skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minor quibble: having a non-integral “number” of spaces was not a TeX innovation; Knuth was just reproducing standard practice of fine typography. Using variable-width separators (TeX “glue”) is exactly how human typesetters did it for centuries. So it's not quite the right perspective to consider anything “a holdover from the typewriter era”, because that had never been typographical practice in the first place — in fact the typewriter practice approximated fine typography (rounding up the larger inter-sentence space to 2), rather than the other way around (see my top-level comment below/above).

In fact, with TeX's standard settings, the inter-sentence space has the same natural width as the inter-word space; it's just that when justifying paragraphs it stretches more (3x) and shrinks less (0.33x) than the inter-word space — the net effect is that inter-sentence spaces are (usually) subtly larger.
In my experience the Manjaro config tends to work better on some of the hardware I've tried it on, requiring less tweaking to get it to run properly.

I'll also admit that I can't for the life of me get Arch to properly install with all the tools and features that are normally built-in to desktop environments to work on first boot. I'm sure I can make it work if I give it another try now that I've gotten more used to using Manjaro, but the Arch installation experience is not something I want to go through again any time soon.

I understand that most Arch users will want to decide exactly how they set up their system and all, but for my personal (non-work) machine I just want an operating system that works, allows me to mess with the standard Linux stuff and manages to install itself without me holding its hand. I'd much rather tick a box that says "enable full disk encryption" than manually configure cryptsetup and LUKS parameters. It's just too much effort for what I get out of it.
Can someone give a few characteristic, uniformed-user-oriented examples of what can be done with Wine 5.7 that was not achievable before? Or of important apps that will now work with Wine?
> that most Jews came from upstate NY

A little OT, but does anyone have any good resources on this (online or even books), i.e. abut the Jewish presence in upstate New York? I've never been to the States and as such I had though that the strong Jewish presence would have been limited to city areas, looks like upstate New York is mostly comprised of small towns and such, that's why I'm curious about the communities in there. I tried google it but I can only get resources about Jewish presence in New York City.
Those C-beams.
This has to be some of the best pixel art ever created. Astonishingly good work!

BUT: I've spend a few minutes on the site and it is totally unclear how I can support the team / get the game / sign up for anything.

In fact, there doesn't seem to be anything other than an email?
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"Field" is the abstraction we use in physics to say "there is a value associated with each point, and we're just not going to say whether it's representing the displacement of some invisible jelly, or the rotational velocity of some invisible tiny gears, or if it doesn't even make sense to ask the question". When we say the electromagnetic field wobbles, we just mean some abstract value is going from positive to negative and back.

I know that sounds unsatisfying, but there's good historical reason for doing this. Maxwell, for example, had a rich intuitive understanding of the electromagnetic field as a set of many invisible jellies and gears pushing on each other. His original equations were also 5x longer than the modern form and impossible for anybody else to understand, plus all the extra ingredients made tons of predictions that played poorly with relativity. The sheer butchery one needs to make intuitive pictures like this compatible with relativity is so high that we've basically collectively decided to give up. We now say fields make up real jellies and gears, they're not made of jellies and gears. They're just fields.
(That’s

export HISTSIZE=
export HISTFILESIZE=

for those wondering how to do it.)
This is very clearly a throwaway. I found my experience as someone born in Asia who moved to the United States at a young age terrible, with regards to college admissions. We lived in a 1 bedroom apartment when we moved here, and didn't really advance more. I took quite literally every AP offered at school and did well, played a Varsity sport, and got a perfect 2400 out of 2400 on the SAT, in addition to various extracurriculars like a well-developed photography portfolio and robotics. I also happened to go to a very good public high school because my parents focused on my education instead of buying a house where they could afford one. I was rejected from every school I applied to, from the most prestigious to even "lowly" and "safe" Cal States, except for one. My sister, several years younger than me, with lesser metrics, ended up at a top 5 school with nearly a full ride in scholarships earned. I don't think it was from a lack of a good essay too, because I won several writing awards as a kid, and wrote many of my friend's college essays too, and they all got in.

I feel like it set me back tremendously in my life in the things that I value. There's a lot of bitterness here, but even more confusion.

Not really sure what else to say.
> Even with imperfect screening, if we are able to prevent 90% of disease transmission, then the virus’s reproductive number, or R0, will drop below one and the pandemic will quickly fade. There is no risk of reintroduction from the outside because any new outbreaks will quickly be caught and contained. If used consistently, there will be no second wave, ever.

This is dangerously wrong.

If you reduce R0 below 1, you may stop community spread. You will not eradicate it however, unless this is done globally for a prolonged period of time with no error. This cannot be done with the proposed solution.

