skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One alternative would be to attempt to select an analyzable structure which you could show through analysis should have good randomness properties. Potentially add a limited number of tweaks or parameters with the aid of just one or two general statistical tests (and perhaps a collection of pants-on-head stupid tests just to avoid wasting time on stuff that is utterly broken).

After that, you try with the complete suite and unless the result reaches a predetermined passing criteria you declare the design as flawed and go back to step 1 rather than continuing to tweak (as the result of continued tweaking will inevitably be a pass even if the design is poor).

Unfortunately, high performance and even 'good random-like behavior' may be at odds with having a construct which is transparent enough to be able to justify its performance from analysis rather than running it. :(
Remote Brainstorming for Regular Humans
A few days ago, Scaleway sent this in a mail to all customers:

> Dear customer,
> As of December 1 st, 2020, our C2 and ARM64 Instances will reach their end-of-life. The physical servers hosting them are indeed randomly affected by several stability issues, which prevent us from fully guaranteeing the overall quality of service. Rest assured, however, that we are committed to guiding you in your migration and provide you with the best matching resources for improved stability, performance and reliability.

> Starting from April 14th, 2020, it is no longer possible to create new C2 and ARM64 Instances. In addition, their support will end on July 1st, 2020. As a result, our technical assistance will no longer address issues related to those instances. A price increase is also to be expected on July 1st, 2020. Lastly, C2 and ARM64 Instances will be completely deprovisioned as of December 1st, 2020.
>
> As a reminder, C2 and ARM64 instances include:
C2S, C2M, C2L
ARM64-2G, ARM64-4G, ARM64-8G, ARM64-16G, ARM64-32G, ARM64-64G, ARM64-128G

> You will find below our recommandations to migrate to both our Virtual Instances or our Bare Metal cloud servers.

> [...]

They don't explain it further; but I used several ARM64 instances and they mostly worked. The main issue I had is that they sometimes took hours to stop, which meant they were stuck in a state where you couldn't access the data or free any resource related to the instance.
Life Without Children
I've been running a TOR node on their ARM server for over a year and it has been stable from the beginning. On average I'm pushing 22.89TiB a month[0]

[0] https://i.imgur.com/rXWYvYa.png
Spreading a deadly virus causes damage to others.

I'm gonna suggest that normal functioning of our normal system of government might be something we all just have to live with for now. If folks want to argue that we live in a monarchy, I think the place to start is to bring a little bit of civics to the table and explain why they think that idea is plausible.
> Three groups of fibres were separated and twisted clockwise in an "S-twist". Once twisted, the strands were twined anti-clockwise in "Z-twist" to form a cord.

And hardly could they imagine the academic language used in analysing their handy work.
For me it worked better than Windows for the Bioshock remastered series. On Win 10 the games would crash every few times during saving. I tried every workaround I could find but nothing helped. On Ubuntu the games worked fine.
ARM servers aren't much cheaper and you deal with extra stuff. I'm sure they have their use cases, but as a typical VPS user I don't see the point.
> Of course it’s better to have the latter

All other things being equal.
Don’t you think an audiophile is going to claim that they can tell between cables but might not believe anybody can tell wines apart?
The Quest for the Perfect Dark Mode (Gatsby/React)
Not 'China' but the central government.

Obviously they are using the incorrect terms on purpose every time...
Linux Network Namespaces – Scott's Weblog
Your employer shouldn't expect you to be available on your phone via Skype/Slack. Gmail I guess it's ok, as long as it is the employee's choice when to check it or not.

