skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because his wealth isn't enough and he can still insert himself into other policies to obtain more influence, more power, and more money?

My question to you is why you care what Thiel thinks and why you're dissapointed. As far as I'm concerned, these guys are the lowest of the low and they only hold their position through gross exploitation.

Nobody should be amassing this impossible wealth and seeking to gain more and these CEOs are basically economic despots to my mind.
Have you thought about looking for a job with a tech related non-profit? I joined one a few years ago after spending my entire career in the traditional for-profit tech space and I have been amazed at the difference between the two worlds. Most of the negative aspects of the VC driven tech world that you talk about don't really exist in the non-profit space. It's not all sunshine and roses, but might be a great way for you to get back to what you used to love as well as contribute to something meaningful.
There is no "journalism" in China. Or Russia.
I remember seeing a similar story from sanfrancisco, california about their region.
What percentage of Hacker News readers block trackers?
This is not true.

Firmware is typically copyrighted, large, obfuscated, and executable on your system.

A password is a string that you can examine and offers no intrinsic threat - either exploit, or legal.

As per the link I provided to you, Debian's policy is that free firmware are shipped in the distribution -- non-free firmware requires you add the 'non-free' and/or 'contrib' parameters to your repository lists.

There is no need to wildly speculate about the motivations of the Debian team -- eg 'send a signal people should buy certain devices' -- when their motivation is explicitly stated.

The DFSG dictates non-free software will not part of the standard distribution. But they've made it easy to pull those files in (as above) via a one word addition to one line of your sources.list file.
White dwarfs are quite small, making their heat loss to radiation fairly low.
embarrassing really isn't it.
> Any claim that China was caught unprepared are hard to believe.

And yet it appears manifestly to be the case, no?
I mapped it to caps lock, but my Blink already allowed that.
Yes! Part of learning a language, for me, is gaining muscle memory with my fingers and having to use a mouse is a turn off. Very cool site otherwise!
Source? Searching turns up no procedures on this.
Hilarious - I worked with someone in the past that was very similar. They lasted a few weeks. We ignored some yellow/red flags when hiring, so it's our own fault.
For OpenBSD users there is unbound-adblock[0]. It's a small shell script that uses only in-base utilities and can be run with minimal privileges.

[0] https://www.geoghegan.ca/unbound-adblock.html
oh, also -- the advice to skim early chapters is generally good. In general, don't be afraid to skip past things you don't understand, as long as you have some way of testing that you are learning everything you need in the end (via peers and practice problems). Sometimes there are seemingly-extraneous details that can only make sense after you see how they are used later in the text, and sometimes confusing stuff ends up not being very important.
My favourite factoid about the aether theory is that Faraday found it implausible, on the basis that he couldn't conceive of a fluid medium that could propagate transverse waves evenly in all directions, but not longitudinal waves in any direction.
How does Google Live Migration [1] work without this?

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/live-migrati...
Dave Kendall (one of the host of 120 Minutes) does a show every Friday on XM First Wave on Friday nights - Party 360 with Dave Kendall. There is also Dark Wave on Sundays. Between those 2 it covers anything you would have heard on 120 Minutes.
A Good way to think through Python Generators
Generators can quickly become complicated. Maybe there's a different way to understand them? ️
Use C# Source Generators to make all of your methods async
It’s also the namesake of ethernet.
This also happened to me. I have a second email address I set up and set all forwarding to another Gmail. I've lost the password to the second account, but still receive all of the messages. it's not that I need to get into the account or use that email address. mostly I just want to make sure it's secure and nobody else can get into it.

Who knows... maybe someone else recovered it that he's using it as their primary address and I'm just getting copies of all their messages?
Good observation I'm Chinese. And I usually belong to "liberals brainwashed by the west" category on the Chinese internet by the way.
Can you tell me what?

I just asked because there is an option to change the top bar. It seems weird to not have dark mode given the nature of the users on the site but I would understand if there was an intentional reason as there are in many tiny things here.
That is only free for 12 months though. Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud offer one free VM in their "always free" offering. Personally I use a $5/month Digital Ocean box.
High density mechanical energy storage with carbon nanothread bundle
I don't understand the usage of awful here. Are you using it to suggest the journalism is good and deserving of recognition (confusing) or that the Pulitzer is an award for bad journalism?
IPs and headers are not PII. The GDPR does not apply outside of the Eurozone.
> Maybe it once was, but it really isn't anymore

> the average IQ of commenters seems to have reverted to the mean

Absolutely (and sadly) 100% correct
It really is. Fields don't exist until something waves in them. Aether was something to be waved.
> We have seen a number of forks of SideQuest created recently circumventing SafeSide to facilitate piracy. This was possible for an average developer in part because the code was open source.
Perhaps you in your limited understanding of communism, fed to your by your propagandist overlords to control you, have failed to understand how someone could hold both views. Or maybe you just don't get people. multitudes.

