skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not the ONLY influence, but you are AN influence. And arguably the primary one. At some point you gotta stop blaming the billboard you pass by everyday and actually parent. Which is about guiding, not bounding your kids.

your fear as a parent shouldnt be them watching some raunchy YT video and falling into the wrong crowd. By that point you should trust your kid enough to know that that raunchy video isn't reality and to focus on what really matters. If your kid isnt at that point, well: you gotta do more guiding.

Don't' just give up and blame society. Get them the help they need if you can't provide it
Simula67 was already known in academic circles by the early 70s. Donald Knuth had first taken an interest in Simula I after a visit in Oslo but couldn't manage to bring it to Stanford because of the very high licensing fees the Norwegian Computing Center were charging for it. That first iteration of the language was more focused on being a general purpose "system description" language for different kinds of real-life simulations (this would also kickstart Nygaards work on the social impact of technology and the beginnings of user-oriented system development, then participatory design). Simula67 however wasn't the "incomprehensible" language that Kay describes. The second iteration was much more focused and had all the elements of modern object-oriented patterns: classes, subclasses and inheritance, objects, object references and attributes, object dot notation, polymorphism, etc.

So Kay's take on Simula being this strange language he had to "make sense of" for his work on Smalltalk, or even the fact he claims he coined the term "object-oriented" is total BS. Here's a more nuanced and impartial account of Simula by James Gosling, if you want to know more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccRtIdlTqlU.
Had to use a US VPN to watch the video. It‘s geoblocked in Europe.
> How does a normal person decide what distro to even start with

Distrowatch [1] is a good place to start. Read the short descriptions of the various distros, going down the ranking from top to bottom, and knowing that the further down the ranking you're venturing, the more "dangerous" the waters you're navigating.

Look at the "distribution category" dropdown in the advanced search [2] to see if there are distros specifically designed for your intended use case (e.g. NAS, Netbooks, Old Computers, Privacy, etc.)

Pick hardware that has a high installed base and is not too new.

[1] https://distrowatch.com/

[2] https://distrowatch.com/search.php#advanced
I'm this case it seems to have been ~6m outside the US (September to March). The issue with the reminder (which was supposed to have been sent 30d before ending service) seems key, since if that had worked the OP wouldn't have been surprised ("suddenly strikes") and would have had time to make other arrangements.

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
It's complicated, though. I'd have preferred to keep my male dog intact, but once he matured he was constantly getting attacked by other males, and it made walks miserable for him, not to mention dangerous. To see how castration would affect him, we gave him a hormone implant which has the same effect, but wears off after a few months. He didn't get attacked any more, so we made it permanent.

He leads a safer, happier life now because we made that choice. It has certain downsides, like some loss of muscle tone and a greater tendency to put on fat, but it's totally manageable. It doesn't completely cut testosterone production, it just reduces it by 90% or so, as some is still made in the adrenal glands.
His book on “Harmony” is highly recommended. I only knew him through tabloids. But based on his book, I have a ton of respect. Where is he on a talking circuit?
Same thing that happened to e.g. Shkreli, or RMS. Social media's demand for reality to play out like a crafted narrative with plot beats and protagonists/antagonists is distorting everything.
30L for 10 years is not very competitive I'm afraid. I know of companies paying 20L cash + equity for ~1 year of experience. You should be looking for a lot more.
W1nning - Tim Grover

Never Split the Difference - Chriss Voss

Three Laws of Performance - Steve Zaffron

Peak - Anders Ericsson

All of these books fall into the category of rounding out my world view. I’m an engineer, and spent nearly 100% of 10-12 years of my life (school plus early career) focused solely on engineering topics. These books have made me drastically more effective at achieving personal and professional goals, especially ones that require cooperation of other people.
It seems difficult to asses land value when it seems to have inflated 100% in 10 years.
The length of a variable name so old be proportionate to the scope. Global scope? long descriptive name. Loop variable? 'i' or 'j' is fine.
The US did not, in fact, brutally execute most of the population of Afghanistan. Remember, it's the Ugyur population as a whole that China has "deradicalized or reeducated" - not just active terrorists, not even religious extremists, but everyone.
Academic publishing is a very interesting parallel to think about, indeed!

In particular the fact that often when a publication turns out to have industry value, a company is formed around it to commercialize it: both to extract profit from it, and to make it accessible and legible by companies. Companies by and large don't take academic papers off arXiv and implement them.