In my case the very urgent messages which needed to be done right at that moment (or at the first moment when I got the chance to be in front of a computer screen) have been sent either through SMS or via direct social app messaging (we're a small shop, we all know each other). I've had only a handful of such messages in 10 years of us working together.
I'm located in Switzerland, do my own acquisition and I have long-standing, stable cooperations with companies where I am known and trusted. I also regularly receive requests from recruiters where I am in the database; this usually happens the same way; their clients (in Switzerland and Germany) are very interested until the moment they realize that I am not interested in working physically on site with them (in addition I appear too expensive for most German clients). This is not a problem for me because I am established and can afford it. But for the younger ones, who have to build their business relationships first, the aforementioned mentality of the clients makes it very difficult to work in this way. The argument that you work three to ten times as efficiently as any local employee in an open-plan office and that this makes the project cheaper, even though the hourly rate is higher (just to name a few advantages), is something that hardly anyone who doesn't know you wants to hear.
Alibaba’s Covid-19 Crisis Response Is in the Cloud
Start learning a musical instrument. This will give you something for the soul and heart to look forward to. Especially because developing is exclusively a mind activity and also because playing music activates and connects both sides of the brain.
We had something like this inside of the house. From the cellar to slightly above the floor so the cad door could be installed in a way totally unvisible from outside. The cat could duck under the outer skirt of the house and use the door and then the inside infrastructure to go eat and do private buissness.
Some comments in there didn't age well:

"""
You have no idea of the space that you are taking up with those things. You have no respect for your fellow humans. I hate you. And I don't want to live in this world with you.
"""

Nowadays an umbrella might be seen as a useful tool to mark distance keeping area ...
> Public school definitely didn't help, we learned absolutely nothing about their culture despite maybe a quarter of my class being native kids.

The one thing that always grated me when learning history in school is how utterly Eurocentric it was. Early anthropology was focused on explaining how "we" (principally Victorian Britain) became so great, and looked at the world through a lens of a checklist of how evolved they were--and people who couldn't smelt bronze were not seen as far advanced, since that's one of the first items in the list. While this view has been thoroughly discredited within the field of anthropology itself, it still lives on in popular writings and (sadly) our history textbooks.

Which is a shame, because the more you study pre-Columbian Americas, the more amazing you find it is. There's plenty to challenge your preconceived notions of history.
Well, I'd argue Covid-19 isn't supposed to infect us at all. I certainly didn't consent to Covid-19 coming into my body.

And handwashing frequently is supposed to stop Covid-19 dead in its tracks. That's what our leaders told us.

I think it's reasonable to say we don't understand Covid-19 completely, and that the information we do receive is often filtered. So for now, I am taking basic precautions against all-of-the-above, until we have hard data to the contrary: contact, large droplets, and aerosol.
They defently are there, even if you can't see them always. The one my grandaunt had was in the back of the house not visible from the street.

And this is around Winkelriedstrasse, so pretty very much in the city proper.
Further, if you price cap a CEO companies will just make a new position. If you price cap all employees, companies will just make multiple companies and have the leader work multiple jobs. People love to complain about loopholes, but it's feel good legislation ideas like this that empower the people willing to manipulate the system in the first place. If your legislation allows the manipulators to make the most money, you're effectively saying that's what you value the most in society.
It's unclear to me why you think this article is exculpatory.
It's only efficient as a way to funnel taxpayer money into stockholders' pockets. "Privatizing" a service but continuing to pick winners and subsidize them isn't really privatizing and isn't compatible with a real free market. It's literally a kind of command economy, albeit one designed to benefit only a few.
This is a sidetrack, but is “wel” like “do”, as per the examples on Wiktionary? Or simply like the English word “well”?
That’s not what the article says. The article says that consumers are overreacting, but that SSDs can and do lose their data with loss of power and/or heat.
Honestly it sounds like the team is treating you like a "second-class citizen." It seems 100% unreasonable for you to have to attend 3:30am meetings ever let alone twice a month. You need to be able to have a somewhat normal sleep-schedule in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle and to continue to be a productive member of the team and of society. Personally I think you need to re-set some expectations - you're just as much a part of the team as everyone else. Sure you may need to work 1-3 hours outside of "9-5" time to meet in the middle, but so do they. (Unless of course you really like the swing-shift, in which case you need make those hours very consistent and very public.)

