skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is more that they are perfectly fine with advanced vocabularies and complexity but only when it actually serves a purpose. It is fine to go into dizzying and pedantic levels of nuance or loosely related trivia.

It could be surmised as a 'earn your complexity' ethos.
Bar None
As a former PM, the end-to-end friction in the process of synthesizing knowledge for my team (and other stakeholders) really bothered me.

In particular, the core challenges were: collecting information from disparate sources, arranging my ideas, and articulating them both concisely and accurately.

Rumin provides a hypertext interface to flexibly edit the structure of your knowledge, and tools to streamline the capturing and sharing of information.

I have been having fun using this for sampling and remixing ideas in my personal life as well.

Been exploring use cases with different user groups, but wanted to release this early product to hear feedback from the HN community!
I am glad that you can see this text because I can't see anything other than blur.
Yeah this is why I'm still against it. I know it can be run safely. But disposing of stuff that can be extremely dangerous for 20.000 years is not as easy.

It already eats through the containers it's in and up to date storage facilities are meant to last 100 years at most. They're just storing it now "until we find a safe method for long term storage". Which is really worrying.
Anyone know what the best way to set up Emacs on macOS is?
Depends on how long the rent goes delinquent. It's not uncommon for the rent to finally show up around the 15th. I used to rent out a property and would typically write the lease so that the rent was due within 5 days of the 1st. I would send a reminder but I didn't really start to worry as long as it showed up before the 20th. If it took longer than that I would start to worry.

The difference here is that the percent of that 31% who really can't afford the rent -- not now, and not any time soon -- is probably closer to 100%.
We are talking about politicians specifically though.
Now Reading: Pandemic Edition
Yep I also made a web version

http://github.com/0xGG/crossnote

It's a progressive web application so it can work offline and play well on mobile devices.
Besides, the PWA version supports running git commands right inside the browser with zero server dependencies (if CORS proxy doesn't count). So you can synchronize your notebooks with arbitrary git repositories anywhere anytime ;)
I agree with you (to your point) about California high speed rail: a solution looking for a problem. But NY subway is arguably something that could generate huge returns if the capex was committed to modernizing and automating the public transport of the biggest city in the USA and a major financial capital.
What is the point in such functionality exactly in code editor, VSCode or whatever?
Like it or hate it, Prop 13 was democratically selected. This is different from giveaways like Foxconn and sports stadiums.
Covid Trash
But then your 2/3c is an average, it's not the real speed of the object at any actual instant.
Opinions and dogma about licensing is one reason as well as a sense that ZFS isn't actually better than ETX4. I'm not saying I agree with that, only that it's why ZFS and Linux don't mix from what I can tell.
I have been looking for a Windows alike snapping tool for Mac. Just tried Rectangle and it works just fine, thank you!
World Brain
I have a discord bot running in our FortressOne discord. It keeps track of who is in what server and spams the channel with that information. It requires some short term persistence so it runs across two containers, one with the application code and the other with redis. It takes hundreds of requests daily and sends many millions, seems to be very stable. https://github.com/FortressOne/qwtf-discord-bot
Feel free to try to un-press your condescension button; it's not helping you present your case at all. You just come across as rude and hostile.

Let me try to restate a bit better. Feynmann wasn't the first, even in physics (Faraday may have been). But for Feynmann to do what he did in his lectures, he had to find a simpler way to present it - not because the words were hard, but because the mathematics was.

What I want from the humanities is a bit different. Not easier words, but fewer. There's an article about a fifth the length of this one waiting to be written. It would have the same content, too, and would be far more readable (and read!) by non-humanities types. I suspect that even many freshman humanities students would appreciate the difference. (If you're a humanities major, you don't lack for pages to read.)

Now, if you want to say that this wasn't written for the HN crowd, that's probably true. But it got posted here, and here we are.

