skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Permutation City" by Greg Egan is mind-bending in a way similar to The Matrix, except taken up a few notches.

Explores the consequences of consciousness being just a pattern. Would it continue if the pattern is paused? Seems yes, since we survive being unconscious. So we move in space and time, but still consciousness feels continuous.

What if you pause it, destroy it, recreate it somewhere else. Would it not continue then as well (the classic teleporter question). But it doesn't stop here.

What if you destroy it, but it just happens to continue somewhere else? Then it should continue there as well. So if you think that teleportation would not mean death, then you kind of have to accept that if anywhere in the universe at any time the same pattern exists when you die, then you can't really die because you'll just continue on from there instead.

Not sure I accept it, but it's certainly mind-bending to think about!
The problem now is that we don't have enough jobs for the people who are good at working from home due to an antiquated view on jobs and productivity.

In the future, we'll have way more jobs for these people as companies see the advantages in cost when hiring someone who will be happy to make less money and produce more because they a)don't need to live in the bay area, b)don't need to commute and c)don't get distracted all the time.

This said, I find it very unlikely that software office jobs will disappear or even reduce drastically. I'm predicting a 30% reduction in full-office jobs, not a 90% reduction. Despite all of the excitement for future WFH opportunities, remember old habits die hard.
Any organization with >50k employees.
I’m assuming they’ll develop their own clients rather than using something like Riot.

This isn’t that unheard of IRC and XMMP and other open protocols have been used in the past by governments within their own private networks.
THE way? It sounds as if GNU Parallel only buffers in one way.

GNU Parallel can handle output in a few ways:

* --ungroup: With -u output GNU Parallel does not touch the output and output may mix
* --line-buffer: This buffers a single line from each process.
* --group: This buffers in files in $TMPDIR. $TMPDIR can point a RAM disk, if you want to buffer in RAM.
* --sqlworker: This buffers in memory before saving output to an SQL server.

If you are using '&' + 'wait', it pretty much has the same effect as `--ungroup`.
Agreed. Life-changing if you're in the right place for it.
This is very well put. Knowledge has a hierarchical (or perhaps even cyclical!) structure and it's unrealistic to think that a body of knowledge can be taught or learned sequentially.
I've been curious about McDonald's fries since I think they are tasty. There are many articles around that still say they use beef products in their french fries. According to their website they do not use beef, but a "beef flavoring" that contains milk products and not beef product.

https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/product/small-french-frie...
LXC is supported too.

Thanks for checking the dates, I thought Proxmox was newer.
Oops :) Fixed! Thank you for pointing this out
Ask HN: What Poka-Yoke would you share?
I just learned about Poke Yoke in one of the latest HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23142502

Immediatly I though about all those I use in my life: taking pictures before dissassembling or shopping, putting things to take out in front of the exit door, staching specific object always at the same place like a pocket or a drawer, using tricks from the checklist manifesto or GTD, setuping linters and type checkers for my code, abusing conventions for UI design, etc.

I'm sure there are many that you used, or encountered in the wild, and I would love to hear about it.
Hah, interesting project. I built something similar a while ago (https://github.com/nicolas-fricke/google-doc-blog) using article_json: https://github.com/Devex/article_json

With that, you also get support for embedded objects like Youtube videos and the like :)

Feel free to reach out for more info!
> I would never prefer a German company if there was an equivalent American company providing the same service.

Why?
Ah, the people you are looking for are known as The Belleville Three[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Belleville_Three
Only if you don't care about stability or maintenance costs.
> So I'm currently a todoist user, I tried to check out Microsoft Todo since we're an Outlook shop and it doesn't seem that Outlook (the app or web version) todos are at all tied to the Todos product.

