skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A cynical take?
Oculus is a locked down ecosystem that fb purposefully sharded off.

Anything but cynicism regarding this product is w-e-i-r-d.
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Animation.
Brilliant work.

It really helps building an intuitive foundation of these phenomena.

With such intuitive foundation, one has confidence to look into the math behind the curtain, even if this math gets complex, you will still feel confident.

IMO, this kind of explanations is the correct way to start teaching anything.
Debian also has single reboot, guaranteed stable-to-stable update.

We use CentOS at the office for obvious reasons but, my personal servers are always Debian since 2005 or so. Had no problems whatsoever.

Debian Testing is also a great, semi-rolling desktop distro. May be not the latest and greatest but, it's very very dependable.
> Funny thing is Democratic party and Biden themselves are center-right by most reasonable international definitions. The fact that republicans try to paint Biden and Democratic parties as radical left is laughable to most people with an international view.

We just had a summer in which armed gangs of self-identified Leftists roamed the streets of our major cities, set fire to buildings, harassed random passers-by and assaulted (and in a few cases, murdered) anyone they unilaterally labeled a "fascist" (i.e. anyone to the right of Mao). These Democrats you speak of were for three months ignoring the violence; when they occasionally admitted that violence had taken place, they claimed it was all perpetrated by right-wing agitators; when that didn't work (because who actually believes that right-wingers are spray-painting anarchy symbols, "BLM," "ACAB," and other slogans?), their propaganda mouthpieces calling it "mostly peaceful protest."

Do I think Biden is some hard leftist? No. But certainly his party feels extremely constrained in criticizing the hard left, and also feel that they must kowtow down to them.

> This also gives insight into the Republican style of pushing out falsities just for the sake of being in power.

This is a complete non-sequitur. The fact that US definitions of left and right (as mentioned in a sibling comment) differ from international ones "gives insight" into one particular political party lying? What?

Isn't the objective of every political party to obtain power, or at least influence? Don't all political parties "push[] out falsities" in order to obtain or retain power?

The one wrinkle here is that the Republicans (nor anyone on the Right - US definition) absolutely lack real political power, since they have no control over the bureaucracy, the media or the academe. Trump himself figured this out much too late, and wasted years appointing people who had no interest in carrying out his agenda. But in some ways, this is the exception that proves the rule.
Happened to me. Switched to digital marketing. I really like it. I still code sometimes but it's never more than 20% of my week. Had to learn basic design, UX, CMSs, CRMS, CDPs, marketing automation etc.

Long story short, there is a huge shortage of competent digital folks in the marketing world. I really like the work and the pay is similar.
It might not entirely be incorrect either. Very few deaths are officially reported but the deaths which weren't going to be reported, were of the same subset of people who never tested either, despite symptoms.

So it would be safe to assume while both the infected and fatality numbers are way off, they are at least representative. Hence, I believe the IFR isn't incorrect.
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True story , when Swift was announced I started cheering so loudly in the office I had to be told to calm down.

I hate objective C with a passion. It's like some archaic language of a bygone era forced to run on a cell phone
Did you ever consider using Clojure spec or one of the alternatives before it? Runtime data shape/type inference is quite capable.
> 1 noob to suggest to install a Microsoft lightbulb.

> 300 to say that a Microsoft lightbulb would turn blue and that you'd had to reboot continuously to get back to normal.

Love it.
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But there aren't 3 different Amazon marketplaces--owned by Amazon--built on that infra. And AWS is available standalone.

Here we have core infrastructure that isn't sold to anyone else and powering 3 supposedly different social messaging services.

The key isn't the backend, it's the supposed independence of the frontends.
Definitely thought this was going to be a story about when their car killed someone: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/uber-driverles...
As someone who joined in 2009, and was very pro market at the time, as time passed, my opinions changed. No idea how representative that is.
Just because people signed up, it doesn't mean they will stick around. I would be curious how much will stick around.
The "curmudgeon" ending line in this story rubs me the wrong way. The ObjC people were right, basically, and it seems like the problem was essentially no one in the right place was going to drop Swift at that point.

Seems less like they weren't offering answers, so much as the answer wasn't "but we'll do some stuff and fix Swift!"

Though the 6 library limit and how that wasn't a gigantic red flag on the language is baffling.
I guess it is because Ubuntu is also corp-controlled (Canonical). Personally I use Ubuntu server. But it is much easier to migrate from Ubuntu to Debian than from CentOS to Debian.
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Isn't it obvious that this is primarily a "tax optimization" move?
> We ended up in situations where we had lots of data that looked very similar entering from common endpoints that required different business logic at multiple points in the pipeline. If you’re writing idiomatic Clojure this is the toughest case possible, as you end up littering your code with extremely similar cond-trees, which makes extension and verification unnecessarily hard.

