skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does that really change much in reality?

If you expect your emails to be inaccessible to anyone except you and the recipient you'll have to encrypt them anyway. If you are worried about the data-mining for ad purposes on other providers switching to a paid provider like Fastmail is still a good option and while everyone is subject to ad-tech data mining not everyone is subject to a targeted collection by a government actor most of the time.
> it makes permissions on volumes difficult

Yeah much easier to run everything as root. Also, we don't need /etc/password and stuff for UID/GID resolution and credentials in the container anyway; we just use ad-hoc auth and crypto from a random third-party lib (that isn't vetted, is never updated, runs in the same address space as your app, and hasn't access to meaningful entropy since running in a container) and supply root credentials on the docker command line or the Dockerfile checked in to github, or both.

That's what we've been saying for years: Docker doesn't solve anything, it merely hides problems from you (and helps your cloud provider's bottom line). Good luck, and yes, PHBs should be worried for civil/criminal gross negligence if the shit hits the fan. Your cloud provider is happy to take your checks, but will shrug-away and point out they're just providing the infrastructure; it's up to you to competently configure your ever-changing 12-factor k8s.
I possess a license of this OrCAD, it is exremely limiting (in terms of Constrains at least). KiCAD is even more feature rich in this case, and free. :-)
I can defend their "chassis" as being ahead of the competition and you basically paying for the time they spent shaving shit off until it's perfect. But that damn touch bar. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the most custom of custom random hardware part, adding like half a smartphone's production cost to it. How much productivity can that thing possibly add? Who on earth says, "yea that touch bar, certainly worth more than 1TB of SSD space and 16GB of RAM!".
MacBook Air still has the physical F keys.
Is your business non-tech related? I've had ideas to leave, myself, but with the times we're in with small businesses getting hit hard it seems it'll take extra courage to do so.
On a related note, how can I run internal mailserver that stores mail locally on my network, accessible through IMAP or web interface, and uses accounts on a POP3/IMAP-capable public server like Gmail only to receive and send mail (no long-term storage)? Where should I look?

I'm comfortable with setting up a VM, but I don't know much about email.
Forget random. Maybe it was unconscious? Kind of a 'tell'. Doesn't mean there was malicious intent, or planning ahead of time.

And what's the big deal? Is it actually a crime to win a game show? I'm confused.
Bragging about a "dedicated escape key", T-shaped arrow pad and better keyboard in the marketing materials for this thing is the very definition of chutzpah.
Yes because Linux support would have these things flying off the shelf.

But if only Apple would release Unix computers that would be a moot point I guess.
If they were serious about speed, they'd have something to show regarding how well they can manage core temperatures.
Why are the table and field names in the examples between Oracle and PostgreSQL different? It makes it harder to compare the two.
I suspect that cubicles were more about social stratification than anything else. But cubicles were well out of fashion before I joined the work force, so that’s just speculation on my part.
Lessons learned building an open source ML platform
I'm not looking for what is good, just what's better. Do you have a recommendation for what is better in the PC world?
>I'm just dead tired of all the jank in Ubuntu.

im thinking about moving to ubuntu, what sort of jank is annoying you?
>> A single deer would feed a family of four for, what, a week?

Depends on the size but you can get 40-60lbs of venison from a whitetail deer.
Yes, it does. As someone who does audio recording, design work and programming, Macos, with it's unix shell that allows all my programming tools to work and the excellent support by creative software, is the only OS that works.

The design tools may also work on windows, but the development story is hilariously bad. And no, WSL 1 or 2 with all their performance hits and weird edgecases don't qualify at all to a native unix shell.

Linux is superior to macos for software development, but the creative software support is non-existant.

