skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nix packages are typically close to upstream, but low-level packages sometimes have patches to make them more reproducible and deterministic, so that they work better with Nix's efforts for determinism and purely-functional packaging.

Nix packages are created from scratch, not copied from another distro. Nix is typically one of the most up-to-date distros: https://repology.org/
Burke Libbey has a few talks that are available on YouTube including a presentation at NixCon about the work he is doing at Shopify. I would highly recommend checking them out if you are interested in Nix.
This would prevent most users from visiting that site (since most of the time it will resolve to 127.0.0.1)
That’s great for you. I’m sure you can agree that there are many that do not share your view. Just wait until they harvest organs from somebody and their family throws a fit on religious or other grounds.
Yes, there is no difference between these people and maskirovka. Nice moral relativism you got there.
YikYak is another possible path for it to go.

Feel free to invest wherever you want, but personally I don't have the stomach for it.
That's not selling. It's odd that the only coordination you seem to recognise is negotiated between buyers and sellers.
Sure in theory but there are a few open bugs:

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2651
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2292
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/1203

There's a locking issue with SQLite and the Sandbox has some namespace issues where Linux and Windows behave differently. I don't know how eager they are to make it work on Windows either, but at least WSL works :)
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Do you have a better chance of surviving a big accident if you opt out?
that is a mind blowing comparison. Thanks for highlighting
If you want to know which cli tools you can expect on every *nix machine, I can recommend this page [1] which gives a nice overview of the POSIX shell standard.

[1] https://shellhaters.org
Members of my team where trying to access Creative Cloud. Looks like a very wide spread outage.
why attention?
Temporary reduction in daily global CO2 emissions during forced confinement
Car manufacturers are also specifically notorious for being terrible counterparties in any negotiation
i see four scenarios:

1. insanity
2. lies about numbers
3. massive invasive data siphoning and thats actually the basis for the valuation
4. tiktok now has a license to vast raw video and personal data that users granted them the right to use and resell in perpetuity. They obviously don't just keep edited but also raw data, videos never published, maybe even entire camera rolls. So much data held by a company sheltered behind the Chinese state's protection from legal repercussions.

or of course all of the above.
Speaking of Emacs, shells and WSL, I recently had to shell out from Emacs under WSL to git-bash under Windows proper, to run cmake to run MSBuild, and get the generation/compilation output all the way back. Turns out, while regular M-x shell-command would work, M-x async-shell-command (i.e. shell-command with appended &) would not - it wasn't able to communicate with the spawned process. I needed it to be async so that a compile wouldn't block my Emacs.

The solution I came up with is a bit lower-level, looks like this:

(make-process :name "some_name"
:buffer "buffer"
:command ("cmd" "to" "run")
:connection-type 'pipe
:coding 'utf-8-dos)

Two key lines are :connection-type 'pipe, which solves the I/O issues, and :coding 'utf-8-dos, which ensures the output streamed to an Emacs buffer isn't polluted by ^M (CR from CRLF line ending).

Now, if anyone figured out how to configure a connection to a language server across the WSL boundary, I'm all ears.
Had the family not agreed to organ donation, they wouldn’t have planned to harvest the organs in the first place.
Official KDE MAUI Statement Regarding Microsoft Xamarin.Forms Rebranding as MAUI
In my experience, the claim that the younger generation hops around is fair. I'm 26. Between the ages of 15 and now, my primary social media platform has hopped between Myspace, Facebook, Reddit, 4chan, YouTube, some diary site, PSN(PlayStation Network), Hacker News, and probably others. I've dipped my toes into countless other ones. I've kind of stopped hopping around as much, but other people my age still hop between newer ones like Instagram, tiktok, and others.
From OPs comment

> I originally made this as a complement to the URL Pages tool I made last summer, which stores an entire web page in its own URL.[0] Now, it is possible for URL Pages to be securely password-protected in a decentralized way.

> [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20317840
While I totally support the opt-out approach (or indeed, no option to opt out) I wonder if we need a new term - as it doesn’t seem like a ‘donation’. ‘Donation’ implies gift, and also an element of conscious choice, both of which mightn’t apply any more.
Where did you get that “simple calculation” from? If Average user is worth to TikTok a dollar per day that means that ad buyers are willing to give it to TikTok from their advertising and marketing budget. Which means that the average user should spend at least few grands each year on advertised products and services, which does not seem likely.

