about maintaining access control for SSH access at scale. Once you have a big enough team, and especially if you store sensitive customer data, you generally want to start thinking about a system that can temporarily provision SSH access on demand so that nobody has standing access, at which point going through a CA and bastion servers is a canonical approach.

Exactly how big your team needs to be is a judgement call, but I think a reasonable threshold where you really should start thinking about CAs for SSH access is around where it's no longer possible for the dev ops people to be aware of what everyone who needs production access is working on.
Ask HN: Robolawyer for freelancer disputes @ $49.99?
I once had a dispute about an invoice with a client I did a small freelance gig for, I then went to my lawyer friend who said I should cc him and mention my lawyer is involved and surprise, I received a payment!

Led me to think: would you pay a one-time fee for this sort of service (so you don't have to find an actual lawyer) where [1] you explain us your dispute, and [2] our robolawyer formally emails the defaulting party, cc'ing in an actual lawyer? Keen to hear your opinions.
How do you do q/a and voting?
Most known languages have a few businesses that use them. That does not mean is enough to be commercially viable, though.
I've always preferred working from home (couch, bed, or floor - I don't do tables and chairs) simply because programming was my hobby before it was my job, and I always associated peak productivity with being able to be relaxed and enjoy my surroundings rather than feel like I need to put on a physical performance of working.

My take on it is that people will adjust, and that the most productive environment is the one you're most familiar with. Many professions like sales, legal, and investment banking rely on putting on a professional "front" to make a good first impression. This is much harder to do when you're sitting on a couch at home and have a couple kids screaming in the background. IMHO this is a good thing, because the constant impression-management needed in these professions is a huge distraction from the actual substance of these jobs, and anything that punctures the impression-management bubble and forces people to deal with real human realities is an improvement. Already I'm seeing a big normalization of things like childcare, screaming toddlers, two-parent schedules, breastfeeding, and so on - this can't be shunted off as "woman's work" and relegated to the home anymore, when the home becomes the workplace and both parents generally need to trade off to make it work.

Basically I think our society before coronavirus was broken and coronavirus lockdowns are simply forcing us to deal with the ways in which it was broken. The old society isn't going to last much longer, and it's better to deal with that and build a more resilient, more honest one than to try to preserve the rituals that many industries had developed in 75 years of peace.
LaraEstimate – open-source Laravel system to create dynamic Estimates/Quotes
That is a good comparison point, and one I hadn't thought of.

Currently Goldman Sachs is estimating that next quarter will see production drop by 24%. If production drops for a single quarter by that much then rebounds, this is still worthwhile on that estimate. If it drops for a whole year by that much, you are right that the implicit value we are giving these lives is more than we are willing to pay to save lives in other circumstances.
Duo is sad, and I feel Google is missing the point with all their tech improvements with Duo but no usability improvements.

I bought a Nest Hub Max for kids and grandparentst for video calls using Duo with family, and for one on one calls it's great especially for kids who move around, but with quantine the whole world (my version!) has quickly moved on to group video calls which ppl can enter and leave as they please.

Consequently everyone has stopped using Duo as it doesn't support that, and turns out you need to be able to easily chat with your calling group, another thing duo doesn't support.

Zoom, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger all work much better from a talking to a family group with varying tech know-how.

Zoom is a dedicated video but works much better than duo as you can make a link and drop it in a chat group for ppl to join. Duo has no such features!

So my fancy duo called machine is now just a photo display.
If a 7 year old saves their money for a knife are they allowed to kill themself with it?
I've not noticed this option before, so will this replace keychain? I install this on every new laptop I use so I essentially only have to enter my ssh-agent password for the key once per reboot, and every bash shell hooks into it automatically.

https://www.funtoo.org/Keychain
Then again the goal is to not completely lock down the system so that no one could ever abuse it. Its more like the lock on your front door; it can be worked around (ie. picked, broken, etc.) but you still install it.
Be careful; there are plenty of ways ssh-agent can bite you too. Here are a few: http://rabexc.org/posts/pitfalls-of-ssh-agents
One related thing that struck me about SteamCAD was this passage from (the last page of) the manual:

"5.1 What Next?

Some people may be interested in what are the future plans with SteamCAD. The answer is there are none. SteamCAD is finished software (the only one in the whole computer world?), there are no plans to extend it. It does everything it was supposed to do, if there are bugs in the software, they are now features of the software.

Well, not quite so. Of course, if the software need some adjustment in the future to work on new operating systems, it will be updated.

[...]

Despite what was written in the section 5.1, we have published a bunch of patches in November 2018. The patch includes several bug fixes, improved precision when snapping to objects and improved handling of paralel curve copies when the distance grows beyond the smallest curve radius."

This seems like a rare example of software that is not abandoned, but is "finished", and will suffer no feature creep. It is a romantic idea, for a piece of software to be conceived for an exact purpose, be programmed until it exactly fulfills that purpose, and then just be... done, a crystal molded to its niche.
> If by spit you mean sneeze or cough,

And talking. We sometimes throw droplets with percussives such as P or T.
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Is one person a small enough shop? ;) I found it useful for personal systems because it meant that I didn't need to verify keys (user keys and host keys) for every server/laptop combination.
Teutee – A Social Network for Students
> Students used a fake UNIX login screen to hack my account so they could steal my work.

