skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He succeeded in business by bullying his opponents and using his power against them by squeezing them

That was my impression before the election, when I didn't pay any attention. I thought he was a successful bully, which wouldn't necessarily be the worst combination for a President.

After learning about his actual business history (Thanks, Trump Inc.! podcast) I think the 'succeeded' part is pretty arguable. He was born unbelievably wealthy, had a string of some unbelievable business failures, and was subsequently bailed out by some known (Deutsche Bank) as well as unknown shady actors and practices.

Now that I understand his business history, I wouldn't consider him to have succeeded in business. He could have been vastly more wealthy today by doing nothing other than invest in index funds, which to me counts as largely unsuccessful.
The numbers have been revised, apparently, now it's higher.
Elixir has an obsolete SQLITE ORM which works pretty well for us till this point. At some point, we will have to upgrade it or maintain it ourselves I guess.
If you consider that one of the major reasons for them to provide linux is:

1. To "show" that you can nicely run Linux on their hardware.

2. Have a better position wrt. deals with Microsoft. As they always could start promoting Linux on their systems much more widely.

3. Good publicity.

Ironically all of this can be archived with "selling" the product officially but then not putting much work/care into the actual sells. ;=)

Just hope this gets better.
I don't think we're in the early stages anymore, though. A significant fraction of the population has been infected.
Lol I've heard so many times about the conspiracy of biologists who are afraid to "tell the truth" about sex differences. Everyone is like Damore, cowing in front of the SJW crowd and afraid to be fired4truth. The reality is much more tame.

The crux of the matter (and potential controversy) is not about sex differences in plants or C. elegans. Most biologists I've met who study algae or polar bears usually limit their expert opinion on those species. It's really about transposing such knowledge to humans, where we don't have that level of bottom-up insight for a variety of reasons ranging from "humans are complicated", "most of what works in other species doesn't work in humans" (see: 99% of drug trials) to "you can't just open up people's brains to see what they're made of".
Which is funny because I believe Linux marketshare is higher in Europe than US (well based on statcounter and other sources).
Interesting - I didn't know the site gave those numbers at all. Obviously they are not the ones in the main comparisons.

Something seemed a bit weird with those numbers to me. My heavily loaded 2015 MacBook Air, which is also overheating, took <5s to compile nbody with the same Rust version and command line. The ratio remains about the same though - a similar GCC version is also much faster. Turns out, the hardware is really, really old ("Measured on a quad-core 2.4Ghz Intel® Q6600® with 3.8 GiB of RAM and 250GB SATA II disk drive; using Ubuntu™ 19.10 Linux x64 5.3.0-29-generic.").
Totally agree, which is why I led with "which I will do for the point of this conversation, not that I believe it".
The legal system is extremely elaborate, requires multiple people to agree about proof of wrongdoing and offers many avenues for defense and appeal.

YouTube by comparison is essentially arbitrary.
Surveillance is sequential write load with hard real-time requirements, though. The unpredictable delays inherent to SMR could present serious problems.
Hardest working, highly skilled and intelligent, absolutely essential to society -- we should pay doctors a wonderful premium for them sacrificing a decade of their lives to get the education that lets them confidently save lives all day long.
This is likely something that you have to go through a distribution partner for. A lot of their products are specifically for enterprise customers - they may not bother stocking them for direct retail.
> The ones who need to save face are the ones which are committing to full lockdown right now.

That's quite the assertion. The very word quarantine comes to us from when there was a Republic of Venice. The notion of shutting things down in times of plague is an old one.

Yes, it's a very blunt instrument, and you'd hope we could do better these days - and some places like South Korea and Taiwan appear to be managing that - but locking things down works.
This is what you said:

> it's clear he never said anything about injecting disinfectant directly into a patient

Here's what Donald Trump said:

> And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number

Here's what your source had to say about what Donald Trump said:

> spoke about the use of ultraviolet light to fight the virus and an injectable disinfectant that would clean your lungs

The ongoing research Bryan was discussing was not medical research, and had nothing to do with the human body, and yet Donald Trump certainly said someting about injecting disinfectant directly into a patient (or at the very least, it isn't clear that he didn't say that).
Heaven as a Roof: The Underlying Unity of Creation
I had zero issues with uBlock Origin on the Tom's Hardware site. I do also use Privacy Badger, though I doubt that would make it more likely to work.

One thing I have started doing is running NoScript but by default I allow scripts. But when a site puts up notices about adblocking or other annoying things I disable scripts for them. Surprisingly it often allows me to read the website without issues. I did not do that with Tom's Hardware though.
I have the impression that onlyrealcuzzo was referring to something longer term than the last month, though.
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My view is: "You can be 'friendly' with coworkers without being 'friends'." My test for friendship is: "Would I call this person to bail me out of jail?" The answer to that question from me has always excluded all my coworkers and managers, despite them being nice and helpful people.

