skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Android still has a broken IPv6 implementation in 2020. By design. They are not going to fix it. There are a couple of valid arguments from Google and Lorenzo Colitti, but they are pretty weak.

Any care to substantiate, why they are weak?

I'm going to substantiate, why their argument is strong:

1) With DHCPv6, the network operator can force your device to obtain only single IP address. With SLAAC, you can invent your own, any amount you want, it just has to be within the same subnet; the /64, smallest subnet, is pretty huge.

2) For tethering with IPv6, you need multiple IP addresses. You cannot do NAT as you do with IPv4.

Therefore, with IPv6, telcos could disable the tethering function of the phones / charge extras, just by suitably configuring their network. It is obvious, that the major supplier of mobile OS won't allow doing that. Hence, no DHCPv6.
Cal Newport: Can Remote Work Be Fixed?
A lot of apps/services fail not because of the lack of marketing but because of the lack of a profitable business model to begin with.

You can invest all day long in marketing but without a profitable business model it'll just make you burn through your runway even faster.
Ok, so how did he got from "different demographics have different interests, experiences, and knowledge" to "a bag of personal anecdotes and life experiences".

The only way to do so is to discard the interests and knowledge while putting great emphasis on experiences - and immediately assume they will end manifest as bulk personal anecdotes.
It's not very accurate given that he didn't break any law as the parent claimed. He went against a guidance.
> could neither infect or be infected,

Have you got a source for that? Sarah Gilbert, last month thought it was possible to be infected more than once: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/health-52344676/coronavirus-poss...
Yes, which made all the bullshit media emotional appeals about how other people who followed the rules were forced to wait as their loved ones died alone in hospital, how they couldn't comfort them and go to their funerals, etc rather dubious. (Especially since coronavirus spreads really well through funerals and hospitals and really badly through brick walls and visits to outdoor locations after the end of the likely infectious period.)

What made that tactic especially fragrant was the fact that Cummings also had a dying family member in hospital who he and his other family members couldn't visit, comfort, etc during the same time period and rather than consider that maybe this might be a reason to step away from that argument, everyone seems to have doubled down and used his family's grief as proof that they were right.
Ask Gitlab.
> Perhaps, once we get to Mars, we'll finally have a planet at total peace.

And two planets at war. Mars-Hitler, whoever they are, born yet or not, will be quite the foe.

We repeat patterns. The gulf of interplanetary space is no obstacle to war, any more than the gulf of the oceans are.
For me it was throwing out or suppressing evidence-based reports and policy recommendations on drug harms during the coalition years, causing at least one home office minister to quit in protest.

Because clearly her biases are better than evidence driven policy. Was glad she only lasted a year or so.
I'd be contemptuous of such stupid rules too. How is going for a walk outdoors a problem? Why is it relevant how far he drove to get there? I can't help but think that the Brits have taken the scolding aspect of this lockdown way too far.
Early stage B2B startup ShiftX here. We are successfully doing this with FaunaDB. In Fauna databases are as lightweight as tables and are nested in a hierarchy. This enables us to do management in the “root” database and keep all customer data separated in child databases. So when a user signs in to our app he gets a session that is tied to the specific tenant database. This model would also allow us to do completely separate database deployments for customers with special requirements.
> western, middle class, highly educated, liberal and progressive values which really do work well

Says who? Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic folks, of course. Don't get me wrong, there is an underlying reality behind the oft-repeated claims of 'Whig history' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_history . In particular, democratic and classical liberal values seem to do an unusually good job of de-escalating unwanted social conflict: NPOV (as known on Wikipedia) is at its root a "liberal" idea, not an authoritarian or intolerant one! But these overbroad claims should always be treated with plenty of caution.
A major difference is that JS developers have little control over the runtime of their users, while all these other languages and especially compiled languages do. JS is a special case because it's the sole supported language of browsers, which all implement it differently—that comes with a unique layer of complexity.
Solving the Space Junk Problem
He did expect this, just about pandemics and viruses in general not coronavirus specifically. Honestly, he should get a lot of credit for it (though he ruined that by editing) given that it's something he has talked a lot about.
Number six is a good observation.
We have had rather good Prime Ministers who were quite remarkably unlike salesmen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Attlee
It depends. Electric motors also have losses in their controllers, which removes another 5% or 10%. If you want mechanical power output and have 1kg of pre-charged batteries and 1kg of liquid fuel, the efficiency of electric motors might close the density gap. Lets assume 95% efficient controller+motor (slightly optimistic) and 30% efficient ICE (somewhat pessimistic).

1kg * 14 MJ/kg * 95% = 13 MJ mechanical

1kg * 47 MJ/kg * 30% = 14 MJ mechanical

It comes out pretty close!

If you want mechanical power and also heat (for keeping people, animals, or equipment warm, decreasing the viscosity of fluids, etc), ICE is definitely the way to go.

