skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm with the author here. There's a certain amount of base knowledge that not having is just indicative of general cluelessness.

It's like if you asked someone to get you a cup of coffee and they came back with a measuring cup of coffee beans, it's not that you can't educate them that you actually wanted them to grind the beans and filter some water through it. It's that they're going to screw up lots of other stuff too.

You probably wouldn't fire them after the first time, but do you really think someone who makes that mistake won't just be more trouble than help to work with?
Okay this sealed the deal for me. They have gone full Commie.
I program this way also.

My preferred method is simply to download the VSCode Remote Extension Pack: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod...

Then in a project, simply `ctrl+shift+p` -> Add container configuration files. Then `ctrl+shift+p` -> Rebuild Container

Couldn't be easier.

The only downsides are lack of GUI, often in python it's nice to just do e.g. plot.show() rather then export to a file and view that file. But for most of my non-visual programming work, a docker is amazing. Once it works for me, I can guarantee it will work for all other developers, and more importantly, my dev environment is really similar to my prod environment.
As with most of the things the authors describe, the advantage would be a simpler compiler and a simpler language for static analysis. There are a lot of things in the standard that the authors just don’t have any use for that they would prefer to see removed in the interest of faster compiles, easier compiler development, and more performance optimizations. Removing support for big-endian might actually significantly speed up compilation. I’m sure it adds a ton of branching to hot code paths to check some architecture endianness enum every time the compiler wants to reason about things like bit shifts and known-bits.
I'm probably missing something, and please let me know if so and why, but it sounds like a chroot could solve path reproducibility.
On A: Using a p3.2xl for that task leaves you with a minimum ec2 cost of goods sold of 50 cents per user per month for the target task. To make a reasonable SaaS business out of this you would need to be charging a minimum of $5.00 per user month for the service that this GPU is providing, assuming all other tasks have a negligible impact on Cost of Goods Sold, and that you are able to spread the load optimally throughout the day - and thus don't have to purchase higher capacity during peak.

This isn't too bad of a situation if this GPU provides 100% of your value proposition. but, if you needed your product to perform 5 such tasks - or competition/customer demand forces you to move to a bigger model with a 10 words per second inference rate then you may find it hard to balance customer value vs. price vs. margin.
Yes. ETS, ACT, College Board, etc. are all not-for-profits.

The not-for-profits means individuals can't get limitlessly rich off of it, and there is no fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value. They're not perfect -- plenty of people make multimillion salaries at not-for-profits -- but you don't get hundreds of millions or billions of personal profit from a not-for-profit.

There are plenty of many-billion-dollar not-for-profits, especially in education and in medical.
Love the syntax 10 out of 10. Visual design wise it’s not bad, but could be better. If I have some time I would love to contribute some add-one people could use for a different theme of designs.
You could try to disable automatic updates for browser extensions, and also to examine them to see that they are what you want (and if it isn't, to alter them before installing them).
To quote a popular politician “what difference does it make ?”
Edge case: what would you do about Mountain Time? Check out this "fun" time zone map of Arizona where you could fly a straight line through 6 time settings in one hour: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Arizona#/media/File:AZ...

The ET/EST/EDT question is reasonable because ET is heavily populated and behaves sanely (as far as I know). Other popular US time zones are... different.
That makes even more sense, thanks for the correction!
> Brew never had this problem because they chose a sane path without corrupting the system directory.

Ha, no. They did the absolute worst thing they could have done and now that they are popular they think they "own" /usr/local. (They used to camp out in /usr, but Apple rightfully put a stop to that real quick when SIP came out.)
The video posted shows Forstall wondering if the dead fish was a threat. He might be making this up but the situation is strange at best, confusing, offensive or threatening at worst.
The person doing the hiring screwed up, and clearly did need to do better.
I disagree. What state or local govt policies matter, except maybe taxes? There are a bunch of states with no state income tax, probably even more with less state & local taxes than Cali. People already move to Seattle from SF because of no state income taxes and similar salaries (it's exp. in seattle but cheaper than sf, it's crowded in seattle but less than sf, etc).

