skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you have a link to these wscripts, or a pastebin? I am curious on what types of automations you are referring to.

Not currently, but I do have a half-written article I plan to publish eventually once I complete this project I'm working on, to showcase my use of waf and how it's helped me. That's how much I like it!

But to give you a quick example: my project (a cross-platform game) has a bunch of assets that I am embedding in the executable. To do this, I wrote a custom waf task that automatically generates a char array in a .cpp/.h bundle, and adds it to my build and include paths.

Using that same tool, I am able to embed other assets that need to be transformed in various ways before being embedded. One of those is a bundle of binary files and meta-data combined together inside a single flatbuffer data blob. This involves compiling the schema, generating a small command-line utility to write the blob using the sources generated from the schema compiler, using that utility to generate the blob, and finally embedding the blob using the asset embedding tool. (Plus some of the binary files themselves need to be processed before all of this happens)

I could do that with shell scripts, but waf's design makes it easy to do, in a small amount of reusable code (everything I just described I implemented in <400 lines of python), and in a general-purpose and easy to read programming language. Plus the tasks automatically execute in parallel wherever possible.

> I'm mainly coming at it from the perspective of a distro maintainer. Few pieces of software use waf, and digging into the wscripts can be a pain for large projects.

I've heard that complaint before, and I can see why it would be annoying for outside maintainers. Waf's customizability means two Waf projects might look nothing alike. So even if one becomes an expert at Waf (which is not very easy considering how bad the docs are), they might be completely lost in someone else's project. I failed a game jam once because I was using Amazon Lumberyard (which uses waf), and even though I completed the game, I couldn't figure out how to compile the damn thing before the deadline.

But if it's any consolation, I don't plan on distributing my project through any linux distros :P
Artix is pretty good; just arch without systemd. I like alpine, too, though using musl can pose some issues.
I recently read that the prior estimations for Neanderthal ancestry are off because they used comparative models that assumed that certain populations had no Neanderthal DNA. Newer techniques seem to indicate that almost all modern humans are partially descended from Neanderthals, including Africans.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/30/africa/africa-neanderthal-dna...

Interestingly, this is said to be a piece of the puzzle of whatever new model replaces the Out Of Africa one.
There’s a grid of 21 distros on that page
Basic Income Experiments Around the World
Friendly Buyer
"Very much on top" if you ignore the page 10 (Office)

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16084/intel-tiger-lake-review...

30%+ faster than previous generation, 20%+ faster than 65W AMD part in Kraken and Octane
75k USD is high end of the Senior Developer bracket in NZ too. It's depressing seeing levels.fyi. Though it's still double the national average, and it's equivalent to the median household income.
Homeland Security issues rare emergency alert over ‘critical’ Windows bug
I work with linux kernel and boot stuff a lot at the moment. That page doesn't tell me at a glance, someone with technical knowhow, what the actual problem is.

If i have to dive into a bunch of mailing list tickets to find out, that isn't very well described.

I'd still be interested in the actual summary of the issue if anyone has it.
inform 7 is an example of programming in natural language. It specializes in solving a single problem and being more of a set of statements than a place to write algorithms. Even so, ambiguity problems in writing are complex and require constant consultations with the documentation to know which sentence is valid for which situation.
Gentoo supports multiple init systems: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Init_system

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Without_systemd
Correct. The sample population was also limited. IIRC the main conclusion of the study is that larger scale studies should be conducted.

Every study has limitations. Do you feel that the limitations you stated mostly invalidate the study?

Nevertheless, like the professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School JoAnn Manson stated in May 2020 [0]: "The evidence is becoming quite compelling [that good Vitamin D status will protect against severe complications]".

[0] https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/930152
It has to be some sort of scam bid. You can go out and buy five Titan RTXes (or Quadro equivalent) and get started on your $11k worth of work right now. Or buy GPU time From The Cloud, which sure is pricey, but not $11k-for-a-$1500-graphics-card pricey.

I can definitely see why people want the RTX 3090, it's a pretty good GPU... but I don't think there is any way people could do the cost/benefit analysis and decide that $11k is the right price to pay.
I don't think anyone's studied it for every day cognitive benefit but oxygen supplementation is common in medicine. Note that increasing oxygen concentration is not the same as decreasing carbon dioxide concentration.

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

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

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

Obese people can also experience cognitive symptoms due to hypoventilation.

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

I suppose this could be considered analogous to breathing in air with high carbon dioxide concentrations.
There's a bunch of stuff in that link, yet I didn't see a part advocating for eugenics.
There is an answer from a real lawyer on this website [1]

Summary: "Copyright covers works of original authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, even LEGO building bricks."