The rest are funded through grants, which have the side effect of directing a sizeable chunk of the academics time to writing grant applications rather than science. I think that would be a regrettable outcome for Open Source.
They announced this move a month and a half in advance. They even emailed us all to let us know of an impending roaming data cutoff if we didn't connect from inside the USA within the next month.
True! That's a great idea! We tried with Airtable for a proof of concept, but Airtable is not issuing metadata API tokens anymore..should try with Office 365
> Even from a cold productivist viewpoint, i bet the author was more productive sitting in the collective space and reaching out to a few friends when they needed help explicitly

The point is that it now costs the time of those friends too, instead of the time of the onboarding trainers that were spending that time anyway.

Note that I'm not arguing against 1-on-1 onboarding in general, but there is zero doubt that it costs more time (which is the argument you quoted).
The best "starter" Linux distro is the one that people around you are using.

The second best is one where you can find a good user community online.
You should probably read the follow-up that was written after this was last posted on HN. https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/05/23/nope/
The problem with Mint is that they have easy screensaver bypass bugs open for years and they don't do anything about it.

That is a problem on its own. You can't leave a Mint laptop unattended.

And I find it hard to take a distro seriously which does not give a damn about such a basic security aspect.

So I stick to Ubuntu for now. I installed plain Ubuntu and then changed the desktop to KDE. To have a taskbar. Unfortunately, the screensaver in this setup also seems rather wonky. I have not found direct bypasses yet, but I sometimes see my desktop when I open the laptop. Which tells me that KDE might also have a fragile screensaver setup :/
"We have big problems and mediocre self-driving cars won't solve them" is insecurity now?
Most people in general have a short term cost/benefit analysis period. What China seemingly does different is they have 10, 20, 50+ year plans which in the time horizon of their multi-thousand year history even seems short term.

Your example of the bridge may seem like no one uses it today but most likely in the future, it will be used and the scale will tip towards it being vastly beneficial compared to its cost.

When countries like the USA have an entire history (not including native americans) of ~300 years, planning anything for 30 years out seems relatively crazy in comparison.

All about perspective.
Did the Tower of London menagerie provide the animals for London Zoo?
Ahh, these are interesting! None seem to have an API though :(
I see papers being written by scholars and professors. Are reputable ways to publish papers that can get reviewed without being in school?
No, it's the opposite. Happyness comes from wealth, more or less. Economists are pretty much in agreement on that and their case is strong. Wealth in turn is basically "population * technology", where "technology" is broadly defined and also depends somewhat on population.

If population goes down wealth goes down, life gets harder, people get less happy. Pretty simple. Consider that in a low population world it's probably not worth being a computer programmer, because the demand for your physical labor would be higher.
That site always tends to come up when people want to complain about Flatpak, and it's been mentioned multiple times on this site. Check the previous posts to see well formed responses to the nonsensical claims made on that site.

I (nor anyone else that I've seen supporting Flatpak) has ever claimed it's a perfect solution. If you want something closer to being perfect, you need to use Qubes OS. However, no other solution even seem to try to provide a solution for isolation on Linux.

If I want to run a program without habing to trust it with access to my $HOME/.ssh directory, what is my alternative?
I do the opposite for my cat. He's a very affectionate boy. He likes to sleep with us, but we'd prefer he didn't because we have a small bed and it makes our sleep worse. So, my solution was to snuggle with him on our guest bed a half hour or so before we go to bed. Then, when I get up, he stays on the guest bed and sleeps the rest of the night.

You might think that he might just do this out of habit now, but if we go out in the evening and come back late enough that he doesn't get his snuggle time, he almost always shows up on our bed after we've gone to sleep.
The problem of public input vetoing low-carbon energy projects (including transmission) is really a symptom or side effect of the fact that we don’t have coherent global to national to regional to local energy policy. There is no responsibility for regions or localities to reduce carbon emissions, so these communities are not forced to make tradeoffs when commenting on local impacts of projects.

What we need instead is to have carbon emissions reduction goals at all levels. Then a suite of efficiency and generation/transmission projects can be identified in each region that can contribute to those goals. Then, when those projects are being designed and approved (via an integrated process), the approval process can involve explicit tradeoffs. If the community, for example, has an exceptional wind energy resource, but doesn’t want to develop it for environmental or aesthetic reasons, then their regional climate action plan can be updated to use other mixes of efficiency and generation/transmission that would meet or exceed their goals. The community may then find that they would rather have the wind turbines than the alternatives.

The “problem” with this approach is that it requires a level of urgency and coordination that we have only been able to muster in the past using wartime central planning. Not sure how to get around this, and this is a major problem given ideological biases against central planning in the US.

