skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is nice, but what I'd really like is a website that is the following:

* Long-form curated "DevOps" stories; a mix of news and editorials

* Monthly update frequency

* Presented in a form that is easily scanned; headlines and a paragraph or two on the front page, with clickthrough to the full article

...basically, a DevOps newspaper, but curated carefully and produced slowly.
This resonates - what are the books you've read so far?
Why Bluetooth is called Bluetooth
Gentoo on Android 64bit Release
Starting to feel vindicated by my refusal to use Homebrew when I migrated to macOS recently. It felt like bringing a whole lot of baggage along.

All I need is working golang and Python 3. The rest I can do on a box in AWS.
It's potentially less anonymous to the people who might prosecute you. Probably didn't realize how anonymous it wasn't to the employer and didn't factor that cost in to the decision. But if you're willing to $5 to get a show, you're probably less likely to pirate it anyway (or at least be the seed).
Whatever you decide to do you'll want to try to get a recording. If you want to get law enforcement involved you'll need a recording. If you want to get whatever your local neighbour dispute resolution process is involved you'll need recordings.

FWIW, most people have a poor understanding of auditory hallucinations. Ask someone to stand behind your back and talk to you. That's what hallucinations often sound like: a completely normal, real, voice that you hear like any other voice.
People are chasing gains. TSLA has at a chance of succeeding at either autonomy or cheap energy storage. If that plays out it could be a 500B company in 8 years. Why not get in now with a hope of a 6% annual return?
That's my first impression, too, until I'm curious about what 'godbolt' means, and I googled it...
Ah this is cool - I was just recently wondering if there were any new discussion boards that were mathjax enabled.

I'm also working on a discussion community... it's not so easy but the time seems right.
> why a new study for obvious general knowledge?

It's not obvious general knowledge; while as a class coronaviruses don't usually have extremely long-term immunity, there's considerable variability and how durable the immunity typically produced for this coronavirus is has been a question of much interest.

> Flu virii mutate every two weeks anyway,

It's not even worth discussing of that's true, since flu viruses (Orthomyxoviridae) are a different family from coronaviruses (coronaviradae, and specifically subfamily orthocoronavirinae).

> and the next saison flu is always something different.

COVID-19 isn't a seasonal flu (or any other kind of flu), and what varies from flu season to season is the mix of strains, it's quite possible for individual strains to be in that mix for more than one season.

> Next saison could be a H1N1 which is a real danger (the lower the numbers the higher the mortality rates),

The danger is more than just a factor of mortality rate, which is why the current COVID-19 pandemic is a much bigger deal than, say, any historic Ebola outbreak, despite the much lower fatality rate (whether case or infection).
It's pretty easy to see why ARPANET took a while to develop and turn into the internet we know today. Youtube didn't exist in the 1960's not because people though that streaming video was a dumb idea but rather because it was simply technically impossible to do at that time. In order for the internet to develop it required massive progress in hardware and infrastructure. To this day many places in rich countries still have crappy internet access.

What's Bitcoin's excuse? Where is the technical limitation? Do we need nuclear fusion or 100Terabyte internet links for it to become usable? Do we need high speed data transmission to Mars?

The only thing standing in the way of Bitcoin is people finding compelling use cases for it in order to drive adoption. 10+ years and billions of dollars later it's still only useful as a tool for gambling and scams or to buy drugs and other illegal things online.

Also, ARPANET was already very useful by the mid-1970s (it was declared "operational" in 1975, 9 years after its inception). It was not the internet we know today of course, but it wasn't really meant to be. It was a defence project after all.
It absolutely is. I said virtually all, and for virtually all it's true. A small number of counter examples that aren't relevant to the majority of the media-consuming public does nothing to change the inarguable fact that the vast majority of media is available in physical form.
Judging by stereotypes, I wouldn’t expect people here to pay that much attention to their looks. But clearly it matters...a lot. After reading this article, it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone why people, especially women, spend so much time and money obsessing over their appearance.

Yes, you could argue that it shouldn’t be this way and people shouldn’t dwell on looks so much. But it doesn’t matter how right you are. Attraction isn’t rational. It’s emotional and instinctive.

So do yourself a favor and always try to look your best. You don’t need to care about what people think about you, but should care about what people feel towards you, because it will impact the quality of your life.
I would say it's a qualified yes.

Factually, it is more legible, maintainable, easy to extend. However, imo, this is mostly because all of the I/O had been abstracted away.

In the python program, I/O and logic were interspersed in a way that made it difficult to reason about only one or the other. You have to understand our data models to understand the code, and vice versa.

If I were to rewrite the python program today, it would "look" a lot like the Prolog one, and probably be equally as legible and maintainable.

