skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC on HN itself there was an article about a service where you could just hire someone to (pretend to be) your friend / significant other, to pretend to your families you're not some lonely shut-in and you're doing all right. The requests were quite varied.

It's dystopian as fuck but it fulfills a need, apparently.

The Netflix miniseries Maniac has something similar, a company called Friend Proxy where you can hire someone to act like a friend of yours. It's a really interesting take on the cyberpunk genre, it's worth watching.
The idea behind this is brilliant, and I support the sentiment. Unfortunately, for this to work effectively, you really need to be accurate and precise. As others pointed out, a lot of the items lacks sources and/or have questionable verdicts.
It's funny how a bunch of these streams have actually become communities in and of themselves, with people coming in, chatting about life, work, heartbreak etc. while recommending new artists to check out (esp. if you are a fan of indie music, these live chats are gold). Most of them are also actively administered and have very little tolerance to bullshitting/harassment so they end up as a great place to hang out. I usually pair RainyMood [1] along with one of these streams while working and that has a very calming effect and is a great multiplier for my productivity.

Truly reminds me of a IRC groups I hung out on a decade ago, and this is the closest to a Web 1.0 forum-like environment built around music.

More power to such great communities.

[1] https://rainymood.com/
I'm pretty sure they're still personalized, but they're "stock" messages because these people deal with dozens of requests a day. Very lucrative, I'm sure.
How to avoid deadlock in DB transaction?
One of the hardest thing when working with database transaction is locking and handling deadlock. The best way to deal with deadlock is to avoid it, which means we should fine-tune our queries in the transaction so that deadlock won’t have a chance to occur, or at least minimise its chance of occurrence.
Wow that’s awesome you actually have a jq like implementation. Hmmm since it’s a graph maybe you could go with something like openCypher [0] or GQL [1] (possibly gremlin too) or maybe you could even query it with GraphQL (although GraphQL only traverses down in a tree fashion)? Although some sort of simpler jq like syntax might be able to make more sense. It would need to be able to branch out somehow. I think even an emmet [2] like syntax might work well.

[0]: http://www.jcc.com/resources/jcc-blogs-menu/blog-database-dr...

[1]: https://www.gqlstandards.org/gql-blogs

[2]: https://docs.emmet.io/cheat-sheet/
Try the "about" link at the top.
And, should one speak German, there is https://www.prad.de/ too.
Welcome to HN, where the majority reads nothing but the headline and discus how they feel about the headline.
Where are you getting a 2% death rate or expectancy that 100% of the population will be infected?

The numbers I've seen are 0.66% death rate, with an average remaining life expectancy of about 10 years among those who die, and estimates that between 15% and 70% of the population would be infected.

70% of 0.66% of 328M is 1.5M deaths, or 15M years of life lost. That is indeed a big number.

Smoking has been estimated to reduce life expectancy by 13 years for heavy smokers. There are about 34M smokers in the US. I don't have the exact stats on number of heavy smokers and how long people smoke for, but assume that the average smoker smokes for 20 years and loses 5 years of life expectancy over that time. That's about 850,000 years of life lost _every single year_ to smoking alone.

I think the question of "would it be worth 5% of the current COVID-19 measures to stop smoking entirely for 1 year" is a valid one.
> If it were that easy

Let me quote you again.

"Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power — that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude competitors. "

So, to be 100% perfectly clear, are you denying the truth of this statement that was released by the government?

I can't help you, if you are going to say that this statement, that is released by the government is false.

> based on your interpretation

The only thing that I am doing at this point is quoting the information released by the freaking US government, which it kind of seems like you are denying? Which is absolutely insane.
> The fact that they use the same compiler is to me a devastating argument.

Except they don't.
While this is cool I have a general question to people here:

How do other people here handle tensorflow as a python dependency? People use it like it's any other dependency, but it frequently adds unnamed amounts of dependencies, creates conflicts every now and then, is just massively huge and for the longest time of its 1.x existence was constantly breaking some PEP's causing problems with third party tools. It's kind of poison to custom docker files. How do you guys handle this situation? This isn't really my responsibility but whenever I deal with ML engineers doing tensorflow stuff I feel like I'm immediately also a plumber.
What's the alternative? I mean loneliness is a huge problem in a lot of societies, and the 'rona has only made it worse.
As counterstrategy you can use tools like
http://trackmenot.io/

"TrackMeNot runs as a low-priority background process that periodically issues randomized search-queries to popular search engines, e.g., AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and Bing. It hides users' actual search trails in a cloud of 'ghost' queries, significantly increasing the difficulty of aggregating such data into accurate or identifying user profiles.
"
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There is no English creole forming in Europe. Textbook English in schools and then hardly spoken outside some corporate environments. I would rather classify workplace English as just bad English.

