skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And these people were not always happy[1] with the way things are in UNIX. An example of something missing from UNIX is a service or job subsystem, which is why SMF, launchd and systemd were invented.

[1] https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
How have I not known about this? Man this utility is amazing!
That is a myth. For example, NHS New Zealand predates NHS UK by around 10 years.
It's more a stab at the inconsistency of rules around magic.

"Well this pricing rule only works on a Tuesday lunch time if you're standing on one leg with a sausage under each arm and a traffic cone on your head"

And there are a million of those to navigate.
I've never been in a raging fire, but the property seems to be very open and spacious with no obvious choke points, how does one end up so trapped, and without realizing a fire is breaking out?

My guess is he passed out from the smoke inhalation first while asleep and was burned.
Micro-benchmarking?
> which seems like a reasonable assumption for anyone

Absolutely not. There's plenty of people who live without needing cars.
Leaving aside the hypothetical, let us examine what we know to be rights in the US.

The first amendment provides a right to assemble. There is no right to be protected from COVID.

It seems relatively straightforward.
Netflix to start declaring £1bn-plus UK revenues to HMRC
Cycling is huge here in Belgium, definitely as a hobby.

A semi-professional once told me how crazy it is that people with a beer belly spend a huge amout of money on their bike, just to get a few grams off. A proper diet could save them a few kilos for free.
I think what hurt intel in the long run was actually their fully integrated stack.

They couldn't really sell fab time to other companies cuz they didn't have a good attempt at fabbing for 3rd parties. So they were only fabricating intel chips, that's not nearly as big of a business as TSMC. So basically, TSMC can keep their last 3+ gens of fabs open and making product, while intel couldn't really reap any benefit from keeping old process nodes open.

AMD made a good call selling off global foundries when it was apparent they couldnt keep up with Intel even.

I think the really rough issue here is what happens if China does try to take Taiwan (and this is not unrealistic as China has been more aggressive towards them recently).

TSMC is now a strategic asset for the USA. We've been attempting to get them to build a fab in the states for exactly this reason.
I suppose he means booting up on bare metal, not running in a VM.
Fighting systemic changes by making individual decisions is quixotic, to put it nicely.
I took a look at the posts:

453 points | 548 comments

558 points | 774 comments

169 points | 300 comments

218 points | 510 comments

As a recommendation, try to avoid the comment section it post were the number of comments is greater than the number of upvotes.
Yeah, I think we are.

I think the issue here is that this post makes sense to me, but it's about Servo and/or Mozilla. But your initial post was complaining about "the Rust developers." These are two (or three) effectively disjoint sets of people. I think that's where we got off the rails.

If you had said "Mozilla" in your post, I would still disagree, but for completely different reasons. Complaining about a "focus" on a team of ~20ish people in an organization of 1500 people doesn't make a ton of sense to me.

And I'm still not clear why you're drawing conclusions about Rust generally from one single project, that's not even its most popular or widely used exemplar project.
I can perfectly discredit work and not provide any alternative, I don’t think this reasoning makes sense.

The sad truth is - to me - that blockchain and crypto currencies don’t matter because they don’t solve a real problem people have.

https://louwrentius.com/cryptocurrencies-are-detrimental-to-...
I made a little tool you can use to generate QR codes for your projects
After reading articles and anecdotes about the way Amazon treats its employees - warehouse and office - I tried to stop giving my business to Amazon. It is hard. Amazon offers a much better customer experience. Trying to place an order at Best Buy or Staples or others, I often encounter random website issues or distribution issues (bad packaging, out of stock despite showing available) that I never had with Amazon. So it costs me more time. Amazon is also cheaper where I live but I'm willing to spend a little bit extra on the alternatives.

