skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A critical morsel of information missing here is that iPhones charge pretty quick using 12W/2.1A USB-A chargers, to the point where I’m not inclined to move to USB-C for only a few % gain in speed. Yes, it’s super slow using the included 5W charger, so I haven’t used one of those since 2013 or thereabouts, it stays in the box until resale time.
Trying to figure how why asking for evidence for something is considered worthy of a downvote by the people on this orange site. Is it because it was too 'to the point' and not verbose enough?
Ahd: simple, minimal and lightweight anime downloader that you never asked for
> my bluetooth headphones(rather expensive pair of Sony over-ear headphones) constantly loses signal.

I had the same exact problem. Turned out to be a crappy bluetooth chip on the PC side, despite being a Bluetooth Class 1 device, rated for 100m range.

With a new bluetooth USB dongle, it even sometimes works between floors without drop outs (!).

Of course it might also be a manufacturing error in your headphones, extremely radio noisy environment, but never forget to check it's not simply faulty hardware.
How in the world do you have a useful source control tool with no output?
The Contributor Covenant is basically just a lot of publicity grabbing faux FOSS addition. I mean if you can't contribute code why simply mess around with things like the Code of Conduct.
No, the charging cables aren’t. They’re even only USB2 speeds for data IIRC.
> Wow. Torvalds going to a therapy. I seriously couldn't be more impressed about him, because he always seemed too much of a narcissist to me. I understand how difficult it might be to decide to admit that you have a problem at this stage. And for doing that, he has my deep respect.

Neat, so now we're trolling on Linus.
> I’m looking for them to find the right abstraction—one that will make it easy to extend the problem and for junior devs to look at the solution function and understand exactly what it’s doing. Almost no one passes.

If no one passes, it means you are instead asking them to recreate what YOU would do, and basically asking them to be a mind reader. A good interviewer would know that there is more than 1 solution to everything, and that there are equal, but completely different solutions to the same problem. Someone could abstract the problem completely different from yours, but still be correct.
The Australian far right, also known as the shooters and fishers party...

Yea I don't know if I can take someone serious who thinks a party focused on recreational hunting and gun rights is some fringe far right party.

Also the claim of "alignment" comes from preference runoffs, because wikileaks put them ahead of the greens. Seems like a lot of bias packed just in this one sentence.
Ah good point, yea I can see how you could come to that conclusion. I understood that to mean that perhaps he felt like he wouldn't be missed (i.e. they would be able to manage without him).
Yep. I know someone who keeps dozens and dozens of tabs open on an iPhone. It's kind of like a bookmark library.

I explained that there is a bookmark feature just for this sort of thing, but when you're used to doing something one way, change can be slow.
Bull. His rants were meant to make people work harder. Nothing more. Nothing less.
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Honestly though, LINUX IS FOSS. FOSS DEVELOPERS BURN OUT. PEOPLE ARE CRAZY. Give the guy a break.
At this point, I would pay a few thousand dollars to be able to say that 'My secific issue with the government, which was created by them, was solved in about 2 hours'.
Same. Linus always called a spade a spade, and I always respected that. In a culture where the Overton window has shrunk considerably and people habitually hide their thoughts, I think this kind of attitude is more important, not less. People give up ability to say certain things in the name of inclusion, and then lose ability to think those things in the first place.

I'll take an asshole over a pushover any day, and most of us are pushovers.
Same for me. I had a few tax issues 10 years ago and they were super helpful. Probably one of the best customer support experiences I have ever had.
That's not a myth. Moreover, people here seem to simply rejoicing.
> casino cage cashiers don't make minimum wage

They actually do. Google it. It's below minimum.
Cool anecdote, but actual data shows how horrific their wait times are: usually between an hour and an hour and a half:

https://blog.callenq.com/irs-hold-times-disconnect-data-10k/

And that's if you're lucky enough to get to talk to someone. One third of calls are summarily disconnected.

> Our study showed that 1 out of 3 calls to the IRS Collections Line for Businesses would be disconnected, with this sometimes occurring after 2 hours of waiting.
Last year I waited on hold for 45 minutes. When I reached the representative, she said she could only help me with generic questions rather than account-specific ones because her computer system was down. I asked when they expected the issue to be resolved so I could call back then, only to be told "Oh, it's just my system that's down. I'm just required to keep answering calls."
It was significantly faster than USB2 in practice. I sold my external FW drives not that long ago, was using them with a FW-Thunderbolt adapter for quite a few years ago.
If you have a balance due, calling the department responsible for collecting the balance is actually much faster. Don’t call the normal 1040 line, call the people who deal with money...they can do most of what the 1040 people can do and never have much of a wait.
I think the IRS had tremendous support. The people are knowledgeable and almost always compassionate. They know you are probably at least a little scared and work to find a solution that doesnt add to your fear.
As always, the people fighting against codes of conduct manage to explicitly prove the need for them.
I tell them exactly what I’m looking for and am very clear up front. Many of them don’t follow orders, they put everything into one big function and don’t try to abstract at all.
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> It is directly counterproductive.

