skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Like, one appendix is bad

Except that the appendix is a useful organ. Had it been truly useless it would have evolved away long ago, yet we find dinosaurs had them too. I think Musk is also wrong about lidar. It probably does have a place in this problem even if, like his blind spot re the appendix, Musk doesn't currently understand what that place may be.

"Evolution Of The Human Appendix: A Biological 'Remnant' No More"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090820175901.h...
The author's audience is progressives. If these sorts of solutions become palatable on the left they'll likely find enough support on the right to get done. Branding these as progressive policies likely helps lower progressive reticence to enacting supply-side policies.

It's not purely cynical, of course -- TFA demonstrated that these efforts help people in lower-income groups more (by some measures) than they help people in upper-income groups.
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You aren't thinking with big numbers. Small amounts of admin work add up. Virtual pages aren't free. Go has had to think very hard about what to pare down to avoid dragging to a halt with orders of magnitude fewer threads.
Ha, ok. I added this as a feature request.

https://github.com/undernewmanagement/3cosystem/issues/25

Not sure it will get much attention, but thanks for the input.
I've been using it as the daily driver on my laptop for a few years, and it's been great! Using it in general is a steepish learning curve, but I think it's very worth it. Having rollbacks for every upgrade just makes me sleep better, and it's saved my bacon more than once. Being able to customize the packages running on my system in a safe and reproducible way is great as well. It's also helped me do research, it's easy for me to build different versions of a package with different patches and compare their performance, etc.
> It’s ridiculous that you don’t think a good portion if that 30% doesn’t go to writing and testing software, design, customer support, advertising, not to forget hosting, developer services, localization, etc.

Google manages all of that with a measly one time $25 developer fee. Clearly $99 of recurring developer charges is the bigger scam here.
Potential. The gaming market is very profitable since the pandemic started.
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Isn’t that the case for most of the things that they kill? You’re just on the other side for this one.
> I don’t understand comparing AWS to Hetzner. If you want just bare-metal there are much better clouds.

Share, please? I'd love to get off of Hetzner, but their prices absolutely destroy everything else
What exactly does "percent protection" mean in these announcements? Can we use the definition to derive a percent protection associated with having been through the virus? Is there a percent protection associated with your age / gender / race profile?

It feels like the number doesn't mean much without having a similar number for the null cases.
Assuming what you're saying is true (I have no reason not to believe it), I do of course hope that gets corrected, but in the mean time I'm glad they at least got something to work. I tried quite a few other options before Manjaro and all of them had some kind of sharp edge.

It may be that a hacked up kernel is what is needed right now to make it work well. I get 6x the battery life than I did before (seriously), and updates don't totally break my system. Two pretty nice features :-D
I get that they can change the law. But instead of changing the law, they gave him a plea deal on the condition he didn't contest it at a higher court.

So why not change the law when there's an obvious loophole?
How does it compare to Nextcloud?
Yeah, I don't mean to imply that this is necessarily happening to anybody who's holding a stock. It depends on your broker and the terms you've agreed to.

On some brokers it's an opt-in thing and you get to reap the rewards (interest) of lending out your shares. A friend of mine has been doing this with QuantumScape stock and collected a sizeable amount just from lending it through its December run-up, in addition to the direct gains.

My impression is that the zero-fee brokers like RH are the ones more likely to do this without your opt-in consent (of course you do agree to it across the board in their terms), but I'm not an expert.
The question is: at what price point did those new shorts come in at?

Those that shorted it at the high, are minting greens right now.
> BTRFS by default seems compelling

I must have missed something, because every person I've ever heard talk about BTRFS has said something along the lines of "I would never use that in production". Is that view of BTRFS outdated?

Last time I used it for example, I tried out compression only to realize that there's actually no command to see what compression ratio is being applied without installing what I interpreted as a third party tool (compsize).
>I think he is decorated or respected in certain economics circles or whatever but when you evaluate his words he clearly fails to understand basic concepts of his field.

He has also failed in a practical manner. His time as Greek Finance minister was short but spectacular.
As a Christian, we acknowledge and are happy that others have truth - we just claim to have the full truth.

The next question is "how do you know that your truth is better?" - usually that is best answered personally. Don't expect to be persuaded.
>pretty bold claim (i.e. that a human physically came back from the dead)

I was brought up Christian and put that in the no evidence either way category. But then it turned out that

>Horus, like Jesus -- or Jesus, like Horus -- was born of a virgin, had twelve disciples, walked on water, delivered a 'sermon on the mount', performed mircles, was executed beside two thieves, rose from the dead and ascended into heaven.

Horus being a popular belief centuries earlier. And so now I think they probably plagiarized the story rather.
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Most importantly: The employee must take the initiative to communicate these requirements to the employer before the firing event.