Also, this is not how valuations are estimated. 180 billion _per year_ is a huge amount (for comparison Apple revenue for 2019 is 260B). One applies a revenue multiple that depends on the stage of the company and industry but for early booming social media site is in the range of 20-40. So the estimate of 105-110 probably comes from the range of 3-5 B yearly revenue estimate
he had such confidence in his software and abilities that he thought it was actually secure, and there were no bugs, and posted a bounty for any exploit that could be found. Patching it means acknowledging it's an exploit, and that his code was not without bugs.

Given that his principles of writing secure software (included in the Qmail guarantee[1]) includes this: "7. Write bug-free code." that might be a bit hard for him to swallow.

1: https://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html
ByteDance has a huge suite of apps already (in China). Several of them could independently be unicorns without international expansion. I don't see why they wouldn't want to both grow that number and expand what they already have to other markets
Apparently it became law in Scotland in July 2019, and will become opt-out in Scotland in March 2021

https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/uk-laws/organ-donation-law-...
It's MS Wave, lads (just look at that vid, and compare to teh original Wave intro on YT) :)
Thanks! So let's say I start installing Nix packages. What distro's packages would they end up most similar to? Say, maybe Arch (which mostly leaves things unmodified)? Does that mean you basically end up with Arch no matter which distro you're on?
Ask HN: What's the nicest desktop virtualisation software for macOS?
I run a lot of Linux software (e.g. emacs) on macOS by ssh-ing into a Linux virtual machine. I share a folder with the virtual machine to make everything more seamless.

I'm currently using Parallels to achieve this and it works pretty well. Does anyone have a preference for some other virtualisation software (e.g. VMWare Fusion) over this? I am using a macOS laptop so battery life is something I should consider too.
ByteDance isn't just TikTok, which is what the headline doesn't include. They also own Toutiao (Chinese news/content platform, top 100 website in China), Helo (Indian social media, the Google Play app alone has 2.2M reviews), Lark (https://www.larksuite.com/, an enterprise collaboration platform aimed at the Japanese market).
Hello! The first recommendation would be to find a docker image providing a mock for the service you want (e.g. [1]) and if not enough then you could provision those services on demand in an additional step executing before the pullpreview step in the GitHub Action workflow file.

[1] https://github.com/localstack/localstack
My point is that if YouTube stopped working on Firefox because they didn't agree to a new standard Google had invented, lots of people would stop using Firefox.

It takes someone who really cares about these issues to bother switching back and forth between two different browsers because you want to use a non-Chromium for most things but have to use Chromium for a couple of things. The vast majority would just say "well, whatever" and switch completely.
NixOS only has nixpkgs modifications, not Ubuntu's, as much as Fedora doesn't have Ubuntu's modifications. My understanding is that packages available for Nix are patched to work within its context, but otherwise kept as original as possible, with optional configuration switches.
It's just a thought that occurred to me one day and haunted me ever since.

I've read a couple of Iain Banks' books but he doesn't quite gel for me somehow. These days I don't read fiction because it can't compete with reality. ;-)
That has nothing to do with opt-in or opt-out, just the incompetence of a specific hospital. It's also an article from 2013.
Gee, good job no one uses IPv6.
I don't understand why some of these errors were fixed via formal aliases but not others. Why not give them all proper aliases?
If your body is cold, it’s way too late to use your organs for donation. In fact, your heart has to still be beating and your organs still have to be getting oxygen.

Them’s just the facts.

Some people might be a bit more concerned, knowing those facts.
Note: you can't use C# 9 with .NET 5 preview 4; you'll have to wait until .NET 5 preview 5 is released. You can use it with the latest VS preview, though.
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I'am a bit confused, is this built by OpenAI or Microsoft?
Microsoft released the paper IntelliCode Compose: Code Generation Using Transformer [1] 4 days ago and there is no attribution to anyone from OpenAI in it.

Are those two entirely separate and yet exactly similar initiatives?

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08025v1
180b/0.5 = each user (including inactive ones) worth 1$/day?
I have friends and i have a spouse, i never sold myself to them and they never sold themselves to me. Quite frankly the idea of it is disgusting.
> On the other hand, the GitLab server allowed anyone to register an account, which some could interpret as being an open system. Furthermore, source code that ZDNet reviewed earlier today did not contain warnings that this was proprietary technology.

We’ll see.
Through video ads. They have a structured that's hard to differentiate with user content unless you watch till the end.
> Web{Assembly}: Enables binary executables to run in your browser

“Binary executables” makes it sound like it's machine code, but WebAssembly is more like a bytecode for JavaScript.
Same reason honey was sold for 4 billion, they have an absolute ton of data on their users.
One thing I like about Spark is the number of data sources it supports, including its ability to write out to a table or whatever. If you want to set up a JDBC or ODBC server you can also access spark SQL :

https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-distributed-sql-eng...

