skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can do better on my own, my two cents, have to do what’s best for you. We sold our place in Cook County because the cost to benefit wasn’t there and property taxes will only rise (Chicago is almost $90 billion in debt per Moody’s, that’s $84k per household) while education keeps getting cut [1]. That’s a big gamble on top of your data about grade schools and magnet schools (my kids won't be in high school for more than half a decade).

I’m having a coffee watching the sunrise over Appalachia while some poor sap is dragging themselves to the Blue line. I’m not the best teacher, but life is about trade offs.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=cps+budget+cuts
Tetraethyllead was added to gasoline to reduce knocking. Unleaded gasoline wasn't appealing to consumers at all, but the market for that is now dead and consumers continue to fill up their tanks. The evidence for its harm was overwhelming. The evidence for fast food being harmful is a lot less overwhelming at the moment. Maybe once that becomes clearer, consumer demand will shift, hopefully without requiring legislation?
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Be aware that Testing may get security updates much later than Unstable or Stable.

https://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing
Kitchens need quite a lot (ventilation, gas hookups, water, electricity for the kitchen in the right places).

You can't just throw up some false walls and call it a day. Even if you could, your landlord's lease terms probably don't let you sublease like that.
Assuming immunity is both short-lived and predictably so for everyone. If the amount of immunity varies significantly by individual, then it’ll just be an ongoing slow burn and not another spike of infections. And that also assumes that at a slow burn it would be able to maintain R0 > 1.0.
There are many kinds of linux users, just like there are many kinds of windows users.
SystemDOS

Denial of service today. Disk operating system when they reinvent FAT poorly.
It's not just speculation on that level. Here is the conclusion from the linked paper verbatim:

We identified at a population level that both older populations and males are both more likely to die from COVID-19, and less likely to be seropositive for rubella-specific immunity, based on historical vaccination programmes of all three countries considered in this report. Finally, the hypothesis that this macro domain could be recognised by antibodies raised against rubella was supported by data that demonstrated that patients who have SARS-CoV2 infection had raised levels of rubella IgG to a level in keeping with secondary rubella infection. Taken together, we suggest that MMR will not prevent COVID-19 infection but could potentially reduce poor outcome. To conclude whether MMR vaccination can improve the outcomes from Covid-19 infection, a study using individual based data to compare MMR immunity status in the affected population is warranted.

Source: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.10.20053207v...
I agree - I see this as much more of a comment on consumer credit-worthiness than on home/land values.
I would assume maybe because of the phenomenon:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-dependent_enhanceme...
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The real question that remains is
1. Regardless of the outcome what system is in place to hold Pai or the FCC accountable for this? Practically none that I'm aware of.
2. Can this in any way force them to maintain net neutrality? Probably not
Can you use xfce as the window manager easily? Basically all I want is an LTE release of something with xfce or some other “plain” window manager.
Working remotely is one aspect. A counter aspect might be the lack of infrastructure in non-urban areas. Stare and local finances are getting strained. Without a large infrastructure bill, established cities are the only place to put people.

Another aspect will be the high costs to build the new housing needed to support a trend like this. Those costs might not make non-urban areas much cheaper than using existing housing stock in large cities.
dconf is now a binary format though.
For some situations, it's called for, but it's a huge pain in the ass. I am in a similar situation, and I need to patch every docker image I use. It's terrible to deal with, as an engineer, but the information security team does catch and eliminate a lot of content-based attacks.
Microsoft did have a choice. They could simply have hidden the disable auto update (and telemetry for that matter!) somewhere deeper in the OS where non-techie users will never find it. Or even a registry key or whatever.
I've read this twice, can anyone actually point out where the article links short sellers and share price manipulation?

The closest thing I can see is that the shorts are accused of closing their short position by acquiring shares in a secondary offering, which not only is legal, but also a smart thing to do if you think the offering is priced high and you're short.
I can easily imagine home value risk is one issue. The other is a lot of people whose credit worthiness looks good on paper (for now) rushing to tap into a line of credit "just in case" because they realize their employment prospects could be quite shaky.
You can cleanup Ubuntu from snaps: https://www.kevin-custer.com/blog/disabling-snaps-in-ubuntu-...

However, Canonical pushes snaps via deb packages (e.g. Chromium).

The best option is the use an Ubuntu-based distro, like PopOS or Linux Mint or Elementary OS.
The obvious answer is buyer preference and cheaper gas.

https://www.theonion.com/a-statement-followed-by-a-question-...
Henry Ford was a total dick and not customer-focused at all.
ehhhh, I've never seen a hardcore Linux developer move to Windows. WSL exists to sunset Windows-based development, not the other way around.

