skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incidentally, Scalzi also had that problem.

He wrote Agent to the Stars to try to figure out if he wanted to write and what it was to write. http://scalzi.com/agent/

> In the summer of 1997, I was 28 years old, and I decided that after years of thinking about writing a novel, I was simply going to go ahead and write one. There were two motivations for doing so. First, I was simply curious if I could; I'd had up to that time a reasonably successful life as a writer, but I'd never written anything longer than ten pages in my life outside of a classroom setting. Two, my ten-year high school reunion was coming up, and I wanted to be able to say I'd finished a novel just in case anyone asked (they didn't, the bastards).

> In sitting down to write the novel, I decided to make it easy on myself. I decided first that I wasn't going to try to write something near and dear to my heart, just a fun story. That way, if I screwed it up (which was a real possibility), it wasn't like I was screwing up the One Story That Mattered To Me. I decided also that the goal of writing the novel was the actual writing of it -- not the selling of it, which is usually the goal of a novelist. I didn't want to worry about whether it was good enough to sell; I just wanted to have the experience of writing a story over the length of a novel, and see what I thought about it. Not every writer is a novelist; I wanted to see if I was.
Slow != Breaks. I've run plenty of production python code in pypy. I'm sure it's not appropriate everywhere, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it a separate dialect.
What should the law say is the new limit for the scale and influence they should be able to have?
I just really want to be the first to say "it's a republic, not a democracy!" because nobody can punch me while I'm quarantined.
This article hits the nail on the head. ORMs rarely solve a problem but they almost always add complexity. I always advise against ORM.
Perhaps me and you interact with non-overlapping communities, but I've seen many of those things discussed as concerns.
Oh wow. I used containers for a while, but the official plugin for managing them was awful. You had to go to the site, set the container, then click an approve button the _next_ time you went to it. Took forever to get things set up, and it never synced the settings despite claiming it would. I'm going to give this one a try. Thanks!
Quarterly index of the fastest growing FOSS projects
Pope says homosexuals should be covered by civil union laws
It's my understanding that if you're logged into Facebook and visit a website that uses Facebook's APIs (the Like button etc) then your pageview will get tied to your profile. Even if you don't actually interact with it in any way.

If you isolate your session with Facebook container then they can only tie your pageviews to an anonymous profile and will have a much harder time tracking you across devices, connections, etc.
A Retrospective View of Nat (2007)
So, much of running a NAS is going to be software support, which isn't something I think your going to get from this device. Yes its inexpensive, but say you want to run freenas (or another nas distro, or a hypervisor with a NAS). I don't think you get out of the box support for random OSs on this device because it doesn't adhere to any of the arm platform standards.

So, at this price point your probably better off with a rpi4 and a USB3 disk enclosure. The nice thing about that solution is that the RPI is slowly gaining full out of the box OS support (vmware, windows, *bsds, along with the various linux's), it has much better cores (a72's), and the end user isn't limited to a 2 disk solution as there are a number of 1/2/4/5/etc bay USB3 enclosures. The end result is a flexable solution which can saturate the 1Gbit ethernet on the rpi4.
New Chrome 0-Day Under Active Attacks – Update the Browser Now
> we refer to QUIC and HTTP/3 together as QUIC

My understand is that HTTP/3 always means QUIC is used according to the standard. But that QUIC can be used for other protocols as well. FB's terminology seems to be backwards.
> This is like saying “life is NP-hard.” Like, yeah, of course it is. That doesn’t mean we aren’t pretty good at doing the right thing and rationality (like EMH) is a good, if imperfect tool to analyze behavior.

