skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At the end he writes, "From everything I’ve heard, talking to doctors and reading the background material, the Bakersfield doctors are probably not to be trusted. But the functional impact of removing their videos (in addition to giving them press they wouldn’t otherwise have had) is to stamp out discussion of things that do actually need to be discussed, like when the damage to the economy..."

With all due respect to Taibbi as an outstanding Journalist, in making that statement, he employed the flawed “crash course in relying on the opinions of others” he illustrated in the beginning of the article.

From my own experience, I have been unable to engage in meaningful discussion about economic impact or death rates associated with poverty with anyone. It’s either “fu reopen now” or “are you crazy you selfish murderer?”.

The most concerning discussion I had was with a friend who is County Counsel in one of the Big 6 NorCal Counties that initiated the first lockdown. He’s writing the orders but not setting policy. I asked him why we aren’t talking about opening non-essential businesses with social distancing? He said “the medical experts haven’t green lit that yet”. So I further inquired “are there any economists or sociologists at the table”. He said no. When I said “poverty has a death rate too”, his response was “that’s just a Trump talking point”. I made sure he understood I had read a study by Columbia University in 2001 when unemployment was 4%, and they pinned the death toll from poverty at about 3x the current CV-19 death toll.

Like, I said he’s not setting policy but this type of blindness based on politics mentioned by Taibbi is very apparent to me with the lack of experts other than medical experts at the policy making table. That’s pretty fucking scary to me when at a time like this we need to remain objective. To analyze data. To consider all conclusions may be incorrect or may not be as optimal as others. And bottom line, if the goal is to save lives, then the death toll of the disease must be weighed against the death toll of any mitigations.
The bikeshedding over snap vs flatpack by some people is a huge drain on any conversations on Ubuntu these days.

Snaps work fine. Flatpack works fine. Both solve real problems that people have that the old ways of doing packages didn't solve.
Disclosure: I'm writing this with my DPO hat on.

The GDPR does specify what is personal data, but doesn't go out giving real-life interpretation examples. The categories given in the regulation are direct identifiers and indirect identifiers. The categories even include a good sampling of information types that belong in each.

Direct allows to identify an individual or a very small group from a single datapoint. Indirect allows to identify larger groups.

Or to put in terms most of us here understand.. Direct identifiers are personal information that would allow to send marketing junk to selected individuals. Indirect ones are those you would use to build marketing cohorts.

So if it's data your marketing department would like to grab, you can bet it's personal information under GDPR.
Personal definition for Urbit: Confucianism in a made up software terminology.
I work in GDPR-compliance related area in a multibillion UE corporation and I can say that right now, it's all a big joke. We have multiple huge violations and we don't do anything about it (partially because the law is so demanding that implementing it would be a massive effort). And yet, we don't get fined - partially probably because no one blew the whistle yet. I'm pretty sure the situation is very similar in all of our competitors. It seems to me that the lawyers who wrote GDPR might have been out of touch with realities of large and old companies and now the preference on regulators side might not to just not enforce the more bonkers parts of the bill? Interesting how it will play out over the next 5-10 years.
Those are more the exception than the norm, and their decisions to do so come at significant costs.
2 years of digital transformation in 2 months
> I think there's someone who would accept working at each of those places just fine. Even the worst ones.

Yes, people desparate enough to subject themselves to poorer working conditions. What's the single benefit for companies to cut themselves off from potentially good employees?
Exactly. I think most employees were even confused mid cheers.

Really when we say google today we are 100% not talking about the place we are remembering.
Interesting you said that. Recently, I started doing some work in C++ again to stay up to date with what's going on in the C++ world. Do you really feel it's not worth it? I'm thinking about something new to do, and C++ is what I picked. I started implementing a TUI email client.

The build time of C++ can be really long. I noticed it too.
Most likely its cursor acceleration. macOS dynamically adjusts the cursor movements based on the user swipe speed which makes it feel both precise and fast.

Last time I used Linux on my MBP, libinput was more... linear.
Posts without URLs get penalized, so you'd be better off posting this with a link, then adding your text as a first comment in the new thread.

An option would be to submit the medium.com article, then link to the Github repository from the comment.

One thing you should explain is who you are. Most HN readers won't have heard of the IIT Roorkee ACM Student Chapter (or even, sad to say, of Roorkee). If you introduce yourselves, readers will feel like they can relate to you and might get more interested in the material.

Good luck! If you repost, email us when the new submission is up and we can make sure it doesn't get flagged.
Sure, that's common.

But they also don't lie about it.
It’s seldom straight lying and more often omission of critical facts or misrepresentation of their roles on projects. Which sadly is the common advice given to people writing resumes, and it becomes a prisonner’s dilemma.

