skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For all my personal stuff, I use Archlinux. I’ve been using it for years, so for me it is very easy to use. I’ve got no fears of the rolling release model causing me heartache because I’ve learned so much I can figure out how to fix whatever. I also find the rolling release model to be really beneficial because when I want to do something it’s nice to be able to install the newest version w/o any pain.

I really have no complaints with how Arch does things, they really make their model work and it works well.
Moreover, if America does something, it's paternalist, neo-imperialistic, if they don't do something, it's abrogating responsibility and being selfish.

I'm sure there is a middle ground somewhere but we will never agree on it, so let's stop pretending there is one.
I run my own derivative of Arch. Was building images for EC2 back when it was new and I just like knowing every file in the smallest possible system I can get to serve my needs.

With Arch it is relatively easy to set up your own derivative that has full access to upstream while adding whatever you need from AUR, quickly. And you get to be the one in charge of making sure the system jells before updating your fleet.
Significance of proper packaging and labeling in International shipping
Not sure I buy the "narrow overlap of generations" as the main reason for imperfect knowledge. Yes humans don't live long enough. But generations and population ages vary smoothly in a cohort. May be centuries ago, when the effective number of people you interact with is small and finite due to slow transport of information, people and goods. But I would argue since the advent of books, organized schools and universities this is less of a problem. Now with the internet this is really a non issue. One has all the lectures that one could possibly want to listen and all the books and papers to spend every waking moment consuming. So I guess fundamentally we are only limited by our finite lifespan, and may be working memory that has a good decay rate.
C'mon, let's be real... most devs are working on features/products that will never see the light of day. Or they're restyling the company's "contact us" form for the thousandth time.

The market is not efficient. A software developer being paid $100k doesn't mean they're providing the world with $100k of value. it just means they convinced management/HR to pay them $100k for turning up 250/365 days.

I suggest checking out "bullshit jobs" by David Graeber :)
Is Intel engaged in these communities?

My naive POV - It would seem worthwhile for Intel to participate in GCC/Linux to accelerate adoption of these innovations... PRs welcome, etc. (though I realize it’s often more complicated than that)
Two very interesting timeline, kind of encapsulates up the whole incident in general

1.)

- Seattle mayor lets capital hill to be seized by protestors

- President trump tweets wanting to send troops in

- mayor tweets to tell president to butt out

- protestors settled in.

- few folks were shot

- mayor allows “freedom of speech”

- a councilwoman encourages protestors to march towards the mayors house. They do.

- The mayor dismantles CHOP

2.)

- BLM protestors block freeway At 2am, demanding police to be dismantled

- car runs over protestors and kills/maims

- police chases down and arrest the driver

- no real news coverage. Because the driver is black
Consider submitting as a poll at https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll -- HN will keep track of votes for each choice.

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> Which distribution(s) do you run on your desktops/laptops/servers?

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on desktops, laptops, and servers. We will probably switch to 20.04 LTS later this year or early next year, once it has been tested in the wild for a bit longer.

> Why did you choose them?

Ubuntu works, it has the most support from third parties (e.g., instructions for setting up CUDA devices), and it has the largest community of users online (every Linux user has used it at some point). Why go off the reservation?

> What problems do you face with them and what changes would you like them do make?

None, though I'm a bit concerned about potential issues with the transition to snaps.
We're not exactly a species that's content with what we need.
Perhaps "parrot", given the parent platform's choice of terminology?

"I totally made the world a better place today! I , ummm, yeah. So. I just parroted an actual activist's well thought out and carefully composed tweet, instead of doing anything of substance at all myself... What am I doing with my life? <sobs>"
the overlap between two generation's cognitive prime age is narrow

That argument fails on the above point - you picture generations as discontinuous (or nearly so), whereas in the normal, non-technical sense - as here - they are simply a useful picture of an aggregation over a continuum of ages in the population as a whole.