Windows Server gets to exist so long as it acts as a funnel into Azure. Someday it will be sold off to Wipro, a la VMS or OS/2.
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Let me say in no uncertain terms that there will be a time soon when desk monitors and tvs will be present but not the main display, and their sales will drop at that point. To me, it's more "when" than "if." To reach that tipping point two things need to first occur: there needs to be an ~300 USD headset with specs comparable to the current Valve Index, there need to be improvements to hand & finger tracking so existing workflows begin translating directly into the virtual environment. When those two things transpire, give it like 3-5 years tops, and I'll think you'll see a state change.
Yes. It's a great idea for spinning rust, meh for SATA SSD, and bad for NVMe SSD.
Dial *99# for free banking really! And by officially acknowledgement of the bluetooth and wi-fi it's obviously a signal hunter. Try on a raspberry pi. All screaming @2.4 ghz
This is a more nuanced take and I totally agree. Everything about housing markets is very local.
No using third party software doesn't mean you are consenting to their control. Why would you believe that?

For open source you can read the source and decide to install or change. You can limit permissions by assigning to different user groups. You can disallow firewall access. You can choose to use selinux and have additional restrictions.

Automatically updating anything introduces risk.
For me, the font is way too light. I see you have `font-weight: 200` on the body and `font-weight: 300` on the content. Both render the same for me. The light font is way too weak in contrast, so deleting those both CSS rules and going with the default font-weight of 400 makes it much more readable for me.
Yes! It's what I use! :-)

Just apt install xfce4

Most of the package names are the same between Ubuntu/Debian. Honestly, using testing just feels like using a "level headed boring adult" spin of Ubuntu. Instructions for installing or compiling XYZ for Ubuntu will typically work without modification on testing.
I think the parent is asking about the different problem: how to verify when you are not the one sending it to the fab. (Just like how to verify binaries when you are not the one doing the build.) In both cases fab and compiler are trusted.
Eh. Stupid questions of various varieties do exist (and it is not unkind to recognize that). They mostly arise from:

* mental laziness (didn't want to spend a few seconds thinking and just wanted to be handed the answer -- very commonly disguised as curiosity)

* bad faith (trolling, attempts at eliciting humor, "not really a question but a comment", agenda pushing)

It's very tiring to respond to stupid questions of this ilk -- it shifts the burden from the questioner to the respondent. It's not neutral, and having an environment of "no question is stupid" is draining -- psychologically, empathy is a finite resource like it or not. That's why there are so many guides on how to ask questions. (asking questions that elicit useful answers is actually a life skill!)

That said, I think the spirit of "no-stupid questions" is really about being open to (1) really out-of-left-field questions that challenge our thinking; (2) sincere questions that arise from curiosity; (3) clarification so that one doesn't persist in the wrong direction. I think this framing should be encouraged and environments/cultures should be cultivated to enable this.

But in my opinion "no stupid questions" as a catch-all is not practically tenable. The costs seem too one-sided.
And for those who want to create in a similar environment, but in an open source way, the OSS clone Minetest is pretty mature and is designed to be easy to mod.
I think there's a pretty big distinction between the customer lacking the imagination to see a better solution until it is presented to them, and being denied a choice while being in full possession of the facts.
This is a weird read. I think what the author means is that sometimes your design needs to "step out of the way" of someone else's design. This happened all the time for me in my early-20s doing band websites where there was usually album art, merch, logos, etc etc that were highly stylized... was it a bit of a challenge to deal with those assets? Sure... but when I realized that I just needed to "get out of the way" as the UX strategy things got easy.

Frankly, looking at the site that is being discussed I would call it "good UX" for being simple and "getting out of the way" of the original artist's work (which is the point of the site anyway). I do criticize making me download 2-3Mb pictures when they should be thumbnails though - but really outside of that gaff it's a fine site.

TLDR: Going on a "bad UX" rant feels disingenuous/silly when most designers would absolutely consider this good UX for getting out of the way of the original artist's work.
> you have to deal with one.

But you don't have to play the game by their rules. After all you are the one with the money, you can just take it elsewhere. If you are buying a new car it's not as if they are selling some rare commodity that only they have.

When they start bullshitting tell them to cut it out or you will leave; and make sure you carry out the threat if they keep trying to pull the wool over your eyes.

And make sure that you actually know what you want and what it is worth to you so that you don't get distracted by shiny irrelevancies.
I totally agree with this rationale. What boggles my mind in the US is the fact that people making near minimum wage is pushed to buy cars because cities do not provide public transportation that enable them to have mobility. Here, I am talking about major urban areas around the US, where you are not able to have daily commute to work if you don’t have a car. This is very perverse from the economic mobility.