What scares me is that Amazon is getting so big that there will be a future where some products will only be online and only on Amazon. It will be too expensive for local retailers to carry them. Amazon will control distribution and supply. That is not a future I want so I put up with the inconveniences of not support Amazon, even if I am tilting at windmills like Don Quixote.
By referencing "lockdowns", you're just bashing some straw man. Only three states even have stay at home orders. From California's: "Nothing in this order prevents any number of persons from the same household from leaving their residence, lodging, or temporary accommodation, as long as they do not engage in any interaction with (or otherwise gather with) any number of persons from any other household". Despite the headline of "stay at home", you're free to go out whenever you'd like. There is no lock down.
Thanks a lot for being so thorough with the answers. (IANAL either but) Given the above, I think you'd be fine with AGPLv3.

MPLv2 and other related licenses such as Eclipse Public License v2, Erlang Public License, do have the advantage of being well understood and in some cases auto-approved for use at various enterprises and thus a good midway between MIT / Apache and GPLv3.

That said, you'd be right to lean more-copyleft (going Server Side Public License, for example) if K6 is a key product (and not a complementary product), though Bryan Cantrill thinks you might be better off closing up the source in that case: http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/12/14/open-source-confronts...
Duplicacy can do that with it's RSA option. My private key isn't on the VM doing the backing up.
The think that stucks out to me about trying idea after idea is how many of them are abject failures. If you get a run of bad beats, it can seem like you're just headed in the wrong direction, even if on average you'd make winning ideas. Having the fortitude to make a bunch of smart bets AND to not be results-oriented if they don't break your way is such a strong, difficult-to-identify skill.
That's odd. At the beginning of the pandemic Amazon was definitely the least cooperative with our building's requests to deliver to the door instead of just dumping everything in the lobby.
I think the inescapable problem is that this is someone else's heavily moderated (automatically and manually) forum, not a blog or a bulletin board.

A thorough well-sourced reply is just as likely to get downvoted/flagged/grayed-out over a disagreement as a low-effort one. With those dynamics, most people aren't going to bother with an effortpost.

Personally, I miss the old bulletin boards. The upvote/downvote approach has become a groupthink amplifier, and this is even more pernicious when unpopular-yet-civil opinions are disappeared.
The best part of this is that dice are known to not be fair. There’s a whole niche for people who want to buy fair dice.

I can’t find it but I once saw a post that stacked ~20 d20 dice. The difference in height based on what number you picked to stack was shocking. The dice were incredibly non-uniform.
_When_ the equity evaporates.

Statistically, that's the smarter way to think about it.
I assume keeping the parts cool becomes a big issue. You get twice the amount of heat to dissipate within the same area. Or is there some workaround?
Our whole family was really sick around March and couldn’t leave the house. We had stocked up what seemed like a lot of food, but after 3 weeks it started to feel really tight. Online grocery delivery wasn’t handling the load, so we just had to wait. In retrospect, our neighbors would have helped — but this was the early days of Covid and we felt like pushing through was the way to go.

Eventually the online grocery systems adapted - just in time for us. But it made me rethink our pantry. As a fan of Marie Kondo, we don’t have a lot of clutter in our home — and we had applied that level of minimalism to our food as well. But given we live in earthquake country, having an extended supply of food on hand isn’t hoarding — it’s a responsible thing to do.

It made me think about resiliency — how a resilient society stems from the household. A family that can get through a few weeks of a disaster on their own helps spare resources for more dire cases.

It also made me think about my grandparents’ basement. It was full of mason jars like the ones described in the article. They had tons of food down there — olives, pasta, beans, etc — much of which was grown in their garden. Like so many WWII era families, they had a victory garden — one they kept over the years.

At the end of the day, I feel a deeper connection with my grandparents’ generation than my own parents’. They lived through a depression, conflict — they had a stronger sense of how precarious society can be. My parents maybe experienced some of that — but they also lived through a boom time where American optimism knew no bounds.

