skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks that really means a lot, the feedback is very much appreciated!

Building from source should work on linux. I'm still ironing out a lot of the kinks, the search window going blank is at the top of my list and I am also working on editor reliability.

Hope you can get the full value out of this once I've made it more reliable!
> Webstaurant would ship a pallet of flour, 50 bags of 50lbs each, for $1,081 or $0.43/lb.

> Unfortunately, between placing the order and them shipping it they ran out of stock

Insanity! I'm heartened that people are still baking at home though. For comparison, retail King Arthur All-Purpose flour goes for about $3.69 for 5lbs, or $0.73/lb, so at $0.56/lb Sir Galahad flour is still a bargain. Whole wheat flour has bran and germ and the oil they contain make it harder to store than white flour, so I wouldn't buy a lot of it.

Flour is for more than just bread. Top of my head: tart shell, pizza dough, tortilla, thickening up sauces, can't make a roux or a bechamel without flour, fresh pasta, cookies, muffins, cakes.
I'm about to open source it now. Which means I just did, but haven't announced it yet. https://github.com/pipes-digital/pipes now contains a very new version you could run locally.

r-w is right though: More users paying for pipes would allow me to invest more time into it and have more requirements covered.
Yup - the "numbers" can work out with even one kid, particularly if your equations value time spent with the child.
I really like Doug Comer's books on the topic. https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/comer/netbooks.html
The party is just over. Give it a week and many more prods will have youtube links.

Capturing a demo properly for youtube is non-trivial (especially on other platforms than PC), and a couple of people have specialized in this. Expect a whole bunch of uploads soon enough.
But... thousands of people are paying to read that one article. The combined volume of all the people, who pay to read the same article, will pay for the cost of researching and writing the article.
I don't use virtualbox, so I'm guessing at some features:

* The Linux filesystem shows up in Windows as a disk even when the underlying VM is not booted, you can see an example here: https://redmondmag.com/articles/2020/04/08/~/media/ECG/redmo...

* And for me the nice one is the integration with VS Code, I just select which distro I want to work in and VS Code will start it (if it isn't running), connect to it as a remote dev environment, and be able to control it as if the VM were within VS Code. It can be done manually with VirtualBox, but VirtualBox gives me no advantages in return.

* The networking implementation makes both 127.0.0.1 which is occasionally useful for me.
I use emacs for two primary use cases:

- Niche programming languages tend to have invested resources into building an emacs mode for their language. Importantly, these emacs modes tend to be maintained by core language contributors. In contrast, VSCode or other editors tend to be community contributions which are discarded over a period of months/years.

- markdown editing

- that's it (I've tried magit (too clunky/sensitive), org-mode (too much lock-in), etc

On windows i find Emacs horribly slow to render text/buffer updates.

On linux it is blazing fast.
>taking a moment to figure that out is not that bad of an idea.

This is a tax. The whole point is that they should've been doing this from the start. They've had 4 months of moments to figure out how to keep their workers safe, and the fact that they have union busting history makes this all worse.
I'll just second the Stevens book (TCP/IP Illustrated, volume 1). But get a used copy of the first edition, NOT the second edition that was desecrated by that other author, it's awful. Although the first edition is decades out of date, it still does a great job of explaining WHY things are designed the way they are, and you'll easily be able to make sense of the newer stuff on your own.
thumb up for doing this.

Also, nootube is great. Cat video is going on ;)
one way to check, seen on another forum, is to see if the drive reports supporting the TRIM function via smartctl/camcontrol - if it does it's one of these 'DMSMR' style drives
I'm going to guess that if you see someone pitching a tent on the sidewalk or sleeping in the doorway of a business, there is a fairly good chance they are homeless. Sleeping in a car doesn't necessarily mean anything, but if it is full of otherwise household items, the chances of the person being homeless goes up.

