skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looked at a server ssh I had open to an 1804 ubuntu, and on my desktop

First thing /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news does is source /etc/default/motd-news if it exists

Only if that file sets "ENABLED" to 1 will it do anything

[ "$ENABLED" = "1" ] || exit 0

I haven't knowingly deleted that file, not sure how it opts in. Perhaps this line in my preseed removes

popularity-contest popularity-contest/participate boolean false

Notably though, with base-files 10.1ubuntu2.10 and

$ dpkg -L base-files | grep motd-news
/etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news
/lib/systemd/system/motd-news.service
/lib/systemd/system/motd-news.timer

There's a mention on the prerm about removing that conffile.
Sorry, this just seems unrealistic. This isn't some half-arsed software project that would be used for promotions and out. This required real, big, physical investment.

And they are charging. I have no idea how many Stadia users exist, but let's use 1 million since I've seen that number thrown around. If even a quarter of those are paying for pro, that's >25 million a year in revenue. A drop in the bucket to Google, but not something you'd just throw away. I expect this number to at least quadruple next year, based on their recent uptick in advertising and hardware giveaways.
Can't answer for the above poster. But after reading both your posts, I'm not entirely sure what you mean in any context. It could mean any of the below in this context and none make sense.

Don't use Javascript to do anti-fingerprinting? (JS is the only language available to extension writers)

Disable JS in your browser? (Breaks much of the web)
.
Don't use JS for web development? (I need to pay my bills)

PS: Guessing games are a poor means of communicating a point.
Yep,and they were forced to buy Cognitect too to deal's with their Clojure/Datomic mess.
Maybe, but I wonder if the difference in hardware vs. software makes the FB situation a tad more complicated.

Leadership made the push a few years back when Chris Cox left to merge the code bases as much as possible. Do you trust the government to know enough to dictate how that should be undone? You can't, like, just run a "git rebase" to undo years of merging by 10000's of engineers.

Then again, maybe that is just crazy enough to work???
Awesome! I like your site as well, but the brightly-colored border makes me think that my screen is being shared (thanks to Zoom, Teams, and Meet).
Readable version:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1336890442768547845.html
Solution for Bigdata and DevOps
I'm just worried about age discrimination. I'm 35. Do I have 15 years to make bank, after which they take me out back and shoot me? How common are developers over 50 at these companies?
I think interviewing at places that do interviews the right way is important. I've interviewed for senior/staff positions before when they immediately start talking about big o notation and asking me to reverse a string on a white board (seriously). Sorry but your CRUD line-of-business app with 150 total and ~10 concurrent users can use whatever algorithm the developer wants, and if anyone is reversing a string manually there is a problem. It's not even worth continuing the interview if they're asking a senior candidate junior-level questions.

Interviews for senior level positions should contain almost no technical questions at all - you can tell pretty quickly if someone knows what they're talking about by digging into their experience with earlier projects. How was a solution architected? What other ways did they consider? Why did they go the route they did? And my favorite, "think about the most complex project that you had a hand in architecting (for architects) or developing (for developers), and teach it to me." You can immediately see where they focus, what things they gloss over, and if you have time and it's an engaging conversation, changing one of the core pieces and asking how they'd change the design can be a lot of fun (for an interview, anyway).
Absolutely not. Nor should anyone nod towards the bastard child of the two called spacemacs ... Emacs FTW :)
Seems like the lesson here is to not adopt new technologies on your flagship products (instead of first testing the waters on smaller products).
The Future of Clojure is 39 minutes and 11 seconds.

Sounds about right.
DNS-over-HTTPS in Unbound
Sure! "Color" vs "Black and White" vs "Sepia" is primarily a function of the photosensitive (aka film or digital sensor) layer.
I created this account on the idea that it would probably be more productive to have political discussion separate from (unrelated) technical discussion, and probably be beneficial on the privacy front as well.

Phone numbers might work, but I personally would prefer something text-based, as I like to think through things before I say them. Again, though, I could see why some people would prefer the opposite.

I'd also like that thank czep for the idea, though - I find myself in a conservative echo chamber in my personal bubble and generally liberal echo chambers online, neither of which are especially receptive to good discussion.
I've listened to hundreds of hours of Hitchens. I liked him. I asked you for concrete refutations, which are implicitly based in science.