Either way, it's a fact. Protip: this is the part where you see reality and update your perspective
Reading through this thread, and looking in the mirror, it's reinforcing the fact that I, too, am becoming a graybeard.

> Likewise, with CI/CD. And don't get me started on the monkey-work that is TDD. You might argue that it improves code quality. But, it's hard to make the case that it improves job satisfaction. If you move more work from the creative, problem-solving bucket into the busy-work bucket, the result will not be personal fulfillment.

> Does agile increase productivity for companies? Sure. But, it comes at a high cost that's mostly paid by devs.

I agree wholeheartedly with you. I'm by no means suggesting we move back to waterfall, but I am really enjoying the work I'm doing more and more of lately: embedded. Nominally it's a sort of Agile-type workflow (Kanban-ish), but because there's hardware design and manufacturing in the loop, things get planned out early and the multi-month plan doesn't change very much. New algorithm ideas pop up and get scheduled, new ways of doing sensor filtering pop up and get scheduled, but the direction of the wind doesn't change at the start of every "sprint". There are no sprints, just a prioritized/sequenced task list that gets reevaluated periodically.

(Plus, I get to go back to my old days C-hacker roots. The thing builds with a Makefile and spits out a ~32kB binary that gets flashed onto the device.)
That's not accurate. There are many competent maintainers.
Would you mind saying which nonprofit you joined? (or maybe throw out a couple of names of other non-profits, just as examples of what's possible)
Eudev was forked in the immediate aftermath because systemd only cares about systemd. Even Torvalds strongly criticized systemd-udev maintainership[1].

1. https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/3/484
The initial 15 min rule (for whether you might get infected from close proximity to someone infected) was based on the idea that offices cycle their volume of air every 10 minutes, but casinos that allowing smoking may cycle their air more often.

This was often cited as a reason why everyone on a flight won't catch it, just those in nearby rows.

Vegas also doesn't have a subway system, which was cited as why it spread so rapidly in NY.
You could make several arguments here, but they're all small until you aggregate them.

1) Breaking working systems should be dissuaded, especially when it comes to human interaction. There's a reason that Microsoft still has a start menu and "File/Edit" menu's

2) There is a certain level of arrogance to the notion that a developer of core infrastructure for literally millions of users can just change things and expect everyone to fall in line without giving credible reason for people to do that.

3) Adding an additional tool to everyones cognitive load should be done with care and delicacy, as it stood there was one set of tools for _all_ file accesses, and there is now a new one.

PS; on a personal note, I'm glad I do not work with you, I find your attitude in the grandparent comment deplorable.
Ask HN: How do you manage “non-bankable” investments like private company stock?
I'm curious, how do people here manage their "non-bankable" investments, like equity they've earned or purchased in startups or other private companies?

How do you handle tax reporting? Have you tried borrowing against your equity, or selling it on Secondmarket?
Laser-cooled YbOH molecules could aid the hunt for new physics
I thought it was megaman, which is set in the year 20XX
I don't agree that they are confused, at least not most of them. Rather, those views comport with their existing perspectives on government regulation of the private sector. Even in this very forum it is not uncommon to see people seriously argue that regulations are fundamentally bad for consumers, including net neutrality. I disagree with this perspective, but I don't think it's accurate to say they are confused about their position.

The most common argument I hear against net neutrality is that it's unnecessary government overreach and that ISPs would never try to dictate network traffic in a draconian fashion because it would be bad for business. I won't list all the problems with this reasoning since I'd be preaching to the choir, but this is a belief that a lot of people have.
I know a bunch of people who went to RSA in Vegas that got a mysterious flu that was extremely similar to Covid. Given the Vegas mayor's recent publicity it wouldn't surprise me that Vegas was fudging the numbers.

Most people who work in customer facing roles in Vegas are already extremely paranoid and careful about hygiene. Gloves, constant cleaning of commonly touched surfaces, etc. Being a low level casino/hotel employee teaches you very quickly that humans are just sentient germ dispersal machines.
Teach the controversy.
Yeah I am aware. I like the official design though. It's minimalistic and I often read on mobile so can't have an extension.

It just seemed very intuitive given the presence of top color option.
That's actually a fairly interesting case. I haven't read into it too much but it seems that they agree that it isn't necessarily a copyright violation based on who does it. It looks like what they got Peak on was instead the fact that they had unlicensed copies of MAI software at their HQ and were loaning MAI equipment in such a way that violated the license agreements.

P.S. Please correct me if I got any of this wrong.
Nicely put.

This is not a message that any politician can ever espouse. It is sadly the way of things.

I suspect that the next novel coronavirus will meet with quite a lot of resistance. It seems we screwed the pooch/jumped the shark/fucked up ... with SARS which was our last warning apart from Bird flu (H5N1) and the other horrendous epidemics and pandemics across the years.

