skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The OS could to provide a set of "fake" devices to any app or website in a manner that is plausible and consistent. E.g. Not identify as an iPhone with 320x240 resolution, or a battery counter that never goes down, or that always goes down as the exact same rate, and so on.
Lots of companies have tried to establish a skunkworks, but with "improvements". None have done particularly well. (The "improvements" were taking away the autonomy of the skunkworks.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunkworks_project
I tried perkeep a while ago. While the ideas are cool, the implementation is meh:

I added a single 2.7G ubuntu iso - it took 5 minutes to ingest it (on a tmpfs!), and turned it into 45k(!) little chunks, wtf is up with that? At this rate indexing my multiple terabytes of data is going to take it days and I don't even want to think how much seek time it's going to need to store its repo on a spinning HDD.
very similar experience trying to use Windows explorer while a group policy refresh is underway.
I can see some on here taking issue with this statement. My current issue with existing modern medicine is that we are very limited by what we can measure but there is a body of scientists that take the existing literature as gospel.

Meanwhile we have materials which have in some shape or form been passed down throughout human history which we willing discard as their models no longer match reality.

This is sometimes the right thing to do, it is also sometimes the wrong thing to do, after all - all models are wrong, some are useful.

On the flipside, a broken clock is still right twice a day.

Empiricism is the best we have at the moment, but we must not overlook the shortcomings of only working with things we can measure.

EDIT we should not kid ourselves with research not being shaped by that which we think to measure or it being shaped by what we can currently measure today. Before we had microscopes, it was very hard to consider germs being a thing after all.

The body is exquisitely complex and we barely understand the mind-body connection. Observations from as far as distressed myofascial tissue to gut flora can affect the mind so it's perfectly reasonable for me that a proportion of patients who experience depression find help via "alternative" means.

I guess another way of thinking about it is that "depression" is actually far too vague a classification for an issue, especially when considering the myriad causes
OpenAPI Generator 5.0.0-beta released with 3 new generators
>but don't pretend the USA's trading and defence partners don't benefit as well. It's a mutually beneficial relationship.

How has Iraq benefited? What benefit do the people of Saudi Arabia see from our relationship? How many of the US led South American regime changes have benefitted the populace?

>It has so many allies, both military and economic, that if it sells out one of them for purely transactional gain, it weakens it's relationships with all it's other partners.

We sell them out constantly. None of those "partners" have other options. Working against the US means most of the world refusing to interact with you, or a regime change on the horizon.
>You can also search for news on when the UK government report in to Russian interference in the vote will be released but I wouldn't hold your breath...

Just like in the US, right? ;)
I think it's best to try and eliminate prejudice as much as possible, but it is weird when it turns out that the reason your server is down is because the Taiwanese version is being attacked by Chinese IPs.
> Why don't they put it into Agile books? They're called books for a reason.

Agile books are hilarious because they are trying to not be prescriptive about process, while being prescriptive about process. Within that dichotomy, is the assertion that you can create your own process. So, in fact, it is usually in those books that you can make your lists for your team.

In the end, Agile/Scrum are a bunch of hand-waving rituals, which is close to what ends up happening within every software development team everywhere anyway.
There have been persistent claims that cool color-temperature (bluish) light in the evenings disrupts sleep quality. I unfortunately can’t remember if that comes from rigorous studies or pop psychology.
Interestingly, on my home ZFS raidz with 3 4TB hard drives, I have had to replace a drive a couple of times because ZFS scrub was reporting silent corruption. They were consumer-grade SATA drives.

However, at work, I have backed up ~200TB of data to a large server with RAID-6 and ext4, storing the backups as large .tar files with par2 checksums and recovery data, and regularly scrubbing the par2 data. I have yet to see any corruption whatsoever. These are enterprise-grade hard drives. This is the strongest evidence I have yet seen that the enterprise-grade drives are actually better than the consumer-grade ones, rather than just being re-badged.
The C code in GNU Emacs does a bit more than implementing a 'Lisp interpreter'.

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/tree/master/src

Quite a bit of the actual GNU Emacs application is using libraries written in C. See for example the font code.

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/src/font.c

This is different from some other Lisp systems, where only the base language runtime contains some C and/or assembler, and the actual application is mostly written in Lisp using an FFI (foreign function interface) for library calls. For example the GUI of Clozure CL is written in Lisp using an Objective C bridge, and not directly in Objective C and then called from Lisp.

