skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's https://startbootstrap.com/themes/sb-admin-2/ which is free.
So if accessing ntfs from wsl is now slow, you can put the files in wsl instead. The problem then, if you're using this as a dev machine, is how do you edit them in Windows? I want to use my JetBrains IDEs to edit wsl files, if that doesn't work I'd just stick with dual boot.
>I also worked for Siemens. There too I didn't try to screw any users, I just tried to make trains run cheaper, faster and more reliably.

So I say this based on personal experience. The Siemens' sales force uses their size and influence (especially with existing customers) to absolutely screw over customers and smaller competitors with better products. Siemens is no different than many other big companies who can use all sorts of unethical (but legal) tactics to sell.

It's very possible to work as an engineer in a big company and have zero idea as to what everybody else is doing to screw people over.
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Not really. Businesses that sell essential goods (the ones allowed by the court order) are still operating. The others would too, if they could. They don't have the deep pockets that Amazon has to try and override the sovereign decisions of a democratic republic.
I doubt if more than 25% of my work-hours as a developer have gone toward any kind of program or product that went on to provide enough benefit to have been worth the effort and expense. It feels like being one of the monkeys in some kind of million-monkeys Shakespeare project. Like the system just tries random shit and sometimes something works but mostly it just wastes everyone's time (lives).
Not only Finland, as mentioned on sibling comment, it was all over Europe.

I was into Portuguese demoscene, one of the guys in the group was trading floppies over post, we had another doing ProTracker sessions, and we had coding weekends with "bring your computer and do group coding".
Are there any new tutorials on TCP/IP? Modern computer networks and free articles, books, etc.
The F* Article (for example, "fine").
That's a good question. I think the sinologist introduced that character originally, possibly as a typo or something. I must have copied it. To be honest, I didn't even notice the extra stroke in 国 vs 囯. (I do not speak any of the relevant languages at all.)

From what I can tell though, the word "nonstandard" isn't very helpful in this context, because there are few universal standards, even when it comes to something as simple as counting strokes. A "nonstandard" character might actually be well-attested in some particular time and place, or in some particular dictionary tradition. I don't know if that applies to this case, but it might.
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I also think B2B is a much less predatory place - most of the businesses have real money, want a real thing to help them make more of it, and are engaged in the process of making that work.

There's plenty of bad actors (like any biz) but most of the time when I ship features everyone is happy, and no one is taken advantage of.
Of course it's a "threat". Amazon doesn't want to shut down in France, they just want not to be subject to this court order. France doesn't want Amazon to shut down in France, they just want them to honor this court order. The only reason you announce a policy that no one wants is as a negotiating tactic. "Honor my desires or else the outcome will be worse for both of us" is, logically, what "threat" means.

Now, no, Amazon can't possibly do what the order asks in 24 hours. But they certainly could make a good faith attempt.

I made this point yesterday, but I remain amazed at the extent to which Amazon let itself be painted the "bad guy" in all of this, simply by not being willing to negotiate with their workers on an equal basis. A world where Amazon had a healthy relationship with its unions isn't one where everyone comes at them with a knife during a crisis trying to protect their workers.
Chef Habitat might be more what you're looking for in that regard, it very much feels like an intellectual derivative of NixOS and focuses on the cloud native story
Let people enjoy things.
A podcast is generally a discussion between 2 or more people - not a comedy album.
People like you are exactly why this ode is needed.
Nobody knows for a fact how this will turn out, and if they say they do they are lying and vastly overestimating their own knowledge.

There are no modern equivalents to compare to, so the best thing we have is the Great Depression; but when you look at the circumstances, it's not exactly a comparison that gives you a lot of confidence.

First of all, the GD had purely financial causes. Over-speculation in the stock market, high debts, combined with a struggling agriculture sector. As reality dawned, a mass sell-off took place that snowballed into what we now know as "the Great Depression".

If we for the sake of argument assume that what's happening now is exactly what happened during the GD, you still have to take into account how different the world is today. We are no longer in a mostly industrial, manufacturing economy. Our capacity for producing everything that keeps people alive is higher than it has ever been, which is another way of saying that our economy is more efficient than it has ever been. This is why most people can "get away" with not producing essential goods: many, many people work in "non-essential" jobs (for survival) like the service sector.

