skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not use a Windows VM on GNU/Linux to have both OSes around usually, and one even when Windows is BSODing or Blue Screen of Forced Update-ing (yes I know you can procrastinate those for various amounts of time with various hidden settings or hacks, but seems easier to just use GNU, and personally even grow out of AAA gaming)?

Edit, responding to now-deleted reply:

> a good way to virtualize Windows that maintains decently high compatibility and performance with the games I want to play

Isn’t a normal VM with GPU passthrough that? I’m genuinely asking, because I’ve asked my original comment’s question several times before and never received answers except something about wanting to buy a computer with the OS installed from a brick-and-mortar retail store, which didn’t seem to apply to you given you’ve already installed GNU/Linux.

> I can lose out on a hobby I enjoy and pretend it's "growing up". Because as we all know games are for kids; adults who play them are manchildren.

I said personally because I personally have felt less addicted to games as I personally have grown older. Of course most people are different from me in many ways, but I don’t think everyone is in every one.
Still easier said than done. There are still many websites that break in weird ways because the developers don’t care about Firefox.

I myself religiously use Firefox by default and only use Chrome if I bump into some websites don’t work in Firefox. But my kid’s teachers often send links that my kid needs to use for school work. And a lot of them are educational websites that don’t work in Firefox. I can’t be home all day to provide tech support. So having Firefox as the default browser is simply a no-go. Guess what wins, between Chrome and Firefox?
Hardware seg faults for accessing the first page in memory are the norm for modern machines.

Back in the 16 bit real mode DOS days, writing to the first K of memory would trash the interrupt vector table. But that was a 1980 design.
That's a shit load of legacy admissions. Seems like it would be quite cliquey.
> However, CCP’s resistance to a proper thorough study of the origins of COVID is IMO not exactly appropriate.

It is, in fact, highly suspect. I’m not at all positive that it indeed leaked from a lab in Wuhan, but the fact they won’t let an independent investigation anywhere near it makes me lean more strongly towards that as a possibility.

The description of the last investigation into the origins of the virus felt more like a ‘guided tour’.
The seafood markets sell bats and other wild animals as well. When they butcher the bats, dogs eat the leftovers then someone else eats the dog. Plenty of ways for the virus to mutate.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8163761/Chinese-mar...
That's news to me. My last two real estate agents didn't send me a single house to consider. They haven't helped me determine a reasonable offer. I've been looking for 9 months and have only been to 3 properties. Thinking of just firing my realtor and doing it myself.
That's very accurate indeed. Brussels is where careers go to die. We have the knowledge, network, expertise of 27 national governments and suddenly it's pushed aside by the ideological priorities of Merkel and European Commission. Result, continuous contradictions, delays, misguided and impossible initiatives, and the population of the 27 countries will spend a few more months locked down as there are no vaccines.
> Being paid $5/hour farming in Australia vs $0.50/hour assembling shoes in Malaysia. Wow, such exploitation.

The Australian national minimum wage is $19.84/hr.

Getting paid about a quarter of minimum wage is very clearly exploitation. There may be other benefits for actually working in Australia, but that's not really relevant here when you're trying to attract native Australians to work for you.
Individual member states can approve their own vaccines. Look at Hungary. Italy wants to use and manufacture the Russian vaccine, but the EMA hasn’t approved it yet. Why not?
You don't go defcon 1 over the sniffles but you do go defcon 1 over an unknown virus that closely matches a highly lethal virus we encountered about ten years earlier (SARS classic).

There is nothing in china's outbreak response that suggests guilt.
you get what you give
I think it would help your PR efforts to let people know that more often. People hear "we are <org_name>" and assume you're, you know, an organization. That comes with some amount of expected bug fixes, documentation, verifying results _before_ you release, etc.

I'm not really sure how much you gain by attracting tons of people to the discord if you finally release and everyone has unreasonable expectations due to the way you advertise the group as a whole.
> but 99% of all retirees at any age end up doing nothing of note with their time.

