skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run a lot of OpenBSD servers using either only base (httpd + pf + relayd) or base + software I write with minimal dependencies. The security in base is excellent for that. I don't have a desktop environment on my servers. It is easy to upgrade these, and I get very good security & configuration. So, for my use case, having "no remote holes in the default install" is exactly what I want and need. YMMV.
Yes. A Jupyter notebook is only reproducible in my opinion if you can hit "Restart Kernell and execute all cells" and get the same result.

Otherwise, it should never been shared with other people or even contain relevant analysis you may need for yourself later.

But this is not enough - also the library dependencies need to be fixed. Pluto will make this very easy in the near-future: https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl/pull/844
If you're in the business of "changing the world" or "changing peoples' lives" then your business is political

If you're Apple or Microsoft, that would apply. But Basecamp is a company that makes office productivity apps.
Possibly. I guess the "fastest" program I use on a daily basis is Sublime Text, which is native on multiple platforms. I never have a slowdown, even on very large files. It instantly responds to keyboard input, which is a must in a text editor. Basically, it's perfect (for my definition of perfect).

I've seen people say things like "Safari is much faster than Chrome" but I don't really see it. Sure, it can seem a bit quicker on some sites but most of the time I don't really notice it. I do notice things like CPU and energy usage between those two browsers, but I'm mostly plugged into power all day anyway so it doesn't make any practical difference which one I use. Perhaps when I get a new M1 machine (ie. 2021 16" MBP!!) I'll feel differently. Perhaps.
From your quote:

> Actual performance exceeds the specification. On May 11, 2016, the global average URE was ≤0.715 m (2.3 ft.), 95% of the time
> "He was eventually indicted on charges of taking $690,000 in kickbacks from tech companies that had contracts with Netflix, a scheme the company said it uncovered based on reviewing emails in his work account."

It's always astonishing to me how some people conduct crime. If you're engaging in six-figure sum bribery maybe don't put incriminating evidence into plain-text communication that's stored on the server of the company you're ripping off
> Especially since this has absolutely trashed their public reputation.

Definitely this has trashed their reputation with people on the left. Some of my friends have been posting on Twitter that they wouldn't work for Basecamp now, whereas they used to aspire to work there.

But it is far from clear to me that my friends are in a majority. Many people on the right, or people who are apolitical, or people who just don't like politicisation in the way that has been reported, may be perfectly fine with this.

In terms of reputation, it wouldn't surprise me if this is a net win for Basecamp.

For sure losing a third of employees is an existential risk, but I suspect senior management would have accepted that risk.

(I consider myself to be left wing, but not woke).
Your links have nothing to do with what basecamp did?
Stop spreading FUD dude.

10x deaths ? Do you know the nightmare and level of competence required to "cover" this up ? A lot of the backlog in crematoriums is due to the insane doomer-porn based "covid precautions".

> Also for the sake of PR, the central govt sent more than half the vaccine produced abroad

FFS dude, this is part of the contract that f-ing contract that SI signed with Oxford-Astrazeneca. Have basic decency to read things before spouting your self-conceited mouth.
> About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today

IMO, here's the very definition of a win-win.
I'm a happy Processwire user since 2013. For me it took away the complexity and pain of creating customised sites with CMSes.

If you wake up one day and decide you want to shove 20 million proteins into a Processwire site as individual pages, the community will immediately jump in and help you do it: https://processwire.com/talk/topic/25444-creating-20-million...
I didn’t know it was there. The menu didn’t show in landscape on my iPad. ‘Research’ takes some time to fill the page.
Apologies for a stupid question, but how can you roll a dice without using any energy yourself? Or is it meant to work in some model where there is no such thing as energy (as opposed to the one when you need to lift it)
The act of loading code into memory, be it a hypervisor or a guest OS, should've been gated by sanitation and validation callbacks. Building all of these macro- and micro-op runtime defenses and mitigations in the processor and slowing down the OSes for every possible runtime edge-case are a waste of speed that can be avoided by establishing trust of code pages.

The morphing of data into code pages with JITs like JS should also be subject to similar restrictions.
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This is not at all similar.

The correct analogy would be if the person I accidentally elbowed claimed I was physically assaulting them, which I of course would deny.

Racism is a very extreme call-out and it is no wonder that people defend against it. It is no matter of believing that I hurt the person, I do. But I am defending myself from an attack I believe is unproportional,and actually leaves no choice but to defend myself.
Call it insensitive instead of racist and people are far more likely to listen.
At this stage, it's evident that the primary mode of SARS-Cov-2 transmission is through aerosols, not droplets nor fomites.

The level of air pollution affects the duration of suspension of bioaerosols as well as the performance of the innate immune system. Low humidity is also linked to higher transmission.

