skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Sophist" (which is a difficult, very technical dialogue regarding problems with platos theory of ideas)

For the general lay reader, is there a more accessible equivalent you can recommend?
This is the popular view on HN.

I take the opposite stance - being in person makes a huge difference, possibly one not appreciated by the demographics here.

People continually reduce the experience to “sitting in a box and ingesting information.

But a classroom is much more than that - it’s the ability to interact with other students, to deal with real world issues and practice even basic skills like asking questions.

It’s chances to interact in larger groups.

It’s resources which can’t be shared online at all (libraries, information terminals, printers.)

There are also people who depend on interacting with people to process ideas.

All of this modulated by the degree.

If you are doing some courses, you very much depend on interacting with people - doing a negotiations module online is very different from an in person class to pick an example.

And fundamentally- human brains on average are designed to work with people.

Mine isn’t, and being at home and studying isn’t a bad deal- but i would cease being objective if I didn’t recognize that there are many ancillary and direct benefits to studying in college, and for some people in person studying is the only way they can achieve it.

Finally I present to the people here Blooms 2 Sigma problem.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom's_2_sigma_problem

People sorely sorely underestimate what “education” is actually about.
They cite one man, Ebright, as opposing GoF. 'Scientists' plural seems a tad exaggerated.
It doesn’t require huge balls, it requires ranking virtue signalling over monetary gain. Firing whistleblowers is a terrible thing but after forming/joining an activist group demanding that your employer addresess climate change, and promoting Naomi Klein as a spokesperson for the blue collar workers at the same corporation, I suspect that your ability to distinguish between whistleblower and social justice activist is compromised.
Are you using every week or is it when you resume where you left of you check the cards?
German here. Experience with my DPA (LDI NRW) tells me, that they are overwhelmed, yes.
But if you bring a case with a clear violation they work quiet fast.
So, object to the usage of your data under Art. 21 (2) if you get any other email than telling you that they deleted your data, they are still using your data for direkt marketing and are in violation with Art. 5 (1b). In my experience this bumps above the "proportionate" hurdle for a fine by changing from negligent infringement to intentional infringement (Art. 83 (2b)).
it goes both ways though: another company might hire tbray not only for his skills, but also to signal potential employees they're taking the health and safety of their workforce seriously. at least i hope this might be the case.
Yes, and this is now a question if you can trust that the other person is not the adversary so we introduce trusted third parties and certificates.
Missed opportunity for https://noteplan.co/
Trump and Brexit aren’t silent spreaders, both used targeted video and social media to hit the people most open to their message. MAGA is magical for certain populations — they basically took the people who were loving Ron Paul back in the day and weaponized the message.

It was silent to you, because the broadcast wasn’t aimed at you.
I really enjoyed Bryan's book. I'd always thought uni was ridiculously overpriced, but hearing it straight from the mouth of a professor really hammered the point home for me.
I believe we are on the verge of the education bubble bursting, just like the housing bubble a decade earlier
really?
Which laptops from 2010 have 13-15 hours of battery life?

Which consumer/workstation computer from 2010 feature 32-64 cores?

How much RAM could you put into such machines?
etc.
> Instead, debate the policies. Explain why they're wrong in a reasonable conversation.

This only works if the other side is debating in good faith. Both Trump and the Brexit camp have demonstrated over and over that they are not interested in a good faith debate.
That signal reaches a few industry insiders paying close attention. This will probably make the NY Times. They're many orders of magnitude apart in terms of impact.

I believe Tim is making a real sacrifice here, which is why it's so rare and impressive.
I did wonder where people found all this supposed new free time. 3 Hour commute...
Amazon is a great evil.

It will not be remembered as a company that has had been a positive influence on the world but as a company that has treated its employees (both hourly and salaried) with contempt, driven independent stores out of business and refused to play on a level playing field both through its shady business practices or its refusal to pay tax.

Well done to Tim Bray for acting according to his conscience. Hopefully this sets an example to other Amazon employees and other tech workers working in similarly morally compromised organisations.
Jitter – A generator of efficient language virtual machines (2017)
Yes, and I don't see how they're linking the lab to GoF. The GoF component of the research has been cancelled, and I would presume (due to its association with Peter Daszak) that it was cancelled due to lack of funding from American budget cuts or from safety concerns about the virus. I could be wrong on the reasons for cancellation, though.
Amazon is not a bank where VP position is like a senior engineer. VPs are very few and wield a lot of power and influence.
I don't know.
But if you can, that still leaves you the second use case: starting your container on reboot.

