skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I downloaded the beta a week ago, and was very impressed. I love the auto-tiling. I've been trying to get into that for a while, but never found it polished enough. This is a fantastic implementation, that doesn't require you to memorize all of the keyboard combos to get started.

I'm very torn about flatpack versus snaps versus debian. This fragmentation is awful.

I'd like to see a ZFS (with encryption) default soon as well.
More likely, someone will make an off-color-- er, non-politically-correct-- comment, which is guaranteed because one side or another will be offended by any comment on a sensitive topic, raising a media firestorm and calls to fire someone.
I have a suspicion that if we ask a bit deeper whether you're really for people acting on their strong moral fortitude, that's not what we'll find.

I bet we'll find that you simply agree with this person's stance on this particular issue, and if they had had the opposite opinion (equally strongly morally-based) or on other issues, you wouldn't be supporting their bravery and wanting to work with him/her.
> But actually AFAICT Microsoft rarely (never?) actually succeeded in extinguishing any of the open standards they were infamous for attacking

SMB pretty well extinguished the use of NFS; and Active Directory pretty well extinguished the use of LDAP.

Neither of these were really Microsoft-driven, though. It was almost the reverse: the ecosystem cloned Microsoft's approach into FOSS, and then liked it better, and replaced their own stuff with it without Microsoft's participation. Sort of like how BitKeeper's approach was cloned as git, which then extinguished most other SCMs.
Bailouts are public failures, not private failures. Businesses are doing what they should in fighting tooth and nail to survive. The market is doing what it should in killing businesses too stupid or greedy to survive. It is the government doing the wrong thing by saving the incompetent.

If the government bails out idiots, what's the point in being smart?
Shame Is a means of Control
If it’s anything like the British aristocracy then “wealthy” people are deeply in debt all the time anyway and leveraged to the hilt and one crisis away from bankruptcy (bad credit) but keep getting loans because of their status. Is that what they meant?
LineageOS supports a lot of different Xiaomi devices: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/#xiaomi

I have a tissot with LineageOS 16.0, not sure yet whether it will get 17 ported to it as well. The hardware is great for the price (bought it a year after launch, heavily discounted). I bought it specifically to run LineageOS on it, so I have no idea what the stock experience is like.
If only the media cared as much about ppl’s super critical data being exposed as it cares about the privacy of my Facebook Likes.
Oddly for me, McDonalds is the one place that's still open 24h around where I live. But yes.
> Colleges should not even offer loans for non-viable majors.

Oddly enough, a couple of the best programmers I have ever work with are now CTOs at their respective companies. One of them had an english degree and the other a music degree.

Just yesterday there was an article here on HN about the importance of writing.

So, which majors would you consider non-viable?
Root and then get flagged by Google's SafetyNet, preventing you from Netflix, banking apps etc? That's a brave but big sacrifice
Yeah. I am using cdroid android v10(based on lineage). Last update was this month.

Running it for 2 years now.
Artificial Intelligence can't technically invent things, says patent office
Having a pretty tough time finding my data here (not entirely sure which device it's on but it doesn't seem to be on the one I thought it was on), but if I can find it sometime soon I'll shoot it over to you via mail or something!
From the settlement web site:

"The Court gave final approval to the Settlement and overruled all objections on January 13, 2020. However, some of those that objected to the Settlement have now appealed the Court’s decision to approve the Settlement. By order of the Court, the Settlement cannot become final until all appeals are resolved and there is currently no timeline for the resolution of these appeals. When the appellate court enters a schedule for the appeal, we will update this website to provide individuals with more guidance as to the timing of a decision. Please check back for further updates."
When you throw extra demand in a market, prices go up all across the board, not equally though.

As for this particular situation, Fed buys corporate bonds, making companies less risky for stockowners. They also push those yields down, so capital goes to stocks to seek better returns.