We can (probably) stop this from hurting the vulnerable population while we find a long term solution like an inoculation, but we cannot just skip that and call everything good after some period of low / no new cases in a region.
and often people answer not to help the questioner (and future readers) but to show off the little knowledge they have
The proposed solution is not about modelling though. It is an advertisement for a completely unproven analytical technique.
Science and technology has moved on significantly since the Da Vinci days and modern day “geniuses” like Musk surround themselves with experts in each field.

On some topics you just have to accept that someone who has spent years of their live dedicated to a complex topic might actually be better placed to judge a solution than someone who specialises in an entirely unrelated field but happens to demonstrate a passing interest. Particularly when the topic is literally a matter of life or death.
Very cool! Looks like it was done with a bit of jQuery magic :)

https://timesnewarial.liebermannkiepereddemann.de/js/script....
Curious why it's a Dutch organisation seems most members are non-Dutch. Tax reasons?
What’s the benefit of the matrix change?

I’ve never really worked with matrix types in R. What can I do in R4, that I couldn’t in R3? What mistakes will I avoid doing now that matrices are a subclass of arrays?
> There was also mold buildup at the margin

Throw that bit away and give it more flour and water (I use a 70g flour/100g water ratio). It'll be fine.
> So based on skincolor you can tell if I started with 2x the money? You can tell whether he is a millionaire or not? If he lived in a safe area or not? You judge someone based on skincolor, you can back it up with numbers sure, but you didn't judge based on who he is.

The data on US household median income by race is well published data, and shows Black household income lags behind white household income. So yes, while I cannot tell exactly your financial situation, I can make an educated guess with some degree of certainty that if you are white, you were more likely to grew up in a household with higher income.

Educational attainment is also correlated to race as well. For whites 25 and older, 65% have had some form of college, compared to 55% blacks.

And is ONLY with race information. Add a zipcode, that certainty increases.

People are upset with Affirmative Action, because it is picking winners based on race. However those same people fail to recognize factors in their lives that have effectively picked them as winners. That is what society is referring to when they speak of "privileged."

> If you fix the economic divide violence goes down, substance abuse go down, happiness goes up, and the major beneficiaries are minorities and the ones that will be hit the hardest are the majority group, no racism necessary.

I think you've made my point--the economic divide correlates with race. You cannot fix the divide without first acknowledging that racism largely is responsible for it, and continues to further it.
Podman is in the NEW queue, and debs can be built from the packaging repo in the meantime., FYI.
wow amazing thanks
Why not? It doesn't matter if he's... Elon Musk. What he's accomplished in fields he wasn't trained in is significant. I think that makes OPs point just fine.
You don’t really believe being Asian is a disadvantage when it comes to gaining employment? You even said earlier that sure some people might be racist towards blacks, but you know diversity hires, as if it was that simple and that’s the only reason they are hired. I’d argue Asians get the benefit of the doubt. There’s still the “Asians good at math very hard workers” stereotype that while can be considered racist, works in their favor when being hired.

https://slate.com/technology/2014/01/programmer-privilege-as...

Honestly man, your arguments sound quasi Ben Shapiro and borderline 4chan edgy trying to be subtly racist against blacks and Hispanics. I hope I’m not the only one that can see past this, your talking points and arguments I’ve seen in 4chan in an attempt to undermine other minorities struggles and sow discord between Asians and other minorities. Somehow people completely underestimate the prejudice and racism Hispanics and blacks face before after and during college. They may catch a break when it comes to acceptance into universities but it seems like that’s one too many breaks to get for people like you. It’s not like blacks or Hispanics who attended a prestigious university look different to police officers

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/06/nyregion/nyc-police-subwa...
Between 2 and 8 cups per day. Usually switch to tea or water later in the afternoon.
There's a good chance they'll assume they need an R version from when the analysis was published, or to enable some sort of "old version compatibility mode" (does R have that?)
I drink around 7 to 8 times a day. People say it's bad, but who cares.. I'm just enjoying my coffee and a good smoke everyday.
I always used speeded for the past tense of "speeding" as in breaking the speed limit and sped as the past tense of "speeding" as in the phrase "speeding past". Similar to hang/hung/hanged where hung is the past tense of hang unless in the context of hanging the form of execution, whose past tense is hanged. I wonder if there's a name for this phenomenon.
I work from home, use an Aeropress, and drink between 4-6 cups of black coffee per day. Once it starts getting late I’ll sometimes throw in a cup of green tea.
Yeah, this is always what I hear from selfish people. What is "competent"? Even if I know what that is, hiring them is hard and ad-hoc. Agile is a way to orgnize _everyone_ to deliver. Even "non competent ones". Those teams will deliver slower, but will deliver, instead of failing.
Whoever can point me at a robust method to save/restore bash histories of a tmux session would save my life!!! [And yes i use tmux inside tmux]
Java is a hard-compiled language on Android since version 5.0.

