skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to study applied math and go into the workforce, then my point still stands, going to Princeton vs. Michigan simply doesn't matter. If you want to go to graduate school, it's unclear if it matters all that much. Princeton tends to draw the most talented young mathematicians in the world, and has for decades. Presumably if a student of that caliber went to Michigan, they would do just as well, because Michigan also has talented mathematicians who do good research and can write good letters of recommendation for graduate school.
What’s the differentiate between this and the million other simple note taking apps like write.as
There's a slightly different version of this story with a much less snazzy title (weirdly, on the same site, it seems): https://thehustle.co/how-a-remote-alaska-town-gets-its-groce... (It's possible the writing is the same, but one has more photos?)

I thought it was a gripping read. Neither title really does it justice. I have submitted it to r/CitizenPlanners because this one store is playing such a critical role to the welfare of the entire community and does so even under "normal" conditions. And these are not remotely normal conditions.
>> it’s weird that “logging out” doesn’t imply “and end all my programs.”

> Weirdness is in the eye of the beholder

It's a windows acolyte mindset. Many people don't imagine that a login is just another program, rather than the parent process.
I agree that keeping a system as simple as possible is a good idea. But, you may want to take a step back and consider why (as of this writing) every single comment from you—and nobody else’s—is grey in this thread. (It’s not often on HN that you see two luminaries such as you and 'tptacek get into such a vigorous and apparently one-sided debate.)

I was going to attempt to summarize both sides of the argument here, but instead I think it’s better if I just suggest that you take some time to attempt doing that yourself and try to understand the points that everyone else is trying to make. I don’t think it’s your point about excess complexity that’s garnering the downvotes (at least, I hope it isn’t), but rather (a) that you’ve tarred a very broad swathe of software with exactly the same brush, refusing to acknowledge the significant differences in design, implementation, and use between such diverse softwares as Kubernetes and Ansible; and (b) the dogmatism about there being no conceivable need for such any such tools under any circumstances whatsoever.

I’d be very interested in a blog post (if one hasn’t been published already) about how system management is done at Sourcehut. A lot of people (myself included) turn to the tools you’re disparaging to help them manage things like change tracking and testing server configurations before applying to production, and it would be interesting to read about how you manage these sorts of problems without introducing a tool to do it.
Yep. I saw the drawing and thought "Wrong. It gets into a single straight line too quickly." I have gone back to the drawing board many times for my personal projects. I just did again for another project today, as a matter of fact.
The ability to downvote isn't correlated with anything besides the frequency of your posts/comments.
There are significantly more calling semantics beyond “push a frame and branch” as Kragen enumerates. Some, like coroutines, are visible to the high-level programmer; others, such as tail call optimization, might be invisible.
Maybe you meant to link Traction[1] by Weinberg & Mares? You've probably linked the wrong book with the same name.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Traction-Startup-Achieve-Explosive-Cu...
One queen is enough to invade an entire continent is a thrilling use of language. Horrifying too, as is so much of this subject. Our innate fear of dangerous animals and how easy it can be used to provoke is a very exciting idea to explore. Time to watch Aliens again.
> The stated workarounds - fiddling with some options like "KillUserProcesses=no" in logind.conf &co. - have so far failed.

Strange, KillUserProcess=no worked fine for me
Slackware doesn't use it, and Patrick Volkerding recently got a Patreon account set up so Slackware 15.0 or 14.3 will hopefully be out soonish with updated packages. I'm writing this on 14.2 and have been running it since it came out with basically no issues. Also have it on a backup server, runs great.
No way man. He makes great games but he adds a lot of cinematics with cringey dialogue and an overt the top story to all of his games.

The man isn't perfect. I feel a game like red dead redemption 2 is more closer to that perfect game we're looking for. It hits all the the marks in terms of story and systems based gameplay.
The Twilio API supports fax, so I used it to make this: https://5dollarfax.com/

Cheapest service I know of if you infrequently need to send a fax and wait a few days for the possible reply.
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These guidelines seem like a private corporation censoring content. Are platform guidelines like these also an example of censorship?

To me, these guidelines shape the content and quality of discussions of the community, but also it's one of the reasons why it's a highly effective community. I don't see why YouTube cannot do the same.
> Did anyone anticipate it enough to put their money where their mouth was? A fortune, and a major service to humanity, could have been made by a private individuals stockpiling PPE in vast quantities.

The response to this pandemic has actually worried me quite a lot on this front, because it seems likely now that anyone who stockpiled PPE at pre-pandemic prices and tries to resell during the pandemic at a price high enough to justify their initial investment will be accused of price gouging and possibly have their stockpile seized.