Really, for someone like me (and I bet there are many others like me) Macos is the the only os that works.
You have the last good one. My 2015 died and my employer gave me a 2017 that promptly died 3 months later. Apple Care and the genius bar were a pretty shitty customer service experience but I eventually got it back. The keyboard is worse than the rubber domes on the $200 Walmart Black friday special I got several years ago. That's not a joke. For the 2017 model Ram maxed out at 16gb which made it a laughing stock for that era. The touchpad is bigger and still good, but feels substantially worse than the 2015. After a year the battery life was a joke @ <50% brightness. It doesn't feel noticably faster than the 2015 either.

My 2015 was the best laptop I've ever used by a longshot. Thinkpads of the same era match it in build quality and have slightly better keyboards but the touchpad and the Mac workflow are something I grew to love.

The keyboard on the 2017 was so bad when a coworker with an old model was showing me how to do something on my laptop he genuinely thought it was broken.
Except you seem to have forgotten the other big reason was that basically nobody was actually maintaining ConsoleKit at the time at it was a horrible, insecure mess when logind replaced it.
Yeah, if only I could get the 16" Pro with the keyboard of the Air. I need a bit more cpu power and ram than the Air can offer sadly.

Eh, my mid-2015 MBP with an i7-4780HQ and 16gb of memory will do for now. I occasionally bump into the memory limit but hopefully I can hold out until a fully sane keyboard is an option.

Either that or hacklapintosh it
Here's a really comprehensive overview of Microsporidia --
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5613672/

Still working through this and the original paper, but while it can cause encephalitis in humans, it seems to be ubiquitous already anyway, and we don't seem to typically get it from insects. Setting aside the fact that you could swap malaria for almost any other infectious disease and humanity would be massively better off.

(Caveat: IANA Microbiologist and welcome corrections.)
I'm fairly sure that the general consensus is that 16:9 is ill-suited for laptops, with 16:10 or 3:2 being the "cool" aspect ratios.
@scollet [below]: he does a prety good job of linking to ground floor worker's narratives in his post - using his increased exposure and prestige to "signal boost" them, as a millenial would say. Or am I reading that wrong?
Honestly not a fan of the Lenovo line. I've always bought their tried and true models, and none of them have held up over time vs my MacBooks.

Sure on the specs/$ they were better, but overall I preferred my macbooks.
Many times employees from one company can pursue a new idea and form a new spin-off company. With that said this would mean the parent company would probably have some shares in the spin-off.

You can also ask for their "blessing" but at the end it may all go to the contract you've signed
What Is the Hiring Process of Data Scientists at Cisco?
Awesome. I wonder how single core performance compare to the current 16" Macbook CPU. (I have the maxed out one.) Most daily usage is unfortunately still bound to one thread.
Does Ruby support strings that do escaping but not variable interpolation? It's interesting if not, because that's the behavior of Python's "normal" strings.
Interesting to see them show off Dota 2. Could this imply a closer Valve/Apple relationship?
I would absolutely agree that those who are harmed need adequate remedies under the law. I also know that vaccines provide an immense public benefit. If the specifics of the tort system were causing companies to exit the vaccine business (and they were) , that's certainly something the government ought to step in to fix. However, that doesn't mean there were "issues with safety" as you claim. The implications in your comment are actively harmful to the public health.
Both you and I are speaking from anecdotal evidence and personal experience.

I don't have a way to give you data about it. My feeling, based on experience and several conversations I had with colleagues and friends over the years, is that this is NOT happening often. But I don't know if this is a general rule, or not.
MagSafe was flawed - I’m glad it’s gone. It had massive reliability issues due to dust getting in between the connectors - which ending up causing charging problems, excessive heat at the charging port and countless charging adapter replacements.
We Tricked Carole Baskin into Giving Us Her First Interview Since Tiger King
Stealing Neural Networks via Timing Side Channels (2019)
They don’t expect everyone who bought the last computer update to buy this one. I work on a 13” MacBook Air from 2014 and it’s time for an update. $1500 for this feels like exactly what I’ve been waiting for.

