skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm aware of it. Hasn't been updated in a long time, and you need to otherwise install vagrant and a VM manager separately (fortunately, it doesn't ironically tell you how to do so via homebrew...)

I think a first-class vagrant app for Mac OS would (a) be available in the App Store for simplified VPP deployments (b) install vagrant and (c) either come with a lightweight VMM over Hypervisor.framework and/or work with other active VMMs like Fusion, Parallels or even Docker Desktop.

Vagrant was born of the CLI, but I think in 2021 it needs to embrace its role as a bridge between the GUI and CLI. Just my opinion, though...
It wasn't coughing for months though. It started with a runny nose. Then I got a cough (coincided with the baby being born and waking up). I took cough suppressors for about 1.5 weeks. Then I had general sinus aches and the cough stopped. Then i had body aches. Then I had a runny nose and cought again, until finally it became general malaise until it finally dissipated.

I count the 'end' of the infection as the point in time at which I was able to do my standard gym routine in full again.
In my experience it’s a bit more nuanced than that.

My experience is that IT and finance people simply have a very difficult time communicating with each other properly. They are different type of people and speak different languages.

A CFO will be very open to invest if he’s convinced that there is a clear return on invest. Many IT folks don’t want to bothered thinking from that perspective.

If you want to have an easy life learn how to speak with your board, especially the CFO.

PS: that’s one of the core reasons some IT guys get management consultants to do the translation job.
We do what you said and eventually destabilize the Moons orbit from mining

Look up the Moon's gravitational binding energy.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/what-would-happen-if-we-b...

"120 million, trillion gigajoules"
For an academic in a Divinity school, an uncaring but professional environment is a dead canary. It means something much worse than the lack of sympathy in that moment.

But, if that doesn't make sense to you, how about being systematically passed over for a promotion because of your political views?

It's hard not to see this as being a crappy place to work if you put yourself in his shoes.
I'm slowly venturing a full switch from brew to nix (mainly due to its slowness) using nix-env and this guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYyImy-lqaA

It's been a few weeks. Concerns until now:

* Things like fzf have bash completion accompanying files. I have not figured out where these reside using nix.

* Things like mysql make heave use of directories such as /usr/local/var/mysql or similar. I was unsuccessful in surpassing permission problems with these.
so what?

ofc Google wants FF to be *viable*, but not good.
I actually did use SMTP as queuing middleware for a registrar platform years ago.

It worked very well.

EDIT: To add some context, my team had come off building a webmail platform, and so we'd done lots of interesting stuff to qmail and knew it inside out. We then launched the .name tld and built a model registrar platform that on registration would bring up web and mail forwarding for users that wanted it. We used SMTP to handle the provisioning of those while keeping the registration part decoupled from the servers handling the forwarding. We also used it to live-update a custom DNS server I wrote.
Chromium isn't out of choice it's out of necessity.

Unfortunately the newest generation of engineers just see no point in even testing anything but Chrome on a MacBook.

This drives me up the wall as someone who's first job required writing CSS that could work in IE6, IE7, Safari, FireFox and Opera and even sometimes IE5.5. To hear devs paid way more than I was back then tell me "can't we just tell them to install Chrome" when something is misaligned or broken in Firefox or Safari.

I wish I could say it's the project managers, sys admins or the executives who are to blame like in the IE6 days. But painfully it's just lazy or incompetent engineers who don't understand or care about the importance of open and standard tech.

When asked to build something they all treat cross browser as an extra and not-essential step and then inflate their estimates or claim it will be quicker if we don't bother.

Wish this was isolated to a few people but I feel I'm like 80 young engineers deep who are like this and I think maybe 2 I've worked with in the past 7 years cared about cross browser.

If your experience in the industry is different from this, I'm extremely envious.
This would never scale.
What you've described is precisely why I love WSL - you can nuke and rebuild your Linux setup easily. It's fantastic honestly.
> Conversely, what about infant death

Now that I have kids, I think back every now and again to when I was in high school and my math teacher's wife miscarried fairly far along into the pregnancy. Looking back, I'm sure that was absolutely devastating for him, but as a class I don't think we gave it a second thought.

I feel bad about that. Kids just have no concept of how big a loss that is. Hopefully the staff was more sympathetic about it.
> Who wants to have a wind turbine in their back yard?

Here in Los Angeles we have honest-to-god oil derricks in our neighborhoods and the NIMBYs don't even notice. Apartments OTOH...
I totally agree, and I also don't think it's a good idea to choose sides here and start to deny the pleasures of accumulating material comforts as something stupid, after all, accumulating nice things IS fun and meaningful! Even though I can agree that it's commonly over emphasized, and that it's not the most important thing after all, it still is really meaningful, and also what gives most people meaning in their lives, after all, so taking a dismissive opinion of this is probably not going to be a good idea..
This is just a guess, but for some companies at some point in their lifespan, finance and IT were the people who sat at computers all day.
That is only relevant if you require delivery to arbitrary endpoints rather than to endpoints explicitly set up to process your messages.
I don’t have any meaningful technical abilities, but I have a job that lets me help people, invest in their futures, and generally live my values. I only
make about 45k at age 35 and will never FIRE. So it goes.