Which has the effect that nobody has an incentive to build a reserve of things that will be useful in a future crisis, even if that crisis is foreseeable.

So yeah, it's easy enough to say "I think there's at least a 5% chance per year of an event which results in at least 10 million people who will want to buy a portable generator" (which is 10x the amount normally sold in a year). I genuinely do think that's a true statement, and it would imply that the number of generators currently being produced would need to be at least 50% higher to meet demand averaged across all times rather than typical times, which is a pretty big difference in a pretty big market. Normally when you think you know something the market doesn't, you can bet against the market by investing in whatever the market is undervaluing, and if you're right you make money. In this case, I'm not sure how you would go about doing that. Investing in companies making generators doesn't increase production. Buying generators and leaving them in a warehouse risks your stockpile being seized in the case where you were right about the risk. I'm honestly not sure how I would go about putting my money where my mouth is here.
I’ve seen some systems use a Bézier curve to a make a realistic stroke with limited data points.
"one of the most important" != "The most powerful"
Why Common Sense Is Not So Common in NLP
> you can have fun evening inventing your own shitty binary journal format.

I thought the reasoning was to make logs harder (or impossible) to tamper with.

Something something about trading freedom for security.
Gamecube is well emulated. So you can play Twin Snakes on the PC.

Honestly though, it doesn't hold up well, and even as revolutionary as it was for it's time the dialogue was still often cringy.
> Basically, I interpret the rule of no-literals as a reminder to think of the readibility of any statement involving them.

Now that is an excellent rule, if slightly too specific.
Can it run on a gpu so to abstract always cuda
Communism collapsed intellectually in the West after the economic collapse of the USSR and the relevant death tolls. I know China is communist, but in democratic countries, for the most part, communism is an idea that died off.
Anybody else feeling like if we're young and healthy we should actively try to contract this thing, self-isolate for a few weeks, and be done with it?

It feels almost like this would be the most socially responsible thing to do: reduce the effective R0 and allow things to start getting back to normality.

I'm the farthest thing from a "reopen" protester. But I can't help thinking that as a young and healthy individual, this is a valid option that nobody is talking about.
U-Hauls don't have to be rented, you can buy them: https://trucksales.uhaul.com
I /think/ this is less for VCs and more for entrepreneurs to quickly get a better idea of if a market is viable before exploring an idea further.

And if it's not the intention, this would be useful to me for that reason.
Hate to be the one the point it out, but have you considered you might not be great at baking?
Dreem 2 EEG Headband Review – Sleep Tech – Sleep Junkies
Two words: Spaced repetition, it feels like magic. You are likely going to forget most of what you learn if you don't engage with it and/or it doesn't get repeated.
This makes me strongly consider moving to the Bay Area. My wife has family there, and we love the city. I've climbed up in pay very quickly here in Salt Lake City which still puts me ridiculously lower than Bay Area salaries. Cost of living is obviously way lower, but $500k in San Francisco would give me a much higher quality of life than $150k in SLC which is about the max around here unless you have a niche skill. A friend of mine just accepted a role as VP of Engineering at a very successful startup and he's not quite cracked $200k.

Options around here are so pathetic that in the best case scenario after your options vest you might be able to pay cash for a brand new Kia Sorento.

My only concern is work life balance. In Utah it's pretty uncommon to find a company where people work over 40 hours a week. This is nice, but I'd like to become "wealthy" and I'm not sure how to do that as a Software Engineer here without starting my own company.
Interesting. That does seem inconsistent then, I don't know any specific data backing up my memory.
Ha ha true, though there’s always something to learn.

Even the first machine I ever programmed, the KA-10, had stack manipulation instructions though any location in memory could be a stack (which came with base and bounds for free) so threading was easy to write in assembly code.

There was no difference between a call stack and a stack data structure — we called them all “push down list”
Sure, sorry!
What makes a good self-recorded video – quick guide [pdf]
Very narcissistic. If it’s so awful for you then don’t use it. But it solved a lot of other peoples problems, like rogue sessions on lab computers and broken executables that accidentally signal() themselves into orphan-hood because SIGHUP is truly one of the dumbest legacies of posix around, maybe just short of posix AIO.

Seriously - don’t use it if you hate it so much.
> We do not have the time, through our own actions or not, for quiet contemplation and retrospection into deep topics.

This is a problem, but how does censorship solve it? You would in fact need to solve that problem for all ideas in order to correctly know what to censor, which nobody has time to do, hence the problem.