From an analytics perspective, a lot of people like the ability to connect to a JDBC or ODBC source.
No, you should not expect Ubuntu's modifications in packages installed through Nix.

Things like GRUB or the kernel version are handled at the level of NixOS, because, as you say, they affect the system globally.
And it's for long-term (more than one year) residents of England, not just citizens.

The headline should read something like "As of today, all residents of England are organ donors unless they opt out" or "Organ donation law in England has changed to opt-out model."
I'm having a hard time understanding why this is controversial. Can someone with a dissenting opinion chime in? I'm curious what the other side of the argument sounds like.
> carierx1, who appears to be hellbanned.

If you read their 1 page comment history, there's dang explaining "We've banned this account." and why.
I wonder if they will dare to go to i11?
That's really it, isn't it? No one "lives" with depression, we "survive" with it. Depression is little more than getting used to worsening conditions and treating yourself poorly. "Living" stops when that pattern of behavior starts, because attempts to live are shut down by rumination and defeatism. Then introspection starts and you can see the basic issues but can't reason your way out of them, nor draw on the discipline that has been washed away because of them to put in the consistent work to better oneself.
The internal namespace is also TH2, I'm sure people can figure out what that stands for
maybe it's just me using it too much and being more sensitive, but reddit seems so flaky performance-wise compared to other large sites
Gotta do something
I grew up in a society where merit didn't really matter, most of the time. Regardless of you finished just primary school or you went to college, your expected income in the job assigned by the state (that matched your educational status) would pay mostly the same. Only if you ended up being a director at a (state run) factory or were higher positioned in The Party would you have significantly more benefits (financial and otherwise).

To my mind, that society sucked. It meant that passion, time, obsession wasn't being appreciated. The way the state was treating it was just one aspect of it but it had huge trickle down implications for the rest of the society. It meant that people with 4 classes didn't need to respect those with college, it created this perverse inverse set of values where to spend more time studying and doing things was seen as a sign of weakness, of stupidity, the "smart" people would study or do the least amount of work and "trick" their way to success. As the state assigned you your job, with extremely low risk to lose it (you would have had to be caught stealing, repeatedly) there was no incentive to work hard in your line of work. As you can imagine, if most everyone doesn't do serious work and try to "trick" their way into everything, you don't get a very competitive economy, which had negative consequences for everyone.

The repercussions of that are still felt in the country I grew up today, the value system of older generations hasn't changed. When they see a young person that got hired at am multinational company buy a shiny new foreign car, old retired people talk behind their back saying "who knows how much that young person stole" to get that car (or worse, if the young person is a young lady). When someone does anything extraordinary, the normal reaction isn't to congratulate or praise them, or to show them as an example to be followed, the natural reaction is to be envious and to suggest unsavory ways that could explain their success, because after all, like the state said a long time ago, everyone is equal.

It is a shitty, miserable society, rotten to its core that I wish nobody else would experience in their life.
The general point exists in Finance, right? When you incentivize greed, you get certain systemic outcomes.

In other words, these things tend to play out the same way, hence why the same things are said about it over and over again.

If we could boil it down to a word, we’d have to just call it a pattern.
https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/p...
Oh, man. That's really unforunate.

How will this affect dotmesh?
My personal theory is that lethal mutations or the ones that cause severe symptoms get detected and isolated where possible, while the mutations that cause only mild or no symptoms can continue spreading silently without anyone noticing. If both create the same immunity, the non lethal mutations will win. If this theory holds, testing only if a person is showing symptoms would be the right thing to do. Filter the dangerous mutations, let the other ones spread.
Not being snarky, but is that basically a sql interface for map reduce across databases?
The valuation is for TikTok's parent company ByteDance which has a large number of products and investments including a really popular news aggregation app in China.

Also, TikTok in China, which is its largest market, is popular with everyone, young and old. It got to the point of threatening WeChat. CEOs of Tencent and ByteDance had a huge spat a while back.
Can we agree that people will be harmed on both sides of this?

Like, if organ donation is the default, at the very best, it's extra work for people who want not to donate their organs after death.

OTOH if organ donation is not the default, dramatically fewer organs are available to people in need, and many of them will die.

How are we supposed to weigh these competing harms?
With regards to consent, this is the same as any other law. You consent by remaining a citizen. Does every (any?) citizen know all of the laws? No, but it's part of the deal if your parents were citizens.

