skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right now - really good. WFH has been amazing for myself and my staff's productivity and teamwork. Everyone is comfortable. Everyone feels more at ease to 'bring themselves to their work' and it's having a definite positive impact on our outcomes.

In about a week - terrible. As I have stated in other threads, my work has banned all remote work once we're forced back next week. Banned. Outright. So those of us with children and no childcare, or those with comorbidities are just screwed. The anxiety about that is building. Luckily, I have a neighbor that can watch my child until school is back in session. But I honestly don't know what I'm going to do in August. Our daycare has been and will remain limited in the number of kids it can take. The school is looking at a 2 day/week schedule to reduce the number of kids in the building. If that happens, I have a 7 year old with zero options for daytime care. I do not have enough PTO to take those days off, nor could I and keep my job, even if I had the time.

Hopelessness is starting to creep in.
Nebulon emerges from stealth to disrupt data center storage
It’s pretty trivial to re-extract the dylibs from the cache.

For example, jtool2 does it for iOS, where Apple has already purged system dylib files.
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> that is precisely what they have never done.

That is /exactly/ what I'm disputing. To the point where you can't even generalise about so-called "self-made" rich people.

But beyond that, I'm not left-wing. At all. There's nothing left-wing about being a bit contemptuous of the successful who believe their monetary success is proof of themselves as superior humans. And there are at least some successful people who agree with that. Takes all kinds. Some fail upwards.
I have read [1] (in an admittedly rather dated book) that many states in America use water bills to subsidise farmers.

Long ago, large landowners noticed you can build a big water project with a state bond issue, use 80% of the water for agriculture, then charge homeowners 50x as much as you charge farmers to pay off the bond.

Then a few years later you declare there's a water shortage, ban restaurants from bringing customers water without them asking, and ask voters to support another bond issue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Desert
Much of the most egregious ideological warfare is carried out in public in newspaper columns under people's own names. And on the other side whole categories of discussion can only exist while pseudonymous; see the other thread on the front page about slatestarcodex.

If we're talking transparency, we should look at "think tanks" and their funding.

Identity is not sufficient to deal with rule violations, either. We know who killed Breonna Taylor, it's just a choice not to arrest them.
It is officially documented as being available in ARM Macs.
I am doing great! I am planning the early stages of a company with a good colleague, lets see how it goes. I am already 29 pages down the novel I am writing, doing my daily training, eating healthy and having fun with my wife playing boardgames. In here the lockdown has been largely lifted off so we enjoy casual park stroll as well.
EY did catch them eventually. I'm guessing the courts will be doing a review of the audits that EY did over the years. It's likely a matter of how deceptive Wirecard was to their auditors.
I have been a fan off the IETF Draft and RFC process for a long time, and recently started looking at the tools they use for that process. It’s mostly async, naturally. BUT, they do have in-person (virtual this time around) big gatherings every quarter or so. I have no idea what fraction of contributors go to these meetings, but it seems like it would only have to be some small critical mass for the ideas and discussions at those in-person meetings to spread to the broader community.

It’s a model I’m thinking about quite a bit lately given how distracting I’ve been finding a lot of IM/chat apps lately. I’m with you, both forms in moderation, and ideally with the sync stuff concentrated into reasonably-sized reasonably-spaced chunks.
On track to getting expelled. Received the warning email three weeks ago. Was ice age permafrost stiff before, now approaching 0K stiff.

I'm a foreign student in Beijing. Living off campus. Xenophobic landlord kicked me out and I discovered there was nothing I could do to get rent or deposit back. Been bouncing between places, very painful as a person of colour in this otherwise normally incredible city.

Oddly, the isolation was initially great. Wasn't so productive in March, but having the pause was magic for every other aspect of my life. Got into incredible shape thanks to eating well, sleeping well, and a light but consistent calisthenics routine. But still missed by first deadline for thesis. Struggled to ask for help. Then asked and found it the university didn't care. Cue total collapse.

Everyday I wake up and try to make progress on a thesis but just end up frozen behind my computer. This has been soul destroying. Showing up each morning but failing to move forward. Anxious beyond imagination. Quit caffeine (coffee, green tea) for a month, then restarted in spectacular fashion.

Visa expires soon. Back to home country in a worse state than China and with ability to right itself. Feeling very doomed, lost, and annoyed to not have been able to capitalise on all this free time. About to throw an entire master's degree program down the drain because I can't stop panicking about it.

Just afraid of the future. Post lockdown, looking back and wishing I did more. It's hard to lose a grip on the world and to operate without a sense of meaning.
This abstract says that depression risk decreased by ~8%, but I still think this is an amazing finding.