-- edit --

/u/ash points out Tesla's energy density is is 0.576 MJ/kg

1kg * 0.58 MJ/kg * 95% = 0.55 MJ mechanical

...not even slightly close.
that's fair, but newer languages like Rust have the benefit of hindsight, and can mandate one way to do things. to be clear, i'm all for that.

i don't think it's possible to do that any more with Python, the genie is out of the bottle. but you can get close with things like Black (auto-formatting) and Poetry (nicer deps mgmt and so much more). of course, how would a beginner know this? hopefully some day tools like that will become the default answers
It's not incidental - he referenced this blog post in a press conference today, in which he responded to this scandal. (Without apologizing, of course.) The two are closely linked politically, as he is trying to defend himself from criticism by touting his supposed prescience.
> VCs are expected to generate a 25-35% annualized return compared to the 12-15% that public equity markets generate and much higher than the 8-10% return that debt markets give.

What does "expected to generate a 25-35% annualized return" mean here? Is that the mean/average annualized return of a VC fund? Or the "wished for" annualized return?
Sure, and if you don't do that then you'll be forced to build that bomb instead of having a choice. You have to be able to defend yourself. If you can't then somebody that's worse than you is going to come along and make you do their bidding.
He said he drove with impaired eye sight, which violates the road traffic act.
There is a rule. He even quoted the rule.

Quite frankly, I think a lot of people don't like him and they're putting the boot in to get him to resign.
They should have advertised on startup that you can press F1 to bring up help (in both vim and nvim), that's probably easier to remember for people coming from GUI editors.
You can move to another instance.
DRY (within a project) != (across multiple apps)
Thanks for the honesty. I find people who understand their own failings interesting.
Indeed. The Scottish Chief Medical Officer was forced to resign in similar circumstances. I seem to recall the Scottish Tories calling for her head.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/05/scotland-chi...
I’m curious on Meta, got a link?
Flat Earthers Disprove Themselves with Own Experiments in Netflix Documentary
Iban Ugarte Herrarte - Abogado integral en Donostia - San Sebastián
Does not work in private window.
Reminds me of the more general paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox

As one of the other comments points out, technology can only change productivity when you change the process, sometimes radically. And that may mean restructuring the business.
ZSH Aliases
So when he quoted a report on pandemic threats and specifically left out the parts about coronavirus that shows he was talking about coronavirus?
The law said one must not leave one's house without a "reasonable excuse".

Going for an hour+ drive just to see if your eyes work is not a reasonable excuse.
The article is just vaguely complaining about undefined problems which makes it very difficult to defend or argue against. Are we talking about ML? Optimization problems? Operational research in general? Automation? And which tasks in which businesses? There's tonnes of useful stuff in each of those categories and vaguely saying that it's all useless doesn't get you anywhere.
Can confirm the experience, I had to work on a company before with similar tech using Django.

https://github.com/bernardopires/django-tenant-schemas

All I can say, that it was a nightmare to do deployment and migration and some backward incompatibility features restrained us in some ways.

The company valued data isolation as a priority rather than ease of developing it. Hard to work with but great for data isolation.
I like how cc requires making the materials available but it is served as a giant multi TB turd mostly made up of cruft. (think: custom templates) It is also funny how people seem to think anonymous users who cant be identified own copyright to anything. WP has refused to set up a proper identification process.

2 angry alcoholics > nobel laureate

A [shame] link back to wp? why? They don't own the rights and they are not a reliable host for crediting sources. If WP vanishes you are still obligated to name the authors. (who have no name or address)

The idea is of course nice. It would be more fun if one could easily export a category in various popular formats.
This makes me wonder if there's anything that can be made to behave this way on Linux? I had an issue with Gnome freezing on me 100% last night with seemingly no recourse than a hard reboot over and over until a full rebuild. Something deeply embedded like Task Manager would have been great to try and resolve the issue. Switching virtual consoles was broken too and as far as I know there's no way to cut through a problem like this.
Would you say that in the long run, you get nothing out of learning basic algebra in elementary school by memorizing the techniques of addition, subtraction, division and multiplication, because you do not learn anything about group theory?

It's a bit pompous to call the vim commands a "language". Basically all you have to know to use vim very powerfully is the difference between insert and navigation mode, how to switch between them, how to move around with hjkl, how to move around in "blocks", that \ opens the search and that y = yank means basically copying. You can learn that in under an hour. Combine that with stuff like "yiw" (yank in word) or "dib" (delete in bracket) and you will get a lot farer than with most other editors. I guarantee you that I do not think about how "dib" means "delete in bracket" when I use it, I have it just memorized.
Personally, if you read his blog, you can learn a lot about the very field you'd alluded to ("...use of data to drive policy..."). And some of it is very interesting stuff.

But much like yourself, I find his political views abhorrent.
It wasn't impossible, was it? Johnson has proven that.

She used the same tactic as Boris Johnson by calling an election to try and get a big majority which could implement the referendum in the face of opposition parties who had voted for it but now refused to actually abide by it. She was such a poor politician she instead lost her majority and ended up in a limbo controlled by her opponents. She had a party filled with MPs who openly lied to the voters during her disastrous GE campaign, saying they'd implement the Brexit vote and then immediately turning around and doing everything they could to stop it once elected. She did nothing to get a grip on her party and just drifted, completely lost and weak.

Then Boris Johnson stepped up.

1. He won the party leadership.

2. He kicked out a huge number of MPs (>40?) that had openly betrayed the voters, in some cases by switching after being elected to a party with the exact opposite of the policies they ran on. This plunged him deep into minority territory.

3. Parliament was filled with MPs who knew they'd lose the moment an election occurred due to those betrayals, and thus for the first time in history Johnson was faced with an opposition that kept voting against a chance to take power - the entire reason for their existence! Yet he still managed to get another general election.

4. He forced all of his prospective MPs to take a public oath that they'd actually implement what they said they'd implement in the party manifesto this time. He flushed out huge numbers of them that were untrustworthy.

5. He ran a strong campaign that gave him a huge majority.

6. He filled the cabinet with people who were committed to "getting brexit done" as he put it. He brought in a notoriously tough advisor who has already supposedly squashed multiple plots to reverse the referendum.

7. He replaced the Brexit negotiator with someone who is actually interested in negotiating and who believed in British independence, vs Theresa May's picks who didn't.

Except for the first step these are all things Theresa May could have done but was too weak or politically un-astute to do. Hardly impossible, it just required political strength and leadership.
> why can't it read a PDF document and transform it into a machine-readable format?

> why can't I get a computer to translate my colleague's financial spreadsheet into the format my SAP software wants?

Because you probably expect it to be 100% or maybe 99.999% accurate, and we can't do that. Imagine "AI" translating someones financial spreadsheet into a different format and dropping a zero somewhere. Oops.. but your test set accuracy is 99.8984%. Still not good enough. Just getting 1 thing wrong breaks everything. This is fundamentally different from clicking on image search and ignoring the false positives.
What about working for a bank or any other fortune 500
From "slide deck", which itself comes from "card deck", I'd guess.
He's using his rambling blogpost to suggest that he has always supported lockdowns, has never suppoorted herd immunity, and has been aware of the risk of pandemic for some time.

The blog does mention the serious risk of pandemic, but it doesn't mention the other stuff. And it's not talking about public health measures to reduce the impact of pandemic, but using the idea of tiger teams to test biolab security.

He lied about the content of the blog.
I am sure it is possible, but we haven’t seen any significant number of reinfection. There were stories in South Korea but apparently they concluded it was on account of unreliable tests.

And the questions about how long the immunity lasts are about how many months not how many days.
Then I move instance (probably well before my instance is declared not safe, tbh). It's a feature in Mastodon, assuming my moderation team hasn't decided to disable it - basically, I send a protocol message to my followers saying "I'm over here" and they automatically follow me over there. In a future p2p protocol that's designed by people who actually realise that people exist who don't want everyone on the internet to have a direct line to their inbox (aka none of the current ones), I could simply move moderation team and keep my identity.

It's incredibly unlikely that tomorrow, my instance pushes the needle so far that everyone blocks it immediately. More likely a series of changes in the moderation team gradually pushes things that way and I can change instance before things get bad enough that anyone would block it - and I'd do that because it wouldn't be a community I want to be part of any more, rather than any particular fear about being blocked.
Physical slides were using transparencies or slides. A bunch of them stacked together would be like a deck of cards - a slide-deck.
Nah the napi API is pure C:

https://nodejs.org/api/n-api.html
Companies in general try to seem like they care about more than money. "Grey Goo Ltd. We care." Diversity rhetoric is an easy, pre-constructed set of Things to Say (TM) that you can use to project empathy - notably, without doing anything significant to back it up. Google is still 70% men.

But bear in mind San Francisco is incredibly liberal, SF programmers even more so. Companies based there will make overtures toward diversity & inclusion rhetoric to keep their workforce happy.
Seconded. Perhaps the series is less obscure than I'd imagined.
Frothing at the mouth
Not sure about the UK, but in Australia, if I suspected my eyesight was bad, and went for a drive, and was involved in an accident, I would probably be charged with negligent driving. Even if I weren't involved in an accident, the negligent driving would still be breaking the law, but there would be no occasion to prove it.
The development of flow batteries with lightweight, inexpensive electrodes and efficient, dense electrolytes would definitely change the situation a lot. Fuel would be pumpable again, and you could transfer large amounts energy without it being integrated with the catalyst that can unsafely release all of that energy.
same here. All i/o libraries eventually hit OS barrier. I can't really see how it could be optimised to gain 6x speed up. I/O libraries are basically transporters between userland and kernel space.
> 2) For tethering with IPv6, you need multiple IP addresses. You cannot do NAT as you do with IPv4.

I definitely don't want to see NAT with IPv6, but what makes it impossible?
Well, I've been following numbers for the last two months in different countries from different sources. My initial best estimations were that the fatality rate was about 0.77% given the numbers in South Korea (high number of tests). Other countries such Spain were reporting rates of about 10%, however testing was quite low in comparison.

Recently Spain did a seroprevalence test (number of people with antibodies for Coronavirus) with a large sample of people. They found that 5% of the population had antibodies (2.4M people). Which means that the fatality rate is actually about 1.1% and not 10%.

This numbers (from 0.77% to 1.16%) have been constant in different countries, so let me express my disbelief with the numbers published by the CDC.
The code comments are a lighter shade, so it Seems there is some form of very subtle syntactic styling going on.
While true for some things, it's not for others.

In our application, one key operation is that the user is required to classify a line item based on the text description. There's a huge code list of possible classifications, and the user has to pick one that is the most correct.

This is definitely a task that registers consciously. And, while most of the time it's fairly easy for trained users, there are often cases which require extra thought or research.

For example, a T-shirt of mostly cotton vs a T-shirt of mostly synthetic fibers should be classified differently. How would you know based on the description "Small Womens V neck Short"?
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I'm not questioning why you switched from an otherwise unused technology. Sometimes it's the best way forward. My comment is meant for this sentence:

> Also, if you start giving people "1/3 time" responsibilities, you're one step away from "everything is top priority" territory.

I like to maintain and improve legacy systems and usually happy to do it. When I got a separate side-project I had constantly fight with my team why I should work on project X instead of contributing to our core project. If it was my whole team responsibility they were happy that somebody does it. Also, they wanted to invest enough time so it won't break.
Speed up your SQL queries with indexes
Ah yes I forgot that, .local does work so I guess that fixes that problem.
In my opinion, it's because business operations isn't that complicated and people don't know what AI is.

By "not that complicated", I mean a decent CRM system to track information about the organization is approaching peak operational efficiency for most businesses. Most inefficiency I see after that is people/political problems.

By "people don't know what AI is", I mean that business owners are unable to describe their business problem as a supervised learning problem. If you can formulate your business problem as a supervised learning problem, then you can probably solve it with AI (which, yes, is really just a marketing term for supervised ML).

But most business problems are really "order taking" or "production/delivery" or "moving things through a funnel" problems and thus AI isn't the solution, CRM or CRUD apps are the solution.
Yes. Him, his covid-19 positive wife, and their child drove 250 miles in the same car.
Because this government decided it was a problem, then chose to look the other way when Cummings ignored these rules. Countless people have been forced to let their loved ones be buried or cremated without traditional ritual closure, or have not been there through the last days of others, all because the government convinced them that it was the right thing to do for public health. Maybe it was, but it should strike a nerve when someone professing these guidelines ignores them for a much sillier purpose and is lauded for his "integrity" and qualities as a "father." Were those ordinary Britons bad sons, daughters, siblings, and parents for not evading the same rules for their loved ones? Did they act without integrity?
Systèmes Libres – Just Incorporated. Yay (Company Behind LibreSOC)
> who is currently at the centre of a scandal for breaking the law

There was a recent story about Neil Gaiman travelling from New Zealand back to his home in Scotland. He was given a strict talking to by the police and issued a public apology – and that, as far as I understand, was the end of it. Is Cummings held to different standards?
Database Migration with the AWS Schema Conversion Tool
I've reopened your comment for editing so you can modify it.

Edit: just to close the loop on this, the way you modified your comment does actually seem fine to me, so this was a nice test case of probing where the line actually should be. Thanks!
Not really similar, but in some circumstances the Sys Rq commands may help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
Irati Aizpurua Alquezar – Abogada Laboralista En Donostia – San Sebastián
Why does anyone have a requirement to talk to your instance? What if, due to your ideological stance on issues, I don't trust that your server won't decide that mine is distasteful in some way, and that you'd cause your server to disrupt mine in some way by flooding it with messages, for instance? I have legitimately had this happen and it nearly brought down my instance. Some script-kiddie decided to fuck around and spam my account on an instance I run with about 2000 followers in the course of a few seconds. This almost killed my server entirely. Why should I have been forced to interact with their server on the grounds of free speech?

Why does it matter if any instance decides they don't want to associate with you? It doesn't affect your ability to use the service beyond not being able to interact with folks who probably don't want to talk to you anyway.

Forcing someone to make their server software talk to yours is just as much of a "Free Speech" infringement, if not moreso.