I think there are about 5 tiers.

1. High taxes & many jobs and high salary (SF, NY),

2. None or minimal state/local taxes and semicrowded (Florida?) and medium or lower salary,

3. no taxes but high salary area (Seattle), high expenses,

4. some taxes but medium salary (Portland),

5. less or no taxes and more rural and not much remote work (most of the midwest or south outside big cities), much lower comp today.
In my opinion, I think you are right.
Further, the Vultr's $2.5 VPS doesn't come with an IPv4 address, but a /64 IPv6.
A lot of mobile game developers who use Unity aren't small at all. They are huge companies with lots of experienced engineers. The baby devs don't generate the $ for Unity.
Can you edit the text above to add more information and make it clearer what you're asking? The way it's currently written is obscure.
Another vote from me for tumbleweed.
Thats already happened once in recent times.

Occupy Wall Street.

Now, what happens when that expands to 1/10 of citizens due to lack of food, people getting evicted, no work, and more? Covid-19 is only accelerating the road we're currently on, in a very quick fashion.

And there's a reason why police departments were buying military surplus. They view us citizens as the enemy. There's nary a reason why you need APCs with 50cal's mounted for the local police force, or armed with a variety of grenades, or microwave cannons, or acoustic weapons.

Whatever it is that's forming and coming to a head, it doesn't look peaceful. At. All.
Check out my app:
https://getcoldturkey.com/writer/

It looks a little like Word, and there's no new line box, but it has the other things you mentioned. You can also set it to block everything else on your computer until you write a certain number of words, or for a certain amount of time. I'm adding typewriter scrolling soon too.

The pro features let you disable certain keys, etc. but you get a lot of value out of the free version.
It's important to remember that IBM isn't really one entity. They're not just mainframes, or Red Hat, or Watson, or any other one thing. To butcher a TV quote: "IBM is just a convenient name for a group of unrelated corporate interests."

So of course they're doing layoffs: at least SOME of the orgs that operate under the brand name have to be struggling. It gets a lot less impactful when the news just bubbles down to: "someone made a bad bet somewhere."

It was always coming at a company like this. Now is just the time when these things happen.
If you're of that view then why could you possibly think sending a dead fish to a candidate without checking first is ok in the first place.

And yes when I've taken my candidates for lunch as part of recruiting I always ask for any dietary preferences so i can find a place that accommodates. It's just commonsense.
Agreed, any "knot explainer" that includes the step "Tie a few ‘granny knot’ L over R, then R over L to secure the underlying knot" immediately disqualifies it as an actual knot.

The taughtline hitch is a much better knot for this.

I never could master the trucker's hitch[1] though :-)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUHgGK-tImY
Homebrew itself recommends you not do this, and while it is getting better at working in this case you will still run into issues if you try to do certain things.
> Another way to reduce the delays is by disabling System Integrity Protection. I say reduce, because I still do get some delays even with SIP disabled, but the system does overall feel much faster, and I would strongly recommend anyone who thinks their system is sluggish to do the same.

The tone of this article reminds me of a passage from the seminal Google+ Platforms Rant:

> Like anything else big and important in life, Accessibility has an evil twin who, jilted by the unbalanced affection displayed by their parents in their youth, has grown into an equally powerful Arch-Nemesis (yes, there's more than one nemesis to accessibility) named Security. And boy howdy are the two ever at odds.
> But I'll argue that Accessibility is actually more important than Security because dialing Accessibility to zero means you have no product at all, whereas dialing Security to zero can still get you a reasonably successful product such as the Playstation Network.

https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
Did you run the test yourself? Why do you assume people are blindly assuming it's true? For me first run was 0.5s, second run was 0.004s, so there's definitely something going on.
Multi-node TimescaleDB is a great contribution to open source world!

