skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I guess I was too spoiled with the UNIX way (of separate mount points inside a unified hierarchy) to see the error in my ways... (/s)

FWIW it's totally possible to mount a volume at a folder location instead of assigning a drive letter, so you actually can mount a separate drive at C:\Users separate from the rest of C:\ or whatever your system drive letter is.
Abundant renewable energy, driven by decreases in costs of solar, wind and energy storage could be used with no other inputs but energy* via the Haber process + electrolysis.

I suppose I don’t know the chemical compound that constitute “solid soil amendment” though. If it includes functionally free nitrogen/ammonia and proper management of land or equipment, is this still not possible?
If you care about privacy, use a provider in a country with strong privacy laws. If you don't care, just use Gmail or Microsoft? I really don't see where Fastmail fits in here, unless you're Australian.
> We don’t accept endemic tuberculosis even though that is airborne.

Isn't the R0 of tuberculosis way lower than the R0 of COVID, especially the delta variant?
If the company making the one true OS for everyone (except those Mac weirdos and the Linux perverts) cannot be trusted with making a modern file explorer, then they're not improving an ecosystem, they're just shovelling coal into the furnace of an heritage building. They're in maintenance mode.
I don't know of any federal government 401k; everyone gets a "pension", it's called FERS (Federal Employees' Retirement System)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Employees_Retirement_S...
And most recently, China wants to censor less masculine men:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-bans-sissy-men-tv/

I have a theory about this that isn't politically correct, but here goes. This has nothing to "conservative values" or homophobia or whatever you call sexual repression in places like Arkansas and Afghanistan. It's not based on religion or culture. It's just the CCP running an actuarial table.

The CCP is a blunt force instrument. It realized some time ago that the one-child policy had left it holding the bag on taking care of a rapidly aging population without enough young people to power the economy in 10-20 years. Not only that, you couldn't easily just repeal the policy and expect a baby boom. They took a look at Japan and realized they were about to hit a demographically driven, deflationary wall. So the party planners moved from repealing the 1CPolicy to actually offering cash bonuses for second children. This volte-face happened within a few short years. But it didn't work as well as expected. Their sudden magnanimous gesture didn't bump their 5-year plan's crop of new Han for a few reasons: A shortage of women (unexpected consequence of the 1CP), more women in the workforce who don't want to have children, video game culture which makes young men stay home instead of going out and impregnating girls -- which is why they're now limiting screen time, gender fluidity / queerness which suppresses baby-generation, and of course western individualism, the great bugbear of "harmony," which encourages people to wait for love and financial stability before having children. At the end of 5 years of encouraging people to have babies, they don't have enough babies. So now they have to get harder on the edge cases.

It's probably safe to assume that gays and lesbians represent at least 10% of the Chinese population as they do in most countries. So that's what, 120 million people? Let's say half of whom are young enough to have at least one child? So we're talking about an extra 30-60 million children if you can somehow get a replacement rate.

That's what I believe all these recent moves by the CCP have been about. And banning test study programs? Same thing. No point having more babies if you're also getting overproduction of elites. They need construction workers and factory workers. And someone was told, we ain't gonna become Germany by bringing them in from Tajikistan, so take this data and figure out how to squeeze as much Han production as possible out of it in the next 5 years.
I was an atheist for a long time. I never could see how one could construct a coherent morality. Without a god, we are all just bits of matter assembled in a particular way. Smashing the competitions skull is no different that two space rocks colliding. The concepts of right and wrong are devoid of meaning.

Every argument for a godless morality I have seen essentially boils down to "well, it would suck to live in a world where everybody acted like _that_," (so what?), which I even less compelling than "don't do _that_ because god said so."
Sorry, I've been unclear there. Mine are 2500W. Those I have direct and continuous experience with. But I've seen the 1500W and 2000w in action, too. I could also switch the display to Watts and use that as unit, but didn't do that, except for testing when it was new. Degrees C is the most practical for me.

Anyways. They aren't that slow. That would be unacceptable for the people where I've seen them.

Btw. for tea and coffee I use a dedicated boiler with about 500ml because my mug is 390ml :-)

However, when new, I tested with exactly one Liter.
The adversity generator is lovely.
Also check out Bromite, which is chrome with ad blocking for android.
> I wonder how do you solve the technical problem if there was driver issue in Windows.

This just doesn't happen that often in Windows, at least for the majority of hardware.

Yeah yeah, I know everyone has an anecdote of some graphics card driver update screwing up their multi-monitor setup, or that cheap no-name Chinese headset or camera bought off Amazon that never worked (and which they promptly returned).

But chances are, if you buy a well known branded component at Best Buy or Staples or even online, and you're not running some ancient version of Windows, the drivers will work. At worst, you might have to ask the IT guy at work or your kid who's more tech savvy, and they'll figure it out by downloading the drivers off the OEM's site. They certainly won't need to jump into a command line and compile a patched driver into a kernel like you'll end up having to do on Linux.