[1] https://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/can-you-copyright-a-lego-...
“In a way that respects privacy” is very difficult. There are companies (Dante Labs for instance), which will do comprehensive genetic testing (full genome sequencing), but privacy is complex. Once the data exists, it’s very hard to un-exist it.
Alpine is amazing for container work and minimal systems. I really love using it where I can.
I like the way systemd manages services by using linux cgrouos, whats the alternative on this? I don't honestly wanna keep writing custom bash init scripts
Good is very subjective :) but I've enjoyed using void linux [1] which has runit [2] rather than systemd. I believe a few other distros support runit (albeit maybe not officially), including Arch Linux.

[1]: https://voidlinux.org/
[2]: http://smarden.org/runit/
"More migrant women say they didn’t OK surgery in detention"

Headline altered
Right, but do the creators of MOCs have rights to the layout of the Lego, or just the instructions and images they use to present that work? (It's unclear hence me hoping a lawyer in the HN community takes a look. :)
Nvidia seeds review cards to reviewers they care about. It would be shocking if AnandTech weren't on that list. I believe they said their review is delayed for personal reasons; AnandTech is good enough that they don't need to be out there on day 1 grabbing clicks. People will read their reviews even if they're a little out of the hype cycle.
The problem is people trying to draw conclusions from the bare facts that said bare facts do not support. That tends to be the aim of "bringing it up," and people are right to shame this anti-scientific behavior.
See also various previous discussions on the code quality e.g.:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23222338
> There are only so many ways to connect Lego bricks which is the part I'm trying to understand.

There are only so many ways to arrange the sample bits in an audio file 3 minute long, yet an audio file can contain copyrightable music.

There are only so many combinations of characters that could occur in a reasonable sized book.

There are only so many ways to color pixels in a photograph.

Etc.
> Meetings are a great candidate for handwriting notes -- and then discarding. You and I know that most meeting notes are throwaways.

I hate handwriting meeting notes! The only way they become useful is if they're saved and searchable (to refer back to weeks or months later), and since they're only sometimes useful, taking the extra time to transcribe is annoying. I can also type faster than I can (legibly) handwrite. So it makes more sense for me to skip the extra step.

Aside, I actually find the metadata (who, when, and broad topics) is what I'm usually looking for. Anything immediate gets on my to-do list, or becomes a ticket, or is part of a bigger project I'm actively working on anyway.

About the only thing I hand write anymore is actually my to-do list. I've tried dozens of apps and other methods, but always give up after a while. I use a 4x6 sticky note pad, and the killer feature is it gets full every couple days. This forces me to tear it off and start over, re-writing anything still active. After doing this with the same items for long enough, I either have to do them or admit they're not important anymore (or important enough) and drop them.

Physically crossing stuff off and throwing away the old sticky notes is kind of cathartic.
Like a supplement for not getting enough sunlight? Supplement your lack of sunlight with appropriate spectrum inside.
The company has a copyright on the sculptures shown in the examples provided but are clearly meant to be replicated for your personal use and enjoyment. If you built a lot of sculptures matching the example and attempted to sell them, the company could sue you for distributing copies of their work without their permission.
My eye doctor told me something very useful about 20 years ago, when I was in my early 20s.

He told me not to wear my glasses unless I had a headache. He said that your eye has muscles and they need workouts like the rest of your body. So I basically never wore them.

I was just on the cusp of needing a prescription back then. He gave me glasses because insurance covered it so why not he said. But then gave me the advice above.

I’m 43 now and can see just fine without glasses. My prescription has been stable for 20 years.
Lojban is a good example of this.
I don't understand. Could you elaborate?

How I see it, taking care of a pet usually requires lots of effort and selflessness. You need to make sacrifices and stay consistent. E.g. with a dog, sometimes you have to go for a walk even if you'd prefer to stay at home and watch TV. All this seems to me the opposite of taking care about only yourself.
I think you'd get
the same or better reception than if you held up a blue lives matter poster at an aoc rally.
A perceived need to run old binaries seems apparent here.

With a lot of code in use being Java and Javascript compiled JIT, the need to run somebody else's binaries is beginning to fade.

Similarly, the high cost of memory page systems and context switches is an artifact of executing unvetted code. When everything untrusted is compiled in a way that it physically cannot breach memory boundaries, the need for the OS and programs to live in separate memory spaces evaporates, along with its overhead.
Yep, I’ve noticed the same correlation. Whenever I’m going through a longer stint of feeling down. It’s usually because I’ve stopped taking vitamin d. I’m reasonably convinced there is some kind of correlation.
The Brownian Map
> Serious adversarial effect

It's a well-understood drug, and any doctor worth their license would know how to use it safely.

