skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even on your parents insurance if you only had yourself it will eventually get very complicated.

co-pays, out of network doctors taking care of you while you are under after a bout of appendicitis goes wrong, cars breaking down, parents randomly needing help to make ends meet because of all of the same.

Speaking from 20+ years of adulthood nearly half of which was below the poverty line there are more poverty traps than you can possibly imagine that minimum wage or even much more doesn’t even come close to avoiding. The available recourses to you when those events occur are grim.

Calculate the interest on payday loans, if you happen to need one it is exceedingly hard to stop needing them as they drive you down further and further.

Life got considerably more stable after making programmer salaries.

Minimum wage in the US is just waiting for the next big thing to push you further and further down. I was super lucky to find out I was good at this computer thing in my 20s (and that I had family to lend me 500 bucks for my very first and very bargain basement computer in that era).

It felt close to indentured servitude other than I could change jobs, but I didn’t get ahead or even tread water. No vacations, no time off when sick, and 60-100 hours of work a week for years.

I definitely would have preferred just getting a check from the government and going back to school while I got some real skills, or even that same minimum wage with a good transit network and medical care that didn’t find ways to take all my very limited savings.

In the end, unless people have gone through the sort of nightmares life can throw you it is hard to see how much money you need in the states to be stable and it takes a lot of education and knowledge to navigate all of it, which if you are on minimum wage you probably don’t have.

Something has gotta give the situation is not viable.
>>I've heard that PCs with native serial ports are now considered "professional" equipment

I mean, laptops, sure. But PCs I think most still have a COM port. I bought a "gaming" X570 motherboard recently and there's still a COM header on it, I'd need to buy the port itself but the mobo does support it natively.
The translations are widely regarded as well done. I’ve heard this series described as a “philosophical fiction” (like Asimov’s Foundation series) where you don’t specifically follow characters and their development; but rather the characters just exist to advance the overall story. It’s offputting to many because it seems simple and lacking character development.
It is One Dark Pro with modified background color to be darker than usual, to increase the contrast.
What and why of Terraform under 10 mins
I wouldn't say healthcare in the UK is free, but rather it has a good balance.

If you have an accident or chronic illness, the system won't leave you alone. But they cover zero cost of prevention. E.g. regular check-ups, blood tests, therapies, unless you have noticeable symptoms are not covered, which is often too late to catch cancer, diabetes or cardiological illness at an early stage. My wife and I spend between £2000-3000 a year on these in various countries (to make it affordable). This number is not terrible, but far from free.
Second that. My tip: Ratio by Michael Ruhlman. It will teach you the structure of common preparations, and free you from the shackles of recipes. Especially suited for nerds.
BMW jerks deserve to be shamed. :P

This claim is disputed.
The sheriff's office has much higher requirements, including next-of-kin notifications, etc (and it appears said kin would want them to stay quiet).

Once they can verify foul play wasn't involved, official interest can peter out.
I picked up the guitar a few years back in my mid 30s, did lessons for a year, took a year off and got back into it through Covid-19.

> I have tried learning piano and I found a lot of stuff irritatingly hard to get right and got bored

This maps to my first experience. Your first obstacle is the UI and getting your hands to do what your brain wants them to do without thinking about it. For myself learning guitar, this was the hardest obstacle. Once you sort out the mechanics of playing without thinking, you can start thinking about the music and actually having fun.

My only question is, do you really want to learn the piano?

Cause you need to want it, to get through those first few weeks/months of getting used to the UI. Until you break that barrier it's going to be un-fun and sound terrible and be very frustrating. The desire to play needs to be great enough to push through that. If you don't want it, you'll struggle to force yourself to push through.

To answer your actual question, Youtube and other musicians are what I feel most help me grow right now. I've done in person classes, bought books, bought multiple online classes and trawled Youtube for endless hours looking for lessons and song play alongs (getting a sense of the pattern of how important really wanting to learn to play is?). It wasn't until I started playing with other musicians that my abilities and understanding really took off.
When it comes to influencers...

For over a year I was bombarded IRL with ads in public spaces promoting some influencer instagram.

Sometimes you can't escape.
ksplice, and it's an Oracle product
Seriously , eating healthy does not prevent or treat coronavirus.
tl;dr: "He said, she said."

> While countries such as the United States, Brazil, and India have made headlines for recording the highest number of coronavirus-related fatalities, Sweden’s death rate of over 80 per 100,000 people is among Europe’s highest and is around 10 times as great as those of Norway and Finland, and over four times Denmark’s.

So less than 1/1,000. Without demographic data, no idea if those stats are good or bad, or mean anything at all.
Added BMW to my vendor shitlist.
Rutkowska wrote various posts about it. She does not answer your question directly and precisely, but provides considerations that make clear why she considers Qubes' approach an improvement over the status quo.