The only sane thing to say right now is that noone knows exactly how this will turn out, but saying that things will be worse than the GD is not only saying that the circumstances are way worse (that's absolutely not obvious to me), but also that our economy is weaker than it was 100 years ago, which to me sounds quite absurd.
Gmail outage on US east coast
https://downdetector.com/status/gmail/map/

Apparently this happens to AT&T customers…
So, rather than maybe help lots of people a tiny bit (hard to see the impact), help a small number of individuals a lot.
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Hey, also don't have a time for a full review, but had one comment. I've been a pretty passionate user of GitLab for 2+ years and really loved the industry-leading integrated CI/CD. I have found that page load times on both GitLab and GitHub, however, are pretty bad, with GitLab being the worst. Many administrative tasks, such as logging in -> finding repo -> checking a ci/cd test -> merging / releasing the branch, take 10+ page loads, and each one is quite slow. I ended up moving my personal projects to sourcehut simply because pages are more lightweight and server response times are faster. If GitLab could spend some time reducing the number of pages required for common tasks (not asking for a single-page-app!), and could reduce page load times as much as possible (I know this isn't trivial with Rails), I think that would greatly reduce the friction I feel when using the produce.
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Well done. You have confirmed what they said:

> and the solution was something like "you are using it wrong - you need to use marks instead".
Wow, what a story.

> A good group of coworkers (for me) who legit really care about protecting these astounding natural resources. And a feeling that you're really making a difference and reaching people.

This feeling of 'feel' for a thing, its what I miss in tech personally. Companies offer a service, want a happy customer and make money that way. But a 'feel' for the actual goal and way its done usually lacks. Too many egos...
Making its money with ads doesn't mean anything anymore.

There are plenty of companies that have paid products and still do user-hostile things including stalking, spam, dark patterns, etc.

I paid full price for a Playstation 4. I still had to opt out of "enhanced data collection" and spend 15 minutes disabling every option on their bullshit attempt at a social network. Even the games themselves had their own telemetry crap I needed to disable buried deep in some advanced settings.

Spotify still insists on ratting me out to Facebook by loading their SDK even if I'm paying for the app. They also interrupt my flow every so often with in-app popovers about some stupid feature I don't care about.

A client I worked for that has a paid app had an insane amount of analytics and marketing SDKs in the app (including Facebook of course), so much that I actually refused to install the app or use the product myself even though they gave me a voucher.
The way you fix that is by redistributing wealth. The government is doing this in a roundabout way by borrowing the money for a massive stimulus and recouping that money by increasing taxes on the wealthy later - likely with a Democrat administration so Republicans can maintain their rhetoric.
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It's far more of an ongoing loop rather than a one-way conversation.
I agree UWB system has good quality positioning, it's not affected by lights or smoke and it's quite cheap. The localization is processed on each Flight Control and it's integrated inside the Arudpilot firmware and passed to the Ardupilot EKF.
And for hackintoshes
> You could always switch to a company that doesn't make its money with ads

I always thought that I would be able to switch to any programming job I wanted, and that the only decision would be between making a lot and roughing it up (like the GP), or working for a better cause for less money (as you propose).

But now I find it -- after 25 years of professional experience -- nearly impossible to find any job. Maybe it is due to the coronavirus, or the budding depression (or both), but I've never seen the market so slow... :(
Right! There was actually a pretty great Java demo at Revision this year.
Please don't make patronising assumptions: my education and topics of interest are far more focused on humanities than STEM.

The examples you cite are not at all apt comparisons, as the risks and mitigation techniques are well known to the highly experienced adults using the equipment, as has been reported elsewhere.

This is a crisis like no other and it is bringing out incredible inventiveness and creativity in the determination to save lives.

That's what should be celebrated.

Nobody is saying due caution should be disregarded.
Pilots are officers. So, they’ve at least completed an undergrad degree. It’s competitive to get into flight school.
On my 11 inch I use a single pane. On the 15" it works well when the laptop is on my lap, but less so when it's on the desk but, then, it has two larger monitors, one horizontal and one vertical, so I can still use the two-pane arrangement (typical use is program and test files side by side).

I cut my teeth on the Apple II+, with 40 columns. I agree that 40 columns would be silly, but keeping the text column narrow so that eyes don't need to move too much helps a lot. It's a readability trick used in print since ever. From my position, the horizontal screen spans about 60 degrees, which feels excessive. By the time my eyes marched from left margin to right margin, I already forgot what I was looking for.
Related tangent: "Browser-based Networking" (O'Reilly) is a fantastic, reasonably modern and fairly thorough resource that, in encompassing some higher levels in the stack, can at least complement core reference materials for the foundation. Highly recommended.
Any (developing world) group buy experts here? Many years ago, I considered trying to organize fertilizer group buys in sub-Saharan Africa via SMS, where it seemed (to me, as a non-expert in this subject) that many smallholder farmers lacked access to affordable high-quality fertilizer and that group buying might help. I explored this enough to apply for a grant to develop it (and delivery logistics), but that didn't come through and I didn't pursue it further. Has something like this been tried? Is it needed? Seeing this article brought it all back.
I basically do all of my js web development on WSL now.
Well since GitLab and GitHub clearly have a long running PR war on HN (ie these posts are planned and scheduled), this doesn't seem like much of an answer ...
The twitch stream from the party is archived here for now

https://www.twitch.tv/revisionparty
I wonder if they realize that’s most jobs?