Tilting at windmills here..
They're getting public money to fund public benefits like opening up businesses. If the vaccine single-handedly revitalizes the economy, they don't get paid for that either.
> Some of my ex-Twitter colleges called on me to quit such an evil company that would track you like this.

Twitter owns an company called MoPub that broadcasts user location information to the adtech industry.
In my current role I mentioned that I work on things on the side and they were like... oh that's not allowed, and I said... oh well I can't work here then.

Good for you! There seems to be a certain mindset in some company bosses, and it's usually middle management types who have made it to a moderately senior level and never not been "company men" (or women etc. obviously) in my experience. It's like they think becoming an employee at their firm means giving over your life to them, and that by graciously allowing you to work for them they're doing you some big favour that justifies that stance. This is supported by the corporate lawyers routinely trying to insert heavily one-sided terms into employment contracts. But that simply isn't what an employment relationship is, certainly not in the West in 2020, and enough good people saying "no" and being willing to walk away is the only way the "we own you" people will learn.
Not a fan of Applied Cryptography:

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2013/07/22/applied-practical-cry...
All it takes is a single 200-level Poli Sci or Econ class to see how about 40% of the comments in those threads on HN are nonsense. I'm sure the same is true for law and other humanities/social sciences as well.
To me this is evidence of part of the problem is that no one can agree on what higher ed should be, job prep or providing a liberal education. So we get the worst of both worlds where we force students to do both while taking out massive debt, resulting in a workforce that still has to be trained when they graduate, but much of the liberal education being ignored or useless because there is an argument over whether or not you should be preparing for a job by going to college or whether it is to make you a more holistic individual.

For the record I would subscribe to the liberal education viewpoint of college but question why that can't be had for free with the resources of the internet at this point.

Note: By liberal education I do not mean politically liberal but rather a term encompassing a full rounded individual akin to a renaissance man, that is familiar with and can discuss language and mathematics just as well as art history or philosophy.
I could see Epic purchasing Oculus, I would be more likely to get that then with Oculus through facebook.

Plus, if they put some form of VR integration into Fortnite that could seriously drive adoption.
The only thing better than a pinhole camera is a pinhole camera with multiple holes.

Let me explain:

When you have two holes (apertures), their images would likely overlap (depending on the arrangement).

Imagine you took two photos from a few millimetres apart to the left and to the right, then you superimposed them. Some areas would look ok (as both views saw the same distant object) and some would be less ok (of objects that are closer).

If you have a DSLR take the lens off and put a sheet with holes in front. Just try it.

Now as you add more holes you get more and more overlapping images on the same area of the sensor and eventually end up with a blur.

This blur is the same blur you see with a single large hole. It's just that with a large hole you had infinitely many overlaps!

Even cooler, if you happen to arrange the holes in a specific pattern you could capture images with different combinations of perspectives from different holes and you may even undo the overlaps. This is called coded aperture imaging:

https://www.paulcarlisle.net/codedaperture/

This doesn't just solve the biggest problem (limited light) of a single hole, but also captures depth information and you can use it for 3d reconstruction, refocusing etc.

One final bit, with a warning of a deep rabbit hole:

That "infinitely many overlaps" I was talking about happens with lenses too and is essentially a convolution where you convolve the image with itself (actually many different perspectives of itself if I am correct). Which is just the Fourier transform.
The GDPR is actually pretty simple :
"say what you do, do what you say, let the user say no"

The clusterfuck comes from every single ad-based business toeing the line in a giant tug of war between PR, legal & revenue.

If google had simply written :
"
Hey, we have a tracker on almost every website in the world, which we will use to monitor all your browsing habits and share with [this list of 100 other business].
This tracking pay for the app you are about to use.
[Continue Tracking] [No thanks]
"

They would be fine (legally, not financially), instead they use some king of weird pop-up with no meaning, and they now have to pay the price.
I'll concede that defining freedom is a thorny subject, and there are limitations to the definition a I proposed. But I think that any definition of freedom that doesn't accept that private individuals can (and constantly do) limit each other's freedom regardless of the state is just as flawed.
Chinese Spy Was Paid by the DNC
A friend of mine (who's nearly 50) put in over 2000 hours into playing Destiny one year. That's about the same as a full time job. He has a wife and two kids, and a very full time job.