On Formally Verified Microkernels (and on attacking them)
- https://blog.invisiblethings.org/2010/05/03/on-formally-veri...

The Linux Security Circus: On GUI isolation
- https://blog.invisiblethings.org/2011/04/23/linux-security-c...

I think she had other posts on another blog as well, but unfortunately I don't remember the address. And I don't know if it still exists.
How is measuring or estimating flakiness different than measuring or estimating variance? To me, something that is not flaky never errors for no reason. Something that is flaky errors infrequently and not obviously why. Something that is broken errors a lot. So, to me, flakiness is stochastic variation in a recurring process /with/ some ambiguity about the sources of variation. Flakiness make sense to me as a term for describing variation in relation to cause. That's different than just variance - or maybe flakiness is just variance? I am wondering what the FB framework looks like from a statistical process control POV.
Dependencies are relatively easy, actually. Just most don't bother learning how to do it, and do it PHP style with header includes.

On UNIX systems just using pkg-config and similar tools, or just adopt either conan or vcpkg, which contrary to cargo also support binary libraries out of the box.

Plus vendoring C and C++ libraries is not a dark science, only known by old druids.
> The House of Lords has proposed an amendment to the bill stating that leaseholders won’t be made to pay (note: not forcing the tax payer to pay, just ensuring the leaseholders don’t) and the Housing Committee (namely MP Robert Jenrick) are rejecting this on the basis that the tax payer shouldn’t foot the bill.

How does the amendment ensure leaseholders don't have to pay without putting taxholders on the hook? You can't make money from nowhere.
From my experience job hopping usually pays off (at least financially). Bumping your salary in the next job by 50% is not uncommon while may be much harder to achieve when staying at the same firm for years.

As others have pointed out before, interviewing is a skill that can and should be practiced. The best way to prep (except grinding through leetcode problems) is to go to a real interview and practice telling real stories from experience and solving problems in real time under stress. So yeah, I would definitely recommend going to at least a few interviews for jobs that might not be your first choice before going for that “dream job” interview.
I don't remember the source that discussed the specific applications. But rtt from edge to basestation is 400ms wifi and 2ms for 5g, which is almost like something vs nothing. So we're talking applications that are OK with the hardwire network latencies (here lets say 100ms rtt including the time for computing). That 400ms rtt for wifi must get the total rtt over some viability threshold, would be my guess.
it takes a little time for everything to return to normal, I am sure that everything will work out
I find the VT520 more pleasant to look at than a LCD screen. The VT has a CRT and no backlight - when its dark, the screen doesnt "glow". The brightness and contrast are adjustable via two potentiometers, allowing eye-strain-less reading during the night.

The terminal bell makes an audible beep, i use that to signal stuff happening in IRC.

Probably because its a CRT, it also doesn't inhibit me from getting tired in the late hours like a phone or laptop does.

Last but not least, the hackability: You can interface the VT via uart, and thus can use it as user interface to an arduino or other retro computers. KVM-like switches are also easy to DIY for serial connections.
> with a clever way not to have to re-evaluate the whole position after each move (borrowed from Shogi).

details?

Edit: well ok it was easy enough to duckduckgo it myself ;)

https://www.chessprogramming.org/NNUE

https://www.chessprogramming.org/Incremental_Updates
Ubuntu user here and very occasional Windows user too. Is the problem only with the GUI (same as liking or not Gnome Shell or having it crash) or is the problem with the "real" OS under the GUI?

Example 1 for the GUI: it drives me crazy that I can't resize the dialogs to edit the properties of a scheduled task. They were probably designed for 800x600 screens and they were a bad design back then (a text area please and join the lines.)

Example 2 for the core: a process keeps track of its parent but if the patent exits the process doesn't update the reference so you can end up with a reused process id in the child process data table. I run into that a couple of weeks ago.
Not sure about this analogy, since linear algebra is largely orthogonal to single-variable calculus. Agreed on the musical part though.
where is he actually "rude" or acts like "and an air of expectation, as if the maintainers owe him a solution"?
I have a BMW and buying a Tesla Model 3 in a few months. I think it's just BMW for the 21st century.
YCrCb is roughly based on the ones mentioned (which are not at all obscure from the perspective of color science), but is supposed to be as computationally cheap as possible, and so doesn't bother doing even basic steps like undoing gamma encoding.

As a result, YCrCb yields crappy results for any purpose other than image encoding. The further you get from neutral gray, the worse YCrCb gets at cleanly separating lightness from hue/chroma.
What echo chamber was the guy/gal behind this living in? Nothing about this sounds like a good idea to increase the value of the brand.
Would this not be misuse of PII?