I assert that there is a possible way of writing that 1) is acceptable within the humanities, 2) does not "dumb down" the content trying to be communicated, and 3) is much more accessible to the non-humanities reader. But I'm not a humanities person myself, so I could be dreaming. 1) might be fundamentally opposed to 3).
I'll second Hasura there (presumably an alternative like Postgraphile would have led to a similar result)
The article implied synchronised rents, and now you have too. To clarify: Are all rents in the US monthly and due on the first of the month?

In NZ rent is weekly, on no particular day (can be different for each tenant).
You make it sound like someone got duped and it isn't pure corruption by the powerful insiders.
It does seem like you could do JIT with a persistent cache which stores the JIT output along with a key that's a hash of all the relevant system parameters like CPU model and VM parameters like heap size. This would mean that the typical case of re-running a program in the same environment would be pre-warmed.
Plutonium is a lot more dangerous than you let on. It's also extremely toxic. A few dust particles in the lungs are enough to kill a person over time.
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I have friends who believe that dog saliva is very healthy and helps your immune system, and they encourage dogs to lick their faces. Given what I''ve seen my dog eating and licking I do my very best to avoid her spittle.
Devon Think.

Having a local search engine with annotations is incredibly useful.
Jupyter Notebook. And before that iPython (compared to the vanilla Pyton REPL).

Though these are hardly secret tools :)
Any languages explore both? Compile to native and run with a jit which profiles and optimizes further based on runtime behavior?
Hi there, you can take look at another my extension: markdown-preview-enhanced :)

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=shd101wy...

However, the Crossnote extension also supports LaTeX math (powered by KaTeX) and all kinds of diagrams: Mermaid, Vega, Vega-Lite, PlantUML, ECharts, etc...
I basically moved lots of features from MPE to Crossnote :)
Because much of the modern environmental political movement had its roots in the anti-nuclear (war and power) movement.

They simply hate nuclear power more than they hate fossil fuel power, and then they push for idiotic swaps like this.

There's an extra layer of irony in that coal power plants cause more radiation and more cancer than nuclear power plants.
This is assuming that our level of technology keeps advancing. Given the level of political instability in our world I would take that far from granted.
Yes, in the US rents are usually due on the first of the month and all months cost the same amount.
- the horseshoe bats that most likely hosted the virus weren't even sold on the wuhan wet market, according to several eye witnesses

- there are no known horseshoe bat colonies in a 900km diameter around wuhan

If you have sources for these, you will have convinced me that it's more likely that it originated from the lab than the market.
The title doesn't do the surprising conclusion justice.

"When we set out to look at how long VMs take to warm up, we didn’t expect to discover that they often don’t warm up. But, alas, the evidence that they frequently don’t warm up is hard to argue with."

By not warming up they refer to instances when early performance is higher than later performance or when the performance doesn't settle.
neat! i think i went to a place once in DC or thereabouts that was also called awash.

and yes, ethiopian coffee is good and the beans from that region are among the best in the world.
> To clarify: Are all rents in the US monthly and due on the first of the month?

Yes, at least in all the markets I'm aware of. If someone moves in after in the middle of a month, you'll pro-rate the rent for that first fraction of a month so that everyone's back on the monthly cycle for the rest of the lease (typically 12 months, but in some markets there's a strong preference for a particular month and so the lease will be written to end after less than 12 months. Typically uni towns where you really want to lease to end on August 31st regardless of when it started).

To clarify the 15th: paychecks typically also always arrive bimonthy and on fixed days. So, people would fail to budget for the 1st but would be able to cover rent when their second bimonthly paycheck hit their account. As a land owner extracting rent from folks, I think it's more than fair that they get a ~10 day interest fee loan as needed. And even if I were an asshole, it wouldn't be in my economic interest to do anything about those sorts of 10 day delays.

