skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just moved to Linux as my primary OS; been fucking great. 11/10

Overall, everything seems to "just work" at least as well as on MacOS and is not quite (for me) as endlessly frustrating as Windows. Gaming has also been effortless and honestly just the most delightful surprise about the whole thing. I can write code AND play games... on the same machine... and it's running Linux?! I would've lost that bet ten years ago.

I was/am totally prepared to use GPU pass-through to a Windows VM to get native gaming performance or work around bugs-- but I haven't needed to.

I'm using PopOS but am pretty indifferent toward the distro I use. I honestly got it confused for different distro, but it was still Debian/Ubuntu based so I'm chill (ha).

Really, most modern Linux distros are pretty god damn nice. It's a little weird to even think about dialing in the aesthetic more to my liking coming from the world of MacOS. But I've found themes like Nord (https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1267246/) provide some visual familiarity while maintaining their own unique aesthetic qualities.

Making apps, or interacting with the OS, is absurdly easy using GTK and Python vs anything Microsoft or Apple have to offer. I have the same effective level of support which is to say none-at-all or via the community of volunteers. I can't ever imagine calling Microsoft or Apple for meaningful help (roflcoptr and we say we pay for support).

Linux is rocking the desktop hard, if you haven't tried it in a few years or just maintain a Windows installation to play games-- seriously give it a try. It's wonderful.
I did lose a job this year. When I was on the phone with my family I said - I could get hungry and that typically is fuel for the best startup ideas. :)
Virtualisation within the x86 emulation isn't possible. So you can't just run the x86 build of parallels and have it work. But it should be possible to build a new dedicated ARM version of parallels.
Discussion a couple of days around .Net 5 release announcement ended up going into di vs no di..
I'm on mobile but you can get to it from my comment history
translation of most apps doesn't take a significant amount of time, and have it pretranslated would mean shipping code that was not signed by the app developer.
> Part of changing and improve things is to actually move there to dilute the bigotry

Yes, bigotry is a nasty stain. Otherwise this thought sounds so tone deaf.

The common perception outside California is that Californians royally fucked it up and are flooding out like water from a ruptured damn, except they are bringing their political baggage with them to damage their new home just like the thing they can’t escape from fast enough.
Your examples aren't really doing the same thing in two different ways. Map (and select, collect, each, and some others) iterate over an enumerable. Pluck and select are active record methods that generate SQL.

It's a good example of choosing magic/brevity over expressiveness. You don't know that Tag.all.map calls SQL because it's not something you explicitly tell it to do. That's the real issue with Ruby & Rails. The magic lets you do some powerful stuff but sometimes it's hard to tell what exactly is happening.
That's (AOT transpilation) quite the interesting approach to the problem. No wonder it's so fast.
I read the new book Kochland last year. I was expecting an expose of an evil robber baron. Instead the author had a begrudging respect for the talents of the Kochs. As s privately held company they dont have to generate quarterly or annual reports for the shareholders. They can focus on long term projects. The company's value increased from a quarter billion dollars at Fred Sr.s passing to a third of a trillion now.
I've actually quit using Bluetooth for Zoom meetings on Windows because it has been too unreliable.
If you want to get pedantic, the band used will determine what natural phenomenon impacts the received signal. Even in those cases FEC and dynamic modulation will let the signal work(at reduced throughout).

That said unless we're talking about lasers air refraction doesn't usually impact RF(there is tropospheric ducting but that's something different).
Because then you have to use C++. That alone is a big turnoff to a lot of developers.
i don't expect this to win you back, but i can't recommend this highly enough:

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/better-font-rendering-in-linu...

you can choose between different system font rendering styles, including macos and windows
Koch is an honest libertarian, so his Deregulate All The Things efforts are accompanied by things like this.

But.

If you look at where he's been putting his money into supporting candidates, they are overwhelmingly Republicans that align with the former to the exclusion of nearly everything else.