> We have polarized ourselves into camps of right and wrong.

This is exactly what the censorship makes worse. You say "not here, go somewhere else" to anyone who disagrees and everyone who disagrees is separated, so that each camp has no exposure to the other side's arguments and whoever is wrong will remain so.

> We are exposed to a staggering volume of information that all seems mostly the same with some slight differences but widely varying outcomes.

The world is complicated. Not everybody is going to understand everything. That isn't possible, but it isn't required. What you need are two things.

One is free and open debate, so that the people who choose to allocate their time to a given specific topic enough to come to an accurate conclusion on that topic are free to do so.

And the other is trusted thought leaders who consult a variety of domain experts on a given topic to determine the consensus of the experts and relay it to all of the people who don't have time to look at the specific details on that specific topic. This is what has completely imploded. The news media has lost their credibility by explicitly abandoning even the pretense of impartiality and chasing clickbait nonsense for ratings, so nobody trusts them anymore. As it should be when they're publishing things like that.

But you either do the research yourself (which nobody has time to do for everything) or you trust somebody else to do it for you. So now people need to figure out who they can trust to distill the informed consensus. But you don't do that by censoring the debate, you do it by being so consistently right that people begin to trust you over the lies of the blaring partisans. That doesn't come from force, it comes from hard work, which nobody seems willing to do anymore, which is why everything is messed up.
Kokoon: Headphones can read your brainwaves while you sleep
> Not bad for a 20 yo seeking independence, but humiliating for a 25 yo and a complete failure for a 30 yo.

I was truly taken aback by how out of touch this comment is. A 50% cut to a $9600 monthly salary is $4800, or $57,600 annually. This is above median US household income, and close to double median personal income. It's not "humiliating" or "a complete failure" by any stretch of the imagination.
This is the exact tweet:

January 14 by WHO

“Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China,”

https://mobile.twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152?la...

AP reports China knew on the 14th that the virus could spread amongst humans, didn’t publicize until January 20:

https://apnews.com/68a9e1b91de4ffc166acd6012d82c2f9
Zuckerberg doesn't receive any compensation (besides private security for him and his family)
> At some point, the laws that protect us from government, must also apply to these massive quasi-government monopolies - or they quickly become worthless.

Except that Google cannot arrest you, prosecute you, sentence you to prison or limit any other right you might have. The best that they can do is no longer letting your voice be heard on their service because you have violated one of their _stated_ guidelines. If corporations were doing this in secret, that's a little bit different, but Google is being very forthcoming on the guidelines they are setting.
> Are user processes allowed to run after logout? Which DNS to use during startup? What logging in should look like? In each such case, existing behavior which was widely considered as not broken was replaced by a different behavior, often even without an escape hatch. The new behavior(s) in such cases should be made possible, but the default should be the old behavior.

All those examples you gave are possible to disable in systemd, and in the case of DNS and user process after logout, they are not even the default.

: Killing of user process are enabled by default in upstream but disabled by default in every distro that I know. And systemd-resolved, even if it is build by default, is not enabled by default even in upstream.
Kojima's games are not known for good story telling. All of them are down right bad. People who like it tend to not mind cringey and over the top melodramatic dialogue...

If you want to play a deep game with an immersive and engrossing story play planescape torment.
Ask HN: What are the risks of a side project while working at a big company?
Most big companies tie in a "we own all your IP" in your contract. What are some of your thoughts, advice, stories about working on a side proect (potentially successful) while at a big company? Are there ways to amend these contracts?
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Teach Yourself Computer Science, updated for 2020
Even if it was the best thing since sliced bread, I still would not use it: https://www.dyalog.com/prices-and-licences.htm

A run time license for multi-user applications? you must be joking, right? does still anyone produce single-user applications, but the odd shell script?

So no, I won't use Dyalog APL in my company and won't invest my time on it. Sorry.
From my perspective, Hacker News is a website built for the tech community. However I don't view Youtube as a community, but as a platform for individuals to publish videos, broadcast, and sometimes form sub-communities. It's possible that some people who don't login and hang around on the homepage of algorithmically selected videos treat Youtube as a publisher for curating.
> COVID-19 has added the additional element of this new concept of "disinformation". The argument is seductively simple: "being exposed to this information could lead you to engage in patterns of behavior that harm society. Therefore we can conceptualize this speech as being an indirect form of violence/negligence and therefore we have a moral obligation to remove such content".

