skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many people in science who go to the US for research for a couple of years and then go back home - and people from the US going abroad to escape uncertain funding, enjoy new perspectives (CERN!) or the myriad of other issues that the US has (healthcare, discrimination, public schools, transportation).
I just heard that the vaccine is impractical is it needs -70C for storage.
I would worry about a trademark infringement letter from Delos Inc. https://delosincorporated.com/
JavaScript/TS development with Sublime Text in 2020
yup. think it's fine to have a service that manages accounts, but a timeout in contacting it resulting in the start of a process that creates users (with privileges) is definitely no good. would be interesting to understand how it happened. is it a straight up bug? is it some sort of fallback in gdm to work around non-responsive account-service (potentially on new machines)? is it some sort of backwards compatibility thing? i can't imagine that it was coded that way intentionally, would be interesting to understand how it ended up that way...
Losses from the plant to your home average 5% [0] If the electricity is generated in a combined cycle gas plant you get about 64% efficiency [1], so the actual efficiency is about 60,8% if you take the losses into account. A regular electrical stove is 82% efficient (this plummets to 40 if the pot doesn't cover the heating area) and an induction stove 76%. [3] A gas stove has about 40% efficiency (fig 8) [2]. In conclusion, assuming your cooking pot covers the heating area, electrical heating has 44% efficiency and is therefore 10% better than gas. This is not all that needs to be taken into account though, a sibling comment already mentioned this but we also need to take additional issues into account such as pollution due to incomplete combustion. This is a big issue inside densely populated cities, so a reduction is usually very welcome.

[0] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=107&t=3
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_cycle_power_plant
[2] https://doi.org/10.1016/S0196-8904(03)00074-8
[3] https://www.aceee.org/files/proceedings/2014/data/papers/9-7...
it's not everything at all, it's missing all the cell cycle circadian rhythm stuff
The pandemic is orders of magnitude more impractical than a end-to-end -70C logistics chain.
> Less lazy, more realistic, more willing to explore different opportunities.

Fact is, this is 100% the case.
> will change what he does in a few years...

The fatal flaw in this argument is the failure to realize that web pages are bloating, video is becoming more prevalent, higher resolution images, etc.

So “browses the web” has ever increasing hardware requirements if you want to maintain the experience.
Thank you, I did.
The conservative claim was probably that women can't enforce discipline, rather than that they can't demand it.

If we're saying that boys are being marked down for not being disciplined enough, that doesn't do much to contradict the conservative line :)
From the setresuid(2) man page:

> An unprivileged process may change its real UID, effective UID, and saved set‐user‐ID, each to one of: the current real UID, the current effective UID or the current saved set‐user‐ID.

accountsservice did something like setresuid(uid, uid, -1), which set both real and effective UIDs, but kept saved set‐user‐ID as root, so that it could re-gain root privileges later.

Setting EUID was the correct course of action; but setting real UID let the unprivileged user kill the process.
New Patent-Holder Demands Monthly Revenues Between $14M and $18M
So there is a fairly big and active community about Alternatice histories. AlternateHistory.com is by far the biggest and there are active youtube channels

One of the biggest you tubers recently got outed following a white supremiscit rant - and that is one of the bigger "smells" around the community - histories of "what if the Nazis won and what if the South won US civil war" can spring not from curiosity but yearning.

I personally enjoy WhatIfAltHist as a channel, partly because he is fairly front and centre about his own political (rather centrist and boring) (small p) views.

The big takeaway I have found is that I learn something interesting about our real timeline history and about our real geopolitics - how England supported the creation of Portugal through the middle ages, or the extent Tamerlane changed Europe by killing everyone. And just how contingent the world is.

