skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Debian is usually a great and pretty stable ecosystem choice. Also APT makes it easy to manage third party repositories (package pinning).

One big advantage I see with other distributions is that the release support cycles are longer (5y+).

But it will greatly depend on your usage, we are pretty happy with Debian running on somewhat 300+ machines.
How is this helping productivity?
You probably installed those things with some third-party installer, instead of through the package manager. You can't expect Ubuntu to know about that. The only way it could not break those things is by never upgrading the kernel.
That's not true. I know very few meat eaters who don't like falafel (and many of those who don't are picky eaters and hate anything that isn't mac and cheese). I get falafel and meat about equally; falafel doesn't leave me with that "I just ate 3/4 of a pound of greasy meat" feeling that shawarma can.

I will honestly say that I typically prefer vegetarian food that isn't fake meat. Indian food with paneer is really good, black bean burgers are fantastic, pad thai with tofu is really good.

I am somewhat partial to the vegetarian spiced meats, though. Vegetarian chorizo is remarkably close. I think because the spices are an overwhelming part of the flavor, all it's really missing is a little more chewiness.
> I'm always stunned and disappointed at how easy it is to game the American political system.

It’s easy to be a cynic, but you still need to match your beliefs up against reality. This particular belief really shouldn’t have survived the Trump era. Trump won in 2016 and almost won in 2020 despite Clinton and Biden having a huge financial edge from donors in the biggest industries (Wall Street, media, tech, etc.) See: https://mobile.twitter.com/annalecta/status/1323370439306055.... See: https://www.npr.org/2020/10/26/927453369/outspent-in-the-hom...

Bloomberg spent $100 million in Florida alone only to have Trump win it by a bigger margin than in 2016.

See also: https://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/09/trump-spent-about-half-of-wh... (“Trump spent about half of what Clinton did on his way to the presidency.”).

In the 2018-2020 timeframe, gun control supporters vastly outspent gun control opponents. They failed. Supporters of Prop 209 in California vastly outspent the opposition. They failed by a huge margin.

It’s actually hard to “game” the American political system. What companies like Intuit do is spend money to expose existing fault lines. Republicans are up and down the line opposed to easy tax filing because they think it’ll make it easier for government to raise taxes if people have to manually do their taxes every year. Intuit didn’t create this political fault line. It’s pre-existing. It’s based on ideology. The money is to connect Intuit’s issue (tax filing software) to this existing political fault line.
Is it really that obvious? If a company gets a bad rap for being insecure, is it rational to go for them? Sure, you should do your due diligence, when picking any solution, but it's certainly a factor which could discount someone from a shortlist.

You're not always the one to make a decision. When you are, there are a number of stakeholders who can influence your course of actions, and when solutions are similar enough, it is easier to take the path of least notoriety.
that would incredibly regressive. it's an awful idea
I’m a 100% with you, but this is unfortunately not how people in many companies operate. The fact that organizations like Gartner and any one of the Big 4 exist proves that people are very much in the habit of transferring their decision-making risk onto another party.
It's interesting that the OP said "teams" meaning sport and now at least two comments have thought that "teams" meant politics or nationality.
Yes, no PPAs but enough third party repos available.
That's seriously a large part of it.
Option is the most irritating feature of mac UX, everywhere it keeps popping new hidden features, it is true even for top menu and simple navigations.

Most irritating for me is if all windows of an app are hidden (minimized), simple Cmd+Tab doesn't brings anything to focus, but some gymnastics with Option and voila now you can see your Slack.
I use RSS feeds for Reuters's business section for business and finance news and the AP for general news. I guess I don't know how either of them handle retractions or updates but I like my news to be as dispassionate as possible and I think Reuters and the AP are as close to that as you can get. I'm sure the journalists for both have their biases but at least they aren't as obvious as other outlets.
People need to understand that stopping Covid will take much more then a year, and can easily extend for 2-3 years.
24% of the USA population is under 18 (from google). The article states that at least 75% of the population must be vaccinated, which means that he expects 100% vaccination of the rest of the population, which is impossible due to medical reasons, and in the USA with its large communities of anti-vaxxers even more complicated. To achieve herd immunity we need to slowly lower the lower age limit for vaccinations, and adjust the ways schools operate - for example mandatory temperature measurments and rapid 10-min covid tests for the kids before they can enter the school buildings. People trying to sell everything will be back to normal by summer might in the end cause more harm then good by creating false hopes for fast fixes.
Oh wow, I love Soldat! I used to play it a lot in the mid 2000s and even bought a license to get rid of the nagware and support the developer. Been dreaming of having access to the code for some 17 years now, this is great news!
On the matter of PPAs, these days I find that most of the things I used to use third party repos for I can now get as flatpaks from flathub. Really helped cut down on how many third party repos I'm using.
The Oxford Handbook of Reading
I'm not sure how any of that relates to a kid aged 3 to 6.
None.