They are. To Do is an Exchange Online client behind the scenes and pretty much reads your tasks and flagged email from the mail server (and Planner tasks from SharePoint). If your company has an on-prem mail server, it won't work though. As far as I know, MS has thrown out the old kludgy Tasks module from web Outlook and replaced it with To Do.
If you have two displays you could use something like Synergy to accomplish what you want. I use it both at work and at home. I work for two companies under the same owner, and I do all my IT related support work on one PC and my other duties on the other. I have two screens side by side, and one keyboard/mouse connected to the machine I use the most. It's set up as the KM server under Synergy. I just drag my pointer to the right edge of my left display and it seamlessly transitions to controlling the computer hooked up to the right display.

At home I have a Slackware workstation, a Windows gaming machine, and a Mac mini, each with a dedicated display. Again, I can drag my mouse pointer to the left or right edge to access either of the screens/PCs left or right of my main display.

There is an open source fork called Barrier as well.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Well, it's not physically impossible.

But certainly illegal, certainly against contracts, and really, really bad for business.
I was speaking loosely, Western socio-cultural background, ignoring edge cases (body image problems like 'never nudes' and such) .. maybe you're right ..

I found it interesting at c.5-6 yo that our kids brought home school slang (new words to me!) for genitalia: showing they were talking about it in a non-scientific context, strongly suggesting they were talking in some way about opposite-sex genitalia with peers.
There used to be a program on the Belgian national French-speaking radio called "Le Jeu des dictionnaires". The rules were similar but the radio hosts never played seriously, and just made up absurd and hilarious definitions.
If you want to listen first and already have spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/album/6Ie1GtBI9ZCfmcT1OsK8a0?si=Aov...

If you're into chiptunes, this hits the spot.
isn't the first thing anyone would do when coming across such a domain in a malware binary to check it is claimed (and if not then who here wouldn't register it (even just if to see what happens)?) I mean we can argue over the semantics of accidental, but imo you can't accidentally register a domain?
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
really... you're gonna play the "what if" game? i thought we all had a higher intellect than that on this site... apparently i was wrong.
I am of the generation that fixated upon GEB as some sort of deep wisdom, and I have a nostalgic fondness for it. I certainly credit it for sparking a lot of my curiosity about Lisp.

But in hindsight, its value to me was not in the content of the book, as much as in communicating the kind of delight and curiosity around programming that has kept me interested in the subject since 1972 or so.

Other books have done the same thing for me, most notably everything by Martin Gardner, Raymond Smullyan's books about logic puzzles that sneak an education past you, and William Poundstone's books about Game Theory and Computability.

In a way, I'm delighted that this book is not sitting as the number one thread so far. Not because it's terrible, but because new generations ahve written great books, and they deserve mention too.
Chakra UI Vue – Build Accessible Vue.js Apps and Sites with Speed ️
Hi, Vue.js dev fam!

I'm excited to bring you Chakra UI Vue! ️

Over the last few months I've created a component library that ships with accessible UI components whose goal is to make building accessible Vue apps and websites fast and fun! This project was inspired by the React version of Chakra UI by Segun Adebayo.

Documentation: https://vue.chakra-ui.com/ (Includes some live examples you can edit.)

Github Repository: https://github.com/chakra-ui/chakra-ui-vue
️
Demos:
- Vue: https://codesandbox.io/s/chakra-ui-vue-starter-2sy0g
- Nuxt: https://codesandbox.io/s/chakra-ui-nuxt-demo-f8tq4
- Gridsome: https://codesandbox.io/s/chakra-ui-gridsome-demo-038c9

The core features thatChakra UI Vue has to offer are:

1. ️ Accessibility
All UI components are WAI-ARIA compliant out of the box and can be adjusted as needed.

2. Constraint Based Design
Chakra UI Vue components play well your design system tokens based on the Theme UI specification.

3. Composition
All Chakra UI Vue components are built on top of composable UI primitives that consumers can also extend. A lot of the components also export compound components to allow you to change their UI layouts easily!

4. Style Props
Yup! You guessed it. Chakra UI Vue is built on top of fast CSS-in-JS tools. This allows Chakra's components to accept style declarations as props. You also get some really cool shorthands so your mac keyboard lasts longer
Using style props to style your components :)

5. Dark/Light mode support
Most Chakra UI Vue components are are dark-mode compatible out of the box. With a simple function call you can toggle between dark and light modes easily.See Dark/Light mode demo here on Codesandbox.

