skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Running lots of other things on the same machine. Most of the stuff programs store is just sitting idle doing nothing but taking up space. Move it to sqlite or disk if it's an ssd. The latency hit negligible unless you're running a gaming server.
> Your marketing team wants to see what they’re editing

They aren't the only ones. The "real geeks use plain text" thing grinds my gears. There are enough irritating surprises with Markdown, that I much prefer a half-decent WYSIWYG editor.
> quality metrics such as binary size for equivalent reliability, functionality, and notably time to release

Binary size is not a quality metric.
Thanks for pointing this out, I admit I did not consider their point of view (the plug was shameless, but in the self-promotion-is-inherently-shameful sense), and I agree it's in bad taste.
I would be interested in what is sort of the inverse of Medium's latest action. I very much disagree with Ev William's statement of "the idea of an imprimatur that establishes credibility or trust. Trust is more important than ever and well-established editorial brands still have meaning. But today, credibility and affinity are primarily built by people — individual voices — rather than brands."

What would make your product most valuable to me as both a consumer and a contributor would be a way to establish an aggregate reviews in a specific way, such as by editorial board or brand. A group of reviewers working together. Sort of like a subreddit. Not only being able to sort reviews by author or people I follow, but compare the rankings of the consumer reports team to the wirecutter team (examples of competing review brands.) I want to look at a masthead and trust their overall review quality standards, to find the reviewers I can trust.

A CMS to host reviews is cool. A way to collaborate and build complex team consensus is even better.
individual contributor (aka someone judged on their own work output, not the output of a team like a manager or director)
I'm a big fan of Jason Cohen and was watching one of his talks last night where he spoke about this very topic. He compared his previous startup to his current one. He sold the previous startup, the new owner flipped it seven years later for 100x. On his current startup he replaced himself as CEO and growth skyrocketed. More importantly since he didn't burn out that growth can continue.
I still dont quite understand the psychology behind it. £50 notes isn't even that much money in modern day. And there are no £100 notes either.

I guess everyone is so used to Digital Payment and do not want to deal with the hassle of cash.

Personally I love cash.
> On Linux servers it can be incredibly difficult for any process to succeed if the disk is full. Copy commands and even deletions can fail or take forever as memory tries to swap to a full disk and there's very little you can do to free up large chunks of space.

This reasoning doesn't make sense. On Linux, swap is preallocated. This is true regardless of whether you're using a swap partition or a swap file. See man swapon(8):

> The swap file implementation in the kernel expects to be able to write to the file directly, without the assistance of the filesystem. This is a problem on files with holes or on copy-on-write files on filesystems like Btrfs.

> Commands like cp(1) or truncate(1) create files with holes. These files will be rejected by swapon.

I just verified on Linux 5.8.0-48-generic (Ubuntu 20.10) / ext4 that trying to swapon a sparse file fails with "skipping - it appears to have holes".

Now, swap is horribly slow, particularly on spinning rust rather than SSD. I run my systems without any swap for that reason. But swapping shouldn't fail on a full filesystem, unless you're trying to create & swapon a new swapfile after the filesystem is filled.
I don't think this is about 'no one should have cars', but that no one in the city should NEED a car to get to 95% of their long tail of errands. I pay a premium in my area right now to live walking distance to shops, restaurants and a grocery store even though I still have to drive to work every day. That proximity is valuable even if it doesn't mean I don't need a car at all.

Honestly I think America's lack of walkability is a major contributor to our health crisis. Even if you still drive every day, walking to dinner or the grocery store would have a hugely positive impact on people's health in the long term.
They are explaining to you that in the post you replied to, the part prefixed “>” was a quote from the article and your original post reads as if you thought that part was an expression of the comment authors opinion. The only part of the post you replied to that was not from the article was:

> As far as I can tell, the L in "FLOSS" is typically "libre," not "Liberal." I feel like the author is vastly and misleadingly inflating his relevance in this post.
I think in general there is a difference between being good at something and being a good teacher of that thing. Not all masters are good at teaching, and not all good teachers are masters.

And not all masters/good teachers are entertaining or engaging enough for Youtube.
Fun VPN tricks due to Apple owning all of 17.X.X.X
While I can imagine niche applications I cannot see this becoming mainstream soon. Usually software needs to be rewritten to take advantage of the FPGAs - often using different algorithms.