Thus Emacs Lisp is also somewhere in a continuum of implementation and extension language - using C not only for the Emacs Lisp language runtime, but also for basic application implementation...
Show HN: Curl https://ec2.shop
That Linux table is quite a bit out-of-date -- it's at least older than Linux 3.14 (2014) based on sched_setattr's absence from the list. [1] is a much more modern table (and is updated more frequently), but it's probably simpler to just look at the actual syscall table[2]. On x86_64, there are currently 401 syscalls (syscall numbers 387 through 423 are reserved and 436 is used by a syscall not-yet-merged).

[1]: https://fedora.juszkiewicz.com.pl/syscalls.html
[2]: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/arch/x86/entr...
Ask HN: Best Blogs on Data Science?
To all the data-scientist / data analyst folk in here - what blogs do you like to pay a visit to every once in a while?

I'm compiling a list of top 10 blogs for data analytics/scientist community have a casual read at.

Any inputs are welcome!
GitHub source code is completely closed source, so of course they don't accept PR's.
There are still a few non-Amex cards that offer cashback with any retailer, although the amounts are small; e.g. Capital One (0.5%), Barclaycard (0.25%).
It is sad indeed. A lot of character, creativity, and innovation goes with going big scale with Amazon, Walmart and co.

However, thinking a little below the surface about it, it was also inevitable. If not Amazon, someone else is going to leverage the e-commerce scale and profit from it. I see it more like the transition from CDs/DVDs to streaming media. Sure, local video stores provided community, good exploring opportunity to look at movies that may not be in your bubble, kept profits locally etc. but it was inevitable when a more efficient means comes along.

With that said, small towns will be forced to innovate yet again and do things that are actually needed and profitable to thrive. Shopping is lost to the big guys already. May be there is something else that is better done locally. Coffee shops, co-working spaces, fitness clubs, skills training centers, workshops, hobby development places etc.
> Then they released a terrible Electron version around 2016.

That was in 2016. That situation did not last something like 3 years. Indeed there was a time where the electron client was dysfunctional but that did not last more than half a year.
You're misusing "fascism" as much as the people you oppose. There is a better word for this: totalitarianism.
No and Yes
Not op, but I actually remember reading about a study where exposure to red light before waking up can help with addressing alertness after waking.

Here it is:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6506010/

I also know that astronomers use red light while ‘scoping as it doesn’t impact the eyes sensitivity
I read a paper a while back that suggested it improved mitochondrial function.
My Current Figma vs. Sketch
I laughed, but PHP Storm and IDEA are very good tools imo.

Netbeans was quite good when I used it as well, although clunkier.

They can be very memory hungry though (of course).
Please point me to some well-designed study on the benefits of alcohol.
It could, but I cannot tell from my experience. Searching for "harmonica breathing exercise" gave me results with exercises that are similar to exercises for other instruments.
From time to time, I want a quick tool to help me compare EC2 instances price. https://ec2instances.info/ works great but it's somewhat slow and didn't have a way to just `curl` from terminal.

So I develop this small tool which you can do thing like

curl https://ec2.shop
curl https://ec2.shop?region=us-west-2&filter=t2,m4
US-style left wing, which is just utterly bizarre from a European perspective, with its deference to corporate power.

Although that's changing, because we're really busy importing as much of that nonsense as quickly as we can.
The recent flux of videos of US policemen physically assaulting people making use of their free speech right tends to make me think it's not in fact "that important" in the US to be honest.
My gut wants me to agree with you, but consider how hard it is to study depression at a population level.

First, any society with lower stigma and better health care is going to diagnose more depression because more people will be evaluated.

Second, it's hard to track or categorize acute depression. We usually get data on chronic depression.

Third, depression is correlated with many conditions, such as poverty, physical injury, other mental illness, surviving abuse or war, etc. In some cases we don't know which is the cause and which is the effect.

I could go on and on. Weather, living as a sexual or racial minority, economic recession, being a caregiver, and almost every other life circumstance can be related to diagnosis of depression.

We just don't have any concrete answers that I've ever seen.
Systematic Analysis of Randomization-Based Protected Cache Architectures [pdf]
I don't support social login anymore. It's better for the customer.
I'm no expert on the issue so correct me if I'm wrong, but I've heard modern HDDs use fluid bearings and isn't susceptible to drying up.
Blog Post – How to load custom JSON files into Laravel's config
And yet this license is hosted on a Microsoft Azure instance of GitHub which is on a high performance data center incinerating the planet. Well well well.

At least to make your argument more serious, you should do what the FSF does in their philosophy and host this .md file on your own servers, not someone-else's data center.
Discover, compare, and engage with perfect-fit software partners
The Psychology Behind Making Users Pay for Beta Software
https://medium.com/@loujtromans/why-i-request-users-to-pay-f...

I created a 3 minute read on Medium as to why I request users to pay for my BETA software.