I always laugh whenever TechCrunch or someone runs a story about some hot shot university winning a programming competition because they implemented an algorithm the fastest or created yet another new app.

When in the real world, most programming jobs are making changes to a really large code base trying your hardest not to break other things. Not nearly as glamorous.
A friend of mine works at a B2B business. Every week they have a "lead forensics" meeting where they somehow figure out which companies visited their website and then spam them with unsolicited sales calls/emails.
Imagine this from the other perspective:

1. You use Trello to track work with your team.

2. You invite your team to use Trello using corporate email accounts.

3. Someone leaves the company. You decommission their corporate email.

4. Five years later, you find out that person still has access to all of your work trello boards.

At this point, I'd be flipping my shit and threatening to sue Trello.

Trello's response would be: sorry, the employee associated a 2nd personal account.

This would be unacceptable from a corporate access control perspective!
The common cold is dangerous to people? The flu, sure, but I never heard of people dying from a cold. I'm sure it happens, but in comparable numbers though? I don't think so.
Spending $100 a month on a grabbag of various newspapers is completely infeasible for the average person. Ergo, it's not a solution to the problem.
Nothing in there says "hate the homeless more than other places".
Not true, no. We all become more productive over time, then we develop even more productivity tools etc. That's real growth. There's of course the inflated component in it which gets corrected regularly.
The element I was trying to add but not wording well is that even if some people are still paying for ads, and still have things to sell, they price they pay will be dropping dramatically.

Theres a reason Netflix has been advertising so heavily lately - with cheap ad spots, they might as well collect as many customers as possible now.
Addenda: There's a ... related ... sentiment expressed by John Stuart Mill regarding conservatives, ~1865-68

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1486818-conservatives-are-n...

I suspect the general notion goes back further.

Einstein's "great spirits" quote also reflects a similar sentiment:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/470750-great-spirits-have-a...

I'd be shocked if Voltaire didn't have a few related bon mots.
The client _must_ use the correct protocol, that's precisely the issue.

An insecure request to switch to a secure protocol would just be elided by an attacker. If the client is coded to expect such a switch and fail if it doesn't happen, that client is at best implementing a more complicated, ad-hoc secure protocol.
You are basically competing with George Bush.
Apple sharing aggregated mobility data to public health authorities
Driving anywhere in the world is probably my favourite thing to do while on vacation. Spend a few days in the city, then grab a rental car and start driving. You can take the smaller roads, stop at random villages for coffee, stop by the side of the road next to a fruit tree, an overlook, a plaque or just some scenery you like. There's a dizzying array of things you can see and do which are completely inaccessible to users of mass transit.

The vastness of North America certainly has it's own charm and driving the vast distances can put you in a very relaxed, calm, meditative state, which is very different than say, slowly winding your way through the narrow dirt roads Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula. But they're both great and a great way to really understand a place.
Likely just find a system integrator in your area and apply.

The guy who got me my job was a MS CS, my employer sought him out because they needed a guy for internal software projects. I did a hackathon with him and he hired me as his replacement when he moved to the gaming industry.

My degree is Software Systems Engineering, most of my coworkers are Electrical Engineers or some form of Electrical Diploma.

As long as you have a decent foundation in Networking and Digital Logic you'll be perfectly suited to program PLC/SCADA...
Ah, but if you do a sample of 1000 then even low numbers of positives are still statistically significant. The poisson distribution on just 6 might be somewhat wide but you can give a reasonable confidence interval (ie 0.3-0.9%) - and either end of that interval still suggests a lot of undetected cases at a time when there was hardly any officially.

What you can't do - statistically - is say "oh there were just 6, that means it all could just be a coincidence and the prevlence is actually very low".

Especially when - if you dig into the numbers they make sense. First, they were spread over a 2 week period, with all the positives being in the second cohort - which is what is expected if there's an exponential explosion of cases going on. Secondly, 4 of the 6 positives are in the Edinburgh area which is the most internationally connected and affluent area of Scotland.

So I really don't think it can be breezily dismissed just because you don't like the data. But as you say, we'll have a lot more serological data before long so lets see.
That's also built into VSCode. The feature is called "Remote".
I haven't but what really disgusts me is the so called "marketing", which is in 100% of all cases composed of incompetent idiots who have 0 knowledge in any field, including marketing. If you want good marketing, hire a psychologist with side interests in the field of your product, not someone who thinks they can sell a product because they've spent most of their lives in shopping centers and bars.
An 8% interest return sounds interesting and reasonable but why cannot not find who licenses and regulates them. Sure they say they are but no links to any entities or logos that I recognize. Certainly not FDIC insured.
We used their build system Hydra at a previous company and all of our deployments were on NixOS.