You own a particular vehicle registration mark as much as you own a particular phone number, and both can reasonably be used to identify an individual (motor database verus telephone database).
He is actually a poster here. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ddevault

I don't see anything wrong with what he posted in that thread.
Happy Holidays (probably the first quantum Xmas tree)
Totally agree, that needless romance subplot was the most WTF part of book 2.
let’s have a knock down fight in an alley so i can convince you to wear these glasses for a second ...
Cobra Kai

Surprisingly good series that got me thinking about how cynical the world seems today compared to the 80's as the show is very faithful to the feel of the original Karate Kid.
Signs and Portents for 2021
Read the article: it mentions to ask back the recruiter with the same question.

Now I ask back with “what is the total compensation for this position/role?”. I almost always get an answer, often above my expectations. I used to give my range (mistake)
Wow. Straight out of Minority Report. It seems to me that this would violate laws of some kind.
I agree, here is a related story I'd submitted a few days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25460601

This story is about how fire watches are being organised with little to no notice and the costs charged to the flat owners.

In general the leasehold system in the UK is quite unfit for purpose and a proper feudal throwback. Agency problems galore and regulatory rent seeking at it's worst. I'm surprised there is not a more sustained political movement to get rid of it!
I am the author of this issue and I don't really know what you're talking about. Terseness is something I value in bug reports as a maintainer myself. I don't want to read someone yarning on about the breakfast they were eating when they encountered a bug. I want them to tell us everything they know, and then nothing else. The pattern I did here - create a record of the bug with what I know, then investigate it on my own and update the discussion when I have more information or a solution - is also something I like to see as a maintainer.

Rude, entitled users is definitely a problem maintainers have to face. Here's a better example:

https://l.sr.ht/2DEG.png

But I don't think that this thread was such a case.
UK is no longer under the GDPR right?
No, this is not how you think.

Xi puts the blame for his misfortunes on "wrong kind of dilettante communists," and being wronged, not that CR was wrong, it's just some poor pissants perpetrating it were wrong for taking on grand "true communist" personas who his family were.

So, the only wrong thing about it he sees is that the he wasn't at the helm back then, and not acknowledged as being worthy to join the purgers.
Is it possible for retail investors to trade these? Currently the closest trade would be options on ETFs such as LQD, HYG, and JNK.
There is a funny chess variant on F-Droid called Open Chaos Chess <https://github.com/CorruptedArk/open-chaos-chess> where the players choose what piece should be played but the move is chosen randomly. The first player to lose all pieces loses the game (there are no checks and mates).
https://git.lain.church/nero/etc/src/branch/master/terminfo/...

Notable deviations from the default curses db:

- Using a PC keyboard instead of the DEC keyboard (different codes for F-keys)

- Fixes for status line
An interesting theme in UI this year has been what types of tools for remote collaboration have become popular as more people have been working from home. Several of the ones I’ve seen are indeed based on a sort of infinite canvas/desktop/whiteboard concept.

Apparently those businesses are doing OK providing that kind of SaaS, even though the things you can actually do on their boards might be much simpler than what full-power desktop software or more specialised SaaS can offer. And this does make sense: once you can put basic text and basic drawing in some sort of freeform layout and share that display with others remotely, you already have a useful collaboration tool.

Providing built-in support for more sophisticated visuals like tables or specific types of diagram might make things more efficient, as could making good use of shortcut icons, gestures, hotkeys and so on. However, these are incremental improvements. They might bring big improvements in productivity in some cases, but they’re still helping to solve the same fundamental problem in the same fundamental way.

So it seems that at least some developers are already experimenting with the concept you’re suggesting, if only in a relatively simple form so far.
Death at Christmastime
Your license plate is public. It’s literally on your car for all to see.
It's a game. It would have been purchased with borrowed money that would have ended up eaten up in salaries and bonuses for the people who got the sale done; shortly afterwards it would have been declared a huge loss and the complete sale price written off by everyone against taxes owed by their other ventures for the foreseeable future; then it would be sold on for a token to a company that operates from a Delaware P.O. Box and immediately quadruples the prices.
MGM up for sale for $5B after ‘preliminary talks’ with Apple failed
> The government have put together a fund of £1bn for non-ACM cladding remediation, expecting that to cover ~600 buildings, but already over 2,700 buildings have applied and the estimated cost UK-wide is upwards of £15bn.

Non-ACM over 18m tall. Shorter buildings (the majority) are up shits creek too.

There's also a 30M fund for waking-watch relief... Which at 150k per alarm, you can get 200 alarms.

> The House of Lords has proposed an amendment to the bill stating that leaseholders won’t be made to pay (note: not forcing the tax payer to pay, just ensuring the leaseholders don’t) and the Housing Committee (namely MP Robert Jenrick) are rejecting this on the basis that the tax payer shouldn’t foot the bill.

AFAIK It was initially rejected because it was worded in such a way that would make freeholders liable for other fire-safety things such as failsafe latches. Prioritizing freeholders paying out hundreds of pounds every decade over bankrupting thousands if not millions of people.

