skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm with you. I have a 2017 X1 Carbon, and I've had zero issues with Ubuntu. The only thing I had to do was update a few config settings to properly sleep, and I run kde desktop so I don't have to fiddle with scaling on laptop monitor vs. my external displays. It's been an excellent laptop.
Make sure the power adapter is connected at the right (not left) side of the MBP.
> They have special infrastructure and portals just for government customers.

The special infrastructure is for users subject to certain federal government data rules, which isn't coextensive with “government customers”. Most government use of cloud services from the big public cloud vendors is exactly the public commercial offering. Most government data is, both legally and practically, less protected than HIPAA PHI, which both government and non-government customers use commercial cloud offerings for.
Yeah, if I need my mom to setup syncthing and open some ports or let her computer run over night without going to sleep to send some files. I rather send her an usb stick. If I just have tell her click on that link and after that click on ok... it's doable.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-indicts-four-chicken-execut...
This is what is great here. Every time a topic comes up, someone who specialises in the field pops up. The more obscure the better. It’s great.
> I'm guessing that might be a challenge for you so I won't bother trying. Let me know otherwise.

I was with you up until this ass-hattery.

Experience has taught me that any moderate / conservative opinion is going to get downvoted through the floor no matter how well you back it up. It's easier to just burn karma with short comments.

> I would go to the effort of gathering evidence of members of the GOP trashing him before he attained power

Yes. It's well known. Established politicians despise Trump. No contest there.

> I associate with the party that you clearly don't belong to

I identify as a "not-Democrat". It's true that I tend to vote Republican lately, but there is plenty that they do that I don't agree with. It's just that Democrats seem to do a more effective job of making me not want to vote for them. I may just go back to not voting in future elections.

Trump's main sin, besides being a member of the wrong party, is that he is the most transparent President in history. He has no qualms airing his dirty laundry and it drives people nuts.

But back to my original comment, the majority of the media is objectively left-leaning, which means they will see anything and everything Trump does in a negative light.

You can still glean useful information from their reporting, but I don't think anyone can pretend networks and individual reporters don't come pre-equipped with a heavy dose of bias.

Fox leans heavily right, no one disputes that. Somehow pointing out other outlets lean left has become controversial.
I genuinely hope you're right and that such laws won't get in the way of useful dialogue. Though I will point out that Canada doesn't have as much ability as the US to censor internet communications. That limits their ability to abuse such laws.
Why doesnt china have the freedom to choose what commerce they want to engage in? If the US didnt want the chinese selling HP servers to Iran, they should not have sold them to China. If China jailed Tim Cook for selling iPhones to Taiwan that were intended for export to Europe, the US would rightly flip out.
> Surely the focus should be on keeping people using Windows

My impression from years of working with Windows 10 is that large parts of Microsoft actually would prefer that people stop using Windows. Windows is a personal computer operating system, which means that the user is in control of it, and the modern tech world abhors that notion. Case in point: they spent years trying to force updates with no user input.
I’ve worked for both kinds. Seen good ones go bad.

One kind of employer only retains crappy employees.

The other gets all the good ones.

Health care industry coding seems to along the lines. Solve the immediate issue. A few years later the complexity is off the chart.
I don't watch news. I watch twitter videos, tittoks, snaps. All I see is just anarchy.
Something like 1000 people a year are killed by police in the US.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de...

A larger than should be expected percentage of them are black. And this of course doesn't include harassment or other indignities inflicted on black people because of race. Also not those abuses by non police because of race.

It should be noted some number of these killings were entirely appropriate to protect life.

The point is, even though we have problems, and as this points out, we clearly do, the chance of being killed by the police for being black is very very small.

So rhetoric about "privilege" aside, ya, there is a lot of opportunity for people. Very few people go hungry in the US. There is general freedom of movement, freedom to vote, freedom to own property, some semblance of legal protection. Contrast that to say for example Boco Haram or Europe in 900AD or Baghdad during the Mongol invasions or so many other times and places, past and present in human history.

So I'm going to stick with my original thesis because it's true. We have problems. We also have ways to correct them. We also have a general understanding we should correct them. But claiming the "system doesn't work period" in hopes of <what?> is complete bollocks and in fact is usually something spoiled rich white kids say.
As Matt Levine always says, [at least] everything is securities fraud.
> But imagine how poetic it would have been if the technology for constructing such a machine had been available to da Vinci all along.

Very poetic indeed.

Most of entrepreneurship is applying known models to new areas. Intellectually not nearly as stimulating or hard as theoretical math, but the shape and form looks similar - you do not know if a solution exists, you do not know if a problem really exists.

What's funny to me is that, since it's usually applications of engineering, the technology is almost always there. It's a matter of tinkering a collection of things the right way.