The other problem is that in practice it will likely not
be possible for both global and local climate goals to be satisfied while also minimizing local displeasure with the tradeoffs required. However, no system is perfect, and perhaps this system could at least provide a framework for identifying who is getting the short end of the stick and therefore to whom some
sort of reparations can be made for “taking one for the team”.
A lot further than self driving cars with PRT in fact.

3D rail routing, factory pallet->shop direct delivery, 300mph point to point access, easy emergency and disabled access, no batteries to manufacture, no real land use issues (just poles in the ground for hanging systems), fast infra build out using prefabricated track, simultaneous electricity, transport, power (solar, on the top of hanging rails) and telecoms build out with the rail infra. Fully decentralised infra once several tracks are interconnected.
At those prices it might make sense to fly out workers from the Midwest and house them.
> Leave your free repo as is

> Where’s the problem?

People will just fork it (e. g. Retro -> Metro with all premium features)
They do in certain parts of academia. The message that academic models fail to predict reality isn't a popular one, hence the failure to haven anything from the 70s Malthusians "limits to growth" models.
Elementary OS as a business was the two initial maintainers and that fell apart pretty spectacularly, plus a lot of the work was really not theirs they were just a distribution.

Apache's model is the traditional one which isn't aggressive enough. Linux foundation is more aggressive about offering lessons as products etc. I'm not as happy with LF' model as the hippie model but it is better than devolving into no new work causing no one to donate because ex-maintainers are supposed to have vesting future stock, etc.
Yes.

That said, The change isn’t novel to humans. ~16% of Norwegians have it, though only 0.4% of Chinese people do.
What Can Western Military Learn from Russian Invasion of Ukraine?
This is where a hyper focus on solely CO2 emissions is likely harmful. One also needs to consider the environmental impacts of mining for all the raw materials, for example, for that new car.
Yes, I totally agree the split makes much more sense than jamming your wrists together to do many repetitive motions! I like the way the UHK allows you to slightly shuffle and adjust your position - more/less angle/separation. Bit like how you can adjust your hand position on a steering wheel or racing bike to adjust your position.

What do you mean by using the key cluster module? I don't have it, but how does that help you when you need to use a laptop?
Sounds of the Nightmare Machine

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1lTYPvArbGo
why would anyone need to backup a file to open it in "text editor"??

please enlighten me, file deletion/corruption is to be expected in a software made by a multi trillion dollar company?

this is the stupidest take i ever read

"guys, backup your files before you open it in your text editor, they can get corrupted if a troll is nearby"
*to keep up
Yes, for a normal, which is known to have extremely thin tails (decaying with a squared exponential!). Chebyshev's bound holds for any possible distribution (with finite variance).
Consumer Reports was quite complimentary of Comma2 in their review of ADAS systems: https://data.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/...

ADAS isn't self driving, and as you say it may never get there, but they did in fact deliver a working quality ADAS product.

After reading that review, I was somewhat tempted to retrofit one into my 2017 Chevy Bolt, but was dissuaded by the thought of changing the accelerator wiring.
It's not only a launcher issue (and given the timeline, switching launcher is unlikely feasible even if the rocket is available). The descent module is russian made (with ESA bits in it), so the rover is now stuck. This launch window is dead.

Stopping the partnership with Roscosmos means redeveloping a descent module and either collaborate with NASA/JPL or develop new technologies from scratch in Europe. Even 2 years is optimistic for this.
The author of this blog article is not an historian, and neither am I. But many of his assertions are false, and this whole article looks like vain chattering to me.

> the collapse of Mesopotamia more than four millennia ago, due to drought and agricultural failures

Mesopotamia collapsed? That's totally wrong. The author confused the Akkadian empire, founded by Sargon, with the civilisation of Mesopotamia. The short-lived empire ended circa 4000 BP, but the local cities continued to thrive for centuries, with the same language, the same culture... the same civilisation. And the "drought and agricultural failures" causing the collapse of the empire is a very controversial theory, since it may have happened after the end of the empire.

> a collapse like that of the Roman empire

Most modern historians deny that the Roman empire suffered a brutal "collapse". There was a transformation (a decline?) of the central Roman State for centuries, but in many places there was no collapse, no sudden change, but a form of continuity.

