skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot to parse here.

"white supremacist capitalist patriarchy" tech topics at tech conferences are probably not the best venue. Feels a little like false advertising if I expected to learn something about react.

Mac describing the react community as bro-code break things.. male energy as awful and something to be changed. 90% of the community is male and their energy made the react community what it is today. Exclude them and react has 1% of the market.

So many other programming languages have conferences that focus on the language.. why is react different.

Mac leaving the community sounds strange. What does it mean? She won't use react and will switch to vue? She will never code again (there are other libruaries/languages)

What is a code of conduct for react and how does it affect a normal developer. Can someone still use react or do they need to be vetted first?. Will they change the licease so if someone breaks these rules they will not allow react on any sites they developed?
> the vmkernel linked in a different version of the GPL'd drivers in question than the ones in the Console OS, but you know, close enough.

It wasn't "close enough" - they released the drivers/patches/modifications of those drivers, per the terms of the GPL.

IIRC they also avoided at least one network driver (I believe Alan Cox's 3com driver?) because the author had strong personal objections, and 3com actually wrote an alternative.

They also open-sourced the vmklinux API/wrapper layer itself, so the full picture pre-ESXi was:

vmklinux module - GPL'ed module for a proprietary VMkernel

vmklinux-based drivers - GPL'ed forks of drivers from the Linux source tree

console OS - GPL/open-sourced light fork of RHEL

VMkernel - proprietary, closed source (later available under shared source w/ NDA)

Hellwig's lawsuit AIUI argued that there was significant implementation, covered by copyright, in vmklinux headers and elsewhere, such that the vmklinux<->VMkernel boundary was not sufficient to prevent the latter from being a derived work of the former.

I also think that beyond that there was a strong belief and assumption in the Linux community that other parts of the VMkernel "must have" been copied from OSS/Linux as there was simply no way a random/small/private company could have possibly created its own file system, scheduler, network and disk stack, etc.

But the reality was simply that VMware had a ton of really talented and highly productive operating system experts in the early days.

[I was an employee at VMware from 2002-2011, opinions my own]
It surprised me too, and it's unclear what their basis is for saying this.

This WHO page [1] on measles statistics claims a 60% increase for the Americas. Maybe the BBC interpreted a <100% increase as a decrease, or maybe I'm misinterpreting it, since I don't see the raw numbers.

1: https://www.who.int/immunization/newsroom/measles-data-2019/...
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> Who's suggesting that?

I understood the parent comment to imply they shouldn't talk about recession because it would increase the likelihood of recession.

What you suggest sounds plausible. Most journalists aren't revealing anything, they are just echoing developing trends to a wider audience. If journalists are talking about recession more, other people are probably talking about recession more to journalists.
A Gameboy emulator project with detailed comment
The most terrifying part:

>The final phase of Reis' scheme was to buy controlling interest in the Bank of Portugal, a step which would allow him to retroactively make his fiction about Bank approval true. With control of the bank, the entire counterfeiting could be swept under the rug, ensuring that there would never be any evidence of the fraud.
> One round of asic that fails is significantly more expensive.

Does that change with ARM? If you're licensing the ISA, or even bits of HDL, you're still fabbing your own stuff, right?

If it was the choice between pre-made RISCV and pre-made ARM, then the licensing could play into a cost difference between models, but otherwise they'd both be pre-fabbed, ready-to-use-products?
> It's pushing talented, good people, with controversial lifestyle/opinion out of open source, out of the very thing that, in theory, should welcome contributions from anyone as long as it's technically sound and clear.

What if the people who are being pushed out have been pushing other people out this whole time? People complain a lot about losing talented/high-profile developers because they made parts of the community uncomfortable, but then seem to ignore/minimize the way that person was driving other talented people--often from underrepresented/marginalized groups--away.
There's a mystery boot blob in the RPi that's pretty famous.
It's been a long time since I learnt this, so I may be misremembering, but superconductors have a current saturation limit. You can only pass so much current.
What Happened to Hadoop
I got "fuddy-duddy", so presumably it was seen as an old (or old-fashioned) person's hobby.
Not sure about Germany, but in many places, you pay a small administrative fee. In a world of sky-high urban real estate prices/rents, they're approaching free.
"Unusual" the first of many. Once crimes like this become slightly more commonplace and start hurting the rich people you're going to see investment in an AI arms race unlike anything we've seen since the cold war. Defeating adversarial techniques and creating AI to identify other AI is going to be a huge business making what we are seeing now look like a drop in the bucket.
>Spam calling is not something were there is net value created for society so we need an elaborated discussion of what is ok and what is not (like e.g. paid universities).