> Revoked FDA use authorization

All that means is that more evidence is required before there's an official stamp of approval. "this drug may not be effective to treat COVID-19..." is what the actual request to revoke authroization said.

> Example of researches [sic] that doesn't see an effect of hydroxychloroquine

And there's other evidence contradicting that.

You said there's "no evidence" it's beneficial. That's pretty clearly false, merely based on what I already linked (maybe you should broaden your reading habits). We can debate the degree of confidence the accumulation of studies can give us, but that's outside both our leagues.
Yawn. Hardly anyone here should be surprised. PC gamers on Windows have been enjoying their games and backwards compat since the 1990s.

PCs have emulators for these consoles so you're not missing anything unless you want to play the exclusive PS5 games.
Ars Technica has a video of the Intel system going from a dead stop to Windows desktop in 7 seconds, but I trust Intel to get this right (look at the way a NUC boots) and I absolutely do not trust any laptop maker to follow their example.
Natural language is so opaque term. You need to establish context (vocabulary, relations, rules) if you want to pass some information to another person. The same phrase could have different meanings in different context. And from this point programming language is just another context.
I missed this on reddit though, so more coverage is a good thing. Need to make sure all our managed servers aren't behind on any updates first thing monday.
Significant risk includes likelihood, not just damage.
If you want to hedge bets against highly unlikely events best hold as few physical belongings as possible
Oh man, I never want to lose my mom
Because they want to own you.
Her. And you miss the point.

Obviously they co-evolve, and the consequence is deeply sub-optimal systems, as a result of essentially random, momentary conditions.
The patch is only necessary for domain controllers isn't it? If you're running Windows Server 2008 as DC, I don't want to know what your clients run.
There are exceptions, but also that's an implementation bug.

This Microsoft vulnerability isn't a bug in the code, it's a design mistake, if you implement exactly what Microsoft's design document says for NetLogon, one time in 256 all zeroes lets you in. By design. Stupid stupid design.

If Microsoft had specified that the IV has to be set to 0102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F00 this vulnerability doesn't exist. Is there a different vulnerability? Maybe, it's hard to see how to attack it. But with all zeroes, just send all zeroes, what could be easier?
Reminds me of Xv6:
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2020/xv6.html

And of course there's Fuzix:
http://www.fuzix.org
The more you have to manage the more lax you can get and overlook things. We switched rmm's this year, and had our service manager quit in the middle of it, so there might be some holes in our reporting, and things like this are a reminder of the need to double check and stay on top of things, if nothing else.
> Does anyone know the reason, and whether it is a permanent or temporary change?

Because it's Facebook. They did it to Instagram because that's also Facebook.

They will do whatever it takes to get 'real users' logging in and not window shopping on their website.
A sound recording is just a combination of building blocks as well, individual frequencies with specific amplitudes and phase shifts. Why wouldn't the same argument apply?
I've only voted straight democratic ticket for my entire life. And I feel more comfortable sharing my views with trump supporters than my liberal friends.

Just last night I had to walk away from a conversation because the other party got so heated just because I suggested it's very likely the new supreme court won't overturn roe v wade.
> This is an amazing bug. They took AES (seems fine) and an inappropriate but in principle secure cipher mode (CFB8) and then they fixed the IV as all zeroes

A bit more detail on what happens next: "So with an all-zero IV and plaintext plus a randomly chosen key, you will end up with an all-zero ciphertext 1 in 256 times on average. [In other words] roughly once in every 256 times the server would randomly concoct a session key for which the correctly-encrypted version of their all-zero ClientChallenge would itself be all zeros."[1] Quoted from a detailed and nicely illustrated article about the bug.

[1] https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/09/17/zerologon-hackin...
> I don't think every person who buys a new laptop for $2500 is saying they'd rather have a faster web browser than save a life from malaria.

So there's this thing called "revealed preferences". I have a $2000 laptop, and I was very aware when I bought it that I was saying that this laptop was more important than an african life. I don't have a moral defense for this. I think it's not so much that people don't prefer a laptop to an african child surviving - they do prefer the laptop - but they don't want to perceive themselves to be the sort of people who prefer a laptop to an african child surviving. And so they don't think about it, and get angry at you when you make them think about it. But they still act in that way.