These people compromise a big portion of their income on Car financing + insurance + gas, that otherwise could be reverted as education, higher quality food, or better quality housing. I believe if we had a proper funded public transportation system, 200 dollars on unlimited public transportation ride ticket would be enough for most of the people.
LXD is a weird one, it doesn't seem that suitable for distribution as a snap in the first place. The filesystem become a magical bundle of weirdness when you use the snap version. Also LXD is something I’m not that happy to have auto updating, I would like to roll it out to a test, preprod or staging environment first.

To me snaps seems like a desktop solution that Ubuntu forgot to disable on the server edition.
many reputable schools are not about the education, they are about the connections, so I think this is not that likely.
A benefit of ident: Type is that it allows you to express complex anonymous types.

Example from Typescript:

const foo: 'A' | 'B' | 'C' = 'A'

Which states that foo must belong to the given union type. How would this look in a Type ident language?

const 'A' | 'B' | 'C' foo

That doesn't seem right. There's no clear barrier between the type and the identifier name.

Here's another contrived example:

const foo: () => Promise<void> = async (x) => console.log(x)

Here foo is of type "() => Promise<void>". How would this look in a Type ident language?

const () => Promise<void> foo = async (x) => console.log(x)

To me, this is unclear because it is hard to tell where the type ends and the actual function begins.

Last example.

const foo: { [string]: number} = {"hello": 3}

I believe says that foo is an object with string keys and number values.

What does this look like in a Type ident language?

const { [string]: number} foo = {"hello": 3}

I think all of the Type ident examples are more confusing because it's to tell where the type ends and the name begins (this is most clear in the first example). This probably makes syntax highlighting worse/parsing more complicated/is tougher on the user. With ident: Type, it is very clear that the type starts after the ":" and ends before the "=" sign.
If your app stalls for 5 minutes you probably forgot to delete the time.Sleep() you threw in while debugging.
For anyone like me who is on mobile and wondering "where's the squiggle?" here is a trick I stumbled into. This worked in Chrome on Android:

1. Tap menu and select "Desktop site".

2. Watch the black squiggle flicker a couple of times and then go blank again.

3. Scroll down so the blank area is off the top of the screen.

4. Take your finger off the screen and pause for a moment.

5. Scroll back up to the top.

6. Now you can see the squiggle.

It's like the Konami Code of design squiggles!

If the other two squiggles on the page don't appear, leave Chrome in desktop mode and and use the same trick: scroll down past them so they are off the top of the screen, pause, and then scroll up again. With a little persistence you will eventually see them all.

I think this has helped me understand why the squiggle looks so chaotic.
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Personally I don't want FlatPak either except maybe for 1 or 2 apps where the sandboxing actually makes sense. It's still a waste of resources just to appease lazy maintainers.

Ubuntu went totally overboard with their snaps, putting everything in it trying to force it to become a standard. But FlatPak is not great either even though it is an open standard.

It's nice for the 1 or 2 niche apps that aren't available any other way, but for the most part I prefer normal packages.
This is getting closer to making a reasonable claim, but unfortunately, an unsupported assertion is the _beginning_ of making an argument, not the end.

Most of the relevant scientific community disagrees with your assertion that IQ is purely pseudoscience. From Wikipedia:

> Clinical psychologists generally regard IQ scores as having sufficient statistical validity for many clinical purposes.[25][68][69] ... "On the whole, scholars with any expertise in the area of intelligence and intelligence testing (defined very broadly) share a common view of the most important components of intelligence, and are convinced that it can be measured with some degree of accuracy." Almost all respondents picked out abstract reasoning, ability to solve problems and ability to acquire knowledge as the most important elements.

There's plenty more on the topic, and as always, Wikipedia is a great place to start your search for sources.

In what way is your blanket dismissal of the scientific consensus different from anti-vaxxers ("the only use of vaccines is support for Illuminati mind-control!!) or flat-earthers ("the only use for a round earth theory is support for, uh, the globe industry!")? Or for that matter, what makes you different from IQ essentialists like neo-Nazis, that take a nuanced scientific concept and flatten it into an all-or-nothing perfect predictor of outcomes? Hell, at least they're _directionally_ in agreement with the scientific establishment about the validity of the concept.
I’d argue that the ‘bad UX’ he talks about here is good. It’s good in the sense that it fits with the theme. Just as <insert tech company here> has a modern, ‘good UX’ website, to convey that their products are cutting-edge, the ‘bad UX’ described here fits perfectly with the magazine’s theme.
I haven't been using Windows for a while, but I think there's a way to disable via Group Policy or registry now?
>Given an option regular users will never update their computers, perhaps partly due to fear of what they don't understand, fear of change, or maybe due to past bad update experiences.