See

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.04.21249249v...
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.19.20215236v...
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.07.20057216v...
Part of the point of how I prescribed it is specifically that you can take X and divide by your own value of Y to get useful expected lifetime under more rapid writes.
Well that’s just because we understand internal combustion engines well enough that we can abstract away a lot of the details. Software engineering is nice because by design it is at a level of abstraction that we can grok it. We’re basically manipulating structural concepts of pure thought. But never forget that reality has a surprising amount of detail. When we interact with the physical world, we rely on abstractions at our peril.

http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-...
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Adobe charges 300k a year for a big setup, but they do handle cache without a hickup.
> But Kumbh Mela is one event, and elections are only taking place in a few states.

Kumb mela gathers tens of millions of devotees at a single point in the most densely populated state in the sub continent.

Just on April 14th 2021, more than 900,000 people taking a dip in the same river. The central government is the authority responsible to stop the event this year given the impending crisis, but only encouragement was seen from the ministers except that the event was cut short to 30 days instead of the many month ordeal it usually is.

> There has been a lot of focus on election rallies and Kumbh Mela in press, but it seems to be mostly due to people turning the tragedy of the second wave into a political opportunity to attack Modi.

> everything and everyone being blamed right now is just speculative and opportunist.

This thread is a testament to the aggressive brigading to deflect all blame from the Central Government. Contrarians spewing random questions to avoid focus on anything being discussed. It has been a pattern for the past half a decade now.

Nobody is denying that there are multiple factors and people responsible in the current crisis, but this line of excuses is a steady pattern of a concerted effort to deflect blame on the untarnishable image of a strongman Modi emanates. It happens on every crisis. every blunder Modi makes.
Basic resources like...(...Remdesivir)

I've been following this on social media, and the Indian desperation for Remdesivir struck me (now it seems to be for oxygen, sadly). It's heartbreaking, but also interesting to see how many people are desperate for the drug. Is this based on evidence? What's driving the demand: doctors or the public?

We've seen a similar craze for ivermectin in South Africa, and there was the HCQ craze in the US. It would be interesting to see if there are parallels.
Even NYT estimates the real numbers might be 10x reported, and I would also expect that to be a reasonable estimate. Roughly a quarter of the people I know tested positive in the past month, it's not possible with such a high infection rate only 3000 people die in a day.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/world/asia/india-coronavi...
Why is it so difficult to define artificial intelligence?
To be clear was talking about exploitation regarding the minimum wage, I agree with you that there are many other ways exploit people.

A great example in your favour is pilots working for minimum wage because people just want to be pilots so bad. But these are really exceptions, the vast majority of people just want to eat and make rent with any job and they're not able to. Companies know they've got no choice but to work at non-livable wages, so that's the most prominent exploitation around minimum wage that we're trying to solve by raising it. Make it so people in poverty don't have to trade there lives in exchange for money that can't even sustain their position in poverty.
If you're losing everything, it really doesn't matter if your home was 2x or 20x. It's all gone. But for those situations short of losing everything, (lost job, furloughed, sick) then the scenario I outlined that allowed for saving 20% of income would be just of useful if housing was 60% of living expenses or 20% of living expenses.

But you also haven't commented on the aspect of the scenario I presented where a 4x home was still under Rule 28.

No single rule can encompass complex multivariate systems. That is all I am saying here. Otherwise, how about we end it here: It's clear we both agree that financial stability is good and should be a part of any long-term plan, we may simply disagree on the specific parameters that allow for it, which is fine. I appreciate the thoughtful conversation-- HN is one of the few places on the internet where I find that possible.
> I've also seen lots of people in the last two years who had made similar sound decisions who were then furloughed, or lost their jobs, or got sick, or got REALLY sick and ended up losing everything.

In a non-recourse state, you don’t really “lose everything”. You lose the house, when the bank gets around to foreclosing. If you recognize the problem before you have adverse marks on your credit history, it's pretty trivial to secure an apartment before you do, otherwise the challenge is finding a landlord willing to consider details of your circumstances in renting rather than just saying no because of the adverse credit.

> If you want to make higher risk bets, there are better avenues for it and certainly ones that you don't live in and risk losing.

What specifically is a better avenue, allowing both the use of leverage and the downside risk protection of buying a house in a non-recourse state?

Because, having been through pretty much exactly the negative scenario you describe—losing the house and, the cleanliness of my credit history—I don't regret it at all.
Lockdowns, at this point, are a plot to kill the poor, nothing more, nothing less.
I don't really get constructor theory, but if this is a crank website it has to be the one with the best pedigree.

