skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived in Istanbul for about 10 years (then moved back to SF; currently living in Boston).

Pros:

* Istanbul is an extremely large city, pretty much like LA, so chances are there is something to do for everyone. Your favorite band may show up some point within your life time, you don't feel isolated from int'l community.

* Weather is pretty nice, not too warm, not too cold, you experience 4 seasons. But it's a little too warm for me, but I like it a lot colder than other people.

* People are overall pretty great imho, although certain neighborhoods can be worse, too conservative etc, but overall it's fine.

* There are certain places, e.g. Prince Islands, that are simply gorgeous and I'd love to spend rest of my life there in peace.

Neutral:

* City is pretty secure; not like super secure that I'd go out alone drunk at 3AM without thinking, but I think it's still more secure than cities I lived in the US (maybe except Boston?).

* EDIT: I should also add that it's a very crowded city. It's densely populated and about ~15 million people live in "the city" which is like this multiple set of downtowns, very close to each other and span two continents. You might like this but I think this makes everything very messy.

* EDIT: Nightlife is pretty ok I think? I'm not a huge club person, but I've visited many bars (especially those in Kadikoy) and I really miss them, there was something about them.

Cons:

* Not very tidy, clean like European cities. I think it's still orders of magnitude cleaner than LA or NYC but e.g. compared to Boston, it's less nice. Architecture etc are pretty banal. Living spaces are usually like condos and nothing exciting.

* Political climate is as bad as it can possibly be. Although some parts of Istanbul are extremely liberal -- feels like just another European city -- Turkey is currently a very fucked country, led by a dictator, and I personally wouldn't live there at the moment. But you know, politics change.

* Not a very developed tech scene. I know some interesting startups and was able to closely work with some of them; so there is definitely some interesting stuff happening, but absolutely not like any major city in US or Germany.

* Everything is extremely unstable, Turkey is "developing" very fast e.g. what is a gorgeous park today can end up being a horrible tourist hellscape a year later because economy relies so much on tourism. Everything is in flux, and things are done without thinking about aesthetics etc. Almost everything is half-assed. E.g. Taxim Square was a really nice and historic place when I was there, but somehow they managed to rebuild and fuck it up last few years.

* Bad traffic, but that goes without saying for most major cities. Drivers are definitely bad, but like you know, you adapt.

* EDIT: A majority of people are cigarette smokers. Not 420 friendly (since cannabis is highly illegal) but it's possible to find it if you know a guy who knows a guy.
[2013]

This has made the rounds on HN several times already.

153 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16254569

129 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6718067
Lucky they are in Istanbul instead of China.
Facebook decides the rules and everyone can report content that break them, and then outsourced and stressed Facebook employees judge if the reported content fit the rules or not. In the article they mention a fast line for reports from a few organizations.
I’ve been staying clear of Google Meets for this reason. Zero desire to trust them with something as critical as messaging.
Pretty interesting paper, although I'm not sure it's the one OP was referring to. It's a pretty short paper with a whole pile of graphs at the end, so I encourage people to read it themselves.
Quick notes from skimming:

- Treats it as an optimization problem for various levels of vaccine efficacy (10-100%), availability(10-100%), spread rate (R0 in {1.5, 2, 2.5, 3}), susceptibility to infection and symptomatic infection per age group.

- Four objective functions: symptomatic infections, deaths, non-ICU hospital usage at peak, and ICU usage at peak

- 5 age buckets: 0-19, 20-49, 50-64, 65-74, 75+

- Assumes 20% of population has immunity, and immunity lasts for a year.

- At higher efficacy and availability levels, there are some odd shifts to optimal vaccine distribution strategies. It's not strictly "oldest first" or "youngest first", there are some weird discontinuities in the middle buckets as well.

I had some questions about the wide 20-49 age bucket but it appears that it comes from a CDC planning scenario. It does look like that various curves start accelerating sharply past 50 or higher, so I guess treating the 20-49 group as one reasonably low risk group could be reasonable.
Why is Apple a Developer for TensorFlow? Is that a mistake in list?
tl;dr: i-Mode.

