skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main reason why I use Linux for some of my work is reproducibility. A docker image with the same apt packages installed in it will work the same every time.

Snap breaks this. A snap package can update itself whenever it wants and then you the user are just screwed when things don't work together anymore. So in effect, snap breaks the main benefit of Linux for deployment and the reason why I use Linux in the first place.

Every since they started with ads and affiliate links, I've been sceptical of Ubuntu. But Ubuntu 18 is still used as the base image for many docker deployments. I predict that this will change with Ubuntu 20, exactly because the snaps have made Ubuntu 20 unusable for reliable docker deployments.

I'm glad that mint is stepping in to provide a viable alternative.
Looks like the authors retracted this one!
Maybe we should eliminate nationwide regulations on theft and violence too? Let the locals deal with these things since they are local issues. That way municipalities with funding problems could save some money.
For an RPN calculator, I find orpie really great.

Otherwise I use WolframAlpha a lot.
With purchase of hard copy.
jid as well
I live on the Chesapeake Bay, the country’s largest estuary. (I’m staring out my window at the water right now.) Of course I believe that water pollution is a shared responsibility—much of the silt in the Bay comes from agricultural operations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. But the EPA continues to push along NY/NJ/PA into meeting their 2025 TMDL targets for run-off into the Bay. Phosphorus and nitrogen from agricultural activities is the archetypal example of something that must be regulated at the federal level, and Wheeler doesn’t deny it. (There is an ongoing spat about whether the TMDLs are directly enforceable against the states, but the EPA’s current position was formulated during the Obama administration.)

But what doesn’t come floating down the river is perchlorate. Accepting that the EPA must regulate certain types of water pollution doesn’t mean that all water pollution must be regulated at the federal level.
Off topic, but is there a nitter/invidio.us equivalent to reddit? After HN, I find reddit and old.reddit to be so cluttered I can't stand it
Personally, I think the assertion that $100K in ads (paid for by Russians or not) swayed the last general election is simultaneously the best and worst thing for Facebook. It's the best PR in the sense that the story is out there that ad spends on FB are SO massively effective that otherwise smart people can be convinced to elect an orange-skinned baffoon as President -- imagine what it could do for your brand/company?
And it's the worst possible story to have out there because it invites investigation which, under scrutiny, will show that ads on Facebook are like ads anywhere else online: almost completely useless. And Facebook is caught in a position of not being able to deny the "$100k in Russian ads" story because that would crater whatever confidence there is in the effectiveness of marketing on FB.

No wonder Zuckerberg looks like he's permanently in a cold sweat when he's in DC.
This is just blog spam.
Any apps that will tell me how often I snore and for how long?
I’m a twitter style anti-landlord, thank you very much.
Your $current_company needs the reality check.

I run a 4 person dev team at my tiny 8 person startup. We kinda do all the things you mention. CI, reviews, auto deployment. Our test coverage could be better but is increasing by the day.

What you expect is totally normal.

I bet the current co has weak technical leadership
I would say docker is primarily used as an artifact delivery mechanism where artifact presupposes inclusion of required runtime.

I an not saying it’s right or wrong. I think it’s the most practical and thus most pervasive use of docker.

The company and the project provided a great service by creating lot of shipping/container related metaphors though. That’s very much invaluable in my book. Providing thousands of developers means to talk about objects that are static and dynamic from an architectural perspective.
Theoretically a marketing article can contain valuable information and good insights, but I've personally never come across one. It's always surface-level discussion and the bare minimum to get web traffic.
Much of that component of protest planning is typically relegated to private planning groups and chats. If you get a whiff of it as an outside observer, it's usually a mayor making a public statement affirming protestor's right to express themselves. This makes sense, because acknowledging that you're collaborating the the local government and police makes your protest work seem much less subversive.

A good example of how this is somewhat standardized among more professional organizers is the March For Our Lives planning Toolkit, wherein they propose having dedicated liasons to serve as intermediaries between the organizers, city, and police. [0]

The collaboration needn't necessarily be initiated by the organizers, however. It's just as, if not more likely that local government reaches out to event planners in order to assess any potential security needs.

Women's march:
>_A spokeswoman for the city told Philadelphia magazine that officials had discussed security measures with the march’s organizers “prior to and during planning for the march, and organizers understood the public safety concerns and our responsibilities in ensuring a safe event” but confirmed that “permitting was not contingent on agreeing to these measures.”_[1]

More Recently:

>_"We do not tolerate these acts of protest. We celebrate these acts of protest," Hogsett said. "And just as with yesterday we will continue to work with event organizers to ensure they have a venue to deliver their nonviolent message without interference."_[2]

[0]https://everytown.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/March-For-O...

[1]https://www.phillymag.com/news/2018/01/19/womens-march-phila...