You can also, you know, ask. Sure, a few folks might lie, but it is better to let them get away with the lie than to punish a bunch of folks with no choice.
The article states that the guidance is not to break up camps- then gives examples that aren't camps, they're people congregating against storefronts and other high traffic areas. These people would be moving soon anyway, to suggest the police are somehow increasing the risk of Corona spread by asking them to move before other people get there is spurious and opportunistic.
Forgive me for using buzzwords, but what's the "cloud native" story on NixOS? Can I easily create containers and update my orchestrator's deployment? Can I abstract things like AWS Lambdas into this immutable build structure?
Is leaving homeless encampments where they all group together a good solution? Here in Los Angeles they had a bubonic plague outbreak in their encampments and they still allowed them to live on the street.
The battle at the heart of British science over coronavirus
Mocking is NOT a design smell
This paper seems to have every imaginable scenario of which 2022 is a worst case.

But, now actual data is starting to come in - such as the extremely interesting serum testing in Scotland (1) - which suggests that the infection rate is much much higher than previously supposed. The Scotland serum testing shows that around 35000 people were infected at a time when only 110 cases were known officially, and strongly suggests that at least 10%-20% of the country have been infected by now.

Similar data has been suggested by the Danish serum testing.

So I'd be interested to see what comes out of this Harvard model if they put in the numbers suggested from serum testing.

1. https://figshare.com/articles/Serological_analysis_of_1000_S... )
I agree with your first point.

Learning elisp and becoming comfortable within the Emacs ecosystem is definitely a daunting task, but once you do learn elisp then modifying Emacs to how you want it to be is extremely easy.

Other editors require creating a plugin/extension that follows some sort of guidelines (or you can just modify the source code).

For example, here's VS Code's "Hello World" plugin anatomy: https://code.visualstudio.com/api/get-started/extension-anat...

They recommend a plugin to have several files and to have JSON to specify specifics of the extension.

Compared to emacs, all you really need to do is put (message "hello world") in your .emacs file.

Granted, it's not quite fair to compare Emacs and VS Code in this fashion. VS Code has a system in place for having an extension whereas Emacs treats your .emacs file as an extension of itself. Part of Emacs is written in elisp, and when Emacs runs it runs the code in your .emacs file just like other elisp code (this statement is probably not entirely true, but it's just a simplified way of viewing it).

To be quite honest, I really wish all other text editors had something equivalent to Emacs .emacs file. If VS Code ran a js file on startup I'd be very happy.

Regarding this point:
> But the question is, if you already can code, then why bother with creating elisp-code or an vc code-extension? Today there is a good change that you already known some useful tooling-language.

You can take advantage of existing tooling for Emacs - you can actually get away with quite a lot in Emacs without knowing any elisp. The barrier to entry to try out code snippets from the internet is extremely low - all you need to do is copy-paste.

That being said, this is a double-edged sword. Once you start copy-pasting a ton of snippets there's a chance that things may conflict and break. You'll need to start learning how to use Emacs' debugging tools and you'll probably have to familiarize yourself with elisp.

In addition to that, the tooling depends on what other Emacs users have created - if you're trying to do something in Emacs that other Emacs users haven't worked with then you may need to learn elisp. The existing tooling for Emacs is quite great, I haven't found too many things that didn't have tooling, or if there wasn't any tooling, then there's something that is generic enough to work with what I'm trying to do.

Ex: company-mode (https://github.com/company-mode/company-mode) for auto complete can work for programming languages that do not have a company-mode backend, there's also dumb-jump for getting to definitions(https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump).
Disclaimer: I worked for HGST about 3 years ago (but in the Enterprise storage (flash)/Object store fields, not consumer/prosumer HDDs).

At the time, WD was assimilating HGST's drive tech where there were cost/performance/reliability benefits to the point where quite a few 'WD' products were just relabeled HGST ones, possibly with minor firmware/logic board tweaks. I seem to recall that at the time some WD Black, and maybe Gold, models at least were rebadged HGST units. The aim at the time was to fade out the HGST brand so that everything was WD and I pretty much think that has since been done.
>I keep getting laid off after criticizing upper management.