Anyway, makes sense people are buying mason jars. Some things are timeless. The demand will fade, but some of us will hold onto this year for the rest of our lives.
And when they do it badly, you can vote the CEO out. How democratic.
I would have liked to know what the Kolmogorov approach has to say about the examples used to deflate frequentism ("which of my friends will start a business?"). I don't see from the article how the "smallest-program" approach could say anything useful about those, either. Maybe that wasn't the point--but after poking holes in the frequentist view, it uses unrelated examples like digits of pi to illustrate the Kolmogorov idea, so I'm left unable to directly compare the kinds of statements the two approaches can make.

Even going back to dice or coins would have helped me compare them. Like, I know frequentists can show how the variance in coin-toss outcomes decreases as the sample size increases. What can the smallest-program approach say about that? Or was the point that those variant outcomes aren't "real" enough to talk about? Does that mean there is a connection to constructivism in mathematics here?

It seems either approach benefits from more data, and there must be a concept related to a "confidence interval" where, as 100, then 200, then 300 digits of pi roll in, your pi-program stays the same size while other programs have to keep growing to accommodate the new data. Like, the ratio of the smallest program to the naive encoding ought to say something about how potentially predictive the small program is.

Thanks for the interesting article. It definitely made me think about the issues, and now I'm curious to know more about the topic.
And all it cost was decimating local economies!
>> Sci-Hub.se is not blocked; your ISP is blocking you from Sci-Hub.se.

Oh dear. Thx for letting me know.

>> Also, changing the URL is not, IMHO, “hacking”.

URL hacking: https://www.google.com/search?q=url+hacking+definition
They should be worried about anyone tracking them.

But it won't matter what most Americans think if there are just two choices and both are designed so that only a few can modify the OS.

There's also the pinephone of course, but "Most Americans" object to the pinephone so severely that they'll offer to buy you an iphone if you switch to one.
My New Part Time Job
a literal example of survivor bias
Technically the possibility is there. What I'm interested in is how this will be regarded by Rust programmers as time passes and how it will continue to be supported.

It would be interesting for example to see if e.g. the 2015 edition will still be usable/used 9 years later (like C++11) or even ~20 years later (like C++98) but we have some way to go before we can find that out.

On the other hand, there's something exciting about being on the bleeding edge. Right now I'm using C++17 and would probably jump on C++20 when it becomes widely available. But having the knowledge that I have the rock-solid C++11 at my disposal and knowing that it will likely be there for decades gives me a feeling of security that's hard to beat.
I am also on the same boat, albeit at a lower designation. I totally agree with the bit about managers wanting results without having any clue on the feasibility of projects.

Are there any IT careers which would be an easier transition apart from ML Engineer roles? Any thing based on Cybersecurity perhaps?
Ugh. What an inappropriate post.
Sure. If it was only a single dollar. But do it for every purchase and it adds up.

In a way if you are relying on the "community" to help your business stay alive, then your business is clearly not creating enough value and shouldn't exist.
> the amount of error a perfect Bayesian makes as they observe event and bet on the next one, ad infinitum, is finite.

There's a little assumption that you're leaving out, namely that the Kolmogorov complexity of the data generating process is finite. From Wikipedia:

> expected cumulative errors made by the predictions based on Solomonoff's induction are upper-bounded by the Kolmogorov complexity of the (stochastic) data generating process

Whether the universe (or our observations of the universe) have finite complexity is very much an unresolved philosophical question.
Emacs Conference 2020
For some of them I would say that they barely had any strategy to reduce that risk, and just had people whose sole job it was to constantly try and identify new products, and then they just accepted that they had better or worse months of that working.

The merchants where it was more stable had generally less of those products, and had a bigger existing offline business. Through their offline business they had bigger volume on those products and could cut a better deal with the supplier than Amazon, and through that offer them at a lower price[0]. I would guess though that that's also only a very temporary position they can hold, as Amazon should be able to beat them in warehouse logistics and demand forecasting.

