skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly recommend that option, even if you use an Ubuntu based distribution: in 2022, there's no reason to still use grub on a UEFI system.
I can't read the article but what are the laws in the US regarding laser pointers?

Here (Switzerland) they recently (summer 2019) changed the law and you can only own very low output laser pointers. In fact many I owned that aren't anything special like what you get now a days are no longer legal to own.

This is after too many accidents and aircraft getting hit. There is little use for a laser in such a form factor.

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.bag.admin.ch/dam/ba...

https://www.limmattalerzeitung.ch/limmattal/zuerich/zuerich-...
>3 acre hobby farm

I've been thinking about getting a hobby farm as well. Do you have any recommendations on where to start or tips? I can't even tell if I can just buy a plot of land in some unincorporated area and use it for whatever I see fit (CA).
Huge, huge fan of Brendan's work, "Systems Performance" is one of the few technical books I've read cover to cover twice! That being said I wonder if why he left netflix was due to its stock price cratering, the timing does seem suspicious :)
Try and distribute binaries (not source) that other people can run (not compile) and you'll quickly find out why.
Use a TODO that has a forward link to your issue tracker.
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Communities should be more designed to self sustain. they should build aquaponics into sky scrapers and have tenants split the costs and the profits.
I’m trying to figure out how to leave the industry without taking a 50%+ pay cut, since I’ve found out that a) I am bad at software engineering and b) I don’t particularly enjoy it (in the professional setting)
Hence secretive.
The newer Tomb Raider games were all very heavily discounted soon after launch. I think I paid ~$10 for each of them within a year of them coming out.
Modern carbon frames are designed with structural integrity in mind, the frame-building process allows more fine-tuning than aluminum. Aluminum's best quality is it's value, you can wreck one and buy another and still have spent less than a low-grade CF frame.
I find this a little disingenous in that while it is true that:

> Disease, drought, inter-tribal warfare wiped out the vast majority.

it was really overwhelmingly disease, and it was disease introduced by colonists from Europe.
That is a super fun fact. Not that it changes the calculus, but I would be curious what percentage of human calories come from water sources (fishing, seaweed, lobster, etc).
> The time/discipline tradeoff is complex

It's really not.

Here's how I do : once a week buy lots vegetables at the market. Once every two days, put a good deal of veggies + rice/lentils (+ rarely chicken) in a casserole. Add little water, cover, let cook very gently.

Now you have good food for two days. And cheap. And dead easy to make.
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Markdown is probably a happy medium - markdown itself looks pretty much like normal writing in usenet or email, just formatted visually, and the 'build pipeline' is something like "markdown foo.md > foo.html"
Dude's also an Intel Fellow, which is pretty august company to keep.
Until there is something unified that satisfies everyone (never), there will be distributions (forks). People will try solve the same problem in different ways from what they consider more important. Distributions are a way of avoiding conflict, providing choice to the communities, and allowing the best solutions to develop and eventually prevail

No user needs to wait for 100% of someone else's problems solved

Even if you unified the packaging which seems impossible as there will always be someone that thinks they know better to come up with a new one, probably lacking something. There would be other differences technical and ideological. Some people want fast, others stable, others secure...

* Server/work/gaming
* Systemd/OpenRC/Sheppard/...
* Frequently updated/stable
* Prettier/functional
* Batteries built-in/fully customizable
* Traditional/innovative (guix/nixos)

I would first trust Debian's distribution of Docker than Docker's itself

Even something closed like Windows has distributions, Ghost spectre superlite/compact, Ameliorated, LTSC, home, pro, server... And MS are now creating their own package distribution competing with Chocolatey and everyone else...
Ah ok, thanks for the context! The people I know in hedge funds are far away from being what most would think of as crypto people, but perhaps Jump is a bit of an exception.
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> someone sifting through images is probably just as costly as paying for Fiverr

The difference being that anyone can sift through images and identify good ones, whereas few people can create good images. The amount of time it takes to complete the task may be the same, but the number of people who can do it greatly increases.
I have a fair number of sites on Github pages but I've ended up migrating most of them to Netlify (which is a very easy process) when I've needed more features, like wildcard ssl or multiple domains. Still haven't paid a cent!
> You don't want to give them the power to make you an un-person if you some day are not supporting the correct party or agenda.

Too bad. They already have this power -- and more, they can un-life you -- and always have, and always will until they get replaced in the next revolution.
> but she claims it is the source of modern emotional misery and that people before knew how to love

Did this come up in the article at all? Or are you just projecting your own thoughts onto it? I didn't see this idea when I was reading
exactly my point. It's like the cartoon where one side says, "kill them" and one side says "don't kill us" and the guy in the middle is asking for a compromise.
>No, Google is attempting to engage in a vertical restraint of trade.

My friend, does Lyft take Mir as a payment method? Can you choose to use Stripe to pay for your Airbnb (vs. their in-house processor)?

