skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a veterinarian too. It's ridiculous how stitches are so impossible to have access to (at least where I live). Last time I had a coworker fix me up after a bicycle fall (was on the elbow sadly, could hardly do it solo), not because of cost where I live, gladly, but because a MD can't stitch me, so it's either the emergency department, or MD and then only referal (so yet another appointment and all the trouble that is) to a surgeon.

I mean I get it, wounds can turn (really) bad, but other people than MDs (like nurses, or pharmacists were even discussed for this in France) should be able to do them, and give a follow up appointment to some MD / nurse a few days later to check if recovery is going well. Only time tells how the healing goes anyways.
> You can be exposed to them, but without understanding them, and experiencing both good, bad, and really bad 'solutions' to them, and understand the impact (on the business, on the code, on security, on maintainability, etc)... you just can't really get all that in 2 years.

I don't think this is about becoming expert. This is about learning at least very basics in multiple areas so that you are not completely clueless and know issues exist. When you redefine requirements to "2 years active learning worth of knowledge", you moved goalpost quite far.

> I've been doing this for a bit over 25 years, professionally now, and... there's a lot I don't 'get' with current stuff. But I've seen and lived enough projects, in enough different situations, to have a good idea of impact of tech decisions, and to understand how to make tradeoff decisions.

This is being senior.
Watch: Fake Elon Musk Zoom-bombs meeting using real-time Deepfake AI
I guess front-end development is the obvious one. The Node.js version on Debian Buster is 10.15.2~dfsg-2, while you have 12.16.2 on the official NodeJS website.

To be fair, OP mentioned that the official packages were often useless, not the distribution as a whole (you can often install custom packages / binaries, although it's not nice).
It's a common practice in the Ubuntu's world to create a new distro just to change the DE: Kubuntu (KDE), Xubuntu (Xfce I think) , ... and now UbuntuDDE. It's even encouraged by Ubuntu's maintainers iirc.
I got somewhere they can unload. My mother in law is paying 0.68 a gal for fuel in Michigan right now meanwhile here in California I’m still sucking down the crud 91 octane for over $3 a gallon.
Signal desktop is not a video-chat application (at least on macOS, it's asynchronous messaging only)
We're really good at scaling and getting more performance per watt but it seems like our performance per transistor is essentially stagnant. Is this an area where we could focus development as silicon shrinking dies?
> So, yes, a $400 iPhone SE bests a $3,000 top-of-the-line MacBook Pro in single-core CPU performance.

Lies, damn lies and benchmarks? I don't believe that for a second.
It was worse than just focusing on test scores.

It was actively hammering me down to average level as that was easier for her to work with.

I had misforntne to meet her later on in middle school - as she was chemistry, not math, teacher by education. Whole class had failing or almost failing grade with her.

We got better teacher next year who managed to teach us 2 years of chemistry in half a year while also following normal curriculum .. and most of the class actually understood it and had fun with it.

I seriously wonder how many children have been permanently hurt by someone so inept, but well - she was a product of her times(communist occupation).
But there's a difference between recording and publishing. We know that everyone is recording, but publishing the logs isn't as common and can be surprising.
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> Is there reason to think that people in the past were more selfless and less economically motivated?

They were certainly less consumerist and didn't have the constant onslaught of advertising telling them to buy shiny new things. They were far more self reliant and able to repair things for themselves, which tends to constantly breeds it's own innovations. Lots of little tricks and custom devices tend to crop up (over engineering isn't just for programmers) yet very few will get commercialize, at best they'll be passed along to future generations but many will get lost.