I guess you need a more wide and natural speaking of bad English for a creole to form when people try to over-bridge their bad English with own inventions?
what specific efficiencies do we gain by getting rid of all the world’s languages? things seem to be mostly working in global commerce despite language barriers, or at least what problems we do have don’t really seem to be caused by languages.
> As customers of TSMC, in the long term it behooves them for TSMC to have competition.

Sure, but it is not like Intel is going to fab AMD and nvidia chips, so they need other competitors, like Samsung, and that's what they are using.
Yeah, it is being around forever. Erisson or some Nordic company use it for phone switches. It is design for concurrency. Personally I think everything pretty much has being invented, it is all about people looking for it and bring into fashion.
YouTube has a huge number of bots on it as well. Patreon is less easily gamed.
I tend to use Anaconda where possible, makes such dependencies easier to manage (but still not trivial... though you can change cuda runtimes with Anaconda, the actual driver is a system-wide dependency, of course).
Absolutely amazing application - I found it on HN sometime at the beginning of COVID lockdowns, and it has radically changed my WFH life. Thank you so much :D

I use it with 2 disparate non-thunderbolt monitors, one connected into its built-in dock, and the other to a dock dongle. Works perfectly fine!
Same at my alma mater. One point is worth $1 at the dining hall. You can top up points for $1/1, but you're required to buy a plan of at least 1,200 points that costs $1,800.

https://diningservices.wustl.edu/meal-plans/undergraduate/

I always tried to explain to people that they should get the smallest plan but some didn't get it.
"I have previously hypothesised that all human chronic autoimmune diseases are caused by Epstein–Barr virus (EBV)"

Obvious red flag is obvious, because once you start looking for something in particular you do start finding it everywhere you look.

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

This is why we developed the scientific method, to act as a filter for such human follies. That the author is still hypothesizing instead of rolling up his sleeves and doing the actual work to DISprove his own ideas speaks volumes.

Or, to put it another way: it is not sufficient merely to gird oneself in the mantle of Marshall and Warren; one must also swallow the H Pylori and serve their hard time on the shitter.
Same here (UK) the only exception to jumping their taxi queue is if you need a specific vehicle further back in line (large, wheelchair friendly, etc)
This just shows AS number rather than name, though, right?
This discussion just cares about the extremes. Maybe there are lonely people that get milked on behalf on parasocial relationships. Maybe there are rich people that like streaming and honor it with money. There are probably a lot people with unknown financial and social status that just lurk on and off (like me). Unless we conduct research that indicates that this is massively negative to the society we should not speculate and try to make up stigmas.
More specific claims have been made and held accountable at http://longbets.com.
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> Despite the impending release, an executive (it was Patrick) posed to us: what would you build if you had the time to do it the way you wish you could?

Funny how CEO of Stripe is still participating in such (seemingly) low level decisions. Can't imagine that CEO of Ford for example would participate in new site design and development.
One day, maybe when I am retired, I am going to develop a programming language-agnostic algorithm specifying language with which you can generate code for programming languages ;-). A kind om Mathematica, but than for software.
Hopefully the brain doesn't rely on undefined behavior.
We were lucky, in the silver lining sense, to have had expansionist neighbours. In the nineteenth century, the french said we didn't speak "real" french. In the twentieth, both the germans and the italians said we didn't speak "real" german or "real" italian.

In response (our dialects having had an army) where before those countries had been taken as arbitrating the prestige forms of their languages, there's been a revival of local dialect. We don't have an "RP": politicians in 2020 will of course use a prestige register in speech, but don't bother to hide their dialects.

(Written language has an orthography, taught in school. But most people I know treat SMS/chat as an oral, not literate, form. In german this results in idiosyncratic spelling, in french, "langage SMS")
Indeed, the people that espouse a purely materialistic, Darwinian view seem to wax romantic regarding these marginal tongues.

In the mode where we're all so many pillars of atoms walking about, what difference does one language more or less make?