Isn't this where you would use multi-methods? If you can determine what the "type" of data is via `cond` (sounds like home-grown pattern matching?), couldn't you replace these situations with multi-methods that switch on the same conditions?
Ha, what happens if Google craw this particular page? Infinite loop?
Debian Testing comes in two flavors. Rolling and non-rolling. You can either always stay in the rolling state for Desktop and non-critical application or, get to the bandwagon early and end-up with stable release eventually.

To keep on rolling, you can use the keywords (stable, testing, unstable) in sources or use release names to stop rolling when something releases (buster, stretch, etc.).

The nice thing about using release names is the annealing effect during development. First major version bumps stop (feature freeze). Then minor version bumps stop (RC state / full freeze). Then one day you read that Debian is released. Congrats! A last apt-get and you've arrived in stable.
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Thank you for the question!

Actually, those are two of the tools we've used in the past and the one we used most recently before starting this project. They work pretty well for a/b testing, but since they have so many other ad account features they need to maintain and update, I think we will be able to offer a better a/b testing platform. Already we can test multiple ad types which the other platforms don't have in place yet. Our ad writer is more advanced also in that you can not only select a previous ad from anywhere in your account as a starting point for a new ad, you can mix and match individual ad elements from elsewhere in your account by selecting ones that have the best performance in other ads.

We hope to get a few more Google Testing options in place, like GDN and RSA (yes, you can test those too), and then expand to Bing, then facebook and twitter ads.
What exactly are the "obvious" reasons (to you/your office) to use CentOS?
Question from a current Ubuntu user that I also asked myself:

Why Ubuntu instead of Debian?
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> For me, that new interest has been electronic music production

This is exactly what I came to after also losing interest in my job defining who I am. I came to the same conclusion, work is just work. I do it purely for the money and fulfilment in mentoring. The products we make seem entirely meta to the overall human cause. Modern life has little meaning, it's so abstract. You rarely ever get to see any use in the output of your efforts.

Creating something for yourself, something real and tangible, is one way of finding something small and finding that satisfaction one misses in the toil of daily life.
Unfortunately, Stream is not a rolling release like Arch. You will still be required to perform a full install of Stream 9 when it's released.
IIRC an article by the New York Times was considered a turning point in convincing the population of WMDs in Iraq.
But no organ-on-demand service
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I think I interpreted this differently than the parent poster
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Has it though? How many companies have moved from centos to RHEL?
> they consciously seek to leverage psychological research in order to addict us, be. Unfortunately, the things that addict us are fear, anxiety, envy, anger, tribalism, and self-loathing.

Would you say HN does the same?

Fear triggered through the many posts spreading FUD

Anxiety triggered by that same FUD

Envy triggered by posts about 18 year old prodigies / success by others

Anger triggered by politics, tech choices, etc

Tribalism triggered again by politics and tech choices

Self-loathing triggered by seeing what others are capable of

In my younger years, I experienced all of these feelings more from the likes of HN, than Instagram. Since I know that IG/FB/etc are fake representations of people's lives. HN on the other hand showed people's real accomplishments.

In my opinion, this is a problem of the internet, not any particular social media app. We should be teaching children, and people in general, how to have a healthy online life.

> They aren't ignorant of how many people have lost everything, and they aren't innocent, because their product actively invites you to do it.

Other than providing more investment options for the average person, what is Robinhood doing that you believe is particularly egregious?
AT&T is selling Crunchyroll to Sony for $1.18B
So just add some triage middleware (maybe Java based) between the data sources and your Clojure code, which separates the coarse-grained data into more granular flows for consumption by your Clojure code.
Yeah this floats around a lot in the bodybuilding/powerlifting/fitness community. The general rule is CICO works for everyone. Because it does.

There are some "cheats" that you can do with macro profiles, especially with no or low carb diets (carnivore/keto), however these solutions rarely work long term, especially in athletic circles. For non-athletes it _might_ work a little longer term but if you look at those studies (with non-athletes) they are very short lived and typically on a very specific cohort. Hormonal levels adapt over time and the initial "gainz" you see are relatively short lived - this is most evident in the studies done on athletes. That and you have to stay on top of your bloodwork. In my personal experience it's about six months. I've tried keto, paleo, and carnivore for fairly long periods of time (paleo is much more forgiving long term for a variety of reasons). There are most certainly diminishing returns. Unfortunately, as I said, there's no long term studies here with large cohorts so it's all anecdotal.
> My point is that fact isn't that useful.

Do you think the fact isn't useful to the people who don't know it yet?
The aquifer under the plains states is expected to be depleted in the next 30 years due mostly to heavy agricultural use. So this could lead to additional restrictions or true rationing.
> developing 4 bar loops and hoarding gear. Those are the antithesis of a productive producer.