I think it's an example where Prolog (as a "logic" language) "shepherds" you do the right thing with respect to I/O separation. I imagine if I tried writing it in Haskell or OCaml, the effect would be similar. I'm reminded of this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22696229.

Python, meanwhile, is a blank canvas and a full set of paints, which is its great strength in experienced hands, but also its great downfall. When I leave the company, there's nothing stopping another engineer (a junior, or even an experienced engineer with different skill trees) from rewriting things in a way that "works" but compromises legibility or extensibility.

With discipline, you can develop a program in Python that looks quite similar to the Prolog one, but the only guardrails against writing it in spaghetti is psychological.

In any case, it was a fun exercise. It makes me want to try writing more things in different languages, if for no other reason than to improve my usage of the subset of Python I like best. :)
? I have not seen analyses that compare which is actually greener. I would love to be pointed to this,

https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/cleaner-cars-cradle-grave

In summary, it takes about 18 months of driving before an the reduced gasoline emissions compensates for the increased manufacturing emissions.

> I imagine whenever self-driving cars arrive, we'll all just be sitting in packed streets.

Agreed. So many people think that self-driving cars are going to reduce congestion, an argument I don't buy. They'll make congestion much worse IMO.
In the EU, you can't just randomly email potentional customers because of GDPR :/
Or the fact that just holding capital has better returns than most any other economic activity. That's a recipe for extreme income disparity.
It appears our current government is handing out billions in "relief" to churches in an attempt to offset that income disparity.
Oh the good old "Most active and vocal Bitcoin fans are talking non-sense all the time so the Bitcoin is not that important" narrative.
Maybe I'm missing something but it seems every component in Primo is made by coding HTML and CSS. What's the advantage over simply using a SSG?
Cave Diver here who's had a lot of dives in that area of Mexico. There is a site call Chan Hol we dove, it has a human skelton/burial site about a 30 min swim in and numerous fire pits. You can make out black marks on the wall/ceiling and remains of the pit itself. They are all over this one cave, it was very active.

The human skeleton is in what could only be called a burial site, it's very high limestone slab, above what would have been the floor and could have been only been placed there when the water table was much lower. The amount of effort suggests a coordinated effort but it's debatable, not all the skeleton is there.

A team of Mexican scientist radio-carbon dated the sites and the conclusion is 11,000 years ago. The body being an adult female.
That's untrue, there is an active debate about it on the left, and the people who originated the idea insist that abolition is exactly what they meant and still mean.

https://twitter.com/jduffyrice/status/1270380991178321921

https://www.mpd150.com/what-are-we-talking-about-when-we-tal...
Will the Horvath Epigenetic Clock Help Us Reverse Aging?
I get that, but mask usage is not 100% for many reasons. Larger droplets hitting the wearers mask from the outside are also possible for many reasons.
I don't think there's much that's 'obviously' right or wrong in economic policies or tax law, and certainly companies that would fare worse under your proposed changes are the wrong target for urges of change.

Or any legislation really, that's the point of case law, a particular circumstance wasn't anticipated, so there's some interpretation and umming and ahing, and thenceforth that example's able to be used to steer the next.

Online service companies (for example) operating over multiple physical territories, not really 'in' any more than the other, weren't anticipated, the broad strokes of the way they're taxed predates them. It makes sense to advocate for some fundamental change that reimagines how to effectively tax them (I wouldn't call it 'obviously' necessary, but it's a sensible argument worthy of debate) - but it's a waste of breath to expect such companies to volunteer extra tax not required of them.
Is there a publicly available code repository with a program written in Prolog that does some non-trivial task? #3 looks the closest, but I'm looking for an example of something complete that people are using.
Wow Medium has some audacity to through a paywall-style signup in front of their sharecropped content.
My current VPN endpoint has a dude who downloaded an unfortunate number of things about Adolph Hitler. :(
The two aren't mutually exclusive. They can use data both from GA as well as Chrome/Android.

Ultimately, their business model relies on violating people's privacy and thus the safest course of action is to treat them as hostile and avoid them.
But what is the real-life practical alternative?

It is makes lovely and invigorating fiction to imagine men who have learned to competently conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, butcher a hog, set a bone, and program a 1973-era computer. But life is short and any art takes long to learn to sufficient depth that you can solve dynamic complex problems.

How many more men would have died if Eisenhower had planned the D-day invasion without being able to delegate a huge number of urgent and important tasks like weather prediction to specialists like Meteorologist James Martin Stagg?

How easily could a hobbyist Cessna pilot land a passenger jet in the Hudson river?
>This doesn't at all address the core point I'm making: that pension funds are not required to achieve a given rate of return in any meaningful sense.

You're being uncharitable in reading gp's (erentz) word "required". No, there isn't a statute or law that says the pension fund must get 8% returns or the pension administrators go to jail. Nobody is saying that.