Stark is not inspiring to me - but I believe having inspirations is important. Why throw cold water on that because it doesn’t resonate with you.
In at least some parts of tech, it's common to view Facebook as a "mass surveillance and data collection system." But even after Cambridge Analytica and all the ensuing scandals, I don't think that this view is common among the general public. More commonly, I meet people who think of Facebook as a well-intentioned but sometimes careless product development company.

The shocking part of this article, and many similar articles, is how deeply misuse of user data and cavalier privacy practices are baked into Facebook.
So, why?
Since you are replying to my comment, the $11 espressif made dev boards flash perfectly every time. The 7 buck Amazon ones don't. The 2 dollar esp8266s don't, but that project we only needed one good flash, it was for real live art and we only had one shot.
The source of this article is a single 1938 book. This does not seem to pass the sniff test.
The suggestion to use SMTP is interesting.

I didn't downvote you but I bet they come from this part. People don't like this kind of negativity.

> But it's not "cool" technology or "web-based" so developers won't consider it.
Watch me get downvoted like crazy by all Nodejs developers.
Democracy as an idea and form of government was almost extinguished from history by the Persians.

When Emperor Xerxes II invaded Greece to avenge the Greeks beating his father Darius it looked really bad. After the Persians put a pretty bad hurting on the allied Greek navy, the Athenian Admiral Themistocles lured the huge, but slow Persian navy into a bloodbath where Greek Triremes dominated their Persian enemies at the Battle of Salamis.

Meanwhile, a small contingent of infantry led by the famous King Leonidas and 300 volunteer Spartans (along with roughly 10,000 Thebans and Thespians) held off the brunt of the Persian infantry and cavalry. After these two battles, the majority of the Persians left Greece and thus ended the Greco-Persian war.

Democracy lived because of valor and cunning of a small group of very brave men.
It's not going to be "anyway". Once you add incentive for wood you will also create incentive for building. Complex systems 101.
Apple has had smart battery cases since the iPhone 6/7 era. I think it depends on usage. In my home city, my phone goes all day no problem. On business trips to NYC with all the tall buildings and taking more ride shares than normal, the battery gets hammered and dies. I had a smart battery case for years that I just used on trips. The simplicity of Apple's design was (to me) worth the premium. (no extra wire from battery to phone. no turning the battery case on and off, one wire to charge both, etc)
Thanks, that was a question in my mind. Brew does a fairly good job on M1 Macs by maintaining two environments, one M1 native, and one using Rosetta.
Still digesting the talk. Did you have a look at cockroachdb (or their Blog) when thinking of your implementation?
An Empirical Study on Type Annotations [pdf]
Can you share a bit about how these events are stored on Stripes backend e.g. Kafka, Postgres?
To get more gonzo, in CPython's list.sort(), the C code that actually merges two lists (which happen, in context, to be two contiguous array slices) is in listobject.c's `merge_at(()` function. That brings in the world of "galloping" (exponential search) optimizations, much faster than one-pair-at-a-time compares in many real-world cases.

So that's a whole lot of additional complication, but it's the heart of what _really_ makes timsort shine in its "jaw dropping" cases.

Tim (of "timsort" - which was an inside joke name at the start, because I never expected anything outside of CPython would use it ;-) ).
Those 36 gigatons aren't largely a result of consumer behaviors, but industry (which, admittedly, increases as a function of demand)

Reducing footprints through innovation will go a ways. Changing "culture" (i.e. coerced minimalism) is a thing, but it's a band-aid solution on a leaking hoover-dam; virtue signaling for the most part.

Carbon footprints scale up with population. Everyone eats, wants gadgets, wants a home, good infrastructure. If these demands can't be met without excess encroachment of land and destruction of the environment, then there's too many people. Innovation and increased efficiency can't outrun growth. Yes, it's poised to level off in the next 100 or so years after adding an extra few billion to the total, but the interventions needed are more urgent and by extension the reduced rate should be more urgent. Though changes to the energy sector alone can make a substantial dent in emissions in the near-term, given political will.

All of this would be a moot point if the global population were halved and remained stagnant.

The rampant op-ed push for minimalism on the part of the consumer, for housing especially, seems almost like a nefarious ploy to plant the idea that commoners should now be content with less, with environmentalism as the red herring. So being unable to afford a detached home is to be thought of as a happy virtuous accident.
How does that change my point? The article says the original variant had an R rate of 2.7, and delta had one between 4 and 9.