Or philosophically, your personal choices on whatever takes your fancy are the reasons for working; they are a higher meaning to life than working to feed and house yourself.
Middle America is still racking up a ton of new coronavirus cases
> Clojure you need to [keep] attract[ing] those good devs.

This isn't one and don, people move on even from the best jobs. You know need to keep replacing them, explain to HR why this "req" (requisition - aka job opening) needs them to look at resumes differently. Why they can't pull from their Java pool of resumes, explain to your director why you aren't like all the other teams. It's a lot of friction.
Minor nitpick, but what's up with the artifacting on your large images?

See the text in your image "the button at the bottom of the page."

See also the gradient in your second image: "Create a Private Playlist"

There are noticeable artifacts, whether from compression or something else.

It just takes away from that polished feel for me.

Sorry I don't have actual functionality feedback!
I agree, CentOS was mostly used as a stable distro. Now it's the dev branch of RHEL. And it won't even benefit from being the dev branch, there is no way RedHat is releasing security updates in it before RHEL gets them.

So all updates and bugfixes will be pushed to CentOS Stream first, but they'll go out of their way to circumvent this for security patches. Just because of their paying customers.

Makes sense but it's kinda funny.

The OP is mostly about being a Debian fanboy.

It doesn't even consider that Fedora uses pretty much the same level of packages that Debian has and offers stable release upgrades for 6 years now.

Because Fedora has no such thing as LTS. But is that really necessary if you treat it like a rolling release?

I'm of course a RHEL fanboy and I love stuff like SElinux and yum/dnf too much to go back to Debian.
Seems like after this holiday season we're also gonna need a similar guide for private shipping companies...
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The real great thinkers demonstrated profundity by separating each word with a clap emoticon though.
Yea, it'd still be smaller than loading a jira ticket or slack
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-china-back-to-no...

I thought it was because of the aggressive response in the beginning that China is back to normal?
One very slightly annoying thing is that the orange/red "over character limit" only appears after the pause/delay.

I don't know if you could signal that more immediately (inline perhaps, without updating the thing on the right)?
As a parent of a 7-month-old, it is very frustrating to see the age range 0-4 years old. Everything I read says children under 1 year is at higher risk, but then all the statistics group that higher-risk age group with the lower risk age group 2-4. How am I supposed to understand the risk to my child when I know the stats are including lower-risk populations? How much higher is the risk for 0-1? If anyone has any insights into the under 1 year age group, I would really appreciate it.

My understanding is that a vaccine for children will not be available for some time. I will have to make some decisions about daycare this spring and want to make the most informed decision possible.
I'm an HPC administrator. Scientific computation and HPC ecosystem is built upon RedHat infrastructure. First ScientificLinux, then CentOS. To be able to run scientific software and project related middleware with ease, you need a RH-Style distro. That distro is CentOS.

(a little more insight is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25349371)
Yeah, wherever they are usually stored.

As I said in another comment - the only data the pharma company gets to "take home" is anonymized (partially, ie. a number instead of a name) and blinded (you don't know if they received drug or placebo)

The company must reconcile the patient data with the trial data (on premise), in a scenario like: "liver enzymes abnormal after administration of vaccine, is there anything in the patient data that could clarify that (apart from the vaccine itself)". Someone has to painstakingly go through all that data.

Source: this was my job
Debian Testing doesn't really have much in the way of security support, see https://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing
This is a moderated forum. Why do mods not keep the trolls out?
In the same vein, Wikipedia will disambiguate "The one with the whales" to Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
They got €300 million but that doesn’t mean the project cost €300 million.

This is a pretty normal arrangement where government induces companies to do something by paying at least up to half the cost while the company gets to reap the rewards. I’ve seen it happen in tech but I’m sure it happens in different fields.

Of course its a mutually beneficial arrangement, otherwise that would be pretty dumb for a government to do, right?
To be fair while its very distasteful to our current sensibilities, this was not always the assumption in the US, at least among some of the Founders. My understanding of the rationale for the support for the requirement of land ownership was that those who were not finically independent or secure would instead vote for those who issued wild campaign promises (giant walls, closing Guantanmo Bay or withdrawing troops for example) in order to get themselves elected.
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"people who care about animals should think twice about having a pet if it means forcing that kind of procedure on a living being"

I sympathize with your view very much, but there's also the agony that results from unconstrained breeding of cats and dogs to consider.

In developed nations feral cats and dogs are often hunted down and exterminated. Even while they live their lives in are often no picnic, whether they're in a shelter or in the wild.

Also, if you have, say, a cat and you don't get them neutered and you let them out what are you going to do with all the kittens? If you don't let them out, the endless confinement could be argued as a form of misery itself.