Working and academic environments - beyond a certain level of competence - are populated by individuals of varying ages and experience which are more likely to be demarked by managerial levels and career choices than individual knowledge and aptitude.
Unfollow everyone. This is what I do, when I land on the Facebook home feed I get the “add friends” onboarding experience.
For a mathematical fallacy, see the appendix of Charles Seife's book "Zero", proving that Winston Churchill is in fact a carrot!
SEP Hacked
Surprised that people management is not here
>he's part of the political elites that have been deriding vocational education

What does that mean? Are you talking about opinions he has expressed, or are you just saying he's responsible for the opinions of other people you associate him with?
Ah, absolutes, what a wonderful fantasy world where there are so many candidates to choose from that you’re able to “disqualify” a candidate and still vote for someone who will uphold your ideals in office.

There are people who believe abortion is murder and still vote in pro-choice candidates because the other policy positions are important to uphold.
Fracking Firms Fail, Rewarding Executives and Raising Climate Fears
> it would be nice if there was a good way to incentivise the publishers to do the right thing while being realistic about what they can do and that ads are here to stay

Fine the publisher every time they publish something fraudulent. It's not the public's problem or responsibility to solve this for Facebook.
In the last decade, I've used Fedora or Ubuntu.
Currently Fedora, as my employers for the last 7 years have used Fedora or Centos based systems.

Fedora tends to have pretty up-to-date software (the kernel, especially), but is also pretty stable for me -- I primarily use my computer for development, so they can't get in the way of me working.

In the decade before that, I experimented with distros a lot more. Slackware, Gentoo, Arch, LFS, Debian and variants. I learned a lot about Linux desktop systems doing that: Getting X, wifi, modems, printers working. Fixing things when they broke. But back then, I largely wasn't doing software development -- more sysadmin stuff.
I don't do that anymore. I installed Fedora on my current system with a lovely polished installer, and it's almost entirely worked out of the box for me.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23692442
I like this idea. But I think there are some advantages from information transfer being incomplete.

Because new humans have to learn what the prior generation learned from scratch, it gives them a fresh canvas to eliminate flaws and purify knowledge from the prior generation.

It's like taking a wrong turn on a roadtrip. You've driven so far and convinced yourself that you're on the right path. But in reality you need to step back and check all the assumptions and choices you've made to get on this path.

People coming in and out of existence facilitates sanity checks on current acquired knowledge.
Can AI Replace an Entire Game Engine? (Nvidia GameGAN)
i recently came across some info the implications are shocking.

read this thread:

https://threader.app/thread/1214173689111031808

Aaron had been helping Assange and Wikileaks very early on. In 2009, Wikileaks released files from the Congressional Research Service, apparently obtained by scraping their website using a trivial by-pass to access non-public files.

Aaron had worked on the staff of Congressman Grayson during the same time period.

What if it was Aaron poking around the CRS website as part of his job duties who found that bug and then gave it to Assange?

That would make Aaron the "source" for that 2009 leak--one of the first things published by then young Wikileaks.

what if the reason DOJ so harshly persecuted Aaron was because of his involvement with Wikileaks? This is speculation, as there is no explicit evidence supporting this. Aaron's connection to Wikileaks seems like an important enough coincidence that I cannot rule it out.

But I have always wondered: just how far does the US govt go to suppress and permanently silence people who are Enemies of the State? Especially talented programmers who are digitial natives well equipped to challenge systems of power which are more and more based on technical and information supremacy?
Is "stuck exterior door handle" not a safety issue?
I did bring up C++, but I did not bring up operators. The question at hand is whether ABI concerns prevent operator overloading. Plainly, that is not an issue.
I've had similar thoughts lately. Here's a simple mathematical model of the process that I felt inspired to create by your comment:

k[i] = (1 - c1) * k[i - 1] + c2

where i is the generation number, k is the amount of knowledge we have, c1 is the loss factor (amount of knowledge lost from one generation to another, 0 ≤ c1 ≤ 1), and c2 is the (constant) amount of new knowledge created by generation i.

