skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might be an idea to offload that. You could reduce the risk of corruption by splitting the database over timeframes, so every 3 weeks, you create a new database, copy all currently relevant data and close out the old one. In case of corruption you can recover from an older version of the database, which is less likely to be corrupted the more versions you keep and the more often you do this (at the expense of flash lifetime).
I don't think that word means what you think it means.

Microkernel = move all the code OUT OF the kernel.

These slides are about moving all the code INTO the kernel.

Putting your application logic into the kernel would be more like a unikernel I guess?
True. To some extent, even a good mortgage rate trickles down to one's family. Some kid is going to inherit their parents paid-off house. The problem is that people have more than 1 kid, so most of them don't get that benefit and we keep building new homes, I guess.
USAge of chemical/bioweapons in Korea war confirmed – finally
It's hydropower ;)

Geothermal energy is mostly for district heating and hot water
From who is the government borrowing money?

For instance, in the current situation, all the countries are applying stimulus at the same time, so, where is all that money coming from?
YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice
I don't see what that has to do with the post you replied to.
Show HN: Remote only works when you stay productive (browser extension)
How to Install VMware Tools on Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, and Solaris
I reckon Apple actually will release iPadOS for fixed keyboard layouts. Or something similar.
You can install the [python-is-python3][0] package on 20.04, which symlinks /usr/bin/python to python3.

[0]: https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/python-is-python3
Can you do scaling with xrandr? I scale gnome to 2x and then have this line in my .xprofile:
xrandr --output eDP-1 --scale 1.4x1.4

I disable it whenever playing video games on steam.
Modular Empirical Science
I'm being tongue in cheek with the "selling your kids" bit, I hope you don't mind.

But I'd be less worried if these debts were to build infrastructure (and we'd have some incredible infrastructure). That's my real concern here: we borrowing to maintain lifestyles not to build useful things.

Your point about Japan is really interesting. I heard things were moving that way but I didn't know they were so up front in recognising it. I love the Japanese. Here in Europe we're in a similar position but no one quite wants to admit it. And we borrow still, we just give it all to OAPs :(
Linux with Wayland is now running on iPhone 7
> It looks like deb files only can be installed via the terminal.

That's a good thing! I can't wait for Deb installers to stop mucking about dumping random files all over my system. I also can't wait for the whole ppa nightmare which is the only way to get cutting edge versions of software by giving the right to muck about with the system to random packages on the internet to end.
There is no money printer. Each unit of currency that the central banks flood the market with is backed by an asset of equal value on the balance sheet of the central bank.
No. That one is a hard fact. You just have to find the right variant of axe for your particular neighborhood. Imagine my face when I accidentally stumbled upon that variant.
Yep. Anything that implies 'direct access' or 'trawling' moves from being fear mongering to simply being untrue. 'Rifling through emails' and the like is showing a poor understanding of the legislation at best and deliberately trying to create fear uncertainty and doubt at worse.
I just mentioned peer-review as an absurd example. I never equated it to science in general, and it amazes me that it comes across that way. I still stand by my saying that equating evidence to science is an abrupt leap.
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I was thinking the scope might include news acquisition (creation!?) and not just publishing.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Central banking is the greatest scam in the history of mankind that cartelises the banking sector, gives them the privilege of access to the printing press, and is the root cause of the boom-and-bust cycle. It has managed to convince people (particularly mainstream economists) that its institution is necessary for "financial stability" but what it really does is absolves banks from any form of financial responsibility as they will always be able to receive a bailout if they act irresponsibly, allowing them to always make a profit regardless of risk. This is not free market capitalism but a system that enriches those closer to the central bank (and who get freshly-printed money first before inflation hits the rest of the economy) and punishes those who are relatively further away like manufacturing workers and salary earners. This is the reason why salaries at SV startups (bankrolled by VCs and soaring stock prices leading to valuable RSUs) are so high, and why wealth inequality has notably increased dramatically since we went off the gold standard in 1971[1].