Which is actually extremely funny, since Youtube directly links to all WHO content as it were the Word of God, and WHO just a month and a half ago was crying on all rooftops that masks were useless and should not be used before completely reversing their stance. So by their own standards WHO is propagating disinformation/negligence and harming society as well.
It’s an issue that’s difficult to distill in a way that could work as a law or as a winning argument against snarky commenters playing Devil’s Advocate. In theory the line between rules and censorship is vague and grey, but in practice it’s pretty easy to tell what is rule enforcement and what is political censorship. I guess a good place to start would be examining the rules of a website and determining if the takedowns follow the rules and the rules are not overly broad.
I honestly feel like this is the secret. It took me years to figure out, too.

It is, however, a piece of advice that will likely upset a lot of people, because, they'll say, not every activity worth doing is enjoyable. Which, obviously, is true. Sometimes learning something new or hard can be very difficult. But if you're motivated by your own interest and curiosity, the pain will actually be rewarding rather than soul-destroying.

I just treat my curiosity like a compass now, and let it take me wherever.
It doesn't have to be expensive or complicated. I've written a simple web app that wraps Twilio's fax capabilities.

https://github.com/fastily/fax-machine

The whole thing is designed to run on a raspberry pi. The setup costs $1 a month (for the twilio number) and a couple cents per page.
This has been my thinking for a few weeks now. Aside from bringing us significantly closer to herd immunity, it would increase the pool of eligible plasma donors for plasma antibody therapy.

And those are just the public health benefits. Saving millions of jobs and livelihoods is no small benefit either.
That was a weird experience when I started using MacOS. "Why are we faking that Java and git are already on here?"
Will there be objections from companies that have been part of the biggest stock rally in generations, large companies that took piles of the small business bail out money and, companies like Domino's that have thrived yet had to be forced to allow employees to wear even legally required masks?
Almost every distro I know turns this option off by default, including Arch, NixOS and Debian (the last one I am not sure).
> Not censoring an idea and arguing that an idea should not be implemented are not equivalent.

I'm not sure this is correct, but I'm willing to be convinced if you can expand a little more. I guess I see it as censoring the act of censoring.

> If this is true, i.e. reporting of the censorship increases the visibility of the bad idea, then it completely destroys the pro-censorship argument that it reduces the visibility of bad ideas. It would also immediately cease to be true if censorship ever became uncontroversial, in which case you couldn't claim that it's giving the allegedly bad idea a chance at a fair debate.

In this case, it is true. But youtube censorship is not equivalent to societal censorship, it just signals that youtube does not endorse Icke's ideas and does not wish to publish them, but people can still evaluate them somewhere else.

> Is somebody suggesting that YouTube should be prohibited from creating and distributing their own videos?

No, the suggestion is they should not be allowed to write their own terms and enforce them.
Quite tired and ill right now so I'm unfortunately not going to be able to write this out even slightly well... but for some reason, I want to post the thought anyway so I will. (Note: I'm a U.S. citizen)

In short: As an engineering student with quite severe chronic illness that also got fucked over by abusive parents/a broken home I couldn't escape even with scholarships... I simply can't come to the moral conclusion that the majority of the population of the U.S. deserves the work of engineers and scientists at this point. Now - obviously, you could say "well, they didn't ask for the engineers/scientists help" - but they definitely want the ability to receive some sort of medical care, and if they stop having a new phone to buy every year on the dot... some vocal portion of the populace will be quite unhappy.

Getting into how I actually feel about politics would be pretty irrelevant/pointless. However - I do think the U.S. is at the point where the average HN goer would agree the current government is a shitshow. Making that statement - I obviously agree with it. However, I've reached a point where I truly believe I'd rather have another four years of this administration, in a sincere hope that things keep going downhill and get exponentially worse, just so some drastic form of change and restructuring will have to happen - either that, or just the U.S. becoming a completely failed nation and engineers/scientists just jump ship to a more competent country.

Not trying to troll in the slightest in posting this. Am I crazy, or does anybody else feel the same way?
> How large is the company you work for (employees or revenue)? How many servers do you have to support that company?

“SourceHut [of which ddevault is the founder] has 10 dedicated servers and about 30 virtual machines, all of which were provisioned by hand... [It] made 4 thousand dollars in Q1 with two employees and an intern.” (from https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-04-20-prioritizing-simplitit...)

> Oof... The smartest people I know generally assume the least of situations they are not intimately familiar.

Yeah, I generally think highly of Drew’s opinions on technical matters, but this thread is just painful to read.
You can still make crepes or roti on your stovetop, or porridge in your microwave. No need to let the flour go to waste.