The reason for this is because the software engineers who wrote the drivers spent 90% of their time ensuring it would work in "most" versions and configurations of Windows, 9% of their time getting it to work with Mac (maybe), and anywhere from 0% to 1% for Linux.

When I was younger, I really enjoyed the challenge of digging into Linux and learning about how drivers and various subsystems worked. But now... I don't want to spend half my weekend to get a $40 USB camera or headset to work properly. I get paid decent money to write and fix software at work, 50 hours a week, and the novelty of doing it on Linux has long worn off.
I think your last paragraph is the key here. You “got the win” without actually getting the win. Instead of praise, reward, recognition — you got more work.

I think the point above is that the win needs to be material beyond your own recognition.
Modern MacOS and iOS app size is completely dominated by image and other media assets. The code is down in the noise.
... like using Ms instead of Mrs. or Miss.

Tyranny! Blame the activists!

Oh, wait, we almost all use Ms. now.
Pihole frequently breaks online tv like Disney+ and Hulu when viewed on our Roku TV. Preload trackers or ads get stuck and the show will never start.
Emerji certainly does! https://www.emerji.org/
This article (and the underlying research) is very interesting.

The article describes a clock as a “flow meter for entropy”. That is, that a clock is anything that measures the rate at which entropy is increasing in a system.

The other major idea is that the more energy introduced into the clock, and the more entropy produced, the more accurate the clock.
Wasn't the issue that Windows dominated the desktop OS market, which they used to push their own browser, not that IE dominated the browser market? And the former is still true.
Discord: https://blog.discord.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...
Those are all great questions.

There is almost never an "overage" because there is a driver assigned per route, but they also have a bunch of sub drivers who get paid to show up, wait, and maybe take a route whose driver didn't show up, but if not, they go home after getting paid for an hour of waiting.

That's the gist, but it's a bit more complicated than that; in the school district where I live, bus drivers who were assigned routes actually had two or three per day: one for an elementary school, one for a middle school, and one for a high school. Yes, they are that short-staffed. In fact, all of the buses are advertising paid training because they need drivers that bad.

When I quit on my second day because of the stress about being pushed to get kids to school on time rather than safely, and also feeling like I needed more training to be safe, the head of the transportation department desperately tried to get me to stay.

tl;dr: they have bus drivers on standby who get paid to wait in case routes need to be filled. And they are so understaffed that overages never happen and drivers handle 2 or 3 routes.
Conspiracy Theories: CIA Edition
(And now I can reply, lol)

Firefox Focus appears under Safari settings > content blockers, along with more typical blockers like AdGuard. I think they both implement Content Blocker API.
Ironically, ublock origin does not work on this blog page & allows scripts such as google analytics to run because it is hosted under the umbrella domain addons.mozilla.org

I wish the exception for add-ons not working on the addons site would only apply to the actual add-on download portion of the site, and they don't host random non-addon-download content on the same domain.
There's one job in the US that is currently experiencing extremely high rates of burnout.

ICU Nurses.

What can we learn about burnout from them in this current situation?

I don't think "Burnout is caused by working hard at something for a long time and not having it pay off." applies for them in at all. They are constantly saving lives and constantly seeing the positive results of their actions.

My first guess is that there's just too much work for them in the regions where ICUs which are overburdened. Many ICUs have had to up their nurse-to-patient ratio above 1:2, often to 1:3 and in some places even 1:5 or 1:6. Moreover, many ICU nurses are forced into picking up extra shifts.
My go-to move: When a piece of literature is in a language I cannot read, I reach for the translation in my native language. Even though - through the process of forgetting - going for the English translation would be more convenient by now.
Right… so Apple is trying to not encroach and is punished for it. That’s kind of my point.
Speaking for myself, the more propaganda and coercion there is trying to get me to take the vaccine, the less likely I am to do so. At this point, I don't care if it is safe or not, I don't care if it is effective or not. The fact that the government et al. are so adamant that I take it means I won't.
AWS lambda is built on Firecracker MicroVMs, written completely in Rust. Fly.io uses it as well.
Storing timezone info by reference, and having dynamic timezones (like Local) are both great features for dealing with the messiness of time. But there are always tradeoffs...
This isn't so much undefined behavior as unexpected statefulness, but yeah, it shouldn't have been designed like this.

I've had a couple of run-ins with the Golang runtime myself, which were actual bugs. The first one was an issue with C interop triggered by my first production Go app; it had been reported but never successfully debugged, so I did so. It took a couple evenings to get it figured out, and a then a month to get the fix merged upstream. To be honest, that put me off of using Go for anything serious; I just never got the feeling that it's a solidly designed language and runtime.

