skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I absolutely agree that he significantly overblows his technical acumen, and appears to make his name as a sort of ex-spokesman for open source. As you said, it seems that he's unfortunately moved more toward attacking others, which is sad.

> assuming you're not just another one of his racist sycophants.

Implying that all who do not agree with you are racist is a bit of a weighty allegation. I have no doubt you will call me a racist sycophant in retaliation. This is not to say I agree with him; I don't.

> mansplain away his racism.

Please don't use this term. It implies someone is doing something because of gender; how do you know the gender of the explainer? Or of all the explainees? It's a silly term used to attack certain points of view. If some one is a condescending horse's rear, just call him a condescending horse's rear.

> Affirmative action _is_ racism, by definition

This is a point agreed upon by many. Half the nation doesn't agree with you. This includes non-whites; it isn't fair to assume that every one who doesn't agree with you is racist.

> He has a huge following of racist alt-right pro-gun whack jobs

Guilt by association is not fair. Just because some one agrees with something I say doesn't mean I agree with what he says. Also, again not fair trying to paint all pro-gun people as whack jobs; much of the country disagrees with you.

In summary, you make generally good points, but adulterate them with a political message hostile to many. You needlessly attack people for political beliefs which are reasonably main-stream, thus turning them away from otherwise good points about ESR's deficiencies. Discussion on this ought to stay intellectual, rather than devolving into personal attacks on vast swathes of people you have never met or conversed with.
==Do people actually think that software engineering is going to become a job that isn't skilled, and isn't sought after?==

I'm not sure why you would be so sure it wouldn't. Are the software engineers of today truly that different from the machinists of yesterday?

If you believe in the free market, then it is elementary that more people will flood into these careers which will lower the wages and diminish the bargaining power of existing software engineers.
What was the economy difference between founding states? I don't care about rural urban divide. I care about states that can effectively be purchased by a rich individual having same say as states with country sized economies. At the time of founding individual states were bringing something to the table.
I don't disagree except "enterprise load and scalability" which is pretty much Erlangs bread and butter.
you could just close and not delete. it's very easy (too easy imo) to re-open a closed facebook account.

or do you mean the people with whom you don't regularly contact but might one day? i've found this is sort of an unwillingness to close doors type thing, hanging on to things that cannot be hung on to (especially true of more vagabond types, travelers, movers etc. who have a lot of these connections in areas they don't live).

the truly important people you can FB message with contact details, wait until they ack, then proceed.
> AGPLv3 requires a program to offer source code to “all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network.” It doesn't matter if you call the program a “client” or a “server,” the question you need to ask is whether or not there is a reasonable expectation that a person will be interacting with the program remotely over a network.

From https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AGPLv3ServerAsUser
Do your wall warts fall off the wall?
You are 100% correct. I would even expand it to say that it is very anti-western and frequently anti-capitalist (which is insane given the raison d'être of this site). Anything that paints the US or western culture in a negative light will flourish, meanwhile anything that disagrees with this orthodoxy is flagged to hell.
Oh wow this sounds like me — here's what I do and my 2 cents:

PLAN
1) Before the event, think of interesting questions and topics you can talk about

2) Remember as much as you can to let the person know you were listening and engaged

DURING
1) Listen more than you talk - ask the other person about their interests and hobbies (bonus if it's interesting to you too)

2) Don't try to be someone you're not - being your authentic / weird / quirky / self is better than trying to act like someone you're not

3) Admit that you're an introvert (assuming you are like me) - then people will be more accepting if you're more quiet than everyone else.

Good luck!
Why people take offense: Insights from the history of dueling
After the list of "what a healthy worker economy looks like" bullet points I expected some data to show these aren't the case but was disappointed to not find them. As is the case with many articles like this, I can only assume that making the case with words alone means the data does not support their conclusion.
And maybe they aren't. It's going to be hard to look around the net and draw a conclusion either way that everyone -- or possibly even most people -- will accept as definitive. There's an increasing number of studies that show exposure to fringe and extreme views consistently is more likely to foster extremism rather than inoculate against it, and as much as I wish that weren't so, I reluctantly find them rather convincing.

I find NearlyFreeSpeech.Net's position on hosting "really offensive content" to be well-reasoned and thoughtful. I'm just not convinced it's ultimately true. The web has brought unparalleled good to the world in the mere quarter century it's been with us. It's also arguably been the prime mover in bringing back flat earthers, Nazis, and measles. When you ask "don't the anti-vaxxers, climate change denialists, and white supremacists deserve great web hosting, too?", maybe the answer is "no, not really."
> not verifying and going with your gut

...which is exactly what "arguing from a position of ignorance" means. Once you attempt to verify medical advice (in good faith) you are no longer ignorant.
How would collecting a fine from all parties publishing a libel be different from silencing that particular idea?
This attitude that "to be offended you have to allow it" is ridiculous.