When was the last time that over a period of years each update to a MacBook Pro was a monumental upgrade? Maybe early 2000s when they went from PowerPC to Intel? I think you’re just remembering this rosier than it really was.
> Debian and Fedora apparently decided

That's not how I remember it. Fedora was pushed to adoption (thread starter characterises it as an internal "power play"), and Debian was presented a fait accompli (article summarises Russ Allbery with "[not] systemd-vs-the-alternatives, but how-much-of-systemd").

> And I never heard an end user complain.

This is ridiculous! I can also claim the world is always dark when I shut my eyes.

Linux mailing lists are full with complaints. A recurring one was an error message that suggests running a command as remedy, only for that command to also error out. (The remedy was formulated wrong.) By then, systemd already had a version number in the hundreds.
Natural phenomena amazing as they are aside...

The "free market" doesn't exist because the economy is governed by rules established by governments and rules between governments in extension.

Cryptocurrencies right now are a speculative trading tool and store of value for others (very volatile at that), but I think that the cryptocurrencies that will really take off and seep into the mainstream are the government digital currencies currently being worked on (China is set to start testing the digital Yuan soon if not already).

My point is that nothing is ever truly free because nothing is ever by itself in a vacuum. You have to interact with outside forces and follow certain rules - natural or otherwise.
Since you can't wear gloves and masks when eating, the person was less protected, so...more "exposed".
>Since they all follow common standards, any program works with any environment.... If the systemd people want to make a shiny new init with cool features, great. It's when they break compatibility with alternatives that I have a problem with it.

That is not relevant because the "common standard" in this case is the logind D-Bus API. There are no other active and viable alternatives to login management. It has two implementations, systemd-logind and elogind. You can choose either one, and only the first one requires systemd. Or if you really want you can choose to write another implementation. Or you can choose to hack GNOME and remove the logind bits and just run your display manager and shell insecurely as setuid root. Or you can revert it to some old version when consolekit was still supported. Or you can just do nothing and wait for someone else to guess what it is you want. You have options. If none of these will please you then I think you need to adjust your expectations because you can't have it all.

>The fact is that most contributions are made by RedHat employees on RedHat time, so anything that can be decided by 51% of maintainers is under RedHat's control (and I can't do anything to change that since I can't outspend RedHat).

I don't see what this has to do with anything. It's open source. If you want to collaborate, you can submit a pull request, work with the maintainers and get them to spend their paid time reviewing and merging your code. You don't need to outspend them, the code is already written and every bit of it lands on github ready for you to use it. Them getting paid more only benefits you.

>There was a decision to adopt systemd but it was very much not a consensus; there was bitter disagreement at the time (and still is).

I can't speak for other distros but looking at the actual Debian votes on systemd (not flamewars on mailing lists), your statement does not seem to reflect reality. Systemd, as well as support for alternatives like elogind, was voted in with strong consensus. https://www.debian.org/vote/2019/vote_002

>Forking by a minority is only practical if the system is made up of small components with standardised interfaces between them.

Systemd is composed of several small components, and its interfaces have become standard across many Linux distros, so this shouldn't be a problem.

>you don't have the Four Freedoms in any practical sense.

It is not reasonable to expect that every single person will have the time and expertise to contribute to any given project, or that every project will be structured in a way that lets them accept maximum contributions. I don't mean to dismiss your frustration with being unable to contribute. I get that. But you continue to have the opportunity to do so and you will for as long as these projects remain alive. The code is not going to magically disappear one day and it's up to you to find the time to actually dive in. Good luck.
I doubt it. Valve just pulled support for VR.
To get the 32GB of RAM option, you have to select the configs that have the 10th gen chips which change over to 3733MHz LPDDR4X.
Upvoted as I don't see why you deserve the downvotes. We might not agree, but you made a defensible and coherent point.
His co-worker he was closely confined with (small plant; small lunch room) has tested positive and is hospitalized. The plant was closed, and some massive sterilization procedure underway.