David Deutsch has done a lot of impressive work, like coming up with the first universal quantum algorithm and providing a model that proves quantum mechanics is local.
Please see https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/world/asia/india-coronavi...
A simple, reliable, and secure "rudimentary" firewall in 2021 is very useful.

The security promise "best effort", they do not make guarantees, is very useful

I really do not see a problem
As I said, first the imperialism would stop. No more military threats, no more WTO enforcing unfair rules, forgiving all IMF loans, etc.

That would allow trade to no longer be based such an extreme difference in the price of labour, so the victim countries could retain a majority of the value of their labour. By no longer losing value to profits at every step of production and distribution, consumer prices wouldn’t have to increase and could even be lowered in most cases.

Merely dismantling the US army would vastly reduce global carbon emissions. Building high density housing, public transportation, universal healthcare, public utilities, etc. would further reduce the US’s majority contributions.

Countries that were kept poor for centuries could be gifted low-carbon energy sources as part of reparations, so as to not need to emit carbon to develop.

A lot can be done once the oppressor countries stop constantly extracting value for a few individuals.
It looks like there is still no fractional scaling out of the box (always possible with hacks). The elementary team has defended the choice not to introduce it before [1], but it just makes it unusable for me and many other users.

KDE Plasma handles fractional scaling well. Gnome does it mostly fine on Wayland. Now you can also run Gnome on X11 with fractional scaling (at least with Pop OS [2]).

There's a cost of running the DE with fractional scaling of course. But I am fine with that if that makes the DE usable!

[1] https://blog.elementary.io/what-is-hidpi/

[2] https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/10/system76-continue-impr...
Synology hardware is overpriced for what it is, but in the home-sized NAS segment, it's still way cheaper than buying drives.

I simply can't afford to buy a whole array upfront. I can just afford to expand it every other year or whatever.
That may be so, but you can still buy from the competition.
I don't see how a news entertainment program you saw many years ago actually addresses how well poor people are at making the most of their very limited dollars.
It's easy to dismiss the difficulty of something when all you see is a webpage explaining things very well and simply with some cool graphics. That webpage looks really cool, but this is just a front page of the result. The backend of all the math, equations and thoughts involved wouldn't be so visually appealing. This is just the pretty part result. If you would delve into the actual math and physics that was required for this I'm pretty sure you'd reconsider that statement. Just the study of vibrations alone is probably as difficulty as whatever you're talking about. And that's just one of several areas of study that needs to be considered when making a machine like this. Then you need static mechanics, dynamic mechanics, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, knowledge of manufacturing processes, materials, among others. And each of these topics is HUGE in itself. You probably have no idea because you're a software engineer? It's easy to defend our own realm and dismiss others, when we know little about others' or all we know is based on some cool animations we saw on the web once.
These things have been deprecated from and removed. PHP 7+ is really matured and took a different direction and now is a matured, great language IMO.
How did you arrive at this conclusion? The reputation management company is essentially committing fraud. What they're doing is illegal. How are the 2 situations even comparable?
Seeing the complexity of an ICE in contrast to mechanically simpler and much more efficient electric motors is fascinating. It makes it obvious to me what will persist, and what will become the next steam machine.
> that is to break the social contract between employee and employed.

Well actual contract is do your job and get paycheck. People try to ignore other stuff you do until it becomes mess.

> In doing that they declared that they alone decide the rules, they alone decide what is acceptable to say and what is not.

Well legally yes as long as they dont brek any law. If you read correctly they consult labour lawyer for their words

> you'll lose your best employees as they decide they don't really want you to decide everything about their waking hours without consulting you

You're honestly exaggerating situation. Nobody want you to consult with them for anything. They expect you to work in office hours.
Honest question, what's the "Explain like I'm a Freshman" for what they can work out/leak from all the spectre stuff?

I see alot about private keys etc etc, but is just a blind attack? Or do you need more info on the target? How quickly can you attack to get info?

In essence, is this something Joe Public needs to worry about their $5 vps, or something nefarious using against $CORP's public cloud infrastructure?
Don't "the people" want money that's stable in value and works at the grocery store?
People usually get "hangry" / feeling like they're going to die like a diabetic does before entering a coma if their glucose actually crashes. My dad was an adult-onset type-1 from exposure to Agent Orange who ended-up in the hospital more than once from either insulin misadministration or glucose-management issues.

They might've actually had something like a nervous breakdown or a TIA.

PSA: Don't self-diagnose, esp. if you're not an MD. 99% of the time, you'll be wrong.
This is giving me some funny ideas about how pokéballs, Pokémon storage and trading could work in that fictional world.
> Digging a hole is hard work, but it's very difficult to hurt yourself doing it.