I assisted at whole interviews where “tech leads’ craftily avoid recognizing they code at most half an hour a day.

Or a dev listing super hard stuff on their resume but never mentioning until thoroughly asked that they pair programmed all of these.
Ubuntu 20.04 (Gnome) is the first version of Ubuntu that's ever been able to scale different density monitors to different scales.

It always had the options there in previous versions, but it only ever honoured the value you set on a single monitor. Now, I can have my 4K monitor at 200% while I leave my laptop at 100% (1080p) and it works perfectly.

If only it handled Bluetooth audio devices better it'd be perfect; Currently, I can't connect a pair of truly-wireless earbuds and play audio out of them without using Blueman to mess around with the audio sink settings etc each time I connect them. On my desktop, with Manjaro (KDE) and an Intel AX200 WiFi/Bluetooth I can connect both the earbuds (with no additional tweaking) and for example an Xbox One S Bluetooth controller (with the minor tweak of disabling etrm), and they both work perfectly.

I'm not sure how much of that is related to Gnome/KDE but Ubuntu really could do with some better Bluetooth device handling, especially for audio devices.
> that doesn't seem susceptible to not-invented-here syndrome

Really?

Compelte opposite from my experience, Microsoft is re-inventing their own version of literally everything, even the smallest thing which doesn't have any strategic benefits. That shows me that they suffer extremely from not-invented-here syndrome.

For example, why does Microsoft need to invent their own Redis cache alternative (=AppFabric)? Why does Microsoft need to invent "Windows containers" which are incompatible with Docker Linux containers (aka normal Docker)? Why do they need to keep re-inventing Internet Explorer? Why does Microsoft need to re-invent their own search engine which nobody uses (Bing in case you have never seen/heard of it)? Why does Microsoft need to invent their own inferior Slack after already nuking Skype, Skype for Business, Yammer, etc.? Why does Microsoft need to invent their own Azure DevPops inferior alternative to GitHub, especially when they already bought the better tool, why compete with it with a shit product which makes every developers blood boil?
Starting strength is great for smaller men and women but can be hard on bigger people. Especially with Rippletoe's eating philosophy. I gained 15kg when I started SS so be careful. It was worth it and my numbers went up a ton, but it's always good to measure your options. If you're very large it is worthwhile to hire a trainer. They will teach you how to get started easily without jumping off the deep end.
I would guess most folks here use full disk encryption, which would generally preclude you from reading the filesystem if you don't have the password any longer. If not, this is a good article to convince you to do so since anyone could do something similar to your laptop with no encryption.
Posts without URLs get penalized, so you'd be better off posting this with a link, then adding your text as a first comment in the new thread.

If you repost, email hn@ycombinator.com when the new submission is up and we can make sure it doesn't get flagged.
What are the rate and size limits for the API? Also what is the data retention (how long before you delete the buckets)?
Go on, do Eisenhower. Or Carter.
> Debt does not (necessarily) mean high taxes in the future.

You are right, that's why I called it another possibility. To list them all explicitly.

Higher debt now means that the future either has default, higher (than anticipated) inflation or higher taxes.

(A steady inflation doesn't do anything to debts: at the time the debt is incurred, any anticipated inflation shows up in the nominal interest rate. Similarly, getting a reputation for defaulting increases your nominal interest rate. A reputation for high taxes doesn't do anything to the interest rate directly.)

Responsible governments try to avoid default and ever increasing inflation. That leaves taxes. Or taking on less debt in the first place.

About slack:

Modern central banks target inflation. If there's slack like you describe, a competent central bank will inject more money until inflation is at the target.

Central banks wire their profits to the treasury. That includes the seigniorage income they make from propping up inflation back to the target.

That's just bog standard monetary policy. And doesn't crowd out private sector investment and consumption and is perfectly capable of picking up any slack.

(That's not to say the fiscal side of government doesn't have any effects at all. But that's more on the supply side.)
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The author's perspective is warranted, as it pertains to the issue of spreading misinformation. For example, older demographics have been shown to be more likely to share disinformation on Facebook. See, eg, [0]

[0] https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaau4586
Hi espadrine. I appreciate your well-intentioned comment, but I believe the issue here is not about grasping the symmetry argument, rather it's that the symmetry argument is not an answer to the the actual question I've been posing since the beginning.

Please correct me if I'm wrong—but the symmetry argument is basically: Nock could be classified as a concatenative combinatory logic, which is a variation of "classical" combinatory logic; this classical variation, or a particular incarnation like the SKI combinator calculus, can be viewed as a variation on the untyped lambda calculus.

That establishes an association between Nock, the alternative posted by xkapastel (which is a concatenative combinatory logic), and the lambda calculus.