My team had 2 remote people who were treated like that for a few months, but they quickly realized it wasn't fair or sustainable and pushed back. So our team-wide meetings got bumped to 9am, and we got good at making decisions that they cared about while they were online. Or we queued up things for them to respond to the following day. It's not as easy as being able to tap someone on the shoulder, but nothing is right now with everyone WFH. Everybody needs to grow up and treat each other with a bit more respect. (/rant but not really)
> may have become an issue because I grew up in a high pressure environment, where a lot is expected from you

Interestingly, some of the most successful people I've encountered seemed to be operating out of expectation from various people - family, peers etc. I guess different people react differently. And there's also the question of happiness. I knew a shit hot young lawyer who, having worked extremely hard non-stop from her early teens to her late twenties decided all she really wanted to do was live in the home counties and have children, rather than sacrifice pretty much every waking hour in exchange for >£100k pa.
You should consider making a short article instead. No one will watch 30 minutes.
Have a look at Pari/GP
Analog cable was superior for channel surfing. No digital buffering meant you could change channels instantly to surf back and forth like changing between browser tabs.
Typically one of the main arguments against pre-built machines are that you can build a similarly specced machine for less. But the time and effort it takes to do so may not be practical for every situation, so really you're paying more to have something up and running much faster and (ideally) without the headaches of troubleshooting hardware. Plus, I agree that a lot of the components one would buy to build a similar setup are covered in XTREME GAMER RGB aesthetics and is really unpleasant to me. It can be difficult to find a high performance laptop that doesn't look like this, especially if you need a nice GPU in it. I'm saying all of this because I don't think some hardcore build-a-PC people truly understand the business/general value of (good, not cheap) pre-built machines. When one needs a performant machine asap to work when, say, they're existing machine suddenly dies, they do not have the time to assemble a PC usually.

Why do you think that Corsair will be difficult to upgrade? Genuinely curious, maybe the size of the case will impose limitations? Looks like there's only two RAM slots (ITX board?) so that might also be an upgrade issue?
Circumvention of DRM is illegal or at least very much frowned-upon in many jurisdictions, while research on how to produce better DRM is not.

Framing it as "we broke DRM, isn't that great?" would be like framing a paper about a more effective silencer as "we made it easier to get away with murder, isn't that great?" (when instead it could be about "we made our special forces' jobs safer").

Plus, research papers in technical fields should try to be neutral, not a place for political activism.
My jaw dropped as soon as I saw this submission. As a Christian who has recently gotten into crypto, I thought it might be Ripple / XRP that would fullfil this prophesy.

It looks like it will be Microsoft. Feeling some serious chills!
It makes me sad that your comment was downvoted. HN needs more fun.
When "researching cannabis", using just pure thc may not be optimal because cbd, cbn, and other chemicals produce a different kind of high and, if I recall correctly, especially cbd counters some of the most negative effects of thc, etc.

Similarily, people might be worrying about oversimplifying mushrooms to just psilocybin because mushrooms have more than one chemical in them and they might work in a synergistic way as well.
Google, who is frequently criticised for killing projects, guarantees cloud services for at least one year from the announcement of deprecation, and typically gives much longer.

Scaleway gave zero notice of the removal of the ability to start ARM64 instances. That means if you had a CI pipeline or automated system which started those instances, it just broke on you. Hope your clients don't mind random downtime!

You're going to have to port all your code to x64 or another cloud provider to restore service. That could take weeks. Weeks of downtime!

Don't touch Scaleway, ever, especially if you want an SLA.
Using sudo to delegate permissions in Linux
I don't like screen readers, but I liked teaching applications to speak themselves based on text commands. I like to combine this with a braille reader and use both in different contexts. For example, a braille reader is more unambiguous with punctuation, capitalization, etc, but speech synthesis is necessary to catch my attention for a notification from a non-active application, and is more comfortable for reading natural language. It's worth reiterating, though, that I don't need these tools (yet), so people who depend on them daily may have a different opinion.