Earlier attempts: https://www.anandtech.com/show/9790/ibm-xilinx-sc15-collabor...
I didn't say dismiss. I said declare.
Yeah I'm in suburbia but I live within 15 minute bike ride of a large grocery store, a couple spas, hairstyling place, a couple bars, gas station. the only thing missing is a theater and warhammer 40k/comics store.
> 1. Git-first. The filesystem can be a database for your content.

To set TinaCMS to commit to GitHub on edit, what's the minimum you need to do in terms of extra hosting requirements?
This was done for ABC News on technology and computer gaming becoming more prevalent from what I remember. As for location other people probably have better guesses than me.

I didn't include the footage but later on the computer behind him gets shown off by someone not Steve. The piece later goes to an arcade machine manufacturing plant. I'll have to review the footage again and get back on all that.
There's no reason you couldn't release the game art as CC BY SA alongside the GPL source code.
Listen to what Steve said - just replace when he says "computer" with "ai" - it will totally make sense today!
It's not clear to me that you really do someone a favour by archiving their data forever.

An awful lot of digging into people's past online is done for mean-spirited reasons like finding something to embarrass them.
I agree. GNOME 3 stays out of my way.

Good dynamic virtual desktop.

Windows key (or Alt-F1) to see all open windows.

Windows keys + typing to start an app.

I don't understand why Tweaks is not part of GNOME vanilla, but it's easy enough to install.

I have to work on Windows and Mac OS when working for some customers and that is an absolutely miserable experience for me.
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you mentioned that your coworkers still caught covid despite wore mask at all times.

so mask only work with influenza ?

>He was 100% fine before covid, then all of a sudden has chronic leg pains directly after which seem very consistent with blood clotting and nerve issues that covid causes?

Could still be coincide with something else.
Even if it covid that caused that, still need to how how prevalent this is. I know friends that got covid but recover fully.

>The excess deaths from all causes was up sharply in 2020, and correlates exactly with the start of the pandemic in 2020. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores (remove the default countries, and just add the US- you will see an exact overlay with covid cases and deaths). How do you justify your claim?

The lockdown also corelates with the start of the pandemic, how do u know its not caused by the lockdown ?

In the place that don't implement lockdown, the death chart look similar, how do u know if lockdown work ?

And by the way, death is not the only metric to go by.

Lets say you can reduce death number but in order to do that you increase misery, that would be suck, I certainly don't want that.

>You are being willfully ignorant, though I am glad you clearly haven't had this affect you in any way. I have two close friends that have lost parents to Covid.

I'm not blindly against lockdown, I'm againts lockdown because it doesn't make sense. It caused problem greater than the virus itself.

The lockdown has certainly affect me. I too have friends that suffer from the lockdown.
It's not on me to find sources for your numbers.

Besides, doing a trivial, quick Google search comes up with a few links to anti-tax lobby groups (such as the one you provided). However, a slightly less trivial, slightly less quick look at the topic reveals that the figures in the anti-tax lobby group reports do not include capital gains, or really anything outside of federal income. It doesn't even include payroll tax.

A few sources, admittedly biased the other way:

- https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/where-do-federal-t...

- https://theintercept.com/2019/04/13/tax-day-taxes-statistics...

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/08/first-tim...

- https://www.businessinsider.com/american-billionaires-paid-l...
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"How do we memorialize the current moment when it's constantly disappearing?"
ot: the first two links are "swapped"
This is my main issue with Newport's work. It's all great advice but not much of it applies to a regular office worker.
20 yo with flip phone and used smartphone maybe for 2 days, ama?

when it sucks:

* sending photos - rarely needed for me, but when I need it I "kinda really" need it, but you can probably work around it by buying better flip phone

* not seeing emojis in SMS

* when you need quick access to internet e.g for map, some info. I never needed it(I try to remember pathes/ways either via map or google maps or just ask people at the place), but I'm sometimes worried that I may need it
Phthalates causes infertility? So it's a self-balancing system after all.
EVs + autonomous (true autonomous) driving are going to be a god send if it ever comes to fruition.
What if you open the website and it summarizes your dozens tabs. Then you do nothing for two minutes.
You're unlikely to get exponential uncontrolled growth of that sort using wormholes, anyway. It's generally considered that any wormholes arranged in such a way as to enable causality-violating space-time paths (which is likely if there's a lot of them and they're being flung around with black holes) would immediately collapse. Not that there's any clear mechanism for how a wormhole could form, anyway.
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I like visiting cities but I almost certainly wouldn't want to live in one long-term.