That’s a big claim with no data.

And thanks I understand how exponential works.
Yes, it’s fine. I’ve since moved to fantastical but the stock calendar app was fine.
My comment got down-voted. Sometimes, it happens. But the current title in isolation suggests an important and wide ranging topic. The article which some nice ideas is only applicable to Rust, but does not really deal with other issues about I/O safety and speed.
That's why I made a modest proposal to add Rust to the title, this article is not really interesting for people who are not interested in Rust (I am interested, but many readers are probably not).
I'm not going to argue that you, Internet Stranger, should get the vaccine. I will tell my friends they need to be vaccinated if they want to hang out.

I respect people's right to make their own informed decisions, but not to repeat disinformation. I've pointed out exactly how your framing is unscientific for privileging one option ("do nothing") above the rest, but you keep brushing past that.

I shared my story in the hopes that you would see there are deliberate decisions by the people getting vaccinated as well, not just the "Internets". Six months of time felt like a reasonable period of caution to me. If you wanted to wait a year or a "little longer", I wouldn't say we disagree. But rather you're putting forth reasoning that implies needing to wait 10 years which might as well be forever.

If you yourself really don't come into contact with other people - ie you live alone, work at home, get groceries delivered, and don't visit friends - then sure, continue on isolating. But for the vast majority of people this path is inapplicable, and for them your incorrect framing is actively harmful.
There are many parallels between theology and philosophy, that's why I mentioned it... I still don't understand what that has to do with them being passé? There's nothing rétro about studying divinity.
They're right there, but the problem with them is that they're bad. There isn't an album worth of listenable songs between them. I tried working this out on Twitter and this playlist was all I could come up with:

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/post-monster-r-e-m/pl.u-...
http://compellingsciencefiction.com/stories/downandout.html
The very first startup I worked at used this for a sweepstakes leadgen form to send to MySQL via a Perl script running from cron.
pandoc will turn markdown with TeX formatted equations into PDF or html (relying on tex and mathjax, respectively). It can also turn it into TeX if you need to tweak stuff.

A number of other systems like Obsidian (for note taking) use markdown and integrate MathJaX or KaTeX to render TeX formatted equations.
I actually have the opposite opinion. I'm an experienced web developer. Setting up polling is easier for me than setting up an HTTP endpoint.

I typically use a language with an event loop (async/await), so there is always something like `setInterval(poll, 500)`. All that code needs is a connection to the internet. If the server is down for 24 hours I can start it up and it'll read the missed events. I can set up 10 dev environments with just an API key difference in the config. I can batch apply events in a single database transaction, ensuring consistency.

But with a webhook, I need to ensure that my server can accept incoming connections, the external API knows that location. Each dev env needs to replicate this public HTTP server set up. I need to monitor the uptime of the server closely as missing events or erroring on a subset of events could leave my database in an inconsistent state.
> I mean what difference does it make if you're at Princeton or Harvard, they are both great schools.

Why do we tell academics they have to stay in one place forever once they get tenure? Don't they want to move around as much as anyone else? Maybe his reason was just that he wanted a change.
It actually is! There are lots of examples of arcane Nix commands, but as of Nix 2.0, you actually can type `nix search git`. And it works much better than `nix-env -qa` ever did.

Your point stands, though. For example, why is it:

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.git

Instead of:

nix install git

(I know what the answer is, but still, it's a question that I think a lot of newcomers are going to ask.)
What does it mean to send condolences to a colleague when you don't know much about their mother? That carries the intimacy of sending someone a life event message because FB told you so.

I really don't see that as "spiritually bankrupt".
Ah yes you're at the fifth level of AWS cost management consciousness. You may have skipped the first four levels.

First is the simple test case using something random like Lambda and S3 after dragging through the Whizlabs course. This costs you $5 a month.

Second is the migration of something not particularly complicated but a bit meatier which works out cheaper than your capital expenditure coming up so you can write it off without having to fill in a purchase order and argue with accounts again.

Third is the overconfident architectural approach of multi-account, multi-AZ with peering all over the shop as recommended in the best practices, certification and architecture documentation. Approving nods all around on delivering this, despite the operational expenditure being slightly higher than predicted on your hacked up and not totally complete Excel spreadsheet for cost management.

Fourth is the first bill. This immediately points out your inter-VPC, inter-AZ transit and shitty shared tenancy CPU provision you had to crank up quickly at the last minute, costs more a month than your entire infrastructure capex for 3 years did before you got AWS resulting in sad kitty faces all around and a scramble for a cheaper option while trying not to get fired. This is all while Bezos dances on the flames coming from the dollar bills he's burning in a giant bonfire cackling loudly.