But for the lazy package manager, this route is easier.
> It’s actually hard to “game” the American political system.

Time magazine disagrees with you[1].

[1] https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
Your correction is incorrect for at least some states. Texas requires a good faith belief (but not evidence per se) that the transferee is a legal resident of Texas (and they recommend but don't require asking for some kind of ID).

https://faq.sll.texas.gov/questions/44008
> If I want truth, I read or watch primary source material. Everything else is commentary.

For the record, that is completely impractical for reasons so obvious that it's surprising people suggest it with the frequency they do.

Take science reporting, for instance. You think science reporting makes too many mistakes, so you're going to just go to the source and read the raw papers instead (a suggestion I've seen dozens of times). Well, there are so many of those that even scientists don't read everything related to their specialty, and at best only read everything related to their sub-sub-sub specialty. How the hell are you, as a layman, supposed to wade through that stuff to stay informed about science? You can't, since there aren't enough hours in the day. It's a recipe for ignorance.
It's because everyone wants their situation to be special and get special tax breaks because of it. Don't get me wrong, Turbotax is scummy but the real truth is if a politician wants to eliminate "deductions" which is what makes taxes so complicated - then you get a large backlash because someone's taxes are getting increased.

The government can't automate it because a lot of these deductions are not things they can learn about looking at your W-2.
Anecdotal but we left centos for debian because it kept failing after kernel upgrades (machine would not come back / kernel hang: we had it so many times that we migrated completely off it): never had that issue with debian (or ubuntu) and I use both fulltime on servers and desktops (laptops). We had other issues with broken deps with yum as well.

I think GPUs might be a different story but we have not needed those beyond the trivial usage, and those were not discrete.
This is an old article already discussed last year - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21281411. We should mention year in the title.
I think it's a good article, and reading some of the past posts in this blog I see the author is a fan of Judea Pearl's causal do-calculus, as am I, so that was also a good read. The article missed an interesting new area of research in graph theory taking advantage of the dualism between graphs and matrices called The GraphBLAS

https://graphblas.github.io/

And the of course the plug for my Python wrapper:

https://graphegon.github.io/pygraphblas/pygraphblas/index.ht...
Kindly do your research.
"Mysterious" because you don't know a about Swaymass.

You are not our client. You haven't seen how we work. You don't know how we operate.

You could have at least requested a proposal before posting this but no.

Ai - generated, well that's an compliment.

Be soo good that your competition has to post false claims against you.

This was posted by the owner of a company which is in direct competition with Swaymass.com.

The company name : Laskie.co

They sell marketing advice.
This has already been settled; Square will take Credit Karma Tax to prevent Intuit from absorbing a competitor.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2020/11/25/doj...
Don’t take the votes too seriously.
I appreciate the work you did and I hope it enriched your life in some meaningful way. I had family support for 1 year of undergraduate, and 4 years without that support. If I could find an english language foreign market edition of a textbook, usually printed on darn near see through paper, i’d get that. Otherwise I’d be on the hunt for a free pdf. As I was struggling to survive, I didn’t feel bad about it. I feel bad that you took the risk, created something beautiful, and felt shortchanged. On the other hand, I’m not willing to tell an undergraduate who can’t afford a $100-$200+ textbook to not do the thing which is in their best interest.
No, it really is easy, compared to buying a distributed government. Single points of failure, we call them. From an attacker's perspective a single point of failure is an efficiency waiting to be exploited.
Yes, many OS forked code from FreeBSD, especially on the network stack.
Do you know what this flag considers to be a "valid" control flow transfer? The documentation makes it sound that this feature can safely be enabled all the time. But the linked article suggests otherwise...
Finishes?! I was told the study completes in 2 years...
One of the Blu-ray models was a hackaday winner a few years back.

You can see the log of their efforts and a handful of sub-micron images here:
https://hackaday.io/project/9205/logs
Given the way Premier League works, it's not really geographic any more. "Arsenal" is owned by an American, plays in a stadium named after the airline of the UAE, recruits its team from all over the world, and is named after the Royal arsenal that no longer exists.

Names and history are important. That's why there has been such a fight over renaming US teams with racist names.
We have replaced our daily table soccer break with a round of teeworlds at work. It's a great game for that purpose. Like table soccer, the game mechanics are simple enough that anyone can join and have fun instantly, but there is a lot of opportunity to gain skills by learning to use the rope efficiently, combined with "classic" FPS stunts such as rocket jumps. Highly recommended.