> 'd wager that throughout history, most great ideas and optimizations came from people who were either seeking profit or other kinds of status

I'd wager most were out of necessity and/or laziness and most died out or were replaced by newer technology. Swords, scythes and shoes didn't have single inventors, they had generations of hackers tweaking them.
Photo Ark – An effort to document every species living in zoos and sanctuaries
20x-100x underestimation seems like fairy-tale land. Even 3x underestimation is hard for me to believe, but 100x ??? That would mean 84M Americans have it, and that is _very_ hard to believe.
Wouldn't be the first developer to just SELECT * with a thousand joins and then sort data in app(!).
Personally, I like Ubuntu Mate. But hey, I just want functional with a ui that doesn't hide nice things like open terminal here, and the address bar, etc.
These are private companies, other competitors have stepped up that are willing to take on a certain level of risk -- no need to get the government involved. People didn't stop making video games because of "moral" activists like Jack Thompson. Anime is a global industry for Japan, much like K-Pop is for Korea; however, I'm willing to bet that far more than just anime creators (to say nothing of their respective fan bases) have been alienated by Patreon's policies. One of my favorite creators, Louis Rossmann, is pretty vocal about being against Patreon's moral policing. I don't even watch anime, but if you don't see anything wrong with Patreon's business strategy, you can at least observe how the market is reacting to it (i.e. badly enough that they need to cut some of their top senior engineers, even though their business model practically prints money in a scalable way -- a rarity in the SoftBank tech bubble -- and the industry they are in is one of the LEAST affected by the coronavirus pandemic).
Aren't there some of the same "wellbeing" issues with the prolonged or ergonomically wrong use of a mobile phone too? Neck, fingers, eyes?
Yes, that's right, thanks for your elaboration.
Isn't Banksy the epitome of this type of artist?

His work is highly sought out because he is as elusive as a public artist can be, giving him an allure and a sense of mystique. Whereas his predecessors were often starving artists, who often fall victim to alcohol/drug abuse, whose work is seldom appreciated until they die. Lest they 'made it' and were ordained by Church or State, that is.

I'd say beyond just artistic freedom, it also seems to give them a monetary incentive to operate this way.

I don't know enough about the Art World to comment on the works themselves, but given the amount of talent seen on just deviant art since its inception, I hope most follow this model and we can see more artists get recognized for their work.

This does remind me of a series I saw that was quite moving on the BBC that I wish they'd reboot on modern artists, its called the Power of Art:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QwQ2kUQDnY

Sidenote: That's my favorite episode (Jacques-Louis David) of the series, and its worth the entire watch: but @41:14 onward it shows what Art and Artists is often reduced to when control rests in the hands of the aforementioned 'dignitaries.'
Lots of people having fingers and neck pain due to phone usage. I see lots of bad posture as well
Who would want to go out and face the invisible opponent?
I wrote my little consistency checker (https://github.com/jwr/ccheck) specifically for checking my image archives against corruption. I am appalled that in this day and age we still (mostly) use tools and filesystems that have no way of knowing if data has been corrupted.

Before I wrote the tool, I searched online and couldn't find anything that would be small, simple, easily maintained, and would last for at least 10 years.

I now use it with all my archives, which means I know if a given replica is correct.
This post 'gonna cost me, but what you write is endogenous to the FHS making little sense to most people who don't have a unix background.

"Where ARE my programs / settings that I installed, I always have to google it!"

is interrelated with someone else asking

"Where should I PUT this program / setting / data? I guess I'll chose one of those three or so locations where it may fit, or several"

For example: Why isn't there a data directory to be found? Where does the data go?
Why not replace nondescript and unhelpful names like "opt" and "usr" (which is btw. not where the user data is!)?
Math practice http://arcadejack.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22949580
A lot of the pre-post-lockdown talk by politicians will have a way of vaporizing post-lockdown.
This is bottom of the barrel content even for inbound marketing pieces.
I ended up on Amazon adding "A machine made this book" to my shopping list.
* I think the right when you look at the screen.

