skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[It gets on my tits when people downvote a reasoned opinion - jeromegv is having a chat with me and a lot of other people. He is not being rude or offensive, just having a chat and espousing an opinion]

I didn't mean we will evolve. The virus will be doing the evolving. We live for years, this virus "lives" for days.
The ligatures, for example in “metaﬁctional”, are broken on this site for me (they appear in the wrong font)
It seems to depend on what you use them for.

In my experience, they're good for power. Driving a 2.5k monitor over DisplayPort works reasonably well if the computer is on a solid surface (not your lap).

But they don't work well for 4k video (especially with a direct HDMI adapter) or USB 3.0 data.
It's not just "slowly reopening". The reopening is predicated on testing capacity, as well as the ability to adequately track and trace.
The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 2)
Show HN: dSock – Distributed WebSocket broker
Ahh, thank you! I legitimately forgot what month it was!
Oh my god - I can 100% relate!
Maybe it's me but how would going closed source solve any of this?
>Magic Keyboard also features a physical Escape key

Maybe next year we'll get a new feature, physical F1 key.
> The individual officers are often just too dumb

You know, my dad always told me to just listen to people... eventually they'll tell you who they truly are.
Ok, I've tried to fit that in the title above.
I don't think this discussion will be productive if different people have a different set of first principles they start with. In this case, I disagree that HN works extremely well. It works well, but there's still a fair amount of misogyny in my experience.
Yeah, secretly I hope that some guy from Apple will read similar responses and will decide to release Mac Mini Pro or something like that, so I can just put good GPU there, put it on my desk, configure it with some entry Xeon CPU and ECC RAM and that's for $2-3k. And if something breaks or just in the future when I would want upgrades, I could just buy some Samsung SSD, put it there and enjoy improved performance, rather than spending all the money again for slightly bumped specs. Just an ordinary workstation computer with macOS support and reasonable price, nothing extra-ordinary.
As another commenter pointed out, if the app is not using the contact tracing framework developed by Google and Apple, then the app can basically do whatever it wants (mandate continuous location access etc.).
I don't think the FCC's pushback is based on lack of competence or inability to write simple scripts. That's just what they are trying to fool the courts with. I think they are covering up, because Pai knows where a lot of the fake comments came from: the sources of the fake comments will be discovered, and it will look bad for the industry when it comes out.
Written by an eyewitness to the Spanish abuse of the natives, true. But an eyewitness of abuses by Columbus, or by those who came after him? (The only mention of Columbus in the article is an address in Ohio.)

Don't blame Columbus for the sins of all of Spain.
Is karabiner going to stop working in 10.16? Because of the kext lockdown/deprecation?

I'm very afraid of getting too used to it and then having it stop working.

https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements/issues/2149
If you're willing to use zsh, there's an oh-my-zsh plugin to color the manpages, and you can adjust the colors as described here [1].

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/501156/personalize-...
That was their point, they are all tourists.
Sharing a basic Alfred3 workflow for Microsoft Todo for anyone migrating over to ToDo as of Wunderlist's shutdown tomorrow. Alfred is my go-to for controlling Mac and the efficiency of adding and searching tasks via the workflow is something that I was going to miss with a move to another to-do list, so I decided to make a fork of prior work here. PRs welcome!
If YouTube devs aren’t using ads as a business model what is the financial benefit? Selling courses? Consulting? Books?
I will venture a guess.

Principles dont matter if you dont have the money to put them into practice.

If palantir is what it takes for him to fund/back a visionary company or leader that will create a truly freer society, then that investment was well worth it.
Some databases used by governments are for things like making sure people driving cars have received the required training/certifications to share public roads, or that their vehicles carry the necessary insurance.

Other databases get used to track down, torture, and murder critical journalists - by dismembering them with a bone saw while they're still alive.

Remind me again which kind of database Palantir staff work on?
> Their ledger is inherently decentralized. It runs without a central operator. Consensus is formed by independent parties.

"Ripple Controls The Network And Who Gets To Validate Transactions, Making It A Centralised And Permissioned Blockchain" [1] That means it's no different than an RDS instance with a Merkle tree. That's not comparable to the other coins we're discussing.

> No international transactions take place between financial institutions, they just change a few lines in their internal database table.

That's literally how SWIFT works. It's literally how TransferWise works. It's how every international exchange mechanism works, and it's what you described as "not actual transactions."

> They serve limited cases and their volume is tiny, only 4B a month. They are no way an indication what international transactions cost.

Generally, the less you serve, the more expensive your service, not less, due to economies of scale. TransferWise represents an upper bound on cost, not lower. As I explained before, at scale, InteractiveBrokers will charge you 0.002% ($20/million) for any Forex transaction you like, up to $1B per month, and will charge you progressively less as you go up from there.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomassilkjaer/2019/03/07/14-co...
This is awesome. You, sir, took the red pill. BTW, do you work for Tesla? The batteries in your name.
This is like declaring McDonalds burgers the best because small burger joints can't offer Burgers _and also_ ice creams, salads, chicken and toys for children.

