skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to a political philosophy discussion group for a couple of years, held in university rooms, but open to the public, usually 4 to 8 people attending. Advertised on the philosophy department mailing list and maybe elsewhere. Mostly students, but whoever was in the area and interested in that week's piece would show up. I think it was for 2 hours, in the afternoon, once every 2 weeks. There was a small core of regulars and a nominal leader who had final say over what would be chosen for next time, mostly choosing from the suggestions of others at the end of the meeting, and announcing the selection online a few days later. Everyone in it seemed to be postgraduate, except me! Almost every time someone opened their mouth it was impressive. Usually the reading was a classic essay or couple of chapters from a book, not always strictly political philosophy, just somehow connected - once it was Melville's Bartleby! That was the only fiction though. Essays/bits of book by Oakeshott, Dewey, Schmitt etc. Essays by well-known philosophers I'd heard of but usually not read. Recent stuff too, by people I'd not heard of. Always an interesting choice, a very wide variety. Something you could read in a couple of hours. There was no off-topic chatting during the meeting once it got started, by choice – there was never nearly enough time to talk about what we'd read. Before and after I had some nice chats though, as I got to know the regulars a bit. It was friendly, but getting to know the writers and their writing was the main thing. I loved it so much.

I even made a discussion blog for the group at the time, I wanted more discussion about each piece in the comments, but it didn't take off.

I did consider organizing something like it myself. Getting exclusively such high-quality attendees seems unlikely in a non-university setting. Discussion quality would seem the tricky thing, anyway. Maybe I'm spoiled, because I've seen how good it can get. Good luck!
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> get extremely frustrated ... when conversation temporarily drifts to non-book-related topics

I think every hobby related group I have participated has had that to a certain extent. During sports activities people talk about other stuff. At the gym, people joke around. In debates club when I was in school we talked about other stuff. Hell, even at a hackathon, maybe 5-10% of the conversation is not about the app or the hackathon. Even the journal club in grad school always started and ended with non-science talk. I have never been frustrated.

People are social, and there is value to creating multifaceted connections with other people.
Thanks for this link! This is something I definitely want to take a closer look at. (https://jlelse.blog/thoughts/2020/05/serverless-fassd/)
Remote everything sucks and I will stop doing it all as soon as possible. Humans need stories, and stories take place in sets. Seeing the entirety of your life through a window on your computer is not a life.
> You would never run a class this way

As a literature graduate, this made me laugh. Maybe literature courses are more leisurely stateside, but for me it was a book a week (not 4 to 6 weeks, as OP suggests). That was literally how classes were run.

And it was stupid for the reasons outlined. I remember my class on Ulysses mostly because a) I was acutely conscious of not having been fully keeping up in the 250 pages before the closing chapter and b) when I arrived at class it became clear after about 2 minutes that only I had finished it, because I had read it over the summer break because I was really keen on those bragging rights, but everyone else has tried to read it in one week, which is a doomed endeavour if ever there was one. It would have been a better experience for everyone concerned if more than one person had done the reading, but that was not realistic on the assumption that Ulysses can be polished off in the same time as The Power and the Glory.
I live in Cambridge and its perfect for my needs, for now. Small university town, everything at bikeable distance, cosmopolitan: if I want to meet a person from any country or experience their cuisine, eveything is available here. London is just an hour away by train. And companies like Microsoft, Apple and IBM have their offices here. The only problem is that in UK its extremely hard to get a sense of community and make new friends - especially with the native Brits, who prefer to be aloof and not really interested in connecting beyond the surface
This is very strange to read from here in New Zealand, where life is fairly close to getting back to normal. I don't see any reason why our basic lifestyles should be permanently changed by this virus. As bad as things feel now, we will eventually get on top of the epidemic and in a few short years this period will be a distant memory.

I'm not saying there won't be permanent changes - I believe this is a catalyst that will make remote working the norm for many industries, including my own. But I have been hearing, for example, American podcast hosts saying they may never step inside a restaurant again (this was on The Argument, and all three hosts agreed) or people claiming that the tourism industry is permanently neutered. I just don't see human behaviours changing so dramatically, and I don't see any reason why we should be more afraid of Coronavirus in 10 years than we are of Polio today.
Deepest darkest corner of New Zealand, as long as it has an internet connection. Starlink can't come fast enough.
> “drunk driving is OK as long as the outcome does not result in a crash” is an extremely minority view

You are misstating the view I was describing.

I did not say drunk driving was OK as long as it doesn't cause actual harm. I only said drunk driving should not be punishable by law if it doesn't cause actual harm. Not being punishable by law does not make it any less stupid or irresponsible.