It would have been very VERY easy for Koch to have got bipartisan support for serious criminal justice reform if he had wanted to, but that would have used up political capital (Republicans generally prefer to be the 'tough on crime' candidate) he otherwise used to support his economic interests instead.

That's the main problem I have with libertarians: They lend their wholehearted and deep pocketed support to Republicans on business issues and opposing 'big government', but fail to call them out on social issues (you know, the whole 'equality before the law' thing), and practically never lend equivalent support to Democrats where they would be aligned, just lip-service. It's hypocritical.

Having to date focused largely on feathering his nest, he now wants to put a bit of 'compassionate conservatism' shine on his image and legacy. I'm not inclined to let him gloss over the awful things he's accomplished.
Mine came with pro. It was printed out. Not that it matters as it has Fedora on it now :)
It is almost as though you can’t tell the difference between statements about population aggregates and statements about individuals.
> there has been growing concern about the architectural heritage lost as a result of demolition across the country

Hardly looks like a building worth preserving. What am I missing?
> if you're getting paid a tech salary to live in Tulsa + $10k who the FUCK cares if a clerk is rude to you?

I think of my New York City taxes as a country club fee. That way they aren’t half bad.

If I made a little less or a lot more they would be a problem. But having distance from racists, homophobes and idiots, who tend to congregate in low-cost places for being, generally, useless, is worth a few tens of thousands of dollars a year. The wealthy in Tulsa, after all, pay similarly to castle themselves.
I’m not sure the issues experienced are due to serverless rather than the architecture chosen. A monolithic app vs services.

Why split up the serverless functionality into separate functions connected with SNS etc? You can call the same ruby code from a single serverless lambda endpoint invoked from a http call in the same way you would from a rails process.

Rails is great, but you could run Rails on a serverless architecture (AWS) too if you really wanted to, and you could create a multi service architecture of Rails components that would be equally hard to maintain and develop.
A Successful Shut-In
How do you write simple explanations without sounding condescending?
You have to design your site for this, back in the IE days we did this for some corporate tools and went full kiosk mode. The user didn't even know that it was a website.
Elon Musk says 'most likely' has a moderate case of Covid-19
It's very impressive how lifelike and photographic this style of art is.

My mother specializes in trompe l'oeil! (which means "fool the eye" in french for those who don't know) https://www.kamaroufi.com/
ICBMs are old hat. Expect hypersonic scramjets to ratchet things up a notch. A country will have less than a 5 minute window to press their red button in the event of an alert. Not looking forward to this.
I think the point that they were trying to make is that sabotaging long term profits by maximizing short term profits is less profiterole over the long term. Which would make it incompetent for the company, but because of earlier cashing out, possibly not incompetent for the specific people making those decisions.
The potential for ABM systems to actually neutralize their ICBMs is probably why Russia is developing nuclear powered (and armed of course) torpedoes and cruise missiles.
I've had a couple, but couldn't tell you where they come from or how I get them. Ideas are easy (well, not really, but most smart, aware people have them).

The differentiator is execution and the ability to network properly. Maybe try your ideas when you don't have five college-aged kids and debt.

I had the idea for "Slack" 4 years before it came out. Seriously, _exactly_ the idea of Slack. I even semi-pitched it to Microsoft and they blew me off. I saw Napster/(internet downloaded music) four years before 1999, but I suspect I wasn't the only one. I started a knowledge base of company resumes at my consulting firm in 1995 and now that's a billion dollar industry (we never finished it because coworkers hated the idea of their resume in a database).

I may be smart, but so far I have been unable to execute any of my billion dollar ideas. Being smart only really gets you so far. I did try to build a tech-ed company ten years ago (Textfyre) that would thrive in the Covid learning world, but we could never get funded.

Still swinging though. May be the one I'm working on now will connect. We shall see.