Linux is by far the most successful floss project in the history of mankind. God knows there are plenty of floss OS projects out there, most of which have far nicer leaders but a small fraction of the success. Either you're overplaying the effect on productivity or the relevance of being nice.
To explain to other readers: JIT processes usually have to violate the standard W^X protection rule for memory pages by either simultaneously mapping them to both data and code virtual pages, or remapping them before&after JIT compilation. I'd hope it's the latter. JITs are basically compiler-linkers directly to memory, so need to have their output transformed from data pages into code page in order for it to be executable.
The article spends a lot of words to obfuscate the truth that their "third way" is traditional proprietary software. Their online license store offers two products:

* "Parity Public License" is a poorly drafted and extremely aggressive alternative to the AGPL, requiring users to "Contribute all source code for software you develop, deploy, monitor, or run with this software".

* "Prosperity Public License" is a proprietary shareware license with a 32-day free trial.
Yeah it might seem that way but pelicans don't come from pterosaurs.
Creation and observation of a ghost trilobite chemical bond
I use and love linux, and have read many things about Linus being abusive and what not. I am on the spectrum and wasn't diagnosed til my 40s. Looking back on my earlier adult years, I was described as abrasive, obnoxious, and many others.

I tend not to suffer fools lightly, but somehow, on my own have learned better self-editing skills. Hopefully Linus will figure this out, because it truly will benefit everyone in the community.
Saying that "Linus has advocated physical abuse" based on that statement is completely disingenuous. It's an absurd interpretation. It was obviously humor and it wasn't insulting either.

There are several cases where Linus went way over the top with insults, but throwing him under the bus because of that statement is ridiculous.

That's the whole problem with these CoCs, if people get to apply the most uncharitable interpretation of any statement, we can't have anything but extremely formalized conversation, lest we run the risk of getting kicked out because someone who doesn't like us misrepresented our words.
> An earlier version of this essay misstated the number of documents that Edward Snowden released; that number is not known. The figure of 1.7 million was an intelligence estimate given to Congress of files accessed by Snowden. An earlier version also misstated that the DuckDuckGo search engine allows partners to collect user data; it does not. The article has been updated.

So the author spent all this time writing this article couldn't even bother to confirm how many documents were leaked and seemed to be under the assumption that DDG is data mining it's users?

This article just feels like it was written by a 3 letter agency and dropped on someone's desk.
Perhaps; if so, it was unhelpful snark (IMO) because of that key difference...
He improved the record by 1.08 percent.
US Congress passes bill to help advanced nuclear power
FBA doesn't stop the co-mingling with Chinese fakes.
> The question of whether or not Snowden was a Russian asset all along has been raised and debated. No evidence has been found that he was, just as no evidence has been found that he was a spy for China. ... We can’t know.

Wikipedia: Fear, uncertainty and doubt (often shortened to FUD) is a disinformation strategy...
Aston Martin teases its first battery-electric sports car, the Rapide E
I wish him best luck, he needs some. This guy is doing a tremendous work and, yes, sometimes he's a certified ass, but we need people like him. If we had a couple more clones of him, say one in the audio subsystem and the other benevolently dictating development in the GUI field, Linux on the desktop for everyone would become reality in no more than six months.
Guido's letter for reference: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/2018-Jul...
Depends on if right and wrong are defined via instance or percentage. A doctor who operates based upon germ theory may get a few diagnosises wrong or too late but he is fundamentally operating on "right".

A quack no matter what redeeming factors they may have is in the "wrong" even if his potions help via placebo effect or sheer accident like treating unrecognized dehydration simply by being water based.

Indefinitely was defined in the sense of viablility in flows. An actual business who provides a real product for sufficient margins can sustain itself indefinitely. Others may do better or circumstances may conspire against it but there is nothing stopping its success. It is a matter of ratios of course - right but rude may succeed with a sufficient base but if he alienates too many they are still doomed.

One which is fundamentally based on something wrong like say Theranos would collapse inevitably. Even if the entire world bought in. No matter how much they tried to work on fingertip blood testing they would find it inaccurate because the composition isn't the same as veinous blood. If they never lied about their viability it would merely be a noncriminal failure that ends when investors pull the plug or they run out of money. Unless they shifted to something viable successfully of course in which case they are no longer wrong.

