skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have linux experience Arch Linux can be a good idea.

Sure the daunting setup process would fall into the "a hobby" category but once it runs it tends to just keep running as long as you update it from time to time.

Using it now for ~5 Years and in that time I had two times problems one was that the new kernel version didn't work with my laptop and another which was fully my fault by doing some "special" boot setup with some custom self written package and not maintaining it. Oh and the only reasons they where problems was because I never setup recovery boot or boot prev. kernel version.

Besides that I remember having more work with maintaining Ubuntu when I used it ~8 years ago.

Also disclaimer I had some more work like setting up edurom with network manager without using any proper UI for it (nmtui...). It's doable but not properly documented. But non of this is a problem if you "just" use Gnome or KDE or at last part of the tooling from Gnome/KDE.

EDIT: But Fedora is probably what you are looking for. Widely used, well maintained and normally up to date.
Most people here on HackerNews are smart, educated, intelligent (probably in the upper IQ percentile) and perfectly able to decide for themselves what is good and bad.

HackerNews moderations and moderators are this suppressing speech of these people and imho this is anti free speech.

Can we start a petition for banning moderation on this website please.
If they start censoring dinosaur porn, then I'll really be pissed.
False Negative Tests for SARS-CoV-2 Infection – Challenges and Implications
Yawn. Yes they do spread virus, as they did on March 8's in Madrid, and on the soccer play in Italy. And hey, yeah on the market in Wuhan.
You realize wide swaths of the global population use communal transportation in the form of trains, busses and subways? And then go to work in poorly ventilated factories or office buildings? I'm not sure what you intend as the solution other than nobody may ever leave the house again. Social distancing simply doesn't work when applied to everyday situations like this unless you find a way to get most people to opt out. Just working in the same office means a high risk of transmission despite whatever 1-3m distancing rule you want to instate.
AT&T was just an example. How about the cost of insulin?

If Google's algorithm can ruin your life or your business, then I would suggest you figure out how to decouple Google's influence on your life and business. I am sure it wont be easy, but I am also sure it can be done.

Yes, Google is the new TV. And when we are old, we will be telling our children that Youtube "rots your brain," just like our parents did.

Adapting your habits is easier to control than breaking up Google and Youtube.
They don’t
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Thanks for this comment! I already use Vim to edit semi-organised (Pandoc-style) Markdown files that I search using grep. I thought about trying vimwiki a few years ago but didn't want to learn another markup language. Glad to hear it now supports Markdown so I'll give it a try.
I depends from what you derive your satisfaction. I've been at a company that had perfect engineering practice and was completely failing because engineers were almighty and oblivious of business. That was demoralizing. A useful product makes me more happy. Code quality is not an absolute end goal. Sure I would prefer to have both, but in reality it's usually a tradeoff, and over-engineering is worse than under-engineering when in doubt. Also I've seen shitty over-engineered (edit: from a user experience perspective) monstrosity with very good "code quality", and hand-crafted delightful to use apps that would not check much on your list.
Ask HN: Will IDN domains ever get browser support?
Is anyone spearheading acceptance anymore? FF used to do something really vague but that seems dead.
What are the reasons why it is still stagnant?
Been thinking about this for a couple hours. Decided to make a throwaway to post.

Not to call you out specifically but you asked about thinking about second order effects.

It got me to thinking this is a hypocritical for social media users to question OTHERS inability to consider them.

The machines Ycom and often this audience rely on, the energy, are terribly destructive to a stable environment for humans.

And the obvious distraction they create from government. It’s unwise, imo, to be so distracted from the groups that claim monopoly on violence. All the looking away these last decades lead us here. This isn’t a spontaneous result. You, we, as part of society didn’t bring that effort we brought this other one.

Utilitarian work is one thing. Surrounding ourselves with hyperbole, spectacle, and disposable gadgets and effort...

...contemporary society has pretty much destroyed its credibility with noble lies about the mess, value of our effort to future.

What a shock the power structure itself would behave just like society as a whole.