I also recall playing Soldat a lot back in high school. I think there wasn't a Linux version available, which I guess is why I stopped. Perhaps one will appear now that it is open source?
Total lunacy. I had hoped SA might not descend into its usual levels of incompetence, misinformation, blame games.

They have done this because the batch they received has a 2-3 month expiry life. They do not believe they can give that batch out in that timeframe. They have set up almost literally no infrastructure

SAs vaccination plan is to generally beg other countries to do it for them. They already frittered away most of a R500bn IMF loan on absolutely nothing.
Apple’s (often critical) review process for app updates is shining right now!

Edit: /s
It's little wonder that democracy is in a state of decline and that faith in our public institutions is at an all time low when government can be so easily corrupted by disingenuous carpetbaggers such as Intuit. It's not as if this corruption of process by Intuit is an isolated instance, the trouble is that it's commonplace.

It seems to me that the first step in citizens reclaiming their democracy back and having our faith and integrity restored in our institutions is to take charge of the lobbying process and rescue it from corporate interests and other bad influences. I would go so far as to suggest all lobbying of politicians be done in public and that to bypass the system of public scrutiny be made a felony.

This may sound like highfalutin idealism and overkill but after what we've witnessed in Washington in recent weeks we
can no longer ignore the fact that trust in our governance is at an alltime low - and that as citizens we have a collective responsibility to ensure we fix the problem.

We have to break the nexus of mistrust between the Citizenry and Government and desperate times call for desperate measures.
You know, this happened before. Back when Unix and BSD were new. The end result was AIX, HP-UX, Irix, Solaris, SunOS and a bunch more. Oh, and the way that there was no good response to Windows NT.

Linux is very, very much more coherent than that chaos.
If you’re looking for actual real life footage of 1980s Japan, then I’m not sure this is it. I’ve watched a bunch of the movies where they are ripping the footage from.
Stallman calls autoupdates a "universal backdoor".
Resgreen Group (RGGI) Provides Update for Their UVC Disinfecting Robot Wanda SD
> ...for the convenience of having one small device rather than shelves of paper.

Yeah, that’s why people moved away from cassettes to Youtube. I have a lot of friends who gave their Kindles away and are back into paperbacks and/or the iPads.
I get that breaking packages is a bad user experience, but the Linux community at large should start paying more notice to security-first software engineering. Learn a little bit from Microsoft's experience - they made 100% backward compatibility their mantra for years, and look where it got them - a reputation as an unsecure platform with lots of exploits. Linux has many exploits too, its just a less popular platform for research by security researchers so less security bugs are found then Windows. But when those are found - its catastrophic like the last SUDO bug. They way to forward is to understand that even great software developers have bugs with security implementation, as writing reasoning about the correctness of software is very hard, and start implementing wide reaching mitigations by default. Control flow mitigations made implementing exploits on Windows much much harder, raising the bar of "bug to real-world exploit" significantly. Ubuntu setting CF protections to default will encourage many maintainers to finally fix their code.
This, is why I am going to buy more apple stock tomorrow.
Forgot to say: I have also played Liero a lot with shared keyboard, and didn't know about OpenLieroX! I'll definitely try that out, as it sounds like it's right up my alley :)
> I’m not sure what the source for the narrative that “they knowingly lied about their effectiveness” comes from. I would need a reliable source for that.

Here is a source, from an interview with Faucci[0] in Washington Post:

> At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Fauci originally discouraged mask-wearing by the public because he was concerned about PPE availability for health-care workers. “We didn’t realize the extent of asymptotic spread…what happened as the weeks and months came by, two things became clear: one, that there wasn’t a shortage of masks, we had plenty of masks and coverings that you could put on that’s plain cloth…so that took care of that problem. Secondly, we fully realized that there are a lot of people who are asymptomatic who are spreading infection. So it became clear that we absolutely should be wearing masks consistently.”

So while they did know that masks prevent the spread, they decided it was more important to stockpile them.

> At the time, our scientific understanding was that COVID-19 mainly spread from infected surfaces, so the advice was geared towards that. As science learned more about COVID-19, we realized that it was mainly spread through the air, and could be by and large stopped with masks.

This is a retroactive justification that people keep claiming. In reality, it has always been known that the virus spreads both through the air and from surfaces (how else would it get on surfaces?). It was indeed (mistakenly) believed only people showing symptoms were likely to spread the virus so only they would need to war masks.

Still, all east-Asian nations immediately started wearing masks at a much higher scale, as they had done for the first SARS and flu epidemics, and generally fared much, much better than Europe or the US.

> No, The Earth is not flat. Yes, we really landed on the moon in 1969. Yes, masks and the COVID-19 vaccine do help reduce the spread of COVID-19 and they do help save lives.

Absolutely. I do not leave my house without a mask, and plan to get a vaccine as soon as I am allowed to (I am not in any risk group).