Would you be interested in sharing with us what happened here?
As adults frozen at about 25 years of age. Basically children. No one wants to be a decrepit old immortal man.
Isn't the definition of commercially viable that it be used commercially succesfully?
110-year-old Berkeley Farms closes for good
Pop local SIM:

- without data, find open store
- wait in line for counter service
- choose prepaid package/carrier
- passport copy/screen: gov + random store
- store "forgets" to return passport
- run out of data due to opaque billing
- repeat
So did horses without any gasoline
Well, this Internet Archive of Dark Sky's Kickstarter is probably a good reference :)

https://web.archive.org/web/20200119040556/https://www.kicks...
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With PHP and SQL in the top 10, I'd say that the TIOBE index is just plain bad. That is all folks.

Also, Rust is not in the top 20? Get out of here, TIOBE index!
A very cool e-book that contains safety and prevention guidelines for coronavirus
https://app.involve.me/ahmedbog/coronavirus-guide
I think there should be software that provides virtual audio devices, so you could configure it as the output for OBS and the input for you other application - something like this: https://www.vb-audio.com/Cable/
I think they are, as a student I used to work on the FPGAs for pixel sensors for high energy particles, one of the potential uses was apparently xrays.
https://ben.balter.com/2015/04/22/the-difference-between-18f...

"Unlike 18F, which is approached by agencies asking for help, USDS has a shortlist of administration priorities that it actively pursues."
I'm a network administrator for a small private school and this seems like it would be a good solution for us. We generally try to keep the kids away from the "bad" sites and their systems are mostly locked down (managed iPads and Chromebooks).

In the past we used OpenDNS for DNS filtering and it worked pretty well. Then they were purchased by Cisco and the prices went up and functionality went down. If CloudFlare can offer some management capabilities (ie. whitelist / blacklist) we would switch in a minute. I can't wait to see how this product matures.
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I hadn't realized that this blog post is from the same people who make Teleport, which is a bastion/logging/access ssh proxy for solving exactly that problem. It seems to me that the linked article is probably just content marketing spam (much like Digital Ocean's extensive "how to install $x on a vps" posts) to boost the domain's pagerank/authoritativeness.

I still don't think people should be using SSH CAs for anything that isn't a short-lived, single-use bastion/proxy key. They're on the right track with Teleport; not so much with this standalone article.
Jwplayer is licensed as creative commons (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0), which is not OSI approved, nor does it meet the Debian free software guidelines. Instead of open-source, a more accurate description of Jwplayer is a source-available open core.
Even if the functional difference is minimal, I'd still argue that it is a net positive to present the deal in a straight forward way.

There's also a lessened urgency to upgrade phones under the T-Mobile model. There's still the Jump program, for those who do want to keep on a trade-in cycle, but if you're happy with you're phone you get rewarded with a lower bill at the end for sticking with it until you aren't.
No, it wasn't.

I'll give you a very real life example.

In 2015 my girlfriend needed to go on a long road trip. But her iPhone was dead toast.

Soooo we go to the Verizon store. The cheapest options were either to buy a 200$ 'flip' phone (not smartphone, just a flip phone) up front, or to get a new contract and lock in.

Mind you, By this time in 2015 it was very easy to find sub-75$ prepaid Android phones. In Brick and mortar stores. Hell Verizon even sold a couple, but you weren't allowed to bring them onto a postpaid plan (lol).

I wound up spending less than 100$ on a Lumia 521 (yeah, lol winphone, but the map app (HERE drive) had great offline map downloading support which suited her purpose,) and putting her on my TMO for a while.

If you looked at the top end of the market back then, yeah, there wasn't much real difference between what TMO did and a normal contract. But at the lower end of the market it made a huge difference, that's why TMO won so much of that market.
.. and if you don't want to carry one, they staple it to your ear, like cattle.
I think Fedora is the only major distro running Wayland by default. Debian and Ubuntu are still on X11.

I think Cannonical shipped 17.10 (or other minor release) with Wayland by default, but subsequent releases reverted to X11.
Related, the NPR 2005 "podcast" about the book:

"To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance" by Richard J. Ellis (2005)

https://www.npr.org/books/titles/138425213/to-the-flag-the-u...
> somehow infer that these emails signal a lackey.

"Does the team need an office manager, receptionist, coffee runner, etc.?"
you can also specify which private key to present using

IdentifyFile /path/to/key/file

when I have different hosts that require different keys to access, this is very useful so I don't have to specify them every time

and agent forwarding is useful as well, for example, I can push to github from a vm using my laptop ssh key and I don't have to generate an additional key for the vm

ForwardAgent true

with the new Windows terminal, I setup different tabs to be SSH to different machines based on my .ssh/config file

{
"guid": "{1c9b268e-7606-4a07-b097-d8bc62fb5207}",
"hidden": false,
"name": "ubuntu.localdomain",
"commandline": "ssh.exe me@ubuntu",
"colorScheme": "Elementary"
},
{
"guid": "{b7161acc-8235-4283-9a85-e93df3d09125}",
"hidden": false,
"name": "db.localdomain",
"commandline": "ssh.exe me@db",
"colorScheme": "Ubuntu"
},

Windows Terminal with a very nicely define ssh config is a killer combo.
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Hire a consulting team. They will hold your hand through the whole process and save you buttloads of time.

The whole process is not cheap and can run from 20k to 100k+ depending on your org size.
Do we really need even more stuff delegated to systemd? What's wrong with grub?