I believe this topic is among the most important things we need to discuss and is arguably more important than climate change (what else is driving consumerism and throw-away-culture but inflation?), but economists have overcomplicated things and made it inaccessible to the average person when it really is so simple that a five-year old can understand it: printing money enriches the few who have access to the printing press at the expense of the many.

End central banking and the economy will be stronger, more resilient, fairer, and will reward those who create real value rather than the well-connected.

[1] http://wtfhappenedin1971.com
The gold fans fail to realize that liquidity is more important than hoarding metals.

Gold was important at the time where balances were done manually and purchases between countries were settled with physical gold.

(And no, this is not a defense of bitcoin. Bitcoin has to be much more liquid and stable for it to work as a store of value)
The big question here is - are users of these Macs still going to be allowed to decide what software they can run or will that decision be made by Apple like on iOS?
It depends. ETFs are held in a trust. Usually it's not one etf per trust.
PowerPC back in the game? :D
I'll enlighten you. About twenty years ago people used IIS for web-servers, encumbered in costly licenses, for everything, and progress goes on. That's the point man. Time goes on, and things gets better. Hope you see now. That was the point, anyways. I really hope it helps.

Progress goes on is just the general point. Nothing else intended. Should be clear enough.
Does the World Need Another Two-Sided Marketplace Startup?
It's controlled by the US government and the US Treasury receives the proceeds.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm
Apt is the best way, but if you don't want to or can't use apt, then try gdebi, which does the dependency chasing for a .deb you give it.
I actually wrote a post about coming up with ideas, and the difficulty of doing so before:

https://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/how-to-consis...

There are two things you need for ideas:

1. The raw material from which to generate them: Other older ideas.

2. A mind that is able to synthesize ideas appropriately.

Ideas becoming 'harder' to 'find', is simply a function of one of these two things not being fully optimized.

I personally don't think that we have less of either of the two.

So no, I don't think Ideas are getting harder to find.
Developing an Open Source software can have some incentives to have cleaner code.

Talking from personal experience. Here are my though on it:

First, with Open Source software, you expose (potentially) what you write to the while world, as a consequence, you don't want to feel ridiculous by publishing atrociously bad code. In contrast, in a corporate environment, the code is not seen by so many eyes if at all, and even if read, the readers are roughly a known quantity.

Second, You have far more time/freedom, specially if it's a personal project, to think about design/code architecture, and to rework things if required.
You can also spend time on things like unit tests, fuzzing, etc.
Basically, you can more easily work on all these things that are "valuable" but difficult to "quantify/measure".

Third, people working on OSS projects are generally a bit more motivated, either because it's their subject of interest, or because of the general appeal of OSS.

Forth, often with OSS, you actually have more resources/service available to help with code quality. CI, static analysis, dependency auditing, etc is one click/integration away.
In a Corporate environment, the procurement for such services can be off-putting, integration setup can be an up-hill battle, and there can be strong restrictions regarding external services.

Just as an example, in a previous job, I tried to get budget for a Jenkins server, never got it, so I ended-up "stealing" an old abandoned server from another project, once I got it I ran into issues not being able to configure the post commit hooks to trigger a CI build. Heck, in this job, even my home desktop was a 3 or 4 times better development machine than my work laptop.

Things are changing slowly, having a good code coverage is more and more a goal if not a company policy, code review processes are more and more common, companies are a bit less paranoid about trusting external services for CI/analysis/fuzzing. But from what I have been able to see in most of my job, proprietary code bases tend to be lower quality than most OSS projects. Even the code I've produced in my free time tend to be better than the code I've written at my job.

It's not an absolute however, you can still have terrible OSS code bases, it's just you are a bit more geared towards better code quality in OSS projects.
Thank you for doing that, good job!
The Trouble with Stephen Wolfram’s New 'Fundamental Theory of Physics'
Do you think it's sensible for me to make such a claim?
That horse is not a one trick pony and has an enormous amount of capital invested in defensive capabilities.