Fifth is several months later after being on the job market, eating ramen and searching for a company which "doesn't do any of that cloud stuff". You eventually find a position herding a couple of 1U supermicro boxes with CentOS on them which require the odd disk replacing here and there and some PHP updating without going near Terraform, Jenkins or any of that shit. Your entire infrastructure upgrade is automating your entire job into a few ansible playbooks and spending 6 hours a day inspecting the insides of your eyelids.
I dislike checking my email / web surfing while waiting for compiling. It creates delay in my mind to get back into the code if there is a problem, or if I want to add the next part to the code.

Usually I will either update my story notes or start working on the next part of my code.

I do commit, push and build frequently though. Make it work > make it right > make it fast.
Pandoc includes math support out of the box. R Markdown is actually built on top of Pandoc. I know many academics that write their papers in (Pandoc) markdown and then convert to PDF. It creates an intermediate .tex file that is then converted to PDF.
Resources for Learning to Code
Very helpful. Unfortunately Nix doesn't support aarch64 yet, only x86_64...

It seems to be coming though: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/95903
Yep. Sigh.

Haters gonna...

Sigh.

He's done a lot of good as a civically-involved public intellectual and debater than most academics do writing research papers few people read to "move the needle" towards where many things need to go. I sometimes say about sales and influence: You can build a viable fusion reactor, but if no one knows about it, it may as well not even exist.
The 6800 predates the game. Defender used the standard Williams sound board from the pinball games.

Basically, it received sound requests and blasted them out through a big, mono amp. These iconic sounds were used in Defender along with some new ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T39QHprz-x8
That doesn’t mean anything. It’s a tired attack that gets repeated over and over, but has nothing to do with the values and goals Mozilla/ Firefox represent.
>The alternate history (like Man in the High Castle) plus feminism (like Handmaid's Tale) plus scifi seemed so intentional and contrived

Not contrived at all.

>The Mercury 13: The women who could have been NASA's first female astronauts

https://www.space.com/mercury-13.html
I'm not. Kids loved Avatar: the Last Airbender on Netflix, and really really wanted to watch the sequel series (which at the time wasn't yet on Netflix).

It was, however on CBS, so we signed up for a month, watched all the episodes then cancelled the same month. Cost? $7. Definitely worth it.
That's not an applicable criticism for SMTP running on a private network and/or dedicated set of "mail" submitting servers, as in the specific model outlined in the grandparent comment.
> There's piles of evidence that shows they're extremely effective. Heck, in my own city, we saw a massive spike brewing prior to Christmas, and once a lockdown was instituted, the numbers immediately began to fall. That pattern is repeated anywhere you care to look.

That isn’t proof. I could very easily claim it was seasonality or things well beyond our control that caused cases to go down. And I am probably right. The charts and graphs all follow the same basic pattern everywhere in the world regardless of restrictions in place. Clearly if lockdowns worked so well you’d see orders of magnitude difference between a place like Florida or Sweden compared to California or New York.

The burden of proof is upon those forcing it upon us and so far, crickets from all around. It’s truly insane how nobody is allowed call out the mounds of public data suggesting the effects of lockdowns or any of our non pharmaceutical interventions are minimal at best… we pissed away well over a year of people’s lives for basically nothing.

Show me they work. And show me they worked well enough to justify the extreme damage they caused to society. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Where is the evidence?
> We have already realized that it is unprofitable to go to war.

Who is this ‘WE’ to whom you refer?

War is immensely profitable to many companies and individuals.

When those interests have the reins of power, there will be war.
The second core is not trivial to use, and espressif 's freertos port has real peculiarities in scheduler issues. Spoken as someone who resolved an issue with led buffering interacting with the network system on the esp32.
Exactly. At nearly 20 years of membership and collective service to the Divinity School and Harvard College, he's been a fixture (from undergrad, to postdoc, to lecturer, to professor, to joint appointee, to commencement speaker) for nearly as long as I have been alive, and certainly for longer than current undergrads have been alive.

If I devoted half that amount of time to an institution and received this treatment in return, I would struggle to contain my composure. I think the letter insinuates that his service to Harvard stems from a love/appreciation for what the institution stood for 20, 30, perhaps even 40-50 years ago. Who here doesn't feel similarly about their undergrad? Of those who feel that way, who else would feel irate if they were treated this way in return?
> You're not really comparing features to features if you're comparing to a boring 5000mAh brick with wired charging.

So wired charging is boring and magnetically attached is exciting?

You know, this is not like AirPods, which are completely disconnected from the phone. It's a lump attached on your phone that you may also unintentionally disconnect and drop on the floor while taking videos of something.

I'm way more "excited" by the cable, especially given the price (you can find pretty good 5000 mAh bricks for as little as $12).
Apathy and politicaly-motivated administration is corruption of a collegial environment and academic responsibilities.