[2]https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/indianapolis/2020/...
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I have a mental list of video games that i could use to justify to my dad that video games are not a mindless waste of time. The Stanley Parable is on that list.
These organizations were dead wrong, and it had severe consequences for the spread of infection.

There really does not seem to be good evidence for this statement, and I've looked although not exhaustively. Got any good primary sources?

Lot's of things are tried with a novel virus, and only some of them work. The only things so far that seem to be clearly working are distancing regulations and effective contract trace, the latter being very difficult to implement.
I disagree.

Frankly, the American people don't care enough to know their own President, Representative, Senator, Mayor, Governor, Sheriff, School Board, HOA committee members, county commission, and PTA board.

If anything, we need more power consolidated into fewer people. So that Americans know who to blame. In many cases, these "police brutality" issues are extremely local, caused by the local Sheriffs of each individual location. And yet, people don't know who to blame when these things happen.

There are too many positions, so officials can hide behind the confusion and avoid responsibility.
You mean?

cat json | jq | less

I checked the code, it's concatenating the output with newlines. Not necessary at all.
The author of homebrew seems to think they do. I was quoting him.
Same here on a(n older) Mac Pro.
How reliable are the take home kits?
It says up front: Get the obvious questions out of the way (such as "what methodologies do you use") so you can put your attention on the ones that matter.
Not really, the TGV network makes a profit and the fares are about half the price of our shit trains. Also their most expensive line has about 50 bridges and tunnels through much more rugged landscape than the midlands and cost 5 times less per km than HS2.
Some underrated live coding tutorials on Crystal on this YT channel: https://youtu.be/Q1wOFmt3yng
Me too, but I'm staying on 18 for now because 20 breaks my workflows.
little more than 28 weeks...
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That's sort of true, in the abstract, but it wouldn't explain what's going on here. Even JavaScript (with a JIT, but not a separate compilation step, and certainly no type annotations) is faster at this than compiled Crystal. There's clearly other factors which are much more significant than simply having a compiler.
We really don't at this point:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

> The use of face masks was protective for both health-care workers and people in the community exposed to infection, with both the frequentist and Bayesian analyses lending support to face mask use irrespective of setting. Our unadjusted analyses might, at first impression, suggest use of face masks in the community setting to be less effective than in the health-care setting, but after accounting for differential N95 respirator use between health-care and non-health-care settings, we did not detect any striking differences in effectiveness of face mask use between settings. The credibility of effect-modification across settings was, therefore, low. Wearing face masks was also acceptable and feasible. Policy makers at all levels should, therefore, strive to address equity implications for groups with currently limited access to face masks and eye protection.

The onus is on the "they're dangerous!" folks now.
We met with Elizabeth virtually (didn't like the idea but wanted to invest if we pivoted.) Very fair process & a sharp person to boot- I don't think we lost anything over an in-person meeting.
on a 386 DX 40 with 4mb I was able to play max sized but with low render resolution, F5 was the button to switch between high and low.
once I got a 486 SX 25 I could play max size and high res
Yeah, but these are primates and no primate is evolved enough to handle consolidation without turning into a total fuck-off tyrant. You know at one point the British Empire controlled over a quarter of the entire world? They had a real opportunity to usher in a new era of peace and cooperation. Did they do it? NOOOOO!!! NO ONE EVER DOES!
Agreed, flagging. Luckily, these kinds of pieces only survive the front page for a few minutes.
You can pretend that the economy is non-political all you want. The clear loss of life you imply says otherwise.
But we have evidence about respiratory viruses and masks, and it all says they don't work.

We even have the beginnings of evidence coming through for SARS-CoV-2. They got people who have covid to wear a mask and cough on a petri dish. Covid escaped the masks.
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If you have 1,000 cops, and 1 of them does something bad while the other 999 take no action, then you have 1,000 bad cops.
Snap for me means Firefox suddenly says “I won’t open a new tab until you update me and I will drop all tabs on restart”. It also means cached content and configs in many new obscure places. It doesn’t mean any visible improvement so far. So hey, kudos Mint and hey, Ubuntu stop that already.
What's wrong with either of Fedora or Debian?
"especially as you have smaller players that are able to buy last mile lines wholesale at/near cost to compete."

The US has just as much as this.

US rates are lower for the more common bandwidth options [1][2], and as soon as you consider Purchasing Parity - Canadian rates are very high. 'Equipment' / CAPEX is a tiny part of the cost of said networks, so it really should cost a lot less to manage networks in Canada if salaries are lower. Once that factor is taken into consideration Canadian prices are very materially higher.

That US companies are cheezy with their 'increasing rates' is kind of a different story.

[1] https://mobilesyrup.com/2019/12/18/canada-top-five-highest-c...