Your comment is an excellent example of how policing speech is dangerous. I was attacking a political stance (Faucci and the CDC, probably under pressure from the administration, decided early on that keeping PPE available for healthcare workers was more important than preventing the spread at any cost, and they were proven extremely wrong; both this administration and previous ones have done too little to prepare) and you decide to lump me in with flat earthers and Covid19 denialists.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/washington-post-live/fa...
https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/tools@v0.1.0/txtar could be used for this…
Where Do Vaccine Doses Go, and Who Gets Them? The Algorithms Decide
OpenSUSE is the one I landed on, and it's been great.

I keep hearing high praise about Manjaro too, that it's solid, fast, and newbie-friendly; but I haven't tried it out myself yet.
> What companies like Intuit do is spend money to expose existing fault lines.

...

> Intuit didn’t create this political fault line. It’s pre-existing. It’s based on ideology.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here, in moral terms.

Is your intention to defend Intuit's actions?
Not really. It very much depends.
I don't know who the cheaper competitor that the GP refers to, but I use freetaxusa.com, and they are great.

(Disclaimer: my wife is an employee, and they are great as employers too.)
At my work, the development environment relies way too heavily on environment variables to configure things like "where is the build located," which breaks things like being able to easily use the built products on a different machine. Annoyingly, this also means that the tooling can't be regular scripts, since it has to change the environment variables of your current shell, which also means that you can't write regular scripts to abstract over the tooling because it's actually crazy shell shenanigans and not executables that are doing everything.

Admittedly, that is a bad design, and it is a problem in large part because it is a bad design and not because of using environment variables by itself. In general, though, my preference is that environment variables be the last resort of the programmer for configuration. Providing command-line switches or files in well-known locations is almost always a better idea, and environment variables should largely be reserved only for when the use is of a debugging or other unusual configuration.
I go to cnn.com when I want to see the latest draft of "1984 v2.0". It's really that bad.

Glenn Greenwald explained that when he asked his US journalist friends why they only parrot leftist narratives, they replied they had to or they'd lose their job and all their friends.

One of the NY Times editors "resigned" because he said burning downtowns should be countered with the National Guard - in other words stopping an actual insurrection in progress for months. Where do you go from there?

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/07/new-york-times...
Not really. Although Greek has several local dialects, the pronunciation variations across the Greek population are relatively small (no matter that we always exaggerate them for effect).

Plus, no one really knows what the "classical" pronunciations sounded like. We can make some educated guesses from the tonal symbols that older Greek used to use to guide pronunciation, but that's all.

Most differences on pronunciation that your stats professor has been complaining for could just be accounted by normal differences in phonetics by people trying to casually pronounce some Greek words or letters.
No. But with enough effort and reasonable assumptions, you can restore most of the sound. It would be enough for speech, but not enough for high quality music.
Very much so, yes. It's in that exact same "there might be a diamond hidden in this moronic memeing" style that WSB uses. Are they all idiots shitposting all day, or are they geniuses that just act like 4chan?

People saw what happened to GME, and will latch onto this as well. If you aren't at all versed in finance, following the "advice" of someone like Musk doesn't sound like a terrible idea.

Financial literacy in the US is very poor. We had to take a finance 101 class in high school, and I think the farthest we got was basic supply and demand, and how compound interest works. There was a whole day just on how to balance a checkbook. Most schools didn't do a finance 101 class at all. That is the level of knowledge some investors have. I'm not a fan of Musk, but I really do hope he can pull something positive out of this, and doesn't just cash out and crash the market on all these people.
Just a tangential historical note: the carpetbaggers were the good guys. They went from the North to the defeated Confederacy to take advantage of the votes of newly freed slaves. The acquired such disdain for precisely that reason.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/carpetbagger
Same story every year around tax filing time but nothing changes.
Their letters and journals make it clear that the founders knew that lobbyists would be a threat to the integrity of the republic, but they thought that all the competing interests would largely cancel each other out. They could have used a little game theory to show that wasn't the case, as it will always be far more profitable to be the aggressor than the defender. If I want to take a penny from every tax payer in the country, I'm far more motivated than you are to guard your one penny. Even if the tax base were to unite in opposition, I have an infinite number of opportunities to try again. Power words: MPAA, SOPA, PIPA, DMCA, Tipper Gore.
Would you care to share any recommendations for alternative programs?
I’m annoyed at Intuit’s purchase of Credit Karma last year. Even with the obligatory sale of its tax division to Square, Intuit eliminated a competitor.

Square will have to build up the customer base and visibility of the tax product, provided they intend to do anything with it similar to what CreditKarma was.

Intuit should simply not have been allowed to buy them.
Split DNS is a stupid, stupid idea. But DoH doesn't sound like an improvement.