In this model, it's easy to show that after long periods of time the amount of knowledge will plateau. In fact, the plateau is

k[∞] = c2 / c1

The basic point of this is to highlight that both knowledge creation and loss are factors, and the loss means that knowledge may not keep increasing indefinitely. Of course, any number of the approximations and assumptions involved in this derivation may not be valid, but I think the possibility that knowledge loss can cause problems is worth considering.
> A Kafka trap is a fallacy where if someone denies being x it is taken as evidence that the person is x

I think this concept is better known under the name "witch hunt".
I was a fourteen year-old astronomy geek for Halley's Comet in 1986. What a complete dud it turned out to be.

This comet is amazing. Get out and see it while you can!

Here’s a picture of it this morning in Raleigh, NC (not my picture):

https://i.imgur.com/qKXjHnU.jpg

https://www.reddit.com/r/raleigh/comments/hpsv6f/comet_c2020...
AdGuard Home allows you to whitelist domains, and provides an interface to unblock blocked DNS queries directly from the logs.
The same problem you're referring to is also true for news regarding China. Have you ever thought about it?

I've traveled for an extended time in both US and China and as you say you hardly get shot on a trip in California you also will not get arrested just for holding a foreign passport in Shanghai

As far I'm concerned I felt much safer in China for many reason that I'm not here to explain.
There’s nothing VLIW-like in Thumb or Thumb2. It’s just a more compact encoding.
I only run Linux on the server, no GUI. I use Debian everywhere, except in those (thankfully) few cases when I am administering commercial software, in which case I use CentOS.
I will try to elaborate.

Let's say I throw a rock in a parabolic curve in a plain field. Humans can predict exactly where it will fall. This is because humans know everything about gravity, mass, etc.

However, we cannot predict when and where exactly will a random meteor fall. This is because we do not know exactly everything about the universe and the various forces of universe.

My thought is that a lot of humans might have understood more about those forces in the past but were unable to effectively pass that information for the next generation to build upon. This could be simply because the cognitive prime of the two generation overlaps for a relatively short period of time.

Now had the humans lived long enough to cross some threshold of effective communication and longer overlap of cognitive peak between generations, they could have better able to pass their intuition, experience, thoughts, ideas to the next generation. In other words, there would be less loss of information/knowledge which would be just enough to fill the critical gaps to know everything about the universe.

Knowing everything about the universe would enable them to predict everything precisely just as in the example of a parabolic throw of a rock on earth's surface.
When I speak of "environment" I mean it in the most literal sense - temperature, fresh air, sound/noise background, light pollution, mattress firmness. Anxious people get obsessed over those things because they are easily reached, but this obsession only bring temporary relief. I understand you assign a different meaning to that word, so there is some misunderstanding stemming from that.

In light of this clarification, would you like to start over?
I support this view.

The DID and VC specs are the most advanced tools we have now to implement decentralized identity, plus there are many startups applying these in real world, solving problems and generating open source implementations.

Btw, I joined the Internet Identity Workshop last spring and it was an incredible experience. (https://internetidentityworkshop.com/)
A couple of years after this essay appeared Jedediah Purdy published something of a response in The Nation:

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/thoreau-radical-se...
Style Check
given Apple's near monopsomy power in the mobile market Intel may never have been able to produce high margin chips in that market.
It's not just Facebook. It's everywhere.

If I'm feeling a little sick and decide to look up the symptoms, half the results are "alternative cures" that involve drinking olive oil, applying tea tree oil, drinking green tea (I think these people think tea tree and tea tea are the same) and BOOM cured. Just this week I was looking up a couple animal videos, and Youtube's sidebar recommendations were absolutely full of "natural cures" for various pet ailments. Of course, every single one mentioned olive oil in the title.

I can't even look up basic recipes or info about specific ingredients or even simple gardening info without half the results being things like spinach being some miracle food that helps treat/cure syphilis and cancer.