You make it sound like an irrational fear but there's a real cost/benefit ratio to consider when you upgrade a machine. I personally always try to keep my machines up to date but stuff does break from time to time. Like last week an arch upgrade updated some system library to a new major version which forced me to regenerate my python dev env for work (which is not a trivial task because for various reasons our environment is fairly custom).

Windows is even worse in that regards because its upgrades are often significantly more intrusive (and they use automatic update to push new features and products, which is a great way to have people attempt not to update just to avoid them).

IMO if OS vendors want their users to update at all costs they shouldn't force it onto them, instead they should develop better transactional update systems that effortlessly and reliably let you revert to a previous version if something goes wrong. Then there would effectively be no reason to fear any update, since you know that at any point if something goes wrong you can just click on "undo update" and you're good to go.
I don't know Pop OS. On the other hand, I have been using Debian on my PC since 1999 and only got Ubuntu for my laptop because I had trouble getting everything to work properly and Ubuntu seemed to do the job.
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And for some reason the server installer doesn't set up any kind of swap at all.
And forces snaps and lxd on you, which also brings in lovely things like cloud-init...
You spend 10-15 minutes cleaning up a supposedly minimal install.
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I've been working with Joy for several years now, on an off, in a hobbyist way, and I've got to say, I think it's the most useful, simplest language.

(I've made implementations in Python and Prolog https://joypy.osdn.io/ )
Nope, on average in the United States home price per square foot is the same in constant dollar terms (give or take) as it was in the 70’s - since then the average size of an American home has gone up, however.
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My problem on Windows has never been auto update. It is the forced reboot. One that Microsoft refuses to fix because "muh backward compatibility" and instead forces reboots.

Part of the solution should be that Microsoft Windows should refuse to install on any mechanical hard disk or eMMC and on any SSD slower than a certain benchmark. The other option would be to minimize the obnoxious amounts of reading and writing Windows does to disk but that would make sense.

Personally, I don't mind snaps that auto update. Apparently, "modern" snaps are sandboxed but "classic" snaps are not? I think this is the biggest failure of snap. What is a snap? Why couldn't we give legacy snap and real snap two different names? It isn't like there used to be snaps and then we got modern snaps. They both started existing at the same time.
I don't know, but I want more of them.
In your own company you're free to do what you want.

I can understand the reason for this. Now that most suppliers treat their devices as 'black boxes' and call home to install updates whenever they want, the security team no longer has visibility nor control over this. So much stuff runs Linux which we don't manage but still has to have full access to our network.

And public repositories have been compromised and spread malware in the past. So yeah I totally understand this, even though as an enterprise Admin it's a total PITA to manage the root CAs.
Japanese island suffering 2nd wave of COVID19 after lifting lockdown too early
Not the best way to disable this but it works. My /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1 api.snapcraft.io
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I would start with looking at Wikipedia. Either the article on Venus or a separate article on the history of exploration of Venus should have links to sources.
The Bay Area isn’t in a bubble either, it’s a market whose pricing dynamics are determined by constant strong demand due to economic prospects combined with city councils artificially constraining supply to the benefit of landowners.
IIRC it tries to connect to the internet in the background to download currency exchange rates
Humans have engaged in genetic manipulation through application of selective pressures since the dawn of time. In its positive form is called 'domestication', and 99% of the food of your table, vegetable or animal, is the byproduct of such genetic manipulation.

Nothing in the article you cite addresses whether SARS-CoV-2 is a result of applying selective pressures or not. And the grant in question is funding exactly that: scientists looking to enhance the ability of coronavirus to infect various species, including humans. Not hard to presume they used the tried and true method of applying selective pressures, at least as a baseline.

https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan...
Obviously a fall in home prices would exacerbate things but, yeah, the main issue would seem to be that there are probably a whole bunch of people with solid credit worthiness in December (and who are still employed) rushing out to get HELOCs so that they have a cushion if things go south. Which is rational behavior for a lot of people given their likelihood of, say, having a job in a couple months time is also less than it was in December.
Help me see how this requires a _thorough_ study of Bayesian methods.

What you describe seems to be (additive/Laplace) smoothing [1], a fairly basic concept. And I don't see how this is specifically Bayesian.

Then, one common critique of "Bayesian stats work well with small samples" is that with small data (weak signal), you get your prior back, so you haven't learned anything, and the only thing you're left with is your "bias", erm, prior.

I am still keen to learn why one needs a thorough study of Bayesian methods to help in practical machine learning tasks (meaning, on top of a bit of statistical or data science curriculum plus on the job experience).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_smoothing
Could you elaborate on how the NIMBY attitude is detrimental to mom-and-pop establishments? I thought generally the point was to protect such businesses from chain competitors.