Personally, I sort of feel I'd be a lot more ready to donate a fraction of my income to worthy causes if everyone else was willing to help as well. Maybe we need to run charities like very long term kickstarters - say "we need X trillion dollars over a span of ten years to have an even shot at wiping out Malaria forever, commit yourself to a monthly payment, payment starts once we cross the threshold." I think something like that would be better at motivating me, at least - humans are inherently more sensitive to relative local standing than absolute global effects.
3090 isn’t officially released yet, this one “fell off the truck” and people are willing to bid it up to be the first one who gets it
Xwindows is a server in the same sense that a network printer (or print server) is a server: it sits there waiting to receive network connections from clients, and it allows whoever connects to do stuff which is tangible to the user.

The fact that you're interacting with it makes it also feel like a kind of client. But technically, the clients are asking X to allow them interact with you. Though one of the things you may do with X is control launcher software that ends up starting more clients which interact with you through X.
Thanks for the clarification. Regarding the Medicare Part D provisions, which you call "price controls" . . . to many that term may imply that pharmaceutical companies have had to lower their prices for Medicare. My understanding is that a common complaint against Part D is that these prices are set at levels that are very favorable to the pharmaceutical companies (i.e., high), and that if there were free negotiation for drug prices the size and market power of Medicare would allow it to negotiate better prices. Curious if you have any comment on that.
I've actually reached out to that Lawyer and am waiting to hear back. :)
It's taken me a long time to craft workable boundaries when you get into the giver - taker situation with someone who is family.

I was having trouble with this once and a wiser friend told me it's perfectly acceptable to say "I've decided x".

So I tried it out, and it seems to work. Some people are much more talented at the right level of response.

Oh, and also: https://xkcd.com/2346/
It appears that Nvidia produces all Ampere GPUs in Samsung's 8nm process.

Company with the highest profit margin can pay most, so Apple gets first choice.
Bitcoin approaches the $ 11,000 mark again and Major Exchange Updates
Can't do screen control with that can you?
What window manager is this, and are the themes available outside of TwisterOS?

This might actually be a good WM for Ubuntu desktop!

On my Pi I don't take a crap about how it looks, I usually disable the GUI anyway for efficiency in IOT and robotics projects.
Trump Says He’s Approved Oracle Deal for U.S. TikTok Operations
I'm hoping my ReMarkable 2 pre-order will help me to do potentially both, although imperfect I think the physical act of note taking by hand seems like something I should do more of.
I use it for small Javascript meetups (15-45 people) and it works well for us. If the broadcaster has slow internet it pixelates badly though. This is using the free service they offer.
> The Democratic appointees always vote as a block

I think this behavior could very possibly be caused by there being more conservative justices. If there were 6 liberal justices and 3 conservative ones you'd probably see the 3 vote as a block and the 6 break rank.

The supreme court is going to mostly issue opinions that are close to it's median member. And the more liberal or conservative justices on the supreme court the more liberal or conservative that viewpoint will be. And thus the more likely the more moderate members will be to break rank.
I don't think that is akin to an 8 to 10" Android tablet/screen. Then again, I don't see how all the other products are related to the one mentioned here. Except they're all hackable?

If you want a small device to play old games on via an emulator, I can recommend Pocketsprite [1]. You can even assemble one yourself.

FWIW, I'm looking for a small portable screen (1080p, IPS) to combine with my MBP 2015 (via TB2 or HDMI but I also want it to have USB-C for future compatibility).

[1] https://pocketsprite.com
Once you have the carbon in biomass, what do you do with it? Dry it out and heat it enough to make biochar?
I saw some folks years later from my home town and some of them looked older, and they seemed to be smokers.

(My sample size is kind of small, and for all I know they had a different lifestyle or were out in the sun more)
Netflix: Saudis allowed sexually explicit shows in exchange for removing one
Someone calling themselves a programmer or engineer really only needs to be able to take the requirements they're asked to implement by their employer and implement them in an agreeable timeframe.

No more, no less. Doing so will get you paid for the activity of programming.

Along the way if you don't know anything, because you can't know or remember everything, you just look it up.

The end.
Echoing some of the advice in this thread, Christopher Hitchens said (possibly quoting someone else) something along the lines of "It becomes increasingly obvious that you can't make new old friends".
> Don't like your distro? Build one.

I did, and said so in the first post. Problem is there is only so much you can do with the garbage components that make up "Linux Desktop". I'd pretty much have to re-write everything above the kernel at this point. No coincidence, so did Android!

> I'd rather the majority stay on Windows and don't have a fetish for caring about majority/minority.

Well that's fine. I'm speaking mostly to Linux Desktop evangelists who seem to really want wider Linux adoption, but without actually having to do any of the things that will move the needle towards that goal.