I've also worked at a family company. They may claim you're "family" too, but that's just marketing hype. The truth is the family members will always be better compensated than you for doing far less. And when tough times come, you will take a hit before any family member.
Saying "Google hasnt changed" is somewhat of a disservice to what Alphabet is. Its an investment firm / publicly traded venture capital stock, and one of their main holdings is Google. Their future growth potential is much more than just Google, despite Google being their current source of revenue. I would hope, over time, Google Ads being 80% of Alphabets revenue drops and drops, and if I were investing in Alphabet that would be the reason, not to buy into Ad Words ownership.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliviergarret/2019/09/27/if-you...
Truth.. me and my spouse sold our old house in san jose (2016) to a couple who had < 160k in 401k combined(no other assets) and were in their mid/late 50's, their downpayment was the 90k they got from the sale of their condo, they were in construction/design(unsure of income) and had to get a 2nd loan from the bank to make the downpayment. Their total new mortgage is 5k a month(payment and prop. taxes, guessed this), I was shocked that the bank approved them given they seemed leveraged to the hilt.
Here in Germany, the government called Corona "a trick by the political right" to "achieve border closing". We only closed borders way after every country around us did. Because ideology is more important than human lives, apparently.
- You have a habit of picking interesting work over jobs that will "strap a booster rocket to your career".

- You do everything right and, like most people, it still doesn't work.
Wouldn't a stock buyback reduce the number of outstanding shares, but keep market capitalization roughly constant? The company has less cash, but it has bought an asset of equal value with it (the shares).
I don't know who you're arguing with. I was simply responding to the parent's statement "I dare to ask the question", as if the contra arguments were some sort of mystery, or that they didn't exist, when pretty much any official site I've seen offers that information.

I didn't make any statement about whether I thought non-medical masks were a good idea for everyone to wear or not...
Thank you. Very resourceful
That appears to be the case. That's why you ought not touch your face or your nose, and why wearing a mask is recommended.
I'm not sure "the president is just dumb" is much of an improvement over "the president is actively malicious."
Jumbo loans are just loans over a certain number, nothing to do with how much you can afford to pay for a house. I put 20% down (and could have put down more, but the bank rates were pretty good so the better move was to keep investing the extra money) and still got what was considered a jumbo loan because even with 20% down I had to borrow > 750k.
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Suspicious activity. Suddenly using your card in the UK, when you're in the US. "Swipes" several hundred miles from your normal location, but also occurring in your normal location on the same day.
The Title-Case is unnecessary; the commands aren't case sensitive. It's just considered good practice for maintainability. Plus, most common commands are aliased to shorter ones.
"My macbook is work computer so I can't use it for personal stuff."

I'm not sure if you're talking about a legal issue (e.g. permission for personal use, or ownership of intellectual property created) or a technical issue (don't want any data to get polluted in either direction).

If it's just technical, then an external USB 3.0 SSD is a cheap and effective solution. A MacBook will happily boot MacOS from an external drive, and performance is beyond acceptable. Booting Linux from an external drive requires more work to set up, and you might still suffer from missing drivers. But I've booted MacOS from an external drive on 4 different MacBooks (Pro/Air 2015-2017 models) and it's been a snap. Just create a MacOS installer on a flash drive, plug in both the flash drive and your target USB 3.0 SSD, and install MacOS as normal. When powering up, hold down the {cmd?option? i forget} key to show the boot menu.
Apple and Google Strengthen Privacy of Covid-19 Exposure Notification System
There's more than one store in NYC. People shop at a variety of places. Daily shoppers are likely not going to the same store over and over every day. Even during this pandemic I've hit up several different grocery stores and shops, because some things are hard to find.
Stable's entire selling-point is to be the Linux of yesterday, tomorrow. You probably would have had better luck with a distribution that didn't intentionally aim to be ancient.
Interesting - who conceptualized?
Yep, same approach we take now as well. Big publishers have multiple writers working on the same article/site design elements sometimes. It's a PITA.
If people are choosing to live in the Bay Area and spend all their money on COL expenses, that does not mean they are not wealthy. It just means they are choosing to spend all their wealth to stay there. Believe me, those of us who live a state or two east of there see plenty of people who have left after a few years of paying on those jumbo loans, and the equity from those homes sets them up quite nicely in another place.

People who own homes in the Bay Area do not have massive disposable income. But they do have wealth.
SNHU to cut tuition from $31,000 to $10k, revamp on-campus learning
This seems to conflate ownership/responsibility with admitting a flaw in yourself.