My advice to anyone with an idea? Learn how to execute. Join startups, read books, network with entrepreneurs, go to startupweekend (when Covid is over), learn how to build a solid pitch deck, a business plan, and a financial worksheet. These fundamentals are the difference in getting an idea to market. And finally, make sure you focus on customers. Not on your logo, business cards, a PR website, or even paid employees. Get customers. Get revenue.
You don't seem to be understanding that it is clearly not about one clerk. It's about the local consensus results in that clerk feeling entitled to dismiss the GPs wife and family as non-persons, as being lesser than someone born in the USA. This is something they will feel every day at every level if they live there.

Having your family members feel dehumanized in every interaction in their daily routines is not worth any amount of money if you care at all about your family when you can instead love somewhere where basic respect is the born.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio..
I read some of the NASA books recently and you’d think things are going without a hitch and yet hundreds of anomalies happen along the way that the casual observer simply didn’t see.
> If you are trying to bootstrap something

That already doesn't meet the eligibility criteria
Or, they could go the PopcornTime way, integrating with torrent engines and other alternative distribution methods.

(It won't happen, because of the persecution of developers of torrent-aware software by content-owning companies, but it would work.)
> I mean how can Intel fall so far behind in only a couple years?

Arguably Intel has been falling behind since the delays in replacing Haswell (so, last six years or so). It just hasn’t been particularly visible, as the ARM vendors simply don’t compete in the same spaces, until now.

Though, in what might be an early sign in retrospect, x86 phone chips, after a lacklustre launch, vanished without a trace some years back.
People need to stop acting like that instruction is some amazing magical "make JS fast". Literally the only thing it does is to change the rounding mode and sentinel for NaNs.

That's it.
The original discussion was about the diversity of the feed, so...
As Linux user the article does not resonate with me. The actual points are discarded points

# Linux is more stable and reliable.

I've reinstalled Windows so many times, never reinstalled Linux. System is separate from the user, I can remove all user configurations and it would work like new.

# Linux is more secure and private.

I have so many packages, they are free and safe. I've tried Windows recently, have to install software from the web. It is scary.

No telemetry by default. I send package statistics, have install it myself:

# pacman -S pkgstats

# Linux is faster and less bloated

There are many communities, some run Destkop Environments, I run quite minimal setup, boot to graphical environment takes 100MB RAM. Old netbook is router/NAS, 1GB is plenty.

# Linux is more flexible and customizable.

Primary reason I've switched. So many options, it is awesome! GNOME, KDE, XFCE, OpenBox, wmii, dwm, xmonad. Entire distributions — Ubuntu, Arch, Nix and many more.

# Linux gives you more control over your computer.

There was liberating feeling — my computer is just a hardware. Never felt it with Windows, it always had its own way. You know, some people kick their computers in rage. That has gone.

Linux has a great driver support for supported hardware, it is like complaining about hackintosh. Windows adopting command line and package management tools. Yes, had to stop gaming, that's changing with Proton. I find Windows UI atrocious, my desktop for comparison:

http://sergeykish.com/side-by-side-no-decorations.png

multiple workspaces, no decorations, not even browser scroll bar. I'd like to have universal solution for sticky headers.

And, maybe, the most valuable — Linux is getting better while Windows and macOS getting worse. Telemetry, advertisement, walled garden, executable restrictions, firewall bypass, proprietary hardware — scandal after scandal. While on the Linux side — AMD GPU, Wayland, Flatpak, Steam Proton, web applications, better than ever laptops support.
When I went through high school (in Australia) the memorisation parts of geography had long since gone out of fashion, and what had replaced them was a series of "case studies" where you learned about the lifestyles of some obscure group of people elsewhere on the planet for a few months before forgetting about them entirely.