* I hope so! I use bluetooth mouse and keyboard, and have had similar issue on my MBP 2019 (the latest one). The issues only seem to crop up when I'm at my desk, with the power plugged in on the left side, and the USB-C hub (for external drives and monitor) on the right side. I now have a tiny bit of hope that swapping power and hub might fix these issues.
"hasn't been slowing me down" --> would it slow a new developer who approaches the code base? or 30-100 people who work on the codebase?
Coal backup is incompatible with renewables. The coal plants clog the grid and prevent the usage of renewables. If you had said gas then those same gas plants could be used to convert hydrogen back into electricity.
Funny you mention HTTPS certificates because there's a blockchain-based protocol that's trying to create a decentralized certificate authority. It basically aims to shift the root of trust from CAs to the blockchain https://handshake.org
I wholeheartedly agree. Even though I pretty much hate everything Mac, I'm also thinking of switching.

MS has lost its vision for years. Their "innovation" is just some idiot coming up with a completely stupid idea, and convincing their even more idiotic bosses it's cool, investing a lot of time and money, at some point semi-realizing it's crap, and then being ambivalent for years.

Case in point - WinRT - they pretty much rewrote the whole OS, re-invented everything, forcing us, the developers to use their s*it, everyone hates it, it brings no benefits whatsoever, it's waaay worse than non-WinRT code, and even now - after 9 years -, knowing everyone hates it, they're still re-wrapping it and saying it's "amazing".

They're launching an android phone - which is BEYOND STUPID. They're rewriting Edge using Chromium, instead of using Mozilla's code (basically, putting us a Google's mercy).

Then, they're building this Windows10X OS just to deal 2 foldable screens, something time and time again people have shown they're not that keen about it. They're willing to risk losing Windows 10 OS developers, since they're changing APIs, introducing countless bugs, just to deal with foldable screens (something that may or may not catch on).

The list could go on.
First, I am not the one who downvoted you. My reply was more about giving an anecdote countering yours, than being a nationalist.

About France remembering its history, it's true that for a long time some things were hidden, but in 1995 (I think) the then President Jacques Chirac said that France should own the crimes commited by the Vichy government.

I am not saying that every bad deed done by France is not hidden somewhere, but some efforts were made by the French to reconcile with their history.
I agree. I wear a mask and wish others would.
Towing a magnetic field generator behind a boat or aircraft is a common minesweeping technique. The generator is usually mounted on a floating 'sled' to maximise depth capability, but aircraft-mounted degaussing coils were used in minesweeping by the British in WWII.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeping
And neither can be used as a compilation target for, say, Firefox, (or simpler, nethack) can they ?
the real question is why we need that performance in your phone? I'm honestly asking, because with every flagship phone (no mater the brand) there is the hype about performance (X's processor is 2x quicker than Y) and it always makes me think. I don't think that in the last 10 years I ever had thought "I wish my phones CPU had higher clock speed"...
So the "old people" are the bad guys for you, hmm.

Then again, it's mostly "old people" who are discriminated against when it comes to hiring.
Choosing the perfect name badge printer
You shouldn't need to turn it off, it feels like a knockoff of a real button, like a fake designer bag. Don't know what was wrong with a regular button that presses.
Fully referenced facts about Covid-19, provided by experts in the field
This is a remix, not a distribution. Nothing more than Ubuntu with a pre-installed desktop environment. Remixes give users the same benefits installing yourself provide. But they do so while keeping the oobe that makes distros like Ubuntu intuitive and competitive.

I do agree the Linux distro ecosystem is a scattered mess. And that negative diversity of incompatible package managers and display systems goes against the standardizations that made POSIX dominant to begin with.

When I look at Elementary"OS", I see a branding built on the foundation of what could simply be Ubuntu Pantheon Remix.

The idea that these hundreds of mini distros is what caused desktop Linux to fail isn't true though. These projects are nothing more than the IT equivalent of your friend's mix tape. Or your girlfriend's slightly modified Martha Stewart recipe she boasts as her own.
But the article was about a flag that you were not setting because you might not know it existed.

