skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How often do you start from scratch when installing an OS?, I've changed my laptop 4 times now in 5 years for different reasons, when I do so, there's only a couple of things to consider:

if I'm upgrading the HDD (for example when I made the jump from HDD to SSD or from my 2.5inch SSD to my M2 SSD currently) I need to clone the drive to my new storage, otherwise I only need to swap out my storage device from my old laptop to my new one.

With linux it just works I don't have to fiddle for my devices to be found, everything is just where I left it, the biggest change was when I went from an intel based PC to an AMD one, I only had to switch the display drivers after the fact (I knew because X crashed, I had to do this from tty), but it is expected since the display cards are totally different, btw all it took was a: sudo pacman -S xf86-video-amdgpu.

having a rolling release distro helps too, because you really don't have a reason to nuke your install and start from scratch, but even if I decided to do that for whatever reason, since most configuration is done via text files I can easily save those in a repo and just clone them to my new install and be done in a few minutes.

drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Dec 25 2016 /lost+found

^ that's when I last installed linux, I've been using the same install through 5 years in 4 different devices, it's pretty
cool.

I'll be honest though I do still miss photoshop and Illustrator, I run Illustrator CS6 in wine, but it is missing a lot of features that have been added through the years, but Krita is a decent replacement for photoshop in the Illustration space, which is why I used photoshop in the first place, but nobody is stopping adobe from making a suite for linux I guess.
Unless the prenatal environment for a human is the same as say, for a gorilla, so that a gorilla could be a surrogate parent for a human, I wouldn't expect the animal testing to be an acceptable way to know how a human baby would turn out.

I also imagine it's pretty difficult to do mental health screening on a gorilla, let alone extrapolate to whether a human baby would turn out physically okay but mentally not so great.
In what way does the word "Hungarian" in the first column not answer the first question?

Edit: For the people who've downvoted me ... this is a genuine question. The word "Hungarian" is there in the image, but the person to whom I'm answering says they want to know what language is being discussed. So clearly their question isn't answered by that, and I'd like to know why or how.

So it's a genuine question ... if you've downvoted me, perhaps you could suggest how I should have phrased it.
It’s an information exfiltration vector with built-in plausible deniability.
I don't like getting stuck permanently. Even in Dark Souls there are no ways to get irreversibly stuck, although you can make it significantly more challenging by killing certain NPCs along the way and losing the ability to use the services that they once offered.
Do you see what you are doing right here? You're leaving out the context to make a political point.

Yes, he was asking the SoS to "find votes". However, the claim was: "We believe that there may be over 100k votes which could fail signature verification, and we only need you to find several thousand of them, a small fraction of what we believe you will find."

That is very different than what both you and the WaPo implied.

The claim is related to signature verification. So argue with that if you don't agree with it. But that isn't what happened.
Banks launder Billions with a B and get fined Millions with an M. This is a well-known, widely accepted and widely ignored fact when arguing against Bitcoin. The same can be said about the inefficiencies and energy consumption of world financial systems.
> It signals to other privileged white boys, “hey, come work for us, we pretend to care more than all our competitors xoxo”. This shit aint for us, it never was.

This, a thousand times. It was never about black people, it was always about wealthy, largely white progressives comforting themselves with the narrative that they're valiant defenders of black folks (namely from those horrible oppressors, middle- and lower-class whites) without having to do anything. This is why "defund the police" is supported by a majority of wealthy progressives but a small minority of black Americans.
Getting started with OpenTelemetry Java and .NET in 5 minutes
Now that OpenTelemetry tracing specifications reached v1.0.0, I'm excited to share that the first of the language-specific APIs and SDKs have reached v1.0.0 OpenTelemetry Java, starting with OpenTelemetry .NET. In this blog you will find step-by-step instructions to get started with OpenTelemetry Java & .NET in less than five minutes.
From $318K to $0: Bitcoin price predictions for 2021
When it comes to political ideology invoking a no true Scotsman is not always invalid.

As an example, as a leftist I can say: “A socialist revolution without social justice is not socialist”. Yes, this is a no true Scotsman fallacy, but here I am merely disavowing a subgroup of people that might share my economic believes that workers ought to take over the means of production, but fail to see that the racial injustice in our economic system is part of the problem. In my view, if you don’t see that, you are not a real leftist.
> (1) linux does not go out of its way to provide stable ABI's, which makes porting proprietary software to linux and maintaining it there expensive

My impression is that the opposite is true for user space - https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/gcc_vs_kernel_stability.html Maybe you're referring to GNU or kernel modules? There are more than a few anecdotes of people running 20+ year old binaries that still work with X11.
Ok, let's look at the dictionary: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/master?s=t

If we scroll to the adjective section, we see three notable definitions:

> 28 directing or controlling: a master switch.