It's nothing amazing, but just something that I thought someone might enjoy.

If you do want to read the whole thing then cheers! If not, then just read the third paragraph, and you'll realise why I've included this...

There is obviously no promotion within the piece.

Enjoy :)
> The git server is something that's due for a revamp,

Thanks for the suggestion! Indeed the largest repos are the slowest to update, even when we only change a single character on a small text file. This behavior is surprising because it is not what happens in git proper, some other part of the system must be introducing the delay.

I look forward to a normalization of overleaf's git interface, most notably the ability to have regular files, symbolic links and so on.
Nextcloud Hub brings productivity to home office
This looks mostly like gimmick PR stunt to cover the recent setback India had with China in the border. For example see this news from a channel that supports govt. shorturl.at/acjoM
This is not a comedy show, its a real prime time new show.

If India was serious about taking action it would have done something about the Chinese branded phone and Chinese infra project. All the largest phone brands in India are chinese. Same is true for Tv's. All unicorn startups in the country has considerable chinese interest. This ban carefully stays away from all apps, businesses and things that could really invite a response from China.

And it worked. As in the link above, Modi's followed have taken the bait. They are happy and all over social media celebrating this as a fitting reply for the soldiers life lost in the border.
That sounds overly harsh. What we do in our team is "postpone" those discussions. When people have went through their updates, anyone who wants to stay is free to do so and can continue that discussion, usually in the same channel. This way you're not forcing people who _don't_ want to listen to that discussion to sit through it twiddling their thumbs - best of both worlds :).
Current web situation is understandable. First you add 1 thing then another and suddenly you have chrome eating all resources. Same goes for Windows.

I'd like to see some cutted version of html, smth like rss feed, so it will have very small amount of stuff it could do but be blazingly fast.

And I'd like all os producers create group that would make some framework for cross platform desktop gui, with separation of gui and logic.
Some say that running stateful applications on K8S is not a good idea anyways, and K8S is best used for stateless applications. Sure you can connect to a stateful DB but the app itself is stateless.
This only makes sense on a precisely calibrated display. On everything else, there's no way to tell what wavelength you actually end up with when you fill your screen with a color.
Yep. I rarely run into people who use their iCloud email, and that goes for both the technically inclined and the average users.

Locking things down like this seems to have some serious negatives that Apple needs to reconsider their approach for.
Are you sure the bank would accept something like this? Wouldn't they change the account to a business account, to deal with things like taxes?
I think the obsession with tickets /Jira as the be all and end all of SCRUM is the main problem.

What is lacking in a lot of cases is an overall vison and plan for the desired end state -

I have seen doing a classic waterfall design stage with a RAD/AGILE/DSDM/SCRUM development stage right at the end work well.
This was part of what got the RAF Nimrod programme eventually cancelled; they were ancient airframes that required an ongoing supply of spare parts, but as you describe building parts from the original plans didn't fit properly.
Composed of VHDL and Tcl source code, nice to see them pursuing the right path. :)
If you send money with the expectation of a perk or reward, (other than the continued production of the video/podcast/etc) than you're not really a patron any more. You're a customer.
No MDs or JDs? (JD is a doctorate degree many laywers in the US have.)
Which is not orthogonal from SCRUM done well
The D line is probably more easily seen in a colored flame made by adding salt water to an alcohol-burner flame:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission_spectrum#/media/File:...
I got a little baby boy so I couldn't edit in time. Apologies if the comment above doesn't contribute much to the discussion. I don't want to come across as irrational/delusional. What I wanted to convey is that through my friends I get some insights as how that technology involved is put to work for the government. What I understand has some distance from what's been reported. That's all.
I'm not familiar with the story, but it sounds like he started with a solution, (the tests) and tried to find some code that would satisfy them. Perhaps Norvig started with the problem, then tried to find a solution.
> In Raod to Sefdom Hayek acknowledges that basic welfare, health and retirment polices are consistant with a liberal state.

True, and it was actually a surprise to me since this part of the book have completely disappeared from later policymaking. It's not that uncommon though, most people using Adam Smith as a reference tend to forget the part where he goes full socialist and calls landlords parasites… I even saw a reedition of Wealth of Nations (in French, from an independant libertarian publisher) where the said chapters where simply removed from the book!

> idioitc regulatory structures

Oh yeah, and the 2008 crisis was a good illustration of how good of an idea it was to remove those “idiotic” regulations. Oopsie
Android supports PWA and let's you install apps without their app store, not the same as apple at all
This is great for just sharing a video with my overseas family without uploading it to anywhere
But here, no proof was provided at all. It's just accusations. Whenever there's an article about privacy issues with Facebook, WhatsApp, Google etc. there's in most cases a real name attached to the findings, and in all cases detailed information on what is leaked, how it is leaked, snippets of reverse engineered code, etc.