Braille is easy, I could read it reasonably well with just a couple of days of study.
I initially thought this was about the carnival celebration in Gangelt, Germany.

https://www.news18.com/news/world/in-german-town-of-gangelt-...
I did buy an iPad 2 back when it was current. I needed something like a tablet for an extended trip where a laptop would have been too much to carry around and the only real competition at the time was the disappointing Motorola Xoom so I bought an iPad.

I ended up "jailbreaking" it because there were just so many things I wanted it to do that weren't possible with the stock OS and approved applications (adblocking, better keyboard layout, file system access, and mouse support among other things). Many of these have eventually been implemented to some extent or another, but at the time they were unavailable via the App Store but easily done via the Cydia store.

Since then, the iPad 2 aged out of usefulness and my need for a tablet has mostly dried up. Likewise, options for other higher-powered, well built, and lightweight laptops/tablets have expanded so I've not purchased any more Apple stuff for the reasons you point out. I basically "jailbroke" because it was the only way to get my device to do what I wanted it to do. Now that they exist, I just use other devices that don't require me to jump through those hoops.

Still, I wish there was a way to install some sort of lightweight OS on that iPad 2 (which is now sitting in a box somewhere).
How about the C1s? I've been happily paying $3/mo for a C1 instance to host my personal stuff since 2015, and don't need to upgrade. Will they remain around?
Your sibling comment said a yield of 600mg/L, and that a 30mg dose has psychoactive effects. Seems like that works out to 20 doses/L, which is a better yield than beer!
The microscope was a tool for observing a new layer of objective, real, reproducible phenomenon within a previously inaccessible layer of our universe. Now, considering the conversation we're having, feel free to take "objective and real" with a grain of salt, but what I mean is that they are internally consistent, verifiable, reproducible, etc.

Psychedelics have so far proven to be capable of temporarily rewiring our already highly flawed, subjective consciousness computers, in ways that can be potentially useful, but mostly seem to produce epiphanies that are rooted entirely in subjectivity, entirely fabricated. I don't really care at all if you had an experience that told you that all life existed on a 4 dimensional tetrahedron rotating through time. I do care, though, if you saw some behavior in a bacteria through a microscope which other people can observe and similarly draw their own judgements from.

That doesn't mean that I don't think that already intelligent people can't benefit from an occasional new perspective, potentially brought about by psychedelics in the same way that it could be brought on by a move to a new country, or a walk outside, but that doesn't mean that I think that psychedelics are the gateway to an entire frontier on consciousness.
How much does that cos? The post office is cheap for a lightweight letter (and I can use a stamp from home), but if I use FedEx I generally have to go to their local shop and pay a few dollars
Joint Statement from 300 scientists on private-by-design Contact Tracing
A new study proposes to prioritize the treatment of myopia with economic reasons
The report appears to be limited to those residing in the USA, UK, Canada and Australia. This is stated nowhere in the survey methodology.
Love to hear any more commentary about the pros and cons of this approach? I assume the main reasoning is that it’s easier to make a link?

The nice thing about the `[File](file.md)` method is that it’s markdown native, e.g., you can follow them in GitHub, if you have a way to render file URLs HTML, you’re links will just work in the browser too, and many txt editors can follow them by default.
> Programming is mostly a mental job (no pun intended)

I'm drawing a blank. What's the pun here?
This article really helped me realise what's behind my procrastination habits. It's not about time management, or self control, but managing emotions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/smarter-living/why-you-pr...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19482238
Sadly if you are into VR the only real viable OS right now is Windows...
Bondholders Reject Argentina’s Debt Restructuring Proposal
Looking at the graphs shows a whole other story though. South korea is on the way down for weeks now, the US are still on the way up. (active cases)

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-kore...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
my c64 is sitting right next to me, and i think i'll play with this after work. thanks!
Like I said, nothing the ACLU has done or said since then has shown this is narrowly limited to Charollettesville. I highly doubt they would do Spokane today.