So yeah it's a fascinating area, tread carefully, I have only dipped my toes in, but it can be very eye opening.
I bought Pfizer stock yesterday, I guess it will likely drop today as it looks like the CEO could have planned for the sale at what he perceived would be the peak. True or not a lot of investors will believe it, the optics are very poor.
I have no idea what I'm looking at here, but showed it to a molycularbiologist student and she got pretty happy!
But you can run Docker on arm64 servers!
How do we define "unbiased" here? We can't separate the observations and reporting of it from the humans involved in those.

I am not being rhetorical. It is a genuine question which I am highly interested in.

Even though I don't believe in the existence of completely unbiased news but I do believe that there is a scale here on which we could rank news for bias(or some other more appropriate term). I just don't know what the mechanism for that would be?

We do know of some obvious sources of bias that would be good place to start. Like separating financial incentives from reporting. But that is not the only major source of bias.
It's a python conference demonstrating achieving goals in python. Basically saying "eh use C for cpu bound work" isn't helpful.

I think you missed the point a bit, which was purely to show co-operative yielding. The fact that some libs use c and release the gil really doesn't matter. This is another way. The real world usecase, as with basically all python, is io.
This article doesn't suggest anything about the socialization of boys:

"When it comes to teachers' marking, the study says there is a consistent pattern of girls' work being "marked up".

It suggests that "teachers hold stereotypical ideas about boys' and girls' academic strengths and weaknesses".

Teachers are said to reward "organisational skills, good behaviour and compliance" rather than objectively marking pupils' work.

The findings suggested that teachers needed to be aware of "gender bias"."

We shouldn't be saying, "boys will be boys" and we shouldn't accept boys receiving poorer grades for the same work because teachers have biases against boys. We should try to discover what is going on, and work to best educate boys and girls the best way for them. Maybe that means teaching them separately. Maybe teachers just need better training as the article suggests. Obviously there is something widespread here, happening across 60 countries.

You seem to want to blame individual male children for the failures of the system. As a person who wants all genders to be treated fairly and equally, that is pretty appalling.
Never thought I’d see my old workplace on the front page of HN. Congratulations everyone! :)
Misguided Use of Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19
I think boys in general are just too unaware of subtle differences in status, face, clothes, words, etc.

That makes huge difference in how you converse and behave with each other. Generic bad word insult is probably not going to affect me even if targeted. I am not going to remember it but I have noticed women do and for a long time even if minor or as a joke. My female cousin had a journal where she entered things about people and scored them.
I will wait at least one year before even consider upgrading

Apple isn't doing great (politely speaking) in finding & fixing issues for new OS versions in recent years
That uses hardware virtualization which is very much dependent on the architecture. Running an x86 docker image on a M1 would take a significant performance penalty.
That is pretty funny but on a serious note I used eiffel which has similar pre/post-conditions mindset, and because pre/post-conditions in both are executable rather than statically proven as in CS theory, their efficacy is pretty much up to the user.

Vigil gutting your source when you make a mistake would prove an effective motivation though! I actually like that and would actually be prepared to give that kind of thing a try (backed up with version control of course)!

I use assertions pretty heavily in my code anyway but strong static typing does most of the heavy lifting and I'm grateful for it.

The company ultimately dumped eiffel (that was ~20 years ago) because it had promise and hype but little else. Pre/post-conditions remain as a framework for thought as much as for coding.
They really should hire the team behind MDN.
They have that? You can call Configuration manually if you prefer that way. I feel like everyone in this thread is working overtime to justify complaining when there are multiple options to do what you want.
Awesome !

As a programmer starting to get acquainted with the stupendous complexity of life at the molecular level - I'm hoping there's many more of us in the months and years to come.

It's not possible to overstate the importance of this fact - all these structures and processes evolved - weren't designed - but evolved !

It's also incredible how scientists keep breaking through all kinds of scale related barriers to successfully study them
Maybe it's not even a studio, it looks so clean and polished that it can all be CGI.
Say thanks. Even if you disagree with the point being made it's always insightful to hear another point of view. Whether the insight is regarding the point itself or why others hold this different point of view. Discourse is one of our best tools for understanding the world around us and we should always appreciate it.