Any answer to this question that doesn't include a mention of this is grossly misinformed to the point of being wrong.
> To the extent that actual history is present, it's almost like fan service.

if this were true, it would certainly nullify most of the critiques from TFA. the meticulous attention to detail in creating historically accurate (or at least plausible) set pieces works against this argument.
Google is dysfunctional. Their promo incentives favor short-term thinking.

The original founders are gone.

The only reason they're alive is their ad/search moat. It's a walking IBM/Oracle, otherwise.

Don't forget when it leaked a year or so ago that even Google Cloud Platform is on their chopping block if they don't meet targets.

I wouldn't trust this company with anything. Photos, music, youtube videos, mail. They do not care.
Corrected: First generation chip purpose-built for Mac.
Autodesk is probably on par if not worse than Google when it comes to branding.
That's a good argument for Firefox not getting a green checkmark. Taking as a given that the site operators have decided to give Firefox a green checkmark, I think my complaint makes sense.
It is a valid point that there has always been cultural codes and that I'm probably more sensitive to changes that I've seen in my lifetime. And thanks for pointing Hays code. I've dug into some history of censorship and morality in US cinema.

However, by cultural sensitivity I refer to something beyond codes. Nothing that this article points out is particularly illegal, immoral or even shocking. Yet, probably due to cultural globalisation, social media, and the polarisation of the debate in the US on certain social issue, I am under the impression that this kind of clumsiness is more likely to be noticed.
They have the best leetcoders!! They are elite!! No problems what so ever with these geniuses!!
An example: you will no longer be able to make and receive phone calls from your gmail.com tab. You'll have to open voice.google.com to do that (though once you do the functionality is equivalent).
I once had a manager tell me, with a perfectly straight face, "Our customers are the testing department."
The MBP wasn't keeping up with CPU needs so I moved this year to the Lenovo Legion which has the 16-threads Ryzen 4800h.

Being so new/modern it was, perhaps unsurprisingly, the hardest to get everything right. It still has some usual resume from sleep quirks but everything finally works. From experience older laptops fare much better with Linux.

In my developer group I think was among the few remaining with macOS. The M1 triggered some interest, but as a media device, perhaps.
Drag and drop will do
Note that you still have to care about other sections like the privacy rule, but that along with the rest of the regulations are requirements on how employees, business and healthcare providers themselves work with PHI and not technical requirements for software - so what applies varies based on company, department, etc. and just gets handled by policies and training.
When trying to set up an Hourly alert on a free account it says "Please _register_ your account to ...". Apparently, it's a $10/mo feature, so you may want to reword the message to explain that and also link respective part of the price list from the message itself.

Also, "Purchase Upgrades" button is not clickable - https://i.imgur.com/uIyrIFv.gif

PS. I'm curious to see how well it works, but from what I saw so far - well done, break a leg. Saying this as a user of Talkwalker and F5Bot ;)
It's fun to ride on tidal waves like reorgs though!
>So who gets to decide why gets “contained” on the internet now? The government has a really, really bad track record of using these sorts of “options” for suppressing dissent. Historically it’s been absolutely abusive.

Whomever owns a platform gets to decide what gets published or not published on that platform. They get to make the rules, enforce them and change them as they will, where the law of the land permits. That has always been the case.
This is called 'incremental reading' and techniques around this have been developed by research/development from the person who wrote supermemo (the closed source anki predecessor).
To be fair those are completely different things. Commercial needs a profit and uses low enriched material. Military is not concerned with profit and uses highly enriched material.

I am not as familiar with the commercial side but I can say the military model is safe as all get out and produces less waste since you only need to refuel ever few decades or so.

Also NRC is very much still involved with Military applications, which at this point just involves moving expensive war ships around.
Case in point: one of my son's classes is video game design. That's one of those "F"s he's going to get. I've looked at it as I was helping him, the class is actually surprisingly good. If this is not sufficiently engaging, nothing will ever be.