Stanford is a "paid university". Harvard is too. Are you saying these institutions are a net negative to society? With free market capitalism you get the good and the bad, just like every other system in the world. The difference is you're given a choice.
Ones that got away: posters for films that never happened – in pictures
Libertarian leaning folks will say that forcing people to receive injections at the mandate of a government with a past history of abuse is an infringement of individual liberty.

Vaccines have undoubtedly saved millions of lives and eradicated numerous deadly diseases. But whether the government should make it illegal to refuse vaccines is not only a question of health, but one of individual liberty. The answer may be, "public health is more important than individual liberty", but this gets into a gray area.
Historically on the written portion of the SAT length is substantially correlated to the final score.
I just installed the app and I'm a fan. I have some suggestions:

- Please add a "Skip Back" of 10 or 15 sec. I often zone out and miss a few sentences and the playback/progress bar isn't quite accurate in skipping back.

- Please integrate the audio controls into the iOS media controls

- (Maybe) allow previewing some audio before requesting account creation. I almost abandoned the install at that spot.

Cheers on launching an awesome set of apps!
(Not the person you replied to.)

> Please put a magnitude on it and some evidence and sources behind it.

Alberta's helmet law – children's cycling halved, injuries increased per cyclist

https://www.cyclehelmets.org/1250.html

HEAT analysis: United Kingdom

https://www.cyclehelmets.org/1231.html

Frequently asked Questions For Policy Makers

https://www.cyclehelmets.org/1137.html
This story is really sketchy, how did they ever confirm that AI was involved unless they caught the perpetrator?
People have probably been taking a treasure trove of documents with them for a long time. What has maybe changed is that companies have the technology to prove it and the appetite to litigate it at the same time.
You could fit it in with child abuse laws already?

I'm in the UK that has lost eradication status. Before I could claim my children weren't in danger because its eradicated. Now it isn't and am now exposing my children to a clear danger.

Is it not analogous to letting my children play with the bleach under the sink?
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> I fail to remember a single negative response regarding Rust

That's because the primary (and so far only) use for Rust is as an excuse to avoid learning C++.

Nobody actually writes real software in it.

As you doubtless already know, the programming language everybody likes is a programming language nobody uses.
Right wing populism is on the rise across the world; it is not a uniquely american problem.
Forcing people to undergo medical treatment is ethically questionable at best. It's an extremely heavy measure to take.

So no, cost is not the reason and I think it's a bit scary that that's the best reason you could come up with.

I'm as sceptical of antivaxxers as most of HN, but I'm appalled at the level of support for forced medical intervention in the comments here. That's the stuff of dictatorships.
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I remember to this day when I went round and round with a calculus teacher in high school who told me "sin(x) + 2" was incorrect. Then answer she wanted was "2 + sin(x)". I argued that addition was commutative, "2 + 3 = 3 + 2" and so forth. She wouldn't budge. She also said it was impossible to calculate the exact area under a curve, because you can't draw an infinite number of boxes under the curve.

Having an ignorant teacher is almost as bad as a flawed, black-box algorithm.
If you haven't tried it, Google translate does a really good job with translating german law texts.
Is there actually a difference? If he had memorized every detail in those documents, that would have been okay -- but taking the documents isn't? Is the former only okay because it seems practically unlikely for one human to memorize everything?
You can watch Kitboga on YouTube. He calls these centers and walks through the whole scam. Basically they use fear of an arrest to get the target to buy gift cards. It sounds dumb but it works on vulnerable members of society.
The Mac girl gave a talk about how she doesn’t feel able to contribute well in tech due to people’s implicit biases and existing power systems, some people online pointed the finger at two leaders in the react community as examples of that. Over the weekend, the person who gave the talk experienced a ton of online harassment (par for course for being a woman online unfortunately) and some of the accusers really escalated what they were accusing the react devs of.

I think there is likely good support in the girls original talk, an implicit understanding in JS land that the react community is has some deep bro encoding (bro meaning weightlifting, video games etc, not politics and hatred), and a misunderstanding that a deep bro encoding doesn’t mean you’re alt right trump supporters but it does mean that a “non bro” might have a hard time fitting in and experience relatively more harassment in that community than in others.
I'm sure part of it is that they weren't doing their construction inside of a hugely popular active themepark, too.
At least that means more jobs for us, right?
> "So serious in fact that in May, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the next version of its handbook of diseases, the International Classification of Diseases (ICD11), will recognize [burnout] as an official “occupational phenomenon” that could drive people to seek medical care."

Eh, what? I thought ICD-10 already had a code for occupational burnout: Z73.0. (https://icd.codes/icd10cm/Z730)
It doesn't even have to be nanotube? Just regular diamond tube or something else that can hold the pressure. Maybe it could be done in the same way diamonds are made, just put the superconducting stuff inside first.
From tfa:

"Reis then proceeded to launder the bills into gold-backed foreign currencies and smaller denominations of Portuguese currency."