So from here we can say, "why not just use the non-obscure bit of combinatory logic instead?" (we choose this over lambda calculus since Nock's approach appears concentative too, avoiding lambdas)

And my answer is that if all you need is a concatenative universal model of computation—then you're done!

But—where is it actually established that that is the only requirement for Nock in the context of Urbit? That is the question I've been asking the whole time, and which is not answered by the symmetry argument.

Nock's essential structure may be that of a concatenative combinatory logic, but that doesn't mean there aren't other aspects of its design which are important for how it relates to other particulars of the Urbit system (for instance: maybe this variation has nice performance properties in connection with other parts of Urbit—I don't know).
WSL2 is extremely recent, so in context of the question, the fetishization of Macs is because using Linux on windows used to be pretty laborious.

Setup a VM, getting networking going on the VM, blah, blah, blah.

Mac actually supported Linux commands, windows didn't.

That or you had a Linux laptop which had a massive overhead in breaking a lot. Never did it myself, but the complaints tended to be that drivers broke constantly and it was hard to use a lot of commercial software, including games.

As far as I remember, it was common even 10 years ago to see Linux users on HN openly say they'd given up on trying to get their soundcard to work as it wasn't worth the hassle as it would just break in 6 months again.
>Bitcoin Lightning (and, in principle, similar netting layers) allows transactions with fees on the scale of a few satoshis

The lightning whitepaper also says a minimum block size of 155mb is needed to work at scale. Bitcoin currently has a 1mb block size.

I dont see lightning network being useful on a large scale until thats resolved.
False advertising. The title says recovering your root password, but the article only talks about bypassing having to enter one.
Hah... More importantly if you're a silicon startup and you need a CPU core for some brand new design, you are probably not tied to a specific instruction set.

The obvious one to choose in that case is RISCV because it already has a working compiler and Linux port, has a thriving community, and there are no paperwork delays to get a prototype built.

ARM is making its stuff free to try to compete with the free RISCV, in the hope that when that startup becomes a big company, migrating to a new architecture will prove too hard, and they'll be locked in.
And Perl isn't opaque to casual examination? :D
Printing presses are interesting machines, but they are not at all related to GPUs. Although newer ones probably have cameras looking at what's coming out and a GPU processing the imagery. Presses used to have a huge number of manual adjustments to ink flow for how much of each color is being used for each column. That's been automated for years, because you went through a lot of paper during manual tuning.

And yes, there are presses that do plate changes on the fly.[1] For "those profitable short-run jobs".

Printing is a dying industry, though. Printing huge amounts of paper to be thrown away the next day is over.

[1] https://youtu.be/0KwO6LMp-aM
You are mixing up two layers. Viaweb was written in Common Lisp, but the end users used RMTL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTML).

Whether you implement RTML in Python, Unlambda, Common Lisp or Rust doesn't make a difference to the user.
That business with a "sauce bottle" has just filled 20 mins for me before I dive into the helpdesk at work, here at home (in the UK.)

...

Sauce is alcohol, not ketchup - now it makes sense! That's why you would suck and not shake the thing. We use the term sauce in the same way but not the term sauce bottle.
Rested (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rested/) which run as a browser extension.
I have just tried it and after planning a small sprint for my team I loved it immediately.

I'd absolutely love to give it a go at my company. I want an on-premise version.
Looks nice! The pricing is a bit confusing: is basic plan free? How does that relate to the trial week?
Looks like this has been posted before the guy has even got his sponsorship links ready, seems unfair to leave it up.
To be a snarky: that was a cartel that benefited from the deed in the past outlawing its competition.
Absolutely. The general quality and of course objectivity of WSJ has gone downhill for years. It’s not a recent phenomenon.
Great, but it didn't actually tell us much of anything. What would have been so bad about trying his way and also somebody else's way? How does no longer being equipped to try his way make anything better? If the other way won't work, how can Google's project make any progress?
>Lightning network is capable of solving the issue though, as these transactions are done over a secondary layer.

The lightning network whitepaper states a base block size of 155mb is needed for it to work at scale. Right now bitcoin has a 1mb block size limit. And as you said, this size is intentionally limited, so i doubt we'll ever see lightning network work at scale.
Cool so you're telling me you will sell me 10kEUR for 1kUSD?

Where do I send the money to?
But you can use publicly available servers to do that no? STUN servers and such. So you don't need to roll our your own.
Yeah interesting. As I searched for references I found it originates from Britain.

This Quora thread has some interesting info: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-people-call-their-telephon...
> It's not just the written word. The same applies to the spoken word as well.