[2] https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/693.nsf/eng/00169.html
The Planck length is sometimes misconceived as the minimum length of space-time, but this is not accepted by conventional physics, as this would require violation or modification of Lorentz symmetry.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_length
Not sure if Clinton would have been better than Trump. Clearly not in trade. And doubt with the pandemic response.
Pop!_OS is like Ubuntu (it's based on it), but easier to install and use and doesn't use snaps, it has flatpaks and the usual apt.
I'm not OP, but I tried Pop!_OS recently, and was quite pleased. It's basically just Ubuntu without the bad parts.
Reddit board member resigns from board in support of black community
Unless you are arguing that we do not have enough resources to produce the food/shelter required to live, not sure what your point is.
Hey! Nice maps.

How did you go about your land cover masking / color assignment? I assume you're just using lidar here, but land cover retrieval can be tricky. Maybe by downscaling a coarser land cover datasource?

I ask because I work on this (segmentation, land cover) and just wonder what folks are up to!
I can’t imagine Mars soil having any usable nutrients since there are no microbes or any other biological activity. You probably have to bring or produce all fertilization from scratch.
On top of Ruby metaprogramming being unique, V8 and Hotspot are amazing premium deluxe engines that have had more time and/or resources.
Well said. Let's not forget Ignaz Semmelweiss, who make the outlandish claim that surgical and childbirth mortalities would decrease if surgeons washed their hands between procedures.

The reason why was because he declared there existed something called "bacteria", invisible to the eye, which was infecting patients and killing them.

He was ridiculed (#fakenews!), stripped of his professional degrees, LOCKED IN AN INSANE ASYLUM and eventually, beaten to death by guards.

Well, turned out, ole Semmelweiss was onto something. Who knew?
Whether you agree or not with the content of the book, censorship is pretty much always wrong. If we censored all history about the Nazi's and their ideology, we'd never be able to learn to avoid such atrocities.
Actually, you don't want to do that. It costs money and you really should have a good door between you and the equipment or you will go nuts from the noise.

Most of the interesting stuff can be setup using Linux, OpenvSwitch, FRR/ BIRD, network namespaces/ VRF and more. It is all in FOS Software - so more or less zero cost. Of course, you will not learn how to configure a Catalyst Switch that way. For some stuff, there are virtual appliances that you can spin up with KVM/ QEMU but most of the enterprise stuff has to be bought. Again, at that time, you will have a solid understanding of what should be happening and will know what to look for in the documentation. The rest is field experience with firmware bugs, methods how to approach some problems and syntactic sugar of the particular equipment. At least that is my view.
> Mint never shipped snapd, Snap's daemon program or any snaps, but moving ahead, in Linux Mint 20, "Chromium won't be an empty package which installs snapd behind your back. It will be an empty package, which tells you why it's empty and tells you where to look to get Chromium yourself." Further, APT will forbid snapd from installing.

Can't they just replace the Chromimum package with the one in Debian?
They stated that the feature "would simply ignore all exceptions". It allows you to ignore all exceptions, but you don't have to and probably wouldn't in most cases.

It was an example of blaming a tool for a hypothetical misuse that is not the only way you can use it.
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Just use Debian. Ubuntu is quite literally Debian+bullshit.
People touch their faces all the time, whether they're wearing masks or not. This theoretical harm exists equally in both cases; in fact, touching the mask may remind you you're not supposed to be touching your face, and trigger a hand washing or hand sanitizer use.
>>The reason a dog brings the toy to the human is because they know that the human is better at throwing and the dog is better at fetching. Teamwork, y'see.

Honestly I always thought that the dog was just being diligent and making sure that its humans did his daily exercise routine by throwing a toy.
Why get them "out of the way" when you can just skip asking pointless questions?
You know you've linked me to a pop-sci piece about a study that I've already linked several times in this thread?

> However, the authors note that the findings on face masks and eye protection are based on limited evidence.

So limited that this finding was "low confidence". And that's for optimal use of N95 masks, not for fluid resistant surgical masks or cloth masks.

Here's what the actual study said:

> From a policy and public health perspective, current policies of at least 1 m physical distancing seem to be strongly associated with a large protective effect, and distances of 2 m could be more effective. These data could also facilitate harmonisation of the definition of exposed (eg, within 2 m), which has implications for contact tracing. The quantitative estimates provided here should inform disease-modelling studies, which are important for planning pandemic response efforts. Policy makers around the world should strive to promptly and adequately address equity implications for groups with currently limited access to face masks and eye protection. For health-care workers and administrators, our findings suggest that N95 respirators might be more strongly associated with protection from viral transmission than surgical masks. Both N95 and surgical masks have a stronger association with protection compared with single-layer masks. Eye protection might also add substantial protection. For the general public, evidence shows that physical distancing of more than 1 m is highly effective and that face masks are associated with protection, even in non-health-care settings, with either disposable surgical masks or reusable 12–16-layer cotton ones, although much of this evidence was on mask use within households and among contacts of cases. Eye protection is typically under considered and can be effective in community settings. However, no intervention, even when properly used, was associated with complete protection from infection. Other basic measures (eg, hand hygiene) are still needed in addition to physical distancing and use of face masks and eye protection.
Yay, useless use of cat. I think you mean

jq . < json | less

Sorry for being pedantic. Moving on.
I feel strongly that ads are a net-negative to society in their current form. They provide some value (a way for people offering products to reach an audience) but the current implementation doesn't work.

