skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I stopped watching the "news" (especially local news) 5 years ago and I've never been happier. The "news" will never make you feel good. It will only ever make you feel angry, fearful, anxious, or disenfranchised in some way. It will only make you feel like "everything is going to shit."

And that's just TV news. I also stopped participating in unfiltered social media. No more Facebook except close friends or family. But if they start sharing garbage then they get muted. No exceptions. I'll go look at your feed if I care about what you're up to.

My "news" comes from highly-moderated, topic-focused groups. HN, for example. But I will gladly stop reading (and downvote) a comment halfway through if it's nonsense.

I'm not living in "blissful ignorance". I'm not putting my "head in the sand." I know what's going on in the world. I just choose not to be consumed by it. And my daily mood and outlook-on-life has improved dramatically because of that.
I might be wrong but I think that's because the fix is directly patched by the ubuntu security team, NOT by the upstream package maintainer. That means they are providing their own patch, just faster. If the package is updated upstream, you will be able to get the update.

Also, ubuntu pro is free for up to 5 users so for most users this is just a free additional feature. There's almost no downside here, at worst you get the updates as quickly as you would in any other distro. They also update packages that do not get upstream support at all anymore, such as python 2.7. Which obviously requires a lot of work directly from Canonical, so I don't really get the reaction in the comments here.

This reddit comment explains it way better than I do:

>It is a bit more nuanced. These are not fixes by the package maintainer or the community. Those you get regardless of Pro status.

>Pro is for patches by the Ubuntu security team. And I understand why they require an opt-in, as not everyone would want their packages patched by Ubuntu (instead of waiting for an official patch from the maintainer).

>So basically Ubuntu are giving you a new feature (that you won’t get at other distros, these are patches by Ubuntu themselves) for free if you would like to opt in for it.

>They could have communicated it better, but the rage is misplaced in my opinion.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/10pqklh/canonical_t...
Likely yes...but "meh, it's not worth saying $THING here on HN" is a situation that I doubt I'd care enough about to remember.

Kinda being aware of up/down votes has probably inspired me to dial back a bit on the "grumpy geezer armed with full-auto keyboard" vibe a fair number of times.

I'm much more interested in touching off juicy discussions than I am in karma...but there doesn't seem to be any point system nor metrics for that on HN.
You don't get it: I WAS there. I'm almost 40. I was playing CS from the very start.

I maintain that the people spending tons of $$$ to try and get an advantage in CS are mostly trying to buy skill, and it never works.
In my experience coming in as the new guy with X many more years of experience doesn't automatically mean you're going to be listened to no matter how "assertive" you are. Communicating assertively can easily cause others (especially newer devs) to be on the defensive. If a whole team has decided on a trajectory you're not likely to change things very quickly by just exuding confidence. You don't have much "social capital" on a brand new team until you've demonstrated your skillset.

Also I find the habit of passing judgment of a person on an internet forum extremely distasteful and pretty disingenuous - you don't know enough about this person from a two sentence forum comment to judge their communication/persuasion skillset. It does nothing to support your argument or do anything other than make you feel superior to that person.
It was not forgotten. It was neglected by the government, which then then tried to blame the owners that had been begging for months for someone to address the issue. The government actively prohibited them from removing it.
That was my intention :-)
Morally - I don't see much difference, and think the push towards "rent everything, own nothing" is a bad, bad idea for social cohesion, economic equality, and general health and happiness.

Realistically - there is a considerable difference in the resources required to create a digital copy of a good vs a physical copy. The digital good has the slight upside that when companies abuse consumers through predatory pricing practices (literal rent-seeking...), they are destroying slightly less of the environment in the process.
TCP tries really hard to avoid fragmentation, by setting the DF flag and reducing the MSS when it sees a PTB error.

Of course that sometimes fails, so if you still have TCP fragmented segments, the next best thing is to filter by source/destination address, saving to a PCAP file, then run tshark on that file with the "-2" flag which does packet reassembly.

(I don't know if tshark can be made to do on-the-fly reassembly, that would require keeping a buffer of un-reassembled fragments until the rest of the packets are seen.)
> When I compare this √(3x3+4x4) expression mixing infix or prefix operators with specific precedences and orders of evaluation

Ignoring the latter part and only responding to the first: Root is infix, the left side is just implied 2 here.
There are now arch-based distros that are quick and easy to set up, like Ubuntu. I'm currently running endeavourOS, and I am eager to try Manjaro.

Don't be put off by the Arch-based nature of the OS - since both Endeavour and Manjaro have installers, they bootstrap your system's drivers, and all.

I've found maintenance to not be too overwhelming, and Arch's wiki is top-notch. When I used other distros like Gentoo, I sometimes found myself reacing the Arch wiki...