Most importantly, it doesn't mean that any alternative to markets are not also NP-hard.
I really enjoyed this post, as someone who doesn't possess much programming prowess, I am fascinated with eBPF/kernel sub-systems and I am always eager to learn more. I might have to take the author's advice and build an emulator soon.
Don't forget the third party to "administer" the fine and take a cut!
This is effectively first party isolation. It's buried in about:config as it breaks too many sites apparently
WebApp for learning C++ features with online flashcards
I don't think that will work. Either you need to have the players legally liable for any damage and injury they cause, or you have created a platform for motivated psychopaths and terrorists to kill people with impunity.
I originally tried this for a capture I did that was out of sync and it ended up making matters worse.

The issue for me was my video and audio were using separate clock sources on the capture end. This meant the streams started recording at different times AND drifted apart over time.

Using a V4L2 capture device I finally managed to get something workable in ffmpeg by using the -ts flag with option 'asb' for both audio and video sources.
That's because centralized systems are more efficient than decentralized ones in most of the metrics that matter to end users.

It's also why nation states exist. More centralized organizations can subjugate and absorb, or just out-compete less-centralized ones.
I disabled js on my mobile browser. Life is much better
It's kind of like racing games. You can be a really good driver, expertly trained in maneuvering, stunts, tons of track time. First time in a video game, you are still going to crash the car 100 times, because you have no feel, and no depth perception. The more of a simulator the game is, the harder it will be to master.

I've driven probably 50 laps around Sonoma Raceway with 100+ other cars on the track without hitting anybody. I am fucking lucky to make that happen in a simulator.
I have them on for chat apps that I run in the browser because their native client is Electron-based.
"brainwallet" might be my cyberpunk thing of the week ^^
Sorting Algorithms Visualizer with Python
> The Facebook Container Extension is currently only available for Firefox for Desktop.
Animals Keep Evolving into Crabs
The article was pretty over my head, but does your argument hold to the various augmented neural net systems such as Neural Turing Machines, or Differentiable Neural Computers?
In terms of cookies that's effectively the same yes.

To deal with the annoying breaks, assuming the fix you want is 'just make it work', there's at least one add-on available that just gives you a toolbar button to toggle it on or off, a fish bowl that glows red as a warning when off.
Article on why it sucks: https://www.vanshnookenraggen.com/_index/2020/10/worst-map-e...

> What is the purpose of having a geographic map base when the subway diagram isn’t going to adhere to it? It’s obvious the coders started with station GIS data and tried to have a computer draw the connecting lines. Google used to do this and things just looked wrong with lines traveling to places they never actually went. Eventually they aligned their lines to their proper course.
> Would that actually work? Don't notifications cause your browser to communicate regularly, in the background, with the site?

no, communication is done through a push provider.
> Python is the duct tape of programming languages.

For some that glue is Forth. :D

> A guy named Jean-Paul Wippler is considering using Forth as a super glue language to bind Python Perl and Tcl together in a project called Minotaur (http://www.equi4.com/minotaur/minotaur.html).

> Forth is an ideal intermediary language, precisely because it's so agile. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been chosen for OpenFirmware, which when you think about it, is a Forth system that must interface to a potentially wide variety of programming language environments.
I just communicate the basic truth that they can choose either when we deliver or what we deliver, but not both.
You could describe our job as "taking Dockerfiles from customers and running them globally"; the way we actually "run" Docker images is to convert them to root filesystems and run them inside Firecracker. Firecracker is the core of our stack.
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I am the guy assigned to work on that: sorry for the delay, but it is being worked on.
I got real excited and thought this was gunna be a website that let me create and draw pretty ASCII/ANSI art like back from the warez scene days.
Now, if only we could do something about the fake "allow notifications" pop-up that websites throw up these days…
Reference types were indeed what I was referring to.
That's interesting about running - for me the feeling of discomfort only lasted a week or two at the start (this is years ago) and then i completely fell in love with it... doesn't suck, got very easy.

I suppose choices of music or might help? I don't know what to say - if you run daily and still hate it, that just blows my mind.