Check this video out from Rob Vermaas. It's a decent case study of how Nix was applied at LogicBlox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuyuA43q9NE
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Also, just because a flour is labeled high-gluten doesn't necessarily mean that it actually has more gluten than all-purpose flour. It varies by company and country. A percent in either direction isn't going to affect much. Even though cake flour has about half the gluten of all-purpose, you can still make noodles out of it.
Irrationality is the driving force in market leading to boom and bust cycles.
History also demonstrates naming diseases by country is a very inaccurate way to name a disease.

Spanish flu didn't start in Spain. There was a war on, and the countries that already had raging infections running through the trenches had suppressed news of those infections to the public as part of regular propaganda operations. Spain was a neutral party to WWI and so lacked the propaganda-driven media clampdown, and is therefore the first nation in the European world to have reported the disease. But the name has stuck, and to this day people assume Spainsh flu originated in Spain.
Yes, for example covid deaths in Scotland are 1/3 of all deaths, deaths in UK:

"The Office for National Statistics said that in the week to 3 April, 16,387 people died in England and Wales, an increase of 5,246 deaths compared with the previous week and 6,082 more than the five-year average."

And that's WITH a lock down, way before the massive peak that could have happened.

It's like you're stuck in the wishful thinking stage the rest of us were in two months ago.
Perhaps in software, it's not clear what productivity impact there is.

However many people are furloughed and laid off. Sales aren't being made, which means money isn't coming in. To pretend that the current situation is "not so hard" betrays your privilege.
They can't upgrade people on an empty flight without upsetting the balance of the plane. I've been on flights where we didn't leave the gate until people downgraded so the front wasn't overfull. (I was the only person flying economy, first and economy plus was full so everybody was in front of the wings)
I suspect 'Ode to Amtrak' is one of the Led Zeppelin songs the author was referring to.
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Maybe you need to be lucky and (have money)

Is harder to be lucky if you're poor
This is your complaint from a blog titled "A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry"?

Seems like you're describing exactly what they claim to deliver.
The whole "competing for clicks" model seems to lead inescapably to a race to the bottom.

I currently subscribe to the Boston Globe, but 90% of the articles I read from them is the sports section, but (I hope) less than 90% of my money is spent covering the Red Sox and Patriots. If it was pay by the article the incentives would be terrible.

Some systems need not to be optimized to chase metrics, they need slack and produce value that is hard to measure. This is the kind of problem that the technology and business worlds have been uniquely incapable of solving.
This is my observation as well, and it was even before the coronavirus. The majority of tech jobs in London are bullshit startups chasing after AI, blockchain or the latest JS framework. It's very rare that a real company hires (presumably because they have all the talent they need and don't need to hire for the sake of "growth") and when they do it's often a bad fit for my skills (Python/Django).
It’s hard to reform a thing if you don’t understand why people like it.
search waifu generator i thihght that was kinda cool
Otherwise known as a Food Buying Club. basic idea is you get enough people together to create a wholesale account with a distributor. Get your order and split it up between the members. Hippies and other Frugal people have been doing this forever (in my world forever, I grew up going to them).
This concern about the apps seems overblown to me. They should make them opt-in and time-limited, and add whatever privacy-preserving features they can. If they're still around in 1 or 2 years or whenever the pandemic risk is gone, tens of millions of people are going to be like "why is this still an app?". It's not like this is some kind of sneaky thing they're slipping by you. You'll know if you have the app or not.

The real fear isn't opt-in apps from Google/Apple. It's broad, new privacy-infringing legislation. That's the sneaky thing that could be largely invisible, abused for decades, and hard to undo. Just keep an eye out for that. Otherwise, let's try to maybe cut the length of this current situation by months.
Heh, speaking of mouse traps, while working at an inland grain terminal I met a guy who was using arduinos hooked up to what's essentially a highly pressurized central vac system as a pest control system. Against the walls were small little "tunnels" the mice would run through, trigger an optical sensor then get sucked into the vac system at something like 500psi and their goop put into a holding tank for them to clean-out on routine checkups.
I disagree. Github and Gitlab are so much more than just code hosting platforms. Their ability to influence software development is increasing to the point that if both Github and Gitlab suddenly disappear the consequences would be quite dramatic.
I like to see the historical data so I can put the numbers in perspective, Yahoo Finance doesn't provide 20, 30y time frame that's the main reason. Thanks for the list I'll check them out.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/reed-solomon/
Moreover, clear rules would give a level playing field for all online shops.