I also wish I was scientifically literate enough to understand how good the study is :P
And they heavily share the proselytizing aspect of many religions as well.

I generally doubt that the striking down of religion was a force for good. When we've kept the "group identity generation" only partially in this world and a lot in the next, you can feel all high and mighty knowing that you will go to paradise while the wrong-believers will go to hell, and God will judge everybody.

Now, there's no more God to judge, there's no more "in the afterlife", there's only here and now, and everything becomes an integral part of your identity, from your programming language to your favored comic universe, and it all feels much fiercer. Maybe it's the lack of the after-life where they can be punished, so you need to see them punished in this life.
I guess just as before, by using install_name_tool to burn the install location into a .dylib (with special vars), and then link against it? The question seems rather, how to link against system libs if these are no longer palpable files.
Support for hand-drawn draw.io diagrams with rough.js
==I mean it's obviously all about funding the right projects isn't it?==

So is everything in life, but that doesn't help us actually determine which are the "right projects".

==Going to an obviously hyperbolic extreme for the sake of the argument, say that the EU invested billions in determining if the moon is really made of cheese then that's obviously a waste of money even if it is a scientific investment.==

That you have to go to such a ridiculous argument seems to say something about your stance. What would we learn if we discovered the moon was made of cheese? Why would it matter? What is the scientific impact of a cheese moon? Without those answers it isn't really a scientific investment.

==There's a non negligible amount of people, even those who have worked at CERN previously, saying that it just doesn't make sense to put more investment into a new supercollider which might just show that there's an energy desert of particles in the regime it's testing.==

And a non-negligible amount of people, even those who currently work at CERN, think it is worthwhile. We could play this game all day (which is my entire point). If the test fails, we still get to learn something new. A foundation of the scientific method.

==You're also falling prey to the fallacy that HN acts as a single entity, in reality everyone here has different opinions and can't just be all lumped in one bucket saying HN thinks this or that. It's obviously going to seem contradictory if you view it as if it's a single person==

You seem to be falling prey to the fallacy that all people who worked at CERN act as a single entity. In reality, people who have worked at CERN have different opinions. Similarly, I've seen many posts about how HN is a hive mind. I guess that is just when it suits the narrative.
Pathogenic actors don't even wander around. See the description of how the Committee on Public Information prepared a hitherto-isolationist US public to enter WWI. (I think in one of Bernays' books, or maybe the Creel report?)

They used knowledge of the social graph to proceed clique by clique, triangulating such that their point of view appeared to come from multiple independent outside sources. In 1917.
I was already doing Windows cloud development on Amazon EC 2 back in 2011, no need for WSL.
What did you end up outlaying?
We should stick with the new normal until a viable vaccine emerges
Export to ASCII would be awesome
Open source GIS is awesome if you're able to go your own way and don't need someone to hold your hand through every step of the process. The sheer amount of functioning - and fast - code & data is pretty much unparalleled. It doesn't hurt that most of it is free (as in beer) and accessible to anyone with time, interest, and a willingness to learn.

Echoing your point though, you have to be willing to code. However, I've been working with geospatial data for going on four years now in various academic settings, and it still blows my mind that I can process a very large amount of publicly available data, very quickly, on old equipment and make meaningful contributions to research & policy.

Source: Worked through ~1.3K hdf5 files in the last couple of hours
You’re leaving out the large scale drug dealing (opium wars)
I don't think theres that much of a difference. Most of the people who're doing well are staying at home with a partner or family and have a healthy relationship.

I can't imagine anyone in my situation of being cut off from almost all human contact (young+single+alone) for 4 months being "better than ever".
About the Rosetta Translation Environment
Could you explain what you mean by true disagreement with someone is equivalent to hating them?
I feel you're using a lot of noncentral meanings of terms here - "harassing" a "group" by drawing attention to something they're doing, publically, to another person, which severely impacts that person's life in a comparison with revealing somebody's identity in order to enable harassment of their private life.

I note that it's "the same" side in both situations that you're comparing, who thinks imposing personal consequences for civil, public speech is a legitimate substitute for debate. What Scott is doing is very dissimilar from what that group of students was doing, but what they were doing is very similar to what the NYT is trying to do.
I like to build a forward looking document for a team/groups software which extends out to cover the companies goals + N months/years. The goal of the document is to help define the core components, their role, and integration points such that everyone can reason about future looking tradeoffs. Teams can then use the document to see how their specific roadmap fits into the broader picture. This also helps frame use cases terms of current, goals, and dreams. If you're building for a use case beyond the team's dream features then you're probably over engineering the solution.