If someone points out a bug, I say thank you. People make mistakes. I am a person. I make mistakes. This is not controversial, it is expected. We should still strive to avoid them and are allowed to be annoyed with ourselves when we make them, but it doesn't make us bad people.
I think they’re going off a per hour basis. If a resident is working an 80 hour week, they aren’t getting paid much per hour.
I was being pitched by a "Enterprise" CMS company. One of their selling points, listed several times in their collateral, was:

* No need to dig through dozens of plugins to find the one that actually works. Since "EnterPriseCMS" is .NET, you can just write your own!
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For people with bad luck or from people with bad luck? It is often inspiring to hear from folks who haven't been on the success rocket doing just fine and having a great life.

The subtext here though is always "scoring" your success. There is the zen koan about one mans bad luck is another mans opportunity. But it really seems that the message is more "don't measure your own success unrealistically or you will always see yourself as having 'bad luck' when, in fact, you have a great life."
The first episode of Ugly Delicious on Netflix was about Pizza, including Neapolitan pizza.

Chef Chang ordered Domino's pizza to one of the restaurants. Hilarious.
As you said, finding any laptop with linux is near impossible. Coincidentally I have become friends with a guy at a large reseller near me, so every time I want a new laptop, I call him up, tell him which ones I've set my eyes on, then I go with a live USB to see which one works out of the box.

Manufacturers are obsessed with shoving some half-baked proprietary hardware on their higher end laptops, rendering them unusable for anyone but Windows users.

What really rises my eyebrow is the "fedora" part here. I haven't used Fedora since 2015 and for the time being I don't intend to switch to anything new/old. I can't recall a single time I've seen a linux-out-of-the-box laptop that has anything other than Ubuntu(which I truly hate). It would be nice to see someone putting something else and shipping it like that for a change.
My mom has a similar saying: "People enter your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime." The idea is the same: you should cherish the relationships you have - while you have them - and let them go when they're over.
If you want to search inside a PDF file, install Adobe PDF Reader. Windows Index Search doesn't have a PDF filter by default, you need a filter for it.
Can anyone comment on the telemetry capabilities of modern Ubuntu?
Book reading is down. We need something regular people use. Welcome to Facebook.
Re: staffing - I agree that there is a difference between plasmapheresis (which is reasonable to monitor a few people at once) and ICU care (which, at least at my institution, we generally rely on 1:1 staffing for devices that circulate blood outside of the body).

Re: catheters - agreed that they are routinely placed, but they're morbid and we don't do it unless necessary. Generally we use a different type of catheter for recirculation vs a standard central line, so this probably can't be piggy-backed on what is already going to be placed in the ICU.
Apple created the iPhone 13 years ago. Then Macbook Air a year later, the iPad line and so on. The A13 processor is the fastest mobile processor in widespread use, as was the A12 when it was launched. Do you really expect a company to innovate every single year? Google/Alphabet created K8s seven years ago, Glang, Android, and consistently refines its cloud platform. Its search and advertising platform is very effective and gives enormous value to its customers, even if it's not the "strictly do no evil" innovation of yore. Amazon has grown to enormous scale, innovating along its supply chain and AWS. Microsoft created Azure in almost no time, supports Linux on its own operating system and has embraced JavaScript and has some open source projects. I think, if you remember the Microsoft of 10 years ago (software-only, bitterly proprietary), that's quite a pivot.
Just loaded the website and it says "Not Found". Brutal...

Does this mean people with bad luck should give up?

https://imgur.com/a/s5AhAEZ
I was surprised by how many times I laughed out loud while reading Russell's HoWP - his wit really showed through while giving a great philosophy primer. I also enjoyed the audiobook and found that the narrator nailed the dry wit and did credit to the writing.
I suppose one caution on this would be "capital/world city explodes, then growth shifts to the regions" is a pretty common pattern worldwide, for whatever reason.
The motivation can come from privacy-conscious users as well. I use the Uber PWA (m.uber.com) instead of the app because I can control the permissions it has if it runs in the browser. While you can control permissions in the native app as well, they get switched back to their defaults each time an app update is installed.
This is great news, even if you don't plan to use Fedora or if you plan to buy the same laptop with Windows pre-installed instead of Linux. It means some Red Had people were paid to make sure all the hardware in the laptop works. Even if the patches are not all upstream at the time of release (and I'm 100% sure the Fedora people will try to upstream as much as they can), you know they exist and you will be able to use if needed.

I recently got a Thinkbook from my employer and the touchpad doesn't work and there are no patches available for it. I'm stuck with having to use a mouse because my employer didn't care consult me before buying a laptop...

The areas where Linux shine are the areas where people are paid to get open source stuff done. And I am thankful for the existence of companies like Red Hat, Suse and Canonical. Because HW manufacturers and OEMs clearly have no clue about how to write and ship software...
I think in some ways the author is on their way to making a greater point about making mistakes without quite hitting the nail on the head.