> Many conquered nations were plausibly ready to collapse

Once more, the author seems to mix up many concepts: the State, the nation, the civilisation. A conquered nation does not automatically collapse, nor does its "civilisation" end. Even the Romans used to joke about this, saying their troops conquered Greece, but Greece conquered the Roman's minds. Greek was spoken from Rome to modern Afghanistan long after Athens had lost its power and independence. And when Babylon fell to Cyrus, which "nation" did "collapse"? The Persian rulers even restored the temple of Marduk, the local main divinity.
Part of the problem is probably the high amount of churn. In the Javascript world this is absolutely ridiculous, people just can't seem to leave things alone and it causes a cascading effect, where one developer makes an API change and suddenly thousands of developers have to deal with a change that typically brings them no benefit. It's pretty much a self-inflicted wound.
ok first off lots of people seem to want to change to be remote, so how the hell can McKinsey's consultants be right that workers "...want social and interpersonal connections with their colleagues and managers", oh wait, it's McKinsey
never mind.

Second, one of the oft noted problems with white collar work is that you have to spend a lot of time in offices, where you should somehow also manage not to have inappropriate relationships etc.

The job consumes a lot of your life, and then the pandemic comes along, shows you your life has been hollowed out, obviously people going to go looking for meaning.

on edit: white collar not white color, I guess I'm a bit preoccupied today.
I define strategy as how you are going to leverage your strengths and overcome your weaknesses (in comparison to competitors) in order to achieve your vision.
Investigation of genetic relationship between endometriosis and ovarian cancer [pdf]
Facism was a political movement in Italia a century ago. Stop calling every random whacko you dont like a facist.

Even Wikipedia has realized it has barely any substance left and is now mostly used as a smear word:

> Since the end of World War II in 1945, few parties have openly described themselves as fascist; the term is more often used pejoratively by political opponents.

I'd like to point out that "used pejoratively" means "slur" in progressive thinking.
Most derivatives generally just add packages and customisation to make a more convenient and specialised derivative.

At the top of the "family tree" of distributions, you've got "root" distributions such as Slackware and Debian. They branch out into specialised distributions such as Ubuntu Server for servers, Kali Linux for pentesting, and so on.

With this in mind, it's probably easiest to start with choosing a "root" distribution, and optionally choosing a derivative as necessary if a root distribution isn't specialised or convenient enough for your needs.

For example, if one wants stability and hardware compatibility, one can go straight with Debian. If they want a layer of user-friendliness and official support from many applications, then they could pick Ubuntu instead of plain Debian. (This is a subjective example!)

Considering there's hundreds of distributions, having some criteria such as high popularity and thorough documentation might be necessary to narrow down the list of choices.

DistroWatch is good enough for giving you an idea of each distribution's purpose without opening dozens of search tabs.

Of course, one could also choose the option to perpetually hop from distro to distro every other day, if feeling adventurous (or anxious to make a choice) :P
Suppose you are an elite that wants to control the global economy, and you hit upon the idea that a "Great Reset" would be necessary.

How do you build a reset button? A "mild" pandemic seems like an interesting approach.

Also not saying this was the case at all. However, it is a fact that gain of function research was being conducted, sponsored by the USA.

Oh, and if the modern biotech solution fails, WW3 might do the trick the traditional way.
Full title is too long for the HN software, which is A multi-level investigation of the genetic relationship between endometriosis and ovarian cancer histotypes.
Easy to check, just put in the first few words and if copilot autocomplete is identical to the remaining solution you just caught a cheater.

Or use names in the assignment that are banned to prevent copilot from working. For example Q_rsqrt is banned because copilot had a tendency to just copy paste the original quake source including comments verbatim.
Hotz seems to be falling into the familiar pattern of those who gain fame at a younger age for doing something impressive to a wide audience - as they get ever older, they feel the need to recapture that feeling, and jump from trend to trend, trying to stay relevant.

He's clearly an intelligent man, but he should try to understand that he no longer needs to prove himself, or outdo his previous famous achievements. It will be a crack to the ego, but a healthy one, in the long run.
SMS sync and taking calls from the computer have been a feature in the apple ecosystem since at least 2017.

I agree with the other commenters - it's nice, but it's not nearly the same. The beauty of it is really that 'it just works' - you don't need to know about it, you don't need to open a specific app, find something by name and press 'connect', there are no options. The behaviour just slots in perfectly between the existing model of icloud / sharing / handoff. This kind of long-term design vision is difficult to achieve and very rare in FOSS, maybe with the exception of Elementary.
Imagine fleeing from an active warzone (or a place that is about to become an active warzone) and the first thing people react to is having a fever the day before flying.

Yeah, I understand it's a concern that the virus might continue spreading by that action, but if I felt like my life was on the line (eg: not going on a random vacation), I think I'd do the same thing, even if I had COVID.