EDIT: coming back to say - maybe you just aren't a runner? Try lifting instead? I know a few people who, like you, totally hate running but love to lift heavy things.
It's more than just text, make sure to click "Turn bullshit on." I almost missed all the bullshit I could experience, which I guess illustrates why all the successful bullshit is always opt-out, never opt-in.
That and the containers are why I'm back on Firefox!
Dfinance a Layer 2 Blockchain Network Built for DeFi
How to develop a Commercial Real Estate app
I think this took a wrong turn. I don't aim to defend gold a store of value. It's not clear what its value would be if people stopped using it as a financial instrument, and I always advise people not to buy gold.

My point was that tangible commodities do have at least some intrinsic value, as opposed to digital commodities like cryptocurrencies.
Thanks. that's going in my quotes.txt file
I wonder if the author has considered integrating his voice interface with an AI resource like GPT-3. I could see future development being done in this fashion.
I’m merely paraphrasing his thoughts, as a professional writer.

In this case I do agree however. Perhaps full time journalism would be a bit different, but writing short stories, novels, or freelance news pieces is going to come down to sending it randomly to a variety of publishers and hoping they like it enough to actually speak to you.

None of that process has anything to do with your “bonafides”, it has to do with writing well and composing a story (imaginary or otherwise) and some peon at the receiving firm actually liking it enough to bump it up the chain.

While I’ve used this advice to write better (blog entries, emails, presentations, arguments, etc.) I have not even endeavored to do it professionally. It’s still been helpful for me.
Democracy only works well with an informed and educated populace and we have been defunding education for a decade. Add in the power of lobbyists and the newfound power of tech giants to inflict misery on humanity and you get the current “corporate rule” we are experiencing.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/a-punishi...
4 times is a huge boost, and that's on average. For certain operations it's much much faster. Also comparing a volunteer project to an interpreter that has the resources of google behind it is IMO pretty unfair.

Also saying the effort of PyPy is purely around speed is misleading. After all, another huge goal of the project was to implement a python interpreter in python, which they succeeded at.
Some time ago, I set my old tweets (3 months old) to be deleted automatically. Having this kind of ephemerality feels very peaceful.
"ctrl + ." or just click the container button on the top right

Select "always open this site in".
I love Firefox containers. Can also recommend cookie auto-delete. It's honestly not that bad if you whitelist sites you use a lot.
They would only be able to do it if they get rid of any code at all that they didn't develop themselves, and then accordingly followed the rest of the licenses.

I'd imagine this would be a huge clusterfuck.
FWIW, I know a Checkpoint guy and he swears they’re the best. I haven’t had a chance to do a comparison with him yet but the impression I get is that Checkpoint gets overlooked more than anything so they don’t do great on r/networking.

There is another guy in this thread who gives a good review saying Checkpoint got good in response to competition. Forti is the value option. And, FTD is looked down upon while ASA has some niches.
So, PAN, Checkpoint, and Fortinet appears to be the leaders.
I found a hack for each one of those that makes me enjoy them.

For daily creative writing, I use a journaling app (happens to be Day One on macOS/iOS) and then pick a writing prompt from r/WritingPrompts if I otherwise have no other ideas. I choose one of the top three submissions.

When I started, I had no idea what to write. It was a struggle to write a paragraph. It's weird how it gets easier to create ideas. It's the same people say about improv class - overtime you get better at coming up with reactions to things.

For daily running, I finally gave in and bought bluetooth headphones after thinking they couldn't be that much better than wired headphones. Though I'm sure most people already have a BT headset solution here.

But what I do is have a podcast or audiobook I only listen to on runs. For example, maybe it's a Joe Rogan interview with someone I like. Or a thrilling work of fiction. Currently listening to Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, kinda fun (https://audiobookreviews.com/Dark-Matter/1357).

I now look forward to running. Especially if it's a good episode or book that I want more of. Sometimes, during the climax of the book or a great twist, I've even gone out to run again just to get another hour in.