Define "of note"

In my experience most retired people do productive things until their bodies confine them to home or an assisted living.

Most retired people I know of keep doing the things they were doing as hobbies before. Gardening, teaching kids piano, racing cars, etc. Most retired people I know are more active on the things they love in retirement. Sure they're not doing Elon Musk things but they don't have that budget either.
Roll a dice representing all the locations of possible human bat interactions. How many of those land next to research labs that study this.
Don't sanction for the mistake, sanction for the nontransparency.
Given how many people died of the virus VS how many would die in a world war that seems like a highly illogical course of action.
Chronic Fatigue sufferers would like to join the queue of "can we talk about this" (I am not one btw)
Yes, I came to lament AWStats as well. I remember when google started stripping search terms in their referring urls. So then you didn't know what search terms were pointing to your site.

Google's answer was to just get your site verified and use their search console tools. Annoying, but OK. But then other search engines followed suit which left awstats with a lot of missing data. Now with simplified referring urls... it will mostly be a fancy page counter :/
This. Data and transformations on data (map, filter, reduce, etc) are trivially composable. Imperative loops are not (unless you abstract them away behind a function that accepts and returns data, in which case you'd be re-implementing map, filter, reduce with imperative loops).
You've been able to run Linux in Hyper-V for a decade now though, it's not really anything new beyond the client-side integration.
What is the gaming experience like on Qubes for modern games? What about older games? Or VR?
There's also https://athenaframework.org, which takes its inspiration from more of a Spring/Symfony based approach. Brings some new ideas & unique features into the space mostly dominated by Rubyesque frameworks.
> Before [anyone showed it could be done] the Falcon 9 was a relatively boring concept, from the economical perspective.

There, I fixed it. The reusable orbital launch vehicle revolution may well reduce launch costs by an order of magnitude when it's all said and done. That's not even relatively boring. It's not boring at all. It's nothing short of amazing. But it was boring when no one knew how to make it happen.

> But with a high-volume market things shift considerably. [...]

That's on the money. Government-owned/operated launchers are in trouble.
I wish healthcare was actually free in Europe.
Nothing I said contradicts that.
https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2021-01-19-don...
I suspect this is going to be a huge boon for services like ahrefs that crawls the web and provides information on which URLs on the internet link to which other URLs.
A physical switch costs what, a nickel?

Just think of all the security issues that would just go away with physical write-enable switches.

Heck, I'd go further, and demand from disk makers a physical write enable switch for a separate volume. Use that volume for the system software.
Not done yet, but a prominent redditor on r/electronics is writing this: http://connectorbook.com/, which I'm looking forward to.
> I think that's a pretty loose assumption that _all people_ are using it with ill intent.

Some people drop the N-bomb without ill intent either. There's plenty of precedent for agreeing that certain words and phrases just can't be used anymore in good faith.
That's what the music world has become. And it fucking sucks.
WHO should sequence all the Virus DNAs from that lab in 2015-2019 compare that with all the Covid sequences.
I think that housing works differently in Japan. Houses aren't a meteorically-appreciating asset, and the zoning laws are permissive enough to allow for tons of high-density, relatively low-cost housing within easy reach of tons of decent jobs.

It's pretty great IMO. Before I married her, my wife was living 10 minutes from Shinjuku (one of the mega high-density areas you see a lot of tourist photos from), and it cost her about $1000/month for a studio apartment. 15-20 minutes farther out and you could get a nice 2 bedroom apartment for $1300ish/month. Meanwhile, I was paying something like $1600/month for a small, old, beat-up apartment in a bad neighborhood 45 minutes away from downtown Seattle (and now that same crap apartment is $3000/month just a few years later, while the apartments in Japan are roughly the same price..)

I wish all the jerks living in Silicon Valley and Seattle would just vote for unlimited high-density housing and supporting mass transit. It's never going to happen, though, since in the USA your house is both your retirement fund and your ticket to a better lifestyle. I can't even imagine how we'd get out of this mess we're in..
Yah, the tech behind this already exists. Just needs to be packaged together.