So sounds like he did launder the money successfully, but he stuck around for the final part of his plot: gain a controlling share in Banco de Portugal to retroactively make his fiction become true.
I think it's unlikely you'll be able to find a ready-made translation for free, since it's very niche. Gesetze-im-Internet has translations of the more important laws, but for the Bundeskleingartengesetz there's only the German version: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bkleingg/BJNR002100983.ht...

If you want a translation (to convince Montreal to adopt similar laws?) you'll need to find someone to translate it for you.
To me the terrifying part is it nearly worked:

"Eventually they controlled 10,000 of the 45,000 shares needed for controlling interest in the bank, but publicity led Bandeira to ease off the purchases even as he sent Reis ever more inflated false reports of the number of shares they had acquired."
My kids' school doesn't have one number. It varies, and they also use emergency alert systems (presumably via something like Twilio) that don't always come from a predictable number either.
bourgeois is probably the right translation
Quarantining infections has been a function of government for 10,000 years.
If you post like this again we will ban you.

We've banned the account above, for obvious reasons.
One reason people refuse vaccination is that they are worried the vaccines are secretly an attempt to sterilize undesirable segments of the population. For example, see what happened with the tetanus vaccine in Kenya in 2014.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tetanus-vaccine-sterilizat...
> Events like 2008 and 1929 and 1987 come out of nowhere as a surprise,

No, they don't. Lots of people, in pretty much every media outlet, were saying a collapse of the type that occurred, with very much the specific trigger (housing bubble collapse) that it occurred, was imminent for a couple years leading up to it in the run up to the 2008 collapse. Like every notable economic commenter from every different school that usually agree on nothing.

Maybe fee people were paying attention, but definitely lots of people were sounding the alarm.
Some companies (the smart ones) don’t want to turn over all their internal data to giant companies who’s primary business model is to collect and sell data.

Also, the solution you propose would be a nightmare to manage.
Says the man spraying bullets around the auditorium.

Or the man urinating on your shoes.
Here's the source of the original quote: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3109150/linux-at-25-linus-...
Admittedly, kernel and driver development are different things. The original quote was to do with kernel development.

"That's not a new phenomenon at all. We've had the system people who used Modula-2 or Ada, and I have to say Rust looks a lot better than either of those two disasters.

I'm not convinced about Rust for an OS kernel (there's a lot more to system programming than the kernel, though), but at the same time there is no question that C has a lot of limitations.

...I don't think you actually solve any of the really hard kernel problems with your choice of programming language. The big problems tend to be about hardware support (all those drivers, all the odd details about different platforms, all the subtleties in memory management and resource accounting), and anybody who thinks that the choice of language simplifies those things a lot is likely to be very disappointed."

I disagree with him about Ada, for what it's worth, but the overall point is correct. The real problems of kernel development aren't things a borrow checker will help with. A big part of developing a kernel takes place before management of heap memory is even relevant.
All this being said. For user-space applications, Rust has a lot to offer.
What happened? Actually a whole lot of nothing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/cwvbsh/whats_...
TechLead: fired from Facebook.
Guys i'm sure, am okay about what facebook did to techlead, is not fair in any way. Checkout his video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pIJoPkh9IU . What do you guys think?
Performative outrage is a social currency.

There may be something there, but outrage can easily become an end in itself.

(I have no dog in this hunt, haven't looked at it at all, it's just a social dynamic that I've seen playing out several times, especially in Twitter pile-ons based on limited or misleading quotes.)
It may have been when these scandals started many moons ago and there are always exceptions to anything, but from what I've been reading for the past ~2 years, this is not the case any more.

People being pushed out are, in many if not most cases those who have a personal life, with personal view on life, which other can't accept, despite the fact that those views and their work are usually well separated from each other.
> I don't see how they plan to enforce accurate call descriptions.

A reporting/flagging system, perhaps? "This call wasn't as described". After enough reports, they lose the verified status.
Whenever events like this happen there is rarely an unbiased account of what was said. I still have no clue what was said by any one of these parties. It would better serve the community at large to be able to interpret their own conclusions from the behavior than read these inflammatory click bait posts.

I’m reminded of the bullshit “dongle” incident from a few years ago.
> I really don't like the system they arrived at, however they arrived at it. Voting is imbalanced, ...

The election of representatives in the UK may be flawed and imbalanced, I agree. But in this case they held a referendum, which cannot in any case be considered as "flawed", the Brexit option won clearly, and now the government has the democratic duty to fulfill the choice taken in the referendum.
Im a 28 year old in US
1) i dont use plastic or pesticides in my garden. I use geopots and living soil
2) never used peat
3) collect rainwater

I eat 3 to 4 meals a week that largely feature produce from my garden for 8 months of the year.