I assume this is the definition you are thinking of?

But I don't agree that this is the definition git is thinking of. I think it's either:

> 27 chief or principal: a master list.

or

> 29 of or relating to a master from which copies are made: master film; master matrix; master record; master tape.

I would agree that the definition you are referring to has racist connotations, but I don't think #27 or #29 does.
Funny that rain is part of the sounds :D. As an italian I'd never thought about adding it.
Btw it's sounds amazing, but the sounds are a bit short in length and you can "feel" the repeating loop.
It seems like on some level GANs should already be immune to that kind of detection right? If there was that severe of a telltail sign, the adversary would pick up on it. It feels like these networks are optimizing for fooling us, but really they're optimizing for fooling each other, and they're good enough at detection that we get fooled too.
Notre Dame has had plenty of Irish presidents
> For quite a while, if you wanted to learn how a Linux system really operated, you'd build a Gentoo system.

Because watching 'configure' output scroll across your screen 40 times makes one a computer expert, natch.
Anecdotally I admin but I've seen tech's filter for black people first hand.

A few years ago, I invited a friend of mine to stay at my place in SF while he works on learning to code and break into the SF Tech scene. IN no time at all, he qualified to get into hack reactor and quickly fell into a mentoring role.

Despite this, it took several months to almost a year before he got his first fulltime gig. Before, I always thought maybe there was something else I wasn't seeing. In this case, I knew he was good. I worked with in personally and knew what he was capable of. I know plenty of engineers that weren't as good at engineering that were getting jobs within a month. I coached him on his interviewing skils but nothign was moving the needle for him.

It wasn't until he got a "internship" position by a diversity initiative at a prominent startup that he finally started getting work as an engineer. He excelled at that role and now he works there as a fulltime engineer.

That someone with his ability had such a hard time getting a foothold was all the proof that I needed that something is up with tech and a bias against black men.
Hi, I am the blog author.
This cracked me up! I have to go back and see where I made that goof up! :D But yeah you are probably right - I dont think I am the best software developer out there.

I can definitely code just good enough to cobble up a project together.

Just because my painting isn't good enough (yet), am I not a painter? Who awards that distinction? :) Genuine thought experiment ..
Overwatch Service Outage Affected Player Login Attempts
Many white people were literal slaves around the same time (in the 1800s and before). Look into the Barbary slave trade. Over 1 million white people were held as slaves in Africa. Even some Americans were held as slaves in the Barbary Coast.
That's why you take thousands of samples. Most of them will hit f2 if you do it right.

If your sampler's timer is running perfectly in sync with your framerate, that's a problem, but it's not a "not enough samples" problem. Fix it by taking samples every 10.05-10.07 milliseconds instead.
> I can’t figure out what you mean by “tiling WM having too many windows open”

Tiling WMs only work for me when I have <5 windows open. Afterwards, they just become a huge mess, unless you have a big screen with a huge resolution.

> I also don’t understand why free software such as the Gimp should be expected to support the binary file format of some closed-source program. But I do understand the need to work with other people without making excuses, even if their choice of tools is shortsighted.

I'm not saying they should be responsible for supporting a random (tho admittedly quite ubiquitous) proprietary format. But on the same topic, where would Open-/LibreOffice be without support for docx/pptx/xlsx? If they never support any proprietary formats then there's no alternative to what everyone else uses.

If you have the privilege of choosing what to work with in all situations then it's of course not a problem. But one can't expect a group of UX designers to completely break their workflow for a project with a strict deadline just because one person holds onto their sacred OS.
The agenda for one on ones should be driven by each direct report!

If your meetings are stale ask them to start setting the agenda. The time is for them, let them take the lead.

As a basic format, try 15minutes for them , 15minutes for you

The time for them should be whatever they want.

The time for you should be about directing them to what they should do next, understanding if they have roadblocks, giving feedback, identifying opportunities for coaching, and thinking about their long term progression.
It would be weird if you were just saying "the female-mail carrier" for no reason. But we usually describe people to differentiate them from someone else for conversation.

Like "the mail lady says she likes our cat", differentiating from the mail guy who we also don't know personally, but who doesn't like the animals.

Also, it's sex not gender people are referring to.

> "Cancel culture" would be going through high school recommended reading lists and removing books that focused "wrongly" on gender or something.

That certainly is, but it doesn't end with their most egregious actions.
There is very little overlap between computer science and workaday software development. Some analogies might be that an auto mechanic doesn't need a mechanical engineering degree, and a chef doesn't need a chemistry degree. Most software engineering work is skilled craftsmanship. You don't have to know much about the inner workings of a computer, or have the ability to invent (or even understand) efficient algorithms, in order to use the tools of the trade to construct something. Having the theoretical and academic background is helpful, opens a lot of doors, and is required in some challenging environments, but the vast majority of professional software developers don't need CS fundamentals to produce software.