And of course my son the line Engineer was called in to help close the plant (stop all the machines since the operators were sent home; unload and purge the materials; pickle the storage and computer systems). So his exposure there was 100X everybody else's as he had to visit every machine and every place in the plant.
Wrong time of the year to eat wild rabbits. Wait until a few weeks after the first hard frost, else you run a risk of contracting tularemia.

Unfortunately, I missed the small window to get a hunting license in my state this year, it closed in Feb, before CV-19 was much of a thing. Fortunately, no license is needed here to hunt rabbits. From what I hear, the same is true for feral hogs, which are becoming a bit of a problem in some parts. Next year, I am definitely putting in for an elk tag. I got a 4x4 largely so I can get into the areas where they hide.
Somewhat understandable reaction, but wise? As a VP you should have some influence at Amazon. Even if not, you'd still do more good by speaking out about it internally instead of resigning, thereby harming mostly yourself and apart from HN drama having little effect on the problem. Unless the real problem is that there is no actual reasonable argument against Amazon's actions because the danger is exaggerated and all precautions have been taken, in which case the doubts could have been resolved internally as well... But, his money, his consciousness, his emotions, his decision.
Professors don’t get much training on how to educate.

Schools could run a month long course, aimed at online learning, to match their current IRL teaching training
Git: Mastering the Basics of Branch Merging
This guy is clearly from a different timeline because I can't imagine anyone using Zoom with all the security flaws that it has right now.
...and spend time confined in there with a dozen other people at a time, breathing the same air and sitting at the same table.
Let's ignore no 120/144/240 Hz screens, no good GPU (or any dedicated GPU in most models), no CUDA, no Zen2, no workstation CPUs, no high-capacity RAM, finicky keyboard, bad warranty, no Linux support, bad Windows support, no proper OpenGL, no Vulkan, no Direct3D, no 32-bit software, no Ethernet, no FireWire, no USB-A, no optical drive, no HDMI, no DP, no VGA...

Definitely all advantages!

Let's also ignore all vendors with laptops that have better hardware, better warranty or better prices.
Project Oberon
Ouch. You’re right.

Too bad I can no longer edit my comment
T440s also uses scissors like almost every laptop
Personally I didn't buy it but it's a great investment if you work on a lot of projects without a strict design constraint. Many UI features you may end up creating manually are already there, and it looks refreshing when you compare it to the more traditional or older frameworks like Bootstrap.

I'd recommend to first try using Tailwind without buying the UI option, it's free and open source.
I mean the parent was talking about the source code being a ball of mud and it being difficult to determine what components can be removed without breaking things.

In this case it should be assumed we’re talking about someone who’s compiling systemd and familiar with the source. And yes, these are flags that anyone who builds systemd from source would be familiar with and know how to set.

It’s the same as when you run a configure script and pass —-disable-feature.
Thanks for explaining this in such simple terms. I am grateful. I wish I learned enough about electricity long time ago; and somehow I never get the resolution to do it today - despite, having an computer science background and curiosity for all things science, I suspect it shouldn't be particularly hard.
Strange choice, given that the game (the port to Source 2 at least) is from 2014, and it's nearly unplayable with a touch bar.
The article is more about legal hunting. Not uncommon for 'guides' to provide a full service experience, including the gun in your hand, the clothing on your back, coffee thermos at your side, and all the cleaning/butchering while you have a beer. Not an economical way to fill your freezer, but it is a bonus if you were looking to 'try' hunting. Hunting elk like that is closer to you going deep sea fishing on a charter.

I would have expected an article more along the (legal) varmint hunting for wild hogs down in the south or straight up increases in poaching. I know some farmer have discovered cows .. dead and missing only a few choice bits.
> Fast-forward to the Covid-19 era. Stories surfaced of unrest in Amazon warehouses, workers raising alarms about being uninformed, unprotected, and frightened. Official statements claimed every possible safety precaution was being taken. Then a worker organizing for better safety conditions was fired, and brutally insensitive remarks appeared in leaked executive meeting notes where the focus was on defending Amazon “talking points”.