It appears the OP may have waited until the termination meeting with HR to communicate the medical condition. It's not clear that the OP actually requested any accommodations or leave. In fact, it's not clear that the company denied the OP anything or had any way of knowing the OP's situation leading up to the firing event, due to the OP's admitted lack of communication with the company.
This is a pretty narrow view of things. How many people do you think are part of the economic strata that have the money to buy heirloom headphones?

The real problem is: For every pair of even $100 headphones, how many $10 headphones do you think are sold? The waste isn't coming from AirPods, it's coming from the $10 set that wasn't designed to last longer than an airline flight

(and yes I'm sure someone will link some cult favorite cheap headphone that's a drop in the bucket compared to how many at the price point are practically disposable)
We used self-hosted Grafana until late 2020. We looked at Grafana cloud but ultimate chose a combination of NewRelic One for metric monitoring and Lightstep for request tracing. Those two were the "best-of-breed" for their respective areas with the best pricing for our use case.
I abandoned Mac OSX for Win 10 (manager half of brain) and Linux (dev half of brain) years ago.

It got really tiresome rebuilding my dev environments in particular with every new release. Butterfly keyboard, touch bar, and other hardware choices were additional hindrances. Infuriating design choices like doing away with 'Save As' were the last straw. I don't really care about UI improvements, to be honest. OSX Leopard was usable for everything I do in normal life.
This topic (on a tool like Carta) would be worthy of discussion in a startup forum no matter the author, correct? I see part of your sentiment regarding context, but this can turn pretty constructive with the question that’s also on my mind: Has anyone experienced this by using Carta? I am actually in the process of thinking about switching to them.
Are they working outside the United States?
Not sure why you're being down voted. It's not like you said anything incorrect or controversial.

Anyway I agree with you.
> A Wall Street firm sends an exec on a $10M tour of Europe for "wellness" and that's now welfare expenditure, but there's tax charged on the food an unemployed steel worker in Liverpool buys so his unemployment cheque doesn't really count as welfare after all.

Does this comment have a point, beyond lurid and ill-thought-out analogies? Notice that even your contrived example isn't self-consistent: the only way the steelworker's unemployment check "wouldn't count" is if 100% of it was taxed away in the course of spending it.

Even your fevered conspiracy theory doesn't make any sense! What motivation do you imagine the paper author has? The paper[1] spends a substantial amount of time focusing on poor US outcomes, and its point is that current US policy isn't actually saving us any money relative to the rest of the OECD, so our outcomes aren't even trading off against net economic benefit (at least first-order). Suboptimal distribution of our social spending (as in your ridiculous examples) falls squarely into this category, and as such is a potential target for the paper's criticism.

[1] https://www.piie.com/publications/pb/pb15-4.pdf
Here /Europe/ some banks are starting to require the use of mobile apps for authenticating transactions, instead of providing hardware tokens.

When I ran into this problem they told me: "either pay us X EUR/month extra for Business Banking or, no hardware token for you". Calculated that (X * 12) < (cost of cheap Nokia Android phone), and got the latter which I keep in flight mode in a desk drawer and use for the banking app only.
The first time $350 was hit Reddit investors were still building up momentum - it wasn't a bad play given all the money pouring in. I personally executed several trades at and around $350 and all were profitable. The frenzy eventually died down and at that point there was no turning back. I feel sad for all my friends stuck holding shares they've bought hoping for the MOON!
Walking around with wired headphones plugged into a bluetooth dongle kind of defeats the purpose, no? People buy wireless headphones because they don't want to be encumbered by wires while walking around.

An adapter like that is yet another thing I need to put in my bag, and lacks at least some of the convenience that comes with having headphones that just wirelessly connect to my phone natively.
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> full gesture-based navigation (back in 2013!)

Only two years behind the N9.
Pytorch has a really good one for installation, but it seems to be handcrafted JavaScript. I would love if .rst on readthedocs offered some declarative way to do it.
I totally get your point, I'm not trying to be difficult, but I think your conclusion of my argument is much more extreme than what I'd recommend people to do with arch.
This is just a pointer to read a book section. If Yanis et al. want to win more people to their side then they need to create better communication material. I watched one of his YT videos and found it compelling but he seems kind of locked in to what he can talk about, great for preaching to the choir but tiring for everyone else.
All three of the comments you've made are thoughtful, well considered, and informative. HN suffers, at times, from a cliquishness that degrades the quality of discourse.
The people who would greatly benefit from not needing to maintain it shout from the rooftops that it is dead because they wish it was already so. In fact its probably be mainstream for another 10-15 years and existing for another 25. Look how long it took to sort of but not really kill python 2.

Thus the choice today is actually X vs Wayland because those are the 2 choices that can provide a functional desktop at this point in time.