Considering the national past time is “not my economics problem so I don’t care”, what real credibility is there?
> Watch some episodes of actual police incidents.

It sounds like your perspective is formed form viewing the TV show "Cops". This is not representative of reality.

106 police officers died while on duty in 2018 (of all causes, not just violence from public - 55 officers were feloniously killed while 51 died accidentally). 986 citizens were fatally shot by police in the same year.

Situations where police are able to survive only because they were able to quickdraw and shoot a criminal first like some sort of cowboy are vanishingly rare and possibly purely fantasy. Is trading the lives of a few hundred citizens worth saving the 0-2 cops in these rare situations per year?

Call in the cavalry when needed, but most cops do not need to be armed all the time.
That comment isn't about the book in question so I'm not sure why you're asking them?
What do you mean the right to have an audience? People still need to buy the freaking thing, why does Amazon get to decide if they can or cannot?

Different rules apply when you are a monopoly. Amazon refusing to sell a book is very different from a Mom and Pop shop doing the same.
I'll accept snark, but grammar, please.
If preventing people from asking anonymously is censorship, then what isn’t? Seriously, if you want to be anonymous with your racism, take it somewhere else; LinkedIn is not required to host your garbage.

Edit: LinkedIn is not banning people for being racist. They’re simply saying, “if you want to be racist, do it with your real name.” There’s no censorship with that.
Boy have things changed.

When the biggest complaint that people have about these companies is that their services are too good and too amazing, and that customers love them too much, that no one else can possibly provide as amazing of a service as them... Well I think that says something.
I use it all the time.

Things I want to work that don't: 1) NVDA screen reader. 2) 32bit applications in macOS Catalina.

At least for #2 there's CrossOver, but it's somewhat expensive just for "this one weird trick winehq doesn't want you to know".
I think this suggests a false dichotomy, although I'm sure that's not what you meant to write.

Quick thought experiment: would you tell a physically abused child, to their face, "Do you honestly believe your misery is a result of external consequences? Be grateful for what you do have."

Some people habitually blame things that they caused themselves on others. Others commit the converse and blame things other people did on themselves. I don't think either of these facilitates your mental health.

If you are an adult, almost certainly things happened to you that weren't your fault, but that are your responsibility. That's life. Life is the process of dealing with those things, and then you die. It sucks, but it's worth it. Am I out of platitudes yet?

All these habits are founded on a desire to be better, which in turn needs to be rooted, at least partly, in compassion for yourself. If you don't want to be better, because you don't think you deserve it, because you have had that beaten into you, why would you exercise or eat better? And the only way you're guaranteed to have compassion for you when you need it is to learn how to generate it yourself. You're not going to exercise or eat clean or anything healthy sustainably if you're sustaining it by abusing yourself verbally or emotionally. So don't do that.
If they aren't recognizable, should they be reported for impersonating a police officer?
Was I making a comparison? Was I shutting the door to one? Did I make a statement that in any way, shape, or form suggests that nothing today is similar to something that happened 50 years ago?

I was stating what I still believe is a factual observation. I didn't claim or imply that other generations could not or were not radicalized throughout history. I wasn't suggesting that only young males can be radicalized, that reddit is the only place it can happen, that only right-wing entities have ever radicalized people, or that their opinions are somehow novel.

Would you would like to argue that the groups associated with "gamergate" weren't on reddit, weren't radicalized, weren't radicalized by right-wing entities, weren't young, and/or weren't generally male?
Oh nice, this is really cool. It even has some 802.11 stuff which I was having a hard time finding as well (apparently IEEE used to make the specs available after a certain time, but that appears to have been killed)
Real jewel from the AMA

- what "web technologies" did you use for the UI

But one great question

- What practices did you use to ensure there are no bugs ?
And how average Joes form opinions on complex subjects? They don't.

Opinions are hammered into general public by a limited number of major media platforms or independent influences.
Everyone wants to retire mainframes but 74% of modernization efforts fail
"seeing this being advertised on HN means I'll probably be paired with a male if I used it."