ART, which replaced Dalvik on 5.0 (available as experimental on 4.4), was AOT only up to version 7.0.

As it was proven that Android users lack the patience of a C++ developer when updating their apps, Google adopted another approach with version 7.0.

A multi-tier compiler infrastructure, composed by a very fast interpreter hand written in Assembly for fast startup, a JIT compiler for the first optimization level, with gathering of PGO data, then the AOT compiler runs in the background and when the device is idle gets that PGO data and just like a C++ compiler with PGO data, outputs a clean AOT compiled binary for the usual user workflow.

In case of an update or changes in the workflow that trigger the execution of code that wasn't AOT compiled, the process restarts.

As means to reduce this kind of de-optimizations, since Android 10 those PGO files are uploaded into the Play Store and when a user installs an application that already has PGO data available, it is downloaded alongside the APK and the AOT compiler can do its job right from the start.

In any case, he used dex2aot which is the AOT compiler daemon on Android.

Microsoft has gone through similar process with .NET for UWP, with the main difference that the AOT compiler lives on the Microsoft store and what gets downloaded is already straight binary code.

Apparently mixing language capabilities with toolchains keeps being an issue.
I think it is a good idea to keep some interpretation of the stages of grief [0] in the back of your head while reading posts like these (especially now, related to SARS-CoV-2).

I don't want to say they are all wrong, but you tend to see the type of responses evolve as countries are further down the whole lockdown-process.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model
The Correct Way to Reply to a Child's Wrong Answer
You need to make sure that the culture is stable before you use it -- it should smell sour, but with no other foul smells. In the first week of a new starter, you shouldn't use it because the bacterial cultures are still fighting for dominance.

As for mould build-up, that isn't a good sign. It does happen and I know people who just scrape off the mould and move on with their lives but I'd personally start again from scratch.
There's no direct relationship between the two currently. They share a lot of underlying technology but Filecoin doesn't directly incentivize IPFS, and IPFS itself isn't directly used by Filecoin either.

The basic reason why is because the protocol to request a file from Filecoin is a lot more complicated than simply fetching a URL, so IPFS can't simply sit atop, at least not without other changes.
I really wish Ubuntu Mate would come out for the RasPi 4.
Not currently working as a programmer, but I have worked as one in the past.

I only drink decaf, and I will have a cup a few times a week that I make as a pour over for myself. If I am feeling crazy, I will make two.

I am very sensitive to caffeine, and it impacts my sleep very negatively. I tried decreasing caffeinated coffee to half a cup early in the day (e.g., 8 or 9 am), and it didn't matter. I sleep much better when I don't drink caffeinated coffee (or any drink that has very much caffeine).

That said, my understanding is that decaf actually has a small amount of caffeine, but it does not seem to impact my sleep at all. I wonder if the amount of caffeine is actually that low in decaf.
Also remember this is literally a virus that emerged from animals in the first place (zoonotic transmission).

There will always be animal reservoirs of this.

For that reason, and those you outlined, we could achieve the flawless techno-totalitarian state that so many well-intentioned citizens are practically begging for, and we would still be screwed.

The only stable long-term solution is widespread exposure; ie how humanity has dealt with pretty much every other global pandemic we’ve been encountered with.

Thus why those who are trying to demonize the concept of “herd immunity” and make it a dirty word are playing a very dangerous game.
It’s not really his solution though is it? WHO has been urging governments to “test test test” for months with the same argument. In fact, the UK government is currently being criticised for not testing enough. Other countries that test more have shown a lower death rate (Germany at one point, not sure of the figures today) at odds with neighbouring states. Between lockdown and waiting for a vaccine, this is the only other thing that’s been suggested that makes sense. It’s not like the author is recommending injections of bleach.
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> I'm talking about if you take a black man and an Asian man and control for everything but race

That premise doesn't make sense when speaking about human beings existing in reality. Race doesn't exist in a vacuum—it comes inherently with decades of cultural and historical context.
I’m in this club. I enjoy the taste but just don’t get the mass appeal/obsession.

Also, always living in a generally hot climate (Texas) has me usually avoiding hot drinks. I know there are cold products now, but I’m too old to start a new habit.
On average, sure. And that may be a rational reason for a busy investor to reject a pitch meeting, but that's never a reason to dismiss an idea once you've read it, or in a forum where there is no cost to that idea existing (such as HN).
vi :x

grep -n ... vi +§
This is the stupidest advice i’ve read in a long time. The economist should be embarrassed by this. When Facebook moves fast and break things the worst case is that a webpage doesn’t load. When you are mass producing a vehicle the worst case is that people die. Potentially a lot of people, people who may not even be driving the vehicle. So no, auto makers should absolutely not move fast and break things, unless they want to completely lose any consumer confidence in their product and be on the receiving end of potentially crippling law suits.
What impact does this have on people _learning_ R?