You can't simply turn your emotions on and off unless you are a sociopath.
This has to be the best description of how Bitcoin mining works that I have ever read (easy to understand and none of the usual ideology you find in usual Bitcoin writing)
Expanding on what sciurus said, theres four major issues with Winlink:

1) It uses proprietary PACTOR III and IV modems that only one company makes. This means to monitor Winlink you need to shell out thousands of dollars for a modem.

2) PACTOR transmissions don't send any ident in the clear, the ident is part of the PACTOR code.

3) There at least used to be an issue with PACTOR III modems both not detecting transmissions on the same frequency and falsely detecting transmissions on the same frequency, so Winlink stations were told to turn frequency-in-use detection off.

4) Theres a decent number of people who use Winlink as a substitute for Sailmail and thusly are in violation of 97.113(a)5.
Do you blame 4chan? Really? An emotionally disturbed person may have more input today in the Internet age, but the majority of 4chan users don't go out shooting mosques.

This was one fucked up Australian, from a country of over 30 million; and the first Aussie to commit a mass shooting since 1996.

I do not think it's right to place the blame on a bunch of random people saying things. They didn't murder all those people. Speech is not violence. Violence is violence, and that one guy decided to take it off the computer, hop across the pond, somehow get a ton of firearms in a country where they are heavily restricted, and then shoot up a bunch of innocent civilians.

There are millions of other Aussies and Kiwis who probably chat on the same networks he was on, and never take up violence. They may speak up against things they think are wrong or that they don't like, either online or in public spaces, but there is a big difference between speech/saying things and murder.
Just a temporary restriction until we start training AI in robots by interaction with the real world.
This is not true.
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Slightly more pragmatic reframing of the question:

> "Why do you host harmful content?"

To which your returned question would be similarly open-ended: Harmful to whom? Define harmless content. Etc.

... but probably a little more "down to earth" in terms of discussing the bounds of such definitions.

The root of being "offended" may often be grounded in an agenda to silence and control, but it's typically defended by referencing potential harm. So that's usually a good place to start overturning such arguments.
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>"The shift to lower wage jobs for entire groups of workers is similarly problematic. Working full time while earning much less than in the past has profound ramifications. Entire industries have been disrupted, and often employees find taking a new job in a different sectors leads to near-entry-level pay -- equivalent to a 30, 40, even 50% salary cut. These folks may be working full time but they clearly are underemployed relative to their experience, skills and past work. This is not captured in economic data."

The US is uniquely unable to cope with this outcome. Health Insurance is tied to employment. Education is costly. Our new mythology of Bootstraps instead of Social Guarantees. I don't see a new robust and dynamic economy coming to the rescue. For those of us currently doing well, this ought to be worrying.
What if our very own public Libraries had the ability to host local communities' dialogs etc. One of the things that it would protect is "freedom" of speech and it would be a better platform for communities to voice their concerns etc, without the fear of having their data mined or even have their voices or issues removed, because it was offensive.

Of course it would not be a perfect platform, but as an American, we need to start understanding and protecting the liberties and rights our own Constitution is providing us.

Peace.
This was what I thought as well. It's really too close. But awesome project nonetheless. I've given FLTK a try and while it's usable it seems a bit old in it's architecture.
Well, you wouldn't have to worry about Venice flooding...it'd be a couple of hundred miles from the sea.
Question: would you use a service that perfectly replicated your existing well fitting clothing? I have this problem — I occasionally find a pair of jeans, shirts etc that fit me really well. Then I can’t buy them again because the brand no longer makes them. I wish I could just get more copies made once in a while. Perhaps with different fabrics...
> Mothers! It is there!

Since no one has clearly pointed it out, "¡Madres!" is a multipurpose Mexican expression that rarely has to do with actual motherhood. "Holy crap!" is a good analogy in this case.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=madre https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/madre
Three prongs was a good idea before the existence of ground fault interrupters, but now that they do exist, ground fault interrupters with two prongs provides a much better solution.

The problem with ground is that it's a conductor. If there's a fault on it, you don't know exactly what it's connected to, so now you have a situation where the metal chassis is connected to something. You touch the chassis and the really-grounded a sink and you have a problem.