But I sort of suspect a lot of the folks who couldn't afford rent on the 1st of April 2020 won't be able to afford rent on the 15th of April 2020 either...
> your "waste" is pure helium

No. The cladding of fusion chamber is bombarded with neutrons and has to be replaced frequently, producing radioactive waste. This a drawback of all experimental designs today, AFAIK.
I've been a long time OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Linux user (I use Windows for mainly for work though). I've given up with the BSDs tbh. While I like that I can understand these systems. Linux is just easier to get things working on. There is just more information now out there for Linux as it is the defacto *nix out there. So it may well be that BSD has many technical merits, they tend not to be all that useful when you are trying to get stuff done.
> attempting to obtain jewelry hidden in a chair.

Is also the plot of the infamous eponymous Gaslight.
> Because it is very complicated in both terms of UI and mechanics

Yet every Github user is expected to generate a ssh keypair and copy/paste the public key when setting up the account.

> Most devs by now know not to do that with a password or API key, but it's the first thing people will do with private keys.

But they can handle submitting the ssh public key without any issue. Also, they most likely are not using online tools to generate their ssh key pair. I don't see why they would do that with openssl.
It's been said a million times- FreeBSD is an operating system, Linux is a kernel. ("GNU/Linux" is a strange beast- kernel+libc or what?). It's a tough direct comparison to make especially when you consider things like documentation (which FreeBSD is often cited as being exceptional)
"31% Can't Pay the Rent" != "31% Are Not Paying Rent"

"Can't" indicates they are unable, whereas I suspect at least some are taking advantage of the current situation [1]. Any situation where it's possible to take advantage, you can almost guarantee that people will.

This is not the way forwards - not paying rent will have a large knock-on effect for landlords (which, despite some sentiment, isn't necessarily the 1%). The US government needs to provide money if they are going to demand that people stay at home and not work.

Ultimately they either bring the economy to a screaming halt (entirely) or trickle money to those unable to work in order to keep things going. In my opinion stalling the economy is a bad idea - it can cost a lot of time and money to get it going again.

[1] https://news.yahoo.com/rent-strike-idea-gaining-steam-170345...
Residential rentals in the US are priced by the month and I've never seen one in which the rent was not due on the first of the month.
The Roman Empire’s Roads in Transit Map Form
> No one thinks of themselves as "country-simple"

Of course not. But this is a story of a small town government negotiating with a multibillion-dollar company. They kept negotiations secret. They didn’t seem to hire best-in-class bankers nor lawyers.

I understand the desperation. But stupid doesn’t become less stupid because it was dumb for the right reasons. Best case, they deluded themselves into believing they found a golden goose. That’s incompetent.
Those groups are also concentrated in places that have higher population density, hence more representatives. The only way to prove that districting produces fair and unbiased results is to have it happen in a fair and open fashion.
I gotta ask: what does this do that Evernote or Standard Notes doesn't do (aside from live in VS Code)?
huh, watchutalkinbout?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhyve
Equity residential collected 93% of rent for April 1.

The difference in tenants is real. Equity residential tenants are higher end rentals in big to midsized cities with strong economies.

http://investors.equityapartments.com/file/Index?KeyFile=403...
Heh...maybe less bold if you could have seen how terrible my productivity was before!

But sure, I'm happy to share. It's now next up on the article hopper. To be shared here and on my blog / gopher site soon.
Even using the No-Threshold model the numbers are tiny (130 globally). And as Wikipedia notes in the opening paragraphs the December 2012 UNSCEAR statement uses polite language to remind everyone that No-Threshold linear is a really stupid model.
Manufacturing isn't Republican. Labor leans left.
selectKeyword keyword = "select"

I don't work with Go, so this may be a requirement of the language that I don't know, but whenever I see lines like this, it automatically brings up the question why? --- do you really expect to need to rename the SELECT keyword? Especially when it's named "selectKeyword". Why not just use the string constant? Ditto for the others like "leftparenSymbol" --- I see there's explicit character constants in some of the other code too... it reminds me of the classic anti-pattern like "int five = 5;".

Also, you may find the full SQL grammars interesting to look through --- they are quite a bit more complex than the subset presented in the article: https://ronsavage.github.io/SQL/
In the server space that's true, Arm cores are proliferating. But Samsung shut their core group down and Qualcomm is moving that direction.
> If only every "country-simple" had a wise Californian

Or quite literally any banker or lawyer who has negotiated such deals before.

