skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of people out there who have important things that have to do with their health. Just because someone is not in an ambulance doesn't mean they don't have somewhere important to be. Not everyone with a medical condition rides in an ambulance.
https://github.com/gnn4dr/DRKG
This is true. I have found text not so "crisp" and readable on windows compared to MAC. I have an LG Ultrawide monitor and used both Mac and Windows with it, there is a difference in the sharpness.
Thanks. I also found this Cheatsheet from the NixOS Wiki with comparisons to apt-get to be useful: https://nixos.wiki/index.php?title=Cheatsheet&useskin=vector

I would also love to see a tutorial for beginners on Linux that covers common tasks like viewing changelogs, creating a simple package, and pinning multiple dependencies in an environment.
I must admit that Saturday night I went to bed wondering if I'd still have a country on Sunday morning.
It works fine up to 125% for me, but then it just zooms when you increase to 150%.
That term is something I sort of came up with, but certainly there are some cool papers.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10985 Is one, talking about using ideas like neural architecture search to build better learning systems. A lot of the references in it are golden.

I also wrote a set of notes formalizing what I see as the first step to building this infrastructure of intelligence. There’s some great references in there: https://osf.io/bv4qp/

I’d be happy to talk about this and get your thoughts, you can hit me up on my email: harshsikka123 @ Gmail.com

I’m leading a research collaboration with some researchers in academia and industry, working on this actively!
Please read the National Crime Victimization Survey reports and come back and update your post.

https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=dcdetail&iid=245
I was about to comment something sarcastic, then I googled you and instead I'll just say thanks!
> I was a big fan of IRC in the 90es and 2000s, but these days IRC seems relatively dead.

It's very much alive. Tens of thousands of people are on Freenode.

> I’m trying to hang out on Linux and open source channels on Freenode, but most of them are support related.

Try finding, or starting your own, channels that are little more specific. When someone asks for help participate and try to get the conversation going.

> I really miss the underground atmosphere of IRC with idling, homemade bots and what not. Does anyone here still hang out on IRC or Matrix and where?

I still hang out on IRC. There's still that "underground" atmosphere in some networks. You just have to look.

> Where should I find my digital social life? (PS - I’m in Australia and I don’t like Facebook, Reddit or Twitter.)

IRC channels and forums that match your interest.
I thought it was going to affect weather satellites or something.
I think it's all legal. Law says (?) drug crimes only unless DOJ asks you to expand in other crimes. So DOJ did. Scary what little known and reasonable provisions do when taken to the limit...
Around 15 black men killed in Chicago on memorial day weekend. And that is normal number of homicides on any of the long weekends. During regular weekends that number is bit lower in high single digits.
Almost all of them black on black violence.

Nothing to do with current situation. These are numbers for BAU.
Whatever it is not multiple ads for sure.

If I'm a buyer, I would expect to see the most trafficked, most popular, most bought deep linked online mattress shopping page - as the first link. I'm ok if that is after one or two ads.

If the search engine was trustworthy then I will click on that deep linked product page, cursorily glance the user reviews to see if there are any red flags, if not, then quickly empty my wallet and be done with my shopping for a mattress.
Whoa there, extremely confident used-to-being-right guy. You're digging in. I'm sure you feel threatened at the possibility you might be wrong, but take a breath, please.

By your definition, black people using or destroying a whites-only bathroom as a form of protest would be off limits. I'd recommend some time away from the keyboard and do some reading about protest and the cultural history of same. As a very basic starting point, you might consider reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protest in its entirety.
The problem with this is that it's very easy to get stuck with a useless board game if the app doesn't get updated.

If you're selling physical product that needs an app to run, there is no reason for the app not to be Free Software, or distributed in some other friendly way (e.g., Space Alert has a CD-DA disc that plays the scenarios as audio).
Here's a nice quote from Jony Ive to support your point

Much of the design process is a conversation, a back-and-forth as we walk around the tables and play with the models. [Steve Jobs] doesn't like to read complex drawings. He wants to see and feel a model. He's right. I get surprised when we make a model and then realize it's rubbish, even though based on CAD renderings it looked great.

He loves coming in here because it's calm and gentle. It's a paradise if you're a visual person. There are no formal design reviews, so there are no huge decision points. Instead, we can make the decisions fluid. Since we iterate every day and never have dumb-ass presentations, we don't run into major disagreements.
> In order for this to be a "Python user space", you would need to implement or include a lot python equivalents of standard user space tooling. Python grep, python awk, python top, python vi, python gcc (lolz), and even python CPython (lolololz), etc.

Who says you need those particular utilities to make a user space? You could have a user space without a shell, much less gcc, vi or awk.
I spent many hours arguing with a smart friend about this. I was unable to find any argument to get her to stop believing 5G is boiling/damaging/altering people's blood with "high powered energy waves" or similar (the blood clot revelations have only amplified that conspiracy angle).