I really am curious about the legal precedent you're relying on - when has a marketplace ever been found to be acting anti-competitively by choosing the payment rails they use?
Reasons why I will continue to use DuckDuckGo:

- Google is even worse

- Bangs
The company who wrote the software are in the presentation and explain this - 192 / 256 could not be used because of export restrictions, so AES-128 is actually what they used.

1024 is marketing fluff, which they justified by running 8 passes on the file encryption key (to paraphrase the presentation - ‘Regular consumers don’t understand encryption standards, but think bigger numbers = better and trust the term Military Grade’).
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At my company (of about 22k people worldwide), your username is derived from the first and last letters in your name, and numbers appended to make it unique. VIP's don't get to pick their username as far as I know. Intel is large enough that I would guess that their default naming is also algorithmic, but apparently some VIPs like Brendan are able to get nice usernames.
Bhand
"XXX:" is short for "BULLSHIT:" or other profanity to me, generally imply that life sucks.

usually to indicate some horrible hack which is required because we can't quite blow up the codebase to fix it all, and i'm not thinking of a simpler solution today.

it also exists to point out that even though the code looks maybe mindlessly overcomplicated that someone shouldn't just come in and refactor it to make it simpler because it'll blow up some edge condition if you do that. They're the long-term nuclear waste warning messages of a codebase.
Step 1: find one
Step 2: emulate them

I’ve never gotten past step 1.
Another neat Postgres 15 feature: SQL 2016 Standard JSON operator support

https://postgrespro.com/blog/pgsql/5969433
Congrats! Loom is excellent.
The exposed API key is temporary while a backend is setup. The IP address is not stored by Scout - will look into the OpenAI policy.
I do wonder if mid 2020 will go down in history as peak cancel. I definitely have a sense that it is becoming less acceptable to publicly air one's grievances in the name of social justice. "Silence is violence" is another phrase that was very popular at that time. From my limited perspective, it seems like that same slogan today would be much less acceptable and get much less play.

Of course, two years is far too small a lag to do any real historical analysis of the situation. But it seems like the winds are blowing in a different direction now. I wonder where they will take us. Surely we live in exciting and interesting times.
Exactly this. I actually just pulled the whole source tree and built
it for FreeBSD this morning.

What I'm really referring to is the community. Especially for things
like forums and docs that need only be read-only. The fixation with
Cloudflare bewilders me. Surely most technically minded people know
it's a mixed blessing that offers as many ills as advantages?

With respects, I don't really want a conversation about the merits and
madness of Cloudflare. Been there and done that. I'm simply pointing
out, in case any Racket community people are here, that small details
like this can have a serious impact on the uptake and enjoyment of
something valuable.
ISIS was doing this back in the day. Someone who's so inclined can probably dig up the videos. Nobody was sharing the trade-craft on the easy to find, English language, western owned parts of the internet back then because "terrorists".
That makes sense. I don't think google can count as low as my number of optimization variables.
And it's strange no one in media questioned Gebru's paper. For instance, her calculation of carbon footprint of training BERT is ridiculous, as she assumes that companies will train BERT 24x7. I think Gebru is a disgrace to the community because she always, I mean literally always, attacks her critics by motives. You think bias is a data problem? You're a bigot (See her dispute with LeCun). You disagree with my assessment on an ML model? You are white male oppressor (her attacking a Google's SVP).

Gebru is not a researcher. She is a modern-age Trofim Lysenko, who politicizes everything and weaponizes political correctness.
Will look into this.
Expensive for the patient, the hospital, or both?

In my experience, I had an fMRI a year or so ago, and it was cheaper than the psychological evaluations I had to do almost a decade ago, fwiw. But that is just my anecdote. I am sure different health care systems, different counties, etc. impact this significantly.
True, but even for them it is harder that for most women. I think this is the point above.
I do not think productivity cannot be substantially improved without AR but I am really not against AR either. I am not putting Facebook between me and my computer though. No way...
Pretty please can we have the final installment of the Adam Jensen Deus Ex trilogy now. Left us hanging in the middle of what might be one of my favorite neo noir, cyberpunk series because open world story driven games were losing out back then. There's clearly an appetite now given recent releases and their success.
There is no way one can start a company if one underestimates the business side. We cannot see it as "boring stuff" because it's the skill that liberates us from the 9-5 job. If you're not interested in it, you're in danger of hiring a grifter, a charlatan, or someone worse who will drain you of your funds.
I always wondered if Alice Cooper is doing that for multiple radio stations :) A local German radio station (Radio Bob) has a weekly show with him as well. I guess the same prerecorded stuff with a few custom "you are listening to..." mixed in!

Regarding "just to pay some celebrity".. well, that is currently way out of our budget, as everything offered so far is 100% free and there are no plans to change that :)
for anyone interested in Rust's choice to not use the green thread model:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/7x0icm/regarding_gree...

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0230-remo...