As for possible Ys I see SurfaceFlinger from android which doesn't look like its suitable for a desktop

Arcan a one man band that doesn't look apt to replace X soon

https://arcan-fe.com/videos/

Whatever Redox uses. I don't quite understand from a casual inspection how graphics works there.

I would bet money that the choice over the next 10 years will STILL be X vs Wayland with more stuff wedged in until wayland is more functional but as kludgy as X wherein someone will have the brilliant idea to replace it with something more "modern"
Microfluidics is a fantastic area of research that more people should get involved in. My impression is that it's very difficult to make it work and expensive to scale up, but that means there's plenty of room for improvement and business models to be created. Too late to help with our current pandemic though.
Dumb question - on assorted Linux or BSD OSs you can run xrdp against a VNC server. Would that work on a mac?
First off, major respect for being open about mental health, it's something tech needs more. Second, kudos for fighting, both before, during and after this episode, you'll be an example to me when (if is too optimistic) I go through it again.

I don't know other way to get in contact with these people other than Twitter, but you should consider sending a DM to @pinboard, @popehat and @yashar. And it might be better not to read their feeds before you do.
Carnegie Mellon University Students Train AI to Write Book of Limericks
You're missing the forest for the trees here. Sites are using pixels as a proxy for physical device size. Which obviously breaks. I doubt people actually intend to display mobile view on a 720px, 12" wide device.

They're only working correctly if you ignore the intent and only look at the technical implementation. The technical implementation is flawed and doesn't accomplish the intent.
That's pretty good. Is the vaccination drive going on in full speed?
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The best teams appear to be doing nothing. If as a general rule things are always in a fire drill then your software sucks (there are other reasons for this). We always measure how many things are fixed. New features added. Rarely how much time is spent baby sitting machines etc.
Do you want to work in research? If yes, get a PhD. If no, stay at the current job. A master's degree doesn't seem worth it regardless of the direction you want to go.
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Thanks I will check those out!

I have seen the pipelined CPU video, very cool! Part of why I want to build on a S-100 platform is so I can make architectural changes like that.

The possibilities are endless.
Robinhood gave me a free GME stock when I joined in March 2020, so when I sold I made infinite profit. AMA.
That R number is pretty good. I hope it holds up!
> Flatpak runs applications in what’s nowadays referred to as container: the application can’t see any processes outside the container, can’t access any filesystem except for files you explicitly open with the application, and especially can’t edit your .bashrc.

That's just false. Flatpak has the ability to restrict access to such resources, but it's completely up to the author of a Flatpak application if they make use of it. Like my file manager and text editor are Flatpaks fetched from flathub.org and both applications have unrestricted access to my whole home directory by default, including my shell configuration -- even the Chromium Flatpak can do that by default.

Edit: I just counted, out of 30 installed Flatpaks from flathub.org 19 have full access to either my whole home directory or the host file system.
Identity and trust are not necessarily 100% congruent. There are plenty of people who I trust whose identity I would not vouch for and there are many more whose identity I am sure of but who I would not trust.
These are the reasons that are mentioned in the video:

Reason #1
We are tracked everywhere we go

Reason #2
Thoughts are crimes

Reason #3
Mega tech firms controll communication, information, and finances

Reason #4
Most people are fine with this

I really hope this is not our future.
I thought it was Clone Troopers on Kamino
Discussion from 3m ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24895830
I mean, I know laws can be interpreted. But we're talking about what seems like a pretty straightforward section of the constitution.

What's even more damning is that there's no interest in resolving the contradiction. If this had been discovered during a murder trial where there was overwhelming evidence of guilt, and simply a jurisdiction loophole, I'd be sympathetic to saying "let's just sweep it under the rug". But if it's known and the response is simply "eh, well if it happens we'll just ignore the constitution because 'common law'", that really reduces my respect for what the law is.
>If I see an article failing to recognize the legitimate populist (and correct) element of the moment, while hand-wringing about the fund managers, my bullshit detector goes off.

link?

>Also, can you explain, or link, or anything, as to why shorting more shares than there are to trade a good thing? Why short selling is legal at all?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_(finance)#Views_of_short...

>Shorting seems like a terrible tool in society, a way for people with money to gamble, win big, but occasionally fail so hard the federal government needs to step in.

Are you referring to the last financial crisis? If anything that was caused by the long side, not the short side.
I probably learned Markov from you then.
I think I agree with you (though I would favor T, U, V as the sequence).

What would the alternative look like in what you wrote? In and Out? Range and Domain? Generic type variables are often too abstract to give a sensible name to.

This is the one "bad habit" that I think is a bit silly - naming conventions can vary by project.
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@comma_ai

We are so committed to LIDAR being useless that we're dumping our LIDARs for cheap! Buy them and start your own Self Driving Car company!

https://twitter.com/comma_ai/status/1197323020852793344?lang...