I also just look at runs as some personal time. Running sucked when I was out of shape, but now they are some nice time away from the world. Oh, and if you're just running on a treadmill, there's nothing that will make that pleasant, I don't think.
When I search for "coronavirus map", this is what I get:

https://i.imgur.com/XJ8zL7x.png

I see a link to the Johns Hopkins map at the very top, along with the New York Times map. And below that a bunch of statistics broken down by geography -- which is usually what I'm after, I don't care so much about the map itself.

What I don't see are any ads (and I'm not using an adblocker), or links to other Google properties except for their Coronavirus information site.

I realize you may get different results depending on where you are, but in particular, I'd be surprised if you saw ads or "random crap" for this search.
> At the same time, whatever an Aggregator chooses to do on its own site or app is less important, because users and third parties can always go elsewhere, and if they don’t, that is because they are satisfied.

This always strikes me as a weak argument. Facebook users can't go elsewhere because their friends aren't on other platforms. It doesn't matter if there's a more privacy-focused social network out there that people want to switch to. Network effects generally trump consumer choice.
> In what country does the author live?

Singapore, for what it's worth.
isn't all six combined into one giant Monster? each one of these six also feed off each other. that's scary. isn't it?
Those are exposed via the built-in debug library, including in luajit.
Looks like the opposite; exposes the leads but leaves the IC covered.
How I Learned to Enjoy Networking
Sounds an awful lot like email, if you ask me.
$8.3B is extremely misleading- the article says it won't happen.

"A forensic audit last year by Purdue found that the Sacklers directed at least $10.7 billion in the company’s proceeds to family-controlled trusts and holding companies"

So the family extracts $10.7B from the company and pays a $225M fine. The company is fined $8.3B but most likely goes bankrupt because it's already been drained by the family.
Polling in React Using the UseInterval Custom Hook
Excellent news! I read the discussion that has since been linked elsewhere, and got the general impression that there wasn't going to be a change for backwards compatibility reasons. Glad to be proven wrong!
This is a very good initiative. Just a suggestion, there are some no-code tools like Appsheet that integrate with Twilio, Zapier and Google sheet. This should give users a better user interface when compared to sms. I think there is a free subscription of Appsheet available for covid related causes.
Don't press the shiny red button
Perhaps hide it behind an appropriate UI? Is there a reason they have to know/care about git?
The argument is totally flawed and therefore BS. It rests on a clearly wrong assumption, that you can't represent number sets with higher cardinality (there are more real numbers, than natural numbers) using the sets of lower cardinality.

You can use natural numbers to represent real numbers with arbitrary precision. You can also use natural numbers to represent non-Archimedian number systems.
Thanks for the input, coomer.
I grew up learning the alto sax (also occasionally subbed for tenor or even bari in my small school) in the late 80s and 90s. It was impossible to not have been influenced by Kenny G, somewhat unfortunately, as a tangible path to commercial success. Still SMH... I mean, talented guy, but complete Muzak, really.

I still have my 1987 Yamaha alto with Vandoren mouthpiece and pull it out every couple years. Remarkable piece of technology, really.
I stay with Firefox for a lot of reasons, but the main one is this - I am so used to TreeStyleTabs I can't imagine going with anything else. Do any other browsers support something similar?
Crazy, but awesome, but crazy. I've worked with so many people who will just obsess and put in so much effort and thought on things that literally no one cares about. It's like a trap for technical people especially with respect to product design. I say this with love, as I have my own rabbit holes. But seriously, no one cares about the video tearing or audio sync the way you do. However, if you can turn the attention to detail into a marketing story, then you're well on the way to getting people to care about what you're doing (this is more generally).
Practice makes perfect!

As William Faulkner says: “I only write when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes at nine every morning.”

With writing (as with many things), there is this myth that you should only do it when inspiration compels you to write. But that is total rubbish. You need to create conditions so that inspiration will strike, and creating a habit of writing frequently will lay the groundwork for inspiration striking. Tyler Cowen, for example, talks about how he writes every morning - whether it's the weekend, Christmas, or anything else [1]. This is an example you agree with his philosophy/economics or not.