The person on the company’s side has done this dozens of times. The person negotiating for the city has not. At some point, that asymmetry should become apparent.
To expand a little:

Just a computer with a LOT of dvd drives. Add a few high capacity local ssd, harddisk and plenty of ram. Insert disk, optional full copy to local as cache, then server just reads. If it copied it auto-ejects.

Also got a tapes as a backup. Works similarly. Insert tape, it gets copied to the libraries local storage then ejected. We can also just use the tape without copying first.

Why optical for email? We can easily store them in a human accessible way. They're supermarket cheap. Quicker than tape as well. Everything on optical is also on tape with no exclusions.

Its a pity optical media hasn't reached the point where I can just go buy a pack of 1TB disks from the supermarket. I'm not holding my breath for Sony's Archival disks either.
It's already safer than almost all forms of electricity generation (and probably cheaper in bulk than solar and wind). However, it doesn't matter, because market forces favor small incremental additions, changes, and there is not enough inertia to properly do a 50+ plant megaproject.
Now is the time for landlords to prove their value.
The economy will be fine... the black plague had great economic outcomes as it always does when a whole bunch of people die. We should reopen the entire country tomorrow... no travel restrictions, open every border and see what happens.
Check out yabai for a great macOS tiling manager.
Except that in the 70's it would have been "Personnel Administration" (or more commonly "Personnel") rather than "HR".
The fact that the Docker port was allowed to die is a pretty good indicator of how little interest there is in using FreeBSD in the industry, particularly in cloud environments.
Hmm, I don’t follow the comparison. How could, for instance, the sun use “life” to generate more entropy than it already does?
Start by banning China (and any other country that doesn't allow US citizens to own land) from owning property in the US. Something tells me when you get rid of all the foreign profit lords, that property will be much more affordable in many areas.
Steve Blank oral history interview
Foxconn was the beneficiary of a risk hedge that Wisconsin paid for.
- 1Password password manager

- PDFill Free PDF Tools - indispensable for dealing with any bureaucratic tasks - cutting/rearranging pages, etc
That’s my bad, that quote from this Lancet article[0].

Is it a small change, though? That expert estimated 30k total deaths, which is almost half the American death toll in Vietnam, and where the US COVID will be around Wednesday or Thursday.

When you’re talking tens of thousands of deaths over a completely preventable nuclear accident, which by the way, has created a permanent exclusion zone that is deemed uninhabitable.

> like ladders

300 people die per year due to ladders in the US[1]. If you accept the Ukrainian expert’s estimation as at least plausible, then it would take 100 years for ladder deaths to equal his estimated Chernobyl death toll. All because one power-hungry chief engineer decided not to follow safety protocols, hardly seems like a fair comparison. One human was directly responsible for as many deaths that we’re comparing to 100 years worth of random ladder accidents? Regardless of the time-scale that is incredibly significant.

0: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

1: https://blog.ansi.org/2018/03/ladder-safety-priority-statist...
It's recursive-descent --- a pretty common and intuitive way to write a parser in general.
That's a hypervisor. It's not the same thing as Docker. Docker is more like jails.
Yes, some commits, but see:

https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale/issues/997
The biggest reason to do this in Go is to approximate enums. Now anywhere the `keyword` type is used, it must be one of the ones specified there (or you'd have to cast a string).

Yep, it would be a little harder to implement all of the SQL spec in a single post. Maybe over time though.
It's a little weird to not put some of these headliner features at the top of the list. Like ZFS (in-tree, on the default installer, without licensing issues or hostile team dynamics).