Here's how to interpret the word "required" in a more reasonable manner...

Using Illinois Teachers Pension as an example: the pension fund manages ~$50 billion but they still have a ~$70 billion shortfall.[1] The CIO (Chief Investment Officer) is currently Stan Rupnik. His salary is ~$400k per year and he's responsible for investing the pension fund in a way that balances max returns with safety. If he just sits back and folds his arms in a defiant manner exclaiming, "hey, the pension fund is not _required_ to achieve a given rate of return so I'm just going to invest all $50 billion in T-Bills which returns a negligible 0.19% yada yada yada" ... he's not going to keep his job.

That's what a meaningful interpretation of "required" is for the context of this discussion.

[1] https://www.chicagobusiness.com/finance-banking/teachers-pen...
Wall Street is looking where everyone should - at the deaths. And deaths have been going down since mid-April. It's just that recently (about a month ago) we've massively ramped up testing throughput. We're on track to become the most tested large country in the world in a few weeks. And the "lagging deaths" have so far failed to materialize.
The set of applications that benefit from SIMD (i.e. SSE, AVX, AVX-foo) is very different from the set that benefit from parallelism.
“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

Roald Dahl, "The Twits"

The accompanying illustration has stuck with me for going on 30 years now: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c9/45/2c/c9452c05e8c3e60455a3...

I have met my share of people who by rights ought to be physically attractive but are not, which also reminds me of Shelley: Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown/
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command...
So it's okay to construct hypotheticals that distract from actual complaints about the use of "master/slave", but it's not okay to point out seeming flaws in your logic. Got it.
The USD is the reserve currency of the world. The US maintains this status quo through a combination of soft and hard power: stir the pot a little and ambassadors tut-tut. Stir a bit more and your politicians have their US bank accounts frozen. Stir too hard and the USS Gerald R. Ford sails up off your coast and asks you to reconsider democracy. I'd be surprised if this status quo is challenged by another country for years.

What I think is far more interesting is what happens internally: the US is a powder keg of economic and racial inequality and our leaders are either throwing lit matches at it or gently disapproving of those doing the throwing. If COVID cases and deaths keep increasing I can't see how we continue without structural changes.
Have you checked this?

https://www.netlifycms.org/
For sure those count. I mean domestically. Obviously we do things abroad that we would never tolerate at home, and that's one of the biggest problems with our society. Nonetheless the domestic situation has been stable for a long time, and if the foundation cracks there, it will be notable.
Boy, he had great teeth!
I'm sad to report that waffles.fm is no more.

Agreed, getting on private trackers - and surviving - is non-trivial, and don't think I could do it today (uploading, contributing). But once you do on the really big and important ones, you are set for life.
I think prices are high b/c retail investors are being taken for a ride and have no other recourse. A ton of cash has been injected into the system. People are rightly concerned about inflation. What do they do? Bonds aren't a good investment. Real estate will be affected by unemployment, so that's not an option. No one gives a crap about gold any more. Plus retirement funds carry insane penalties. It's not like pulling that stuff out is an easy decision.
Have they been printing money? Has more USD been created, physically or virtually? This is something I don't understand, I'm hoping someone here can explain it.

I was under the impression the last 40 years of US deficit spending has been mostly financed by selling US bonds to China, Japan, etc., while counting on growth and inflation to take the edge off when they come due. And selling more bonds instead of defaulting, so the debt just keeps growing. Printing money causes inflation but not deficits or lingering debt.

I don't know though, I'm not an expert. I would appreciate any corrections or clarifications from anyone.
Yes, I recall Paul Emsley getting more than that right.

At one time the area was continually shifting around TCL, Perl, Python, not really finishing anything off. That was mainly one person's influence for some reason.
There Is No Alternative
My university did ban p2p, no matter the content. Officially for upload bandwidth savings.
Always report it. Worst case scenario there's proof that you didn't do it that can be found, and it's the right thing to do.
WTF, do not do this.

You can use real encryption, like GPG in symmetric mode with a memorized passphrase that gets properly key-stretched. Then store the resulting uniform random-looking blob in image metadata or whatever.

Obscurity is to prevent them from asking you what's in an obviously encrypted file like "bitcoin_wallet.dat.gpg," it's not for actual protection if they do happen to focus on you.
Sorry I missed that. If it were legal, I'd assume there'd be a law making it illegal within a few days.
> and there was some startup - in NYC I believe - that you could give Eagle files and a product order list and they would buy you the components at Digikey and manufacture the board for you... anyone remember their name?!

I don't know about that specific startup, but there are tons of firms in China which will manufacture and assemble PCBs for you. Most of the big hobbyist firms, like JLCPCB, Elecrow, and PCBWay, offer some form of PCBA service. JLCPCB in particular is closely integrated with LCSC, and will source parts directly from them.
Glass is more recyclable than paper. Paper is really only "downcyclable", each cycle shortens the average fiber length.
Can confirm - 3 kids and I've never bought so much shit in my life. I should replace my front door with a conveyor belt for all the Amazon boxes...