The logical conclusion of your argument is to ditch command line tools altogether and use graphical tools; at least then you can exhaustively review every checkbox and dropdown etc. before you click "go". Which is ironic, because from the tone of your comment I suspect you're actually a strong adherent to command line tools.
I’m a fan of static types don’t get me wrong, I’m just saying with guards and dialyser it’s 60% of the way there compared to nothing. Also I don’t seem to make to class of errors I do in other languages because 90% of this time passing the wrong thing breaks immediately due to pattern matching.
Public healthcare in general, not necessarily single payer. Most of Europe is not on single payer, but they are doing fine on costs.
Growing up in a former eastern block country, this bring memories.

I went to high school in '90s and was assign in an intensive CS class. At the beginning, most of learning were done using pen and paper, writing pseudocode and also Pascal and C. Me and most of my peers were poor enough to not have a computer home, and the school only had ZX Spectrum clones running Basic. However, the school got some used 386 and 486 next years, so we got to use "the real deal". In my last year, my parents also got enough money to buy me an used 486 SLC - which got intense use since I also had Borland C++ compiler and a C++ for dummies book. I did my final project for CS in Borland C++ on that PC. It was a DOS based MS Paint clone.

Before that, I owned a ZX Spectrum clone when I was in secondary school, and while I did some programming, most of it was written on paper first and typed on Spectrum later. I compiled and debugged "in the brain" because I couldn't save programs and if a program halted, I had to reboot the thing wasting all I have written. A guy my father knew hacked a cassette player to help me load programs and games, but sadly it didn't work to save anything.

Even now, I sometimes like to draw diagrams, sketch code flow and write bits of pseudocode on paper before I start coding something, if I feel I need to clarify the idea.
What are the difficulties in making this into a worm and infecting billions of iOS devices?

It seems we have had a few 0-day iOS vulnerabilities lately but so far no one has cared enough to build something really malicious. I understand Apple has patched them quickly but updates take still a week or two to get on all devices.
Let me clarify. You can follow a scientific approach, and you can follow Science the ritual. When uncertainty goes up and time is of the essence, the latter is to a large degree subjected to the limitations and blind spots I highlighted. The former might not, if you adapt it to the current limitations.

I am a scientist, by the way.

What I mean by strong leadership is an intelligent leader that can quickly review evidence from multiple disparate fields and experts (scientists among them) and choose a good approach that takes all available constraints and uncertainties into account. The way a skilled military commander would do.

In particular, such a leader does not focus exclusively on a single metric or concern, unless this is warranted by the situation. But that would be an exceptional circumstance in an exceptional situation.

You may think that the focus on reducing death rates is focusing on a single metric to the exclusion of everything else, but this is not the case. There are plenty of exceptions to this rule being made in every country with a lockdown. Critical infrastructure, economics, mental health, healthcare that's unrelated to Covid19 and so on.
Yeah I have a bit. I'm on their Agile energy with half hour pricing intervals (this is what the smart meter standards give).

It's really cool. Sometimes the price goes below zero - "plunge pricing" - if there is too much production and too little use. They give you the pricing info for today and tomorrow ahead of time, not sure how they predict future pricing - probably based on weather forecasts, since they only use solar and wind?

I have WiFi smart sockets on things like electric heaters to turn them on when electricity price is below my threshold level. It's a nice feeling being paid for using electricity. If you have an electric car you could also programmatically only charge it when electricity price is below a certain level. Octopus also have an EV leasing company, thinking of selling my current car and leasing one from them after covid19 is gone to a degree that I still need a car again.

Here are their dev docs:

https://developer.octopus.energy/docs/api/

They even have an open graphQL API and a storybook - how many utility companies you know who do this? Looks like Octopus hired the right people!

https://api.octopus.energy/v1/graphql/

https://octopus.energy/static/common/storybook/account-manag...
Sure, but it doesn't always work :(

I had the misfortune of blowing out my right knee and acquiring a chlamydia infection ~simultaneously. And then developed acute rheumatoid arthritis. Which has progressed, albeit slowly, ever since.