Doing that much work on a side gig is totally possible if you want to do it and have the right disposition.
> I’m not basing it off the constitution alone

IMO, this does not come across in the posts I responded to.
If you think someone having a Slavic last name means their gender necessarily matches the gender suggested by the form of their name, you are just mistaken.

I have a Slavic last name. I also have female relatives whose last name is, quite officially, the male-suffixed version of mine. I invite you to guess how that might have happened.
Do you feel that most interviews are so similar that one can just swap the dude
What does signing a definitive agreement mean?
New news reader aims to provide more privacy than those from Google and Facebook
I agree, and this is how dev interviews always were up until I'd say about 2010 or so... but if you stroll through past conversations on HN about this topic (interviewing) you will see there's very strongly two camps but a _lot_ of people who really feel that the kind of interview you are describing lets in too many false-positives and leads to deadweight people who "can't code."

I think of programming as a creative process. And like any creative process, set and setting are extremely important.
Light-as-a-service could work... where you outsource all your light switches to an AWS lambda function, and turn them on/off via a subscription based "AI Powered Easy To Use App!"

AI powered of course in that it knows when you've entered and exited a room, unlike dumb humans who have problems with this... or something.
There's a chapter in _Next_ about it. :)
Thoughts on Growing a Newsletter (25k milestone)
Coded Aperture Imaging
Being a Cop Could Soon Require a 4-Year College Degree in California
> coreutils

Including mindbogglingly complex tools such as wc and y.

> most of which is device drivers

Dull stuff that every bootcamp graduate can write.

I think you've captured the essence of why people thing "GNU/Linux" is such a pedantic moniker.
I could also appreciate your enthusiasm if you could get your facts right.

1. Raptor does not use Pintle injectors (invented at Caltech), it uses coaxial swirl injectors.

2. Raptor was designed and developed completely by SpaceX for six years before the USAF gave it small contracts to develop specific versions for their potential needs.

3. Raptor is the first full-flow staged combustion rocket engine ever flown. Flying is a lot more important than the lab. And a lot harder given vibration and acceleration effects.

4. The Shuttle autoland system was incomplete when first implemented, it could not land the Shuttle. Even when “completed” NASA never trusted it or allowed its use . The Russians did land Buran with their system.

5. While it’s technically true that RS-25 engines were re-used, they were also required to be completely torn down and rebuilt between flights. At some point you’ve replaced so many parts it’s basically a new engine, and it was an extremely expensive maintenance requirement that entirely negated the value of reuse.

6. BO has never made an orbital flight, which is the key first step for any space travel. It’s never risked a human life in its mini rocket, nor ever flown a paid cargo. It’s still behind the 2006 version of SpaceX, which was attempting orbital flights and succeeding in 2009.

7. Without a thermal protection system your flights are one way and everything is “mass inefficient”. The inefficiency of throwing away a complete launch system every flight is the only inefficiency that matters.

SLS is designed to put 100 tons of payload in orbit. Not including development costs, each launch will cost roughly $1B, with development costs it will be over to $4B per launch. Every bit of that hardware will be destroyed every launch. It’s payload cost per pound will be over $40,000.

The Starship stack is designed to put 110+ tons of cargo in orbit, inside a 120 ton Starship. It’s launch mass will be nearly double the SLS. So on paper it’s actual payload mass percentage is about half the SLS.

But none of the Starship stack is destroyed at launch, it’s all reused. Cost of fuel for each flight is around $500K. It’s launch cost will be less than $50M, eventually maybe $5M. That means it’s payload cost per pound starts at $200/lb and could drop as low as $20/lb.

Sure, build a Starship out of aluminum or carbon fiber if you never want to be able to land it on earth again, or want to land on Mars with far smaller payloads without the massive fuel savings from Aerobraking.

NASA isn’t paying SpaceX to develop Starship. SpaceX is actually getting paid to design a lunar only version of Starship that won’t need thermal protection. Perhaps they’ll custom build NASAs versions out of lighter materials to increase their lunar landing payloads.