For some reason we have almost completely lost the ability to disagree with each other civilly. I'm not going to bother opening the can of worms as to why I think we have but I think something that can help is a reminder that: if someone's opinion is at odds with yours it does not invalidate yours or you in anyway, and we should never treat it as an attack on us even when we think it is meant as one. There's no winner in that game.
Evidence for a mnemonic strategy in a scatter-hoarder (2017)
I believe that can't explain the difference in the religious feelings in Poland and Czechia, both being in the same block during the same time after the WW II? I'd say Albania is not comparable, having completely different historical and cultural background and also the political separation from the block during the same years under much more extreme regime.
Fly hackin
> From Brookings, a think tank known weill for its conservative ideology.

Brookings is a center-right neoliberal think tank, aligned with the currently-dominant faction of the Democratic Party. It is economically conservative, but usually not known for being socially conservative. Indeed, the direct conclusion presented by the piece is more in line with liberal (even progressive) than conservative social thought, invoking intersectionality fairly explicitly.
F-Secure thinks otherwise, https://labs.f-secure.com/blog/tamago/
Java has had support for AOT compilation to native code since 2000, just not as free beer.
It's happening with Azure Virtual Desktop.
Fly hacker
It would've been better if you explicitly disclosed your employment at TimescaleDB.
> but its more like a market problem assuming man can do this job well in case of high demand (good salary)

Now try replacing male teachers with female CEOs in that sentence and see what happens.
What is a distribution if not a collection of software that obey the same standard?

Without the latter, all you have is a burlap sack full of software. Hardly a distribution. Fine if that's what you want, but it's not what Debian is.
it seens that RAM is now in the package, making it very very hard (almost impossible in practical terms) to upgrade.

Right? Or did I miss something?
On maps, I find it surprising and hilarious that the UN has a flat earth map on its logo!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_Nations
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The claim was 2x CPU performance over the previous 13" MBP, and 5-6x GPU performance over the previous integrated graphics.
Agreed

But I don't even know enough to know how incredible it is

I studied Biology before but had issue remembering the names
For people not familiar with employee trading windows, it's not pretty.

Often employees are completely distracted for a couple weeks, or coming in at 6 am in Calif. I've had meetings cancelled because "I'm too busy, the window is open this week."

Otherwise they miss out until the next window, which could be 6 months later.
Why does a company like Microsoft need to hire people from “Ukraine” to do work like this?
> Apparently HN knows my ballot better than me!

Saying the moment you became a trump supporter was when trump abused the resources of the United States to extort a foreign country for personal political gain is not a good look.
In my job we have 100+ people who run Linux as their main OS.

Most run Ubuntu or Debian, and a few run Arch. And every few weeks someone mentions again how something broke, and they need to spend some time fixing it. I think the last one was VMWare not working on a kernel yet.

Arch requires more time to maintain, and more manual maintenance. So in order to justify that extra spent time a lot of times they will bring up minor stuff that happens in Debian/Ubuntu, like this bug from 12 years ago, in order to justify running Arch, which is more of a "learn Linux" hobby.
DIY Voice Interaction Weather Station on Raspberry Pi
The worst case would be loosing the whole YubiKey. In that case you need some backups to access your accounts, for example another YubiKey.
I would have thought so too, but why are there no ARM based competitors coming out with similar numbers? Or are there?
With the size of modern chips the instruction set has very little to do with an overall chip design. Most of it is a balancing act between power, performance and area for things like caches, controllers, optimizations, accelerators and so on. Then there are also factors like verification complexity and the fab technology you are choosing.
Thanks for linking to such a great resource. I am somewhat awed by how much he has learned in his undergrad years.

Also, thanks to other posters too. The two other notes sites are also great.
Voice Interaction Hat for Raspberry Pi
What specifically do you mean by fundamental? Not made out of other things?
Involving the police is never good.
Beautiful picture of “green aurora” over Norway
Yeah, I'm pretty shocked how much hate it seems to get. Maybe it just makes things easier for simpletons like me?

