skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok - beer and a pizza to anyone getting Rails Active Storage up and running with the new API... if I can get to it this weekend I'll post back
> This comment denotes, strongly, the dissonance that occurs when talking about something so general.

> It’s my opinion (as an infrastructure type) that centralised binary logging is an absolute necessity above 20 instances.

> But that leaves out every person with a laptop, or those people with a very low volume of little instances.

Yep, it also leaves out people on embedded hardware, and on devices that are in remote locations without access to the Internet, or in a car, or on metered Internet, etc. It's hard to hold in your head just how broadly Linux is used these days.
How is your productivity now that the rest of the office is also WFH? I imagine there is an asymmetry in perceived productivity if you’re the only one WFH, but it could be a different ballgame when it is more common. This could easily carry to post-pandemic e.g. weekly WFH days for everyone.
Its not so much that anything is wrong with college, it is that the cost isn't commiserate with the expected payout (for most). Yet we, as a society, push people who are barely adults into a lifetime of debt slavery like sheep to the slaughter.
Good work. This is pretty cool and looks really clean. As someone currently work on a SaaS product, I find sites like this super useful to find design inspiration without spending a lot of time hunting for good examples. Out of curiosity, what exactly do I get by subscribing - a curated list of new additions on some recurring basis? (might be worth clarifying on the site)
> Some researchers argue that in order to build real common sense into computers, we will need to make use of phenomena outside language itself, like visual perceptions or embodied sensations.

ding ding ding

Of course, once we start creating systems that perceive and sense and reason about their perceiving and sensing experiences, ethics starts to become a greater concern. An entirely synthetic living creature is still a living creature.
An important optimization discussed in the video is to optimize through call into C code (i.e elisp->C->elisp). adding RPC at the boundaries would go in the opposite direction.
Businesses don't have morals, or principles, or feelings. They have efficiencies and optimizations. Most businesses check that with culture. Business culture, when done well, is a reapplication of feelings (usually), principles (ideally), and morals (rarely) back atop the operating mechanisms of the business.

The man or woman at the top usually sets the high bar for what culture pertains, and how stringently it is brought to the rest of the business.

The bigger the business, the closer to baseline (just a machine) the business tends to drift. If the culture is not a strong one, or starts from a mostly mechanistic stance, then drifting to what we would consider evil in a person is easy.

This has little to do with capitalism, and everything to do with people functioning in groups. Because it happens with every activity that has more than one individual acting to move it forward.

Sports teams can be excellently principled, even moral, because their leadership applies these as a way to strengthen the team. (It's also a small group.)

This applies to towns full of people, to social groups and clubs, to "movements" on social media. We see it everywhere.

It's just particularly painful in circumstances like this one.
Meta: if someone could explain to me where the 5 downvotes come from, I'd be curious to know which part of my comment triggered them.

Is Theo de Raadt above criticism? Is Rust actually failing at its primary goal? Are words like "toxic" and "insulting" under a soft ban? Right now all I have to go by is a dead flagged strawman from a throwaway account.
An omission: I did not complete my Punnet square, but you cover it exhaustively. That #2 is a possibility, something far beyond my ability to flesh out. A chance discovery unable to be explained by the discoverer. It reminds me of a Harry Turtledove short story, "The Road Not Taken," about first contact where we accidentally skip over a common technological development. PDF: http://www.eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf

Also re: #4 - for what it's worth (and a great entertaining read), Harry Turtledove covers that one too in his "In the Balance" book, where alien invaders show up during WWII. Highly recommend it.
They literally just changed the keyboard design because users hated it.
In general I agree with you, but I would say that alot of VCs either

1) diversify their investments amongst many areas in tech (or maybe some non tech things, not stereotyping all VCS but for this example I'll say diversity of problems being solved using technology/software etc) and thus see commonalities of problems amongst teams in their experience despite whatever the specific niche industry is. I think it is pretty important to agree the cofounders are important. Specifically I've heard from CEOs of startups I use to work for they are really good at hunting out "weaknesses" in the bonds between cofounders.

Basically, they don't want a good idea to fall apart because two cofoudners fundamentally don't see eye to eye, which will make it hard for any decisions they make (whether good or bad) to come to fruition and indicates future struggles with the company, in addition to weak leadership/unified approach when hiring new people, who might be disoriented at understanding the direction the company is going in.

2) Focus on particular niches (a startup who focus specifically on funding AI startups, for example) often they will even fund competitors knowing that if one of them dies, they are almost gauranteed to reep benefits from the remaining on in the niche field. This also means they keep a close track on the variations between two or more companies approach in a specific industry and why one failed and the other didn't.

Someone from Marc Andreessen's team recently published a blog post going into great depth about 5 factors amongst ten or so AI teams that indicated their levels of success in the field, and most of the tilting factors are not what I would say is common knowledge amongst AI startups.