Legislation will go together to require a large free email provider to also provide tools to set up a forwarding service and operate it for a period of no less than 20 years, as a starting point.
And the paucity of honesty in public communications is a testament to how few CEOs (and others in a leadership role who could buck-stops-here) are that sincere, willing to take that kind of heat, or to invest in understanding the problem in the first place. It’s also often a testament to how pathologically organizationally shielded they often are; I’d bet money even 5k thumbsdowns on an issue doesn’t bubble up to the top at most orgs.
Yeah, that's pretty shitty.
There are a lot of things not true in your comment; I will point out a few things:

The EMA did not get any additional power delegated to it by Merkel or anybody else. Maybe you are talking about the joint vaccine procurement by the European Commission? An instrument that does actually allow EU member states to purchase additional vaccines.

If you are talking about EMA: the EMA does not even disallow countries from using other vaccines not approved by the EMA (Hungary is using Sputnik V for example).

The EU is not a "hotbed of excess politicians who've been "early retired"". That might have been true on some level in the past but everybody has realized for quite some time that the EU has real powers and people want those jobs. There are many young MEPs and very competent members of the European Commission.

We are not witnessing incompetence: Vaccine production is very difficult and the EU is not running a nationalistic scheme like the US or the UK who are not exporting any vaccines whatsoever. In four-five months most adult people in the EU will have the chance to be vaccinated. That's an enormous success story. Other developed countries don't have any significant amount of vaccines at all. All western countries with vaccines (except for US and UK) only have them because of the EU.
That's fair enough, I think effort should be an important piece. I just suspect that's got a large genetic component too.
They could buy directly from the seller; that's how I got my condo.
Or... you can cut costs by a factor of ten and increase demand accordingly and then build more rockets, but yes, if you don't need more, you don't build more, hello.
These tiny connectors absolutely must be used with a proper crimper.

http://www.mattmillman.com/info/crimpconnectors/dupont-and-d...
It makes total sense that you have a website but have no idea where people are coming from to get to it. Why know what is working for your website so that you can improve upon it?
Thank you, that's cool to know. But if it applies to all zigbee devices, there is little point to choose phillips devices specifically, no?
Cold fusion is one of my favorite hypothetical technologies. The rationale makes so much sense, and it would be such a game-changer. (I'm guessing it doesn't actually exist, but still... lovely idea...)
It's what you might expect when the "business" isn't a business but a political project funded by taxpayers.
Earth-Lunar transport now technically has a market: CLPS

https://www.nasa.gov/content/commercial-lunar-payload-servic...

Granted, it's a monopsony for now but...

Also, the next market might be "companies who want to mine asteroids for rare metals or rocket fuel", in which case SpaceX may be in the "sells pickaxes to gold miners" business.

Those who pursue asteroid mining would do well to review the history of recently dormant or acquired companies such as Planetary Resources, Deep Space Industries, and Shackleton Energy Company.
I've had many hard drives fail on me over the decades, and keep multiple backups. Keep in mind your cloud storage service can go dark any time for any reason.
on hyper-v windows is kind of a vm aswell.
But people may come up with 80/20 improvements to mitigate the actual source of the virus. Why is improved data a bad thing, in your view?
Yeah, but the effect of this “human-clumsiness” is millions dead... it’s not a simple matter to excuse such clumsiness if this is in fact a lab leak.
Trump is returning to social media in a few months with his own platform
And normal corporate / state non-crime!
If it doesn't have first-class windows support or multithreading then I can't be bothered, sorry.

I'd prefer it be a gcc frontend, too, to gain access to all the interesting targets that gcc supports and llvm doesn't.
TikTok: Break RSA Encryption in 10 lines of Python code
Countries looking out for themselves in this fashion likely behave shortsightedly. Having Covid ravage e.g. Brazil and in effect use this country as a bioreactor for mutations does put e.g. the US at grave risk.