Tell me how Federal reserve's actions don't prop up the stock market?
I think GP is implying that you can trust to invest in institutions like Equifax because they are propped up by the government and 'too big to fail'. Not sure I agree, but then again, there's the proof.
Let us know what you think, and we'd be happy to jump in a call to show you a demo or get you set up.
You just described every class action lawsuit.
even graduating with no debt and a good job, I doubt most people are looking to buy a house within seven years anyway.
Just for archive reasons. There are some interesting points worth addressing (IMHO). Of course I worked at Cliqz :-)

"The company only survived because of the investor throw a lot of money". 100% correct, and that speaks greatly about the investor. They believe that Google is a monopoly that needs to fought, as many others. But, instead of (or on top of) bitching and moaning, lobbying, etc. they put good money where their mouth was. Kudos for that.

Privacy was never Cliqz primary product. Privacy was a strict design requirement of Cliqz, which can be marketed more or less. Data collection and browsers alike, we wanted them to be private, because that's the right thing to do, even if it was more difficult to implement. The whole data vs. privacy argument is fallacious. One of the reasons why privacy was so important to us is precisely now, whoever ends up owning the data cannot learn anything about any of the users. Imagine the government getting Google's data if they go belly up or upon "legal" request (change Google by any other company). The data of Cliqz poses no risk to any user, including myself.

The primary product of Cliqz was search, either as the typical result page or instant search integrated on the browser. That's very difficult to build, and expensive, something that DuckDuckGo, Startpage, Qwant, etc. do not have to pay because they rely on the backend of others (not 100%, but mostly). If we were repackaging Bing/Google/Yandex with a different ranking twists, our quality would have been better from the beginning, of course. But that's not building an alternative to Google, which is what we wanted. Still, that's not a pun to DDG and others, what they provide has value to the users, of course. But they are not real alternative, kind of an electric car that gets its electricity from burning coal.

Brave is a great browser, respects to Brendan and team. We both "fight" against Google. For Brave it's Chrome, for Cliqz was both Chrome and Search. Too much to chew? Yes, but we had plenty of fun. The only thing I regret after +6 years working there is the loss of such a great team.
Equifax has done well despite the breach.
This is key for us.
As a long time i3 user, I'll admit the tiling looks pretty appealing. Trying to figure out what i3 gives me that the Pop OS tiling wouldn't. There are definitely a few things, but probably 95% of my workflow is there.

I recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 and set up i3 via Regolith, and I'm trying to figure out if it's giving me anything other than a new set of keyboard shortcuts. But something about it seems a lot slower than a week ago before I upgraded from bare i3 on 18.04.
True. I had planed to finish my CS PhD in 2016, but now I am still not finished
Cool stuff. Ideologies mutate a bit, in particular when then change host. After a while, their current form may differ greatly from their original phenotype.
Software should be either a trade school or a masters program depending on a student’s level of commitment to the academics involved just like law, medicine, or engineering.

The primary problem with education financing is unrealistic expectations. Do some basic math before paying for any education. If an education loan costs you a certain amount plus interests you need to make a certain amount minus what you would earn without the education to qualify that expenditure. If people currently working in your field aren’t making $150k then why would a $100k loan make any sense? Why waste that kind of money? When you could attend a trade school for $10k that allows you to earn $60k. Blaming the system does not excuse bad personal financial decisions.

When I was picking schools out of high school I found the third cheapest 4 year university in Texas. It was the only school I applied to more than 20 years ago. A 12 hour semester cost $1800 including dorm, tuition, and meal plan. Books and supplies were extra. To me that price made perfect sense because it would take becoming a CEO to justify the expense.
Although, most of that $4B will probably be spent on finding and onboarding hundreds of thousands (175k so far) of new staff to deal with the demands on the retail business caused by COVID-19.
What is the difference compared to signal or other E2E encrypted SMS approaches?
Epistemological Anarchism
Comcast!
>most project management software a) takes a lot of time to configure

Every project management software will have some reasonable defaults that can get you started in no time.