Enemies that become an unwanted source of distraction are deinstalled by an act of god.
That's right. USO is a derivative on a derivative on commodity that nobody wants right now. The amount of indirection to get from USO to crude would tell me yes, it's failed to reach its stated goal.
That's not how it works, but even if that was the case, if that debt was owned by the Federal Reserve, who get the interest of that money? and who is the owner of the debt?
I wrote a blog post about it here at the time:

https://aperiodical.com/2014/06/discovering-integer-sequence...
Modern monetary theory is long overdue.
E-way bills under GST which are mandatory and generate
Particularly so when you consider the environmental impact of new battery compared to new phone + new battery. The difference in price for the consumer does not reflect the true costs.
Yeah I was probably just ignorant using dpkg, didn't know better. Thanks for the info.
I use external screens just fine. I can't even think of a situation that's a big issue:

- 4K laptop screen and 1080p external, just use integer scaling

- 1440p laptop screen and 1080p external, use 1.3x font scaling and everything looks fine

I currently have a 1440p laptop, a 4K external, and a 1280x800 projector in my work-from-home setup. The external screen replaced a 1200p one before. I use sway that supports fractional scaling per screen in whatever setup I want. And yet I prefer to just set 1.3x font scaling for everything and not touch the scaling at all. Everything looks great.

Fractional scaling is a missing feature for some people and Linux desktops are definitely behind. But compared to font scaling I don't see how it's really much more than a little bump in functionality (some controls sized a little better) for a big drop in performance (calculating >2x the pixels in a lot of situations) and even some loss of sharpness.

It's probably a huge preference thing. I've seen people online waiting impatiently for fractional scaling because things were too small in their 1080p laptop screen otherwise. Even though 1080p on a laptop is sort of the definition of 1x.
My experience mirrors yours. Could never get double-click on .deb to work, same symptoms, and Software Center was always buggy/frustrating. dpkg -i all the way, but that's definitely a ux hit for broader adoption of Ubuntu.
As always, worse is better™!
That doesn't mean you shouldn't buy gold & other hard assets. Even if the Euro and others decrease in relation to the Dollar the Dollar might decrease in relation to gold/hard assets & in my opinion likely will in the next 2-3 years.
So no more Hackintosh and virtualized MacOs?
Can someone expert in this field explain what does this means for developers and what this means in the long run?
Many suspect that ARM Macs are coming, but I would not trust reporting from “The Big Hack” Bloomberg [1].

From the article, Bloomberg reported [2] that Apple would also do it in 2020, so they’re planning on being eventually right.

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/2018/10/bloomberg_the_big_hack

[2]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-02/apple-is-...
Satellite data show 'highest emissions ever measured' from U.S. oil and gas
Don’t forget the mess with the cables! This has been discussed before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20443765.

USB-C is a complete mess. I can’t believe Apple dropped MagSafe for this. They could’ve made all the io ports type C but kept MagSafe for charging with an optional chargeable type C port on the right side.
Telix clone
Is this the beginning of the end for YouTube?
As someone who deeply hates how much fake news have been spreading in the past few years, I still find this very worrying, especially since the WHO has been very inconsistent with their messaging during this pandemic [1] and sometimes plain wrong [2].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-chie...

[2] https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152
My hope is yes, especially as iPad can now pretty much be its own thing. I imagine developers within Apple still like to have their own stuff too?
I remember watching this video on the Intel 8086 by Harvard Business School, and they mentioned how revolutionary it is from a business perspective because it took a vertically integrated market and made it a horizontally integrated market.

(I can't find the video after a cursory search...)

Is this is the reversal of this revolution? Are we going back to a vertically integrated market due to consolidation in market players or because of performance / power concerns? Everyone seems to be making their own chips and boards these days. Google / TPU, AWS / Graviton, Microsoft / SQ1...