I'm sick of it. I'm not exactly in favor of deplatforming, but these people are spreading actively dangerous and outright wrong information. And for what? I know there are people out there seeking to profit by selling fake cures, but there are people out there legitimately saying you should just go to the store and buy olive oil (and it's always olive oil) and eat a few oranges and your diseases will go away--they don't get any direct benefit from the deception. WHY are there so many people out there saying this bizarre shit?
It won't be 'decentralized' like 'blockchain' it will be 'decentralized' like 'a hundred different versions of tech, standards, identity providers and use cases'. Big Corps, startups, banks, and probably the slowest mover - government.

And it'll continue to mostly be 'account management' and not 'identity management' proper. We are going to want to 'share less' in a way, as the only real means really to keep our privacy.

Your bank account info is effectively secure, so are your medical records. So are your images if you store them with the right provider. The rest ... not so much.

It's neither utopian, nor dystopian, just 'what it is'.
TL;DR: It didn't. Some guy realized customizing pilot cockpits would save lives. User Friendliness was thus discovered.
I got a Kawasaki motorcycle around 2009 that was built in Thailand. Then again, the steering head came loose after I'd ridden it for a little while...
Oh, I've never heard of drowning in rubbish! With 5) I'm referring to geological effects causing landfill land to collapse and get washed away. That happened recently in New Zealand and a river ended up full of rubbish from a disused landfill.
This. I buy a decent amount of hobby electronics from eBay and AliExpress because yes it is cheaper. When I need quality, Mouser, DigiKey, and McMaster-Carr are there for me. But the minimum $7-9 shipping is the main reason is forego them. I’d gladly pay 2x for small electronic components (vs directly from China options) if shipping wasn’t a problem.
Maybe you can link to it here in the comments?

I personally find patent applications to be so dry as to be unreadable without extreme focus.
Is that by Queneau? (Probably spelled that wrong.)
And what's to say Facebook isn't harvesting all the phone numbers, contacts and the social graph and feeding it into FB and FB's ads? Especially since Whatsapp does not seem to be monetized in any way.
Apple also played an important role in the development of LLVM and WebKit.
If curious see also

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16809118
There was a disease connection of sorts.

“Spacers” had limited contact with others, some more limited than others, so their immune systems couldn’t handle direct exposure to a human from Earth, which was exclusively populated in teeming enclosed cities.

So they wore nose filters and gloves to avoid contact. I think the general metaphor was modeled on how the European aristocracy saw the other social classes.
Not a physicist. But perhaps this is referring to combining quantum mechanics with special relativity, not GR. So these examples are not examples of problems where you need a theory of quantum gravity.
So now we've gone from being "significantly faster" to being as fast on integer, slower on floating point and slower on threaded applications. Which seems a lot more plausible, but now where's the argument that this is going to be a marked improvement rather than a lateral shift with a huge transition cost?
How else can you get anything from Maxim besides samples? (joke may be a decade out of date)
I'm pretty sure that "vote for me or admit you're racist" is not necessarily a fallacy. It seems reasonable to conclude that through rather straightforward logic.

Assumption 1. If you are not a racist then you should not support racist policies.

Assumption 2. The opposition wants to enact racist policies while I do not.

Proposition 3. From 2, if you vote for my opposition then you are supporting racist policies.

Theorem 4. Therefore, from 3 and 1, if you don't vote for me then you are racist because you are supporting racist policies.

Assumptions 1 and 2 could be incorrect in certain circumstances (in particular assumption 2), but the reasoning is correct.
It does seem like the headline is misleading, as surely the unit-weighted average authenticity of these parts leans towards 1.0. Surely nobody would buy these by the 1000's from unofficial channels?
Why you chose Nginx over HAProxy?

I see a lot of people preferring Nginx, but I can't understand why they are so fascinated about it and try to squeeze it where it has no place. Nginx is just a web server that has some load balancing functionality, it is sub par with HAProxy.