6. Nuxt.js support
Nuxt.js is a Chakra UI Vue first class citizen. Check out the Codesandbox demos and the docs to see how to quickly get started with Chakra UI + Nuxt.js! Check out the Chakra UI Vue Nuxt Demo.
This is a beautiful interview. I've been a Max/MSP and Pd user for years and I've spent many hours swearing at the creator of both. Now that I feel that I know both the creator, and the mindset behind the programs a little better, I think I'll spend less time swearing and more time discovering.

As an aside, Max4Live needs some serious love. It needs better interaction with the Live world than is currently provided by the LOM. Things like "get the file path of the current Live set" should be native, and there are a bunch of similar things that should be simple, but are impossible without horrible hacks. Now that Ableton own Cycling74 I hope this situation improves!
Dithering and Open versus Free
If the service and quality is equivalent then I would prefer to give my money to an American company since I'm American
Just curious .. what really are the usecases where of Linear Algebra is applied ? Any domain of software development ?
I wonder what the total "BOM" cost per street view vehicle is.
I've honestly only seen the Twizy be used as a marketing car, something with ads for a local business plastered on the side, probably used to lend out or for small errands.

I think it hasn't done very well, probably mainly because it's an open vehicle. If it had proper doors I think it would've done better. The formula can work, it just has to look a bit more normal.

At the moment, in my country people are much more likely to go for an e-bike.
> The only content of the memo are suggestion on how a workplace could be both fair and more naturally 50/50 by gender.

That's two paragraphs of the memo in the middle and the bit at the end. Most of the memo is setting up a case for fundamental differences in gender, strawman depictions of the "morality of Google," a claim that men have a higher drive for status (which is, fundamentally, the sort of thing that a company would be put immediately in violation of Title VII if it agreed with), and a claim that Google's anti-discriminatory practices are discriminatory.
For their dedicated servers you can have at least 712GB RAM.

But for their cloud offering the maximum is only 128GB RAM.

See https://www.hetzner.com/cloud and click on "dedicated vCPU". btw: do not confuse "dedicated vCPU" with dedicated server.
Greg Egan's an impressively good author even though he's writing about the kinds of sci-fi setups that usually come hand-in-hand with bad dialogue and poor characters. I actually think Quarantine is my favorite of his that I've read so far, though the sci-fi parts are less strong than Permutation City, some of it's philosophical aspects about identity feel like they're more immediately relevant.

Also take a trip to his website [1] if you haven't yet.

[1] https://www.gregegan.net/
One problem with rewarding an action is that humans are very good at gaming rules. For example, let's say I get X for donating to charity. I can for example setup my own charity, donate to it, pay myself all its income as salary and then just collect lot's of X.

The US tax system is a perfect example of this I'd say.
> So how exactly is Elon opening his factory consisting of young employees with easy social distancing worse than what Fauci says? It's much easier to stay at a distance and wear masks at a factory than on a cruise ship. He even states that those who are afraid aren't required to come. Only those who want can come and work. How is there anything wrong? I just don't get it.

I’ve never heard anything about factories only employing healthy young people. That sounds like age discrimination, so if Elon is doing that he could also be reported.

The people who are staying home are being threatened with loss of pay and unemployment insurance. Have you read any of the news articles about the workers who have died at meatpacking plants because their managers pushed them to keep coming in and then the whole plant got infected?

> Fauci, WHO, modelers etc whose only job is to make predictions on these sort of things have been consistently wrong and yet people are willing to take their advice as gospel.

Wrong in the wrong direction. They underpredicted how bad this would be. The White House including Fauci was touting the IHME model of 60,000 deaths from the virus by august 1st, we are already at 80,000 deaths and rising fast. Same for other modelers, e.g. Imperial College who predicted 20,000 deaths in the UK with lockdown and the UK has already hit 40,000 deaths.