[0]: As a silver-lining Amazon is pretty fair that if you underbid them even if they have the item in stock themselves, you will still make the sale "by default".
Or... we could just tax carbon.
Perhaps then they ought to be alleged for incompetence; that we could all agree with.
Air New Zealand is trialing this. I guess for a country with such distances to anywhere, not surprising they are pioneers in flight comfort.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/26/lie-flat-beds-...
Much appreciated / I was trying to get details on the fire as well.
To amplify other replies:

DNS is very easy to run yourself. I use, and highly recommend, Unbound[1] as a caching resolver, and NSD[2] as an authoritative nameserver.

A caching resolver is used for ordinary lookups. If the address for "ycombinator.com" isn't in the cache, the resolver starts at the root and recursively finds the authority for the domain, gets the answer, caches it, and returns it to you. You run this for general usage, and you point your desktop/laptop computers to this address. Google runs their public resolver at "8.8.8.8", etc.

An authoritative nameserver is the ultimate authority on the lookup results for a specific domain. All lookups by other people eventually reach the authoritative nameserver for an answer. You run this for domains that you own, and configure it in your domain record.

(Both can be a bit more complicated than that, but they don't need to be)

These two services need almost zero care and feeding. Set them up once, and you can basically forget about them for years. This article only discusses resolvers, which are literally set-and-forget. Authoritative nameservers only need maintenance if you make changes to your domain. (And if you don't have your own domains, you don't need an authoritative nameserver at all).

[1] Unbound: https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/unbound/about/

[2] NSD: https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/nsd/about/
The conference is now streaming live at https://live.emacsconf.org/
Professional UI people are great! I'm so glad modern UIs are so obvious, intuitive, and discoverable.
>most of the arguments against it have scientific and completely positive responses.

It costs more than every other form of renewable energy even when variability is taken into account.

I've yet to hear a scientific response to this that doesn't involve some sort of FUD around variability.
I have hated most in store retail experiences my entire life. The staff are low paid and hate their jobs. They are forced to create uncomfortable interactions with shoppers. The big box stores like Macy’s are often dirty and smell bad.

Aside from trying on clothes, I don’t know why anyone would shop in a store.
My only thought is that discovering a workable definition of "scientific method" is a reach. Philosophers spent a century searching for such a thing, in vain.

On the other hand, providing something that just works would be beneficial enough, even if falling short of the philosophical holy grail, so it's worth pursuing.

I'm a physicist, and physicists have always wondered why math works so well in physics. There's this famous essay by Eugene Wigner:

https://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.htm...
Generally speaking, reproducibility in research is not the main concern.
System 6 stays with me as much better, mainly because System 7 randomly crashed unless I had just the right set of extensions, while System 6 only went down for me when an application (usually predictably) misbehaved. 7.5(.5) was truly terrible, though 7.6.1 ended up being remarkably stable.
I wrote the word down unconsciously, but then noticed the pun when I was going to reword it, and so left it in place instead.
I wonder how this compares to remove.bg [1] (for images) and unscreen.com [2] (for video)?

[1] https://www.remove.bg/

[2] https://www.unscreen.com/
This seems to be available only in US unfortunately.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/28/amazon-prime-members-can-c...
Text-to-handwriting tool to write college assignments
One thing I admired about this guy where his stoic tendencies.

He was worth $800 million bit he slept in an airstream[0].

[0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/llamapolis-las-vegas-trailer...
I believe part of the problem is Firefox has been operating as if it had a large money making product, and investing in long term, not revenue generating projects. While fantastic for the community, they can be expensive. Operating as if your Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc is expensive when you don't have the money printing machine.

I think it'll be a long term lose for Mozilla, but things don't seem great in the short term so maybe priorities needed to shift.
Now that low paid workers are away from eye sight
Correct, I was not precise. Actually LLVM is not a problem for me personally, as the platforms I'm using right now are mainstream. I was merely trying to explain why some wouldn't be content just with LLVM.
Given that it seems to have occurred overnight, that seems pretty plausible.
There seems to be a lot of quibbling about the simple sentence here but I find it clarifying. Discussing coin tosses is a thought experiment with a very practical physical analog so spelling out clearly what the thought experiment's actual subject is has valuable properties so you don't get lost in the weeds of the physical execution of flipping coins.
IF ONLY they would delete my online identity ;-).