I've got an academic CS background. I didn't learn much beyond what I'd already learned on my own, and the more advanced topics didn't stick because I didn't use any of them for the first decade or so of my career. Only a few jobs in the ensuing decades used any CS theory or advanced fundamentals. My bread-and-butter is web app development and devops, and I do believe anyone can learn to do that without a CS background. Especially in the current market where there are so many unfilled openings. There are plenty of small companies where a self-taught developer can thrive; not everyone needs to be a FAANG-level engineer.
I think folks are missing the point of this technology - this is designed for the animal agriculture industry to compete against synthetic meat, by streamlining the genetic engineering feedback loop, and the administration of hormones and antibiotics. Animal milk and meat production would thus be mechanised from cradle to grave.

We have been trying to engineer plant cells to be more like animals (eg Impossible Meats) but the solution might be to engineer cattle and swine to be more like plants (eg. minimise the growth of unnecessary biological components like bones, hoofs, brains, sensory organs).

The end point could basically be a semi-conscious 'animal', with food administered by stomache tube, suspended inside a barn, with sufficient brain material only to operate the digestive, respiratory, and circulatory systems, and without eyes, reproductive organs, or ears. The lack of locomotion would also render the meat more tender.

It would be horrific, but probably more humane and efficient than our current system of factory farming and feedlots.
The documentation is certainly lacking, but sources such as https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/kms-drm/issues/130 suggest that Vulkan support is there, at least for Radeon.
Speaking as another engineering manager, the advice in that link is pretty shallow. I think it encourages a rapport that feels efficient for the manager but is plain insubstantial for the report.

> I have found 30 minutes is the ideal length of time. Longer meetings tend to lead to us talking about normal day-to-day work, or going off topic altogether.

Compare this bit of advice to Andy Groves's, the former CEO of Intel and big evangelist of 1:1's:

> "I feel that a one-on-one should last an hour at minimum. Anything less, in my experience, tends to make the subordinate confine himself to simple things that can be handled quickly.” [1]

People need time to express themselves; to air their resentments, frustrations, disappointments, disillusionments. Cutting a report off before they can tell you what's really on their minds or in their hearts, does not seem like "quality 1:1 time" to me. Or at least not in the context of managing high performing knowledge workers.

[1] https://getlighthouse.com/blog/high-output-management/
No, this is a terrifying precedent to set.

You are completely inverting democracy.

If 98% of people vote that something isn't offensive, and 2% vote that it is, and your takeaway from this is "the thing is offensive", then how can anything ever be determined to be not offensive?
That is a possible interpretation that I did not immediately see.
My #6):

Not "letting go" to be a manager, which turns them into a micromanager. I got stuck under a brand new Engineering Manager in what is effectively his old role during the last reshuffle, and he still has to be intimately involved in every aspect of every project because it was his job. Every minor decision goes through him and I don't think I've attended a meeting in over a year where he wasn't part of it.

Between other issues with #3 and #4 it's a nightmare. I've been bringing up these issues for most of that time (it's gone from diplomatic to brutally honest over the last few months) and nothing changes.

Thankfully the job market is starting to rebound after tanking during early Covid.
Pre-embryos made in lab could spur research, ethics debates
I have a super petty reason for disliking wayland. There are no cool retro Desktops/WMs for it. On X I can run shit like WindowMaker, CTWM and if I want to CDE.

That and my xdotool scripts don’t work.
This is the real solution! I think every shell supports "safe paste" in some way. For example, here's something for Zsh: https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/blob/master/plugins/safe-...

This works great in combination with another advanced feature, "edit command" or "edit and execute command". Once you've pasted a command into the terminal, even a multiline command with safe paste, you can have the shell open your $EDITOR to edit the command, and automatically put the result right back into the shell (or just run it). This is available in Bash by default as ctrl-x ctrl-e.

(And as someone else pointed out below, if you don't want to enable safe paste, you can open the editor first on a blank command line and paste into that. But really we should all enable safe paste.)
Question: Is there any strong evidence (e.g. meta-analyses) indicating that multi-day meditation retreats produce consistently positive effect over and above a regular daily practice (e.g. 30-60 minutes per day)?
99% of YouTube channels, Facebook pages, personal websites, Flickr users etc don't make money. Sometimes people just like doing things and sharing. That doesn't make it a pyramid scheme: no one is cheating anyone and people are just building and sharing.
No that's not how it works. You're making up definitions and applying your own meaning. This sort of thinking breaks language entirely. It's along the same lines of saying there are multiple genders and you can make up any on the spot and apply them whenever you feel like. Language doesn't work anymore if you do this.