In practice goals start to move after horizon/2. And a new document needs to be created to capture where the business is doubling down and where it is trimming.
Hello, could you share the link for the updated version of LDD3?
Google's speech recognition is damn impressive, but I'm talking performance/power consumption, not "quality". Sticking a 2080 into an iPhone won't give you better speech recognition results, but it will give you bad results faster.
In my experience on HN, downvoted comments are almost exclusively low-effort, spammy, immature, etc. I'm not sure I've ever noticed an insightful dissenting comment downvoted here.
I was dating someone who worked at nCino as a support engineer, they absolutely are keeping most of their customer base by just providing tech support help to the managers at the banks that have problems clicking shortcuts. It's not too unsimilar to a company like ESRI, except their product is built on Salesforce and not nearly as widely needed as Arc.
There’s a good reason to search your preferred search service for ‘Facebook.com’ or your internet banking website:

You’re a lot less likely to try to browse to an incorrect spelling of the domain name.
It looks like they can't stand American riots or rioters.
The implication being that the NYT wants to use real names to drive clicks and appease advertisers?
The stone age didn't finish because we ran out of stone. The oil age won't end because we will run out of oil.

There are a lot of hydrocarbons left to burn. But chemistry can only take us so far. For us to colonize the galaxy we need order of magnitude denser energy sources.
Questions for Selling in Covid-19
I don't know of any specifically made for teaching, but there is biscuit made in Go[0] and Lilith made in Crystal[1].

[0] https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/projects/biscuit.html
[1] https://github.com/ffwff/lilith
Cool, yes.

Adds business value, no :-)
Investing in the customer experience increases engagement and awareness
In practice it's transparent, like using a static library. The linker handles it all for you during compilation: it stores the paths at a special section in your executable, and a injects a dynamic linker in your code.

The paths can be either absolute (for system libs) or relative (useful for distributing Bundled apps).

The cool thing is that you can see those hardcoded paths using otool -L and you can modify them using install_name_tool. Useful for debugging misbehaving closed-source tools.
I would love a IHP LiveView equivalent!! Thank you so much!
The daily mail published the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinoviev_letter in 1924 and tried to do the same thing just very recently in alleging that Corbyn was a Czech spy. Different century, same tactics.

(see my comment below about "identity" being irrelevant to bad actors)
How is it a strawman? The whole concept of Wikipedia revolves around versioning.
Well in the case of Google I was working at a company that was interested in partnering with google competitors, so it didn't matter whether we thought we were targets or not.
You got down voted because you didn't say anything. Go ahead read it again, I'll wait. Notice how the closest you got to making a point was Macs are not "fit for professional development"
> evil bureaucracies

I think Kafka's point is that those bureaucracies are not evil, just uncaring. Which makes the end results even more sinister, as you get crushed through no clear malicious act.
I don't mean to be controversial but I think planning like that shows lack of experience and more than likely a problem with how work gets done. The developers might feel they have no chance to develop the software further after the first release. That means you have to capture all scenarios straight away.
I think it is because I attempted to be neutral and post the mental model I like to use (other commenter asked if scientific method and recent research and understanding. Answer to both is yes.).
The idea that the public "can't be trusted" with information like this has always deeply frustrated me. Information should be openly shared and this story serves as another demonstration that journalists are not a special class of citizens that can be trusted with the information.

His name is Eric Ciaramella for anyone else wondering. Took me a frustrating 30 minutes of googling to figure it out.
IIRC even Windows NT could run on Alpha. I wonder if computing would've been different had we gotten a modern 64-bit architecture with very little legacy become commonplace in the 90s.

Makes me think of the Tanenbaum quote from 1992: "Of course 5 years from now that will be different, but 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5".
To be clear: Riot's new name is not going to use the word Matrix - any more than Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Edge etc use the word "Web". Riot is just one client for Matrix, and it'd be completely unfair if it tried to hijack the name Matrix for its own purposes - and I'd hope that the Matrix.org Foundation would take steps to stop such a thing from happening.

So I'm afraid the whole "Is that Matrix?", "Yes, I'm using FluffyChat/Riot/Whatever to connect to Matrix" conversation is still going to be there. Just like someone might say "ooh, what Web Browser is that?". This much is a feature, not a bug.
> Caring about a negative externalities and advocating for them to be internalized is a lot more concrete and actionable and not something I think anybody really disagrees with on paper.