Ironically noninvasive scanning of blood would have more potential for research success - while a very hard problem there is at least the data hidden within to be decoded. Alt-Theranos that shifted to it may still go bankrupt before they get a viable product from the tech not being ready but they would be on the right track and success before others were ready would pay off. Doctors loved noninvasive blood pressure measurement and would love a second by second view of blood chemistry.
From Famine to Feast in Supercomputing
Learning how to deal with dependencies. Learning integration into a system. Learning basic DevOps. Learning versioning of your software.
A brief history of the numeric keypad
There was a comment saying it opens the floodgates to Social Justice Warriors. It being politically left-wing seems to be a prominent public perception of it.
Isn’t this Alex Jones website?
Realistic 'Flight Simulator' Puts Players in Economy Class
This is a pretty smart article. The author makes a solid attempt to explain one of the weirder things about Snowden, Assange, and Greenwald, and the other people in their orbit — why do people who care about transparency and revealing government wrongdoing appear to defend and/or support Putin?

I’m not entirely convinced by the explanation, but it’s the best one I’ve seen so far, and a lot of these people’s actions make more sense if the author is right about what motivates them.
I am also a stupid programmer. However, the difference is that I try not to submit pull requests if I have no idea what I am doing. However, from what I am reading, these are not naive programmers who don't know what they're doing. From what I understand, most of the people that Linus rants about are employees of corporate sponsors of the Linux Foundation.

This is entirely my conjecture and I have no way of proving it but I suspect Linus taking a break is Intel flexing its muscles on the Linux Foundation.
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The contributor covenant is fairly in-objectionable. Yes, the list of 'privileges' is a bit of a checklist for left-wing soapboxes, but it's not necessarily a bad thing to explicitly list traits commonly targeted by bullies and harassers.

The problem many people have with it, as you imply, is that it's the thin end of a doorstop, at the thick end of which is the Post-Meritocracy Manifesto:

https://postmeritocracy.org/

Written by the same author and often championed by the same people as the Contributor Covenant, it espouses some rather more radical ideas which, while carefully stated to sound superficially agreeable, are not ones I would consider beneficial to the open source community.
I like most of this - but.

Leaving out rest symbols and encoding note duration by stem length are two choices I feel would make sight reading harder, not easier.

+1 to side-by-side samples
In my first commercial attempt at web development I utilised a png transparency fix for IE6 (written in that IE6 specific filter thing). A few months later the client passed on a complaint from one of his customers whom's machine crashed whenever he visited the website... I removed the IE6 fix and all was well in the world - You can have nice things or MS, you can't have both.
I use the following for cd bookmarking:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jakobi/script-archive/mast...

http://cryptonector.com/2007/04/c-shell-pushdpopd-on-steroid...
I was puzzled this week when I received an email offering me $30 to delete an accurate, but negative review I posted a few weeks ago. I also received yet another counterfeit item recently. Retailers should be happy about the rate at which Amazon is squandering trust.
This is going to be a moot point soon as I anticipate we'll switchover to a completely wireless charging and data system. There might still be a physical debug port or something hidden away, but Qi charging plus a 5Ghz connector technology (like that in the Essential phone) is the future of mobile I/O
> ”I'll take an asshole over a pushover any day“

This is a false dichotomy. There’s no need to be an asshole to not be a pushover.
It's interesting because I know a couple of authors of big open source projects who have anger issues and who also profess to have little empathy for others.

I struggle to understand how it's possible for someone who works for free for the benefit of others to also lack empathy; isn't that a contradiction?

That said, I did experience extreme career-damaging betrayal from an open source author who had a similar attitude as described in the article. Some people are just living paradoxes.
Matt Dillahunty - critical thinking

Richard Dawkins - biology

Jessica Kobeissi - photography

Ted Forbes - photography
I can come up with no better summation of the damage Snowden has done to liberal democracies and the rule of law than his quote near the end: "...Politics will take us only so far and if history is any guide, they are the least reliable means of achieving effective change"

In other words Snowden's taught millions of young people he influences that working within the frameworks of politics and the law is pointless and can't create the lasting change they hope for.

This is not only incredibly childish and destructive - it's inaccurate. Politics and the rule of law have have provided protections for racial, sexual, religious minority populations in dozens of countries around the globe, have destroyed institutional slavery, and have created the largest sustained creation of broad-based wealth in human history. It's provided universal health care for millions of people across Europe and the Americas, defeated totalitarianism in two global conflicts, launched people into space, and created the technological revolution without which we wouldn't be having this debate today.