This can be replicated without exasserbating any of the valid issues you noted.

Industrial agriculture is a scourge.

Grow your own food yall.
even with only 10% of that list, it would still be a long wait.
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Rust has some extra costs, but it also has advantages over C and C++.

For example, the Rust compiler can and does reorder fields in structs to improve packing. In C and C++ you have do it manually, and for C++ templated types you sometimes can't pick an order that's optimal for all type parameters. (Rust can pick different field orders for different monomorphized types.)

The Rust compiler does other nice representation optimizations, e.g. Option<bool> is represented as a single byte with three possible values. Not just a hack for Options, but general.

Maybe even more importantly, Rust is really strict about aliasing and this can improve optimization. E.g. a variable that's a mutable reference to T ("&mut T") cannot alias any other reference to T in scope. An immutable reference to T ("&T") can alias other immutable references to T, but the data is truly immutable (unlike a C or C++ const reference). This completely subsumes "type-based alias analysis" and also C/C++ "restrict", and is stronger than both. This information is potentially really useful for optimizers, but unfortunately, since LLVM is mainly for C/C++, the Rust compiler can't take full advantage of this aliasing information yet :-(.
I recommend reading up on how FED got created.
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Malicious websites were used to secretly hack into iPhones for years,says Google
Nope. But given that the write-up talks about victims being victims merely for being in a geographical region makes me immediately think about wifi portals, and ISP/telecom-injection via DNS hijacking.

We already know that ISPs routinely hijack your DNS queries to snarf your search queries, inject ads, redirect you to cached versions of big sites to “speed up your experience”, warn you of virus infection, etc etc.

It would be trivial for a state actor to use the same mechanism to redirect you to a site that, say, looks like Google, passes your search query to Google, retuns Google, but also serves up the js that pushes the implant.

Really pushes the issue that everyone — especially activists and targeted minority groups — need to be educated about DNS and proper VPN usage (a misconfigured VPN would not help here), and it would be awesome if device makers made checking and verifying this stuff easier for normal-grade users.
While I generally agree with you, there something to be said for everyone more deeply understanding the impact of all the modern conveniences we enjoy. Everything has a cost, most people don't see those costs.
For anybody wondering if vgo is production ready, we've been using it since it came out in go 1.11 and so far didn't have any problems.

Existing workflows don't break because there's the vendor command and dependency management is instantaneous. You can also roll it out gradually as it doesn't have any problems depending on non-module repositories (using commit hashes and dates)

There's a great blog post series too if you're interested in the internals of go modules: https://research.swtch.com/vgo (it's also one of the good counterexamples to people claiming go ignored x years of PL research and history)
In France, it is mandatory.
Still, there is some cases of measles because of anti-vax that go against the law...
"Aside from iCloud hosting" is a pretty big "aside"
I hope I remember your HN comment next time I get to swim in an ocean. Until then, could any other ocean-swimmers confirm this trick?
That's my point. It doesn't have to be that way. Other nations are able to build not just "extensions", but entire train lines, in much less time than that.
Do you know whether the graph accounts for the recently reported error in the jobs figures? According to the Department of Labor, 500,000 fewer jobs were added in 2018-early 2019.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/business/economy/jobs-gro...
Certainly, there are many incentives that help break the system, and the corporate media is one of them. I don't see a good alternative though, state funding doesn't really work that great either, and relying on donations doesn't sound like a plan if you want to be able to tell your readers things they might not want to hear.
Someone associated with react gave a speech on white supremacist capitalist patriarchy at a tech conf. Someone said this is a swf topic. People agreed. Orginal speaker cries Racism/male power and has other people back her up. She says she is leaving community. React leader turns off twitter for a few days and comes back with new racism react behaviour code. Most devs just keep thier heads down and keep coding.
Then they shouldn't leave their property and keep everyone else off.
What's surprising about this?

You needed resources to play, even the slight advantage like being taller is correlated to wealth.

Many prefer to watch YouTube video, because they've no means to do it themselves and many are happy just watching.

It's similar to how in apes we see alpha having sex while rest only get to watch.
Would you please not post nationalistic flamebait to HN? It's against the guidelines and we don't want it here, regardless of which nation you have an issue with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yup, it is probably something like that. It wouldn't start without being granted the permissions though.
> For example, the Rust compiler can and does reorder fields in structs to improve packing.

Yikes! That can be disabled, right?
? is it worth spending a lot of time to avoid SaaS fees?
No, it isn't everywhere. Bike theft is extremely rare in Japan, and no one locks bikes to anything there.
So we're going to have to start signing our voice mails with our private keys now?
For that reason the laws don't make vaccinations mandatory, they make it illegal to enter public schools without a vaccination. Limiting dangerous activities in public places is accepted by most as a valid function of government.