Here's a real world example of this. The ground is bonded to neutral at the panel. But what happens when neutral between the pole and the house breaks? This happened to my neighbor. There is still 240V with neutral/ground floating somewhere in the middle. All of his appliances on the less loaded side of the 240V blew up and "ground" was very not at earth ground.
Science Does Not Ask “Why?” Only “What?” and “How?”
You can share photos and videos and comment on them easily with Google Photos (or iCloud/Apple Photos).

Not sure what Facebook offers families more.

Facebook is great if you want to go beyond families and follow what your long-lost fourth cousin or way-back-when classmate from twenty years ago has been up to. I really wouldn't bother using it for immediate family.
Humans were built like this. We must spend time going back to our ape surroundings. Give yourself at least an hour to walk through wilderness with no music, no celphone, just walk and take nature in. God is in nature.
You should read Bruce Schneier. He generally explains why you should care. His book is pretty good too. The first third is general theory before he gets into implementations, and it's worth buying even if you never read past the halfway point.
Answering the "What if...?" questions may not be productive but is definitely still useful.
having heard of AOLServer, i'd say, that's about right. i discovered it in 1994 when i decided that the ncsa/cern servers were to simplistic. apache wasn't a thing yet. and the first alternative i found was a server written in common lisp. i was put off by the fact that i had to write lisp code to just serve static html files, so i kept searching, and found spinner (the predecessor for roxen) next. it came with an extensive webinterface for server administration and was just a blast to work with.
Someone once posted Perl6 and C/C++ code to #perl6 on freenode.net

According to them, Perl6 was faster.

(The Perl6 code was also a lot shorter, and I could argue it was easier to understand.)

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My guess is that the reason was that the C/C++ code had to scan for null terminators often, and copy strings around. (Or perhaps more precisely the stdlib had to do that.)

MoarVM doesn't use null terminated strings, and it treats strings as immutable objects.
If you do something like create a substring, it creates a substring object that points into the original string. So rather than copying a bunch of data it basically just creates a pointer.

(Strings are technically immutable in Perl6, it is easy to assume otherwise though.)
I assumed full-live (fresh frame comes strictly after previous one), not quasi-live.
> It feels a bit like a mild addiction since it's not totally rational to care about these tiny updates in the lives of people I'm unlikely to ever meet again

For all we know, human groups have always used gossip as a way to bond. I guess these Facebook updates are addicting because they are a good implementation of something humans have always felt the need for.
Where are these MBA’s located?

Are MBA’s not in demand in the Bay Area?
I don't mean customized by an individual user, I mean customized by the team to fit their style guidelines.
The things that hold me to Facebook are:

- It is how I know what's going on in the lives of all of my friends. While the bulk of us still live within 20 miles of each other, we might see each other once a year (if that) because most of them are married with grade school aged children and when they do have free time, they're using it to take family vacations or day trips. With Facebook we know what is going on in each other's lives and still interact just like we did in high school, shooting the shinola on each others posts just like we used to in the hall between classes.

- As a strength athlete, it is how we find out about events. Take strongman, there are 200~ ish of us that are all mutual friends with the bulk of those being here in the United States. When someone creates a new FB event page for a competition, you find out about it because you see "friends a, b and c have expressed the are going/are interested in going" or someone tags you "you going to this?" or when the person putting the event on creates it, they tag 20-50 people that they know are likely to either compete or volunteer to work it. And during stuff like Arnold, those that are of the caliber to actually compete at the Arnold, we get play by play from the people competing and their coaches/handlers and those of us that aren't competing but went. When Jessica Fithen won the SHW championship belt in 2017, I was messaging her congratulations (and getting a reply) from my bedroom in Indiana about a minute before the online online feed even got to it.

There just isn't a way to replicate either of those things without a social media platform. I like know what is going on in my friends lives even though we just don't get to see each other that often. Do we trade some privacy for that? Sure. Do we waste more time on the platforms than we should, for the most part yes, but considering I do get to see what is going on in their lives without having to schedule months in advance an hour where we might get to cross paths if something doesn't come up, then it is worth it to me. And with the strength sports thing, we might be in the same location once a year, even those that are here in Indiana with me we might see each other a few times a year because we are spread out 120-200 miles but Facebook lets us bust each other's chops and support each other and carry on just like we do in person on our phones all day long.

A few weeks ago I was at an event volunteering and had a couple people walking by me "hey Mercer!" that I've never actually met but have this genuine friend/camaraderie connection with because we have this digital space where we are there for each other and do bust each others chops in a fun way.
> censorship is always bad

This isn't true. A few examples.

If I post your naked photos online and they are censored, that isn't bad.

If I post your address online next to a photo of your house and it is censored, that isn't bad.

If I post the source code of your personal project online and it is censored, that isn't bad.

If I post the contents of your diary online and it is censored, that isn't bad.