Will we ever see a fragmentation in ISAs a la EEE? IMHO that would be a catastrophic regression in the software space, easily a black swan event, if you say needed to compile software differently between major cloud vendors just to deploy.
There's nothing wrong with you at all!

As a precursor another couple of useful misconceptions to discard:

4. Art must be beautiful, or crafted, or at least 'good'.
5. Art has to have meaning.

It's useful to look at the early part of the 20th Century to understand modern art.

A good painting to start this conversation is The Treachery of Images by Magritte[1] from 1929.

On one level it is a simple, acceptable painting of a pipe, with the handwritten label in the painting "This is not a pipe".

What is that label doing? It is in some ways telling the truth, this is not a pipe, it is a painting of a pipe. Already we have opened a useful void between object and reality.

It is also creating a tension in the painting that was not there before. We have an obvious pipe, and we have a counterclaim immediately following. But both the painting of the pipe and the label disclaiming its pipeness are 'true' in that they were put there by the artist and they are unambiguous in their own right.

So the pairing creates an ambiguity that is difficult to resolve. What does the label mean? Do I understand it properly? Is one true and not the other, if so which? What is the sum total of them both? How am I meant to 'read' this, whatever is meant by 'reading'.

Many questions emerge, inhabiting a place outside the painting, in the mind of the viewer. Are these questions part of the artwork? Where does the artwork start and stop? Is my reaction part of it? Why couldn't it just say "This is a pipe"? Is this treachery of some kind? (hence the title of the work).

Once you have seen that this is something a little different to a 'normal' painting, that it in some way occupies a broader space than simply the dimensions of the physical object, then the door of modern art is ajar and cannot be closed again.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
Btw - thank you for working hard at making this smooth. My SO had a 6S until 2 months ago and only during iOS 11 it was not smooth. iOS 12 and 13 were perfect and apart from the camera she says she kind of misses the 6S for its smaller form factor. The other benefits of newer generations simply don't matter to many users. WhatsApp/Insta/Email/Maps runs just fine on an A9 or A13 and her main game is 2D chess....
Exactly. We are in the worst crisis since WWII & the stock market is at record levels in relation to GDP
How to make the healthiest coffee, according to science
That the uprising was started by women is corroborated by other, older sources as well,[1] and is not a misportrayal by the BBC. That Cheran is populated by the indigenous Purépecha people is also supported by other sources, including the Mexican legal system that upheld the town's autonomy. I cannot find anything else in the article that would support what you are saying. Can you provide some quotations?

1. https://www.wired.com/2013/05/cheran-uprising/
Huh, interesting idea... I guess such a thing could be quite interesting for some short form updates (i.e. live from a conference). You'd probably want that to go through some kind of editor right? I just assumed it would be a news-reader/viewer.
This is a very common response to any comment about standard deviations and the market. Turns out gaussian modeling is very easy to understand and to use in most cases. If you're trading intraday, that kind of model is probably fine and a great way to build a baseline. If you're changing your time horizon to days or months of years, then something other than gaussian could be of service. IMHO
Most likely ARM as that is what the iOS devices use now.
This is extremely disingenuous. The reason we aren’t having kids is we can’t afford it. All of my friends want to have kids but can’t. The few who have done so anyways are hurting.
this makes me sad because I've just recently got a MacBook Pro, and it was not cheap;

still had hopes that it could last >10yrs as my last one did
Archivists uncover earliest evidence of a person being killed by a meteorite
I know it won't be exactly the same thing as the 68k and PPC eras, but I'm excited nonetheless. I'm a sucker for stories of going against the mainstream and pulling it off. I remember being wholly underwhelmed when Apple switched to Intel in the mid 2000s; my PPC Mac mini was more performant than the first Intel mini by far, especially the GPU. Given how powerful the A series mobile processors are (the new iPhone SE makes my Galaxy Note 10+ look like a slouch in benchmarks), I have a feeling the new Macs will be worth a look for anyone without hard requirements for Windows 10.
Flooding will affect double the number of people worldwide by 2030
It’s not true.
Where are you getting the per-core transistor counts from?
This is likely a consequence of the Conservative government continually stripping police funding over the past ten years.