If you want to leave the country, you may renounce your citizenship upon becoming an adult.
We used to get work done anyway by sending around zips of the whole repository, but we changed our ways because we had the technical skills to do it. MSOffice users will never be able to write a VCS for documents so they're stuck with whatever the software vendor provides
Snapchat is fun. If you're not on it, it's hard to understand.
...that's mildly insulting
1.5 billion users already. That's staggering!
Not sure if you're being serious or not - but it is an interesting question. Have there been any studies on survival ratings of donors vs non-donors?
You must be a blast to interact with socially.
Many, many hours of my life were lost to to C&C. It’s a fine game.
Why Wearable Notifications Suck?
Regardless of what you think about the decision, the communication here has been poor. As of posting, there is no information on BBC News's front page, the UK's main source of news, as to this rule change or how to opt-out. [1] Likewise, on the UK Government's website's homepage, there is no information on this or information on how to opt-out. [2]

I haven't come across a friend or family member who knows this is happening today.

Regardless of your view on this, the communication has been poor. It was publicised when Wales moved to opt-out organ donation.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news
[2] https://www.gov.uk/
> Unlike the rest of the technologies, [Websockets] seems to have somewhat of a purpose — even if it’s been made redundant by things like HTTP/2 streams.
...
Give it a few months, and there will be some NodeJS fad where everyone wants to re-implement HTTP with WebSockets, and load every asset for their website through JavaScript to save a tenth of a microsecond in some edge case involving tech buzzword bingo. ... Once this happens, disabling WebSockets breaks the internet.

To be fair to Websockets, they've been around for almost a decade, pre-dating http/2 by a few years, and the duplex communication they offer is a fundamental building block for all kinds of stuff, from games to trading websites to chat systems.

Although the Battery API is a different story, the author's point about Websockets seems to be based on somehow having overlooked them for quite a while.
Except when they don't, or don't give enough context. A top-level comment here[0] gives an example where text was internally rendered to a bitmap prior to display, so a MS library was needed to hook the relevant API calls to get at the source text. Unfortunately (in this exceptional case), native UI toolkits aren't always as nice as webpage DOM. We'll probably start experiencing the same issue on the Web as soon as WebAssembly gets popular enough for people to develop UI toolkits on top of it.

--

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23251509
You are aproaching this from the mindset of the code author, but consider a new contributor to a project reading for the first time, with positional destructuring

foreach(var (f, l) in enumerationOfPersons) { ... }

tells him absolutely nothing about what's going or even that there are names involved

foreach(var (firstName, lastName) in enumerationOfPersons) { ... }

is better but doesn't give him an object to inspect to see where they come from and what else is available.
Okay thanks, so it sounds like I'll (roughly) end up with Arch (i.e. mostly-unmodified) whether I start on Ubuntu, Fedora, or whatever. I have another on that front: what about things like kernels? Don't those conflict with the OS?
So it processes the config file (and thus all needed packages) one time or does it process it every time you boot?
let's not quibble over semantics of "simple"

anyway the valuation clearly must include investor perception of their growth trajectory.
Is there a reason the password boxes are regular input fields and not password fields?
It looks like Wales and Scotland already have this policy in place. Northern Ireland does not, but I'm not too surprised given that health is devolved to the government of the country and NI didn't have a government for 3 years. I can't tell if that's still the case.
Wolfram himself never claims that it is anywhere near a scientific theory.

Theory requires a model, but not the other way around. What Wolfram has at present is a model which can be used to represent crude analogues of some things that may exist. It's flexible enough to be able to represent a wide array of different kinds of things, by the nature of being based on graphs (which define their own topologies) and update rules, which re-enact the patterns of positive feedback and complex emergent structures.
I mean... is there really?

How much do these people get paid?
Relevant section https://youtu.be/fZSFNUT6iY8
China's new outbreak shows signs that coronavirus could be changing
Meditation doesn't have to carry any spiritual meaning either.
That's not the measure of significance.

If that's the measure of significance, we should never do anything ever. There are risks in cars, airplanes, shaving getting out of bed, not getting out of bed, eating too much or too little, etc.

People choke on food occasionally. Should we not eat? No, that's silly.
Behind-the-scenes look at how MSBuild was transformed into fully digital event
dude, people literally wake up in morgues. if there was a list of most certain things in the universe, the answer being > 0 is on that list

You could argue, the number is so low the benefits outweighs the costs, but that's not your stance.

Fact, its > 0.
Eliminating drug side effects via molecular chirality
No one has an issue with donation from a "cold, limp corpse", the issue people have is that most donation must be taken from a living body, with brain death.

And that, I hope you agree, is a much more controversial situation.

Issues range from considering it straight out murder (after all the heart it beating, and the person is breathing), to mistakes in accurately detecting brain death, or fear of Dr's removing care in hopes of gaining donation.
$1/user/day is a huge overestimate. Facebook manage a fraction of that.