In this case we have a random reddit shitposter calling himself an expert, making wild accusations.

It's not about "which company is better", it's about holding them up to the same standards.
FISA courts at least require a judge to sign off and that judge often doesn’t give a shit about the exec branch. There are no balances in the CCP. They just inform the party representative at the company (all big companies have them) that X or Y needs to happen and it does or else the company gets shut down.
I must have missed a story or two. Can you point me in the right direction for further research?
The great firewall should work both ways, otherwise it encourages more selective censorship.
Hah. I can't get Michael Caine's voice out of my head ...

"We've only gone and bought the wrong bloody satellites"

Our Government is a laughing stock ... It'll probably take a generation to recover from this mess.
The title is misleading and covers more than just "Windows exports".

I hope HN is not developing a propaganda problem like every other news/social site.
Wouldn't their problem be solved by using usernames?! Usernames are easy to remember, share and setup.
In Sweden, the best CC deals are the petrol station branded CCs (Shell/Circle K) as they both give you cash backs, have some insurance, have the standard grace period, and are "free".
Book links are Amazon affiliate links (tag booksoncode-20) and all submits are by the same person?
Good news! But will it be sufficient to reverse declining popularity of the POWER architecture?
Most BD-R discs are physically higher quality than DVD-R's. They can be comparable to archival-quality M-Disc media.
I have worked very successfully with one day sprints and an end of day catch up - though the was with RAD/DSDM.
> GNSS constellations do not use geostationary satellites.

This is not quite accurate. The main body of GNSS constellations are usually MEO cut in to several orbital planes, but GPS and Beidou, (Global systems) as well as QZSS and IRNSS (regional systems) all have GEO satellites broadcasting a NAV signal payload.
There is a lot of talk about India and the freeing up of the economy. However it is quite clear that there is a massive legacy there.

All that said, I think the diversity and distributed power structure in India could not be overcome by any purely economic philosophy.

About China we should also mentioned that decreasing the control over the economy is what allowed them to grow. Current policy in China is much more like the West then it was under Mao or afterwards. So success came by reducing control over the economy and to reintroduce private property. Market economy today is as powerful in China as it ever was in the history of China by far.

China so far has profited from massive catch up growth and China is not unique in that, just much bigger. The same thing happened with the Asian Tigers. China is now starting to pull ahead in some technologies, but it has yet to be seen if how far that is possible. People also thought Japan would blow past US and the West.

In the end if you have a reasonable competent government and a reasonable market economy with reasonable polices regarding global trade you will likely end up on the same overall growth path of all the advanced economies.

If China manages to avoid this keep growing after the have reached per person parity, I would be incredibly impressed and it would challenge my thinking on economics.

> You are mixing up periods

I am talking about the pre-WW2 period where production was overwhelmingly focused on everything needed for military production. There were exceptions like housing construction but the overwhelming focus was military buildup.
Everyone knows what the customers want, it's quite trivial.

Most problems people try to solve using technology/engineering, are actually an attempt to bypass dealing with the real issues, which are almost always political.

One trivial example of this is children starving to death or dying of diseases we have medicine for. I'm sure there'll be another 'app' created for yet another charity or foundation.

Another trivial example of this is all the middle management and technical bullshit mobile development sweatshops go through, hiring separate developers for iOS and Android, getting them to coordinate and sync their work, working out the peculiarities of the two platforms, etc, etc.

All of these problems are solved at the political level of mandating that all mobile platforms have to support a shared set of protocols, libraries and frameworks.

All this 'fin tech' investment bullshit - it's a political problem, not a technical problem.

It's an endless list of insanity - 99% of IT work is useless trash, as are almost all other forms of work done in office buildings. It'd take a trivial amount of investment (less than a trillion) to automate away most office jobs worldwide but we don't do it, because we're stuck with a political decision to continue wage slavery. Again, political problem, not technical.
The worst part about this is that it does not require GDPR consent because it is genuinely necessary to store such client data (to detect fake accounts). Same as you don't need GDPR compliance to store someone's address in an online store just to deliver a package to them.

PS. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
India figured this out years ago. Launched a domestic government Visa alternative called RuPay and also launched BHIM - an interface where everyone gets an email address like payment address and can send/receive directly. Both have traction.

Sidenote: A bunch of the payment gateways began integrating BHIM and charging merchants a cut of the sale for what they pay 0 for. Can't see that lasting if people move off V/M completely.