If we're talking about init; there are actually better inits already available but you'll never hear about them (runit, for instance) precisely because you don't just leave systemd.

You leave the systemd ecosystem.

This is the main point of the article: systemd as a "job system" is actually quite bad, but the ecosystem has some value in some places and you have to buy the shit with the pig.
I've got a bit of perspective on this outside the technology area.

When I was young, I loved being outside, camping, hiking, being in the forest, learning about plants and animals, foraging for berries and stuff. I ended up going to school for biology and ecosystems mangement. I worked on a few scientific studies, the stuff I actually liked, then ended up helping manage a long term research and education project. Suddenly, we were dealing more with money, government organizations other biologists. We ended up getting sucked into a bunch of politics, had our grant money and data held hostage by the government, dealt with shady corporations who didnt give a fuck. I watched lots of money get wasted on nothing on other projects simply to make companies look good while real problems went unaddressed and ignored.

Came to learn of the chain off command, the biologists that officially must sign off on work who do nothing but collect money for signing their name on a paper and tend to be in the pockets of mining companies, logging companies, the gas oil industries and again give no fucks outside getting that sweet pay cheque for writing their name on a paper. We were threatened with loss of funding after finding an endangered species on an active mine site and deciding to share the data publicly.

I just generally came to realize, that all the science and saving the world I'd wanted to do, didn't really matter to the people who funded this work or to governments in general and I became fairly jaded to it all. I seen renowned biologists steal grant money from volunteer organizations and shit like that. Hell I even met David Suzuki, turns out he's like any other celebrity, as soon as the camera's off the caring stops.

Reality just ended up being so different and souless compared do everything I'd learned in school. I just don't have any motivation to continue with it. Since then i've gone on to do other things, and I've found them a lot more fulfilling than that thing I thought I wanted to do and enjoyed as a child.
Wouldn't that require his wife to install and configure an SFTP client or something? B2 lets you use any browser.
The standard advice is to get the assigned books (or highly recommended books) for each of the courses in your coming semester and work through them early. You can support them with other resources but you’ll save yourself a lot of time by using them as your main guide - especially for higher level math. The hard choice is how to study from the books. The only general tip I can give you is to not get too caught up in the early chapters. It’s better to do a fast first pass then come back to it later.
I have three replies, in no particular order.

1:

> We document projects in Notion. We send meeting invites with a written description of the purpose.

Hah! I can't remember the last time I saw well-maintained collaborative documentation at a client. And I am among a small handful of people I know who provide descriptions of meeting invites.

2:

I looooove written communication with others who are competent. I have an unfortunate history of colleagues who will immediately ask for a meeting whenever I send an email with more than one short paragraph or with an attachment containing text of interest. In this meeting, I proceed to read them the contents of my email, sometimes literally and sometimes paraphrasing.

I have narrowed this to the coworkers by exasperatedly sharing said emails with coworkers and with friends in different fields to see if they understand them. The number of these experiences is much higher than the number of meeting invites I have received with well-written descriptions included.

3:

Yes! I agree with all of the points this author is making.
How long until the ICU has drained the queue of supplies and tools that we forced the economy to stop producing? I don't think the government has enough visibility into that supply chain to reopen it in a way that works without the rest of the economy.
I noticed the caveat of scrapping other benefits.
The thing that unit tests are really good for is providing a safety net when you make changes. And I love them. I have a few multi-year projects that sit and do their thing for months at a time with no changes; when I come back to them with a client request, the test suite is awesome for making sure that whatever I just changed didn't break something else (alternatively, the tests point out an assumption I made when writing the tests and the test needs to be changed). Either way, I appreciate it. Especially when there've been changes done by other people that I wasn't aware of.

Buuuuut... a lot of the personal projects I've worked on have zero unit tests. Maybe they have a couple of tests around a complicated algorithm, but mostly... no automated testing. What they do have though is a) version control, and b) a fast-iteration platform underneath them. They're also generally well factorered into small chunks.

As an example, I have a package that takes an org-mode file and extracts time entries to drive into time tracking software a client uses. Written in Lisp, zero tests. Every month I fire it up, look at the table of entries it's about to post, and hit "go". Looking at the table of entries provides two sanity checks: first, that I properly logged my hours that month (I'll occasionally forget to clock out for a weekend and rack up a 48 hour time log), and second, that it didn't encounter a bug while doing the processing. As of around September of last year, this program is done, and does its job perfectly every month.