BTW, it would be great comparing multi-node TimescaleDB to VictoriaMetrics cluster [1], which is licensed under vanilla Apache2 open source license [2].

[1] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/blob/clus...

[2] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/blob/clus...
Yes and don’t know. Why risk it.
The future is all about self hosting and/or peer to peer technology not controlled by a central authority.
I struggle to understand how those points are related to the substance of the post you're replying to. The situation OP describes is between bad & worse -- you can have empathy for people while recognizing the reality of the situation.

Are you arguing that OP's analysis of the situation is wrong because of a lack of empathy for people affected more severely by pandemic?
You are even describing a big corp vs top 5%. Less privileged people might end up losing their job to go to court.
Some other comments [1] noted that they did -- they had a demo site, it was just hobbled by not actually doing all the same things it would do on test day. So students tested their method out, it looked right, and they repeated it on the test day only to have it fail there.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23261511
I think there are a few grey beards lurking :)
The money may be coming from the Fed, but very little of it is going to small businesses. [1] What's more, PPP makes up a tiny fraction of the Fed's current coronavirus response.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com./2020/04/26/business/coronavirus-sma...
>Predicting the future is inherently stupid. Trying to show what will happen in our complex world using models is the stuff of Science Fiction.

I think stupid is the wrong word to use here. "Flawed" would have worked just as well without having potential for misunderstandings. Attempts of predicting the future is _essential_ for our society to work. The reason we move forward at the pace we currently do is because we use assumptions and approximations of reality to plan ahead.
It is still censorship.
My favorite package managers, personally:

xbps

apk (terrible interface; wonderful technically)

pacman (wonderful interface; so-so technically; dislike the distro that uses it because of technical choices)

InstallPackage (GoboLinux is kind of cheating, because InstallPackage isn't a "real" package manager, but that's kind of the point)

I love TextMate, too! Something you might find nice is how easy it is to run Mac in a VM on Linux; there are scripts that manage the entire thing for you, and it's pretty painless (and so fast; I was surprised). Useful if you have a few packages you can't find replacements for.

You mention Apple Music elsewhere, which you might be interested to know has an Android client and a web client, and you can probably get a native client on Linux, though I'm not immediately aware of one.
At the Computer History Museum, I use an IBM 1401 mainframe (1959). When you hit the power button, relays go ch-ch-chunk and it's immediately ready to use. Because it has magnetic core memory, it even has the previous program already in memory, preserved over power-down. Computers have taken many steps backwards as far as startup time. Of course, loading a new program from punch cards is slow, so some things have improved :-)
An enormous difference. When you share a file publicly, it's Google doing the sharing.

When a file is privately stored and accessible only to you, Google doesn't have to know or care what's inside it.
Zinc is part of the theory of how HCQ is supposed to work. Medical practitioners are generally aware of this, and most of them were giving HCQ with zinc.
We launched Walling November last year but we found the tool falling into the same problem of long cluttered pages of random snippets and ideas like Evernote and Notion, and the overwhelming feeling when you're just trying to jot down a quick note.

Today we are introducing a new frictionless workflow for Walling. I would love to hear your feedback after watching the video!
Researchers find cell reproduction not triggered by retinoic acid as believed
> As the cost of 5G iot chips fall it won't matter what the consumer wants.

If the consumer doesn't want that connectivity as a feature, you'll need to find a buyer for the data who is willing to subsidize >= 100% of the price of the additional hardware and service to have a viable product. Alternative data from other sources is probably still going to be a lot cheaper for most things... because a lot of competing data sources have way less overhead, approaching zero in some cases.

> The data collected from Smart TVs is much more than ads. They track and report everything you watch, including dvds and blurays, with media fingerprinting techniques.

I was referring to the purchasers of the data, not the subject of the data.