For example, I really like visiting NYC but when I lived in Manhattan one summer as an intern in grad school (admittedly as a poor student and in a considerably different 1980s NYC), I was pretty much non-stop pestering friends in Connecticut and New Jersey to come out and visit on the weekends because the city was totally getting to me.
What a curious comment - care to elaborate? (I'm thinking a USB drive with Vine's source code is actually on your mantelpiece?)
Could someone with knowledge of birds and/or the methodology explain why the confidence intervals for the coasts and Arctic tundra biomes are so wide?

Are those bird populations just that difficult to count or estimate, is the data set just insanely small (if so, why?), or is there some other reason?
For the CoScreen team, I'm curious how the existing competition (https://tuple.app/, https://screen.so/) factors in to your decision to build/position this - do you believe you have a different vision than they do? Features they can't match? A better team that will out-execute? Out-market?

Startup founders are often told not to launch a product that has direct competitors already, so I'm curious to hear your take!
It does when you don't live in an autocracy and people still like cars. Unless you plan on herding all the rural people into cities.
You really can't add little things to existing infrastructure because you can't smoosh buildings closer. People want 3000 sq ft homes on an acre of land on a quiet street and to drive to their shopping and to drive to their walmart, and no bus service can service a neighborhood like this because either the stops are so far apart it's a 5 minute walk to each one, or it stops so frequently that it takes an hour to get across town, or a compromise of both, leading situations where driving is nicer than taking the bus. And even then, a bus service is not going to reach everywhere you want to go, because house-to-house travel is the absolute longest possible. Even on a decent feeder system, going from the suburbs to a normal part of the city takes forty-five minutes to get into the metro because of all the parking lots, for all the cars, that people own, because the bus service takes too long to get anywhere. The only way to start is to build a dense neighborhood where people can live and work within it, as a new neighborhood, with collective parking and minimal concessions to car traffic. It has to work as a system, or it doesn't work at all.
I was under the naive impression that the acoustic impedance mismatch across the skull/cranial-fluid/brain means that not enough ultrasound would go through for useful imaging. Is that not as big a deal, or is the problems somehow circumvented?

EDIT: Here’s what the article says about this:

> "Current high-resolution brain–machine interfaces use electrode arrays that require brain surgery, which includes opening the dura, the strong fibrous membrane between the skull and the brain, and implanting the electrodes directly into the brain. But ultrasound signals can pass through the dura and brain non-invasively. Only a small, ultrasound-transparent window needs to be implanted in the skull; this surgery is significantly less invasive than that required for implanting electrodes," says Andersen.

> Though this research was carried out in non-human primates, a collaboration is in the works with Dr. Charles Liu, a neurosurgeon at USC, to study the technology with human volunteers who, because of traumatic brain injuries, have had a piece of skull removed. Because ultrasound waves can pass unaffected through these "acoustic windows," it will be possible to study how well functional ultrasound can measure and decode brain activity in these individuals.
Were you never curious "What did the Romans or Egyptians really think about X? How did they really spend their days?"

I know I am curious and history books leave more questions than answers. Even the most well preserved facts about kings/dynasties/wars are partial at best and leave out so many interesting things out...

My feeling is that archeologists et al would love 10x or 1000x more data about what happened in the past -- not to have to guess everything and never be sure "is that really what happened?"
I forsee an addition to this diagram with "the chat tab of a shared fossil repo", as one of the completely isolated bubbles to the side

https://xkcd.com/1810/
Why wouldn’t it be safe? Many scripts I have are only available internally so don’t need to worry about people hacking them (unless they want to risk being fired to look at say syslog messages without having to ssh into the box).

Perl -T helps ensure there’s no tainting of variables - you take the parameter that’s passed and regex pull out the matching pattern you need to use. If your variable is a match of ([\d]+) then it’s only going to have numbers in, and you can use it fairly safely
Really well formulated. Love your explanation and pointers of worker dilemma.
The average person will find a video about grilled cheese to be condescending, and won’t enjoy watching it at all. Watching a video about roast lamb or soufflé might inspire me to go to a restaurant instead.
I mean I’m not trying to hate on Java — pointer-heavy programming was all the rage when it was designed, and GC was a hot research topic, so there was good reason to be optimistic about that approach. But it turns out that it’s very hard to make up for generating tons of garbage and pointer-heavy programming hasn’t aged well given the way hardware has evolved (pointers are large and indirection is expensive).
> The UI doesn't give us too much space, unfortunately.

I don't see where it's cramped, there's a lot of room on my screen.

Another option is "June 20^{th}"
do people use Julia for machine learning model or else? is it ready to go
Actors have union that sets wages and conditions, otherwise, a lot of actors would get paid $0. That's a lot like a regular union.