I ditched a career in Physics to start a company long back.
This post made me think I probably haven't lost much :-)
Pinpointing the Origins of Jerusalem's Temple Mount
From a gameplay perspective, there isn't much sense in a full N-body simulation. Players only care about their spacecraft, which is a restricted three-body problem (small spacecraft, massive gravitational bodies) outside of special cases like gravity tractors. And the simplified two-body SOI worked pretty well in practice.

In any case, the bigger gameplay problem tends to be the vehicle physics simulation, where you have hundreds+ parts interacting and not in the most stable fashion especially above 2x time warp. That's the part that seemed amazing when KSP first came out, moreso than the orbital simulation (although the solar system exploration clinched the overall experience).
Times like this are why it would be really nice for google to allow a root shell for developers when booted in recovery mode or something. Trying to fix this from userspace in the short window you have before the systemui crashes... what a silly avoidable nightmare.
Munich went full Windows again after a new mayor got elected who went straight to criticizing LiMux (Munich's Linux distro) and pushed to adopt Windows within his first weeks. A few months after the decision had been made, Microsoft relocated their German headquarters from Hamburg to Munich.

Projected costs for the switch back: 86.5 million Euro within the first six years.

A study by the city revealed that LiMux saved the city 10 million Euro over its lifetime.
As a Tesla owner I completely agree. I really like what Ford did on the new Mach-E. They unabashedly 'stole' the touchscreen idea, then iterated. Now I want the smaller, wider LCD in front of the driver, and the big knob at the bottom of the center touchscreen. Maybe Tesla can copy that idea and iterate it some more... add some programmable buttons along the bottom or something ;-)
... and then buried in a dark hole somewhere.
Interestingly absent is Google.
Capital gains -- gains from dividends or retained earnings -- are taxed at the corporate tax level before being distributed. I don't think we should retax them at all. I think dividends should be untaxed, and so should the retained earnings portion when selling a stock, but all capital gains attributed purely to increase in speculative valuation can be taxed more, sure. Just a small nitpick.
Except that it on the sole basis of this publication that the WHO and many other health organisations suspended ongoing trials of this molecule. So let's not pretend they would have done the same based on some random obscure journal.
> But they're happy enough wasting a third of their day at that salary.

Who wouldn't be with those salary levels? You basically have the golden ticket in your hand.
Ah! The folder name is still human readable, just with a date out front: “2019 open education conference” for example.

Putting the year in the name is helpful because the year you did the thing may differ from from the created/last modified date. At the gallery, for example, these folders go back to the 1950s.

Even for more recent projects, I find myself adding to old folders from time to time (converting document formats etc), or not recognizing that a handful of files represent a coherent “project” until a year after I created the first one.

So it’s useful to be able to swap between sorting by file-system time and “actual” time. It prevents alphabetical sorting, but if I know enough of the name for alphabetical sorting to be useful I can usually just use a search.

Agreed re: Downloads, although it can take some time to get to it.

Edit: I also see others talking about having “archive” folders. The date system makes that mostly unnecessary.
OBS does much more than let you record with your webcam..
You can import a Window capture device, or a Display capture device, or set up a combination of different windows (Display capture with Webcam capture overlaid in the corner for example, like most modern tutorials)

OBS is feature rich, the native video recorder is no comparison.
most anyone with first hand experience of windows 10?

absolutely everyone who has used any of the alternatives for more than a few days.
He was detained before the protests. Not after. Also, why you would protest BEFORE a sentence.
Off-topic, just an FYI, you have a typo in the blog link on your profile page.
Thanks for the info on the author, he has great articles!

https://asiatimes.com/2018/12/the-american-crisis-in-science...

He is a canary in the coal mine that our society ignores, kind of like how we ignored the warnings about a corona virus over the last decade.

Sigh
Unless you just want to colonize this hydrogen iceberg, and live on it for next thousand years, recycling all other elements indefinitely as you cruise through the galaxy.
Linux is a nightmare to maintain as an IT department for end users, especially with hardware incompatibility problems and software availability. This is clearly an unsubstantiated article based in speculation.
See general state of development/corruption for all ex-soviet countries versus the rest of the developed world.
Yes, many vendors for many models do the same. Even if they don’t you could install it via Windows.

“Support” is more than just the ability to install an update. It’s to do with whether an issue affecting Linux is being addressed. In the case of the E and L series Thinkpads there are many shared components with the T series so your chances are much better.
I watched those debates. Reparations and free healthcare for illegal aliens. The stupidest possible positions to take, as those talking points will be replayed ad nauseam in the Swing states starting in September.
It failed in huge part due to Microsoft's dirty tactics:

https://lwn.net/Articles/737818/
No uncertain terms?
Can Blackjack Help You Make Better Life Decisions?
All that matters is what sells. Create a car with tons of buttons and switches today, go out of business tomorrow.
6 years ago there was an election and the conservative party and the mayor went to Windows (after Microsoft moved German headquarters from a suburb to the city) This year we had a new election now Green party leads the city council and they want to go back to Linux.