Another example, also in Lisp, is used for making estimates for my clients. I give it a list of tasks with 3-point estimates, it churns through and calculates all the means and standard deviations, generates a file for Pandoc to consume, and spits out a PDF. I use it every couple of months. No tests, all done inside the SBCL repl. I obviously proofread the output PDF before sending it to a client, but that's again to check for bugs and to check for brain farts.

I've worked on great codebases that have giant test suites, and I've worked on terrible codebases that have giant test suites. And likewise for no test suites. While I appreciate the sentiment, I think it's dangerous to talk in absolutes like that. While I agree there is probably some degree of correlation between whether or not a codebase has a unit test suite and whether it's good code, writing unit tests does not intrinsically make the codebase good, and not writing unit tests does not intrinsically make a codebase bad.
Last I saw from UCSF they said the 88% statistic didn't include people still hospitalized. So kinda bogus.
Hypothesis: Books that already have high exposure and demand will likely be negatively impacted by making a free version available. Books that would have good sales if more people knew about them will likely benefit from the increased exposure from making free versions available.

But yeah I personally have had the experience of the first link - I've purchased many physical books that have free (and legal) PDFs online because I like print books better.
if it's something you're self-studying, don't be afraid to put something down and pick it up later. There are topics and materials that I completely failed to understand the first time I encountered them, but months or years later they were easy to understand.

Of course, if your goal is to get good grades in specific courses which have exams on specific dates, then this isn't very useful advice.

Some other advice:

- don't underestimate the value of memorization when it comes to definitions and important theorems.

- do lots of practice problems which are like those on the exams (obviously)

- as much as possible, find peers to study with and talk with. it's easy to fool yourself into thinking you understand something, but when you try to talk about it with a real person, the holes in your knowledge are revealed pretty quickly.

- if you can't do that, try to explain the concepts and ideas you're learning to an imaginary friend.

- you might be able to find lecture notes or slides online from the actual versions of classes taught at your institution.

I agree you should ask the professors for materials to look at, or at least try to focus on the materials and courses actually taught at your institution. This is the path of least resistance and will probably make it easier to stay motivated too.
Einstein did not determine that the sun was nuclear powered. That was Hans Bethe in 1939 (based on data produced by Bengt Strömgren).
Not on a Xavier but on a TX2 I was able to get a single reasonable 4K stream with NVENC and gstreamer. Quality wasn't super awesome since it's realtime encoding. We ended up using two TX2s (one for each stream). I'd probably go with two Xaviers for better quality or step down and do 2 higher quality 1080p streams.
This is violent agreement with my point, right?

Note I am not happy about a race to a vaccine. Just feels like that is what our grand plan is.
To me, I think what this demonstrates more than anything else is that the human mind is limited by the metaphors it has access to.

Leaving astronomy out of it— just look at the how we describe the mind — it’s been variously described as breath, or hydraulics, or clockworks and now as a computer.

Probably in 100 years we’ll be looking back at our primitive understanding of how the brain works and laughing.

They thought the sun might be made of coal because they were excited by the industrial revolution and the discover of thermodynamics and the steam engine and thought it might be the same phenomenon.
Sounds a little like Dark Matter and Dark Energy today. Lots of evidence for it but nobody knows what it is.
Please read the article before commenting.

> Indeed, one ought to observe that the most important consumers of an init system are not sysadmins and ops people as commonly believed, but rather distro maintainers. It is their laziness that determines the balance.
Do you buy things from amazon? They treat their warehouse employees terribly, so I hope not, lest you facilitate an immoral act.

Do you ever use uber? They work to keep their drivers legally declared as contractors, despite treating them employees in all other regards. That’s pretty immoral, so I hope you don’t encourage it by supplying them with business.
Divide and choose
My first burnout was pure depletion of energy. I was young, passionate, and believed in doing the best work I could. I was addicted to work and pushed myself to deliver. I did, and built a career. I left after almost a decade at that company and went to a new job that had 20x the employees and was well resourced.

I got to kick back a bit and the job was more about delivering accurately and not delivering volume. I spent the first 3 years in that position recovering from prior burnout while still working. I got bored, so I quit and started a business. I worked myself for years right into the ground, burned out again. I took a few months off and relaxed. I ended up geting bored again before I fully recovered and went back to work.

I changed career tracks and switched technologies figuring this would give me a challenge and excitement. A new profession, systems, and rules of engagement. I was truly excited at first and I worked hard. Then I burned out again, before having recovered from prior burnout. This time it isn't due to lack of work/life balance, its due to lack of technological and social satisfaction.

At first I thought it was a bout of imposter syndrome as it's a new career but as time went on I realized it's more about the industry, the direction it's going, and the effects of people getting into STEM for money and not because they're technologists. It's a lot of younger folks who boast about their adderall abuse, get excited to give presentations, and other stuff that I'm really not interested in.