And as far as parental action, parents can't really do shit nowadays. Nearly 100% of homework is done on a computer, which of course also runs games and YouTube, and provides endless opportunities for distraction.
Lawrence Krauss
https://www.google.com/search?q=lawrence+krauss+philosophy

Though I'm not sure if he counts since "intellectual" might be a bit of a stretch for him.
I guess the Docker client works, but you still need a GNU/Linux running Docker. It's usually a VM on the same host but it doesn't have to be.
Researchers prove water has multiple liquid states
You never know - would you say that 20 years ago that very significant push for Linux will be done by Microsoft?
We Need a Robot Registry
That part of a pointe shoe is called the platform it’s size and shape varies greatly based on the type and size of the shoe and the box (the part of the shoe where your toes sit in).

For most pointe shoes with a rounded platform there is much less than 10cm squared of contact.
Can you link to something or explain what that is for those of us not familiar?
I would agree with you if the year was ~2002 where using Linux was indeed a lot of work.

In 2020, everything works out of the box for me on Linux. YMMV of course, I'm only speaking for my own workflow.
The Google Voice app still exists and is able to make WiFi calls (I've used it).

As confusing as this is, I think it's just the integration. Google Voice has had all of this functionality in a standalone form for years, and that's not going away.
I wonder if Google Fi will continue to work with Hangouts?
Gas plants are replacing coal plants: https://www.power-eng.com/2019/04/11/eia-gas-fired-combined-...

They're generally cheaper to run and better at load-following.

Coal has been on the way out for a decade or so, long before renewable energy started to be a big player in the US.
The voice app has its own dialer.
> Can you imagine how cool it would be if you could type ps or top within a WSL session and see Linux and Windows processes side-by-side, able to mutate their state with kill

No, that could not reasonably have been. The underlying NT kernel seeing all processes, whether Win32 or WSL, is one thing, but the psutils in the Linux world being able to see non-Linux processes doesn't make any amount of sense.

kill works by sending signals. This makes no sense to processes that are not in the Linux domain.

Edit: also what ralph87 writes in paragraph 4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25154556
It's funny that you've managed simultaneously to argue that DNS monetization (which is ubiquitous) is both a reason to immediately change ISPs, and also not a big deal because ISPs can snoop on you anyways.

While I have strong normative beliefs here, I'm mostly just posting descriptively. DNSSEC isn't happening. Enabling DNSSEC in your local configuration won't meaningfully protect you, because you depend on the security teams of large companies to also participate in the system, and DNSSEC has been more or less rejected by the market. Meanwhile: there are specific problems that DoH does protect against, it's easy to roll out, and doesn't depend on the Stripe security team changing their mind about DNSSEC --- so DoH is on a path to become universal, even as DNSSEC whithers.

(I invite the curious to test my reporting out with the `host -t ds foo.com` command, for arbitrary values of "foo").

I know I sound like a sore winner about this, and I guess I sort of am, but it is a little alarming that there are still currents of sysadmin wisdom telling people to go out of their way to opt into DNSSEC, in the belief that it will somehow protect them from any kind of real attack. In reality: corrupted DNS records overwhelmingly come from phished registrar accounts, not the elaborate, geographically-specific DNS cache corruption attacks DNSSEC was envisaged to deal with. I think it's worth being plain with people about this stuff.
We're rebooting rpis every 3 hours... in production...

Client bought too many to change.
I definitely agree that there's benefit in skimming books. I've had to get over the idea that I must read every book I'm interested in from cover to cover.

What do you mean by "distributed" book collection?
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It's an incredibly personal choice. I've daily driven macOS for well over a decade, but periodically dip my toe into the Linux world just to get a feel of it's "there" yet or not. Unfortunately for my purposes, it never is, and so I end up returning to macOS.

The biggest problem is that none of the DEs really fit my tastes — they all have to be poked and prodded into kinda doing what I want them to do, but they're never quite there and it's incredibly frustrating. I've also faced similar issues with starting with a bare WM and snapping together smaller pieces.