> Soon some data scientist at your health insurer will notice that people who drink more than 3.5 cups of Folgers a day are 5% more likely to suffer heatstroke or whatever. Then they can adjust premiums and deny claims more effectively.

If they wanted to do this, they could have done it any time over the past 20+ years ago by purchasing transaction data. But insurers have already found better ways to collect even better quality data: Just ask for it directly and offer a discount.
10.15.1 and then 10.15.4 both introduced random kernel panics on my iMac. Only way to solve was to reinstall MacOS on top of itself (via Recovery, kept files/apps intact).

Still no idea what or why the panics would happen, or why the reinstall solved it.

Catalina has been a very bumpy road for me so far.
If you're working on a JavaScript project, do you prefer copying from SO or installing a (micro-) package that solves your problem?

I seem to prefer the former.
> Yeah, huh, I don't think that's the usual concern

Keep in mind that they missed out on Forstall. It seems unlikely he would have ended up CEO, but that’s not as far fetched as the prospects for most hires.
Can you explain the reasoning here? I can see it being _easier_ than doing it the right way but have trouble coming up with a scenario where it makes it _impossible_.
Winstall.app
I believe Nix actually picks a volume so that it can be encrypted, and it uses one of the many ways to run a script before login (some of which still happen to work) to decrypt it?
> So probably what's happening (some-how, some-way) is that the ID mechanism is trained to find songs that are "the same" and in pop music they're only "the same" if they're the _same song_.

Right. Pop music has a lot of variation in timbre even between 'covers' of the same composition, so if the notes match and the overall timbre matches it's a safe bet that you're looking at two instances of the exact same recording, or at most two versions by the same performer. In classical that just isn't true, the timbre of acoustic instruments is basically fixed and the notes are defined by the original composition. There's just too little variation for an auto-id system to work with.
Similarly, I have two smart outlets and one smart lightswitch in a room. One is called "Drew's LEDs", and the other is called "Drew's Heater". When I ask google to "Turn off the lights!" it turns off the switch and the "Drew's LEDs" smart outlet, but not the "Heater" smart outlet!

I definitely appreciate the effort they put into understanding the semantic nature of a device from the name I assigned it. Nowhere did I ever designate one of the smart outlets to "behave like a light."
On distributed work: gradually, then suddenly
>> The whole state of indie-accessible tooling is just deeply depressing.

This is by far the best it has ever been in my 25 years in the game business. If you are daunted by making a game in Unity or Unreal today, you would be without hope twenty years ago.
You're right, the better solution is use taxpayer to bail out shitty companies that can't survive temporary economic slowdowns.
"The average time in London is 5.53 pm"
You can combine ssh with multiple users to provide repo-level permissions (not branch level). You use standard linux permissions to enable deploy keys. You would also use git-shell on the read only ssh accounts for the deploy-keys. Without writing a new shell you wouldn't be able to do branch level protection.
I felt exactly this when playing Portal for the first time when it came out. It felt like nothing before or after. Highly recommended.
Who’s advising Joe Biden on tech? No one in particular
Nice. Since there's no way I'm going to put a multi-billion-dollar company's 'smart' speaker in my apartment, I've been wanting to build something offline like this inside an old dial telephone (like a red Bat phone) which only listens to your commands when you pick up the handset. ;)
What exactly is the spirit of journalism and how did you come to know it through your study of the history of journalism?
The previous CEO did a horrible job. The workforce morale, not good for quite some time, fell further. Rather than try to leverage the deep and unqiue assets/IP of IBM, she sold off many, then made a poor attempt to chase the same type of "cloud" stuff as Amazon, Microsoft and Google.
That is new, but I believe the groundwork for that was mostly laid in 10.14 and is also mostly in the kernel.
I don't, certainly. Had they said "they got bolt cutters and cut through my steel cable securing my portable gun safe!" I'd have been a bit more impressed. Two people within a few days just... not sure they both had portable gun safes broken in to. Possibility certainly - might ask one (one of them moved away recently).
You can run a, e.g., jupyter notebook inside the container, and connect to it with your web-browser.
> shipping a "good enough" solution

I think the debate here is about whether anything has shipped that is actually "good enough". I don't think it's that controversial to avoid shipping stuff that's not good enough.
https://archive.md/B32kS
I only tried Ubuntu, a few month ago. For the day or two spent with it:

- multi-language support requires a lot of work to get to the same point as macos.