I never seen people saying why are you using HAProxy instead of Apache, but Nginx load balancing functionality is closer to Apache than HAProxy.
These show up in "trusted" Chinese brands too. Whenever you see a teardown where the markings are ground off a chip with obvious, non-trade secret function (USB serial converter for instance), its most likely a counterfeit that needs to have its fake markings removed to get past first world customs inspectors.
Typically the hacks amount to enabling a feature in the car that you would otherwise have to pay for. For example new BMWs come with seat-heaters in the car, but not available to be used unless an additional fee is paid to unlock them. A "hack" would be using the seat-heaters in the car you paid for without paying.

For things like custom driving software, usually people test that on closed race tracks, etc.
Trust in hardware supply chains when manufactring a PCB for a product can be quite fragile: when one component operates outside of spec, the entire device could be rendered useless. In the case of the DS18B20, the author states in the 'Warning' section that the primary way of determining counterfeit sensors is to check the ROM output compared to a known format. When counterfeit parts like this are added, it creates vulnerabilities in the entire system due to the ability for a bad actor to leverage this vulnerability and cause one part in an entire system to fail.

For example, the company FTDI snuck in code that was in a series of Windows updates that was able to detect counterfeit FTDI and brick them via software to send back all 0's.[0][1] This anti-consumer behavior on behalf of comapnies can a be a headache for end-users and programmers alike.

[0] https://hackaday.com/2014/10/22/watch-that-windows-update-ft...

[1] https://hackaday.com/2016/02/01/ftdi-drivers-break-fake-chip...
How to Build a Biotech
Without gravitational pressure, the sun would fly apart cool down very quickly, causing and fusion would stop. No source of heat, no light.
> It's completely game changing.

Came here to say this but expecting downvotes, surprised to see this on the top.

I used to have terrible insomnia for around 15 yrs. I had just forgotten how to fall alseep, every night i would go into the same terrible racing thoughts loop. Going to bed was a dreaded chore. I tried everything from counting sheep to ambien. Only marijuana helped me forget my bad thinking loops and taught me to fall asleep.

Now i don't smoke anymore but i don't have insomnia either. I am just careful about not getting into that frenzy thinking habit.
The submitted title was the HTML doc title ("Why Do We Love Henry David Thoreau?"), which is a perfectly legit choice for an HN submission. But it seems to be having a baity effect, so I've changed it to the least baity substring of any of the titles options above. Please let's react to the actual article now.
If it's about wasting resources (oil) then isn't that already priced into plastics? When oil prices rise higher, these near-frivolous uses of plastics will naturally reduce. Using oil in itself doesn't kill the Earth. It does nothing useful under the ground. You're falling into the common trap anthropomorphizing the Earth and applying human-like feelings to it.
This.

I can't wait to see what Johnny Srouji's team can do when they're not targeting a mobile device.
> Yes they're an adult and should know better

Why should they know better? Why are adults expected to be experts in all things? Certainly if it was bad the government would stop it or they wouldn't make enough money to advertise to lowly old me is likely what most of them think.
Works perfectly fine on my Safari v13.1.1 on MacOS 10.15.5
I'd say we've to read both sides then.

> The practices of slavery and human trafficking are still prevalent in modern America with estimated 17,500 foreign nationals and 400,000 Americans being trafficked into and within the United States every year with 80% of those being women and children

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_slavery_in_the_Un...
I'm not clear how your anecdote is germane to the topic.
Investing in Human Longevity
I started getting tons of ads for elder law immediately after I started watching Better Call Saul. I watched them on VLC on Arch Linux and _acquired_ the files over a year earlier. I hadn't Googled it, visited any related pages or posted about watching it. A little while after I uninstalled the Facebook app they stopped.

I was very much on the "there must be another explanation" train, especially since it should be possible to notice a ton of bandwidth if they were streaming conversation audio.

But I've really never been able to figure that one out. If you've got an explanation for me I'd be really interested.