I can find plenty more.
That kind of makes me question the entire dogma of ADHD medication that stipulates a calming effect is indicative of a true ADHD patient, while a hyperactive effect is indicative of abuse / non-label use.

I’ve always assumed that because I receive a sense of calm, well being, and presence of mind that I must actually be ADHD since everyone else takes these meds and bounces off the walls.

Now I’m thinking maybe that isn’t true, and maybe I’ve rationalized taking meds because it’s easier than forcing myself to sit for hours and get quality work done. Uhg.
>> Can't say I inherited any audio equipment from my parents.

My parents old Marantz receiver goes for $800 on eBay these days. I think we pitched it somewhere around 1994 for a setup from one of those Best Buy Sunday flyers.
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>> Openness doesn’t tickle down. The openness of an ISA doesn’t have much impact on the implementation.

> To say well not everything is open therefore its bad, is just such a wrongheaded attitudes, its unbelievable.

No, the article merely says that the openness does not trickle down, and it is true and unfortunate.
It seems that the key expired yesterday. :)
Oh, I am not disputing the fact it was likely helpful (and I only replied to your comment since it was one of the examples of "solutions" yet to get a reply; if anything, that one is pretty neat).

But why and how did we become bothered by the _sounds_ of it? Are you bothered by the coo-coos of birds, or morning rooster calls. Cats purring, screeching cat calls or dogs barking? All of these can be similarly annoying, but we are not "solving" them.

It's weird how our association of sounds with smells and dirtiness of taking a dump has made sounds which are rarely that bad in objective sense (loudness, pitch...) so unpleasant.

It's also how it's considered impolite to slurp a soup, and some people are outright disgusted by hearing it being done.
I think what they did could be reasonable depending on the details. I do question why they are keeping you at the (small?) company. It seems like they could be making a big mess if your subordinates feel more loyal to you than the new guy. If I were a worker there, I wouldn't feel too good about my future if I find out you were demoted for political reasons.
But by saying that they have an obligation to noncontributors you do seem to be saying something at least in the neighborhood of what I suggested. I can’t understand where you think this obligation comes from. I used GNOME for a while. I never once imagined that the people who worked on it owed me a damn thing.
Sadly business people want to fire you when you're seemingly doing nothing (as in coming to work on time, doing your job without stress and conflict, going home on time)... Even if all the business goals were met, they just can't stomach someone not working their asses off 24/7 for them.
Well, depends on your moral strictures.

A functional understanding of how someone else thinks whether on a personal basis or more generally or categorically is useful and actionable information.

What you do with that is up to you, but if you’re not using information, someone else is.
> Logs are written to the flash memory every time the car is in use, which soon reaches its lifetime number of write cycles; once this limit has been reached, the touchscreen dies

wonder if the write cycles are reset when the car is restarted?
I read the "At a glance" documentation and came upon this:

> /bin is a link to /System/Index/bin. And as a matter of fact, so is /usr/bin. And /usr/sbin... all "binaries" directories map to the same place. Amusingly, this makes us even more compatible than some more standard-looking distributions.

This just feels wrong to me. I appreciate that Linux is all about choice, but I really wouldn't want this.
If it ain't broke...

user supplied read addresses

getpwent() - actually really the whole notion of users

file permissions

aynch storage event completion (all asynchrony is pretty broken)

system metadata control (sysctl, /proc, interface socket messages...)

signals

ttys

errno

affinity interfaces
...
It's typical of engineering organisations to come up with this kind of list, the main reason being that as an industry we're uncomfortable with experience, seniority and progression. We're collectively suspicious of it. We want to codify and clarify it, endlessly. We demand the right to define it but when given the chance we always set the bar unrealistically high.

To recognise someone as a Principal Engineer, they should be definitively and objectively exceptional in every way, right? Their depth of knowledge in all technical areas is unmatched, they deliver innovation, domain knowledge, expert teaching and mentoring, strategic vision. They're growth hackers and also they design and deliver timeless systems and ever-green architectures. They're research scientists, and also inspiring leaders who (with no formal seniority) are able to align large groups of engineers via respect alone. How else can they be deserving? I wonder, does any other discipline in the org require this?

Whenever we come close to settling on a sensible way of recognising the value that experienced engineers (that are well connected to the domain and the business) can bring, it takes only a few years before that route is smashed by a new iconoclastic bunch of thought-leaders.

The parts of the org that are outside engineering now just let us get on with sabotaging ourselves.
Most browsers have a "minimum font size" setting, which would be applicable here.

In general, CSS already provides a bunch of generic font families and sizes. So a page could style something as e.g. "sans-serif" and "large" - and then the browser should figure out what this actually means according to user settings. The problem is that very few sites actually use these. But for those that do, the browsers do the right thing - and, again, most of them let you configure what the generic font families map to.