The problem is that every company (and certainly any company with more than a handful of employees), at some point, will want to adjust the tool to their use case and that's where the complexity comes in. If you can't adjust things like statuses and workflows, then you'll have issues with adoption.

All the best, this is an incredibly crowded and competitive scene.
The offered loan amount would be much lower, too.

Which is fine, because tuition, textbooks, and housing would be, too.

This is a crystal-clear example of what happens when government subsidies distort a market.
COM is Common Object Model. What you mean is OLE. In process COM calls are basically direct DLL calls and therefore very fast.
Mountain Search REST API
Looks like async/await support isn't ready yet. I wonder how challenging it will be to integrate WinRT's async model with Rust's futures and tasks.
The endemic ones that cause colds.
System76 if you're reading this, please hire a new design team that is on par with Apple, Google, IBM, etc. and a new industrial design team that has competence at the level of Bang & Olufsen, Apple, Braun, etc. System76 has such a huge potential but their marketing and design is lacking severely.

You guys need to realize that great companies such as Apple have a certain design ethos(some people resonate with it and some don't, but they have a very strong design language) and it comes from the top-down. Steve Jobs had a deep sense of appreciation for Japanese architecture, IBM in the 60's had hired Elliot Noyes, and Braun was aesthetically lead by Dieter Rams. IBM Thinkpads had hired IDEO design and bunch of high class firms to design their products. Nikon hired Pinin Ferrina. Study the history of hardware companies and what made them great.

System76 has the potential to be the most amazing linux-based computer company in the world - but they don't have the right type of leadership. Leadership needs to have good "taste".
Its also backwards looking, obviously. In the boomer working years, colleges were very selective and a degree was a stealth IQ test along with socioeconomic group membership.

At this point the average IQ of a college grad is very close to 100. I guarantee that within the next 30 to 40 years someone will make the shocking discovery that the presence or absence of a degree has no influence on income, success, or happiness.

At that point the ponzi scheme of higher ed can collapse.

There's nothing wrong with designing and implementing an education system for the top 5% of society and the jobs that top 5% will likely have. There is a big problem with a marketing scam along the lines of every American is a temporarily inconvenienced millionaire.

Surely, my favorite waitress at Dennys is making more money as a waitress than she would as a K12 educator, if she could get hired, which she cannot. The degree does not make her a better person nor a better waitress. It does signal that she's in maybe the top 50% of humanity WRT the skills required to get a degree. She's a somewhat better than average person because of who she is, not a meaningless piece of paper for training she will never use. The point of discussing my favorite waitress is we need "something" to signal in the job market who is in the upper half of potential employees, and $100K of debt and four years of labor seem a huge waste on a civilizational level.
Extremely wealthy people (i.e. 9-digit+ net worth) have teams of lawyers and accountants that figure out the optimal way to allocate the client's cash to achieve their goals. That may or may not include incurring debt, etc. Rich people borrow money too (not because they need to, but because it ultimately can make more financial sense to do so).

(there are of course exceptions to this, there are rich people bad with money or who want to look like they're richer than they actually are, but in general rich people stay rich by being smart about their money)
He made more with those call options than anyone will ever get from the breach settlement.

I bought stock in one of their competitors (TRU) which was also down around the same time. Even with all the craziness in the markets, it's still up close to 80% in a little over 2.5 years.
Having a bankruptcy on your record may make it difficult to get that high-paying job, as employers may not look favorably upon it.
Technically a misdemeanor (well, two), not a felony.
Call a California employment lawyer. They will probably won't even charge you if it's just a couple of simple phone questions. But you might wish to hire them to review your new offer employment paperwork and provide say legally binding advice. In that case the cost will probably only be a few hundred dollars.
They included "getting products to customers" in what they'll spend the 4 billion on, seems like they can include basically any cost in that.
Out of the fire and into the frying pan..

What makes you think that "profit motive" or "regulatory capture" will be kinder and more gentle with this approach?