Major League Sports have unions so that players can leverage their power vis-a-vis owners. It's a straight up power play vis-a-vis another group. While it's probably a net-zero outcome for society, it's rational for them to gang up.

For both of those groups, it makes sense.

It makes no sense at all for software developers - try to articulate a situation wherein that structure could be established and beneficial in the long run.

If a 'Software Union' establishes accreditation for 'who can be a software developer' - then are 100% of scientists and lab techs doing research going to be forbidden from writing Python scripts? Forced to hire 'accredited' developers? That wouldn't work.

Will the 'Software Union' establish minimum wages of say, $80/year and simply push all those jobs overseas?

Will they limit the entry into the profession in order to create a supply/demand asymmetry? Everyone but a select few lose in that scenario.

Software Developers are probably the least rational of all groups to start a union.

There's literally zero point.

None of the points articulated in the article will be materially improved with a union in place.

The market for devs. works as well as it does for almost everything else.
I suggest Fraidycat
People are responsible for two-thirds of anti-vaccine content online
Fair, but we do archive that stuff on public record. I just am not seeing the leap to what I imagine to be next: digital version of nature reserves. I like preserving nature in concept, but preserving digital stuff just for the sake of keeping it around, not sure if it should be a priority. Just like historical building remodel laws, I get it, might not always be the right move but that is contextual, just not sure such a thing should leak into the digital world.
Well that's been the fact for thousands of years if you can get enough humans in a centralized location, specialization and trade starts happening so it's kind of orthogonal to modern life. Not everyone wants to be told where to live and what to do.
The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World by William D Nordhaus, 2018 Nobel laureate for economics and professor at Yale. He makes a compelling argument that market mechanisms, such as a carbon tax or cap-and-trade, is the most effective way to reduce carbon emissions. I now understand why the majority of economists agree with this approach.
Kapow: If you can script it, you can HTTP it
Screenhero founding engineer here. I've been working with the CoScreen team for a few months now, and I am incredibly impressed with the product and the team. They've taken our idea and really pushed it forward—it's not collaborative screen sharing anymore, it's a shared desktop which anyone can drop a window onto. (I'm only a little embarrassed we didn't imagine this UX back in 2013).

If you've never used something like this before, think back to a Zoom call you've had recently where someone else was sharing their screen, and you really wish you could have just driven for a moment instead of dictating instructions. Or just shared a window on your own desktop to illustrate a point. CoScreen lets you do all of this seamlessly.

Anyway, absolutely endorse this product.
>Once you have multiple clients being developed and running concurrently, and you have production data (customer accounts that are effectively legal documents that must be preserved at all times) you want that DBMS to be an independent component. It's not principally about the concurrent performance, rather it's the administrative tasks.

For my reporting/read-only use case https://datasette.io/ solves the above beautifully.
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The filesystems where headroom matters are var, tmp and sometimes root. I like this strategy with logfiles because nethack.log.gz.30 was approximately as important as empty space.
Keeping another 8gb on root and tmp seems extreme.
What does it mean exactly? Or what is novel here?
Wow this was extremely informative for me! Cleared up a cacheing concern I had. Thanks for sharing.

I've had good success using the free tier of Vercel functions to handle the low-traffic storefront and user accounts for offsetra.com - Just wrapper functions around stripe and firestore. It's a godsend for independent, unskilled, time-constrained front-end devs like me!
You only pay for it on the first run.
The biggest struggle Julia's GC has is that in multi-threaded workloads, it sometimes isn't aggressive enough to reclaim memory leading to OOM.
Having great fun with this. Two things I thought worth mentioning ..

"How to actually use the resulting json file without publishing it" would make a really nice faq item. I still haven't figured this step out yet.

The downloaded files are named .json.json - a papercut to be sure, but I assume low-hanging fruit too.
First known gene transfer from plant to insect identified
Barbara Tuckman is more famous for writing the Guns of August, but she also wrote the the Proud Tower[0] about the (European) world in the 25 years leading up to WWI, and in the concluding chapter she talks about how before the war the people thought they were good, they were proud of the society they had built, but that didn't survive the war, and it /never/ came back at least of Europe. And I mean the book was written in 1996, so any memories of the war are both eclipsed by WWII and burried with a few old people.

I don't think the social capital shifted so much in the US, certainly there are more people being administrators than there was before, but notice how much people like Elon Musk, or the flowers left outside Apple Stores when Steve Jobs died.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Proud-Tower-Portrait-Before-1890-1914...
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