> Initially, Rust supported only the green threading model. Later, native threading was added and ultimately became the default.
One other event currently ongoing os the destruction of the iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakagin_Capsule_Tower#Demoli...

And all that just to make room for another generic housing block or one more multi level parking garage.

I am certain this will be considered a big mistake in the future and might even result in an inexact 1:1 replica being build just for the tourist novelty potential.
You know what’s higher frequency than 5G? Sunlight
Can't tell how people does that nowadays, but I use userscript/greasemonkey
Autorouting almost always creates garbage routes, with tons of vias. You're so much better off doing the routing yourself.

(And yes, I tried the autorouting java package. Ive also used other routing packages. Its so much MISS and very little HIT.)
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It's a nice - if short - video. But watching it I realized for the first time that I'd never ever seen video of Lem in action. Despite being a huge fan and keeping his face as wallpaper on my phone. Seeing him in motion gave me a sense of intimacy and feel for him as a person that I never thought I'd be able to experience.

That aside, I'm happy to see Jonathan Lethem articulate something that I'd always known by reading his books: that he has several different modes of writing. A few of them even seem to contradict one another in their approach (hard and scientific vs. playful and fantastic). It's interesting to see a writer switch gears so dramatically, even if they DO still maintain the same sense of imagination and wonder about the world across both modes.
I know both Apple and Google let you pick your username. Elsewhere I’ve gotten generic stuff that I’ve created aliases for.
Indeed!

How will your customer use your product to solve their problem?

What hypotheses do you have? How are you going to test those hypotheses? What is the link from "solving this problem is important to me" to "solving this problem saves me money"? Structured thinking is helpful here!
10-Year Treasury Yield Hits 3% for First Time Since 2018
Are you referring to me? I apologize for coming off as a "branded persona"; I commented because I like thinking about impractical but interesting questions, like "what's a reasonable accommodation for discomfort?" This is a great example of technology being flexible enough to let users accommodate themselves; the web in general is good for that in a way that lots of other software isn't.

Content warnings are often a gateway topic into this idea, and I wanted to explicitly draw that connection in this case. I apologize if that's somehow unreasonable.
Would you be up for elaborating on what happened with the hitch-hiker? :D
I'm pretty sure that this is just a lower-strength version of "the wiki trap" mentioned in the article - if you write all of your pages in HTML, then they're going to stay HTML unless you invest the effort in writing a parser+translator that converts all of your content into Markdown or Wikitext or whatever else you might want to migrate that content into.

For instance, if you decide you want to give a templating language like Mustache a try - have fun programmatically extracting your content from those HTML pages and translating it into Mustache. Doable? Sure. Easy? Certainly not - and it's going to be very painful and manual if you didn't keep the same format for all of those HTML pages.
> One interviewer who had studied my work asked "How many staff report to you?" "None." He kept returning to this question. I got the feeling that he didn't actually believe it, and thought if he asked enough times I'd confess to having a team.

My experience with this in interview loops is that it's less about admiring a persons technical abilities, but more a checkbox question to determine whether a person fits into a certain role model that companies have set up. At most FAANGs, interviews will expect that you mention you are being the tech lead of a team (5-10 engineers) at a (L|E)6 role, even if one isn't a manager. At (L|E)7, it will be 50+ engineers. As a regular engineer, one would probably have an issue getting hired at a high seniority level without answering the question the right way. Things might be different for well-known personalities like Brendan.
I believe that Tesla's are often slowed by the regenerative breaking, so drivers only need the "gas" pedal. I recall an article about a teen failing his driving test in a Tesla because he never applied the break
Yes, like the video states.

This is what the talk is called because that is what the vendor advertised not because it is a
standardized thing which makes sense.

Actually the vendor does a lot of not so grate things, from a very very bad password hashing to how they handled file encryption.

Interesting is that the talk about the security ends at 32min, after this is a talk from a private contractor hired by the the company which messed up the encryption. Still watching it but that's unusual and nice.
The benefit of their approach is that they can drop the files into basically any server, and the site will work. Seems like a good tradeoff for the sort of concerns they have.
So you spend your one-on-one time helping them code/debug their current story?

Or is it spent catching up on personal/professional issues?
My thought as well :-)
longer discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31236157
Does anyone else sense a huge disconnect here, or is it just me?

When the iPhone came out it was completely obvious how great it was. Sure there were naysayers, but they were a vocal minority predicting Apple’s impending bankruptcy while the product sold in droves. It took only a few years for smartphones to be completely ubiquitous. Once people saw it, they wanted it.

VR is not the same. The first Oculus came out in 2016, and it’s been a fringe product ever since.

Can Zuckerberg truly believe he has the Next Big Thing here? Is there some sort of obligation for big companies to tout their Next Big Thing, even if they realistically know it probably won’t take over the world? Am I just wrong and we’ll all be using VR headsets instead of laptops in 5 years?

I’m just continually stunned at how committed they are to this.