It's a bit embarrassing to have several world class virus killer orgs here in the UK and yet we are only deploying them properly fairly recently. You Yanks can stop sniggering at the back - you've screwed up in the same way we have. It is of course not that simple and we are all unprepared for this. It will be different next time and there will be a next time. All countries are changing visibly with their response to this thing. It is remarkable and quite humbling. Keep your eyes peeled and your brain on point and observe. We will never see the like again in our lifetimes (I hope)

My take away is that we need to get all our govts onboard with real risk assessment.
I barely know anything about Neruda, and i was thinking... geez, I thought he was known as a good poet, did he really write that garbage? Maybe it lost something in translation? Whether you 'agree' with what it's apparently didactically trying to say or not, that's just a bad poem.
In the lesser scheme of evils, Amazon firing employees who are unionizing to force the corporation to follow their environmental agenda, does not rank very high on the scale.
Now, imagine video with the scientist narrating this new finding (Sun is 400m years old, and gives heat and light because of meteors falling on it) is being removed by youtube, because these views are so dissenting with prevailing opinion of the world being 6000 years old max, and could harm minds of a general population, turning people away from God .
That’s interesting. I need to spend more time and look into how this works.
Well, when I was at Palantir I worked with police departments integrate a dozen or so databases so looking someone up took one query rather than several, cutting down on the time needed for traffic stops drastically.

The software was also used to run double blind clinical drug trials - the acl granularity was great at that; you could have different roles for drug manufacturers, doctors, and patients, none of which had absolute information. Then trial supervisors could open up the data for analysis at the end of the trial.

At that same time, the ability to use GPS phones to upload data over unreliable networks was used when they teamed up with the Clinton foundation and Team Rubicon to improve disaster relief coordination for hurricanes.

Myself or coworkers (“Palantir staff”) worked on all of these.
Indeed there is of every kind, from community people to big media, of course, the official organs are biased, but they don't encompass all journalists, the same way American journalism is not just CNN and Fox News.

It is highly insulting and arrogant to assume there is no brave journalism there where people have lost their jobs or their lives by reporting inconvenient truths.

You need more street.
> People got rid of their apartments, set up Winnebagos in the parking lot.

Thats... a lot more about rent prices than people wanting to be at work all the time.
Now we just need to be able to use all of these namespaces safely from userland.... so a namepsace-namespace?
It's a complex issue and if you ask 10 people, you'll get 23 answers.

One of my answers: the greater geopolitical community woke up to the power of Web 2.0 with Tahrir Square and the questions that social media technology poses to us all. Largely, Tahrir Square was the high water mark of Silicon Valley and the old promises of free information exchange and the hippie ethos that spawned it all. The reaction by the geopolitical leaders was swift afterwards.

Again, super complex topic, I cannot stress this enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_revolution_of_2011
Sysmon and File Deletion
Hiring is Broken: How we fix it?
Yeah we were short staffed at the time. I don't think they were paying that much attention as long as someone seemed to check out at first glance. We want through a bunch of people that didn't last long around that time. He was probably the most memorable though.
> What you are missing is that it is possible for two things to be true at once.

Actually, it's possible for more than two things to be true at once. It could be:

1. It could be true sysv init sucked. (Actually, it wasn't that bad as a modular version of local.rc, but parallel and delayed startup was always just a kludge).

2. It could be true that systemd is a good init system. (For me it's a step change improvement sysv init for parallel and delayed start up. About my only complaint is you don't see failures on "systemctl start xxx"; you have to run journalctl.)

3. It could be that adding another 1M lines of code into the systemd source unrelated to starting stuff was an unsound engineering decision - almost inexplicable coming as it does from a senior engineer. Keeping things in separate source databases with explicit interfaces is a well understood way of reducing the chances of ending up with a ball of mud.

4. It could be that moving sending state changes via an RPC interface (dbus) so you have a million places you have to inspect to understand the state of the system and how it got there rather than writing the desired state of the system to disk with a journal where everyone can inspect it was a bad idea.
Yes, it solves the basic authentication problem
fascinating fact: the pulitzer prize, one of the most prestigious awards in journalism, is named after a newspaper publisher infamous for yellow journalism. by the end of his career, however, joseph pulitzer had reformed himself and started producing outstanding journalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Pulitzer
Well you can always look at the network packets, most easily accomplished from jailbroken devices. There are many people who look at such matters. It's far from worthless.
FCC under Pai does the same basic thing FCC has always done and in fact was created to do: help Ma Bell and her descendants eliminate competition and screw customers. The details may change over the decades, but the bottom line does not.
I highly recommend this related article:
"How the Sun Shines", by John Bahcall
https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0009259
Then it's "journalctl -n 100". Or "journalctl | less".