I would presume local police forces could handle these requests if they had adequate resources to do so. They frequently do not.
Private banks technically own the Fed receive 6% interest on their capital with any net gains are paid to the treasury. They buy all the bad and risky loans from banks and never have to mark them to real value or take a loss. If asset recovers and becomes valuable they sell it back to the banks.
According to the article it is going to be a staggered release, starting with the lower end of the Mac lineup, so I have a feeling there will be several more years of Hackintosh fun to be had.
Use Pow: https://powauth.com/
As it should be.

Public debt is just a number that express the accumulated of pass deficits. In order to reduce that number you need a government that, instead of a deficit, have a surplus.

If the government has a surplus, less money is spend in the economy.

If that reduction in spending is not compensated somehow, necessarily, the GDP has to fall.

The only things that can reduce that fall in government spending are a positive balance commerce or an increase in private debt.

Now, an increase in private debt, instead of public debt, that's a real problem.
> For Gitlab, I believe they are or are planning on providing experimental support for CNB. You can probably already use it today if you use pack directly in your pipeline.

You can try it out today using environment variables in your CI job.

Example:

- AUTO_DEVOPS_BUILD_IMAGE_CNB_ENABLED: 1
- AUTO_DEVOPS_BUILD_IMAGE_CNB_BUILDER: gcr.io/paketo-buildpacks/builder:base
Not true when you are using Wayland and GTK-based apps like Thunderbird / Firefox / Chrome or Electron based apps.

That was the main reason that after more than a decade I turned to Gnome. HiDPI and fractional scaling just works since then. Highly recommended!
A New Climate Model Lets You Decide How to Slow Global Warming
Is there any software not built by Apple that is worth getting a Mac for?

Logic Pro, Final Cut. And you cant even buy a decent Mac to run them without paying arm and leg.

Everyting else seems to be cross platform and runs ok on Windows, or even linux.
I'm curious about the real range requirements for EV freight trucks. At least in Europe, there's very strong regulations for mandatory rest periods for freight truck drivers. It seems to me you would basically design the system including the infrastructure so the trucks end up on a charger during those rest periods, and therefore don't need a very long range battery unless it improves the economics.

I'm sure smarter and knowledgable people have done the numbers on this; I should go find a good source ...
Is the site down for everyone else, or just me?
> I have a feeling the new Macs will be worth a look for anyone without hard requirements for Windows 10

Not just that - but the many, many legacy apps professionals rely on. The 64-bit move already decimated the professional audio space. The cynic in me can't help but see this as a move towards pure consumer device. As a development machine it will be all but useless as you find things that won't compile or work correctly on the new CPU arch.
A counterpoint: Babel's extensibility doesn't matter in practice at all, other than helping the Babel team organize their code.

Pretty much every new ES6 feature required parser and babel-core changes just to be able to be used.

Example: a lot of changes that only worked in Babel 7 (that was on Beta for months) were not possible in Babel 6, and so on for previous versions. A plugin was not enough: you also needed parser/core changes.

Other than for novel non-standard features (like code substitution), plugins are not exactly that powerful, and even things like that are frowned upon in most environments, as 99.9% of people just want ES6 features.
One thing that threw me off is Snaps are sandboxed. So I installed Slack, and I clicked on support ticket links and I had to sign in again. Cos when it loaded Firefox it loaded a separate instance of Firefox rather than re-using my existing open instance.

So I've resorted to removing all the snap apps and installing them from terminal and no longer have any issues.

I'm not sure who the target audience is for Snaps.