I followed their work for years and supported them for a long time. I'm saddened to see them shift in this direction.
> There seem to be a specific cluster of personality traits found frequently in hallucinogen users.

Upon what specific past information consumption activities, and in what quantities, do you base this claim (and others)?

I pose this question literally, not rhetorically. You've exhibited significant self-confidence and strong judgement of others, it seems fair that you are held to the same standard.

I have a feeling you have less knowledge in this domain than you think.
Secure the software development lifecycle with machine learning
Call to Suspend Lottery Gambling
So did china.
Excerpts from his letters were also set to music by Michael Nyman for a film project: for example, "O My Dear Papa": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN1xc0wqeBg

Though the piece I like best from that film is "Profit & Loss", which has invented lyrics based on Mozart's finances & his father's imagined reaction to them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9Ts9GoBv1s
Living 2 miles away from a virtually empty hospital in the middle of nowhere = living under a rock. Here where there's a dense population, every hospital IS overrun and if they are not past capacity, it's literally because they turn you away unless you need severe intervention like intubation.
I use PopClip[0] (recommended above). One of the extensions you can download sends whatever you've selected to Google Translate. Don't need it often, but it's fantastic when I do.

0: https://pilotmoon.com/popclip/
Even with the aid of sight, I don't read an entire codebase at once. I follow the logic, a few lines at a time, as it moves through the parts I'm interested in. I use grep to find the things I ought to read. With this approach, I build a mental model of the codebase quickly, with lots of blanks - but with detail in the areas I'm focusing on.

As for how to actually rig up braille readers on Linux, check out BRLTTY. It's pretty straightforward. I was working on an Alpine Linux spin which was more accessible out of the box, but I got discouraged by various circumstances and shelved it.
I’ve always seen the primary utility of ARM being in devices attached to a battery. In a data center the costs of changing probably trounce whatever power savings may be available.
PopClip is fantastic... all kinds of useful extensions for it you can download.
Berkshire Hathaway Is Down
You’re absolutely right. It’s important to remember that we’re in a panic right now and we won’t necessarily make the best decisions. I just read a book about the Salem witch trials and the Spanish Inquisition (poor timing I guess) but I feel extra scared right now.
Jersey City mass production of 3D printed face shields
Does Anonymity Encourage Telling the Truth?
I working on a case study and need some info. Question: How many of you would tell the complete truth about yourself or be completely vulnerable if you identity was 100% hidden? If not, what information would you not disclose?
The BBC didn't exactly cover themselves in glory on this one either: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-51470603
The article is being published by a "reputable" online news source. Regardless of whether or not it is truthful, if you saw a CNN article saying it was still safe to cruise, wouldn't you think about it?
I'm US East Coast (effectively, though not formally, remote) and the company--while pretty distributed--tends to be centered on the East Coast timezone. We don't have a lot of people on the West Coast so we mostly schedule morning meetings when we need people in Europe to participate, where we do have a lot of people.

APAC? it's tough. They're on a lot of late night calls though we make do as we have to. (And again, tend to have fairly early AM meetings ET (or late afternoon/evening) if Asia needs to participate.) I'm not in engineering but my guess is that there's a lot less real-time collaboration than with engineering offices/remotes in the US and Europe. One standing meeting I'm in, we alternative between late in the (business) day and early in the (business) day ET.
A lot of the decisions humans make aren't reasonable, as in there is no reason behind them, they are emotional.
> As a reminder, C2 and ARM64 instances include: C2S, C2M, C2L ARM64-2G, ARM64-4G, ARM64-8G, ARM64-16G, ARM64-32G, ARM64-64G, ARM64-128G

Looks like you're fine.
Hey, let's leave hair color out of this.