Sorry, but none of this is new in "the Covid-19 era". There is a long Wikipedia page dedicated to criticism of Amazon detailing decades of criticism of how Amazon treats its workers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Amazon

Better of Tim to exit late than never, but let's not pretend that until recent firings and this blog post we all thought that Amazon was a nice and cuddly company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Bray says he started there in December 2014. He must have known at that point what he was getting into. For reference, here's the state of the criticism page at that time: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Criticism_of_Amaz...
So when they leave the escape key out people complain and when they include an escape key people complain?

At least Apple seems to have listened to customer feedback here.
I like how they gently reduced the Touch Bar.

A few more iterations and they'll hopefully realize what an awful idea it was and we'll go back to a normal and functional keyboard.
Deer hunting is still very popular in the midwest, although it's fading fast with the younger generations.

Every year I can walk through my neighborhood and see deer hanging in the garages. A deer is much smaller than an elk, you can dress it and then take it to a processor or cut it up on your own.

Had this pandemic happened during hunting season, states would have probably banned hunting anyway.
Uber Eats exits seven markets, transfers one as part of competitive retooling
I bought an Honor Magicbook for half the price. It's lightweight, has a beautiful case, proper touchpad (so I don't use my external apple touchpad anymore), nice keyboard, long battery life, and I can run whatever OS I want on it (I'm using Ubuntu atm, but I might try Fedora). It has usb-c, usb-a, hdmi, and headphone jacks. Everything just works.

I gave up on Mac when they broke their keyboards and started locking me out of everything. Once my macbook died, I never looked back.
pretty cool -

anecdotally I've had a funny call or two involving Apple watches (as an EMT).

My favorite was during a local celebration of the "Holi" festival (aka Indian festival of colors). It was setup in a waterfront park and we had an EMS station and got a series of calls through the day. One case a young woman came up to our station to say a guy was maybe having a heart attack... We followed her to a tall, lanky college age kid seated on a stone bench freaking out - labored rapid breathing, etc

Talked to him a bit to get some history and he kept showing us his watch - his skin and watch (and just about everything else) was caked in the fine dust which folks were throwing into the air and at each other. It was reading some absurdly high (or low I don't remember) pulse rate. But the guy was talking in full sentences - had good perfusion and seemed to know who he was and where he was, etc.

I don't remember if we gave him oxygen - we took his vitals manually and eventually convinced him that the watch was not reading correctly. He calmed down and refused further attention and was back hurling packets of colored dust at his buddies in a few minutes...

Its awesome people are using these devices (pulse ox devices are excellent for detectign silent hypoxia in Covid cases even before a person has obvious signs - see recent NYTimes opinion piece)

Even if they are nto accurate (and they generally arent) they give the person a baseline.

"Usually my pulse is x and now it is y" is useful information for an EMT anyway (we don't diagnose as we are not doctors - we look for obvious life threats and rate of change for various external signs).

Just don't freak out if your device is malfuntioning. Have a second or third way to verify a vital sign...
If hardware quality and design is desirable, there are a several options on the market. Surface Pro are extremely nice if you're into Windows. X1 Carbon is a nice option if you are after a durable and compact laptop. Razer Blade is basically a performant gaming laptop in a MacBook Pro body (though you don't have to play games on it).

Still, even with all the software and hardware issues of the recent years, there is something in Apple's computers that makes me want to keep using them.
>I’m sure it’s a coincidence that every one of them is a person of color, a woman, or both. Right?

And at that point the author lost my respect. Sad, since otherwise he's making good points with a lot of merit, but if he's making that "argument" I don't even want to know what more vocal "activists" were saying.

This comes down purely to cost and slow moving rock on the Amazon side.
IMO, we should be fine as long as we take baths daily (not a doctor but I think.)
`impl` methods with `self` parameters are basically class methods in feel.