The psychology of the argument is more fascinating than the argument itself.
Might be worth pointing out that fp16 on a k80 is woeful.
Python Virtual-env
You create one new virtual environment for each different project, and you throw them away and build them up again once a problem appear.
I'm pretty sure I saw beer bottles break in my freezer due to content freezing. Don't know about a corona specifically thought
Multiple Western Digital 5400RPM drives are actually 7200RPM drives
I feel the same way. The best-case scenarios on all of the climate change charts have been scratched. 2 degrees of warming is basically a given and the debate is now one of damage control. The lag between action and effect is somewhere between 40 and 50 years.

https://theconversation.com/if-we-stopped-emitting-greenhous...

If all human-induced green houses gasses stopped right now, things would still get worse. Which is why it was important to panic 10 years ago.
Qubes is for end user desktop/laptop usage, not service hosting.
They said "via the BIOS setting", which is definitely not userland switching.
This seems like a feature to me. Patreon helps me support my creators, takes their fee and gets out of my way. That's how things are supposed to work IMO.
>So how do you cater to thirsty dudes?

Self improvement and self help (real or just promised) are big ways to make money in this area.

>Notice how anything like this will always be male owned.

I don't think it makes a difference to the individual creators whether the middle-man profiting from this is male or female. The creators don't get any better outcome either way.
That's nothing to do with HN, that's just how the internet works.
This would be a valid argument if the only incentive for human action was money. Since we know that to be false makes your argument invalid.
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You tip everyone in the USA. Hairdressers, handymen, babysitters, car mechanics, coffee baristas, bartenders, cab drivers.

Why should employers pay employees when their customers can do it for them?
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I speak a minority language which is under threat. Language is more than a communication tool, and communication is much more than getting your message across.

We tell stories and jokes, explain feelings and share joy and pain all through language. It's more than VC pitches!

If my language goes, it takes with it centuries of poetry and literature. And the link it provides to the past, not just historically but in place it takes in the evolution of languages in this part of the world.

I can see and understand the value in having a lingua franca, but the argument does miss the point that we're human before anything and our language is intertwined with that.
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Most interviews do not have enough time to assess for culture fit (from the candidate), so ask for time. Any company that has a good culture will be happy to give you an hour to ask questions, maybe more. This might be only at the offer stage, but by that point they are invested enough that there's no reason other than hiding a bad workplace to not give you that time.

Treat it almost like an interview. Write up questions, think about the questions for a while, think about what a good and bad answer looks like. They're probably going to be pretty open ended, and the conversation may be somewhat circuitous, but they will be valuable.

Questions I like to ask are things like:

- Walk me through the process from ideation, spec, code, testing, deployment, maintenance. Who owns each part? How long does each part take? Which people/roles, processes, tools/tech are involved?

- If you left, what would you want to take from this team to your next? What does the team do better than others?

- What do you think the team needs to improve at? What does it do less well than other teams you've been a part of?

- How does change happen? What mechanisms do you have for change? Can you give some examples of change happening?

- How does the team feel about... Code Review (or anything else you care about)
Quake/Quack all over again. Ironically now it’s ATI/AMD getting cheated.
Good! Mind you, they are not high quality images. They're just a raw mmdebstrap with little configuration, probably not suitable for production use. I mean them for development. (I specify this because you mentioned tool for actual production use).

In any case, help yourself!
That's a organization problem (bunkers, are they called silos?) not a coding problem. I wish people would specify their coding advice with "advice for big projects with square process", "advice for dysfunctional planning", "advice for small team" etc.
Firefox and Safari removed it.

Chromium has it of course. So does the battery API. Which gives out your battery percentage to sites.
> And how do you share the context / documentation which yaml file is intended to be called by which ansible utility with which utility parameters and switches?

Like I said: Ideally there are no switches and parameters - the playbook should work as-is. If there are switches, we document them in our internal confluence. And yes, our docs get stale, too. That is a problem that we did not fix yet. :)

Many playbooks also get executed automatically, so there'S no need to remember parameters for them. You just start the CI-job that then runs the playbook.
Look into DCC/CI, it's possible your monitor supports that already.
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Sure, after having tried other approaches. She has a fan base that can exert pressure.