Guilt and shame are the enemy of responsibility and those who seek to inflict guilt and shame are toxic to any organisation. They encourage those who are focused on maintaining an image of never being wrong while punishing those who seek to better themselves and obviously make mistakes as they grow.

I managed to remove everyone from my life who inflict a guilt or shame (luckily not any family members) and life has got way better since then both personally and professionally.
Corporate agile is a mixed bag but Extreme Programming is still good though.
It is that things are bad and avoiding a lock down didn't work - unfortunately any tactical decision you make takes about three weeks to really show evidence of efficacy.
A lot of people fail to realize there are large multiplicative factors when the infrastructure team makes other parts of the organization implement a “simple” change. In large companies, there might be dozens or hundreds of teams that rely on the infrastructure. If the change requires each team to learn the tool of the month, and make a one line configuration change, it will cost the organization hundreds of developer days to implement. If engineering and release management have to schedule that work to align with business constraints, the change is costing years of people time.

If you’re even further down the rabbit hole, you’ve adopted devops, and are forcing people that actively hate operations stuff to learn obscure in-house operations tools. That, combined with preventing them from doing the work they signed up for, leads to burn out and resignations.

It can get even worse than that. I routinely see all of the above compounded with infra bikeshedding that delays rollouts by months, and results in weeks of work per team. At that point, the organizational damage ends up being many times the budget of the IT department.

So, yeah, IT needs to figure out how to help people be more productive while simultaneously implementing best practices, and it’s hard. I deeply appreciate people that are good at that (and have worked with some).
I still don't get how a stock buyback is functionally any different from a dividend.

Replace dividend with buyback or v versa and everything else is true, except for forced dividend tax.
Maybe I've been watching too many Star Trek reruns, but the thought comes to mind: "Blame is irrelevant, apologizing is irrelevant."

I've been part of such retrospectives, and no blame is given, and no apologies are given. There is no hesitation to lead the investigation into "your own code". "Your code" might end up being what needs to change, but it was not alone in causing the fault in the entire system.

Another though experiment (stripped of all moral judgement):

Alice writes some code which runs as part of a larger system for 10 years. No problems are identified in the system.

Bob writes some code. After Bob's code is integrated with the rest of the system, problems are identified in the system.

Changes are made to Alice's code which resolve the problems.

Who is at fault? You probably find it hard to identify who is at fault without knowing more details. You need details so you can form your own personal moral judgments. Perhaps a better question is: Can we ever objectively identify who is at fault? And does it matter?
>If I make an off-by-one error, where, other than me, did it come from?

Could have come from confusing documentation on the appropriate bounds, could have come from an unclear exit condition for the loop, could have come from contradictory requirements that had no real solution. That you're the agent at the end of a chain doesn't release the chain from responsibility.

> If I make an off-by-one error, I could have done better.

People often miss targets by small amounts. Tyson Gay is only behind Usain Bolt in the 100 meter world record by 0.11 seconds[1]. Is that all on Tyson not working hard enough, or are there maybe other factors?

> It is not about shame, it is about responsibility.

If it's about responsibility, then there should be a process for understanding why engineers end up writing bad code. Of course it can be that the engineer made a mistake, but it can also come from many other factors. Assuming that the person who wrote a bad line of code should "take responsibility" puts the cart before the horse in building a good process.

After all - it's the compiler that emitted machine code that did the wrong thing. Maybe the compiler is the real villain here.

> We should all aspire to do better.

I agree!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_metres
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The pay for residents isn't bad compared to the rest of the country. But they do work crazy hours. $/hr they are making like $18/hour x 18 hours/day x 10 day rotation.

They wouldn't get a pay bump by going on UI. They would get more sleep.
This doesn't make any sense. Grocery and food delivery is quite affordable. It's not only available to the top 1%. These options are being widely taken advantage of by a large number of people right now way down the economic spectrum. It's not a tiny minority of the wealthiest people patronizing them.
Dissecting T5 Model from Google
> In some cases imprisonment and an utterly ruined career are the result of mistakes

This is quite an exaggerated point; the number of people imprisoned for making mechanical, civil, or electrical engineering errors is very close to zero in the US.

I think more programmers have actually been charged than any other field, although I can't quote a statistic to back that up.
Sure. It's understandable that'd be frustrating. It's still probably more likely due to poorly-adapted copy than due to a genuine interest in selling Linux laptops in France, or incompetence.
Isn't that why they are politicians though? Because they were able to promise one thing to the masses and deliver another to their funders? If they were bad at that, they wouldnt get propped up.
Are the internal structures of the lung all opaque to UVA light?
Disease spread is too complex for either total-number or per-capita comparisons to capture it well, but total numbers are even more misleading.