For hundreds and thousands of years Indian farmers had a version of "income sharing". You should research how it went. And please don't respond with "Sure they fucked up but WE will build a better system this time around"
The name and the logo and the front lobby photo had me convinced it was some fashion or salon type business.

I do remember "iPad" sounding just bizarre. Now it's household.
If you have a discrete nvidia card and don't want to deal with extra scripts and configurations, this is the way to go, everything works out of the box,
or even if don't it's a quality distro
The rich don't need to care about credit. Having good credit only enables you to borrow more money.
Thanks, brother.
Yes, it is called activism.

Here is the formula:

0. Start up a nonprofit with the sole intention of eliminating nontransparent consumer credit reporting and data collection.

1. Come up with a charter for the organization.

2. Promote the organization (distribute pamphlets, have public meetings, speak at colleges, lecture halls, churches, newspaper op-eds, etc).

3. Attract like minded people.

4. Raise funds.

5. Promote and support politicians with similar objectives or convince existing politicians through lobbying.

6. Change local state laws change to ban the practice.

7. Change state laws for a majority of states in the US to ban the practice.

8. Change federal laws to ban the practice.

9. Block and impede efforts by greedy companies to reverse the new regulation.
Uhhh no. Rich people leverage their good credit and assets to become even richer.
This is why, without fail, I buy iPhones.
I recall reading that Plaid (now acquired by Visa) was working on creating its own credit scoring service.
Nock and Hoon are intentionally obscure. There is no good reason for either of them to be the way they are. Until they come to grips with this, Urbit is somewhere in between an art project and a pyramid scheme.

Here is a legible alternative to Nock's vision of a "minimalist combinator VM": http://tunes.org/~iepos/joy.html

[A] a = A
[A] b = [[A]]
[A] [B] c = [A B]
[A] d = [A] [A]
[A] e =
[A] [B] f = [B] [A]

There you go, "Maxwell's equations of software", without the obscurantist nonsense.
I figured it was the opposite.
On the topic of week starts, US calendars is funny because it starts on Sunday. European calendars start on Monday. In some Muslim countries they have Fridays, Saturdays off, and I guess they work again on Sunday. Welcome to dealing with time! I'm sure you've also read: https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-program... . I guess a logical option would be to have 2 options: "Start week on [Weekday]" (using a dropdown chooser) and "Show [n] days" (some people maybe want a 6-day week, and others just a 3-day one!).

I noticed the "Copy" button generates a copy-pastable text. I was half expecting an encoded URL that one could share with people, they'd open this URL in their browser and see what the user just entered. For me at least it's easier to see a graphical calendar rather than trying to parse entries like "Friday May 1, 8:00-10:00."

The data doesn't even have to be stored server-side, you could encode the times and generate a URL with a "#", which the app would then decode so it could render the calendar with the markings.
Ironically, every governmental attempt to make college more affordable has caused tuition to rise.
Imperial College Covid model code released
I got sick of waiting for Apple to fix their keyboards and built myself a custom Ryzen-based desktop. I chose to install PopOS 19.10 on it and it has been great. I plan on waiting a few weeks to upgrade to 20.04 and will then probably stay on that version until the next LTS release.

I never used Ubuntu as my daily driver so it is hard to say what is better, but PopOS has been great and has good defaults. It was not hard to adjust despite having used OSX for the previous 12 years. I work from home 95% of the time so working on a desktop was an option and I still have my old 15" Macbook from work around when I need to travel to the office. I will probably just get it upgraded when Apple refreshes the 13" Pro.

Anyway, +1 for PopOS and you do not have to run System76 hardware to use it.
I think the most similar thing to WinRT on Linux would be GObject Introspection since the main point appears to be a way to somewhat automatically surface the platform API in multiple languages using language-specific idioms. D-Bus is instead for RPC and events, which I guess COM also gets used for?
The author can start with himself by abstaining from this kind of wordy
pontificating. Unfortunately as a political science and Chinese major, he's
rendered himself incapable of answering the call for "bridges not bullsh_t."
Sorry, teams can't be only devs. That's IT or something, and implies that tech isn't the business.