We're not perfect. Nobody claims we are. But politics and law are how we improve ourselves.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4809873/

"Bread and Other Edible Agents of Mental Disease

how cereal grains—the world’s most abundant food source—can affect human behavior and mental health. We present the implications for the psychological sciences of the findings that, in all of us, bread (1) makes the gut more permeable and can thus encourage the migration of food particles to sites where they are not expected, prompting the immune system to attack both these particles and brain-relevant substances that resemble them, and (2) releases opioid-like compounds, capable of causing mental derangement if they make it to the brain. A grain-free diet, although difficult to maintain (especially for those that need it the most), could improve the mental health of many and be a complete cure for others."
https://m.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/update-on-...

Christan Legnitto, working at FB on release engineering, see his submission of this article in 2013.
Sorry, I wasn't defending Linus at all, and I would not behave as he did. I was just saying that him changing his behavior doesn't prove anything about successful management techniques. Of course I'm not pro assholes :)
why write tests? why improve ux or ui? why help with documentation?

> I mean if you can't contribute code why simply mess around with things like the Code of Conduct.

there are many more parts to a community, even a community of developers, than just contributing code.
Almost certainly Linus didn't write his rants in order to gain some sort of sadistic pleasure

I don't find that assertion convincing.

I guess what would be called abusive by many was merely a "stern talking-to" to Linus.

Which is why he needs therapy.

It would be great if we would hold ourselves to higher standard of professionalism and stop apologizing for toxic behavior in software engineering. I've never seen another industry where abusive infighting is considered acceptable and necessary for success. It's almost worn as a badge of honor by people who -- more often than not -- aren't even that good.
Oh dear. So they finally got to him. First Guido, now Linus. If some "nice person" would write a better free operating system I'd be all over it. But Linus is one of the people that has made it possible for me to not only run a free operating system, but the best system in the world. The people who criticise and attack Linus are the one who don't understand us. They don't understand what this software means to us.
I don't mind a wait if it means competent service on the most essential part of our society. I've called them for both business and personal issues with taxes and while it was by no means 'fun', they were both willing and able to help.

Now, the experience with Google Ads, that I can wholeheartedly echo. Every time I've spoken to them, it's just been a further waste of my time; and I can say the same of Yelp, too. So I think the core idea has merit - a private business' need to maintain and grow a customer base can be identified by how well they support current customers rather than how aggressively they advertise to new potential customers.

But like boys and girls, public government and private business are different.
No, this is no more insightful that when your uncle joked about the same thing at the last family barbecue, and less funny. Yes, companies don't spend on things that won't make them money, unless there's a problem in the company. When you have no competition, you don't have to worry about any quality of your business being worse than the competition.
You can also just enable versioning on the bucket which prevents PutObject from doing any permanent damage.

If restic needs DeleteObject, you can also configure IAM to not allow deleting of specific versions, which means it can only tombstone objects.
It's a bit difficult to explain, but I'll try.

In the current political climate, the left and the right have been divided by the public consciousness into the following dichotomy:

The left is overly sensitive and looks for things to be offended by.

The right is concerned with maturity and personal responsibility and anti-political correctness, where those things are defined primarily in contrast to the left's perceived over-sensitivity.

Simultaneously, there have been a lot of trends in various communities (software and otherwise) to formalize rules of conduct and push out people who are more naturally aggressive in tone.

Through that lens, this behavior has been seen as "left-leaning." So in contrast, the right-leaning behavior would be letting everyone behave as they want with the "free market of ideas" being the primary driving force for change rather than any set of enforced community standard. (You can see the parallel with the typically "conservative" economic perspective.)

I hope you can see the general trend.

So what the grandparent is saying is that it's not REALLY about left vs. right, without explicitly contradicting the beliefs of the common social consciousness.

Edit: The comment above that says, "Different people have very different beliefs what is to be considered 'heated', 'hateful' and 'treating well' or not" would be considered "right-leaning" through the common lens because it's implicitly positing that there shouldn't be a common set of community standards (with the implicit supposition that you CAN'T set a common set of community standards because there will always be people who disagree). Not picking on anyone, just using an available example.
The Windows source code is available for some universities and some governmental agencies and some big companies, after signing a DNA and some additional paperwork, so it is somewhat in the "all rights reserved" "source-available" category.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/

I'm not sure if many webapps like gmail that have a big chunk of the UI in javascript count as "all rights reserved" "source-available". The code is minimized, obfuscated, and perhaps is the result of the transpilation of the real source, and it must talk to the servers that has not public source code.
Stress management and communication skills.
Bellman's lost in a forest problem
Is it though? This information certainly doesn't surprise me, nor do I think at this point that it surprises many folks that are tuned in to international news. Even so, this type of behavior is not out of the ordinary for many technologically-advanced countries. Let me be clear -- I am _not_ condoning this type of behavior, and I certainly am not defending Russia or President Trump, but this article feels like a poor attempt at making a jab at Trump and suggesting being a criminal.