Nobody would let you write it down on paper. But a lot of corporations put a lot of money and effort into preventing this from happening. I believe almost all of our economic woes could be fixed with an economic approach that treated negative externalities as an expected and common case in a free market and actively pursued policies to mitigate them (as opposed to idolising the free part of "free markets" and treating regulation to fix externalities as a last resort).
Are you thinking of Pidgin? It was only renamed once, so maybe you have something else in mind...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin_(software)
I can't think of another library that has had as much of an impact on a niche field as GDAL.
Funny, I know a lot of people that work in software development in Germany, and most of them seem to be quite happy. They don't make SV style salaries of course but are well paid. And let's not forget about the difference in cost of living and work-life balance in Germany as compared to the US (or London), especially for people that have a family.

Of course if you think that only SV-style software companies are worth working for then Germany isn't the place to be.
You could program the rules of the state channel used to provide payment exactly for the piece of the torrent provided. Like you point out, that would use a trusted third party to implement a fair exchange.

We considered doing that, but like you also point out, if you had to sign each piece of the torrent, it would slow throughput to a crawl.
Don't design for future use cases unless they are known in detail (in which case they're not really future use cases anymore). Things you don't know, will change. Your extra effort may actually hurt you in the future.

Better is to design for change. Keep everything modular. Keep your concerns separated. When something needs to change, you can just change that thing. When the whole basis of the system needs to change, you can still keep all the components that don't need to change. The only future use case you should design for is change, because that's the only thing you can be certain of.

So don't make things more generic than you need today, but make sure it can be made more generic in the future. And in that future, don't just add new features all over the place, but reassess your design, and look if there's a more generic way to do the thing you're adding.

I do this sort of stuff all the time on my current project, and it works quite well. There's no part of the system we didn't rewrite at some point, but all of them were easy to rewrite.
Isn't a large part of this down to the forum of communication vs. the level of discourse? I mean, if you want to have a nuanced, balanced discussion about a potentially sensitive topic you just can't do that on twtter, SMS, message board, etc.

Even on HN you see issues and that's will pretty tight tribal norms, moderation and topics where commenters aren't usually deeply or emotionally involved.

I agree with your overall opinion, but i think that change actually starts with people reflecting on the impact of the chosen medium on their message. Not self-censorship but "positioning"
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Sounds pretty good to me. Easy to say and write in many languages, too.
I've been using obsidian [1]. It's free for personal use and the files are stored locally. Very good alternative to Roam. It's not open source tough.

[1]https://obsidian.md/
> Except it is,

No, it's not.

> It is because leftism promotes a resistance and challenging to authority and a prior belief in the goodness of the downtrodden masses

I could with as much, justification say it is particularly associated with right-wing movements because the right promotes a rigid adherence to rules and authority, which devolves under pressure into seeking out non-adherence with progressively finer and finer combs.

> Right-wing ideologies usually promote submission to authority and traditionalism. The problems that come with excesses in that front are of a different kind.

Maybe in some other aspects, but a cycle of eating their own under pressure is not a point on which there is a difference. The left perhaps has more contribution from “people that were on the factions side before it gained power become genuinely opposed once it started executing power” and the right perhaps more from genuine intolerance for even the slightest deviation, but they both definitely experience it.
My self-discipline, motivation and focus have been blown to shit.

I still don’t know why - I don’t even have a hypothesis. Lack of fresh air, social contact, exercise?

Luckily I think everything’s coming back. I’ve been doing Pomodoros to work on my focus, and gyms re-opened yesterday here which is a godsend.

I trust that by working on discipline, motivation will follow in time.
> It is not like "russian hackers" is behind the riots in the US or bad covid advice.

Yeah, the article is so vague that it can just fit whatever bias the reader has but I also suspect that the most likely biases that will be fit to this has plenty of domestic rabble rousers behind them.
If I was able to find out Scott’s real last name with literally a single Google search, I hardly think writing that name in a news article can be called “doxxing”
"I cut, you choose" is really the only politically viable alternative to the current state of affairs.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/how-the-i-cut-yo...
And probably more like 2 to 3 weeks ago.
So the title is wrong? The libs are just not directly accessible from the file system
> take the claim that Covid-19 is "no worse than the flu"

That's an interesting example of how difficult unbiased fact checking is.

To start with, there are many interpretations of the statement. Does worse mean death rate, severity of symptoms, infectiousness, or something else? What strain of the flu, and in which country? Which paper or anecdote does the fact checker cite? Because of differences like these, two fact checkers will give different ratings for the same statement.

Journalists aren't experts and shouldn't act like they are by presenting a single perspective as if it were unchallenged fact, or by injecting their own unqualified opinions. Any issue complex enough to be a matter for serious debate isn't going to be solved in an article.

They can be unbiased and report what the leading figures have said, like a camera at a televised debate, or they can be opinionated and add their voice to one of the camps, but they can't (honestly) do both.
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