Then you could argue about having pets at all, but then what about all the cats and dogs that live miserable lives in shelters or are unwanted or abused in other homes? Wouldn't they be better off with you?
The solution to this problem is either dead simple, or impossible (depending on your specific field of work, I guess): You do not buy or deploy hardware that doesn't have mainline support at the time of your specific Debian release's kernel version (or its backports variant, if need be).

$prevjobcompany lives by that unwritten rule for more than two very profitable decades by now, and I recommend anyone considering operating a Linux-based OS to adopt it.
For the sake of balance, this defendant's motion to dismiss is also relevant since it directly disputes these claims: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18619867/31/donald-j-tr...

Many more documents are available, but I doubt most people have the amount of time required to read through, and much less
understand in full: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18619867/donald-j-trump...

This has also received plenty of media coverage, for example: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/michigan--poll-watch...
When you say, "but not one person was convicted of colluding with Russians": What criminal statute do you think would satisfy your criteria of "colluding with Russia"?

I think pleading guilty for lying to the FBI specifically around a call made to the Russian ambassador in which he coordinated Russian and incoming Trump Administration responses looks really bad. Rodger Stone was convicted on obstruction, making false statements, and witness tampering around his behavior coordinating the release of the hacked (by Russia) DNC emails, which also looks a lot like "Russian collusion".
I've posted a lot of threads here and you have no control over what people will find controversial or not. If you post a thread and it hits people's nerves it generally happens accidentally. And "profiting off it" is always going to happen if you're posting your own work. So in the end I don't really think it says anything.
There is a need to begin calling out Facebook and Google employees directly for their role in harming society, especially because they seem ready to rise up whenever one of their peers is mistreated.

What would be your strategy for holding a mirror to these people and to make these jobs undesirable?
I just tried it and it works pretty well. Awfully slow on my mid-2014 MacBookPro though, especially the variable-view-panel redrawing takes very long (1..2 seconds). But definitely a promising new start compared to the older source-map debugging solution.

Hopefully this will also lead to a 'seamless debugging experience' inside VSCode. It would be pretty awesome to have (for instance) a HTML panel with a WebGL canvas in one VSCode tab while stepping through the C/C++ code in another tab. With a bit of tinkering this would also make a nice shadertoy-style live-coding environment.
Those amounts don't seem near enough to make it financially worthwhile for them to change their behavior.
Putting your app on a diet (2018)
> tell yourself you're not going to program for two whole weeks.

Two weeks. Ten working days. You can't be serious. Three months minimum. OP needs to zoom out for perspective and that takes time.
It is all mental in my experience. If you want that spark back, work your way back to the people you know who still have that spark. What separates you and them -- Why do they think that way? What thoughts are blocking you from thinking that way?
Of course we can, because it's a law of nature. Whereas man-made laws are subject to human action and interpretation, so outcomes are far less predictable.
Rome did, but that was par for the course at the time, and Maghrebians were allowed to become full citizens to the point where many became Roman emperors.

The Ottoman invasions didn't actually do that much damage to the Maghreb. It's a place very far away from them. Ottoman conquests of the Maghreb had around 40 000 casualties, many of them not of Algerians but of Ottomans and French/Spanish soldiers.

As for the Caliphate, they certainly did not annihilate any culture before them, and it's incredible to equate culture with Religion. The dominant religions there at the time of their invasion were Christianism and Judaism, which were preserved for a long time and are barely different from Islam, and religion is a tiny aspect of Culture. Their impact on the common person is so small that during Islamic rule the vast majority of people didn't even speak Arabic.

What the French did that was objectively much worse was to create a system where the citizens of the Maghreb were to remain an inferior second class only useful insofar as resources can be stolen forever.

As for colonialism in general, which I should remind you is the point, it caused more deaths than WW2.
The opposite isn't quite true either. Cash flow management can allow, e.g., a growing business to continue to operate even without additional sources of cash. So long as the business can turn a profit before growth has stalled for too long there will be no issues.
Remove snaps:

sudo apt-get remove snapd
sudo apt-get remove lxd-agent-loader # 20.04

The key to keeping them uninstalled is to pin the packages so they don't get "upgraded," which results in them being reinstalled.

sudo apt-mark hold snapd
sudo apt-mark hold lxd-agent-loader # 20.04

If you want to go the next step in cleanup:

sudo umount /var/lib/snapd/snaps/*.snap
sudo rm -rvf /var/lib/snapd/*
sudo rm -vf /etc/systemd/system/snap-*.mount
sudo rm -vf /etc/systemd/system/snap-*.service
sudo rm -vf /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/snap-*.mount
sudo rm -vrf /snap/*
No this is cool feedback. All good. I don't know why you're seeing that. I'll investigate.
... What do you mean by "RedHat Infrastructure"? What kind of packages are available for RHEL but not for say, Debian?