The one issue I can see with DI in ASP.NET Core is that it doesn't really do DI correctly. The point of DI is that ultimately, you have complete control over how you build your dependency graph and you shouldn't be forced to use a container at all if you don't want to. With a DI abstraction the developers are basically saying "you can do what you want, as long as it's pretty much exactly what we expect you to do".

This explains this pretty well: https://blog.simpleinjector.org/2016/06/whats-wrong-with-the...
It's an interesting business model I think.

They produce IP (researching and producing very clear instructions for fixes) and manage supply chain (trusted replacement parts & tools, worth more vs aliexpress equivalents because they endorse them).

The things they make money off are largely substitutable. Their value add (well deserved IMHO) is trust.
I don't disagree that relying on a third-party platform for the majority of your income comes with risks (see the Adpocalypse on YouTube), but I think you've made a few assumptions about my business that aren't 100% true.

Regardless, owning your own shop doesn't magically solve all of your problems. You still need to bring customers in, be that through PR (which takes time), or advertising (which costs money).
The Epic store is the first significant competitor to Steam. They take a lower cut of game sales than Steam does. I wouldn’t lose sleep over market fragmentation.
I've my mac so customized usually, always dark mode, terminals etc...

For another person to try and use my computer is usually a weird/hiccuped experience

I also love changing defaults for keyboard shortcuts too.

I also have always an english keyboard layout even if almost no one does this, it's great for coding though!

same for terminal alias...

from git commands: ga . && gc -am "commit" && gp
or yarn: y && yb && yst
I think you'll find he has a modicum of guile.
Well the room is huge (52.70m x 24.66m x 11.50m), but the painting makes it look even bigger.

https://venicewiki.org/wiki/Sala_del_Maggior_Consiglio
Alternate history fosters systemic thinking to understand outcomes and consider how they could have been altered to create other realities. In doing so, it teaches amateur history, sociology, economics, and other subjects through the reverse-engineering of historical events, to different extents of rigor. Along the way you definitely spot interesting overlooked patterns, such as the long-lived ancient Anglo-Portuguese alliance.

It's also the basis for a lot of creative works. DeviantArt not only plays host to a ton of alternate historical maps, but flags and other graphics.
I am far from expert in this but I am not sure I would be comfortable automatically configuring all my apps to run through Firejail using firecfg (if only because in case of breakage it would be harder to understand where it is coming from).

In my workflow, I keep things mostly manual and configure each app I want to sandbox explicitly by creating a shortcut (usually I create a "launcher" in /usr/local/bin so that it takes priority over whatever is in /usr/bin). Here is the one I have for Firefox as an example in "/usr/local/bin/firefox":

firejail --profile=/etc/firejail/firefox.profile --private=~/.sandboxes/firefox/ /usr/bin/firefox --no-remote $@

In terms of risks, are you mostly concerned about security risks? Or breakage?
It's not possible to overstate the importance of this fact - all these structures and processes evolved - weren't designed - but evolved !

Why not: designed to evolve
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Agreed, that is why I plan on putting something like this biogas digester/stove system [0] in my next house. Bonus green waste disposal too!

[0] https://www.homebiogas.com/Products/HomeBiogas2
I don't think that's the reason the iPad Pro performs well at video encoding (or else you'd be able to say the same thing for any Android tablet). It's a combination of dedicated hardware and a fast CPU.
Linux screen lockers are somewhat notorious for security-ish bugs like that. There's a project called XSecureLock that aims to address some of those, although I'm not sure if it fixes (or can fix) the restore-ram type bug you detailed.

https://github.com/google/xsecurelock
I personally think that networking will be almost exclusively based Linux in some form. If you want to interpret it as "eBPF - The Future of Linux Networking" then that is totally fine as well. That said, eBPF-based networking can be offloaded to SmartNICs already so it may be less Linux specific than you seem to assume right now.