I find a commonality among most conspiracy theory people is vast ignorance of the topic in question and any underlying science. This isn't always true, however I've found it to be frequently true. They watch YouTube or Facebook videos on a conspiracy, someone states an incorrect thing that is held up as being scientifically correct; the conspiracy minded person has no idea it's wrong because of their ignorance of science, and their eagerness to consume conspiracies prevents them from being willing to do proper research. They buy in with no skepticism.

Often the conversation would end on a variation of: when the pandemic is gone, and 5G is still here, then what happens to your conspiracy? They had no reply, the future risk of being wrong didn't matter, only the mental juice of the conspiracy here and now. Or: what about locations where there is no 5G and people are still widely getting the virus? No answer. Or: why is this event so interesting as to warrant outlandish conspiracy theories, versus the pandemics of 1957 or 1968 or 1918, which were not caused by 5G? Or: why didn't 4G kill everyone, despite the absurd conspiracy theories about that as well? It usually does no good, they ignore the premise because that's in the past, they're all about the conspiracy now (it's the only place they can mentally hide, because the conspiracy going on now is usually still open-ended, yet to be crushed fully).

The conspiracy they're latched on to in the present is interesting because all big events are interesting to the conspiracy brain. Particularly big active events. Once an event is disproven, they usually instantly forget it ever existed or that they were ever wrong, and move on to the latest thing occupying the news or culture that is worthy of conspiracy theories (it typically has to be a major event or their brains won't latch onto it).

I'm convinced at this point in my life, after decades of arguing with conspiracy-minded types, that it's a mis-wiring or imbalance in the brain that tilts people aggressively toward being prone to falling for conspiracy theories. They also seem to need the rush of it (which again makes me wonder about an imbalance in their brains). The way they behave intellectually is incredibly similar; when you get inside their way of thinking via long discussions, you start to see weirdly repeating patterns of thinking, traps, failures of logic, and so on. I find that people prone to it, can't seem to help themselves, they swallow conspiracy theories widely about numerous topics and rarely are capable of intellectual skepticism. It almost strikes me as an illness in how they seem hostage to it, and sort of reminds me of drug addicts I've known. Like arguing with a helpless zombie that can't alter their behavior under any circumstances, no matter what evidence they're presented with.
Ask HN: Anyone Hiring New Grads
I’m currently a final year student student finishing up my degree.I was wondering if companies are looking to hiring new grads
> I don't understand why it's wrong when I do it, but it's not a problem GrubHub does.

The same reason that you'd be arrested for running an illegal taxi, but when Uber does it, it's fine. And the same reason that you'd be arrested for running an illegal hotel, but when AirBnB does it, it's okay.

Uber and AiBnb spend a lot of money lobbying governments at every level, and on marketing to make what they do seem acceptable.
A Git Repo to Document Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd Protests
https://eurweb.com/2020/05/29/jacob-pederson-minneapolis-pol...

Hard to evaluate the accuracy of that story.

But it's also hard to dismiss it out of hand, given known true police behaviour. A very common view from the public is that cops are totally capable of that kind of behaviour. And whether the story about the cop setting the first fire is true our not, the believability of the story is as much a problem as the possible truth of the story.
Minneapolis and the Bell Riots
We don’t have the capacity or runway to rebuild from scratch either.
Possibly a bit of a stretch, but to my mind more business for Ericsson means more guaranteed support for Erlang. That's something to celebrate about in my book.
People who dress in black and destroy stuff like this guy?

https://eurweb.com/2020/05/29/jacob-pederson-minneapolis-pol...

Yeah, I smell a pattern too...
This comment is a non sequitur to whether corporations have a duty to shareholders. Cited cases have nearly nothing to say for or against on that point.
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Just goes to show that Canadian telecom policy is controlled by telecoms, not by the government. It's very cozy and regularly functions to discourage competition.

Canadian telecom policy still revolves around "facilities-based competition", where it's believed that new entrants should build out a new network. It's designed to fail. Even the incumbents, Bell and Telus, share a 3G/4G mobile network to avoid redundant infrastructure. Ironically, the two contracted Huawei and Nokia to build out this network: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/bell-teams-up-wit...

Huawei was marketing 5G directly to Canadian consumers for a while, but was careful to never mention/imply that 5G could lower pricing. That would be a thermonuclear threat to telecoms with dire consequences.
Here's a repo to collect videos of police brutality during the protests.

https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality
Wild.

Especially now, it's important to remind ourselves that American slavery isn't a thing of the the distant past - there are old people alive today whose fathers literally fought in the war to keep slavery legal. And the last former slave died in 1971 [1], which means there are probably tons of middle-aged people going about their lives who personally knew and had conversations with ex-slaves.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Magee
One of the reasons used by Canada's telcos to rationalize Canada's sky-high wireless rates is that it costs them more to build out the networks than it does for other countries. I would hate to give them one more excuse to lean on by having them source this equipment domestically.
That is up to you. Imagine as if you are building for Fb Messenger. You get access to messaging API's at heard along with few other services (content api, broadcast etc).
Actually you can get all your want by simply Google it but for your convenience:

1) free options: you can choose wordpress.com, blogspot, github, etc to host your website, but the drawback is you have to use their sub-domain system which is ugly, like yourwebsite.wordpress.com, another con is the backend of website lack many customization features, all in all, you host your content on other's house, what more can u ask!

Sure you can buy a domain and attach your domain to those services, its up to you.

2) A much cheaper and regular way to host a website is choose a hosting company like Namecheap, Godaddy (not recommend though), you can lower your cost to less than $20 first year, with a domain + shared hosting.

3) you can still choose static site generator like Hugo, Jekeyll, netilify, etc, but the concept is same, you either host your content for free on their domains, or buy yourself a lovely domain to start with.
I mean are you aggressively focused on pointing your intelligence in the direction of accumulating wealth?

If you are and it's not working then you probably aren't as smart as you think you are.

If that's not what you are optimizing for, be that lifestyle, or pursuit of interests, then there is no reason to expect the two to be correlated.
That is up to you. Imagine as if you are building for Fb Messenger. You get access to messaging API's at core along with few other services (content api, broadcast etc).
Maybe they could try respectfully taking a knee at football games? Surely that'd work? /s
M:TG is an interesting example, because these days everything spawns so many tokens or adds so many counters that it's not just the cardboard.

If you want real elegance, look at the core of the old Star Wars Customizable Card Game. Each player has the same number of cards in their deck, and the cards are used to track resources, life totals, and provide randomness to combat in a unified way.

Atop that core, Decipher took an attitude of "which parts of Star Wars should we emulate? How about... ALL OF IT!", so the full rules are pretty gnarly. But it's also one of the last major card games that were developed before M:TG became so entrenched that its conventions shaped how we think of CCGs.

Despite the game being out of print, a dedicated committee of players manage the game: running tournaments, releasing new cards, and keeping the dream alive.

https://www.starwarsccg.org/
> we’re much closer to herd immunity (or whatever is possible with this kind of virus) than most people think

Certainly for SF/LA, which is basically an extension of China because of the daily flights to SFO and LAX.

The SF tests show 3.6% of 78,000 exposed to corona, but nobody knows how accurate those tests are. The hospital dashboard has been flat.

I just checked, and the numbers have been flat (no growth) for over a month, with only 62 deaths to date and 38 in ICU now:

https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard.aspx#ho...
This is an interesting article, but IMHO, its discussions on Hacker News lacks depth. Almost all threads are debating about superficial Bitcoin issues that has already been talked endlessly, and none of the thread focused on the main thesis of this article:

> Bitcoin mining is a complex phenomenon that connects hardware and software, the energy and financial markets. Invisible rules govern every aspect of it. The performance of an individual operation is determined by various external factors that are often hard to quantify and almost impossible to forecast.

It stated that Bitcoin mining as a whole, is a complex social-economical-computational-environmental phenomenon with a huge number of moving parts and uncertainties. The most fascinating fact to me, is the direct impact of climate cycle in southern China on the mining industry, almost with a mythical tone found in some Sci-Fi novels. While Bitcoin is a highly artificial and technical construct, but its yield can be severely affected by weather, some Bitcoin miners even routinely migrate their operation according to seasonal changes like the nomadic groups of the past. The flood seasons are visible on the Bitcoin hash rate chart, and even dominates the date of trade shows and R&D schedule of new mining rigs.

> May-October is the flood season in Southwest China. It is also a festival period for mining businesses as the large supply of surplus hydro capacity significantly cuts down miners’ operating expenses. For small-medium scale miners, the flood season can reduce the cost by as much as 40%. For large miners who own proprietary facilities, the flood season electricity cost is practically negligible. Over 80% of the miners in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia will migrate in flocks to Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou to take advantage of the discount, and they move back or sell their equipment after the dry season arrives in November.

> Gradually, the industry structured itself around these climate patterns. Like ancient rituals, every year before the flood season arrives, major mining conferences get organized in Sichuan’s capital Chengdu. Some facilities are only open to external customers during the flood season. Manufacturers plan their new product release right before it arrives. Miners race to source the latest and greatest machines in bulk.
From inside ParcPlace, it looked like we were starting to gain traction. There'd been a number of spectacular C++ project failures, and people seemed to be willing to try this weird, new (to them) thing that let them get prototypes up quickly and then grow them.