> Now I have to type "journalctl --help" every single time I want to look at a system or daemon log, which isn't super common, and when I do need to I'm already frustrated something isn't working.

I don't think that keeping users from ever having to learn anything new is a good justification for doing things a particular way.

> I'm not a sysadmin, I don't try to be and I don't want to be, and it seems like systemd is hellbent on forcing me to be one

Personally I don't understand this sentiment. As a user I have found that systemd has made using Linux systems much simpler for me. Yes, I had to read a manual, but I don't think that is anything like "forcing me to be a sysadmin". Didn't you have to read the manual for tail at some point in the past?
The end goal is of course, a grade; however I will have to take supplementary exams. Although past papers are available, there is a degree of ‘aptitude testing’ involved which is strictly mathematical but still difficult to prepare for directly. Nevertheless practice problems are good for that and I will be doing a lot.

You are right, the advice to skip/quickly pass the first chapters [thank you lurker137] is good. I think this is something I have known subconsciously but I will try to keep aware. Same for those who have suggested seeking further material.

> as much as possible, find peers to study with and talk with

This is good advice. Thank you.
I think this is his future direction, providing an API that can be verified
Change the problem, keep yourself.
What is interesting about that?
Nice one Jeff! Amazed to see these kinds of sales figures. I hope that you're saving some of the income for yourself - you deserve it.
That's a bit unfair to Jaron. He didn't make a hole-in-one but he hit the green in one stroke (I'm sure there's a golf name for that, but know nothing about golf metaphors). What he said was pretty astonishing for 2000. Google didn't even introduce ads until...checking...oh! three weeks later, and the privacy concerns that he's depicting have basically become the water in which we all swim.
> The figure was actually 3.4% and it was just the dumb fatality-divided-by-cases estimate. IMO they failed to convey the uncertainty in this estimate.

I don't believe you're referring to the same statement as the prior person. In the case that you are, that statement is very precise, very correct, and ultimately uninteresting if you're wondering how dangerous COVID is. It's observational (and has minimal uncertainty) as opposed to trying to understand the actual case fatality rate.

> The point is that it is obvious that a pandemic is prevented by restricting all travel.

Yes, if you do so before the thing spreads. If you can't, then no, localized bans aren't really useful. By the time, for example, Trump, was considering a ban on all travel from China, it wouldn't have helped. I'm not sure what the point of linking to a random youtube channel is.

> The point is it was an outright lie which decreased trust in the institution as someone at the NYT also noted. Arguably, a much better lie would have been that DIY masks are just as effective as professional masks.

It's not though. Cite me a paper that shows that cloth masks prevent the spread of corona. The best you'll find is a paper that Zeynep Tufecki (whose tweet you cited), a literature professor at UNC Chapel Hill, coauthored, that concludes that Cloth masks and handwashing limit the spread of COVID-19.

So here's the chain of reasoning:

1. that there is no reliable data that shows that cloth masks are helpful

2. there is data that shows that misuse of cloth masks can be harmful

3. Therefore, we should be cautious and perhaps not recommend cloth masks

Which of those three statements do you feel the WHO got wrong? Please give cited evidence for your disagreement.
Two levels of backup.

1. Daily backup. Personal documents take up one directory tree amongst the many directory trees of my /home/username directory which is backed up in full every day. Those daily backups are discarded in a reverse-exponential way, such that there many recent backups and fewer older backups.

Those daily backups are duplicated twice more on to two separate external hard drives.

2. Monthly backups, documents only. The whole of my documents directory tree is tarred and compressed as a monthly 'snapshot' and this is stored as three separate instances on three separate hard drives, one internal and two external. Those monthly backups are stored indefinitely and never discarded.

NOTE: I know I should have another copy stored off-site as 'belt and braces', but I know from painful experience that 'cloud storage' can be less dependable than a home-grown solution. And the triple-copy on-site system has served me well so far.
Cocaine and Amphetamine Regulated Transcript
btw, this issue has some "system-supported" ways to do the simple modifications. That at least would let me do a workaround for some of what I'd need to replace (swapping modifier keys, mapping my ten-keypad to arrow keys, etc.)

https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements/issues/2196
Feel free to mentally substitute “has access to anything less than enough food” and round up slightly, but I don’t see much of a difference.
Giving him the benefit of the doubt on the china stuff, it must personally hurt so much to hear the China allegations. Lives in the us, is a US citizen, creates jobs in the US, but still has his loyalty questioned constantly. He has to have a datacenter in China to serve his customers that need service in china, and people will keep holding that over his head. Must be frustrating, and it's not an argument he can ever win against people that will never trust him.
The author of this piece fails to understand the Western. Han has to shoot first to establish himself as a rogue whose only interest is himself thus setting up the redemption arc when he flies the falcon in to save Luke.
Jesus you sound like a nightmare to work with