At least memorising the capital cities of every country on Earth gives you some kind of big picture knowledge that you can build on in later life.
ARM licensing requires any vendor to approach ARM for permission to extend the ISA. ARM may well deny that request and instead make it part of the main ISA instead
A larger brain may not have been solely for intelligence, but to make humans into better running animals. It can help dissipate heat better.
What about submarines? Can a LEO missile hit a nuke launched from a submarine off the coast of New York in time to stop it?
My impression was that this may have been designed at Apple’ behest; certainly they were the major user. Older than Skylake, btw; Haswell had it.
"The Lagena Primary School, constructed in 1935 by the municipal board of Shanghai's former French Concession was moved to make space for a new commercial and office complex, which will be completed by 2023."
Sure. But we aren't building more nukes. Breaking MAD means breaking the one fundamental principle/fact that has truly meant peace for quite a few years now. If we could maintain or improve this level so that wars are much less commonplace, that might just mean that we as a species might be able to move on from this petty warfare and actually work together.
Thanks for sharing this project. What do you think of the data with Mozilla Common Voice? The random sampling I looked at a while back seemed pretty poor -- background noise, stammering, delays in beginning the speaking, etc.

I was hoping to use it as a good training base, but the issues I encountered made me wary that the data quality would adversely affect any outcomes.
Ask HN: Why don't we mention availability/timing expectations in job posts?
To get a clear indication of work-life balance in a role, for both kinds of posts - who is hiring, or who is seeking.

Working hours, on call/support expectations, frequency/duration, compensation for extra hours etc.

In fact the companies (startup or otherwise) posting requirements, at least here on HN, ought to definitely mention such requirements if any, and absence of it if there's none.

Why don't we put it all out there upfront?

Or is this not important enough? Or is it globally frowned upon if a candidate wants to discuss that?
This describes a lot of human anatomy. Head too big for mother’s’ hips. Spine warped for upright posture. Constantly choking for having a bent throat.
It's not at the same level but Ubiquiti makes some impressively "cheap" gear in this space that will do 1gbps over decent distances[1]. I've mostly used their lower powered p2p links but it's amazing to see how far the tech has come.

[1] https://operator.ui.com/ptp-bridging
>Trade private equity in technology companies. Former aerospace investment banker and before that, algorithmic equity derivatives trader.

You're so Jewish.
Two simple questions.

How long does the battery last, while largely sitting on my desk not being used?

Can it make and receive calls and texts?
My instantaneous thought: ethics.

I'm no extremist of any kind (not in politics nor religion nor technology, maybe a bit regarding what is related to the environment) but experiments related to "growing brains" are an absolute no-go for me.

Just when I thought that "2020" could not spawn any more surprises... :(
Rosetta 2 is an AOT translation, not emulation.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple_silicon/abou...
I noticed no one has brought up X10.
SushiSwap Is on Its Way to Rebirth and Then?
I can understand this, I make do with Google sheets but it's seriously limited with my bigger spreadsheets, especially if there is lots of custom code / API response parsing involved.
> Android's kernel and device drivers which are non free, closed and therefore not trustworthy

That's a bit misleading. Android's kernel is Linux which is GPLv2, and thus the device drivers are GPLv2 too. (They could be circumventing the GPL by using shims though.)
Are you joking?

The kinds of electric motors that go for decades with just a couple pumps of grease are reserved for industrial applications because their economics doesn't make sense for consumers most of the time.

I like my cordless drills and grinder but I'm not delusional enough to compare them to industrial motors that are twice (or more, they tend to have massive cases) as heavy for the power output and live for decades. I have a 15hp motor kicking around that dwarfs a Tesla motor in every way except output. That kind of stuff is monumentally inefficient for any non-stationary use.

3yr and you're done sounds about right for consumer battery degradation in hard use. How long a battery lasts is basically a reflection of how nice you are to it in terms of charge and discharge cycles and how much reserve capacity you want to tote around.

We've got electric motors pretty much down and can build them for just about any use case but for a given longevity vs power output batteries are still pretty bulky for the output you get.
Sure, but that's a bit like saying "if you have a job, you could lose it. But if you win the lottery you're pretty much set"
I'm surprised there is no reference to time estimation. An important part of their role is estimating how long a task will take to complete, and I've found many people, even engineers with a lot of experience, are terrible at this.
It very well could be characterized as a government institution but the structure frees the company from the bureaucracy that has kept NASA stagnant.