Doesn’t exactly cause me to think Elon is more trustworthy. Everything he’s sharing and pushing online has been to downplay the threat of the virus even more than our governments have. I think he obviously cares a lot more about his factory and making money than he does about the virus.
I'd argue that in its more general form, its absolutely axiomatic. Humans are mortal, in order to preserve our life, we have to put in a considerable amount of effort. There is no organization of society that negates this truth.

Maintaining life at our current standard of living requires an extraordinary amount of work. And if you're going to use society's resources to survive then you should contribute back to society by working, its not a "ritual".

The idea that working is somehow an artificial constraint is completely wrong, and leads to utopian thinking, not actual possible policy alternatives.
I like to see new things done with jQuery. React-and-friends are too over-used right now, and it's suffocating us who want simple libs for simple sites.
Actually MSSQL still has a vacuum system under the hood ("ghost record cleanup task") that is needed even if you have disabled all MVCC features. It is not as critical as in PostgreSQL, since there will be fewer rows to clean up.

It runs automatically in the background, with rather conservative settings that usually prevent it from having much perf impact.

The system also ties into MVCC because deleted rows in the main table cannot be removed while any query can still access some other version of that row. The same is true when changing any key column in an index. In those cases, the update is a delete and insert within that index. And the deleted row must stick around if there is any transaction that could read it.

So while SQL Server does not get as many rows that needs to be vacuumed as PostgreSQL does, just storing the versions separately certainly does not completely eliminate the need for after the fact cleanup.
I agree, a university needs to concentrate on academic classes. It's not a highschool with summer projects.
Interestingly, English went the other direction; "you" is the old _formal_ form (the informal was "thou").
> I agree though about the big difference between the German and US management. I have a close friend that works at the regional Lidl HQ and she got reprimanded just after being hired for having used the singular "you" (less formal) instead of the plural "you" (I'm not sure how it translates into German) when addressing herself to her bosses on the company's hallways

Using "du" instead of "Sie" for adressing people can be a very serious issue. If you do this to a policeman, for example, you can be fined by typically 600 € in Germany (source: https://www.bussgeldkatalog.org/beamtenbeleidigung/). To give an analogue in the English language: you wouldn't address your boss with "yo nigga". So I believe the reprimand was rather rightfully.

A rule in the German language is: in doubt, use the more formal language register. The "default language register" in German is typically "one register more formal" than the "default language register" in English.
"Giving out money for free" isn't really something that make me think something is LESS of a scam. Giving out free money is literally what every every cryptocurrency scam does at first.
I've been wondering about the very same problem (and stumbled across aryufan's patches as well), and discovered that they're now actually working on an expanded backup solution of their own:

https://git.proxmox.com/?p=proxmox-backup.git;a=tree

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-backup-server-and-...
That logic doesn't make sense. Everyone has the potential to do something bad. If you have a concealed carry firearm with you, should you get rewarded for not shooting someone on a particular day?
This book is great and very much complementary to Strang's approach in that it leans more towards "abstract" linear algebra.
Is COBOL Programming a Good Long-Term Career?
JQuery has a lot of ergonomics that I'm really comfortable with (mainly chaining).
> "The rest of this is more like retooling for World War II, except with everyone playing on the same team."

No, it isn't. They key problem is that it is absolutely not the case that everyone is on the same team. Beyond the usual international division and bickering, there are people profiting from high-CO2 industries who oppose change and promote denialism, people who aren't interested in solving the problem because they believe the consequences will land on other people, as well as a huge hinterland of conspiracists, denialists, and fake news vendors who just muddy the waters for whatever reason.

Covid-19 has highlighted all of these very sharply. There are countries which have decided to do what's necessary to fight the virus on one hand, and protestors making it very clear that they will not accept someone else's risk of death for a restriction on their liberties.
Start with a container.

M a

Then add a way to put things in the container.

a -> M a

Then add a way to use the thing in the container.