Ads make sense in certain scenarios: for example, if I'm explicitly searching for a product I want. But in most cases it's just noise and it incentivizes the wrong behaviours.
Metaprogramming definitely has a cost, but it's one that you can minimise if you have the ability to either invalidate and recompile code at run time, or if you can perform extensive whole program analysis when ahead of time compiling.

The more extensive the meta programming you can do, the more work it is to implement this under the scenes. For example in Java you can change the visibility of fields, and you can load new classes, so that's not too hard to take account of, but in Ruby you can redefine methods, add refinements so they behave differently depending on where they are called, or radically change the inheritance hierarchy. Implementations like TruffleRuby can maintain high performance even with these features being used, but it's taken a lot of work to achieve that.
> looting was done by opportunists that are independent of the protesters

That seems right, although I think there is probably a small degree of overlap. Unfortunately, I'm still seeing multitudes of people online defending the rioting and looting.
there is still quite an advancement. look at the GPU market. every new Nvidia model is quite a leap forward. check the specs of the new game consoles. quite impressive compared to 10 years ago.
And a weird form of "leftist" that's all about "I deserve a prestigious job/free shit/authority over productive people because I dye my hair odd colors and identify as/want to fuck an unusual gender". But again, not a peep for the struggling working schlubs here and abroad.
I want a distro that I can trust. I don't know which one yet but I think I'll stay on the Debian family...I'm used to it.
A little off topic: I had the worst experience with Chromebooks, I used one a short time ago and couldn't install essentially anything outside of "approved" google apps. No package manager, 3d modelling software, my whole dev workflow just didn't work. I eventually bit the bullet and bought a 2019 macbook pro to get back to some semblance of sanity. My 2015 had passed :/. Does anyone do dev work on chromebooks?
Debian, brother
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I webex with people. I have teams meetings. I zoom with people. I have hangouts. I'm meeting on discord. I have sob conferences (that's what we call old lync/skype for business calls).

I don't care what verb you use as long as the link is correct.
If I had the money I'd secretly get employed at startups I was interested in to see if they were just a bunch of jokers or not.

I'd do this is because if I were that rich then I probably won the lottery and stupidly quit my job without thinking and would probably be very bored.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the 30m limit is due to some taxes or regulations on "video cameras", right?

Edit: Yup. https://petapixel.com/2012/05/21/30-minute-video-limit-in-di...

> At present [2012], digital cameras' video cuts off after 30 minutes to avoid them being classified as video cameras (which attract 5.4% duty because they are considered to be video recorders
I agree in principle, but it's worth pointing out that Snap is designed for end-user applications, so it's unlikely to be used on a server or in a Docker image built for deployment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23397958
*most VCs dreadfully underperform. Even the top performers don't do so well once you factor in fees and everything else.
I dumped snapd because of the maintainers absolutely refusing to allow the users to customize the update schedule, or even disable automatic updates at all.

Reading the thread with the discussion on it, seems there was real contempt towards letting the user decide not to update their packages.
The thing I like about Crystal is that I can generate statically-linked binaries and distribute them. I can quickly build utilities for people to use and don't have to distribute the runtime. The type system wasn't as bad as I thought (especially with type inferencing). Having written Ruby professionally for 14 years, Crystal was relatively easy to pick up. There are a many libraries that hew closely to their Ruby counterparts.

There are some amazing things I love about Ruby, like the metaprogramming and monkeypatching ... but I have moved on. I do my server work with Elixir these days.
Your argument is basically since you were not aware of what others in society were doing, they must not have been doing it?

Do you see how superficial this appears?

In case you didn't know, BLM has been around for a long time and NAACP has been around even longer. The issue of systemic violence against minorities has also been an issue in the American social scene for at least the last 100 years.
> In 2017, Google fired an employee who argued against the company’s diversity hiring initiatives by circulating a memo claiming women are “biologically” less likely to succeed in tech.
But...it proved not to be possible:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_County_v._Holder
> No it hasn't. Show me the research.

Here: https://www.livescience.com/face-masks-eye-protection-covid-...

> With face masks, the chance of infection or transmission was 3% with a mask compared with 17% without a mask, a reduction of more than 80%. And for eye protection, the chance of infection or transmission was 6% with protection and 16% without.
It would accelerate the path to the google graveyard is all.
If you want to preserve colors:

jq . -C | less -R