So it goes.
If the use of /data is the reason why you're not using this software, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't find any use of it if it stored data someplace in /var either.

Personally, I think the FHS is stupid marketing wankery that barely made sense in 1995 when the "preciousness" of the root partition was relevant, and has in the annals of time, caused more problems than it ever could have solved. Hey, what's the path to python? Is it:

/usr/bin/python
/usr/bin/python2
/usr/bin/python3
/usr/local/bin/python
/usr/local/bin/python2
/usr/local/bin/python3
/usr/local/bin/python2.7
/usr/local/bin/python3.7

This is perhaps the only question I need a "standard" to solve, and I've given up[†]. I don't need to know mail is "sometimes" in /var and sometimes in /var/local. I don't need to know that some of my configuration files are in /etc and others are in /usr/local/etc whilst still others are in /lib someplace. Where are my libraries? maybe /lib, /usr/lib /usr/local/lib /usr/lib64 /usr/local/lib64 and who knows where else. Fuck it, I'll just use find /.

I saw this great quote recently -- I know it was about something else, but I still wish Dan and the other FSSTND/FHS people could have seen and understood it all those years ago:

I suppose people blindly following suggestions on the Internet will eventually learn a hard lesson -- don't.

Because that is what the FHS was: A bunch of suggestions on a mailing list, with a smattering of armchair philosophy lacking any real analysis. But I mean, that's just my opinion. What if I'm wrong? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[†]: The answer is whatever /usr/bin/env python says.
This is what I believe to be the case too - so-called "passive immunity" gained by just having their mother's antibodies from either breastfeeding or even earlier via the placenta (at least for humans - as I understand it not all mammals do it via the placenta?). Eventually I think this protection wears off, but can be topped up with further breastfeeding, or eventually the baby starts to generate their own antibodies
Indian analytics industry will rebound from recession better than contemporaries
Let's hope that they have it be designed by actually experienced road designers, and/or people who commute by bike. So much a French bike infra is so clearly build by people who never use it. Turns too sharp, cycle lanes next to parking strips (French motorists don't check where they swing their doors), lanes that end a busy intersections (creating intersection arenas), places where you need them the most...

I'm from the Netherlands and I see there's a serious effort in France, but before they build anymore they really need to get some experience into the design. Much of the infra barely helps having a safe and comfortable commute like we have back home.
I haven't heard of that one, but I have heard of simpler tricks like re-tuning one string so the third of certain barre chords comes out right. There's always a bit of a trade-off; some intervals get better and others get worse so in effect you're optimizing the instrument for a particular playing style or key or song.

If you're willing to modify the guitar to put frets in different places, it allows for a lot of options you wouldn't have otherwise. (This is especially true if you're willing to use partial frets.)

Kite tuning is the best scheme I've encountered for having closer-to-just intervals than 12-TET and yet you can play in any key. If you want perfect intervals, plain just intonation is better but then you're locked into a particular key and scale.

The design space of guitar fingerboards is surprisingly huge and open-ended when you stray even a little from the twelfth root of two as the fundamental unit of musical interval width.
I've faced many issues with Debian a few years ago regarding the old packages, one of them was building stubby from source which required getdns 1.1.2 at least, no luck the one in the repository didn't satisfy the version requirement, I tried to build getdns from source but faced an issue with the too old GCC version, I had to "frankeindebian" with gcc and g++ from debian unstable repository. I then decided to switch to Fedora. Don't get me wrong, stability is good, especially when you have to deal with Nvidia. Fun fact: I tried to install CUDA on Fedora 31 Workstation but faced an issue with a too recent version of GCC, it really depends on the use cases.
You can make the same arugment for gaming on smartphones, yet it's a huge and growing market. The truth is, most people don't care about the latest and best technology. They care about great games, and often times the best games don't need the cutting edge hardware (see Minecraft, Fornite).

Meanwhile, I've been playing the Echo VR alpha on my Quest (not Link) and it's fucking great.
We don’t want to build? Maybe we should build anyway