Comparing dTrace and eBPF is definitely a very interesting question. I've actually asked Brendan Gregg in the Q&A of his keynote at eBPF summit this year how he compares dTrace and eBPF these days. Here is his answer (jumps right to the specific question):
https://youtu.be/jw8tEPP6jwQ?t=4618

I doubt that eBPF will remain a Linux-only technology. Ports to FreeBSD are already underway it seems [0] and Microsoft declared intent to invest into eBPF [1]. I'm not sure what that means on timeline for eBPF availability on Windows though. There are also several user space implementations for eBPF which could become interesting to provide a universal programmability approach across traditional kernels like Linux, microkernels like Snap and application kernels like gVisor.

[0] https://papers.freebsd.org/2018/bsdcan/hayakawa-ebpf_impleme...
[1] https://twitter.com/markrussinovich/status/12830391539203686...
They could have got it just as easy at the store before or after the flight, in the airport, or in the uber. Hard to know... Certainly possible but having flown a few times this past year, not too worried.
Buy the rumour, sell the news
The fatality rate is dependent on overall infection rate, because treatment capacity is finite and once it goes above capacity people who might have lived get parked on trolleys in the hospital corridors to die.
Right, if the child runs as the user, the parent still running as root can reliably handle the situation that the user killed the child.

Don't remember having seen that. Well, sshd does it, but for more obvious reasons than handling signals.
I also dislike sortition, but I don't understand how this is a criticism of sortition. It applies equally to the current situation: any one person is unlikely to become a federal representative.
That's a fake news.
It's -80C.
> Women will never support men, it's simply not in their nature.

In my experience dealing with women this is very much not true.

> Speak to any woman and they're not even aware of men below them in society and disgusted by more than half of men.

The first half isn't, IME, true of women in any gender-related way (women seem less likely then men, IME, to be unaware of or unconcerned with those beneath them in society generally, and there doesn't seem to be any generalized bias against recognizing men in such a position.
It had green threads in the early day, than concurrency packages, finally project Loom with virtual threads.
I'm banned right now, and I find it refreshing.
Ding ding ding ding ding

In theory it can all work but in practice there's going to be issues.
Yes, but Apple are moving in the direction of adding dedicated hardware to support a lot of common use cases. The point remains that video encoding is something that people often use laptops for. Users just want it to go fast; they don't care how exactly the hardware is making that happen.

The iPad Pro has strong raw CPU performance in any case. It certainly outperforms plenty of entry-level Windows laptops.
You could consider donating to a nonprofit news org like ProPublica, then.

Also you are throwing out the baby with the bath water, just because news is funded by the rich doesn't mean every little mundane article they publish is biased. Oftentimes the facts are there, but the analysis or framing is biased. It's still probably more accurate than trying to get all your news via Twitter or something.
Which Linux distrib do you prefer?
I just don't think the math works. Can a local newspaper even keep a journalist fed and housed on its revenue anymore in many of these smaller towns? I am not sure that many of them can, yet alone tech costs, editors, salespeople, etc.

In Canada, we have a massive local news conglomerate called Postmedia. They own probably 80% of newspaper readership in the country. They have consolidated and consolidated. They use the same web design across all properties. They have slashed salaries, outsourced printing, and sold the front page to advertisers. A lot of their staff are just a guy in their community.

They can't seem to make it work. Unless readers are willing to pay, I just doubt there is enough money to have a human do a lot of the work anymore for local news.
OMG, my startup is trying to solve a similar problem. Albeit not at this scale (YET). Looks like I have a good excuse to delve back into rust
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Isn’t this a RISC vs CISC thing though? AMD and Intel use a lot of complicated stuff to emulate the x86 instructions with a VM running on a RISC core. Apple controls hardware and software including LLVM so they compile efficient RISC code right from the get go. It’s their vertical integration thing again.
Everything at Apple is need-to-know and compartmentalized.