Can you have Docker do that too?
Just FYI to the author, I can't read this on Firefox mobile, the text is clipped weirdly. Reader mode does work however.
I feel lucky to live in a part of the world where good education is free. In France, you even get some money and an apartment from the state if you need it to study.
> Everyone loves to complain that trump supporters and brexiters suffer from a lack of critical thinking

Which is easily demonstrated by their support for platforms and policies that crumble under the merest hint of application of critical thinking.
Yup; if people wanted an online course, they could've taken that instead. In their home country as well.
>More than 200 scientists called for the work to be halted. The problem, they said, is that it increased the likelihood that a pandemic would occur through a laboratory accident.
Is it essentially nand2tetris in game format? I tried making my way through that a couple times but maybe some gamification is just what I needed.
I think "allowed the creation" rather implies it is the root cause.
From what I've read, the false positive rate on most of the antibody tests available in the US is high enough that you'd be just as well served by flipping a coin.
I wouldn't necessarily agree with "very little progress", but:

Thinkpad X220 is from 2011, but was far from alone in reaching such battery life (it's just the one I have first-hand experience with). Workstation laptops from the time (e.g. Thinkpad W510) can take 32 GB, just as most laptops today, and thus remained viable machines for a long time. Many-core systems are more possible today, but also far from the standard. 4-8 cores is still the default.
my colleagues are quite keen on Mural: https://www.mural.co/

also, BigBlueButton has a Whiteboard as part of its package: https://bigbluebutton.org/
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>strace actually does work in newer versions of Docker

Good to know, this should open up some troubleshooting
The controversy is explicitly described in the article:

>The work in question was a type of gain-of-function research that involved taking wild viruses and passing them through live animals until they mutate into a form that could pose a pandemic threat. Scientists used it to take a virus that was poorly transmitted among humans and make it into one that was highly transmissible—a hallmark of a pandemic virus. This work was done by infecting a series of ferrets, allowing the virus to mutate until a ferret that hadn't been deliberately infected contracted the disease.

>The work entailed risks that worried even seasoned researchers. More than 200 scientists called for the work to be halted. The problem, they said, is that it increased the likelihood that a pandemic would occur through a laboratory accident.

When you set these concerns next to 2018 diplomatic cables describing safety problems at the biolab in question [0], perhaps the accidental-release theory does seem worthy of investigation.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-dep...
I think your sentiment is understandable given the state of affairs. Have you spent time reading about past societies that have undergone collapse?

While it may seem daunting, changing the system before a point of no return would historically be the right move.

Historically, the most likely outcome of your strategy is a shift towards more oligarchs and feudalism.

Have a look at Russia, Iraq, China (post ww2), etc.

I don’t think there is any reason to be optimistic about “drastic change” being change for the better. It very well can go both ways, and historically tends to the worse.
He has stated in the past that his short stint at Google gave him enough wealth that he never needs to work again. Tim is known for stating things on his blog that are easily interpreted as self-complementary so the real reason for him doing anything, as stated from his blog, is irrelevant.
> No, we don’t have herd immunity, but enough that the rate of infection is slowing.

The rate of infection is slowing because of shelter-in-place orders. Suggesting we're to the point of developing herd immunity is completely baseless and improbable.
> Everything else was delegated to higher levels

Read: A confusing mess of different daemons, scripts, and configuration files, which neither worked together elegantly, were simple to configure, nor were easy to debug. Before systemd I would avoid writing custom daemon configurations at all costs because when I did I would need to learn how this version of this distro did it, fiddle with the byzantine mess of scripts, and inevitibly debug multiple subtle issues, now it's basically trivial to get a new daemon running, and I extremely rarely need to debug issues (And I have had to track down systemd bugs due to obscure use cases like one systemd unit modifying other systemd unit configs at the same time another systemd unit with multiple execstart lines is running).
Setup for high-quality video calls
Currently a student, and I completely agree. The strain is both ways, too. Since timezones are now a very fluid concept, you're seeing courses accommodating completely new challenges in TA-ship. Some TAs have relocated entirely, which means that the course staff can be much smaller than anticipated.

For some students, they can only receive advice asynchronously and it makes it difficult to meet deadlines based on EDT timezones. Even video debugging/office hours for people in EDT is awful, despite advances in screen sharing/Zoom.

Also, I helped transition a professor to virtual instruction. They had never installed the Internet in their house before. They own no smartphone. They communicate entirely through landline and a dated desktop PC in their office. When absolutely necessary (course admin, journal paper updates) they will use Pine for email. This prof taught a 30-person graduate course in neurobiology having never touched any of the technologies they had to use. Bless that class.
Second this, an incredible distro with an impressive package manager.
Ask HN: How do you manage your learning while being busy with a full time job?
I'm a curious person and I have thirst for knowledge and learning. There are tons of stuff that I've always wanted to learn. When I was a BSc student, I remember I used to learn actively and I used to do self-defined projects. But after graduation and getting employed things have changed. Let's say I want to learn a new programming language by doing a self-defined project or some math like abstract algebra. The problem is that when I come back home from a software engineering job I like to chill or socialize. I like to watch a comedy. Not even drama or documentary. Only comedy. something that boosts your tiredness. I don't call it laziness. It's just that you are mentally tired and like to socialize or chill. So I will have only weekends and some of these stuff should be done daily otherwise it takes months to finish (like studying a math book). As a result of this it's been a couple of years that I have not done any self-defined projects or I have not learned anything outside of my daily job although that I feel the thirst for knowledge and learning.

Have you faced this problem? How do you deal with it?
Yikes - only 60 days ago! Thanks.
Turing's paper in 1939 describes a machine whose operation is recursive.
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> ranking virtue signalling over monetary gain

I'll cop to not being completely au fait with current right-wing rhetoric, but I thought a core part of "virtue signalling" (insofar as it might actually exist beyond "position I disagree with", which your post suggests it might not) was that it was low-effort / low-cost. In other words, no action where the alternative is non-trivial monetary gain could be virtue signalling.

Between this and Bray's arrest for environment activism previously, I'd propose that this is not "virtue signalling" but simply being virtuous.
Airbus to deploy 'game-changing' bomb-sniffing sensors at airports
No, it has nothing to do with remote and such.

systemd uses cgroups (kernel namespaces), and if you want something to remain after you log out, then start it in a separate cgroup.

cgroups are control groups, you know, to control processes. Which was simply missing for decades in Linux.

nohup should be enhanced to support systemd, or systemd should provide a nohup wrapper, and just start a new scope (cgroup) for whatever the user launches with nohup.

...

Now, that said, I have no idea why distros and systemd did what they did without much communication, but ... that's usually the Linux way :/
I would start with Philebus. It is considered a pretty late dialogue, so problems with theory of ideals are considered (and musical metaphors play a prominent role). Also, its topic is worthy; Socrates & Protarchus discuss a role that pleasure and reason play in furhishing a good life.
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The 'job model' is the wrong abstraction, as is the unit concept which tries to reduce things that have irreducible differences. I'm also rather amused how you're conceding that they're doing a "bad job," but still shrug it off as better than nothing. If you're offering a mediocre solution to an "impossibly large scope" of a task, then you ought to rethink things. Even then, a poorly implemented feature can be worse than none at all.

So far as prior art is concerned, see my old post: https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/09/05/0/

I would also point out OpenWrt's procd as an example of how to have hotplug-capable service management at a fraction of the complexity: https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/procd

Now, this rethinking did indeed come with HAL, when the idea of a master daemon and ad-hoc service manager reacting to hardware state changes was unanimously rejected by the Linux patriciate as wrong. Perhaps with systemd they will one day reach the same epiphany for system and user services. Either way, I'm not terribly personally invested in this anymore -- I just figured I'd wrap my thoughts up on an issue that occupied a good deal of my time years ago.

EDIT: As to B, the problem of process supervision and having an idiomatic way of daemonizing has been solved for a long time: https://jdebp.eu/FGA/unix-daemon-design-mistakes-to-avoid.ht...
The Impact of AI on Bank Transactions and Fraud Prevention
If you have a situation where due to your search domain, e.g. corp.com, both exampleA.tld and exampleA.tld.corp.com would be valid DNS resolutions.

If you’re already using something like kubernetes, which does such resolutions, this can actually become an issue. e.g. in the cluster ServiceA can call ServiceB by navigating to http://serviceb/, and if the name of serviceb overlaps with an actual real-world domain, you need to use http://serviceb./ to ensure you call the outside-world site.
Location: USA (Florida specifically but no strong desire to stay)

Remote: Yes (Preferred but not required)

Willing to relocate: Yes (Seattle area especially)

Technologies: General C++ development

Résumé/CV: Available upon request

Email: "iris" atatatatatatata "enesda" D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-DOT-commmmmmm (Scrape that, bots...)

I've spent the last few years developing a declarative GUI programming language (https://github.com/IrisChase/IVD) on my own. A project that spun out of it's development called "Reprodyne", is a system for recording manual testing sessions for automatic regression testing (https://github.com/IrisChase/Reprodyne).

Feel free to email me about anything that sounds like a challenge! :)
Show me a batch that can be flashed with security patches without opening up the phone, and I'll start paying attention again.
Preliminary research suggests children may not be super spreaders of virus
You often hear people in engineering teams say something to the effect of "I can't understand why this was built this way. It's been done stupidly", but invariably there's some key piece of contextual information that's missing like, as you say, there simply wasn't enough time.

I also wrote about this recently: https://timwhite.digital/building-software-sharing-knowledge
It's all a load of bullshit. As Oxford has shown, it's been about over 12 months and most people have already had it or been effected by it.

Just another power grab by so called 'gods chosen'.

Suprised they are not already saying '6 million'yet, they do love that number has history has shown
Same shit, different decade/centruey/millenia
Education has been disrupted.