If I post the contents of a heated argument between you and your spouse online and it is censored, that isn't bad.

If I post a photoshopped picture of your kid online and it is censored, that isn't bad.

Not everything deserves to see the light of day and actually, we do get to make that decision. This idea that "free speech" means everyone has to agree to let everything appear on the internet is false. "Free speech" also means "I have the freedom not to support someone else's speech".
Theres a decent number of people who use Winlink as a substitute for Sailmail and thusly are in violation of 97.113(a)5.
It's in the video linked in the post.
Don't be so sure, Intel always played "dirty" and always worked to make sure they have a huge influence over the major software giants of the time. In the last decades always made sure to present hardware manufacturers with "offers they can't refuse".

One of those offers costed them $1.25B more than they expected but was totally worth it.

For example, Intel gets a lot of money but also "gives" a lot of money in the form of "incentives" / tip / kickbacks to a lot of hardware manufacturers and the usual palm grease to an army of managers, execs, tech "journalists", governments, etc.

To be noted, they also have been competent enough making chips most of the time.
Yeah, that seems like the right answer.

However, I think you still have to hold developers responsible for clever tricks that violate the intent of the Android permissions system. There are always going to be loopholes. (This likewise means that there has to be room for developers to make honest mistakes.)
If hackers would target this sort of information when required, I'd be quite happy. For ISP collecting browsing data for example, grab a few politicians histories and publish them. Bonus points for doing it through completely legal means.
That seems extremely exaggerated. What’s illegal about private citizens choosing to use a service like Facebook to talk to each other?

If you want to “participate in government” nothing stops you from showing up to town or county council meetings, planning commissions, and so on, or from sending letters to your elected officials, or a phone call, or running for office yourself.
A simple guide to coding interviews
That sounds like silly word play. It'd be like if I said "Tom has power." To which I guess you might reply, "People don't have power. Societies have power, structures have power, and positions have power... but people don't have power." Okay, sure. But Tom still has power.

We are all responsible for the debts of our fathers, except the bill comes in the form of the physical world we inhabit. Who thinks they exist away from the past, except as rhetorical play about conquering old challenges?
At least in the United States, threats of violence are also protected speech. "Fighting words" are not, but that is generally taken to mean words intending to cause immediate direct and specific harm to a specific person. A generic sort of "I wish $person was dead" is protected.

This sort of thing came up a long time ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_Am...
> The gig economy was supposed to create lots of well-paying, independent jobs;

I hate this kind of revisionism. The gig economy was never some sort of political plan that promised anything. It was just the name given to the increasingly common work model. In fact, "creating jobs" was pretty much the opposite of the gig economy.
>It's incredibly unhealthy and this is just down to marketing that anybody eats it.

Because a spoonful of palm oil and sugar with hazelnut flavoring is tasty?
We're looking at MLS for Matrix too. The only reason E2E isn't enabled by default on Matrix today is E2E-enabled search isn't finished yet
Trade jobs. Welder, carpenter, plumber, etc.
Spending down your warchest to pay manufacturers to use your chips isn't something that even Intel can keep up forever. If AMD had kept up their performance lead eventually Intel wouldn't have been able to keep up its kickbacks.
Probably helps to have a combo of such personality types.

Woz: "Look we can do this better just give me some time."

Steve: "Ok fine."

-time-

Woz: "Hey we can also-"

Steve: "Damn it Woz no we need to sell a thing already!"
Being trapped in a middle of nowhere town that didn't even have sidewalks, combined with the (mis)fortune of having parents that couldn't possibly care less what I spent my time on all gave me everything I have today. Without those thousands of hours on the internet and nothing better to do, I would not be where I am today.
Do you wear a seatbelt? Its the same thing.
Check out their MFFAM policy. Search for, "What is the "MFFAM" policy?"
If your argument about it being elementary for people to flood into the career were true, then why have far older and desirable professions like law and medicine continued to be incredibly well paying?

Software is hard, humans have a hard time doing hard things, that's why we get paid more.
No goalposts were moved. I questioned the premise of OP's comment on whether unions can exist in a world where employees choose to switch jobs every 2-3 years.

You responded with an authoritative answer backed up with zero evidence or supporting data. That it was about unions is an embedded assumption based on that fact that the entire discussion is about unions.
Ask HN: Has Anyone Successfully Applied for Two Sigma's Alpha Studio Program?
I would love to hear about your experience with it, how the vetting process was and what was involved. Also, what kind of projects people work on and how well it pays.
Thanks. Really clear write up.

What issues can arise if the link between the EGC and GSC bus bars is left in place inside a subpanel?