I'm stuck in burnout #3 now. It’s easier to burn out after the first one. I don't have the ability to make a risky move at the moment, I have people who depend on me. I don't know what my next move is now but as you age and your responsibility grows your options shrink. I think I might ride out the virus and look for a new job in the hopes a new environment will give me a push to keep going.
I'm late to the party but I just stumbled on something Ursula K. Le Guin said that I think is the perfect answer:

"When action becomes unprofitable, gather information. When gathering information becomes unprofitable, sleep."
keyring namespace? IIRC that and time were the two things that didn't get a unique namespace in Docker, etc. containers.
Yeah, that what the Australian government said. That's what their own Privacy Impact Assessment document recommended.

That's what they recently told us they were not going to do after all. Because security.

:sigh:
Almost - 6,000 years is the common figure in young earth creationism although I see Wikipedia mention 10,000 also.
Well technically, Hacklang powers Facebook now https://hacklang.org/

But your point still stands :)

(This is coming from a PHP developer)
I remember there were no 'alternative' radio stations around me at the time, so I looked forward to every Sunday night to watch and listen to MTV's 120 minutes to hear all the new stuff (or new to me anyway). Thanks for sharing these.
Australia has deployed their app but haven't released the source code yet, and may not release all of it, so until it actually happens who knows.

Also while the app on the phone has been released, the actual data wont be sent on to contract tracers until more testing and privacy policies are finalised.[0]
[0]https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-02/coronavirus-app-curre...
Undernourished != starving, and 821.6 million != 1 billion. While there is plenty of work to do left, theres a lot of progress that has been made so far and its important to recognize that.
I have an odd fear of going to a therapist in the bay area - when all my issues are caused by being yet another bay area stereotype.

Do you think therapists get tired of dealing with people who are just unhappy with their job in a bubble?
Wow. That progress bar - I’m sold. Looking forward to trying it out
I added it. In a way it's dodgy though, because SA isn't providing the original article or even a photo of it. This is just a single-paragraph quote, and they've milked that cow before: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1jym5d/in_the_s..., which I ran across while failing to track down the original article.
Not only that, cosmic plasma filaments carrying charged dust around is the most likely explanation for the "missing" matter and energy that two Nobels were handed out for the, continued, non-discovery.

I do not understand why the Aether was ridiculed, but Dark (Matter|Energy) are not. They both depend on something we can't see or detect in any way, and Occam's Razor dictates that, without further evidence, I have to consider the least complex explanation the probably correct one: Plasma physics is a well understood field that involves the Electromagnetic force, and Cosmology has simply neglected to understand how large plasma currents can scale to.

The irony is, Hannes Alfvén (1970 Nobel Prize winner for his work on Magnetohydrodynamics, also had significant contributions to space science) basically stated that this is the most likely cause of coronal heating, based on the earlier work of Kristian Birkeland (nominated for the Nobel 7 times)... gigantic plasma currents slamming into the Sun at it's polar regions, much like how the Solar magnetic field slams into us at our poles and causes high energy plasma events known as the Aurora.
I am old enough to have watched the first few hours. The cable came into a box on the TV. I think it was a 25 inch tube as my Dad liked to watch the NFL games. The cable box was a dial with ~60 channels on it and a A/B switch (so there was channel 60A and channel 60B). The TV had a remote but of course that did not work with the cable box so my job as the kid was to change the channel when my parents asked!

There was not a ton of videos so they replayed them a ton. I remember seeing The Buggles, Go-go’s, Toto, Prince, etc. A lot of the videos where just the band on stage playing with various camera views. I also remember watching the premiere of Michael Jackson’s Thriller (1983) with my parents. It was pretty cool.
I want a coredump_pattern namespace (or even better, sysctl namespace).

Having a single, global handle gives me so many problems!
It prevents crimes of opportunity, much like leaving a brand new macbook pro in the driveway is a bad idea.
I hadn't seen that before, but figures. More and more, a nice Lenovo, Dell, or System76 laptop running Linux is starting to sound really good. Hell, it's got better gaming support than Mac now, with Vulkan.

As far as the immediate concern goes, Karabiner is such a popular thing that I suspect there'll be some way to support it. If not, I won't upgrade. I just bought this MacBook Pro, and it'll probably continue to be usable on 10.15.x for its lifetime. I'm not too interested in my gaming keyboard and 10 key pad becoming unusable, at any rate.

If they actually completely kill software support for this, I guess next best thing would be a USB intermediary to process the key codes. Possible it's doable with a Raspberry PI or something, and there are enough mechanical keyboard enthusiasts on Mac someone would be motivated to do it. Won't help for the internal keyboard though.
Does Roblox pay the folks with access to this system a living wage? Why was it so easy to sway someone in this group?