Now Hamburg, where the Green party also won big, wants to change as well. Hamburg is even more significant since Hamburg not only is Germany's second largest city (Berlin first, Munich third) but also a state, which means it has more tasks than a "pure" municipal administration like Munich, while Munich administration sees pride in being "largest municipal administration" in Germany.
It's also used for fingerprinting, because there are a lot of different GPU configurations with slightly different reported features and slightly different e.g. rounding, dithering, antialiasing, and other rendering behaviors.
All the negative points you mentioned are true, but there are plenty of times in people's lives that you can plan ahead to have a camera with. Personally, I feel the absolute best use of money is to capture memories, but I'm biased.

It's mainly the postprocessing to make up for such a small sensor's downfalls that are clearly evident to me, in particular sharpening. Cell phone pictures can come out fine in bright light, but anything dim or dark will be a muddy mess at larger sizes in my experience.

I know I used it as an example, but 8x10s are also quite small. For a wall in a decent sized room I usually recommend 16x20 or so.
>There is nothing inherent in "basic economics" that postulates that fulfilling or fun jobs pay less.

Basic supply and demand. Fun jobs mean more people apply to the job. The employer can pick the cheapest employees. Employees can get an edge over their peers by lowering their salary expectations because they value the job more than the money.

I honestly don't even think that this is a bad trade off. There are lots of jobs where you get access to equipment that you could never afford even if you had a higher salary. Think of working at a company like SpaceX or doing research at a university.
You can’t literally fire all the police in a city, without at least significant state support. You do need someone to respond to emergencies/keep peace.
Deploying a Branch to Netlify on the Command-Line
Unless you consider the majority of human societies to have every existed extreme sociopathy. While I don't particularly support it, many societies throughout history exposed children with disabilities and many many more would execute or exile elements they deemed 'criminal'. Today, we still remove people for potentially being extraneous costs in abortion. It's legal, but it is the same motivation.

I mean, I personally think it's all sociopathic, but it's the normal state of 'the state'.
Glad to see we're not the only PTT fans out there.

1. Screen sharing is next on our list, it's the thing that we want most ourselves.

2. This is definitely not mobile optimized. It does work-ish on mobile phones, but it maintains long-lived webrtc connections so it's not ideal (we ensure these are not transmitting when muted, but we have a keep alive protocol which ensures they don't die, and would be harsh on mobile batteries).

3. Squawk uses webrtc, which is e2e encrypted by default. Additionally, we don't use any SFUs so we never have the audio unencrypted. All link negotiation and audio transmission are done entirely p2p and thus completely e2e encrypted.
> See general state of development/corruption for all ex-soviet countries versus the rest of the developed world.

Also, rights and stuff
Good economics is basically common sense on manifolds.
AD isn't just a directory. It's basically a central database that's connected to lots of useful corporate IT management tools that come out of the box with Windows:

1. Remote management of company IT assets including individual users' computers.

2. Single source of truth for single sign-on.

3. Access control and remote configuration for network servers/resources.

If you dig further, there's even more stuff that connects into AD. For example, you can use it to set up and deploy internal certificate authorities for intranet apps.

If you're using Azure AD, you can extend single sign-on into non-Microsoft web apps. It includes an implementation of zero-trust networking.

The fact that it comes out of the box and is widely used is crucial, it means that as an IT professional you have less hassle with purchasing/configuring/deploying management software, and when you move between companies you already know the tools.

I think it's a good thing that governments are considering switching to Linux, but AD/AAD is a legitimately sticky product for IT management.
Yeah, that one confused me too. There’s a checkbox when you setup wordpress the first time that says something about search engines, maybe that’s what he’s referring to? Could be a number of plugins that help with some aspects of SEO that google will soon penalize for.

My experience with high traffic sites is that most of the things that helped our SEO were things I’d consider basic hygiene along with generally better than average content. There’s not much wordpress can do for that, in fact it will actively hurt you with it’s slow page generation if you don’t have a good caching layer.
I highly recommend Bill Thurston’s gem of an article On proof and progress in mathematics
https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9404236

Talks about the human aspect of pursuing mathematical research, how they shape the attitude of the field towards a problem abs are crucial in progressing towards knowledge. Should be very readable for everyone; no formal math as such.
> When the controls are in fixed positions, you only need to look at them a few times, before you memorize their positions.