The second one I ran into as a user, and I think has ended up on HN a few times:

https://marcan.st/2017/12/debugging-an-evil-go-runtime-bug/
I feel like I read a different article than you! I thought she was saying that she had a pretty good relationship with her parents overall (other than some teenage resentment about their not learning English), that she lost her fluency unintentionally just from not being around other Cantonese speakers, and that the story had a fairly happy ending, as she was now re-learning enough to have more meaningful conversations with them again.
> How does a core know in which private cache of another core it can put the evicted data?

Good question. There are many ways of handling this and I'm curious how IBM decided to implement this. Though it's unlikely they will divulge such internal implementation details.

> Wouldn't that just remove data from that other core's cache that the other core needs?

"This becomes important for cloud services (yes, IBM offers IBM Z in its cloud) where tenants do not need a full CPU, or for workloads that don’t scale exactly across cores."

> Cores in today's processors can already read data from the private cache of another core (i.e., snooping), can they not?

Depends on the exact CPU and its implementation. But yes, this idea of a "private cache" is pretty silly and misleading. Each cache is just a small subset of the system's memory. And all cores can issue memory reads which will eventually get the data from somewhere. Whether you're reading it from your own private cache, or some other core's private cache, a shared cache, or from DRAM, does not change the final result.

The only distinction here is in performance. Accessing a cache that is colocated to your core is much faster. Accessing a cache that is either shared or located elsewhere, is much slower. An approximate analogy would be using a us-east-1 ec2 instance to read from a us-east-1 RDS database, as opposed to a us-west-2 RDS database. The former database and its contents are certainly not "private", but they are a whole lot faster.
No, I mean variants.

That's a lot of claims.
> I figure I need to work out what the company could be worth and then consider what a percentage of options would provide.

Correct.

The first part, you are on your own. That's basic research using crunchbase, owler, forester, gartner and so on. Obviously, look at recent exits in the space.

The second part, try startupequity.org. You'll need to know the company stage and valuation, which you should already know. I don't know how good their data is. BI published A16Z statistics on executive offers a couple of years back, it's easily found. The numbers are still good within error bounds.

An equity offer is more complex than a salary offer, because there's a wider range that varies more on the various input factors. That is, it has high sensitivity whereas salary component has lower sensitivity (to input factors).

Once you have an idea of the median equity offer for the position and for what you bring to the table, then you can judge if that would even be enough for you. You can do all this before even hearing an offer from them. I can't stress this enough, you absolutely have to do this first, so that their offer doesn't ground you on their number. That's called anchoring and it works, like advertising -- even when you know what is going on it still works. So you absolutely must know your number ahead of time.

For the same candidate in the same position, equity offers vary based on the company's valuation most of all. When they say "series A" median offer for "position x" is y%, what they really mean is for a company at the median valuation for a series A company.

Then, knowing what a median equity offer looks like, you need to model the exit valuation. I would work from the T2D3 unicorn model as a conservative baseline. (If the startup isn't a unicorn what's the point, given your objective?) That's just a baseline. You'll have to look at other exits in their space to see if a larger exit is typical.

So, for example, a VP at a series A startup worth about $50m might get 1.25% (just say) or $625k at current valuation. For a unicorn exit, that's $12.5m before taxes. Then factor in dilution and QSBS. I have a spreadsheet that models those factors. If you put contact info in your profile and reply to this thread I can send it to you. You should be able to do a first pass at it though and potentially rule them out immediately.
Those two things are unrelated if there is such interaction and the fix was removing the dialog I would be scared to use that browser.

So whether your theory is true or not, no one should use Chrome.
And within the halls of the DoD, the cries for "north-korea"-fying taiwan grow louder…[0]

[0] https://www.aei.org/op-eds/why-taiwan-needs-nuclear-weapons/
Well, then your post is obviously nonsense to you, just as it was to several other people.

You buy a server, find a coloc facility, pay the price to colocate, plug your server in, host whatever you want, free of essentially all terms of service. That's "hosting whatever you want".
^^ lol, political hit jobs representing in these comments
> This is actually completely false. Young people are at less risk. Healthy young people are hospitalized and die of Covid just at a much lower rate. Not only that but they can spread it to older people that are at higher risk.

The risk is slightly higher than the flu so virtually non-existent. -> https://twitter.com/sentientist/status/1433575276009512961

And we have a treatment now to help those older people.

> Nope. Whether naturally infected or not, vaccinated makes you less likely to get Covid.

The Israel study tells us otherwise.

> It's not a cure, monoclonal antibodies are a great treatment that is not ignored, but it's better not to get sick in the first place!