Now Brazil has other problems than vaccine availability, but the principle of altruism being in the own interest still is valid.

This is a tragedy of the commons that is very tragic indeed. And very little seems to be done to combat the demagogy.
There's an open issue for one thing I notice all the time: the next/previous unresolved commands update some internal state but scrolling and other navigation do not. This means that if you use any other navigation mechanism (e.g. search) the next time you hit “go to next unresolved” button it will instead scroll backwards to whatever thread follows the last one you navigated to using the “go to next unresolved” mechanism even if that's scrolling hundreds of lines back.
This is addressed in the comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26499512

In short; no there is no master/slave terminology in Git.
The person commenting on the Gnome mailing list was mistaken.
I can solve this silly debate by using the jargon of our times. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a bug, design flaw, dark pattern, bad UX, feature request. It’s a...

Defect!
Horrifying “Black Snow” Blankets Russian Towns (2019)
> * Python 2 is dead.

Officially yes, but in terms of actual use? Not really. Plenty of legacy codebases are still around that don't have the resources to upgrade.
I feel that you are right.
I'd love it to become a right click on the page and 'share all requested info, or selected info with this site" perhaps.

I don't mind right click - save page as.. but feel the secondary menu needed when right clicking on a tab, then hover down to move tab, then another flyout menu for new window is too much. Wish the 'move tab to new window' was just right there one level up.

I feel that people would right click and allow info share right there if requested by some sites. Buried in the about: settings or whatever would never get used.
The other side of the story is it's fake, fake, fake. But it's a nice story.

Every negotiation is about the best alternative the parties have, and it's generally harder in real life than in fantasy because you underestimate the alternatives to a deal.

Applying maximum leverage has a way of creating "out of the box" alternatives. And vindictiveness.

I have no need to judge it if it were true.
Gee, until I watched this video, I thought living in the US was pretty nice. I guess I need to change my whole outlook now. /s
An audio interface (preferably external) + speakers that support balanced cables should eliminate group loops / hum.
The world already has enough clickbait and hot takes. Substack will probably make a lot of money, but it won’t increase the quality of journalism in the US. We need less opinion in our news diet not more.
reminds me of the demotivator "those who do not have the courage to lose sight of the shore will never know the true terror of being forever lost at sea".
Or else make the natural gas based fertilizer 4x more expensive through taxes...
It's all done in the UK. I expect it's paid just like the gaming industry (taking advantage of the passion of the employees for the sport)
Languages / ecosystems being immature is not a tautology. Every one is at some point immature, but it's not a self-defining attribute of a language, nor is it necessarily true for a given language. It's entirely fair to call out "this language does not have a significant, stable, healthy ecosystem behind it (yet?)" because dealing with that stands a pretty good chance of taking up a large amount of time. Some uses / users are fine with that, others are not.
> acting like it‘s a grand humanitarian gesture when the vaccine isn‘t even approved for use in the US.

"Under the agreement, the countries must return any excess doses to the US."

I see 0 problem with this.

> A further 3 million doses are being kept in storage.

Yep no problem with this either...

> In the end, it‘s India, China, Russia and the EU who give the vast majority of countries any chance of vaccinating their most at-risk citizens. I suspect this won‘t be forgotten.

I think you're severely underestimating how quickly the U.S. is vaccinating and how quickly these shipments will hit the rest of the world. There are ~8 billion people on Earth, and the U.S. and U.K. are leading the way [1] in vaccinating their populations. Once the U.S. is fully vaccinated, tens of millions of doses will flow to the rest of the world on behalf of the U.S. Hell, the U.S. has administered almost more doses than Russia, India, and China combined but those are the countries that will save the world? C'mon.