Other recommendations:

- "War of Art" is a fun little book that lays this idea out, and frames what's stopping you from creating as "resistance"[2]. In the end, the book can be summarized as: create and stick to a daily ritual of creation. If you do that long enough, you'll create something worthwhile.

- Someone else posted Writing Streak [3] which can be fun to use as well.

- Others use Julia Cameron's "The Artist's Way" [4] ("morning pages") to develop a "daily writing practice".

Honestly, they are all the same. No matter what you choose to do, the most important thing is consistency! Do it enough and you'll get to some level of ability and more than a few finished pieces (Can't guarantee a Nobel Prize in Literature, though, unfortunately :/ )

1: https://www.writingroutines.com/tyler-cowen/

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_Art_(book)

3: https://writingstreak.io/

4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Artist's_Way
True there are some simpler - no distraction - tools out there, some of them are pretty great and for some this might be much better. And of course nothing beats a hand written text. It's just a pain in the a to type the whole thing after. But for me it wasn't until using Scrivener that I managed to write more than a dozen pages before giving up. Scrivener just makes it easy for me to write piece by piece. While a long Word or Pages document just gets too much and demotivates me eventually. But yeah, everyone needs to find their own tool :)
Here is an example. This page [1] has stuff from google loaded that is not blocked by a combination of Ublock Origin and Privacy Badger; for instance google fonts (other stuff from Google, Twitter and Facebook is blocked). If I ever log into Google, then my activity on this page will be linked to my account. If I containarize my Google account, then I guess Google can only use my IP or very advanced tricks to attach this activity to my account.

[1] https://www.sportsbettingdime.com/news/nfl/week-7-opening-li...
I don't understand why they sunk so much money into Firefox OS when they could have much more easily released an Android spin that had Firefox by default, along with other privacy enhancements.
Am I the only one who just keeps their hands/wrists straight on a regular unsplit keyboard? I've always naturally done this and never had any problems with strain.

The best way to describe it is that the home keys aren't ASDF, but more like WEFV with my forearm angled so it's straight from elbow to fingertip. This exaggerates the effect but demonstrates it clearly; the real home positions are more like intermediate points between keys.
had a similar idea a while back but to incorporate a suite of tools for the gamemasters to use, maps, npc name generators, voice modulators, things like that.

Awesome that you are seeing some traction so early on, looking forward to your success.
For me it's not that running is uncomfortable. It's that running is boring.
I am surprised to see POST requests to https://example.com/ in uMatrix and the Network Inspector.

Can anyone share why this is happening?
Well, almost every field that's "lacking mathematical completeness" is generally more complex than those that are not lacking it.

Real life is extremely fuzzy and ill-defined. Almost everything mathematical is a model and models are almost by definition, simpler than the thing they model.

I'd be glad to be proven wrong within my lifetime and have someone come up with the Fundamental Laws of History, for example, fully defined from a mathematical point of view.
I had a lot of free time in the past and spend a lot of it writing. 99% of what someone writes will be crap. That is like 1% of the code you write actually running. It is really difficult to feel motivated to keep writing when your normal output is at such a low quality.

I'd argue that this is the number one hurdle to writing more and writing "better".
BackBlaze was not alone (not sure who was first) to mount drives vertically. Xyratex did that in the near-line storage units (e.g. RS-4835), as did Hitachi and others. Once you've seen them, it's the obvious choice to maximize the number of 3.5" drives in a rack (~48drives in a 4U chassis). Heavy beasts though -- you want a lift to mount them.

Don't know about relative reliability to horizontal mounts, but afair the drive manufacturer recommends mounting either vertical or horizontal and we didn't observe any obvious issues.
I believe the Java implementation is current and well maintained: https://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoctorj/