skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very true that everyone's ideal formula and variables are different.

Narrative and anecdotal writing allows one to take from it what you like, as trying things out works better for some than understanding it all to begin with and it shouldn't be discounted just because it may not work for all.

Conversely, it might be worth considering the importance of the reader to learn to extract what's good for them out of any reading and not expect everything to be curated just for them.

Getting hung up on how a piece of writing is not perfectly catered for acceptance by the reader is likely going to leave a lot of nuggets, value and insights missed.

The comment above could be taken as merely a counteract of pushing another interpretation of it being imposing and presumptuous. Still there's many folks who don't take this writing style as imposing and presumptuous.
I have two. A rift S and a quest 1. I don't care about the money but many people probably do. I hope Facebook gets flak for this and I think they will. They might have buried a complete market segment for VR. That said, they always preferred the more naive users.

I certainly won't create an account and for me this gen of VR failed like the last ones. It is an experience, but not that good to warrant this customer hostile behavior.
everybody outsources their thinking to some extent. It is nice if people can have a sort of overview of their own thoughts to understand how they have outsourced it.
I have to use Ping ID quite a bit to log into customers' systems. I also live in south Louisiana.

The last 5 months have been extremely difficult to maintain focus because, for me at least, it's really difficult for my brain to not check tropical forecasts every time I look at my phone.

I've noticed that my productivity triples when there are no storms in the gulf due to the fact that it's much easier to maintain my attention on engineering tasks. I've thought of setting up a second phone that I have with ONLY ping on it, but I feel that it's the stress driving me to check the tropics, and if I took the time to create a 'just ping' device my mind would find another way to compulsively check.
The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place inside your printer
Trolling isn't welcome on this site.
I think part of the error is that people have a misconception that a leader should have all the answers. The best leaders I've worked for don't come into an interaction feeling this pressure, but rather help coordinate the energies of the team to let the the team reach the best answer. Of course, when there isn't a consensus, there needs to be a unambiguous "decider", but hopefully this is relatively rare and ends up being just small enough of a decision to get enough feedback to get the team to an iterative consensus.
This disease will never be "eradicated" and it is not helpful to use that word to discuss policy decisions. Sars CoV-2 has numerous animal reservoirs and an incredible transmission rate. It will never be gone from this Earth.

We will get vaccines and we will come up with better treatments negating its effects, but this coronavirus is here to stay. It will be a fifth endemic human coronavirus.
Linux-m68k required a 68020/030+68x51 MMU, or a 68040/060 with built-in MMU.
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Our local supermarket does sell locally grown heirloom tomatoes, but because they are not perfectly round and not even in colour the entire section for four different heirloom tomatoes is about one tenth the size for the standard tomatoes (greenhouse and field).
Show HN: Yaydl – yet another YouTube down loader (in Rust)
Did you look into Remarkable e-paper tablet? [0] Many people swear by it because it supposedly has the feeling of paper when writing (the screen has a matte/rough texture). I've ordered one myself, haven't received yet so I can't vouch for whether those opinions are true or not, though.

[0] http://remarkable.com
You might want to checkout Lunacy from Icons8, it is a free windows clone of Sketch that aims for 100% compatibility.

https://icons8.com/lunacy
Unfortunately some of this information is out of date and refers to Multicore with the concurrent minor collector - a collector we don't plan to upstream.

We plan to upstream the parallel minor collector, which has a shared minor heap across all domains. It maintains compatibility with the existing C API and seems to perform well.

You can find more information on both the concurrent minor collector and the parallel minor collector in the recent ICFP paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3408995

You can also see KC's talk on the paper here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASX79I0jm6M&feature=youtu.be...

--

The TL;DR on Domains is that they're heavyweight threads. You essentially want as many as you have cores.

Our talk (separate to the one above) at the OCaml Workshop also covers a lot of the terminology and how to get started with Multicore today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7YZR1q8wzI&list=PLKO_ZowsIO...
Yes I'm sure it's all just a big misunderstanding.
Spot on, I think awareness of where you've outsourced your thinking is most important, vs not doing it at all.

The startup example was one where I wasn't aware that I'd outsourced my thinking and it came back to bite me in the long run
I always understood that as a later Richard Stallman-esque take on it.

Transparency would have just been assumed by the first people to do OSS because they'd be the ones loading the programs.
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I agree it's terrible that the papers named him so early, and I do think we should give him the benefit of the doubt, but given the information out there right now, there is a reasonable chance he actually was making a bomb. It seems to me like people are willing to jump to the opposite conclusion simply because he's "one of us". Let the investigation play its course.
"Why can't we have more immigrants from places like Norway?"
They might and it would be great if they did. But don't you think that such a laptop would receive the A14 rather than the A14X?

The reviews for the Surface Go Laptop are hilariously bad, as they are reviewing if it were intended to be a gaming or power user device. That's insane. It's a cheap, small, touchscreen laptop for doing schoolwork and writing Word documents - and probably the best one you can buy in that price range. I got one for my kids; once you uninstall the god-awful Skype and Mail apps, it runs silently all day long. The 3:2 screen makes writing Word documents much nicer than any similarly-sized widescreen laptop. Etc.

Anyway, I don't think that the MacBook Air would be positioned with this is a competitor. Apple tends to avoid this price range.
Which they obviously are.

Some developers may disagree with Apple’s strategy, but it’s obvious that they are investing in technologies that support developers, and continue to reach more customers - which also makes the platform better for developers.
Apple intentionally cripples mobile Safari so that Web apps will never be as good as native ones.
It's not possible to totally eradicate a virus that has animal reservoirs. The virus apparently jumped from bats to humans once before so it will probably happen again. We can't vaccinate all the bats.
Because a small company, by definition, doesn't earn millions and usually has very small margins (if none, if they're still in the startup phase). A large company can definitely afford to contribute more.

> Like I said, go ahead and offer free commercial licenses to small companies, who in your estimation are 99% of developers.

Offering commercial licenses adds a lot of work on top of the already difficult development of OSS projects.
I don't understand why you think that the situation can be fixed using existing solutions, when the problem arised with these solutions already in place.

Perhaps we need something different??

Edit: I also completely reject the notion that everything should be commercialized. OSS is the antithesis of this. Down with commercial licenses, down with rich capitalists exploting people's voluntary work.
Dumb humans. Is your comment serious?
TLDR
Follow your own path. Don’t outsource your thinking.
It blows my mind that the top search result for an app is often an ad for a different app. You know that gazillions of unsophisticated users are downloading the wrong app as a result and having a worse experience. (It's easy to do as a sophisticated user if you're not paying attention!)

Apple directly selling out UX for $ is certainly not an optimistic sign.

I do wonder at a much broader level if there's some way to structure society to bring the motivation & focus that young companies give us w/o the inevitable slide to evil that capitalism and investors demand.
Luck of choice, human rights, data protection and privacy, collectivist society and strong government enforcement bodies are prerequisites for a successful contact tracing. I guess that work much better in Asia than in the "western world".
For what its worth, capitalism does not care about the lives of human beings.
People are contagious a few days before they show symptoms, but most infections are by unambiguously symptomatic people, because they carry the highest viral load. If symptomatic people stay home you cut down infections by 2/3rd if not more. R0 goes from 1.5 to 0.5 and that's sufficient.
This is my first serious(ish) Rust project. I still need to learn a lot, but I hope you wouldn’t notice. Please, by all means: If you find an obvious mistake, send me a patch. :-)

(Also, I deliberately made it easy to add new sites. You are invited to add some!)
"Deutsche Piccolo" tomatoes from Kaufland taste quite good. They are also the most expensive ones from there.
But honestly the cheaper ones aren't worth their money, might as well buy colored water.
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Hardcore Apple fanboy here: I am afraid you are right about most offerings that simply are not (financially nor content wise) attractive.

For films: Netflix all the way. Do not even get me started on the #@%^$# signup process for Apple TV

iCloud: I needed, do not see an easy alternative :(

Apple one: yeah, no thanks.

Appstore: I needed and it is fine for my needs.

Apple Music: Like it, works great for my needs and works fine with Shazam. Do not try to play anything they suggest however. From play lists to "specially for you" it does not even come close to what I want to listen to. Playlist management overall is terrible too.

Apple Car Play: NEEDS A WIRE, in 2020! I got a wireless charging thingy in the car (Audi 2019), and keyless entry, but I need a cable to use Car Play: disappointing to say the least.

Your other examples: did not know they existed, no need for them.

So basically I am using the same old Apple services since day one and see no need at all to switch to anything existing. If they would allow me to host my email from my private domain however...

Love the "live long" updates, the interface and the styling of the devices and the (perceived) privacy enough to stick in this ecosystem.
Yeah but it is also hilarious when the contributors of free open source software rage quit when they realize others can use their work for free while the contributors forget to make money.

Software developers, man!

For a bi-weekly hilarious rage quit, check out Andre Conje on twitter!
We're a bunch of smart people here. What kind of a system can we come up with that cannot be ignored by multinationals to reap the benefits of FLOSS?

Do people really care about licenses? Large companies will bury you in costs before you get paid, right?
I think by that time it's too late.

The obligation to reach towards the wallet should be earlier. As somebody mentioned somewhere, I think bounties would make sense. The dev can work in anything they like, but can be incentivised to work on something specific if a bounty is on it.

For that however, we would need a third party system where people can pay into a pot for a specific goal, define the key items that have to be fulfilled, and only when they are fulfilled + validated by a third party, is the money paid out.

Or something like that. What other ideas do you smart folk have?
One think I think people really don't seem to grok about Elon is that fundamentally he's a pretty silly guy, just look at his Twitter, he may have accomplished a lot, but much of what he says and does is just not meant to be taken seriously and essentially pranking.
I am able to use Dillo for a lot of everyday tasks. The limiting factor really poses a different question: are there any everyday usable websites left that are not architected as applications and aren't supposed to work like one?

The answer is some, with degraded functionality and layout if you don't support yesterday's CSS and JS
I'm guessing you're saying that based on the number of people that remain asymptomatic &/or don't die, but you are incorrect.

We already know there is a strong possibility the virus has a negative effect on cognitive ability even in people who don't get any serious symptoms [0]

Those might go away. They might not. There could be other effects we're unware of. What we do know is that you're unlikely to find any expert on this who will unequivocally say "no longer term effects".

[0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.20.20215863v...
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The problem is that taking the test before air travel or right after the arrival at the destination is like playing the Russian roulette. For example in my country you can take a COVID tests but:

1. you might need to wait for results for 4-5 days, while most destinations require taking it at most 72 hours before the arrival

2. if you turn out to be asymptomatic, but test positive, then you instantly get into at least 10 day quarantine (you cannot take tests anonymously). You have no time to cancel your travel plans.

Also, if you choose not do do it, but instead take test at your destination, you might get stuck in quarantine in the foreign country

So I would never travel to a country that requires tests. Only those which require just written statement, or location form, and maybe temperature check.
Ahh yes! the Get-Your-Friend-To-Call-A-Congressman approach. Works like a charm every time ;)
Let's see how this comment ages. I give it 50-50
> No it wouldn't. One of the things that makes SARS-CoV-2 such a problem is that people get contagious long before they show symptoms. Similarly to for influenza and the common cold, many people get contagious without ever developing symptoms.

Agree with the main thrust of the point but if everyone did stay home for 14 days you may well eradicate the virus. Problem of course that its economically/socially/medically impossible to facilitate a complete 14 day lockdown.
Nice, this was super timely as I was literally building the same thing. And I had just reached the part where I was annoyed that all the submitted videos had different shapes and sizes which as you know would be tedious to correct manually.

You for sure saved me some time!
Bananas work well for that according to BigClive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lzq6LuVWH0
I think the parent is asking (if 1 shot of this vaccine confers 80% immunity) would it not be better (for the purposes of curbing transmission) to give everyone a single injection now for 80% immunity among a broader population rather than giving half the number of people two doses for 90% immunity. The implicit constraint is that it will take a relatively long time to scale up production and distribution to the extent that we can get two doses to everyone.
I’m fully in agreement with the goal here, that for-profit companies should pay for changes they request. And some companies do pay OSS projects for support. SQLite is one high profile example (https://www.sqlite.org/consortium.html), and there are others with varying degrees of success.

The problem I see here is that there is no clear or easy path to making this goal a reality everywhere. What really happens most of the time is engineers at various companies are downloading and integrating open source code because it’s free to use as-is. These engineers aren’t managers and do not typically have the ability to spend company money on software without approvals from management, and while they should ask, the reality is that they don’t ask.

If I’m an engineer inside a for-profit company, with no explicit software budget, what steps should I take to prepare the company for offering bounties? Should something be happening before we download and integrate a new OSS project that sets a management/company expectation of paying for future changes, and what should that look like?
> I think we can eradicate it by contact tracing.

People (rightly, or wrongly) don't trust technology enough, after the reputation Silicon Valley has built and can't shed, around privacy.

I'm on an Android phone, and sure, Citizen and a local State app can do the contact tracing. But what's Citizen doing with that data? It also requires interactivity (another Silicon Valley favorite thing to do - call out for people to perform actions via alerts and notifications).

It's a lower bar for people to wear masks than to accept to use an app for contact tracing, if you were to compare the policy actions. Now, you can have the contact tracers call people, but how many spam calls do you get that you ignore? And phishing attempts? I received numerous texts from "the Democrats" with a person's name, urging me to vote, from all sorts of US numbers, and asking for a reply. To this day I don't know how real that is.

There are too many people to blame for this state of affairs, but the greed and competition for eyeballs are the definite drivers.
Maybe one's passion starts to dwindle when one's house burns down.
We were shopping for a VR headset last week. We absolutely would have bought an Oculus, except the risk of having it tied to Facebook kept putting us off.

It wouldn't just be risky to purchase an Oculus; that risk would continue the entire time we'd own it. Having that kind of worry built into a product makes it less fun.

In the end we bought an HTC Vive. We've been quite happy with it.
In my view, HTML6 should remove a lot of clutter and remove backward compatibility for a lot of stuff.

HTML is a language that is too ambiguous to parse, and that's not a good thing for browsers. HTML should be adapted to mobile so it can work faster, use less memory, etc. Something with vector graphics should be a better norm.
everybody who knows about efficient market hypothesis knows that it's assumptions aren't applicable to the real world and it doesn't really matter; the real problem is those folks who mindlessly repeat propaganda about markets being rational or fair or generally doing the right thing when they clearly aren't.
What mobile platform is better? I’d rather overpay slightly for hardware and have some developer on HN get pissed at the App Store than give all my personal information and my whereabouts to Google.
by violating the receiver's privacy?
Steady on

What about Japan? A whole culture that celebrates an artistic minimalism, eh?

I get what you're saying, I think, but it feels to me like you might be overreacting just a little.

FWIW, I found that I could concentrate better in a noisy cafe than a quiet bare room, but that's just me, eh?
> 1. you might need to wait for results for 4-5 days, while most destinations require taking it at most 72 hours before the arrival

It is easy to get in this circumstance in the US, it is also easy to not get in this circumstance in the US.

Huge range of service level. Money helps!
Panels of ordinary people can solve problems that the professionals fear to tackle https://archive.is/mcazu
turnout is always < 1.00 in the US because voting is not mandatory and registration is not (universally on a national level) automatic—which would need to happen before mandatory voting.

so it is theoretically trivial, once you know how many votes you needed to have won that you did not, to add a number of fake votes N to the number of real votes P such that N+P < T, the total of registered voters.

however, this is actually not that easy to do en masse scale because of how discretely elections are conducted. people in the US generally vote by precinct (determined at the local level by the county board of elections) which is about the size of a census tract, which is a relatively small area. it is basically impossible to know ahead of time which specific precincts you need to flip in order to change the result in a credible way. injecting the ballots into the process would require a level of sophistication that interacting with the county election officials or volunteer election administrators would lead you to believe is not possible.

the actual way to do election fraud would be to just report vote totals that have no basis in fact. which, sure, i guess is also possible. but then, while Democrats control the urban centers so may have more registered eligible voters who do not vote to be able to fake vote totals within their cities, Republicans control the vast majority of counties in the country. so at scale, effective use of this strategy would just result in everyone reporting 100% turnout every year...which clearly doesn’t happen.

the fact that any arms race here would rapidly devolve into a situation neither side can accurately predict means that election fraud at scale not only does not occur, but also that is is actually not preferable. it is way easier to play in other margins (make it harder for people to register, kick people off voter rolls, etc).

source: worked on campaigns in another life.
"get an ipad or a chromebook"
I'd also add, be aware where you've outsourced your thinking, otherwise it can come back to bite you in the long run.
The question is one of revisionist history. Did the people writing of the event at the time recognize it for what it was? Or did a later transcription of the event substitute their current understanding and lose the confusion surrounding the original?
A popular vote opens the possibility of candidates essentially gerrymandering their campaign to look like their in group. Similar to how swing states are more heavily campaigned now. Both give small areas an overwhelming amount of power in selecting an executive.
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From the 1999 FAQ:
http://www.linux-m68k.org/faq/reqs.html
http://www.linux-m68k.org/faq/mmubuy.html
> Apple Car Play: NEEDS A WIRE, in 2020!

FWIW, iOS has supported wireless CarPlay for a while. It's up to car manufacturers to implement it. Vehicles that support it are listed here: https://www.cars.com/articles/wireless-apple-carplay-and-and...
As long as WeChat is the only messaging app allowed in the PRC, it will be able to get away with far more than any other app. It doesn't make any sense to compare niche productivity tools to it.
Question: how's the affordability of NEV's in China, versus ICE cars in China?
A large part of the population too tired to think, but at the same time constantly overwhelmed and possibly very angry about stuff they can't quite put their finger on? A politician's dream, why wouldn't they be allowed to vote?
I don't know the specifics of the Net6501, but can't you do a foreign debootstrap where you let debootstrap copy all files on a machine that is already installed, then boot it up on the Soekris itself and let it do the rest of its install work over the serial connection?
Yeah a lot of these conversations start from the assumption that all programmers are extreme power users but that's just not true.

Probably the majority of the subset of programmers who hang out on here are but out in the normal world most of us are not.

I need a computer that consistently works without too much fiddling and has a terminal. My setup works fine for me and any time I spend fooling around with it I consider pretty much wasted so I try to avoid that.

I've used linux plenty and it just eats up a lot of my time and energy. I leave that stuff for the servers these days.