I also did not say that there are no ways at all to address drunk driving that doesn't cause harm. For example, consider the following scenario: I'm a cop, and I see a car driving erratically. I turn on my lights and pull the car over. I am perfectly justified in doing that because the car is driving erratically.

I find out that the driver of the car is drunk. I tell the driver, "sir, why don't we leave your car parked here, off the road, and lock it, and I can call someone to come and pick you up?" If the driver protests, I put him in the back of my police car, make sure his car is safely parked and locked, and drive him to the police station--where I then call someone to come pick him up. No ticket, no citation, no fine--just getting him safely home and avoiding possible harm to anyone else.

Have I overstepped the boundaries that I have argued must be placed on what the government can do? Not at all. First of all, a cop is still a citizen, and any citizen has the right to try to stop someone from continuing obviously reckless and irresponsible behavior. Second, I didn't punish the person; he gets no fine, no jail time, no record of any offense. So the rule that nobody should be punished by law unless they cause actual harm has not been violated.

It is true that supporting the kind of regime I just described, in preference to what we have now, is an extremely minority view. But I think it's because people have simply failed to think through the implications.
Kubernetes Cluster setup on CentOS 7 (bento/centos-7) – Part 2
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Guide for installation instructions - https://jhooq.com/15-steps-to-install-kubernetes-on-bento-ce...
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This tutorial is for the ones who want to try out the Kubernetes installation on CentOS 7.

In this article, I have simplified the installation into 15 steps for installing Kubernetes on CentOS "bento/centos-7"

Prerequisites

1.Vagrant 2.2.7 or latest

2.VM VirtualBox (Oracle Virtual box)

We are going with two VMs here (Both the VMs will run on bento/CentOS 7) -

1.Master Node - 2 cpus, 2 GB Memory (Assinged IP - 100.0.0.1 )
2.Worker Node - 1 cpu, 1 GB Memory (Assinged IP - 100.0.0.2 )

Steps brief -
1.Start your vagrant box
2.Update /etc/hosts on both nodes(master, worker)
3.Install Docker on both nodes (master, worker)
4.Disable SELinux on both nodes(master, worker)
5.Disable CentOS firewall on both nodes(master, worker)
6.Disable swapping on both nodes(master, worker) .i.e. sudo swapoff -a
7.Enable the usage of "iptables" on both nodes(master, worker)
8.Add the Kubernetes repo to rum.repos.d on both nodes(master, worker)
9. Install Kubernetes on both nodes(master, worker)
10.Enable and Start Kubelet on both nodes(master, worker)
11.Initialize Kubernetes cluster only on the master node
12.Move kube config file to the current user (only run on master)
13.Apply CNI(container network interface) from kube-flannel.yml(only run on master)
14.Join master node run only on the worker node
15.Check the nodes status(only run on master)

References -
Kubernetes.io - https://kubernetes.io/
Telehealth is a great asset. Minor diagnostics can be done so much faster without waiting rooms and checkins while freeing up more time and space for more serious in-person care.
1. Large portions of the firmware and bootloader are open source. RAM initialization currently requires a blob from rockchip, but that too may not be needed in the future.

2. The GPU is usable with open source graphics drivers.

3. There is no equivalent to the IME or PSP that is present on x86 platforms.
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I remember a coherent-sounding (to a somewhat smart layman) theory being presented in "The Vital Question". It involved alkaline vents (like these: [0]). As I remember it, the idea was that the nonviolent flow of matter and the porous rock of the vent created a natural chemical reactor, where gunk could accumulate in the pores, until it slowly chanced into a primitive pump, primitive membrane and primitive division; eventually, some of that gunk learned how to close a membrane around itself, with stuff from the alkaline vent on the inside, and could now survive out in the open, continuously pumping to keep the gradient. Evolution continued from there.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_City_Hydrothermal_Field
Oh yeah just go online and search for houses under $250k. A bunch are out in the boondocks with bad internet, but not all of them.
Astoria Oregon. I'd buy a glass house on the side of the bay.

The twist is I could probably arrange that, but my daughter lives in So Cal.
That’s my point, we can now frame as win win win with a story most can get behind. Before it was red vs blue ideology battle royale.

I don’t really want to tackle the decline of left amongst certain demographics. Too much to get into on that one :)
If I can get a tiny home on wheels, I'd give that a shot.

If I can move with a community that wants to be nomadic I'd try that.

If not, Vegas, here I come :)
Answer is don't load those.

I use a Jetson nano with 4gb RAM. Vim and Firefox has been fine for writing go and python.
Outside the US, definitely. Berlin sounds pretty cool.
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On a small sailboat outfitted with batteries and solar panels. Ideally I'd dock only once every few days to take meetings/sync my data/connect to the internet, and then head back to open waters.
> the United States establish itself as the pre-eminent global power, a position it hasn’t relinquished since.

Well to be fair, it is working as hard as possible at throwing away that position right now...
I'm going nomad for a while and going to live in a travel trailer. I'll probably buy multiple air cards from different phone providers to make sure I have a good connection. This way I can visit the communities I have roots in for extended periods of time while still exploring other places in the U.S.
That's certainly have an informed comparison if you have a T480 that you've tested! I'm not trying to be combative and say that various features are pointless, just that they are nice-to-haves and not really that necessary in my view. I primarily code and make my font size large anyway, so am not a category that benefits much from a high-density display.

Consensus can't be divined from comment threads, but many threads on HN related to Apple hardware generally bring people out of the wood-work venting about keyboards, battery life, touch bar, mag-safe, ports, software regressions, etc. with sentiments of "if I wasn't beholden to macOS/Photoshop/Final-Cut-Pro I'd switch to something else". So it may not be obvious from someone who just reads about Macs from HN comments that they are either (1) the best hardware or (2) a joy to use (although let me be the first to admit that's a completely flawed way to form an opinion about anything lol).

Personally I think the largest reason people move or stick to Linux/BSD is that there are unique features that can't be found in other OSs, and that these balance out the utility of features lost. This would be in contrast to fulfilling full feature-parity with no switching cost. For Linux/BSD, I would consider this things related to the nature of free software and user control.
Why would that be the case? There have been many exploits without that in the past, did apple recently learn how to write perfect software? You might not believe that any government possesses a vulnerability like that but to suggest that there are none seems extraordinarily unlikely.
> Don't something like 20-25% of all New Yorkers already have antibodies? Doesn't that show the virus isn't that dangerous? The body count would be in the millions by now.

For many viral diseases the severity in a particular individual depends on how much of the virus they were exposed do. I don't believe that know yet if COVID-19 is such a disease.

For such diseases, you could have a case where a large fraction of the population is going to get it regardless of whether you continue as normal or you social distance and stay at home as much as feasible, but in the former case most get a large enough dose to get very sick or die and the the latter case most get a small enough dose to not get sick or just get mildly sick. In both cases you would have a large fraction with antibodies.
The person receiving early music lessons is often a very young child (4 or 5 years old). Good freakin' luck getting them to follow precise, careful instructions from a Zoom instructor.
I fully agree with the author on the problem, but the suggested solution of doing periodic readings together is a hard sell for busy ppl to commit to - I find synchronous reading boring.

There are a few ways to increase the chance of a book club:

(1) Reduce the reading length per session.

(2) Provide a carrot to encourage ppl to do the reading.

These two levers led a few friends and I to start something called Short Story Club [1], which is really starting to take off now.

It's relatively easy to get folks to read a 30-40 page short story, and we try to provide a free copy so people don't have to make a purchase. IMO short stories are super underrated and overlooked - many of them pack a punch bigger than the average novel.

We start each session with small group discussions over Zoom.

For the carrot, we get the author of the short story to come on the Zoom and do a Q&A session, letting attendees ask their questions directly via video like in a real event. So far, we've focused on science fiction, and we've gotten Ted Chiang, Ken Liu, and Cory Doctorow to join us.

So, even if you're not doing short stories for your own book club, a better way is to chunk up big books and meet periodically. Make it an event: if in person make an effort to cook or provide good snacks, music, whatever it takes to make it easy for people to commit to. And have good discussion points ready.

[1] https://www.shortstory.club - if you're interested, we have Hugh Howey coming next week to discuss WOOL, one of my fav stories
Does a domain have to live on Namecheap / Godaddy to get looked at? My domains are on Google Domains.
Throughout most of history, pee has been a very good commercial property.

It wasn't till the mid 1800s that German scientists found a simpler way of obtaining urea and ammonia than collecting everybody's urine.
I'd live more country-side, where you get a lot more house and land for your money. Preferably near a forest and a small lake. I want to get away from the city, but I'd still like to have a town nearby for schools for the kids so that they can have friends to walk/bike to. I'd just like the space to build a fire, build a pizza oven and not bother anybody. And I never want to hear anybody else's outdoor speaker ever again :) (All this in the Netherlands.)

Also I'd like enough rooms to have a proper office (big desk, many screens, drawers filled with Raspberry Pi's, I love computers), now I work in my sons room. I'd also like to have the space to put something like a car wreck on my land, so the kids can explore it. You know, create a rich learning environment, outside and inside.

Edit: Just like Deanna and Riker on Nepenthe [0] but with other people within walking distance ;)

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9420288/
For me, it's Montevideo, Uruguay. Now that Brexit has upended where I would live in Europe, this is the next best plan for us.
Nice one Matthew! Bravo.
Indeed. Loss of intelligence is always a real problem when one is surrounded by stupidity.
Not weeks to minutes, but still, try writing an Airlines booking, scheduling application which gets the traveler the best route given his/her requirements.
Source: https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/sine-wave-sp...
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Short Story Club
Well, living with your parents is, of course, going to save you a lot of money. But you're living with your parents. I do wonder about the opportunity for fraud, though. I bet a lot of young developers will, all of a sudden, start living in their parents houses.
Wayland is trouble for users who

* do not want just the big Windows-like inefficient and bloated Gnome and KDE desktop environments. And also for those that like or need having various "desktop environments" to switch between.

* like to programmatically grab and inject input events. I.e., AFAIK you will not be able to implement atbswp for Wayland environments using pure Wayland, if at all. Even if you do succeed (by depending on a Wayland extension, working with specific compositors or talking directly to the kernel), it will be more difficult than for X Windows.

Quoting my comment from this thread, near yours:

> Wayland compositors, unlike X Windows window managers, are complicated to implement and on top of that the Wayland protocol standardizes little. This hurts the Wayland compositor ecosystem (again, as compared to X Window managers), and the lack of standardization hurts users directly, too (because then we have to rely on compositor-specific features, thus being tied to that compositor implementation). Last time I looked there still was not any prevalent solution to injecting or logging input events, and even capturing the screen (screen shot) was dependent on the specific compositor implementation. Remember the excuse for ditching X Windows? It was X having too many extensions to the standard. But even that is better than not standardizing on expected features at all.

> Note that I am not saying X Windows is "good", but the fact is Wayland's design is hostile to a lot of things that work with X Windows, instead of Wayland improving on X Windows. So how could I be content with Wayland possibly replacing Xorg?

Also see these (sub)threads:

https://old.reddit.com/r/wayland/comments/85q78y/why_im_not_...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20376316

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20379423
There are TONS of videos about it, but I'm not finding what I was hoping for, which is an example of a dance "subtitled" with Labanotation.
Tools are just tools. Imagine scoffing at someone using a hammer, when in your less experienced opinion, they should be using NewHammer3.1.

Tools are means to an end. I much prefer working with people who care about the product and the business than what tools they used to build said product/business. I'm looking for "hey, you could save a lot of time by using tool Y", rather than "You people are idiots for even considering tool Z".
Are there exceptions in C?

If I’m interviewing someone for a programming job and I see goto in there C code... they better have an amazing reason or they won’t be getting the job. Harsh, but it’s reality of how few people are suited for embedded programming.
Tractyl looks pretty neat, but I think I'd miss my thumb keys too much.

I looked pretty closely at the UHH, but I think it would be the same issue as the Ergodox -- I'm too used to the scooped keybed of the Kinesis, which makes the reach between e.g. K and 8 short enough that I notice when it's not there on a flat keybed.
Apparently an 'official' Cannonball Run Instagram account has denounced the attempt because "doing runs in these days of #covid19 devalues the difficulty of the exercise." This seems like a weird line to draw, since attempts are already timed to minimize traffic on the roads.
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Doesn't seem to work for me in Chrome (Version 81.0.4044.138 (Official Build) (64-bit) Linux). I have no issues playing other sound within Chrome.

Never really heard of Ansiplay but skimmed over the JS code. Is it like a MOD format? I noticed the octaves table and some sort of mixer...
Remote worker here: my home city was not part of the agreement. I don't know of anybody has "and I will only live out of X city" in their employment agreement.

If they're changing from office-only to remote, perhaps it's worth revisiting their contract, but we can't pretend that their place of living is incorporated into it somehow.
I love the idea that i, a turbo-sinning atheist, might go to church just to hang out.

The practical problem with this is that services are at, what 9 in the morning on a sunday? The only communion i have any interest in taking at that time is with the cold side of the pillow.

But say the holy spirit [1] moves me to overcome that. Then what? "Yeah miss me with the biscuits padre, i'm just here for the bants!", not sure how well this is going to go down.

[1] whisky
We already have sensible OS level and app level baselines in CIS workbenches. There's also code to apply the policies and check the policies. It's nice that this is an attempt to set some kind of sanity in a single shell script but unless the author is a known quantity expert in this area, it's not a good idea to use this, unless you are also capable of vetting this code, in which case you probably don't need it.
I've had Firefox fail to work properly on the sites of Slashdot, Amazon, Newegg, Chase, BoA, GE, Walmart, the IRS, PennDOT, Mozilla's own org site, WaPo, NPR, Fox, Disney, and a whole host of others.
I always wonder why people usually choose to neglect privacy issues about Apple.

First, there was Apple scanning photos to check for child abuse[0] (that obviously got no attention on this site), then there was this one - Apple uploading hashes of all unsigned executables you run.

Do people really accept that company's "privacy" selling point?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21180019, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22008855