It's a new major version - does it require significant updates for training materials? Are there a lot of outdated idioms now?
Don’t forget for smokers that your body metabolises caffeine around twice as fast
Unlike the other people in the list, Musk (and Huges) have never made a significant scientific discovery or invention.
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> putting humans back on the moon next month

Wait what? Despite the pandemic?
Quoting from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sentence_spacing

> French typists used a single space between sentences, consistent with the typeset French spacing technique, whereas English typists used a double space.

Edit: add full reference
I quit coffee as part of New Year's resolution. I started feeling nauseous in the morning if I drank a cup of coffee in the afternoon the day before.

Once I quit, I thought I'll be less productive, and that I won't be able to focus, but after a week or two, my body recovered from the caffeine addiction.

I started drinking black tea - two cups per day. It's still caffeine, but in far less amount.

I miss coffee, though. I miss its smell and taste and somehow I correlate coffee with work satisfaction, creativity, and being productive. It's probably because the coffee is marketed around work culture, and I bought that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xargs
That reminds me of one of my favorite lines from the Wire, when Det. Kima GreggS says "Sometimes things just got to play hard."

When it comes to tech; there are plenty of open positions ready to be filled with smart programmers. Maybe not at OP's top-choice, but there will be jobs.
Two first thing in the very early morning, one after the other. Maybe one in the afternoon... Or a nap
Kegs of beer are stainless steel, is vinegar strong enough to ruin that?
I've worked with some seriously boring stuff (copy-pasting stuff from citrix into reports for hours a day and days a week, and that wasn't the worst part: the worst part was that it was obvious after a while that nobody read those reports.)

Meanwhile that mindnumbingly stupid work put me in a position to do some more exciting work (going on site, talking to customers, landing a customer liaison position etc).

I never got rid of the boring work but it became a lot more tolerable with those changes.

Now we are obviously in different positions in a lot of ways so this is possibly not directly applicable to your situation.

But there's one thing you write that has me puzzled:

> A few times, it gets worse where I work on old technology stack which is far below than my level and it is very uninteresting.

I think I might have worked with some almost crazy tech stacks but I wouldn't want to use the word "uninteresting" for anyone except the best of them ;-)

As I get older (40 now) I guess I'm also most valuable because of what I know about working with people, working with old stuff and general problems we face again and again, not because of how good I was with the most popular or (in my opinion) most promising frameworks from 2005.
Java has had AOT compilers since 2000, they just haven't been free beer for the most part, hence why FOSS keeps ignoring them.

Ironically they have to thank Oracle for doing something that Sun was religiously against, having an AOT compiler as part of the free beer Java layer.
There are junior level devs at FAANG that would otherwise would be either starting their own company or be considered senior level at most other startups/other companies -- often they are really bright engineers at the beginning of their career, the same age as Paul Bucheit when he created a certain web email client at a FAANG company as a junior engineer.
It's also possible that he doesn't know his audience and he doesn't pretend. It's also possible it's just the way he is and what he believes.
Downvoted.

But based on my talk with my friends in Shanghai Auto, and LandRover China (with Geely), the Chinese government pretty much are going to keep Tesla in China as the Catfish in the muddy water. The theory is to have a strong predator to force the weaker players to die and stronger to learn.

The government learned that the organizational structure inside Chinese domestic firms are not going to provide the soil for creative work.

Tesla is treated like a teacher, but they are not touched, as that defeat the whole purpose of having a strong predator in the market.

You might disagree, but I guarantee that Chinese government is not blind to where it needs to learn.
Ex-VFX person here.

Green screens are crap with hair, because its translucent the green/blue bleeds through which means that it has to be cleaned up by hand.

Then there are the situations where there isn't a green screen. Again manual cleanup is required. Each frame needs to be cut out by hand. 24 times a second.

The same with a difference matte. Cameras are noisy, so there is constant noise in the alpha channel. This makes the effect look wobbly and cheap.

What this method does is pull a key from a difference matte, and makes it look good.
What the actual fudge?
So my Asad AD trust users, whose home directories are /home/example.com/sam-account-name, are going to run into trouble when they upgrade to 20.04?

I think I am going to have to start figuring out a plan to migrate them all over to RHEL...
Is it important for all races to be equally represented in every field, or is it important for all races to have the ability to advance socio-econmically even if you are born poor?

One will result in focusing on education as a means for social mobility.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JewishComplainin... muh antisemitism indeed
No. Using a programming language for configuration is terrible. If code can be used, it will be eventually used and it will be impossible to understand what's happening until runtime. Configuration should be clear and not subject to modifications to the software. If somebody wants to use an external preprocessing tool, if using a standard format (json) he/she can.