Then Java arrived and sucked all of the air and mindshare out of the ecosystem.

Java lucked into ideal circumstances, and Sun Marketing played their hand very well. The Web was just taking off, VCs were looking for something new and hot, publishers were looking for the next big thing, and programmers were looking for something that wasn't C++. Java looked familiar enough, cost nothing, had Garbage Collection and Interfaces (putting Gang of Four Patterns within reach of many), and let programmers keep their favorite tools and editors instead of adopting Smalltalk's strange model of doing everything in a (mostly) sealed environment.
How would you go about finding that and financing it?
I've never understood why people mock him for saying this. It frequently shows up on lists of stupid political quotes/"Bushisms". But not only is it absolutely true and important for planners to understand, it's stated clearly and concisely. Do most people just look at it and see word salad? I don't get it.
Ranked choice voting (often implemented as instant runoff) likely won’t break the duopoly in the ways you think it will. Approval Voting is a better technique. Check out the Center for Election Science for more info.
IIRC, this was also an issue during the 2018 cryptocurrency rush -- fraudulent support phone #s for big exchanges / companies like Coinbase would show up higher in the rankings than the legitimate number. Frustratingly and amusingly, the fraudulent phone numbers were supposedly better-staffed and more responsive.
Metallic hydrogen is thought to be possible using the diamond stamping method mentioned in the article.
My uncle got engaged to his carer when he had cancer, but he thought it was genuine love even though she was 20 years younger. He wound up recovering and she dumped him, and then he fell into alcoholism for a year. He did eventually pull himself out of the hole and lived another 15 years before another cancer got him.
How is such a pension delivered? A direct deposit? Is there somewhere in an interface or a check where the words “Civil War pension” would be displayed?
Right, I was making an argument for domestic solutions, which wouldn't include Nokia or Ericsson - I could've been more clear.
Just a minor footnote. My interest in Nix is not high and what there is motivated mostly by the existence of NixOS. Why do I have any interest in NixOS?

We build and distribute Ardour (a cross-platform open source DAW) in a single package that runs on every Linux distribution that has libc, libstdc++, and some version of Xlib.

Every Linux distribution that is, except NixOS. They decided to patch the runtime linker so that the approach usable on every other Linux distro breaks there.

This says something about NixOS, and presumably Nix too, though I'm not sure what.
I think you need find better sources of information than television cop dramas.
I think this might also be a way for any two people, not too closely related such that the marriage is illegal, to dodge estate tax.
Ambulance chasing, frivolous lawsuit. It's literally on the very first screen of Private Browsing that it does not prevent websites from tracking you, and it's just about cleaning up your local history automatically.
That is a pretty wild Wikipedia page.
Smart looters would just sell the devices for parts without ever powering them on (by themselves). Anecdotally, I have seen instances of looting different kinds of items where the thief is interested in getting some amount for the product. They usually don’t look for the best price available in a used products market. The amount they got would be a small fraction of what the item is worth. This may not apply to organized gangs and groups.
> but I do think there's a strong argument for trying to build and maintaining one's own infrastructure whenever possible, even if it's a bit more expensive.

In the semiconductor/telecom equipment industry with very specialized and globalized supply chain, it's impractical if not impossible. No single country can have their entire electronic infrastructure within their own country borders, not China, not U.S., not even the European Union, certainly not Canada. So yeah, it's not about money.

> because they're big domestic projects and it's nice to have to the talent and knowledge at home.

That's wishful thinking. In the free capitalistic society with free trades, the capital(money) and efficiency drives the supply chain. With a little bit of geo-politics, perhaps it could happen, but even then it takes time and the government have to step in and invest - lots of manufacturing industries are capital heavy but margin thin, don't bet on private companies or corporations would invest against the globalization.
I took my first college-level programming class in 1997, learning Smalltalk.

1. IBM VisualAge didn't run in Linux, so I had to buy a second hard drive and a copy of Windows 95.

2. I wanted to be working in a terminal, Smalltalk only let you work in an IDE. I couldn't figure it out. I couldn't believe that anyone would want to mouse-around to poke through the available classes and methods.

3. The text was the IBM manual. It was terrible.

4. I failed the class twice, so I changed majors.

I didn't come back to coding until ten years later.

I'm a contributor to Kubernetes, the Go Standard Library, and I'm a full-time Go developer. Things turned out OK.

Smalltalk, OO, and IDE-based development set my career back by ten years. Don't believe the hype.
I agree with all your points, but does this go to show that?

I'm not aware of what was going on behind the scenes. It could easily have been that the Canadian government told the telecoms a long time ago that they wouldn't be allowed to use Huawei, but kept this secret for the sake of contract negotiations. Do you know this not to be the case?