I personally don't understand the "your country shouldn't put its own citizens first" mentality. It's honestly just incompatible with my own world view as we currently see the world. I mean, we need minimum wage increases here in the U.S. - why isn't the E.U. paying? [2]

This notion is just not very reflective of how the world works, or how humans work for that matter. I guess if the E.U. wants to export all its vaccines so E.U. citizens (why do they even have citizenship? why is it even an organization? Why are there even member states?) get them last - that's their prerogative and I'm sure the E.U. voters will support or reject that. In the U.S. and U.K. I think we take the view that you have to put your mask on first before you help someone put theirs on.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccina...
[2] This notion is easy to dismiss. If you truly believed this you'd feed starving kids in other places instead of your own or any of your friends or relatives. Nobody operates this way so why pretend that nations must?
I’m baffled at what branch of science involves being able to call it the “China virus” rather than COVID.

When was Science about prescribing blame?
Two types of UPSs: Think carefully about which one you want.

One type normally just sits there idle, passing mains current through directly to the equipment. When the mains stops, the UPS starts up and supplies current from the battery system. So the fan runs more or less only when producing power from the batteries.These ones generally produce 'not-so clean' and 'squarer-wave' power which is normally just as useful as sine-wave power. These are generally cheaper systems.

The other type is always on, running continuously, with its fan always on. The advantage of this type is that the equipment always receives its current via the UPS, no matter how much the supply voltage goes up or down. So very useful if you get 'brownouts'.

The UPS gets its power supplied either directly from the mains or from its battery subsystem. These units generally produce 'cleaner' sine-wave power. These units tend to be bulkier and heavier than the pass-through units.

I bought a CyberPower OLS1000E. This machine continuously produces sine-wave current and supplies all the computer stuff on my desk, as well as the WIFI/router and VOIP phone. I didn't have the router and VOIP phone included initially, but I discovered I was cut off from the Internet when just our apartment was without power although the rest of the building and external infrastructure remained powered.

The only drawback I have found in the 18 months or so I have used it is the constant fan noise. When I bought my CyberPower UPS, I probably 'over-engineered' my requirements (I calculated a need for about 250 watts, but the UPS indicates about 50-odd watts in everyday use). Consequently it indicated that it could power my system for up to 24 hours when I actually had an outage. (Though I take that '24 hours' with a grain of salt.)
WeWork discloses $3.2B loss in 2020 as it seeks SPAC deal - source
> As a matter of fact, VSCode doesn't

It does by default, using roughly the same method. Gratefully you can turn it off.

Edit: gratefully in terms of peace of mind. I’ve only ever been pleased when I do finally let VSCode updates install.
I don't know much about the early retirement crowd, but this turned me away from the idea.

Financial independence, or at least some freedom, sounds great. But money is just a tool to some end. What end?

Ultimately, having some output and being helpful to others is pretty basic to happiness. A job is a good vehicle for that, though not the only one.

It sounds like he and his wife had a shared goal and developed a great relationship. Then they never really had another goal after they accomplished that one. No kids, no charity, no research, not helping the community.

Wouldn't it be a lot better to get close to independence, then just take off a couple months at a time? Or at least build up some real goals you care about? Or make/adopt some kids/pets that can use all that attention?
The cross-platform story of .NET hasn't been complicated in a while. It's fully cross-platform between Windows, Linux, and macOS and has been for a few years.

Edit: I just saw the person that you replied to said the same thing, so I'm not sure why you're pushing that it has a complicated cross-platform story.
> people wouldn't have tried to downgrade to 3.0.1 again

What's the point of having versions if you can't install them?
I use to have the same thought process as you: instantly sold on devices with native hdmi, usb a & usb c. By that metric xps beats macbook.

Recently I tried to convert to a windows laptop from my 16 inch mbp. Upon switching I was constantly annoyed by the fan noise & using my pinkie to press the 'control' key opposed to macbook thumb on 'command' key.

The point is, I realized native port selection was not a metric to consider when purchasing a laptop. I am fine bringing an adapter to the meeting room.

I guess it comes down to what you value. I am just trying to play 'devil's advocate' with my anecdotal experience compared to your experience.