OK nice it's not just me!
Almost all laws and legal orders have some ambiguity to them. Sloppy compliance is the correct choice both here and generally, because a) demonstrates to the court that you broadly agree and will respect the court's authority, and b) allows you to go about your business as much as possible.

Given Amazon's recent behaviors around worker protection, I expect their action here is chosen for maximum drama, an attempt to pressure the French government, and to warn other governments that they will disrupt the delivery of essential supplies if they don't get their way. So I agree with harryh; it's a middle finger.

It's been deeply disappointing to me. I've been on the fence with Amazon for a while about labor issues. But their behavior recently has crossed a line. I canceled my Prime membership yesterday. If they don't rapidly reform, it'll be the end of my 23 years as a customer.
Before you ship a “security mitigation”
Bizagi launches CoronaPass Covid-19 antibody testing certification
Meanwhile on Facebook you cannot create a page for a business(say you work in the marketing department) without linking your PERSONAL account to it. Absolutely fucking insane.
Is the implication that in this weight config (just cargo and empty seats) it is efficient to fly at 40,000ft?
To be fair, how often do people pair their headphones? I think I paired my headphones only twice in the past month, and that took about 45 seconds.
I'm not going to "defend" Emacs here, it's a piece of software and you use it if it suits your purposes, but I find it to be quite stable for the feature set it offers. Also if you put moderate effort into it, it's possible to achieve a reproducible packaging and configuration state. I can check out my .emacs.d (https://github.com/afroisalreadyinu/emacsd/) on any Linux computer, start Emacs and work on it as if it's my own computer.
I got a 2 year network admin degree and realized the kind of people I had in class were the kind of people I would have to work with. At least the skills didn't go to waste. Knowing how to operate Linux over SSH comes in handy running a blog for the things I do now.
Synthesizing Neurosymbolic Programs
"I'm pretty objective" - the beginning of a pretty subjective comment ...
I recently became kinda intrigued by PLCs and even consider buying one just to play with it (idk maybe it's the novelty of it) and the various programming languages for them and how they can be so different. What kind of education do you need to work on this kind of stuff?
Mothballing a plane is quite hard. For parking it a few months you would need to secure the engines and regularly run things like hydraulic systems etc. The batteries are really not designed to sit still, so it's best to take those out and connect ground power to operate systems once in a while.

Maintenance costs are based on different schedules, there is usually a time limit (as in calendar time), a flight time limit and a cycles limit (a cycle is one take-off + landing). Which one is more limiting depends on the type of operation the plane was designed for, A long-haul plane is designed for more flight-time vs cycles, a regional jet is designed for a high cycle count. So maintenance costs will decrease if you keep them on the ground, but some components may then "time-out" which will still incur maintenance costs to bring them back to airworthy condition.
We could soon be harvesting anti-viral antibodies from tobacco plants
The How, When, and Why of Rebroadcasts
If you ask, they'll almost always say yes. Something like, "Hey, I noticed the flight is mostly empty. Would it be possible for me to get a complimentary upgrade to one of the empty first class seats?"
> As many have pointed out, there is no evidence that the virus now plaguing the world was engineered; scientists largely agree it came from animals. But that is not the same as saying it didn’t come from the lab, which spent years testing bat coronaviruses in animals, said Xiao Qiang, a research scientist at the School of Information at the University of California at Berkeley.

This is a point many people seem to miss when discussing the origin of the current pandemic. It's not a "conspiracy theory" to suggest the virus escaped from a lab, and given the details in this article it seems pretty likely.
Starts in one second.
"because software issues can piss me off like no other thing is capable of."

This in reverse is part of why I am a programmer; it can take two or three days before I'm really pissed at a software problem, but physical stuff really annoys me in mere minutes.