That aside, I can't tell if you're supporting or rebutting the OP's comment.
I’m 185cm. By far my two best hacks for flying comfortably on long-haul are, in order:

1. Have my employer pay for business class; and,

2. Lose 45kg.

Being fat is awful for flights.
Boot is probably IO and not CPU bound, hence why NVMes take the boot times down to <10s.
Name a single product or service that Amazon has a monopoly on.
Ah, good ol’ Roko’s Basilisk.
I was fully supportive of your first paragraph, but then comparing them to an autocratic government is too much, as is saying there are only three companies (Walmart, Amazon, mcdonald's) is just nonsensical. I get you're frustrated, but these comparisons don't help advance your argument.
Mapping, Packing and Storytelling
The GP described Tasmania as _importing_ more energy in 2020 that it exported, so by definition it can't be "net 100% renewables".

In a longer time frame they normally export more energy, but they are just announcing that all (used) local generation capacity is renewable, so even if we look at a longer time frame they still don't meet the definition.

Assuming they get normal rainfalls next year (and nothing else interrupts local generation) then they will likely hit the "net 100% renewables" target next year.

I believe the GP's complaint is that they're announcing something -- the ability in normal conditions to generate all their electricity through renewable means -- in a way that could easily be parsed incorrectly to mean they are doing so currently.
While I agree both are bad, the government is far far worse than corporations disabling your accounts

There are ways to migate the risk from corporations, and diservify that risk across several corporations

There is not anyway to mitigate the risk from government, and the idea of "due process" is really a myth created by TV Shows

With the number of criminal offenses if an agent of the government desires you to be in jail you go to jail. I guarantee you have done something, at some point that they can manipulate a jury into convicting you over

We are a criminalized society, especially the US, the "land of the free" where we put more people in jail than anywhere in the world (officially anyway)
And the property was only purchased a few months ago (August 2020 close date as per Redfin). In the Tech Crunch article[1] it says he was staying with his brother, so not sure if it was his or his brothers' house.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/28/tony-hsieh-iconic-las-vega...

More on the Stratford fire as well:

https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/man-suffers-substa...

Altho I doubt it from the search of property records and who owns that house: https://gis.vgsi.com/stratfordct/Parcel.aspx?Pid=11893

Also, the report has it that the person injured in Stratford fire was a 42 yr old male, not 46 as Tony was. Altho reporting isn't always accurate: https://www.burgsimpson.com/colorado/2020/11/stratford-ct-ma...

Curiously, images of the Stratford fire is available here: https://www.ctfirephoto.org/Ryan-Blake1/Structure-Fire---45-...

So many house fires. That time of year.
You aren't. In fact, as a non-native, it's difficult to not misread, as I didn't even know what matting was. And "real-time" and "human" go perfectly well with mating.
Speed is one of the selling points of dictatorship.

Companies (except worker-owned cooperatives) are hierarchical and completely undemocratic, by design.

They are also focused exclusively on maximizing profit, not providing social services.

Replace democratic institutions with billionaire-owned companies and we just reinvented feudalism.
I believe the sides of most headrests can be pulled forward.
Same hear, I call them Freudian misreads.
I don't think there's any reason to assume this was the fire, is there? Reddit is speculating on a different fire in Stratford, and doesn't appear to have any reason other than "fire in Connecticut within the rough timeline".
Suicide isn't a single factor event. However, it's our tendency to try to isolate just one factor and then pin a suicide to that.

If we get good at identifying & gauging common forces that drive people to suicide, I suspect we'll find huge swaths of populations that live their lives 80% of the way there.
Not Codigo, but Coral, yes.
Interesting, thank you. I looked just a bit and that seemed like it required hosting, while with deck.js I just end up with a .HTML file I can send around / play locally. But it does look cool.