Package management isn't too different from using apt, synaptic, or the app store if you use the right tools:

Command-line:

- Pacman: for precompiled official packages

- Yay : Automagically compiles community-ported third-party applications

GUI:

- Pamac: Look it up - it's a lot like Ubuntu's "App Store"

The caveat here is that I'm an experienced Ubuntu/Debian user that moved to Gentoo for a while.

While using Gentoo, I got tired of the systemd migration nightmare and returned to Ubuntu to find the nightmare of Snapd and poorly-sandboxed applications in their community repo.

I've only used Arch for about a month, but after using Gentoo and Ubuntu, I think I'm staying here for a while. The kernels are brand-new and the GPU driver performance is at least 2x what I was getting in Ubuntu. With the derivatives, there's no reason to bootstrap an Arch system from the kernel framebuffer, like the olden days of Gentoo and Slack.
Seems long winters being the norm died in the 80s
I've been in a similar boat with ops/security responsibilities getting in the way of doing development. There's two pieces of advice I would offer you that have helped me-

Being a developer just has more grunt work than I initially expected. Whether it's meetings, ops, security, mentorship, support, or whatever else- developers have to do those things. You can still frame this as development work, and you should approach it as a developer (How can I automate the task away, or make/suggest an improvement in our code, UI, or docs so that I don't have to deal with this again)

If that doesn't help you, and you don't want to leave the team on short notice, I would suggest approaching the subject with your manager again and coming up with a clear plan to get out of that work, with a timeline attached to it. There is a reason your leadership attaches timelines to work- it makes things happen. Take advantage of that, and give your leadership a timeline
1) Regarding hanging in there for 10 months for $reasons -
The following is just a suggestion and may not work for you but it’s worth trying to see if it helps - In your shoes I would get myself a wall mounted calender to put up at home and at the end (or beginning if that works for you better) and at the end/start of each day mark it off (sorta like how young kids marks down the days to Christmas). This will A) Give you a minor dopamine hit B) It provides a self reassuring / mental confirmation that the current situation does indeed have an end (it becomes easier to endure something when you know that it will end and can see how much closer that gets as the days count down).

2) How to avoid burn-out. You say that in your current role you still learn new things. Use that to advantage. Each time you learn something new, hold the mental emotion that is generated when you think '..huh, I just learnt that, Great!' and then exhale slowly and picture the wall mounted calendar showing the days remaining marked-off and grin :-) ... again the point is to use mental imagery to help reduce the distress.

3) Devote some of your out of hours time to coding an itch-that-needs-scratching type project or do some code diving on the source of an app/site/program that you admire/like. Don’t go too crazy on this so think of this as a ‘brain muscle’ equivalent of going to the gym for a workout. In other words, don’t spend more time on this bit than someone would spend down the gym.

H.T.H
By that logic, we'd need to make knives illegal, because people get stabbed to death every day somewhere.
I am in a similar positon, Ubuntu LTS being the only Linux distro that I have ever used on my primary daily computer.

Will most likely move over to Debian instead of "upgrading" to 20.04LTS.
I think your take is too reductive. Google's product is ad space and attention. Everything else serves one or both sides of that goal.

Search? Ads.
Good search? Attention.

Ads are served by a Browser. Let's throw a few bucks at a Good open source browser (chromium) for good will and then make it our own. And then use it to serve ads.

Gmail? Free service and we just happen to get to build word clouds out of every bit of text that goes your way so we can tell what you're interested in to sell ads.

Android? Ads delivered right to your face, some of which you pay for, some of which pay us for you. And more word cloud text and data scraping. And we have your face and fingerprint. (But that's not bad, Apple is doing it too!)

It's quite efficient just like the funneling gnashing maw of any predator. But Google does not make anything, they only throw out lures to draw in more attention so they can make more ad revenue.
That's not a bad description. I don't have a good comparison— we mostly just built this as a tool that we personally needed. I like to think of it like W&B but also in the world of logging tools like Prometheus.

LLMs are a funky thing to work with, and we need a whole suite of new tools to make them prod-ready.
Apple and Google will do what the EU tells them to do in the end.
Can somebody tell me how it was before? Ubuntu Universe packages were also maintained on best-effort on non-paid 5 year official support before? I mean was something taken away or not on the free version?
For the limited purpose of finding interesting people to follow it can be okay, but I don't see it getting automated in a way that would work for web search or finding people with a common interest. For example, Reddit often works better because you're looking for something that can't be found by asking people you know. The people are out there but you're not connected.
Hmm, does it work now?
> "When we go places he always wants to sit facing the exit"

I mean this isn't bad advice. I was cornered by a large man once as a child and ever since I've tried to always be aware of an exit and ideally be in view of it.
You can define a ton of types of "fair." It's just like "random."

The big "fairs" imo are:

a) majority votes, one person one vote,

b) auctions where everyone starts with the same funds,

c) random picks, where everyone has an equal chance of being chosen.