Why? Don't really know. I know a bit of it is that I know how to get myself into trouble in software and then usually get back out much better than I do in the real world, but even so, I had the patience in software to develop that and I really don't for real things.
As long as VCs fuel GL to stay alive against Microsoft's pockets (Microsoft benefits from it in multiple ways even if GitHub isn't profitable, GitLab has no other revenue stream)
One can also argue that the virus doesn't care about your ethnicity, and just because it's hit some particular community hard first doesn't mean it's not going to spread through the rest of your society too absent serious measures being taken. In the US, focusing on the "others" who had the virus, in our case the Chinese, while not taking effective measures early enough to stop the disease, was a huge mistake. It was a distraction, an excuse for racism and not doing more. This is not just a disease of poor immigrants. It's coming for everyone.
time grep -ri asfadsfadfg /home/me/python-venvs
0.79s user
0.14s system
99% cpu
0.928 total

wsl time grep -ri asfadsfadfg /home/me/python-venvs
0.83s user
0.10s system
99% cpu
0.932 total

EDIT: cleaned up and formatted the output for better visibility, reacting to your comment.

First command ran from a zsh Terminal session in WSL

Second one ran from a powershell session using the wsl "bridge" executable.
Does the union have special privileges granted by the state, or is it simply a group freely contracted between laborers?
Not sure where the above poster is from, but some parts of the world use a different definition for "government" than other parts of the world. In the USA, for example, all three separate branches of "government" (Legislature, Executive, and Judicial) are considered "the government".
I wouldn’t call that it’s only success. It’s an application that’s been used and maintained for 40 years. It’s the application that practically spawned the Free Software movement. It’s one of the most portable programs I’ve ever seen. The basic interface has been cloned (with less malleability) dozens of times.

It may not be the most used text editor today but overall I’d rank it one of the most successful applications in history — along with perhaps Netscape and Excel.
Ready for Another Streaming Service? NBC’s Peacock Starts Rollout
>and now, it looks like they are slowly getting back on track.

The smartmontools ticket linked in the article says that Seagate is doing the same thing. Best to avoid.
No, if Amazon isn't taking sufficient precautions, they should be forced to take sufficient precautions to protect their workers. Shutting them down harms other people in a time of crisis. The court is correctly looking for ways to minimize total harm.
I'm not talking about lisp or syntax. Learning that is fast. But this is worthless. Learning syntax is fast in any language after a certain point of knowledge.

The juice is in the batteries. The datatypes, the libraries, the environment. Getting to know how to do the most simple things can be very cumbersome in any language, and especially in something old and loaded like emacs.

There is a reason why popular external libs like s.el or f.el are so widely used, and why emacs-projects itself has started modernizing on that front. But those are things you don't know as a beginner.
I was under the impression that 'intangible' means 'not physical'.
‪“If you can buy an 80% chance of stopping a deadly pandemic for the cost of having to wear some silly cloth over your face, probably that’s a good deal”‬

The reason the CDC didn’t previously recommend face masks could’ve been because of a lack of RCT. But in order to do that, they would have had to expose subjects to disease without face masks which wouldn’t make sense. Goes to show there has to better ways for judging the viability of something without resorting to a strict binary of “do or do not”
The comparison states that "With GitLab, you get even more features than GitHub Team" and then lists code owners, multiple issue and PR assignees, or standard support. All these features are included in GitHub Team for $4 per month, so this whole section of the blog post is misleading.

Also, you may want to point out that GitLab only offers annual billing, so the minimum charge on GitLab is $48. Some of my hobby projects only run a couple of months, so GitHub is the better choice.
They haven't given up.
I can certainly understand the value in allowing compilers to perform integer arithmetic using larger types than specified, at their leisure, or behave as though they do. Such allowance permits `x+y > y` to be replaced with `x > 0`, or `x30/15` to be replaced with `x2`, etc. and also allows for many sorts of useful loop induction.