On the other hand there are things in this list which are just the FreeBSD equivalent of something Linux has in some form. The ports tree is good, and I like that you can customize options etc., and now pkg is pretty good, but are you really going to miss that if you have apt or similar?
Years of renting. I imagine it goes by state law but the grace period has always been three days. The 4th of the month is when the late fee would be tacked on.
It would appear canonical disagrees.
awesome, will have to try it when things get back to normal! ethiopian vege dishes are super-tasty. even my hard-core carnivore friends begrudgingly admit as much.
Second that. Cannot imagine living without Beyond Compare.
ZFS and EXT4 have different use cases.
Just going to leave this here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
I find some points... debatable. For example software:

> Normally when you install software on a Unix operating system you find and download the software.

According to the title, this is about choosing FreeBSD over Linux, not over Unix. That means the normal way to install is "<package_manager> install <package_name>". For the end user this is just like ports without having to compile anything. Once you don't have the package or the port available, you end up in the same situation: download the source and compile (which is more likely to work on Linux OOTB simply due to popularity).

> Poudriere is a utility for creating and testing FreeBSD packages. It utilize the FreeBSD jail system to set up isolated compilation environments.

In Debian-like systems you can use pbuilder in the same way. Each package is built in the same clean choot. I suspect RH has something similar?

> bhyve

They don't list anything technically better about bhyve. Why would I use this over xen or kvm?

> FreeBSD has three different firewalls built into the base system: PF, IPFW, and IPFILTER, also known as IPF.

Ok. Linux has iptables and now nftables/bpfilter. It's also got queuing, stateless and stateful features, protocol tracking, etc. CARP can be done in userland, or via other solutions like linux-ha/stonith. What are the reasons to choose FreeBSD here? (also, mentioning 3 firewalls after being excited about well-designed system that just comes together rather than being glued together from third-party software just sounds weird)

> BSD init

They haven't listed what's actually technically better about it than in systemd. (not subjectively)

> Jails

Jails as described in the article, have the same features as lxc. Lxd provides zfs-as-a-backing-store option as well.

> FreeBSD has over five hundred system variables that can be read and set using the sysctl utility.

Ok. On my Fedora system "sysctl -a | wc -l" gives 2093.

> For example, on top of the geom_mirror module an encryption module can be added, such as geom_eli to provide a mirrored and encrypted volume.

So how is it better than lvm with its layers dm-raid and dm-crypt?

I get that people are excited about FreeBSD and I'd love to learn what are the technically better sides of it. But this article really doesn't list that many.
Uber Eats
This is just blatantly false. The gerrymandering in Wisconsin was what was taken to the Supreme Court in the political gerrymandering case, precisely because it heavily favored Republicans.

The Supreme Court ruled against the plaintiffs (not surprisingly, 5-4 I might add), but in the grounds that the federal courts didn't have the power to intervene in cases of political gerrymandering, but no one really debated that the Wisconsin maps heavily favored Republicans over what a more normal, compact map would produce.
Maybe this will help people, maybe just make things worse, but for what it's worth, here's my $0.02: I read the first half (with an early tangent to wikipedia for "intuitionist math") feeling profoundly uncomfortable with the entire premise.

Then at the halfway mark, I realized that intuitionist math feels a lot like David Hume's approach to metaphysics and epistemology, which always felt right to me.

Intuitionist math still makes me feel uncomfortable, but now at least it also seems consistent with a framework of thought that doesn't. I'm not sure I've ever been quite so profoundly intellectually ambivalent.
Is this new? Or are there some new features? When I was writing Clojure a few years ago I thought that Luminus was the name of the framework of choice then.
There are a couple of talks associated with this post and paper.

Virtual Machine Warmup Blows Hot and Cold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgCHAU8ZB00

Why Aren't More Users More Happy With Our VMs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmrzOkEM9fc
FWIW, we (replicache.dev) have begun working on it again. We're part of the original team that built Noms.

Unclear what the roadmap for Noms will be yet, which is why we've not updated the README.
I'm sure that people freely choosing to give landlords hundreds and even thousands of dollars monthly has already proven their worth.
Best is subjective, but my current go-to is:

```

$ brew tap d12frosted/emacs-plus

$ brew install emacs-plus [options]

```

Cf. https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus