jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> should not get to define what freedom means.

This little bit right here sounds fascist.

I'm not going to defend RMS' words or actions (I don't even know what the entire case against him is, and the more extreme this gets the less I want to pry into his personal life). I do think people are losing their minds to assassinate the guy.

RMS has given us our entire industry and careers. Without free software, you wouldn't have a job. I wouldn't either. Take a moment and let the gravity of that sink in.

(take a moment)

He apologized and spent several years away from the organization he founded. Why does it have to be the rest of his natural life? We're murdering him and taking his baby.

Why do people nowadays believe in permanent assassination of character? Unending punishment?

People have redemption arcs.

The stupid movies, books, and tv shows that everyone in this thread watches have forgiveness and grace in them. Why do we deny them to our fellow humans?

I'm an atheist, but Jesus preached against this kind of thing, and I think we could learn from some of his teachings. Throwing stones and forgiveness.

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I got cut off by the Hacker News negative karma filter for the downvotes I got, but I typed out a comment I was pretty happy with. (It was to this comment [2]) I'll include it here instead:

> There ought to be a place for RMS in our discourse. Just not this one.

I'm trying to think of the limit of humanity here, when we're all living in the metaverse and aren't tied to physical bodies anymore. Complete freedom, and the ability to disassociate ourselves from our corporeal bodies. Assume new identities at will.

In the future, you'd ban the "RMS account" for misbehavior, but he'd be free to join again under a new one, free from the judgments and baggage of the old account. He'd just lack all of the accolades and gear he'd built up.

What you're doing now is calling for RMS permadeath in meatspace. He can't restart. It's game over.

Since there is no ability to restart IRL lives, why don't we have forgiveness as a feature?

The US penal system has a notion of when punishments have been meted out. He's stepped down for several years. Was it not long enough of a punishment?

Are we saying that some people may never forgive RMS? And that we're restricting his access indefinitely to satisfy the people who hold grudges eternally?

What sort of bug in humanity is that?

Maybe certain people think we should stop letting people out of jail.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26708215
If I'm understanding this correctly, are you saying that untreated ADHD is more likely to result in suicide?
Nice, RadioParadise is a favorite of mine!
Asking as a non-American, why would someone characterized as "liberal" do this? It seems to me like this is a very thoroughly conservative move and well in line with conservative and reactionary thinking.

Or have the definitions of the words liberal and conservative been swapped recently? A lot of the comments in this thread indicate that this may indeed be the case.
The difference is clearly that with Netflix, the thing you're buying (access to TV shows and movies) is experienced virtually through the app. You may not disagree with that policy (I don't, and it's certainly applied inconsistently) but it's pretty cut-and-dry here.
This is adorable - I love the name.
Being a notorious liar actually does excuse you from libel. From Tucker Carlson to Elon Musk, the defense is that nobody reasonable would take them seriously.
>If by "they" you mean the IR, they were and are (though nowadays they are more undecided) opposed to Mosadegh.

I mean the Iran as people (and state with a degree with historical and cultural continuity). The IR might come and go, and leaders or fractions might be opposed to Mosadegh for religious, ideological, etc reasons, but the hummiliation and harm that was instilled in the people by the action influenced later events (and even today).

>A war which brought a lot of power to the IR and especially the Guards.

Yeah, but that's neither here nor there. It did a whole lot of harm to Iran the people - and to the Iraq the people for that matter, and it was fuelled from outside.
b and g are mutually exclusive, though?
Just to chime in, I bought a CNC and 2 3D printers from Kickstarter over the years. One was junk, one was a scam, and the other ran out of funds before they shipped a unit.

The first CNC (MyDIYCNC) was 6 months late and the quality was horrible. The two MDF walls that held the metal Y axis in place were pre-drilled more than an inch apart. It was sold as a budget CNC printer but in reality was basically useless except as a learning exercise in what matters in CNC design.

Of the two 3D printers I bought, neither arrived. The Peachy Printer was a cute, simple, and cheap design.. after many updates of adding complexity and delays one founder accused the other founder of running off with the funds and buying a house, but did so in such a weird way one has to wonder what the hell actually happened.

The other 3d printer I don't even remember the name.. it was supposed to be high quality and cost around $300 CAD. Manufacturing delays and issues, they cancelled the whole thing and shipped nothing.
> current partnership with Microsoft as the sole "external provider"

I don't see that as an special partnership, MS used their public API to integrate Dropbox into their apps. The benefit is more on MS side for Office, since they invited more DB users to use MS Office.
A typical component in my React app contains about 3 lines of HTML. Have you ever seen a 3 line HTML template?
Tipping can be an excuse to build a really nice win-win relationship. I have a few local restaurants I frequent where I tip the servers well, 20% rounded up to the nearest dollar to start. They know me by name. They know what I like to eat. They'll recommend food and drink and off-menu options based on what they've learned about me. I get free food and samples, conversation, and a general feeling of being a part of the community.

With tipping I view my server as my agent. They're their to help me and I'm going to pay them well for that help. Without tips, or in chain restaurants where the staff turns over frequently and that relationship is harder to establish, I miss the partnership and the experience.
I'm afraid I have to ask you to explain farther.
Have you just recently stepped out of a time machine? There is quite a bit of debate on that subject.
Not sure how that has anything to do with passing the cost onto the consumer. If, for instance, the processing fee increased to 10% across the board, you would see an increase in prices to cover that expense. It will certainly not be instantaneous and may not ultimately ever cover the full increase in cost, but Company's cannot make a profit without passing on their costs to the consumer.
I can imagine all the people complaining about how they have been waiting for three hours for an Amazon drone delivery while a hurricane rages on outside.
>The Age of the Sturlungs is what Commonwealth devolved into in a relatively short period.

The Commonwealth lasted ~290 years. That's all that's relevant is that a polycentric legal order, one paradigmatically different than the statist one that dominates history has worked and could work again.

Your bloody Sturlunga is evidence of the aggressive nature of the statism you propose as "necessary".

>Ok, apparently you haven't yet read much about economics

Sure homie. Update me when you have read Human Action. To me markets are capitalism, but people equivocate on "capitalism" as also the current statist crony corporatism. Wittgenstein teaches us to be clear about what we mean. If you're not familiar with him it's a simple and important lesson.
Does the roadmap include 1 sprint blocked off for unknowns for every 1 sprint that is full of known tickets (actual ratio should be determined empirically for your team)?

If not, I think I've spotted your problem.
Putting to one side the question of whether ADHD in particular exists, it is worth noting a few things.

First, psychiatry has a real problem with pathology. In order to determine that something is in fact a disorder, you first need a normative model. But what exactly is psychiatry's normative model, and is it a good one? Not only that, but history has shown that the field is highly vulnerable to political pressure (the evolution of the DSM is a great example). Let us not forget that the norms and demands of the consumerist culture are unnatural and those who choose to live by that culture will measure themselves in accordance with it. There is an objective reality, but culture can either enhance our view of it, or corrupt our understanding. Psychiatry is a part of culture and thus not only not immune to culture, but a product of it.

Second, the range of symptoms can be both improbably expansive and mutually contradictory to such a comical degree that such purported disorders begin to look like a blank canvas onto which we can project practically any real or imagined problem. When you are experiencing problems of unknown etiology, and someone comes along and gives it a name, it is very tempting to embrace the diagnosis because of the relief it seems to bring, that this condition has a name, and not only a name! Salvation is at hand! But that relief does not demonstrate correctness.

Third, the lines between the psychological, the physical, and the moral are blurred and fluid, so looking for smoking guns in one domain is bound to lead to frustration. Some factors may be constitutional, such as temperament. We know that certain temperaments lend themselves better toward certain kinds of work and styles of work than others (to draw on classical terminology, you would much rather have a phlegmatic judge rather than a choleric one; a sanguine waiter rather than a melancholic one). Some factors may be developmental (the psychodynamics of the environment we grow up in leave a mark on us all, for good and for ill; confused or wrong ideas about what's true and what is good). Some factors may be moral (bad habits, prurient interests, a lack of temperance, vices of all stripes, the resulting repressed guilt). All can contribute to our inability to focus or function. However, I claim that, especially with the excessive medicalization of all human discomforts and problems, real or imagined, the moral is the most neglected and arguably the most important. It is the moral, the proper exercise of practical reason, where our power to choose, rightly or wrongly, ultimately rests and the bad practice of which leads to enormous problems in also the psychological and the physical domains.
Additionally, the MIQ system enables an unlimited number of bookings to be made with a SINGLE email address.

There are multiple issues with the booking system which enable this.

I’ve notified them of these issues multiple times, they did nothing.

It then became news, and was reported publicly multiple times, and still there were no changes.

Before this vulnerability was widely known making a booking was not all that difficult. After it became widely known there was not a single booking available in the system.

Go figure.
> I require an app to remind me of doing that when it is not a workday, as my usual routine of going to work and going to bed early for a workday involves it. On weekends or vacation, I do not remember on my own to do basic things like that

My personal version of this hell is remembering to take the meds at all: if I don't have the "getting ready for work" routine (which is when I take my meds) ... I usually forget to take my meds. In fact, this just reminded me that I told my doctor I was going to try and download an app to try to remember to take them.

Yay for not being able to remember things!
Can't get blood from a stone. The reason tax revenue comes from a small % of people is because those are the ones who've got all the money.
I reverse engineered some games trying to fix them.

If they were made in ASM? Well, then it is easy, what you get from the decompiler is probably very close to what went into the compiler.

C? It gets harder, but decompilation to C is possible, you lose function names and whatnot but that is alright.

C++? Then you are 100% screwed, virtual functions, polymorphism, etc... it all becomes just a huge mess, if they used some common libraries it helps (STL, BOOST, etc...) but if they made a ton of custom classes that have virtual functions, polymorphism and composition at same time, then nothing can be done, you will get some ASM that almost looks like non-sense.
amen brother (or sister) its the problem that is the cool and interesting part of the job - the tech used to solve the problem is a tool not the end in its self
Cleaning up by exiting can be much faster too, eg, https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2014-08/msg0001...
There is an incentive for miners to not have confidence in bitcoin damaged. It's a bit of an interesting Nash equilibrium kind of game.
In general, I think these things will balance out assuming rational actors.

Yes there could be a crisis of confidence but I can't see it spinning out to completely cancel out its utility e.g. usefulness in international remittances. At the very least it will replace or significantly threaten the Western Union business model.

Where I think there may be cause for concern might be the irrational actors. People or organizations prepared to invest and lose money with the aim of bringing bitcoin down.

It gets a bit tinfoil hat to suggest that e.g. the Federal Reserve or world governments would want to spend billions on killing bitcoin, but it's at least an interesting thought experiment. I'd love to hear a defence from a strong bitcoin proponent against the 'irrational' actors. Irrational meaning not obviously acting in the interests of their own holdings. I've raise it before but not heard convincing arguments of how bitcoin would be safe against 51% attacks like that.
That bodybuilding.com thread is gold
Well, thanks for being direct, at least.
once i discuss it with the other guys i will post the URL here. don't want to give it out like that to give the site a bad image, you know?
I prefer not seeing the number of votes, and think lukifer's idea of a "view count or vote" model is great. A visible score attached to each comment seems to me somehow demeaning. But I've never been much for grades...

And has been stated multiple times, the highly upvoted comments filter to the top already.
As an aside, I had my personal account hacked last year. It was such a torturous process getting it back. They got into my gmail account, then took my fb account off that (I actually didn't realise the two were connected as I'd signed up to FB with my University of Otago email addy back when you had to have an academic address - turns out you could login with your "backup address"). Google's process for locking my account and getting it back to me was clinical, quick and mostly efficient: I had my account back in a day. Facebook took nearly two months of me trying everything to get them to respond. I got my friends to email them, I emailed them daily, I started a blog about my ordeal, I did everything then, finally, they got back to me, after nearly two months.

I think I was quite lucky to have both my gmail and FB go down at the same time as it showed me such a clear contrast of approaches. Google, though impersonal, still assume that you're telling the truth. Facebook just don't give a shit.
How does this help the situation at all? And how long before there's a plugin to "click" all of the [view count] links?

The point is that we want to be able to see karma relative to the rest of the thread. If one comment in 20 has 150 upvotes, it means we should at least look at it because what is being said might be important.
thanks for the comments. i'll check out Flippa. seems like there is a lot of lower end websites selling there though. i could only find 6-7 sites selling over 100K.
Well in the old days we traded VHS tapes that weren't even subbed! ; )
That's simply not true - "Comments with high scores seem to have slightly higher scores than they would have, but comments with low scores seem to have about the same. Probably because the -4 limit on displayed comment scores was already concealing the actual score." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2465002
Unless you create two accounts.
"At the best place I've ever worked, the whole product team would frequently have lunch together. We were happy to do so and we did it on our own, because we really liked each other, not because the company tried to "cultivate" this habit."

Who suggested eating together the first time?

If no one takes the initiative, it might not happen, even if everyone would enjoy it, given the chance. I think Joel is just trying to create an environment where getting invited is the default.

Of course, there is the problem of creating a social obligation for those who really do want to eat alone. It's a tough balance to achieve.
You are aware that this is a 13 year old law, and that the government did not destroy The Guardian's data right?
Not only was Vista development pushed back, but the whole process was restarted two years in when it became clear that the original version was a disaster (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Windows_Vista#Mi...).
> XML is quite simple - perhaps too simple.

I disagree pretty strongly with that statement: http://www.jelks.nu/XML/xmlebnf.txt

XML's grammar is far from simple.
It comes from "Node Flow."

Or reverse psychology?
.Net and C# are prime examples of Microsoft waiting until someone else invented something (Java) and then doing it again. The problem is that it seemed that was the strategy for everything! Very little innovation mostly just copying and one upping.
Well, we all know how reluctant scientists are to promote groundbreaking ideas, since all prestige in science comes from doing what's been done before.

No wait, scratch that. That's just in BizzaroWorld.
Instead of sudo sh -c to sudo the redirects, consider echo 'abcde' |sudo tee /proc/bla. Less nesting :)
Using a client like that helped me get up to speed as well. If anyone wants a terminal based k8s client, I like https://github.com/derailed/k9s
The whole page is written in beautiful HTML also (probably by hand?)
If I understand correctly, then you are looking for a trade organization of software engineers? Maybe I can help you with that. Do you do this for the opportunity to share your skills or find the right specialist? Then (https://engre.co/) should help with this. To be honest, I did not use their services much on my own, but I communicated with those who did it. So take it to use. All the best!
Intellectual property is a good example of the contradictions of capitalism. It destroys the principles of freedom, but in truth is necessary to perpetuate the capitalist system.

As for that being my opinion, it isn't. Capitalism has never been about maximizing individual freedom.

The foundational act of capitalism was the Enclosure Act. How does the Enclosure Act increase individual freedom? It doesn't.

You're conflating a specific subset of negative freedoms for human freedom in general. Which itself was a post-hoc justification for capitalism.

As for freedom of information being a capitalist ideal, why then is it that institutions like state secrets, patent law, copyright law and so on were created under capitalism? You claim that it is controversial, so why is there no capitalist country that doesn't have it? And why was it specifically lobbied for by early capitalists and created with capitalist?

This is just a nice fantasy that was established after capitalism already started. The very birth of capitalism, the Enclosure Act, was to restrict freedom to increase profit.

In fact, the original libertarians and anarchists were a movement that sought to end capitalism, precisely because of its coercion.
in this case, Uber eats is importing foreign capital and "dumping" it into the system as subsidies to the consumer which are designed to establish a monopoly. They will either fail to establish a monopoly and close shop, or succeed and jack up prices. Whatever term you want to apply here, this doesn't seem like a business practice that should be permitted.
There is a theoretical mass gap based on mathematical models of how stars work. Then there is a mass gap based on observations of real BHs. These gaps don't line up perfectly. Either our observations are imperfect or our math is wrong.
Nix and Docker are complementary, not enemies.

We use both together, since Nix is the only sane way to package Docker images, in my opinion.
The president of the United States has command over all militias in the USA.
So the White House got a new intern? How is this news?
The built in keyboard, and the "kickstand" are the key differentiators of the Surface. Still seemingly pretty unique features even several years later. For me, bluetooth keyboards are good enough.... but then I use my laptop as a desktop. I don't really find myself in a situation where I'd be using this as a laptop mobile.

I'm not saying that this is a bad product or that it isn't improving.

I'm just saying that they compromised the result by trying to not compromise the purpose.
Is there a reason why typing is so slow? It seems like it's really chugging away on something as I type. I would guess there's a 500ms or so delay between hitting a key and it ending up on the notepad. Same goes for clicking to change the cursor placement.
I very much like this avenue of thought, as a layperson.

I forget where I read it, fairly recently somewhere... but something along the lines of measurement == entanglement.
I'm also unable to access the two repos that were apparently the target of the PRC's ire: https://github.com/cn-nytimes and https://github.com/greatfire

Is this simply a temporary precautionary measure because of the initial JS DDOS, or has GitHub permanently taken those two repos down?

If it's the latter, then I'm really disappointed and it would seem the PRC was able to get what it wanted.
Looks like this is the first 14nm Cherry Trail device with its fanless Quad-core Intel Atom x7-Z8700 processor. Hopefully it will be a great CPU for HTPC use.
ok but what about rejections?they also sending on 10 april or before that?
> the whole country is flat anyway.

There is a tiny corner of it that has some smallish hills.

The Amstel Gold professional bike race manages to climb something like 4000 meters by hitting a lot of those small hills in quick succession - and using some multiple times.
This is great! Also, much thanks for making the source available.

Quick question - I can see that you're using Facebook flux as a data flow library in your app. Is there a particular reason you chose not to try the, albeitly simpler, Reflux / Alt etc?
I'm working on a decent sized React app myself and would love to know your thoughts on this.

Thanks and great work!
That depends on why your neighbors are richer, and how localized the efforts were.

For example, if your neighbors are richer because they've been developing food infrastructure, it's quite possible that your grocery bill has actually gone down, because food is more accessible and cheaper thanks to their efforts.

If we're just talking about one neighborhood, this is unlikely. But if we're talking about an entire economy, the poor people are quite likely to benefit as long as the wealth has come from developing the economy.
I get requests when an application wants to make use of my location in iOS. Android has permissions requests beyond this, but I'm fairly confident iOS has at least the one.