This feels like sexism to me. Sorry not sorry for calling you on it.
The Mint maintainer was really unprofessional in his announcement.
It is OK to feel strongly about something, but using words like `backdoor` is really bad.

With snap packages you get companies like Microsoft to deliver a native package for Skype, Jetbrain to deliver their whole developer portfolio, Spotify their music thing, etc.
They can do so because they are basing the work in a common, stable runtime.
The correct Craigslist price is ebay - 20% Because that’s still ebay profit for you and buyer saves on tax and shipping costs. You don’t risk getting PayPal scammed but do have to deal with the hassle of people.

Normally I ebay anything that can be shipped or that’s got low local demand because I can’t get the -20% price locally and pucker factor is much lower even with shipping.
L6 is damn hard to get also, especially as an engineer.
To expand on your edit:

1. This comment thread shows comments in random order, so you're not seeing the more upvoted questions bubble to the top the way they usually would, which prevents winner-takes-all feedback loops in the voting.

2. People browsing through the thread may upvote good questions, but currently the scores are hidden in order to avoid bias.

3. Once the thread has been up for a while, the people doing the AMA can just re-sort to show the highest-voted comments first, which will give a good starting point for which questions to answer.
If doing something with the express purpose of silencing certain perspectives isn't censorship, then what is?

> LinkedIn is not banning people for being racist. They’re simply saying, “if you want to be racist, do it with your real name.”

"So we can ban (fire) you."

Edit: Also, for the record, I don't accept the premise that they're racist. This post has a hint of "when did you stop beating your wife?" to it.
> On [public ownership of] our railway, the East Coast line was run in public ownership from 2009 to 2014. It had 91% customer satisfaction and returned £1 billion to the Treasury. (Today, half of our rail services are run by foreign state owned companies.)

https://weownit.org.uk/why-public-ownership/successful-examp...
Interesting. Can a state or a county decide that killing people or bank robbery is OK? I am honestly curious.
> the terms used by the cellular and software industries clash and may be confusing at times.

lol, I've found a lot of terminology around digital communications seem to be confusing. Terms meaning two or three different things depending on context, etc.
The Bleak Future of NAND Flash Memory”Was This Microsoft Disinformation? [pdf]
Yes, that is what they told Galileo. They were wrong of course, but we are so much wiser now, we could not possibly make the same mistakes.
Seems to say the same thing albeit truncated; there is a char limit.

"Change.org doesn't donate the money raised through its record-breaking George Floyd petition — and some donors say they feel misled"
Upvote for you, I wish 3pt14159 quantified the probability of getting a $200 k for an average dev after having spent x month on an opensource project.
there is snew.notabug.io but I do not know if this is what you are looking for.
Mildly amusing:

PicoLisp (src/pico.c)

typedef struct heap {
cell cells[CELLS];
struct heap *next;
} heap;

TXR Lisp (gc.c)

typedef struct heap {
obj_t block[HEAP_SIZE];
struct heap *next;
} heap_t;
But Crystal doesn't have those either.
I think this belies something that isn't really true: that tech rules all in war. If Russia (or China, with ~25% of our military budget) can beat us in a war this is more a statement on the design and execution of the military institution itself. What are we preparing for that Russia/China is not? What are we not preparing for that Russia/China is? Are they structuring themselves in a way that we are not? How? Why?