Writing can not be compared with speaking. Writing has the advantage of thinking over multiple times and editing before sending out the final draft.
Ahh I see, sounds like we were talking past each-other a bit. I can totally see why you read it that way, maybe I'm the one who's off base.
I don't know where you are from, but we say something very similar in Swedish.
I have the XPS 13 9350 and i like the touchpad as well. There‘s always room for a little improvement but during daily use it‘s not that i‘m annoyed by the touchpad. Not at all.
Emulators running here, from NES all the way up to PSP, on a 6s that's not jailbroken.

You can sideload it yourself if you have a mac, or you can use something like buildstore that gives you a provisioning profile, but that's 7$ a year or something.

Happily paid that. The buildstore also offers things like ad-free youtube and twitch.tv app tweaks, torrent clients, you name it.
People can be very good at constructing “facts” that are not correct but desirable to them, and not completely devoid of anchoring.

Like that time they were at a book signing event, asked the author for a two-shot, got a smile for a last joke thrown before leaving for the next in line, and now proudly declare themselves “good friends” with that author.
Has worked fine on some of mine but they were beardless. I suspect because there's not many (if any) bearded characters in the training set.
Yep. I went to sponsor him with a few bucks, but as you say, it wasn't set up.

Think the best we can do for now is to give a star to https://github.com/gitclear/libinput although it doesn't feel very significant.

> I presume nobody is randomly visiting pages on bill.harding.blog, so you aren't seeing this.

FeelsBadMan.
The lightning network whitepaper states a block size of 155mb is required for lightning to work at scale. Bitcoin has a 1mb block size with no hope of it ever increasing. I dont see this as a solution at all.
Kudos for the release! This comment might seem counterintuitive, but I think Tara's adoption would grow a lot if you offer a way to sync or import from JIRA.

JIRA sprint planning is painful. In my current company, we use it, and its shortcomings shape our way of working. I.e., not able to link histories' subtasks to a sprint, causing that the backlog is full of long histories, and you need to go looking around to see how the histories are going.

If we were able to sync epics and histories (JIRA <-> Tara), we could probably have the better of both worlds. I see Tara very focused on devs, but not all JIRA users are devs. For instance, how would critical bugs - reported by users - be handled in Tara?

I imagine this synchronization as bidirectional, where you write the specs as a list in JIRA's issue description, but they are actionable in Tara. So no more subtasks in JIRA and Tara become a complementary tool that, once you are used to it, you can go with entirely standalone.

Just writing this quickly, with no deep thought, but it was my very first thought after checking your website.

I hope this feedback can be useful to you.
I don’t want to be patronized and much less by a software vendor
Ornament and Crime (1908) [pdf]
So run an xserver on your pc and work on the development server or your local Linux workstation.

And why would you be running games on your companies Linux systems ?
Thanks for considering!
I think you are over dramatizing this. Bad hires happen. I do not see how the manager has their entire career on the line, if they need to fire someone later.

Should it not be possible to create trust between two people, just because one of them has a criminal record? I do not follow that logic.

Edit: My issue is with his absolute "never".
From Satya Nadella:

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Do you think your mind-reading mindset is helping? That's a lot of words to put in someone's mouth.

I also take it you are one of the people with a "really evolved mindset"?
Not worked at Google, but from what I read, only GFS or Colossus worry about disk storage, every other application can write only to GFS and have no dependency on local disks.
Congrats! I haven't tested it out as I would love to see a screenshot or video demo before giving away any personal information to know if does what I think it does.
Let me help. You disparaged a guy's speech because he uses too many f-words for punctuation and emphasis than what you find acceptable, declared his work idiotic, ascribed completely made-up motivations to him ("gain attention by swearing"), and bemoaned the fact that mainstream media won't just ignore him. All in the space of two sentences.

My argument is that you're behaving like a tendentious grump. Every form of expression -- silly or serious -- is subject to being declared vulgar and unnecessary by self-important grumps. Random examples given, others are easy to find. Eventually you might find yourself arguing with another grump over some art or expression that you enjoy. Unless, of course, you just don't really enjoy anything.
That is how you reset the root password on Linux. If you have physical access to any computer, then you can do what you like. If you need to recover administrator on a Windows box then you go in with a systemrescue CD and edit the SAM database.

The choice is yours. You can deploy disc encryption, BIOS passwords etc but be prepared for being locked out.
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Aluminium was my lazy way of saying non-plastic. I’d rather it dint than crack.

Thanks for the tips.
Circling back:

https://gitlab.com/ryankemper/writings/-/commit/6daa56a4a05f...
> Search for my face on Facebook and they have my name too. Sell to marketer.

Spoiler: Clearview already did this. And possibly others we haven't yet heard of because they've been smart.
Anything east from germany no credit rating companies.

Germany has unusualy strict laws about this. Its hard to rent a flat but its also hard to kick out someone out of flat.