Expecting others to know what's happening in your own head and getting offended when they don't is absolute insanity. This is why we have language standards.
Same. It took over an hour for this to show up as an incident somewhere. I was going crazy.
Purists of any ideological bent have a tendency to alienate potental friends and excite their adversaries due to their overwhelming emphasis on argument by authority and appeals to shame. They are divisive by definition and generally lose their struggle because of it. Your comment is an excellent reflection of how the purists cut off their noes to spite their face.
As a native, I agree with you. There aren't sports teams named after other people's skin colors. It's just weird.
The social side is better served with a signature from the device manufacturer stored in the metadata (or as a watermark) of the original file verifying that a photo/video was taken with an Apple etc lens. Make two copies of the file on capture one read only with the signature and one for editing.
Romney is persona non grata in the national GOP now, which is exactly what being cancelled is: to be ostracized. His values haven't moved anywhere from eight years ago when he was good enough to be president, so something else must have changed.
Not necessarily - Bernie Sanders runs as an independent and just caucuses with the Democrats (same for Angus King, the other independent in the Senate, although he's not of the DSA). However, it doesn't look like anyone in the House is an independent, so maybe Bernie's the only one that does that.
You mean if they used "concentration camp"? then I'd laugh off my ass just like I did now because of how ridiculous it sounds

I guess other people could be pissed off, but I think "concentration camp" is nowhere even close to "master"

maybe "camp"/"bootcamp" is close to "master", but then I don't think people would be annoyed over it.

"We're sending people to a week long bootcamp", just pretty normal and neutral statement.

equivalent of "concentration camp" would be "we'd want you to work as our slave" in job description sent to black person.
> but it seems like a hedge fund can just buy the shares from the people they borrowed from

That's not how it works. A short position is basically the contract to deliver a stock regardless of its price at that point, so neither the short holder nor the party that gave them the stock in the first place actually hold that stock anymore.

Now I don't know this exactly and I am not an expert, but I wouldn't be surprised if short positions can exist absolutely independently from the existence of any actual stock. In principle, there can be agreements that only deal with the price of the stock. And something that can exist in principle probably also exists in the financial markets.

So whether or not an actual short squeeze will occur depends on the technicalities of the short positions.
Ask HN: Mac or Windows for TypeScript/Node Dev?
I'm coming off working solely on a macOS for about 4 years. I would love to use Linux but the new company said they don't support it. So its either Lenovo 15P or Macbook Pro 16". Development is VSCode+Typescript+Node. I have only used Linux except for work computers, which is why I'm leaning WSL2. What's everyone recommendations in 2021?
All Google services have been down for me for the past 30 minutes, at least.
The structure of the ecosystem precludes some free apps from being listed for iOS. That structure seems to incentivize app makers to monetize, which could explain why people spend more on iOS apps.
Two problems I see with this approach...

1. Consumers are terrible at security. Asking them to subscribe to a password management/MFA tool is likely to fail. If this were baked into iOS/Android, this would be better.

2. Many banks don't support this MFA scheme. A quick poke around 2fa.directory shows a massive number that don't support MFA at all, and another huge bunch that do SMS/email but not software/hardware. This puts consumers in the position of juggling multiple MFA schemes to access various sites.

I don't disagree with you in principle. But until there's a more standard approach to MFA, people will continue to use SMS because it's easy and broadly available as an MFA scheme.
Do you see a difference with the Apple App Store?
The problem is that if you can’t easily convert it, the OTC price is going to plummet.

Since the ledger is public, if the government knows which wallet is linked to you (easy if you’ve done KYC in order to use an exchange), they could also sanction any wallets that transact with your wallet, severely limiting who will be willing to do P2P/otc with you
I highly recommend "Managing Yourself and Others" from Gerald Weinberg - https://leanpub.com/managingyourselfandothers

Or anything from him, really.
Many white people were literal slaves around the same time (in the 1800s and before). Look into the Barbary slave trade. Over 1 million white people were held as slaves in Africa. Even some Americans were held as slaves in the Barbary Coast.

I guess I don't think where our ancestors came from is very important. I only know where my ancestors lived about 200 years ago and it is just general areas not any specifics. I don't know anything more than that. This is quite possibly about the same amount of years as many blacks whose ancestors came over during the slave trade.
Sorry I should have been clearer in my reply. Thanks for clarifying!
As a black dude this is so true. I can't believe the extent other people go to "help" the black community. When will you realize it has to come from within and a little name change does nothing to help but make you feel better.
Yep.

One of the biggest hurdles is most people don't want to be responsible for thinking for themselves, their judgment, and their decisions.

And then poo-pooing things outside of their current role that they either don't understand or don't appreciate.

In large orgs, I think one day a month staff should have to intern in a random department to appreciate what others have to go through to build morale and empathy.

A good leader is a humble, messianic therapist, salesperson, and accountant.
Everything Google-related is down for me, so I can't open that page.