Some additional value would be gained by allowing stores to automatic objects whose address isn't taken to maintain such extra range at their convenience, without any requirement to avoid having such extra range randomly appear and disappear. Provided that a program coerces values into range in when necessary, such semantics would often be sufficient to meet application requirements without having to prevent overflow.

What additional benefits are achieved by granting compilers unlimited freedom beyond that? I don't see any such benefits that would be worth anything near the extra cost imposed on programmers.
Ask HN: What does your data science tech stack look like?
Just curious how everyone else in this field gets their work done! Don't get the opportunity often to see how other orgs manage their data science setup and I'm curious to learn from others.

What I use at work:

Data Warehousing: Google BigQuery
Data Visualizations: Google Datastudio
Programming Language: Python 3.8
Python environment management: Anaconda
Job & test automation: Jenkins (used to schedule any and all ETL scripts)
Dev environment: Jupyter
I keep hearing these stories about how Sweden's approach will end in disaster, but their new case rate is ~500 per day with >10,000 existing cases. A 5% growth rate of new cases strongly implies that they are already past the peak.

What am I missing that would imply things are about to get vastly worse there?

(I do see some other specific mistakes there that lead to a higher death rate, but I don't see the concern about things suddenly getting worse in the future)
Sad and real story :-( Very well written article worth the read. I won't spoil it with what happened to Lee.
Yeah. For a given speed, a lower weight (with the same outer shape) means you need to fly at a higher altitude (where the air is less dense) to reach an optimal lift to drag ratio.
I find it weird that your point against org-mode is "too much lock-in".

It is a plain text format, which looks good even wherever it is viewed.

Pandoc even supports org-mode[1], which should let you convert an org-file to say markdown if you want.
Are there cranks, nutjobs and trolls in this sub?

Yes.

Are there reasonable people with valid concerns and perspectives worth considering?

Also yes.
I'd like to submit a small correction: the PC 64k winner.

Eg there's this in the Amiga 64k compo: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=85248 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s66OgcwqalA)

It also looks like a techno video, but a good one :-)
This article brings up something I was thinking about when this all first started: cross-immunity with other coronaviruses and whether or not infection with one of them could at least give partial immunity to SARS-CoV-2. As the study points out, there are less harmful human coronaviruses which are thought to cause around 15% of common colds worldwide.

I wonder if anybody has thought to research using these viruses as part of an innoculation strategy at least for high-risk groups. After all the first 'vaccine' ever developed in the 18th century (really an innoculation) was to intentionally give people cowpox in order to give them immunity to smallpox.

Maybe it's too risky though for some reason? I dunno.
> The court gave a short deadline for meeting an ambiguous target

Everyone in the world is trying to meet an ambiguous target. You know what happened to all the small businesses in my neighborhood? They are closed until further notice.

Amazon employs an underclass (warehouse workers) that we all expect to risk their lives for our comfort. French court said: "non". Good for them.
All the more reason to be a full-time parent. You get a return on your investment extremely fast. When you're old, you have adult kids that care about you, and hopefully grandchildren which are basically just children but free because you're not the primary caretaker anymore. All the fun with much less fuss.
That's true, but is mainly a problem when comparing one country or region with another. Within a region, assuming a roughly stable general perception of hospital capability, it should till give a reasonable indication of the relative rise and fall in numbers of severe cases. I don't know, it's a really hard problem.
I imagine there are a lot of people buying clothes online with their spare time. A lot of brands are pushing big discounts too.
Airplanes are not as bad for the climate as the activists want you to believe. Overall they're only a few percent of emissions. Much much more is from other transport (shipping, cars), industry and residential use. Somehow there is an overly large focus on airplane pollution, but mathematically that focus really doesn't make much sense.
Test for Corona Virus
The only one important (imho of course) feature that GitHub has and self-hosted GitLab lacks is search across repositories [0]. Search inside a single repository is done via git.

Of course you can self-host and configure your own Sourgraph installation, but that's a bit more work.

[0] https://forum.gitlab.com/t/search-code-across-all-projects/2...