M a -> (a -> M b) -> M b
Jed McKenna - Spiritual Enlightenment
I stopped halfway through because it smelled fishy. Glad to know there are people who agree and have validated that feeling!
Do the owners (registrants) of domains have any standing in these TLD decisions?

Any major change (eg sale) of .org TLD should be put to a vote of the all the .org registrants.

Governance. It always boils down to governance. No taxation without representation, and all that.
Yes, I had to lookup what they used to get it so smooth when zooming. Looks like it's this:

https://openseadragon.github.io/
Despite capitalizing on self-isolation, Netflix faces many challenges
A university should not focus on 'what an employer wants'...
(I suspect OP knows this -- the question I think was meant to be a sly way to say "are you supposed to say yoke like yolk so that it rhymes with joke, or joke like jokay so it rhymes with yoke")
Django! I am not good with front end JavaScript though, so it is hard for me to create anything too dynamic.
I could only use snapshots and regularly send the pool somewhere but it feel a bit hacky
Listen to an expert analysis of {insert random topic}
(bonus points if you are not very familiar with the topic in question)

AlphaZero teaches Stockfish a lesson in the French Defense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ebzevCLGbQ

Mississauga: Density Without Urbanism
https://granolashotgun.com/2014/01/15/77/

Masked 1: Rise to the Rubedo Stage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWNPN6PtuUc
Twizzy is not available in North America. It does not meet safety standards.

The few that are here are limited to 25 mph, 40 kmh and are car share novelties.

This is the land of the pickup truck and massive SUV. Heck, even motorcycles are bigger than the Twizzy here.
Some of my faves in this vein:

Stranger In A Strange Land

Solaris

The Fall

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Seveneves (a bit silly but definitely fun and will set you to thinking)
Hetzner is great until you have some sort of issue.

They seem to either not have much in the way of internal procedures or just ignore them if they exist.

As long as you're prepared for all of your data and backups to just disappear, it's a great low-cost environment.

If you expect their operational team to not accidentally delete your environment, it just hasn't happened to you yet.
I don't know why it is, but I suspect it's the same reason people listen to Nate Silver
Also, "beatufiul"
It's a long piece, and quite interesting. Thanks for sharing @Malwaretech.
Logitech’s sales boom as people outfit their home offices
Haha great point re: tor! You can even generate a vanity address using scallion. Of course, it’s subject to impersonation by a similar address if someone else wants it badly enough and has the hashpower to generate it.

Personally I’m interested to see where Handshake goes. Thanks for your constructive comments on this article.
Get involved in policy making.
Also a typo in "SUCESS".
Is there some mind bending revelation in the second half? I read the first half and have not mustered the will to read the rest of it. It just seems so... "obvious" for lack of a better word. Maybe I've had too much psychology lectures or something, but nothing in the first half was remotely new to me.
Show HN: IP-free illustrations donated by designers
Nobody ever knows something until they do it. I don't understand what are you trying to say.
So... regular offices?

Because that's how most office building have been organized outside of tech for decades.
An interesting idea and a good example of the EA/rationality community's unfortunate obsession with putting numbers with little practical basis on everything. The scores may as well be generated from rand(3,8).

The conclusions drawn in the "Discussion" section don't even make use of the scores! It's all qualitative. Embrace that. Sometimes words suit one's purposes better than numbers, but I guess the desire to dress things up with the authority of a number is too tempting.

I'm critical because I believe in EA and think the AI control problem is a worthy cause, but we can do much better.
A carpenter friend of mine is an evangelist for Robinson screws which are time savers for carpentry rough or fine.
Many games do the opposite and have a "Excel screen" mode for that.
I am recycling plastic into 3d printing filament with my home brewed machine:

https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho...

Anyone who needs help building one for their community can reach out to me.

Plastic usually degrades when recycled, it loses its properties like strength. But 3d printing is a good area where recycled plastic can be used as lots of people use it for printing a show piece with artistic value, not for high stenght tasks.