People have personality. If her personality is to say "fuck you, I'll fight you back using your same weapon" then my personality can be "I don't like that, I prefer a society where people don't react to force with force and being jerks to jerks"

EDIT: just to be clear; she's free to choose her strategy, but here we were talking about whether patreon should side with her and exempt her from their policies. They are not in a position where they can fully judge who's right
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My question is WTF are those 200 people doing considering the main product of the company is an automated process and the code has already been written & tested over the previous years?
The airline traffic control system is all in English to reduce crashes from misunderstood communications.

The C compiler I wrote in the 80's could produce error messages in several languages. I was pretty proud of it. But nobody used that capability, they preferred the English messages. A huge problem was finding someone bilingual in English software jargon and X software jargon.

So yeah, one spoken language for programming is more efficient.

Also, the D programming language accepts foreign language identifiers. Does anyone use that feature? I'm sure someone will say they do, but they are a very tiny, tiny minority.
I've worked on something similar using libvirt, kvm, and qemu. Maybe I'll clean it up and share it here later this week.

The script uses libvirt to automate the process of creating a new kvm VM, and emulates CPU architecture via qemu (arm, aarch64, ppc, risc, etc).

The VMs run pretty nicely on Debian - including insane boot times and direct kernel boot.

I'm not sure if MacOS supports kvm or not. A quick google search yields results to emulate MacOS, though :)
It must be completely dependent on where you're from. Over here you tip neither waiters or cabbies. I have no idea why you'd tip the taxi driver at all. I'm glad that with Uber you can just pay through the app and that removes the stupid "just keep the change" attitude. Most other taxi companies are implementing their own apps with online payment nowadays so fortunately this habit is dying out(one can hope).
On a tangent, I do feel most GIS systems and applications still use 2d maps instead of a 3d globe, which I think could do with some rethinking. Working with globes could eliminate the whole apparatus of projections, and I guess would simplify a lot of calculations.. but there seems to be much resistance to this idea.
Public parks are like public libraries, they're mostly just homeless shelters and places to deal drugs. As a city dweller I really don't get this rosy presentation of them that acts like they're somehow gifts to the community.
The subtitle is "Just 50-150 of our favorite sites are enough." More numbers further on in the article, although not that many.
Wow, this sounds like how I always hoped Unity would turn out :)

Pragmatic editor + C# + Full source code, including the renderer + no royalties + ability to use double precision mathematics = no more flickering bugs + Rider IDE
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Stop posting LessWrong they are a cultist around Eliezer Yudkowsky they use Occam's razor without realising Occam (monk) literally imitated St. Thomas Aquinas who was a theologian/philosopher
YouTube's real killer feature is its video discovery. Having millions users endlessly streaming content without many connection hitches while showing a dozen recommended videos each time does wonders for authors.

I'd be more worried about YouTube getting their shit together and making a Patreon killer than Patreon building video hosting.
KDE and Gnome work fine with the nvidia proprietary driver on Wayland.
Ask HN: Starting Service on Top of B2B SaaS. Thoughts?
Say there's a niche B2B SaaS. Plans vary from $50-$200 per month.

Funnel is slow, but retention is high.

You realise there is a set of customers, who don't care about your product. They care about result. Your product is very well able to deliver.

Does it make sense start a service vertical, where instead of offering the product/platform, you deliver results to clients?

1. Hire a few people
2. Train them to use your SaaS
3. Charge customers 10x and deliver results weekly or monthly

thoughts?
Extinction Rebellion ‘flattered’ by government claim that it poses cyber threat
I'm not going to defend US policy in terms of COVID handling, but comparing positive test numbers in the US to positive test numbers in the rest of the world mostly tells you about testing rates.

The US has 22% of the total (verified) global COVID-19 deaths. Most deaths occur in those aged 65 or above. 9% of the global population (702M people) is over 65. 17% of the US population (56M people) is over 65.

So the US has 8% of the population over 65 but 22% of the COVID deaths - it's still almost a factor of 3, so definitely not just reporting artifacts, but it's not a factor of 6+ either in terms of how the US is doing vs how you would expect.
I bet there is plenty of coverage there for LAX already. In my impression, services like this (and even Flightradar24) at this day and age are mostly interested in coverage in spotty areas in rural areas and far away from civilization.

Don't get me wrong! I'm not trying to demotivate you. Just letting you know that maybe they'll turn you down. However, even if they do so, you can always learn a lot by doing so... and it's quite cheap, and redundancy is always welcome, right? :)
I just yesterday tried current stable debian with kde and after installing nvidia drivers it started vsyncing to my fastest display, not the slowest. (I checked with glxgears).