They may have their biases, but they also have unique experience in understanding or seeing repeated dynamics in what could make a relationship (between cofounders) fail (like seeing that one bad relationship where the couple can't see it but it is so obvious to you because youve either now been through it or seen it happen before, imagine this for VCs looking at cofounders over and over again for ten years...) and otherwise have lost lots of money over failed business ideas, so I would say they are incentivized to be as objective as possible with themselves, even if just selfishly for the benefit of their own bank account.
It's nice to see something with a name like "Project $number" or "Bureau $number" and find that (a) yes, it is something in Asia and (b) no, it's not about torture and cruelty and war crimes.

But it seems strange to me that Traditional Chinese Medicine was actually successful.
Hetzner offers S3 compatible storage? I didn't find anything about that...
> Note, this is standard in the academic world, even if there is a single author.

This is true. It's awful writing. And there are many other indications of terrible writing in academic papers as well.

- The Royal We. We are not amused by the use of the Royal We in academic writing. Like much of the bad writing in academics, this probably was borrowed from bureaucratic style intended to diffuse and deflect. The right way to write a paper as a single author is to be honest to the reader. You are a single person: use "I".

- Official style. Reams of tirades have been written about passive voice, avoidance of responsibility ("experiments were done" instead of "I did the following experiments"), and longwinded gobbledygook.

- Weird use of tense. Academic authors jump between past, past perfect, and present tense with no justification, sometimes in the same sentence, particularly when moving from experiments to results to discussion.

- Backwards construction. This is particularly true with formalists. It's traditional in mathematics to start with fundamentals and slowly build towards your conclusion. But these same authors, when writing empirical or position papers, don't realize that this is awful construction in actual text.

- Horrible titles with little explanatory value. "On Foo" means "I wish to intimidate you with my knowledge on Foo". Words like "on", "towards", "an understanding", etc., should be banned entirely.

Academic authors don't know how to tell their story, how to make strong and concise arguments, or how to be convincing. Worse still, many think this is "how you do it". Why? Because their advisors, who were also awful writers, did it that way. Few of these people have ever been trained to be good writers. It's a self-sustaining cycle of mediocrity.
More fundamentally, a free market doesn't exist because markets are brought into being by governments. They don't emerge naturally among humans.
>This makes it much easier to discuss

Yes, that's part of my point. That's an incentive to shoehorn, over-simplify, and strawman the ideas and arguments of others.
Death by a thousand cuts. It is just front of mind.

People "see" the low paid thieves and their impact on themselves and others on a semi regular basis. The once in awhile "white collar crime" you might see if you turn on the news isn't top of mind.

"That guy stole $5 from ME"
versus
"Wal Mart uses welfare as a way to get corporate welfare and pay their employees less"

One is in the moment, and a purely emotional and potentially traumatizing experience based on circumstance.

One I may not even experience (e.g., I don't work at Wal-Mart).
A Landmark Physics Paper from the 1970s Uncannily Describes COVID19 Pandemic
Indeed, at a steady state of annual refreshers, only something like 25 percent of your grant vests annually. My preferred approach here is to ignore the gross grant total and focus on the annual vesting portion. On that front you're not really walking away from 1 million only 250k? Still a lot for most folks but no different than engineers considering retirement. Presumably at age 64, as a distinguished engineer, Tim has enough cash to skip out on work in perpetuity if he so desires.
There were two I was looking at with the same LCD component, but just different configuration of controls & placement of external USB. The one I ended up going with was LG32UL950 because I found a place that had a $150 discount; now forgotten the other brand/model. The screen is so huge I've had to spend some time figuring out how to use the space effectively, but overall I'm pretty happy.
You do know that the yearly budget of the NHS is around £140 billion. So the captain would only have collected enough for a few hours. But that does not matter as the money he gathers does not go to the state, but goes to a large number of charities which are connected to the NHS. https://www.nhscharitiestogether.co.uk/meet-our-members/

Though I do agree that the NHS should be better funded.
> I help run a 500 node HPC cluster that leverages procmail. Do I count?

You do, but you're a tiny minority, and as noted /etc/procmail-rcs/ provides an alternative to putting them in /home. If that doesn't work for you, all you need is to not configure encrypted home directions and nothing changes.

> The crontab(5) may be there, but where is the script that is actually executed? Probably in $HOME/scripts/ or some such.

So don't configure encrypted home directories, then. Nobody is forcing you to enable it. Or you can provide an alternative location, and let your users protect their data better and still be able to use cron jobs. It does not take any flexibility away from you, but it adds capabilities for those who want them.

> I have daily experiences indicating otherwise. I would hazard to guess that many other syadins in academia & research would agree. Even assuming $HOME is in /home breaks a bunch of stuff:

Your experiences with systems that are fine with accessing $HOME does not mean that there aren't plenty of systems where it has been an issue, hence why plenty of software supports alternatives.