But they won’t do that for Starships in general because it makes them too inefficient for their planned missions. Starships efficiency cones from in-orbit refueling, which is how the same Starship can take the same 110+ ton payload to earth orbit, and on to land it on Mars.
Tracing from user to kernel back to userspace in one single pane of glass. Have you never heard anyone hype about DTrace on Solaris? This allows building similar things on production systems with little to no impact on running production applications.
Github uses web-components which are not supported by
old browsers. All dynamic menus don't work without
polyfill extension(which takes 100% CPU due some bug after awhile), basic functionality like creating/modifying files works right now but there is no guarantee github wouldn't break it.
Beyond Chrismukkah
> I sat down the other night to get started in a grand project I’ve been getting so excited about ... The projects I dream up are super cool feats of hacker ability ... I’m going to be stuck screwing around with the most trivial boilerplate crap.

But obviously you are creative and come up with ideas. Probably you should be more picky in which ideas to pursue and which not. Personally I like grand, rabbit hole like projects. I think they are most fun when the time-result curve has early plateaus but also continues to go up later, i.e. already after working a day you have a proof-of-concept and after week or so, you already have something you like. I found such projects quite enjoyable in the past. It's no fun when even after a year you're still at 30% and the whole thing is only usable at >= 80%.

That said, I think there are also fun mini projects and it doesn't even have to be a running software. It could be Infrastructure as code or just a sketch of a library.
Isn't that a different problem though? It's marketing to get them to sign up in the first place, it's product to get them to come back.
That's including volunteer LTS support, which only applies to an unspecified subset of packages. Full support is ~3 years, per parent comment.
>Restaurants can be compensated. Their employees and customers will be safer for it.

But they haven't been. That's the problem.
Definitely. I think though that programming is at least partly creative endeavour, and thus it can be harder to do it without any motivation whatsoever.
I wonder if the email format made such a big difference, maybe people just like to save money. They wanted it and got it cheaper. End of story.

But I don't anything about this so I might be wrong.
> I didn't suggest genocide, not at all

your alternative is to eliminate a significant potion of the population

managing populations is something you do with sheep and cattle, not human beings.

using the word "eliminate" and 'treating people like cattle' isn't consistent with merely incentivising them to not have children.

> The comment I'm responding to explicitly recommends forced reduction in fertility rates, removing agency

where does it? It's a comment previous that the same poster talks about Chinas 1cp, and as I understand it, it was implemented as a fine for having more than one child.

Do punitive fines, and tax/welfare incentives/disincentives count as being "forced" or "non-agency"?

> Any law that tells human beings how many children they are allowed to have is fascism, yes.

I disagree. Point me to a commonly accepted definition of fascism that agrees, without requiring too much subjective interpretation. Anyone can have their own notion of what constitutes freedom/oppression etc.

> Any directive telling human beings how they have to reproduce is eugenics by definition.

Again, show me that definition. Most that I've seen limit the choice of who can procreate. A flat rule of 1-child applied to everyone equally doesn't seem to apply to me as there is no differentiation based on genetics. But in any case, a rose by any other name: deciding something fits a definition doesn't really change the semantics, so it doesn't really make any difference, especially if you are using a special-case, or non-standard application of the definition (e.g. like arguing abortion is bad based on whether it counts as murder, or not).
How else will you be able to pass algorithmic whiteboard interviews? Everyone knows that acing those is the only way you can possibly be a good engineer
Yup, If you are prepared to crank out some JSON to your Hue hub, you can 100% control them offline. I do this via scripts for my Hue based outside lights. My Hue Hub is blocked from accessing the internet too.
I wonder one motivation (besides harvesting more user data) is that the Oculus devices are sold at a break-even point or even at a loss.

So Facebook is essentially subsidizing the cost of an Oculus headset initially and making up the profit on ads data. Similar to the console business of selling the hardware at or below cost and making it up in the games sales.
>AWS pricing is a part of your design. With some exceptions (that you aren't talking about), they charge you more for using more resources. You are forced to design systems that use less resources if you want to optimize your bill.

This is marketing.

It's like saying you want to build a house and the quote you got ends up blowing up 100x overnight.

Great example is the 100k credit for startups. You can repeat it's not for you all you want, but their business is predicated on pricing ignorance and vendor lockin.
The actual cost of a solution is tiny.

(Use four different CDNs.)

The political motivation is to portray the government as incapable of doing anything other than defense, so that the functions can be outsourced to the private sector.

Expect a solution to appear shortly after the regime changes.
True, you're both right, thanks. I should've added that as a disclaimer.
People actively working and interested in making the product and business better. Not just “doing time” at work.