The disruption taught us that education is more than what we think of when we imagine the word studying.

Khan Academy exists, and has existed for a while.

The MOOC rush is over. We know the organic retention rates are abysmal.

Online education was/is the holy grail of 2000 era layman ideas of education.

Free, world class, available at your finger tips, at any time, educational content.

Yet We know that with this world class information and self selected motivated students (!!) only a tiny fraction of the class will finish.

In contrast, most people who get in, finish college.

In person education beats online education hollow.

Matter of fact even the work from home enthusiasm will wane and return to office work.

There are too many things people do by being in proximity to each other which may have nothing to do with the “mission”, but make the mission possible.
Online classes are $8 a month and usually better quality than most uni lectures. If people wanted online classes they would've avoided uni altogether.
DNS issues in Kubernetes. Public postmortem #1
I had never heared of this.

I followed your link, then struggled to find something as you have to choose from a list of thumbnails. I then clicked to view something and immediately hit a paywall.

How are you supposed to "discover" this content? That is where youtube is so strong. Often on youtube I will be directed to patreon, etc - does this work on the same principle?
The implementation of a correct version of the above in sysvinit is no less complex, especially in its emergent behaviour.
I feel like I'm struggling with this now: I have fought for a long time to get my team to be fully remote. After a year of partial WFH, now we're doing it full time. However, several people on my team seem completely incapable of self-regulation unless someone is making them show up. They're up at 3am working, but clearly only getting done >5% of what they'd otherwise do. A few others are getting done at least 120% more. Seems like different strokes for different folks is the name of the game, and some people for whatever reason just aren't in a place in their lives where they are responsible enough to handle the greater freedom of remote work.
Good teachers provide you with meaning. They find out what drives you in live, and help you understand that what they have to offer, will get you there. Which creates intrinsic motivation, which will turn you from a pupil (tought at) into a student (sb who sets out to get knowledge).
This is hard. And requires talent. Not everyone can do it.
Which is why alot of mediocre teachers, regularly decry it as not part of their job.
This is the job of society or the parents.
No, it is not. Society and parents entrust you to kindle that flame, and if you cant do that, you should change profession.
Mm, yeah. You seem to be right.
Location: Berlin, Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Data Visualization (d3.js, Vega, R), Data Analysis (pandas, numpy, R), Data Pipelines (Python, AWS, Postgres, Docker), Geospatial Development (EO, mapbox, openlayers, PostGIS, turf), SPA (React, Svelte), Web Development (HTML, SVG, CSS/SASS)

Résumé/CV: https://milafrerichs.com

Email: see website

I help social organisations create beautiful and engaging data visualisations and improve or create their data pipelines.
I’m a full stack (geospatial) developer with 10+ years of experience creating for the web.

I love to use my skills to do good and work on projects that have an impact.

I’m teaching mapping with d3 at https://mappingwithd3.com

http://github.com/milafrerichs/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/milafrerichs/
I like Scott Harris, personally

https://www.scottharris.com.au/about/scott/
Thanks for the report, will try to fix this.
Reading through his post, it doesn't sound like the goal was to change things - he just didn't want to be co-responsible for them.

That said, it doesn't sound like there was much more he could've done to change things from the inside-out; and even though it might not be the intention, this public statement does sound like it might contribute to changing it anyway.
OpenShift costs quite a bit. Have you compared, costs- and ROI-wise, the OpenShift approach with an alternative of having a small team of consultants (or internal team, if available) architect your platform in a cloud-agnostic way, based on vanilla K8s, plus required additional OSS packages?
Not parent, but like i said in the thread above, if i were you, i would start with the ancients.

Every fundamental topic that later philosophers discuss is there, and discourse is much simpler.

For full comperhension, some googling of greek terms is required, but it's not that big of a deal in the age of /r/philosophy and communities like that. Also, feel free to hit me up if you have any detailed questions :)
There seems to be quite a few YouTube videos of charging phones in microwaves. Are these videos being removed from YouTube too? And I've heard stories that some people indeed believed that and broke their phones. Can YouTube be held responsible for damages?
It's interesting to see a website that just copy and paste content from other sources without any sort of credit or referencing having this attraction (usually in the HN top ranks).

In fact the way it's presented it even seems that was 'authored by rachel, the anonymous valley dev'.

Harmless attitude when it's just someone trying to land a hotsite and earn some extra bucks/attention. But later don't complain when the same attitude is in place by big companies/VCs draining your career.

Tech scene really reached a new low these days: "put the minimum effort; try to extract and profit the most" -- while trying to be 'smart/efficient' people lost the self perception of predatory behavior.

Maybe could be renamed to Grasshopper By the Bay. :P
Smart branding... they are really going after zoom huh..

Edit: Site has the hug of death, here is another article

https://domaininvesting.com/rooms-com-likely-acquired-by-fac...