To get what I want I'd likely have to build my own DE from scratch, which I'm not even necessarily averse to, but I have no idea where to start with the mess that is X11 and Wayland and all the "build your own WM" tutorials that could be used as a springboard are written for building hyperminimal borderless tiling WMs, which aren't straightforward to adapt for a more "typical" floating WM with titlebars and the like.

So I guess the endpoint of this rant is that it's frustrating that building one's ideal Linux desktop from the ground up isn't all that accessible in reality. The configurability and openness is there on principle but it's difficult to take advantage of past a skin-deep level.
Nowadays there is also Wi-Fi calling which is great for me because right now I'm also living in the basement where cell phone reception is poor.
Generally love the ideas in here, but strongly disagree with this one:

>At first, if you decide to explore such titles, you’ll blame the author for not using simpler words and for not expressing himself better. And if there are long-winded sections where you don’t get what the premise of the idea is, you’ll most probably ditch the book and find something else to read instead.
>But these elaborate creations full of complicated phrases are what you need to level up your thinking.

Simple writing is clear thinking. Yes, limiting yourself to well-written materials will limit your exposure to many ideas. That's how constraints of any kind work.

But don't mistake long, meandering sentences with 10 dollar words as signs of genius.

They're signs of lazy writing, lazy thinking, and a desire to impress the reader with how smart the author is. Writing simply takes hard work. It's easy to write complicated sentences. It's easy to be hard to understand.

Clarity and conciseness are hard.

Hemingway, Vonnegut, Thompson... they wrote powerful, thoughtful works. So do Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger. So did Einstein. Their works be understood by anyone, despite the difficulty of their subjects.
Kubeflow v1.2 Release – The Machine Learning Toolkit for Kubernetes
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/before-there-were-smartphones...

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-7908-1746-5_17

https://www.zdnet.com/article/where-are-they-now-i-mode/
Same here.

Plasma is great and it feels lightweight compared to Gnome
It was basically the Japanese equivalent of WAP before smartphones but it's completely irrelevant now and even when it was a thing, I'm not sure it was relevant to desktop sites like this article is talking about.
Akrasia is a related concept. Enjoyed this blog post on the topic: https://blog.beeminder.com/akrasia/
> I can't escape the impression that they didn't really shower the wider ecosystem in DTKs and support, although I'd be happy to proven wrong there.

That’s interesting. I was shocked at how many green check marks there are for a chip that was announced in June. It takes time to write and test an application. A lot of teams must’ve really prioritized it.

Also, Apple Silicon compatibility is not enough. One needs Big Sur compatibility too.
If you choose to work in their ecosystem of course you're going to be stuck with whatever Apple does. If you're capable of building iOS apps you're capable of learning other languages and working on something else.

There isn't much you can do other than sucking up what they feed you or getting a new job. If there's a 3rd option I'd love to hear it.
The other day Slack was down and someone proposed we use Google Chat[1], had no idea they built a Slack competitor.

[1] https://chat.google.com/
One of my favorite things about Arch is booting up a fresh install and seeing something like 10 processes running and a tiny amount of memory being used (granted that might be archlinuxarm I'm remembering). It feels like a blank canvas.
That it was a cultural problem is quite correct. Academic computer science was quite small in those days, and it was almost all DoD-funded. The big CS schools had PDP-10 machines, and the lesser ones had DEC VAXen.

In the 1980s, the commercial market in electronics and computers passed the DoD market, first in volume and then in technology. This was a real shock to some communities. There were complaints of "premature VHSIC (Very High Speed Integrated Circuit) insertion" from DoD, by which they meant the commercial market using stuff DoD didn't have yet. DoD thought they were in charge of the IC industry in 1980.[1] DoD had been the big buyer in electronics since WWII, after all. By 1990, DoD was a minor player in ICs and computing.

Symbolics was really a minicomputer manufacturer, building up CPUs from smaller parts.
They went down with the other mini makers - DEC, Prime, Data General, Interdata, Tandem, and the rest of that crowd. That technology was obsoleted by single-chip CPUs. Many of the others hung on longer, since they had established customer bases. But they were all on the way down by the late 1980s.