It is ignored by the press and politicians. They keep telling us the only way out is vaccines. Which is wrong.
What happens when the colocation facility throws you out too?
The silver lining in all this is that it has led to the availability of free font licenses. Google Fonts is a fantastic resource.
Whatever floats your boat, Your make huge assumptions and are pontificating on Biden losing the election what a dumb argument.

I do not share the same opinion regarding the events on Jan 6th as You and I never will.

As far as a peaceful transfer of power the violence that occured leading up to the election assured that a peacefull transfer of power could not occur. The threat of violence was so obvious that store owners were boarding up windows prior to the election, and that was not out of fear that Biden would win.

If You could get past the Trump derangement syndrome for a while You might see that.
I would argue that working really hard to keep people alive through covid while society continues to totally ignore and neglect precaution, thus causing further illness and death, is exactly fitting for "working hard at something for a long time and not having it pay off".
> In some situations, changing the font could absolutely considered a hack

I'm eagerly waiting for the day when it becomes impossible to make any sort of customisation at all in GNOME/GTK apps besides what the app developer intends. Now that user themes have been axed, I hope fonts, font size, and icons are axed as well and Adwaita, Cantarell (that's the default GNOME font right?), and GNOME Icons are enforced everywhere. It certainly won't be surprising for me if this happens and things seem to headed in this direction.

I'm sorry to see that Jeremy still hasn't figured out that GNOME/GTK isn't a community project and is still trying to engage with their devs about themes even though the recoloring API page clearly says that system themes won't be supported.

> for example KDE apps should run just fine inside GNOME, and vice versa

Yeah, I doubt that. Even if somehow it does look fine right now, I don't think it will soon.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3409

> I don't have any comments on the file chooser, anything we say is flogging a dead horse.

Yeah, I know. It's pointless to have discussions, especially when the project in question isn't a community project and follows the "look but don't touch" open source model of development.
Increasing YouTube ad display rates on mobile drove me to using the (somewhat clunky) AdGuard share button in safari that blocks ads when using YT in Safari. I’m just glad there is some option on iOS.

It is funny that Android has better adblock features (uBO on Firefox).
Pretty much the same here. It provides an easy view on the PR and for basic smoke tests. Have been using c9 before this, but GitPod changed a lot for the better.
Purchased a "Microsoft Xbox Wireless Controller + Wireless Adapter for Windows 10" off Amazon.

Brand is Microsoft and it is designed for Windows 10. (Non-affiliate link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078T3R8YS)

Plugged it into a USB 3.0 port on my Windows 10 machine. Hardware not recognized. Clicked, "Search automatically for drivers" (which has maybe worked once, ever), No drivers found.

Went to Google... All the "support" answers that you see from microsoft when you google "drivers for windows 10 xbox controller" provide basic IT support responses and no links to drivers. Found a link on reddit somewhere to a microsoft page where I finally found drivers that worked.

> if you buy a well known branded component at Best Buy or Staples or even online, and you're not running some ancient version of Windows, the drivers will work

Microsoft brand main stream product (over 5000 reviews on amazon), doesn't work out of the box on Windows 10...

I can't say that my personal experience is in line with anything you mention, re "things working out of the box on windows more than mac or linux".
the hacker news effect!
The problem with those approaches is that they bundle all the dependencies with the application, rather than using the system libraries. That means that if a security bug comes out, I need to (e.g. heartbleed), I need to track down every single application, check their version, cross my fingers that they at least used a shared library and didn't build against the static library, and update each one individually. For well-behaved software that uses the system libraries, I only need to update the system library and be done with it.

I get that snaps are easier for developers because managing versions can be painful. Pushing that pain onto the users isn't the solution.
Gotta prove it.
Just for reference, complete opposite for me. I found it rambling and missing the mark.

I expected a simple repro case exposing the bug. I got many paragraphs of random relevance and still not positive what the bug actually is. Even a link to an issue would have been helpful.
> almost got fired

NLRB would be a good place to send a complaint in these situations.
Giving away a lot of Ada books
while i do agree with the general sentiment, the technology has moved faster than the societal legislative process.

If you asked a reasonable person off the streets why bioweapons (like anthrax) should not be easily purchasable, they would completely agree and hence the legislature has made such things illegal.

But if you asked that same reasonable person off the street about miniature computers and electronic devices, they would probably not imagine that such uses are possible, nor would they deem it dangerous. They might even consider it useful! So legislation on such things cannot be set by societal expectations.
The payoff for ICU nurses is a new critical patient right now. They don’t get to see the lives they save reunited with family or recovering at all. They just get a transfer to a lower level of care and a new patient in. They are also seeing a lot more deaths than usual. 10% mortality is in the ballpark normally. With COVID they are seeing 50% mortality. That’s a lot to deal with, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a major factor in burnout.
nice, has lots of other features like detecting low energy bluetooth and audio to tell you if you're getting closer or farther away
Lol, mathlets when will they learn?