In particular I use third party shortcut mappers to get language switching on left and right command keys (mimicking the JIS keyboards, but with an english international layout). That looks like something I’d have to give up on code myself.

- printer support is not at the same level.

Using a xerox printer, some options that appear by default on macos where not there on ubuntu. I’m sure there must be drivers somewhere, or I could hunt down more settings. But then my work office two other printers. It would be a PITA to hunt down drivers every time I want to use another printer.

- Hi DPI support is still flagged as experimental, and there’s a bunch of hoops to jump through to get a good setting in multi-monitor mode. Sure it’s doable, but still arcane.

- sleep/wake was weird. It would work most of the time, but randomly kept awake after closing the lid, or not waking up when opening. Not critical, but still not good (I’d ahte to have the battery depleted while traveling)

Overall if I had no choice that would be a fine environment. But as it is now, with all its quirks, I feel macos is still a smoother environment.
I'm not even sure how Glitch makes money. It's a useful free tool to spin up a server or full stack app quickly but I don't see anyone using it in production. It befalls a similar fate as CodeSandbox, but at least CSB can be used as an online editor similar to Microsoft's GitHub Workspaces.
The impracticality of turning to the courts is what drives a lot of the thirst for government regulation — legislative relief is the only hope for these classical musicians.

What good are the courts if the law is on your side but justice is inaccessible?
Putting Epic and Issue tools to the highest pricing is terrible for lots of people. We forced to pay features that we will never use.

I wish they add some kind of addon system for these features.
So, the question is will people get to a point and say enough is enough? And if so, will enough people be saying it for it to make a difference?
Show HN: Tempomat, macOS menubar/tray app for CI systems is feature complete
First I would like to thank the mods of HackerNews, I already had posted tempomat after it was freshly backed and they put it on the front page, I unfortunately did not get much traction, so I thought I post it again, since it now supports a lot more CI systems:

https://tempomat.dev

Hopefully more people will find it useful and I will be able to get a couple more sales to maintain the project :)
Your take is an overreaction.

All of the big file hosting platforms have long had copyright and child porn content filters. The fact that they are policing ToS violations (presumably only after they are reported or scripting re-violations) doesn't seem anywhere near 1984-style censorship.

I do fear that this will give the tin foil hats more conviction that "there's something to it since they are hiding it!" and not more motivation to be skeptical of this particular thread of inquiry about the pandemic.
What this doesn't touch on is the reality of selling enterprise software as an early startup - being open source is a hard requirement for many buyers.

> It affects us all positively

Except for users who want the highest quality hosted Timescale possible and see this license as an attempt to prevent others from creating better offerings. The open source companies that compete with cloud offerings are not exactly struggling.

Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with them using their position to prevent competition, but when people sell it as 'best for all the users', it feels disingenuous.
Trump administration yanks approval for homeless shelters across California
This is why, of the two, I prefer Macports.
Like every so-called basic science. 1st batteries, radio, lasers etc also looked like that.

I see a strong parallel. It's a poor performance but important proof of concept.

Also, it's general in computing trend since assembly. Why compile when you can write machine code, waste of resources. Why have abstract compiler, when you can write assembly. Why have higher level language when it cant generate code optimal for target when it doesnt know it. Then web came, it's not faster than 20 years ago because with increased computing power bloat came. Somehow it always turns that seemingly wasteful apporach outweights its cons. Empirically lowered entry cost and increased applicability has very very high value. At least higher that I used to assess.