None of these have anything to do with ideas, they have to do with people. The way to be fair about ideas is to express them without distortion or omission, in a way that would be recognizable to the people who support them. The only way to do this is to leave out all of the extraneous commentary and stick to clear, falsifiable statements.

edit: what generative language models do is parrot a ton of acrimonious political discussions. Ironically, they can't be fair because they have no values.
> If you have information that goes against this I'd love to hear it because I'm just relating my understanding of the situation at this time.

I do and I wrote it. My example is not one that is specific to DL or any type of architecture. My example works for any arbitrary statistical model. What you're missing is a nuanced difference between word definitions. Likelihood and probability are not the same thing. (You're also clearly misreading those papers and have not dug much into DL because there's tons of models that work on modeling probabilities directly, and this is specifically the area I work in)
Wow that's quite a shift.
Here's the original indictment: https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/02/nickolas_sharp_ubiqui...
Also Ubuntu:

> Subscription Quantity Billing Total
> Ubuntu Pro 1 Billed Yearly $500.00

https://ubuntu.com/pro/subscribe
This is the issue with fossil fuel technology in general. In short, we are not responsible enough. If we were fully responsible as people, we could do it. Once rich countries did it, poor countries would demand it, and they are especially unprepared. A bit of economic and political risk and voila, regions devastated.

There should be a simple rule: if you can't manage sewage and garbage, you can't handle fossil fuel technologies.
The difference between Rust and Java is that Rust developers decided that panics shouldn't be recoverable except as an afterthought for C compatibility.

In principle most panics are amendable to retrying the operation which would be the equivalent of catching exceptions in Java. So yes you get an "error has occurred" warning but your program doesn't terminate immediately. I don't think C has an edge over Java here.
It might still be. The original metasploit developers had a habit of vendoring all of their dependencies to create a mono-repo that "just worked" (tm), even after Bundler was created, which beefed up their SLoC count. Plus there's lots of miscellaneous supporting code that was added for various past exploits. However, while some see "largest Ruby codebase" as bragging rights, wise Software Engineers will see that as a liability to be avoided.
I agree with this logic. But note there is one caveat: Observable behavior that has already happened when the condition for UB is encountered can then not be affected.
The C++ committee later clarified that for UB also the previous observable behavior can be affected. It is unclear whether this affects C as the C committee never added this clarification, but compiler writers often apply this interpretation to C as well. In my opinion the C++ made a mistake here, as this makes UB more dangerous.
"Minimal fuss" has been an Ubuntu strength since the very start. First it was the debian-sanity approach to a desktop that worked just fine.

But LTS really helped keep fuss even lower. I remember buying my first Ubuntu laptop from Dell in disbelief. No fuss, worked for years, no issues.

Right now I gather Ubuntu has a lot of commerical runway and partnership to leverage. Community runway is going to be shorter but there are still (as I understand it) workarounds for just about every significant issue people have with the distro.

What's concerning is that workarounds are essentially the same thing as fuss, for a lot of users out there.
One where majority of citizens actively participate in matters impacting the majority of citizens, understand all significant views on a topic, and no entities are allowed have power beyond their own personal independent interests. As is, to me, America, Russian, China, EU, etc are all plutocratic — because the average person doesn’t want the responsibility of dealing that comes with running a society.
The insidious aspect of doing something like this is that there’s no way of knowing who made the report, and there seems to be no repercussion for making frivolous or false claims, otherwise you could retaliate against them
in the same way.
That was true of Netflix until about 2021, back when they still had a flat structure. Since then, they started hiring for levels below senior as well.

Sadly, there are no engineering postings on their jobs page right now, so all I have at the moment is secondary sources[0] and personal accounts.

0. https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/netflix-levels/
Pop!_OS is much more than just reskinning Ubuntu. System76 is even developing their own Rust-based desktop environment [1].

[1]: https://blog.system76.com/post/more-on-cosmic-de-to-kick-off...
Which occasionally has unexpected consequences.

The licensing of the music on certain movies didn't anticipate the internet. And the studios never came to an agreement. As a result you can buy DVDs of movies like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Fair_Lady and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullets_Over_Broadway, but you can't rent them off of any streaming service. Given that most of us no longer have DVD players, they seem destined to only survive in pirated copies. If that.
with scroll wheel bound to jump of course
> I don't think any honest defense of CRT said any of the things you claimed here, where have you heard those arguments?

I've heard them all over for many years (including on this forum for a good while a few years ago), but I agree they aren't "honest" (and the dishonesty is precisely the problem).

> Things that are "Nazi" or "white supremacist" ideas and ideologies get called out, and those ideas and ideology exist on the right in ways they don't on the left, but those ideas aren't bad because they're conservative, they're bad because they're hateful and discriminatory.