For example NASA is running low on mission ready space suits. This delayed the first all female spacewalk[1] because there weren't enough medium sized suits available although a SpaceX ISS supply mission failure did contribute to the delay[2].

It's extremely expensive to refurbish these suits and a new design has been in R&D for a long time. Russia has kicked the USA's ass in this regard[3].

NASA has done a lot of good for humanity but I can't help but feel it's overburdened with politics and featherbedding.

I didn't know anything about NASA and space suits until I read this: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-nasa-spacesuits-so-expen...

NASA report: https://oig.nasa.gov/docs/IG-17-018.pdf

[1] https://www.npr.org/2019/03/26/706779637/nasa-scraps-first-a...

[2] https://apnews.com/article/29bf226917954d6e9358b01e83d3a6f5

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlan_space_suit#Models
I love when I find I have cognitive dissonance as it means I have found something I believe to be true is actually false. Once I know something is false then it is easy to just stop believing it. Progress.
Indeed. Another slightly less well known true fact is that the standard hotel Texas waffle is larger than Rhode Island.
"I always respond by pointing out that the citizens of almost every country are naturally xenophobic and/or racist, just not necessarily against people of African descent. In the case of Europe, I usually point to the Roma ..."

I think Roma are the least interesting example of this.

In 2020 I had the pleasure of reading the Nobel Laureate Sigrid Undset's Magnum Opus _Kristin Lavransdatter_.

For those that don't know, _Kristin Lavransdatter_ is the Norwegian _Anna Karenina_ ... but longer. Recommended.

In the book, among other things, it describes that Norwegians in the fourteenth century thought that Finnish people were basically sub-humans. They were treated like animals and could be killed (!) without legal ramification.

Let that sink in for a bit ...

Blonde-haired, blue-eyed Handt Hanson considered Blonde-haired, blue-eyed Eli Halla to not even be a human being.

I think there may be some deep conclusions to make about the nature of division and difference in human societies. Could it be that there will never not be an out-group ?
A good example is the one we did see today - they closed the dragon hatch and noticed a very small leak during a pressure test. So they opened the hatch back up and inspected it for “FOD” (I think foreign object debris). They found some piece of FOD, removed it, and closed the hatch again. Then the pressure test passed. I did not see the debrief where they said they’d talk more about what they found. But needless to say they are checking and fixing so many tiny and big things I’m sure.
I use Linux, Windows, and macOS basically every day.

All three have pros and cons.

I use Linux at work because I love i3 and am willing to put up with other quirks to have it.

I use Windows for games, Lightroom, etc.

I use macOS for compiling iOS apps (work) and in bed/on the couch at home for browsing (because I have an extra Macbook leftover from a consulting gig).

I use whatever tool works best for the job I'm doing.

No one OS is better at everything than another. They all have their strengths and their weakness.
In general yes, but climate change is one thing that isn't going to negotiate with us.

Similarly, COVID-19 doesn't negotiate, hence we mandate masks to avoid the anti-science people from getting the rest of us sick.
As Covid-19 Surges, the Big Unknown Is Where People Are Getting Infected
>"The Linux kernel absolutely supports non-free drivers. Inclusion of non-free driver "blobs" is a common argument."

Linux kernel has no stable ABI for drivers as a matter of ideology / strategy, we can debate it's merits but you certainky can't claim it suppports them.
The US position is based upon what could re-elect Trump and not what is best for the US. Hopefully that nightmare is over soon.
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This should never have gotten past ethical review. It’s the sort of shit that gives the word science a bad name.

And the payoff was...what, exactly? We already knew that ARHGAP11B would promote a bigger brain size and neocortex folding, so the theoretical benefit is really zero. We’re precisely no closer to understanding the history of human evolution.

So what practical use is creating monkeys with more human like brains? Winning a research grant? An award? Cheap labour?

How big does your brain have to be before you can see that this is a terrible idea?