Dying while digging a well is still happening where wells are dug by hand. People have accidents while cleaning their apartments, digging a hole deep enough to hit ground water has lots of dangers.
You brought up smartphones for comparison.

The M1 is so fast and efficient because it combines even more stuff on a single chip.
The main selling point of October is that it is based on Laravel/symfony. For PHP developers who are already familiar with Laravel/symfony, that is a big advantage over other box software. I understand that Drupal began using symfony with v8 as well. The Drupal team also clearly sees the advantage of using existing, time-tested, and robust technologies.
Just goes to show how difficult energy storage is
Noob question: does this supports offline syncing like firestore?
Uber drivers who are more politically conservative get slightly higher ratings
Say 1/3 of the crematoriums are seeing 3x dead on average nation wide. That'll be `1400m/(70*365)/3*2 == 36k` extra death per day which is 10x of official number..

[edit]: i used the same logic to predict the number for Wuhan in Jan 2020 which turned out to be fairly accurate
Great to see a movement arising where art/tech starts to hopefully grow closer together with a new generation of generative artists. Reading Isaacsons Da Vinci biography. Even in his time there was a bit of a split between science and art, but also a lot of collaboration in the science of anatomy. In our time I think we still need more merging of art with computer science, complexity science etc!

Quick plug of my own generative work:
https://hyperobjects.design/gallery

Click through to the individual artwork pages for links to access the source code for every work and run it directly in the browser.
Do you think that the name list was racist? Because it sounds to me like many people do, and it seems only if it was an act of racism would your comment be justified.

Looking at the reported details, it does _not_ seem to be an act of racism. It was reported very few names on the list were Asian, for example, and the only (not fully revealed) examples I read were European names.
It doesn't only react faster, it will react differently. Up to a reaction called "sepsis" that can kill you even without the virus doing anything anymore. Research points to most covid complications being such (there are lots more, the immune system is the worst kind of spaghetti code you can imagine) massive immune reactions gone haywire.

I'm not saying you are right or wrong. I'm saying that immune reactions aren't linear, straightforward, harmless or predictable. And that "more virus" usually isn't better.
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This sums it up:

India’s devastating second wave was fuelled by a series of crowded events, including mass rallies addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi [0].

> Fuelling the catastrophe was a series of crowded events, like mass rallies by politicians such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, religious holidays and pilgrimages on the Ganges river.

> As governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ministers, including Modi, touted victory over the virus, people relaxed their vigilance and stopped wearing masks and maintaining social distancing.

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2021/4/29/indias-deadly-vi...
That would pretty much instantly kill the web, no matter how lean they make websites.
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I'm very excited for the multi gesture track pad support. It's such a small change but I just haven't been able to find good support for this outside of Mac OS.

I'm tempted to install this version the second they hit their first release candidate for that feature alone.
Fizzbuzz is not that difficult. There are two twists in the original task description. But if we talk about fizbuzz—like tasks: The point is not to be difficult. There are people applying to programing jobs who seemingly can’t solve even very simple programing tasks in a language of their choice. I could not believe it if i would not have seen with my own eyes. Fizzbuzz-like tasks are there to filter these folks out.

( You might ask what are the two twists in the original fizbuzz task:

- you have to know about the existence of modulo operator and how it can be used to test for dividibility. If you don’t know that one trick then fizbuzz is a lot harder for you.

- If you are the kind of person who translates the human sentences of the task description to code word by word then you can get into a kind of garden-path situation where you have to backtrack once to succeed. What do I mean by that? You read “For every number dividable by 3 print fizz”, you write “if i%3==0: print ‘fizz’”. Then you read the next sentence “For every number dividable by 5 print buzz” and you type “elif i%5==0: print ‘buzz’”. Then you read “for every number dividible with both 3 and 5 print fizbuzz” and you might translate that to “elif i%3==0 and i%5==0: print ‘fizbuzz’” but that of course would never execute, you have to move the translation of this last sentence to be the first condition checked for it to have a chance. Not anything I would call really challenging, but it requires a certain way of thinking to recognise that this is a problem and to solve it.

)
Do we have evidence that the virus has mutated into something more deadly? Such mutation is clearly not beneficial to the virus. My guess would be that the virus mutated into something with a higher R-0.
Read more about the optimal virulence here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_virulence
tbf, when basecamp set out woke twitter wasn't a problem.
It's easier to trace Bitcoin than cash.
DHH literally said it was a systematic failure of the whole company but ultimately his responsibility, apologized and asked to move forward. Part of healthy dispute resolution is accepting an apology and moving forward with good faith forgiveness. If an apology isn’t good enough the cycle of conflict just resets because there can be no accepted resolution.
Google is building a new OS called Fuchsia, with no new hardware to drive it was far as I know.