Team has to include 'the business', as in, voice of customer, features lens, in those tradeoff prioritizations along with what do we engineer, and what's the truth of where we are on the field, for delivering what satisfies the customer and our constraints. // Hat tip Rands in Repose.

As for "Ultimately it's not about trust, it's about accountability and predictability" that's precisely the characterization I reject. Accountability means you earn your keep by being effective. Predictability, well, milestones come and go, the software gets used forever. That's the predictability needed, which goes right back to effectiveness. You won't magic either of those in a Jira.
I run PopOS 18.04 on a Lenovo P1 (sister machine to the X1 Extreme). It works flawlessly and is quite beautiful. I've had issues with Thunderbolt docks, but then again, I had the same with a MacBook Pro 2018.
With all (human) competitions cut or postponed, watching a bit of zany machine football was especially enjoyable, thanks!
Apollo seeks $20B to pounce on credit market tumult
You've badly misunderstood Urbit.

Once you have an Urbit identity, you control who you talk to and can create as many "subreddits" as you like.

Split away to your heart's content.
Yes and please release something like the Lemur Pro with a 4K or at least a WQHD display.
"If it's a bad bet for the bank, it must be far worse of a bet for young adults."

Not necessarily. Even if it's a good bet for the student, what's to stop them from declaring bankruptcy just after graduation, and before they start their lucrative career? They would then get all the upside, whilst the bank gets zero payments.
I don't know about that. If you fall short of your aspirations at the PhD or postgrad level, there's always quantitative finance or any number of other lucrative careers where your background will at least get you in the door for an interview.

For the athlete, it's literally all or nothing.
globular-toast seems to be arguing past everyone because they're imagining a reality where

a. these hypothetical ultra high clocked single core CPUs actually exist, and

b. they have unlimited spending money and don't care at all about power usage or cooling.
It's really too bad that high schools do not teach basic accounting, compound interest, and how the free market system works.

Things people need to know to function in our society.
.. at least in the US, this is not true.. some wealthy people have serious marks on their credit scores and it does follow you
When you buy calls but don't have the capital to exercise those calls, do brokerage services lend you the money to collect on the gains assuming your call is in the black?

I have a pretty good stock portfolio, but I haven't dipped my toes into the call/put, futures, derivatives, "iron condors", etc. world yet.
Not at all! They're all things I'm learning myself. Some were lessons I knew I was going to have to learn, but there have been a few I didn't really expect to learn about.

That HP manual was a great link. I've been studying it over the last few days. Thanks for sending it. :)

The only one I'm really kicking myself over is not including an antialiasing filter at the DAC output. Seems like a bushleague mistake considering I paid all that money to get this EE degree.
So what do you suggest? That no journalist can cover these issues if their employer doesn't meet some minimum level of privacy respecting behavior? You could say it's hypocrisy, but on whose part I'm not sure. Surely not the author. Is it on Forbes' part for not blocking publication?

Just not sure the point in alleging that the publication (or investigation?) somehow took a lot of guts or whatever.

Forbes isn't installing tracking software on every site you visit. They're monetizing to the nth degree visitors to the own site. And if we want to do what-about-isms I just don't know how we have a conversation without starting at FB and Google.

Maybe I'm paranoid, but your comment strikes me as exactly the kind of thing I'd write if I was Xiaomi. Also I just don't think it helps the cause of privacy to discourage these kinds of investigations by any publication, regardless of their own track record.
Just curious why does wall st and others use "Earnings per share". The number of shares is arbitrary and can be adjusted up or down by a split/reverse split or dilution.

It seems to me that EPS is just earnings divided by an arbitrary number. Why not look at operating profit as a percentage instead?