[1] https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a230012.pdf
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This has nothing to do with my comment.
In the meantime, you could use the version shipped with macOS:

▶ ruby -v
ruby 2.6.3p62 (2019-04-16 revision 67580) [universal.arm64e-darwin20]
This is an extremely lazy argument.

Our generation has seen entire sectors of the economy subsumed within monopolies. The consolidation is unprecedented in the modern era. These monopolies have a degree of political influence that makes them hard to distinguish from government in anything but a formal legal sense. We have seen what the financial sector has chosen to do with its political influence. Why would we expect anything different from new media companies like Facebook?

People need to stop and ask themselves if the core enlightenment principles of toleration, free expression, and free association are worth protecting. Once abandoned, they will not be easy to resurrect.
Avoid Nvidia Optimus (i.e. the W series). It’s so much worse than having a dedicated card because of the way it’s soldered on. It only kinda works. It still consumes power when “disabled”. You can’t use GPU passthrough.

Stand-alone Nvidia GPUs are fine but on Fedora you have to do some work because the Mutter and Kwin devs are currently in a spat with Nvidia.
I don’t think that’s quite true. Isn’t Facebook protected from liability in a way that something in the physical world like, say, a theme park isn’t?
I don't know. It has nothing to do with my comment.

I'm simply pointing out that the evidence for "long covid" is incredibly weak. One should use that to adjust their priors for any outcome.
Identifying and Containing Covid-19 hotspots using Technology
> Absolutely, there are other games that indulge in the ‘virgin lands’ fantasy – Minecraft, Factorio, Dwarf Fortress

I feel Factorio is the counter example, you are a settler on a planet wiping out the local inhabitants mostly just minding their own business, who are attracted by the pollution you are generating. I definitely always feel like the bad guy when playing.
Apple M1 Unified Memory
I'm not sure what distro or desktop environment you're running, but integer scaling has worked perfectly on gnome, kde and others for years now. So 200% scaling of a 4k resolution should look exactly the same as unscaled 1080p, just sharper. No performance issues, no glitches, no inconsistencies.

The jankiness of scaling on Linux is when you want to do fractional scaling.
Cats were brought to Europe from Egypt by Romans. They were domesticated in the regions around Istanbul for thousands of years before they were brought to the attention of the Greeks and Romans. Presumably, the Romans that brought the cats back to Europe saw their benefit to the populations on the other side of the Mediterranean and also adopted the culture of revering cats. The culture of revering cats predates the religion of Islam and is part of the culture that that religion was born out of, and is understandably celebrated.

What benefit does letting cats run feral have for settled humans? Rodent control. Even before they knew the public health benefits of that, they knew the benefits towards granary stores.

Now that cats aren't the only method available to control rodents, cities that don't have a cultural or cultural/religious reason to revere stray cats understandably don't and those that do, do.

Religion plays a role, culture plays a role, biology plays a role, history plays a role: everything plays a role (yes probably even the cuteness of cats).
The Google Voice app works fine and supports calling and texting over Wi-Fi.
Lockdowns for Thee, but Not for Me
The Rise of the AI Validator
The rise of the AI Validator - do your teams have this new role yet?
The first iteration was Google Talk, which was a tiny DIV in Google Mail, had a desktop app and I think supported XMPP (maybe that came later?). I don't even remember when it "pivoted" to Hangouts.
What could be ways to bridge that gap?
> produces less waste

But do nuclear reactors really produce any waste, or only “spent” fuel that’s recyclable?
Apple Software Chief Craig Federighi Defends App Tracking Transparency Feature
Again, thanks for the feedback. Your comments are great food for thought!
In some cases -- when the file is smaller.
For small files ZFS uses the smallest possible block size that can accommodate the file. Once the file grows beyond the recordsize (maximum block size), it uses recordsize-sized blocks.
No true scotsman.

It's more literate programming than not and chasing the promise of the ideal literate programming environment is what created the novel notebook environment in the first place.