It goes without saying (as it has been said 1000 times over) that the Taliban was able to befuddle the largest and most technologically advanced military in history for 20 years. Tech and the MIC isn't the problem.
I use chromium and firefox inside the docker with selenium to automate website tests. So them replacing the chrome apt with snap was exactly what broke my deployment.
Sorry for the confusion. I take your point about conflicting principles, as I grapple with similar problems, but Alex Berenson's book would be very low on my list of reasons why the government might be justified in looking into Amazon's business practices. The guy doesn't seem to have a problem being heard recently.
You can control when to update,
https://snapcraft.io/docs/keeping-snaps-up-to-date
My issue with Debian that I don't want a rolling release, and Debian Stable feels more like "Debian Obsolete" to me (at least it was years ago, maybe now it is different...)
Having lived in both the England and the US, I'd say that England's cities feel a few years behind American cities in terms of tech, but their rural areas seem a few years ahead of America's rural areas. I can't speak to other parts of the UK, but the gap in America is absolutely huge.
Ugh, no. Manjaro is the no-nonsense "I really don't want to waste time troubleshooting my own shit" version of Arch Linux. I stopped using Arch when I found Manjaro and I'm so glad I did. Arch just requires way too much fiddling for it to ever feel "complete" and or finished.
We've been at war for 20 years in Afghanistan and can't win that one and they have far less than 10% of our budget.
But you can't just ignore the reason... and "the state" created ways to protect intellectual property (at least in some significant part if not entirely) because creators wanted it. You can't ignore the fact that most creators are in favor of the general idea of copyright.
Thanks! I've added most of that (there are no Wikipedia articles for Transit/Fressian/REBL/Codeq, so not sure how to mention those without external links which look weird inline).

Still, an editor who doesn't like the current state could simply revert it, as there are no sources for any of this. Note that the criterion is “verifiability, not truth” — Wikipedia is supposed to be a summary of what has been said about a topic/person in books, newspapers, etc., so even though all of these are obviously true, it would be best to find a source that mentions these things and cite that!

[Similarly, in general, if you are the subject of a Wikipedia article and you find that it has some incorrect information about you, then rather than editing the article directly it is best to get something published or write something yourself—even a blog post—and cite that. :-)]
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Fellow Orlandonian here, the salaries are not great. I haven't seen the ODevs salary survey from 2019, but if you look at 2018 you're good for the area: https://orlandodevs.com/blog/salary-survey/

I recommend working remote.
https://snapcraft.io/docs/keeping-snaps-up-to-date
The US does not count mercenary deaths as casualties IIRC
I'm saying that, for instance, China, Brazil, and the US didn't follow the same trajectory and continue to be different. And because of the diversity in trajectories (for whatever reason, as people continue to speculate) the location of the majority of new cases has kept changing.

Your first sentence sounds like you are claiming there is a uniformity that to me obviously doesn't exist.

I feel like people latch onto something that confirms their prejudices and then studiously avoid acknowledging current events that rapidly show it to be an error. Like, lots of poorer countries had much fewer cases per capita than western Europe and the US, but now the new cases are shifting to India, Pakistan, etc.
They did release Doom on the SNES. I remember because it was one of the few games utilizing the Super FX 2 chip:

https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Super_NES
Saw that you've been looking for this for a few years, so I decided to take a crack at it. I was able to get it working.

I obtained disk images for SideKick plus from https://winworldpc.com/product/sidekick/plus. Using 86Box as an emulator (Window-only, unfortunately. PCem or DosBox might work OK as Windows alternatives), I then:

1. Installed MS-DOS

2. Installed SideKick Plus

3. Ran 'install' from 'c:\skplus'

4. Added a new configuration with Vogon Poetry enabled. Called it 'skplus2.com'.

5. Ran 'skplus2.com'

6. Hit ctrl-alt

7. Selected 'Vogon Poetry'

I've put together an preconfigured 86Box installation that you can just unzip and run. To actually start the game, run 86Box.exe, then 'cd c:\skplus', then 'skplus2' (note the '2'). Then press ctrl-alt once or twice.

Video demonstration: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AvBLRLPXTc9ihVPL0VMtzexUmw8k?e=cVtKxj

Preconfigured 86Box installation: https://jmn.link/sidekick-vogon-poetry.zip
Yes, I wonder if something like this could help me finally "get" maths. I've always performed poorly in most mathematics, but rapidly find myself interested in subjects that make heavy use of them.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't
Common sense has an excellent track record. What is it that keeps you from walking into traffic without looking, touching fire, or eating broken glass? Common sense.