I laughed at that TED talk where the guy shows how shaking your hands can save a paper towel. We have used more paper towels in the last 1 month than I ever used in my entire 20 years of single adulthood combined.
‘A safety net that’s ripped’: Problems plague state unemployment systems
I completely agree with this.

It isn't just managing the day to day or the current project, but it's managing the growth of the team for the future. Seeing the results of your work may take days, weeks, months or even years.

Also, dealing with conflict (and there will be conflict) between team members, teams or other managers can drain a lot of energy out of me. Sometimes, at the end of the day, I just want to do absolutely nothing.
Exactly. A single well-time and well-executed acquisition could change the whole game. Of course we all know that executing acquisitions well is easier said than done, and I don't have a specific target in mind when I say this. It's more of an "in principle" speculation than a concrete suggestion at the moment.
Better Managing Burnout in Startups
I agree with your critique in the first paragraph, but I disagree with your second.

You can criticize a system while still participating in it; just because you think there should be a better system doesn't mean that the current system is worse than nothing.

I dislike the US health care system, and think we should move from private insurance to a single payer model. However, I still currently have private insurance and participate in the system, because I need healthcare and my only choice right now is private insurance.
There are some very strange happenings goings on with a small number of stocks. AMZN, TSLA, AAPL and a few others have seen stratospheric gains in the past few months with especially Tesla with no clear reason why. Not trying to knock tesla but there is something that I have never seen happening and given store closures, spiking covid cases and virus antibodies that seem to last months and in some cases weeks these are all very gloomy predictors. The typical explanations seem to be as follows(ordered them in my opinion has the highest probability of reality and weight):

#1 Interest rates are as low as they have been in an extremely long time, people/institutions want higher returns so they are putting money into vehicles with higher returns(stocks).

#2 Given the Govt./Treasury has been printing money like crazy dealing with the pandemic, money in cash is not great, stocks offer better returns.

#3 Given sports are mostly shut down(primarily in the US) sports betters are putting money into stocks instead and betting there so to speak.

#4 People are using their stimulus checks extra unemployment money to invest in stocks.

All of these don't seem to jibe, and alot of these stocks seem similar to what as known as a 'melt-up' which precedes a meltdown, see 2000's tech and 2008 financial crisis. I hope that is not the case but Tesla jumping 10-14% a day doesn't seem healthy for the stock and the stock market in general and something very strange is going on.
Does anyone in the scientific computing ecosystem use Macs?

I can't think of...any program in that sphere that aren't Windows or Linux?
Aren't deadpools a thing? ...checks duckduckgo... yep

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_pool

https://oddsninja.com/celebrity-dead-pool-betting/
I think the senses of someone persistent in building a perpetual motion device are not of the common variety.

That said, he's a good, perfectionist craftsman. You and I both can commiserate on how impossible his mission is, but I don't really feel comfortable trying to dismantle a dude with a dream who works hard at it. I'd prefer to try and encourage directions towards things with a chance useful outcomes. He taught me how to assemble solar panels from cells. That's why I have solar panels.

Thinking through the contradictions there is fun.
I've never used Svelte so would love to know what attracts you to it :)
Just checked while on mullvad, that's a lot of porn....
Search "daniel lemire" "AVX-512". Vectorizing random number generators for greater speed: PCG and xorshift128+ (AVX-512 edition) [1]. AVX-512: when and how to use these new instructions [2]. The dangers of AVX-512 throttling: a 3% impact [3].

[1] https://lemire.me/blog/2018/06/07/vectorizing-random-number-...

[2] https://lemire.me/blog/2018/09/07/avx-512-when-and-how-to-us...

[3] https://lemire.me/blog/2018/08/15/the-dangers-of-avx-512-thr...
Godbolt sounds like a top quality brand of quidditch broom :-D
I also had this problem, on my end it appears to be resolved now.
Screenshots Considered Harmful
I work freelance contract, usually 3 to 12 months at a time as an extension of a dev team. This keeps it technically exciting for me, get to meet new people, and depending on my mood, I might look for projects that are more laid back and chill (BigCo with many junior / midlevel devs, who need a couple of new features), or where I need to learn new tech quickly (small team with only senior devs), or where I can set my own hours (remote team with very few meetings) and work from 5 AM to 1 PM if it fits.

It's really nice, the first years might be a bit more risky until you've built up a good network of clients and the current climate might not be the greatest (maybe wait a few months), but this might be an option.

If you can book yourself continuously at a decent rate, 4 days / week @ 10 months / year should be able to replace your employed income (broad generalized calculation).