I agree. But the problem is that moderate ideas are being caricatured and labeled as "Nazi" or "white supremacist" so that they enjoy the same social censure that we would give to bonafide hateful ideas.

> Anyone espousing Nazi ideology is a huge problem, regardless of their political leanings.

Yes, but we're not talking about "espousing Nazi ideology", we're talking about people who are espousing moderate ideas that get treated like they're hateful. Consider for example James Damore's "Google Memo" and how it was framed as a hateful, "anti-diversity screed" by virtually the entirety of the media despite that the full text was readily available. His arguments were squarely liberal in nature even if he made some factual errors. Consider Lee Fang or David Shor (both committed progressives).
It's even harder with surround setup.
This sounds like "Great White Father" stuff to me. Are wealthy countries really so suited to telling poorer ones what they may and may not do to join the wealthy?
> insane suggestion that we shouldn't punish false reporting because it will somehow disincentive reporting [...] False reports, especially those used for retaliation, should be a felony and result in jail time.

Jesus, jail time! I can tell you right off the bat that that would absolutely disincentivise me from reporting anything - some process I'm not privy to decides it was a 'false' report and I get jail? That makes for a very high bar for me not to wind my neck back in - and if that's what you want, only something that's too heinous to ignore gets reported, fine. But it's certainly not an insane suggestion that there's a link there.
You might be surprised at how the signals are actually recorded on tapes. For VHS tapes for example, it's actually a series of stacked "diagonal" lines of signal. Imagine a sequence of symbols like \\\\\\\\\\\, except at any given horizontal point along the tape there are about 5 stacked traces of signal. They're also diagonal on audio cassettes, but much less "slanted" relative to the tape's length.

I don't remember the precise terms for the various concepts, but hopefully that shows how specific to a given format the reader needs to be.
I totally agree. If someone making a generalization, chances are they may be wrong.
It's too bad that we don't get more info than "Meta paid Bright Data to gather data from e-comerce sites in order to build brand profiles on Meta platforms".

What does that mean exactly? Were they scraping, say, Dell.com, in order to get the latest prices on Alienware laptops? Or were their bots spamming Middle-Class Joe's Bootstrapped e-Commerce site and putting him out of business?
I was considering using it a few times a week to see if there was any lasting improvement in focus. I've used one before years ago that a friend let me try for a few sessions and my subjective experience was that it had some fairly long lasting positive effects, could've been placebo but I figure it's worth giving it another shot.
In computer gaming (RTS / FPS) equipment matter, especially in FPS.
Not to mention your internet connection.

I would guesstimate about 100% more effectiveness compared to a subpar setup. Meaning all else equal the guy with the better setup would win an encounter twice as often.

You also need to know about all of the configuration steps to maximize advantage.
What might look superhuman on youtube for instance may very well just be a good setup.
sweet memberberries
> Also, if someone wants to write code, teamed up with other senior developers, where should one go?

Many startups are like this.

They're typically picky about letting new people in.
Same experience. Happened with NPR too at the same time.
Downvoting can be useful in case there is a post where you want to read every message carefully, eg a post about something you wrote. The only way I know to ensure I read every message carefully is by voting on every message (either up or down).
This is cool! I wonder what other multiplayer games can be ported to run in a browser.
...is taken as true but is a really lousy principle for modelling informal reasoning.
The general trend seems to be towards not owning anything in general.
Christ, calm down a bit. Stupid shit happens, but the article not about that - they stimulus'd and you response'd exactly as intended. Get some insight into them and yourself or you're going to be easily manipulable forever.
Anecdotal, but I think I mentioned our kids were adopted. We adopted through the State, and underwent 6 months of training before being approved.

The stories of abuse and neglect were hair raising, and our kids had their own fair share before they came to us.

CPS exists as an alternative to cops doing this kind of work. When done right, they are compassionate and understand how to deal with kids in a variety of sm high stress situations. They do evaluations. They take kids out of homes safely. They do transport to foster care or elsewhere. They evaluate potential adoptive families.

When all done right. We know some fabulous workers doing incredibly hard work here.

We also know it’s easy to abuse the system, and they could use a lot more checks and balances.
This advice is too vague to be useful.
There’s also the little matter of this thing called the first amendment. The reason the government could get away with having a Fairness Doctrine on broadcast TV was that there were only a few airwaves to be had, and only a few providers in certain markets. Today you can watch tons of channels on cable or satellite, and no end of content on the Internet. Such regulation could never be legally applied.

And the fairness doctrine never really applied to newspapers — which instead sought centrism to broaden their distribution in a geographical-based market and attract more ad dollars. This is another trend towards centrism which has been rendered moot by the Internet, where firms compete for attention using partisanship — which has long been preferred by paying audiences (and was the norm in the 19th century newspaper).
Don't say that he's hypocritical, Say rather that he's apolitical.