Obviously common sense will sometimes lead you astray. But it kept our ancestors alive long enough for us to be here, and it stops most of us from doing life-ending stupid shit every day. It's not a silver bullet, but nothing is, not even the scientific method. If you went looking for empirical peer-reviewed studies before making all your decisions, you'd never get anything done. "Should I poke my eyeball with this fork? Common sense says no, but fuck that shit. I better consult pubmed..." "Should I cough into Grandma's face, or into this handkerchief?"
Hi HN!

I'm Ricky, the founder of Water Cooler. I built Water Cooler to help bridge the gap between async written communication (Slack, email, etc) and live meetings.

As many companies suddenly shifted to remote work, I noticed a growing trend of leaving a Zoom meeting on in the background all day. In other cases, teams are scheduling constant back to back meetings. The reason for this is because teams suddenly needed to find a way to recreate the more informal, spontaneous conversation that you normally get from people being in the same physical location. The issue with this is they were using software designed for meetings to recreate something that happens almost exclusively outside of meetings.

The hope is that Water Cooler's always available rooms will offer distributed teams a more natural way to communicate. And all are voice only by default, so there's less of a draw to stare at our app all day (we want people to work, not stare at Water Cooler non-stop).

A bit about our security in light of everything happening with Zoom: All voice and video data is transmitted via WebRTC and is encrypted on the wire. We use Janus for our SFU (https://janus.conf.meetecho.com/index.html) which is open source and plan on enabling end to end encryption (for everyone, not just the paid users) later this year/early next year via insertable streams. Obviously, we'll be limited to offering this in our desktop app and newer versions of Chrome for the time being, but hopefully that won't be the case for long.

We opened up Water Cooler to anyone without an invite two weeks ago and currently have about 35 teams using it. Would love to know what you guys think!
Can I stop one snap from updating (for example indefinitely), while letting the rest update?
However, JS does not treat everything as an object as pervasively as Ruby does. A JS object and a JS integer are two different abstract data types. A Ruby number literal "1" is treated as an object of the Integer class. There are no separate abstract data type other than an object. All operators for an Integer can be overriden (in runtime), or perhaps, a specific object's methods can be overridden. Now granted, the runtime cheats and implements certain things in C ... but those can be overriden during runtime ...

If you want to find out more about the limits of what can be done to optimize Ruby, check out the Truffle project. That came out of someone's PhD dissertation on novel methods for doing JIT optimization for Ruby. It is sufficiently difficult and novel to warrant awarding a PhD for. Last time I heard, Truffle still could not run Rails.
Apple Watch Fall Detection credited with saving unresponsive Arizona man
AxisOfEasy blog updated
Before switching to Arch, check if packages you rely on for your job are not in the AUR. It became "a hobby" really quick for me to rebuild my entire dev stack because of the bleeding edge approach and "let's update every week and fix source code while we're at it".
Yes, and those warehouses halted shipments of PPE to retailers like Target at the start of the pandemic
From the linked documentation:

>

> There are four system-wide options that manage how updates are handed:

> - refresh.timer: defines the refresh frequency and schedule

> - refresh.hold: delays the next refresh until the defined time and date

> - refresh.metered: pauses refresh updates when network connection is metered

> - refresh.retain: sets how many revisions of a snap are stored on the system"

>

I think people would be much happier with snap if there was a `refresh.off` option.

If that's too over-the-line for Canonical, a `refresh.prompt` with a dismissible nag-message would be better.
Can they do this with all sectors? Instead of targeting the last sector they haven’t completely brought to heel.
One thing I miss is RPN-string input. Unlike normal RPN where you load the "stack," for RPN string you can enter

> 2 3 + 4 *

as one line, press enter, and get 20. This lets you take advantage of the no-parens nature of RPN while viewing the expression on one line rather than flipping through the stack. Only Windows PowerToy scientific calculator had this mode, that I know of.
I agree in general, but my work involves website automaton, meaning the now empty chromium package.

Plus I want my workstation to be as similar as possible to the deployment container to make debugging easier. So if I feel uncomfortable using Ubuntu 20 for my workstation, I should probably switch my deployment docker base image, too.