It's a farce. The building has industry paid millions in donations to the Conservative party since Grenfell. And at every turn despite parroting "leaseholders should not pay" it has been obvious that they really meant "should pay".

Meanwhile, in a fit of hypocrisy, Jenrick has been campaigning for a (Labuor) council to fix a bridge "because they own it".
Are You Sure You Want to Go Back to the Office?
I am a fan of long-distance cycle touring, (and cycling in general)and the number of times that I've almost been hit (AND been a victim of a hit & run) is too high to count. I've done things like place a laminated info-sheet with my name, address, DOB, blood-type, etc. in my panniers in the hope that it would help identify the body if it ever came to that. I realized however that emergency responders probably won't find it, or won't look at it if they do find it.

So I got a tattoo on my chest with name, DOB, blood-type and Drivers License number.

These are 2 pictures, one showing a bare-loadout (activity: grocery shopping)

https://photos.app.goo.gl/kq3rhXV6daFDtSVL8

And this is a a medium touring load-out:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/fXgfsRWf8RCLPeTN8

I think you could see why I assume a cop might never find emergency information.
Sure, who hasn’t wanted to punch a fish from time to time?
NNUE is slower than the classic evaluation function though, and much better.
About one week left.
The UK has left the EU however the Data Protection Act 2018 which implemented GDPR within the UK is still in effect.
Maybe at Christmas it doesn't matter so much?
What is Theo de Raadt's model with regards to X11 security on OpenBSD? Does it work out of the box?
Why computers suck and how learning from OpenBSD can make them less horrible
It's not the license plate that's PII, it's whether I've paid my warranty or not.
I remember reading an interview with BMW designer that the obnoxiously huge front grills are a nod to the Chinese customers. Chinese customers wanted the drivers in front of them to feel intimidated, as if the car and driver behind wanted to eat them. Other premium brands like Lexus followed with this trend.
What if CEOs’ memos were clear and honest?
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In a Venn diagram, "not leaseholders" will be all other space on the diagram.

I imagine it's meant to leave all other options on the table (taxpayers, developers and/or anyone else) rather than force a specific choice (except leaseholders).
Your warranty status with the original manufacturer is not.
It is until the end of the 2020 transition period. Thereafter it is not, but the Government intends to introduce similar privacy legislation.

> The Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018), which currently supplements and tailors the GDPR within the UK, will continue to apply.

> The provisions of the GDPR will be incorporated directly into UK law from the end of the transition period, to sit alongside the DPA 2018.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protection-at-the-...
For this kind of thing, the cost is part of the point made.
Yep, I use my bad knife to open cans. Or when I need to cut meat on the grill
That sounds like a bug to be honest. If the files never changed then you'll only have one copy of them and Git really shouldn't have to do any extra work to deal with them.
Not convinced it's consensus, though I appreciate that people hoping for something better from the books that are unlikely to ever be written were disappointed by the TV screenplay that most definitely was were preemptively frustrated.

Some of our most popular fiction authors are frequently accused of not being able to write endings - there works are either drawn out way too long, or wrap up way too quickly.

It feels like there's few examples of consensus around what's 'just right' for how fast, and neatly, to wrap up many concurrent plot lines, especially in obnoxiously surreal universes.
I think that pain can also be a symptom of bad architecture - i.e. a lot of systems are clearly made in the image of their forbearers, so it shouldn't be totally impossible to restrict a subset of behaviour to make it work on (say) a physical terminal instead of emulated one.
It would be interesting to see stats on aggressive driving by brand. My guess is that BMW drivers would be well near the most aggressive on the list.
Makes me want to buy an old mechanical jalopy that can’t be hacked as it is not “smart” and remotely hackable.

Charlie Miller demoed remote hacking on a jeep while on the highway, and being hacked is now a lesser fear to me than being shamed:

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-hig...
The trilogy book are best-seller in China and the first book wins the Hugo Award in 2015. That's what get people in US interested.
Sorta.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209519

> If you're using iOS 12 or later and have turned on two-factor authentication for your Apple ID, health records are encrypted using end-to-end encryption through iCloud. This means only you can access this information, and only on devices where you’re signed in to iCloud. No one else, not even Apple, can access end-to-end encrypted information.
I think such marketing departments are supposed to test their ideas on a sample of potential customers first. It would be interesting to know whether they did it for this marketing campaign, and if so what are the profiles of their customers.
Didn't they agree to be a part of an inquiry on the basis that they would be guaranteed to avoid prosecution, or am I making that up?
>>"[..] it was always because there was "something for us" and there was never a complete wipe out of other groups just because."

It seems we read different history books.
I was thinking the same thing. My guess is the author’s background is in games and that’s where this research is focused. It did give an impression that, to someone who works with color spaces, the author is operating in a different domain