Your point of not assuming $HOME is in /home is irrelevant to this issue. The point is that software have had to deal with a subset of users with setups where a users home directory is not necessarily accessible when the user is not logged in for many years. As such most software has options to avoid relying on a users home directory being present already, which reduces this to a relatively simple choice of whether or not you consider the ability to encrypt home directories to be worth making those changes for.
> the lower end of big tech salaries

This is for most people a life-changing fortune.
Picking a nit, the article claims that a free market works only in equilibrium. This is a spherical cow in a vacuum view of economics.

Markets, in general, can be seen as moving toward an incalculable equilibrium (at least not calculable in less time than it takes to reach). There is not a single equilibrium, though. As time goes on, people are born and die, trends and preferences change. If you could calculate some optimal state as of the end of 2019 and name it as "equilibrium", that would be different than the optimal state as of the end of 2020 (and different (and likely without some continuous transition function) in the full duration between these points).
>It's interesting to note that Pais was recently transferred to submarine command.

That benthic treaty ain't gonna write itself, mr. howard.
Gnome Adds Bit to Launcher Files Indicating Apps That Should Run on Discrete GPU
Asking to click through to other pages to see is not transparent. Transparent is at the top of the document before you read it, knowing that most people will not do the extra click through and will rather just read the summary and move on with their day. It's hard enough to get people to click through pages on a website when you want them to.
> Pais is a breakthrough genius. The Tech is real and in years it will be revealed to the public.

Or it's already installed on Nimitz-class carriers (with huge tires tucked into hidden underwater pods). The navy is just waiting for a serious war to warrant revealing land-carriers capable of driving hundreds of miles inland.
Despite having a few friends who like it, by and large “toxic environment” has been the impression I've gotten from most people I know who have worked there, so I’ve never applied.
yes, certainly older women feel more invisible on average across all cultures. and it's totally possible that many of the people you meet do feel invisible; i was only suggesting not to presume it, given the diversity of experiences.
Fortunately Tim is in Canada, where the health care requirements are met by default.
I personally like dockerized Mailcow: https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized
You're never fully vested. I $650K of unvested AMZN stock when I left after 8.5 years.
Large buffers are fine - long lines are not.

If you don't have long lines but you are experiencing slowdowns on large buffers, your mode is doing something. As an example, large XML files bring my Emacs to a crawl, but if I switch to a text mode it's fine.

For long lines, I believe the latest Emacs has a fix: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/ccoksw/solong_mitiga...
I just switched to g suite for business over the weekend and setup mail checking from my main account. I found enabling "Less secure apps" to get sending and receiving emails from my other accounts via POP3 to be very odd. Also had to create the app specific password. How is it a less secure app? It's a gmail account checking another gmail account. That really didn't make sense to me, but the tech support from g suite was happy to read the script to walk me through the setup. It was pretty frustrating to not be able to figure that out myself, it was not intuitive.
If you can't afford to pay employees a decent wage, you shouldn't be in business. Minimum wages should be raised and nonviable businesses should adapt or go under.

Amazon is not in this category
Why Docker
This video explains what is docker, and why do we need it.

This is a part of our online Docker course at https://Interleap.co
You can sign up and try out our other courses for free.
I had a dell latitude at work - horrific. Replaced with an xps-13 - much better, but wouldn't recommend. At home replaced my mbp with a surface laptop, deleted windows installed linux - bliss.
So then you have two choices: Move them elsewhere, and be able to encrypt the rest of $HOME, or don't encrypt $HOME. This gives you additional options for protecting your home directory if you want it. Noone is forcing you.
Voice requires a phone number to link your GV number to
The Composable Architecture
I'm grateful we still have the headphone jack at all.
> Why the piling on? Why the expenditure of so much effort to silence his intellectual inquiry?

Opposition is not always the same silencing, especially in this case.

Strenuously arguing against the rhetorical tactics and intellectual honesty of the presentation of ideas is, in fact, part of the free exchange of ideas.
Biosurveillance and Open Source technologies contribute to fight Covid-19
Yep, the most egregious daily example is Wal-Mart and basically showing their employees how to apply for welfare versus paying them a livable wage. Corporate welfare at its best.