The controls on your phone are in fixed positions most of the time; do you use your smartphone without looking, the way you probably used your feature phone?

No, because with touchscreens come heavy-weight operating systems like Android, which have unpredictable input delays. Without looking, you can't tell if your touch input was correctly registered (vs. ignored because the OS decided to hang for a second), and if there's any mode switching involved, you can't tell when the UI has updated to allow you to press again.

I'm not against touchscreens as a matter of principle (though I come to appreciate the ergonomics of physical controls). But their overall responsiveness is, in general, much worse than those of physical controls.
and now Microsoft has to move its german HQ again ...
Bank and securities fraud are accompanied by detailed records, a fact which tends to make it a lot easier to demonstrate that something illegal happened.
Google only has visibility into what you're doing as a subcategory of "websites you visit", so I'm not clear on the confusion here.
Insulating the fusion reactor from the solid hydrogen in Oumuamua could prove difficult.
I've been playing with the idea of equity cash lately.

Something where the more money you've spent at a place, the more say you have in how it is run.

Not really sure of what way that could be done, but the premise feels right so far.
So why are you supporting a system that has assumptions of zero cost of CO2 emissions?

There is no reason whatsoever to think there is zero cost. Why would we implement public policy assuming this?
Frankly, this wouldn't do much. Most familial wealth in america ends up getting lost. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-why-90-of-rich-peopl....
Alright, but I'm clearly the best one ;)

I just figured it was rare to start out in computer science and move to photography full time. That said there's a big overlap in both fields, at least as a hobby. I think both attract people that like gadgets/tech.
Those are mostly countries for which the strategic advantage of not being dependant on Windows far outweighs the other aspects.
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If you are a linux user and own a nice camera you can use gphoto2 and ffmpeg to create a virtual camera. I posted howto on HN couple of days ago[0][1], here it is for anyone who might need it. I tried it with both Sony RX100VA and Sony A7III, in both cases it works really well.

edit: forgot to mention that this works over USB, you don't have to pay crazy markup for capture card

edit2: (because I'm so excited about getting this to work) here is a list of supported cameras[2] - sadly I was not able to get GoPro Hero 6 to work.

[0] https://www.crackedthecode.co/how-to-use-your-dslr-as-a-webc...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23325143

[2] http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php
The passenger doesn't need to keep their eyes on the road, though. It seems to me like the benefits of being able to cram a million more things (as needed) into a screen outweighs the downsides of having to glance at a screen if you're not familiar with it.

I prefer touch controls both as a driver and a passenger. I even use a Halo keyboard (effectively just another screen, with no "real" buttons) on my laptop. It takes some getting used to, but eventually becomes second nature -- and then you open up huge new areas of functionality that aren't possible with physical buttons and knobs.
2 out of 3.

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/9243/what-computer...
Lots of cloud services have in-country presence, so that they actually guarantee the local (in-country) storage of data. It is similar to how IBM offers/used to offer managed services -- they have the hardware and the software, it may be on prem or in a local data center, and they manage the application offering for you.
Worth looking at the story in detail but Munich was migrating to Linux back in 2000s. They went back to Windows when the new mayor signed a deal with Microsoft to get their European headquarters there and change the software from Linux to Windows.

Anyways, I worked in collaboration with Munich at the time and I believe it was a great project governments should embrace open source. We already pay taxes to them, so we should own the software as well.
And "judicial power" includes the sole power to shape the boundaries of con law.

Who do you think can determine the boundaries of con law?
OpenLDAP is just a lego piece of an actual equivalent, you would need a schema and a ton of configuration to use it as a user and authz directory. A better equivalent to AD would be FreeIPA, which is 389ds (LDAP server, similar to OpenLDAP) plus Kerberos plus OS integration and admin tools. However, the config and install part that AD has would still be separate in something like puppet.
That's not quite how the law works. If I tell you to get off of my property, and you stand on my lawn, you're trespassing, even if I didn't put up a military-grade wall. Or if I have a basic chain link fence, and you climb over it, you're clearly trespassing in situations where without the fence, if you were to incidentally walk across my lawn, you'd be okay.

The point of digital trespass laws is very similar. Just because your technological measures are imperfect (as the bullets say) doesn't authorize you to circumvent them.

What's damaging in this case is that Google created the signalling mechanism, gave it to users, and then intentionally chose to circumvent it.

Courts are also not machines. A lot of this comes down to intent and reasonableness. If you're fingerprinting my browser when I'm in incognito, that feels like an intentional digital trespass which courts would probably recognize. If you're incidentally collecting my IP in your server logs, that feels okay. Programmers get caught up in this all the time -- they read laws and contracts like code (strict literal meaning). Lawyers read them looking at things like impact, intent, whether things are substantially similar, and so on.