But how does an individual combat that? I personally just don't shop at Wal-Mart...
Guardian published Tim Bray’s article on leaving Amazon (without asking)
The response to covid is due to its newness. That means that our response can have much greater effect and is more urgent.
Quantitative Easing, MMT, and Inflation/Deflation: A Primer
>You can easily hack the readtable in Lisp

The funny thing about lisp is that all things are easy, but yet, other eco systems offer more finished libraries.
In the US I often see saying publicly “thanks” as a cheap (and cynical) alternative to actually funding things properly. So with me it leaves a bad taste if it’s not accompanied by a call for proper funding or other action to rectify things.
It becomes more reasonable to assume the intention when you realize how much of national infrastructure policy was meant to engineer specific social outcomes - particularly with regard to segregation. Also in how much of regulatory policy - particularly in telecommunications - was intended for the same.
How does that work? Can I just dumb two terabytes of video into Backblaze B2, setup a Cloudflare account and have people watch those videos with it costing me only $10 a month? Because that doesn't sound right.
What You'll Need to Know in 2020 That You Don't Know Now (2000)
Drama in iRacing as IndyCar champ wrecks F1 star on purpose
Something that I've found useful is https://pock.dev/ . It lets the touchbar replace the on-screen dock
Many countries do "recognize" Taiwan unofficially, but surely matters of life or death should be treated a bit differently.

It's disgraceful that WHO refused information requests from Taiwan and to see senior officials feigning deafness when questioned about Taiwan.
and many do not advertise it.
> in theory someday I'll have one cable to rule them all

I predict a future with USB-D that's incompatible with USB-C and on and on...
leaving the BA after 5-7 yrs working is a good plan.

Be careful you don't meet anyone. Because, leaving someplace becomes much harder once you've met someone or you have family in the area. moving 2 jobs/ moving 2 social life's is harder than 1. just keep it in mind
Come on. Forgive me if I don't take "low wage workers are inherently immoral by HR standards" seriously. Or whining about downvotes, for that matter.
Casually looking, it seems he misses to use SecureZeroMemory?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/d...

Also note:

"Use this function instead of ZeroMemory when you want to ensure that your data will be overwritten promptly, as some C++ compilers can optimize a call to ZeroMemory by removing it entirely."

Managing passwords is tricky.

Edit: answering: "I don't see the post talking about zeroing memory anywhere?": Exactly. But it uses "free".

free(wbuf);

It is freed without being zeroed. Without demonstrating freeing, and without having the "clean up" part it would not matter. With it, and the given context (writing about using APIs to handle passwords), it does matter, and you should care too. Even more so if you a) aren't aware of the possibility of the compiler optimizations b) haven't even thought about the possible "leaking" issues.
He asked what he was missing and I pointed out that the headline was referring to malaria in mosquitoes, and not malaria in humans (as a human reading it might assume).

I wasn't making any point about overall impact. One is simply a much, much bigger news item than the other (It's "We can cure 400k people with malaria right now!" vs. "We've made a promising step in the overall fight against malaria" -- one has never happened and one happens monthly).

The BBC retained this ambiguity for clickbait reasons. I was just dispelling the ambiguity. If they added "in mosquitoes" to the headline this wouldn't have happened. But then we also wouldn't be commenting on it.
Completely agreed.

And, I'd like to add a bit more. When I say capable, I absolutely don't mean that in terms of intellectual capacity. I mean it in the context of actual, abject poverty. I'm talking about being incarcerated for a possession charge and having your young life spiral out of control. Or being raised in a homeless shelter while also being diagnosed with severe chronic disease (I've met students like this). Scenarios where there is just so much happening, that the idea of stopping to think about careers, college, or even learning English seems unthinkable. Cases where you have as many jobs as you have mouths to feed (not just children, but aging or sick family).

Peter Temin from MIT conjectures that it takes a person born into poverty nearly "20 years of nothing going wrong" to exit [0].

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/economi...
I guess I just don't see how that's a meaningful distinction in this situation. Size and power are pretty obviously correlated. GP's question wasn't "Are large corporations powerful?" it was "Why aren't large (powerful) corporations given the benefit of the doubt?"
When you consider that Apple had a 12” Macbook (w/ Retina Display) in the lineup 5 years ago the current lineup is a bit disappointing.

Also the distinction between the Air and the 13” Macbook is not clear.

That said: this is a decent update for a decent laptop and I’m looking forward to what is to come. The rumors re 14” form factor and ARM based Macbooks do sound intriguing.

In the meantime I think the recommendation re when to buy a new Mac is as it always has been: when you need one. Don’t wait for a specific update or rumor, otherwise you might have to wait for years in some cases :)
Excellent! Now the positive news is rolling in :-)

Looking at that 7th generation model now. Actually... that looks really nice. And 20.04 LTS would be pretty good for me.
Unity Technologies Acquires Visual Scripting Solution Bolt
You can simultaneously thank the NHS workers and not tolerate the government's actions.

It's not just to "propagandise" - it's to show, for a brief moment, that we appreciate their effort. We can then go back 2 minutes later to hate the Tories as much as before. Having a clap in no way makes me think I've "done my bit for the NHS" any more than voting left each and every time.
Open Office space never was smart except for saving rent. Open Office space causes more distractions lower productivity and less cooperation. Diseases spread more easily too.

The only good thing I can think of is startups where costs needs to be saved.
Instabug (YC W16) raised $5M from Accel