skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn’t follow the story. Was Stallman taken out of context?

Anyway, he probably should have know better than to weigh in.

One’s well thought out response and subtle points can often turn out to have a few holes. In fact...

“If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged”
https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy works well
Square absolutely has a point about being taxed on money that they pay out to vendors, but that unfortunately seems to be built into Prop C. The discussion about tech company building products in the X space being X companies or tech companies is a separate, more thorny one.
Why couldn't it be both? Internal scruitny is necessary but I'd say that how well communicated research is influences how much funding and attention it gets which obviously matters a lot in shaping the scientific community.
Oh, so it doesn't! Sorry, I meant to check before pressing send but got ahead of myself. We do quite a lot of security work - it's probably the one area we don't cut scope on. Someone reported a security bug today and we fixed it immediately.
Thanks for the write-up, Craig!

I'm an EV grantee as well and what was interesting is that all of the grantees were kind of "fringe" in what they were doing, and I think that's on purpose.

It was a great atmosphere, and as Craig described it didn't matter if you were 18 or 50 years old, or if you had a PhD from Harvard or were a college drop-out author.

I imagine that this is what the first couple of YC batches also must have felt like (of course I can't know :-) )

I'm excited to see what this group of people will go on to do, and think that Tyler picked the grantees exteremly well.
I take (very minor) issue with your first line and the point "well written" (I do agree with well presented).

Since the author is reading/commenting here, and there was a large amount of space in the original article outlining tools/services he uses, can I humbly suggest they use a tool like "Grammarly" or similar to help with the word-choice(s)?

Some distracting use of plurals for terms - e.g. "traffics", "stuffs", etc - may have been avoided and other spelling and grammar aspects could have helped make this easier to read. That all being said - the 'essence' of the article is to be commended.
tl;dr "you should treat reporting on medical, scientific, and social scientific topics as having less than zero credibility"

Well, yeah. You should treat all reporting as having zero credibility. Otherwise people will believe anything they read, especially if more than one source reports it. This is a logical fallacy.

A lot of people have reported being abducted by aliens. So far, not much proof. But if the biggest media companies all reported tomorrow that a guy in Kansas got abducted by aliens, everyone would just buy it immediately.

Nothing is true until it has been proven.
I watched the videos and read the blog post. My response is equal parts amazement and skepticism. They poked fun at Kubernetes but what they have is something less transparent (more magic) and requires you to learn a new language and way of working. I'd be much more receptive if the option was there to peek under the covers and let me use my own language. I'm also curious how this would work in a CI/CD environment inside enterprises that require it. This all being said, I signed up for the beta and look forward to kicking the tires.
"Math class is tough" Barbie is a byproduct of this attitude. It directly feeds into under-performance in academics. The education system itself isn't broken so much as expectations are low to let the less studious scrape by.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_Talk_Barbie
"It will charge corporations with revenue above $50 million about 0.5 percent in gross receipts tax, with the proceeds going entirely toward homeless programs"

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/SF-Prop-C-homel...
Elon Musk testified he worried Thai cave diver might be 'another Epstein'
I'm not sure how their existence improves science, considering the questions they often demand of scientists come from no area of scientific rigor or examination.

If anything we've started seeing the clear opposite, where the climate change deniers or anti-vaxxers have been outright suppressing scientists and reports that disagree with their skepticism.
Could you perhaps write articles on these? I'd be super interested as someone looking to know more about starting a solo company.
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Where do you think those 384 liters of water to produce a liter of almond milk go? Back into the environment, mostly the ground.

Water is not being consumed or destroyed. There’s the same 384 liters left.
I think you're right. You're not the only person in the thread with this feedback. I read this book and thought I could contribute, but I haven't read anything with more recent context. (Haven't even finished the book yet, still working on it.) So yeah, I appreciate this callout, I apologize, and I'll try to do better next time.
Yes it should be. Otherwise the government would have it's grubby hands in every deal, because power begets the desire for more power. Amazon has plenty competition
HFC Still better than FTTN (VDSL) with most of the HFC network supporting DOCSIS 3.1 supporting speeds of 10Gbit
but I acknowledge that questioning your beliefs is good. It's foundational to the scientific method. I just don't see how uninformed challenges are worthwhile. At this point things like vaccine effectiveness are basic facts. What more can scientists do?
That’s definitely true.

But I think the big problem for him is that his comments were quite troubling even in proper context.
Even under the type of gun control Sanders advocates (universal background checks, bans on assault weapons), private citizens will still be able to buy and own firearms.

There may well be scenarios where an AR-15 is preferable to a plain hunting rifle, but in the event of an environmental, economic, and societal collapse I think it's unlikely that the kind of gun some random person owns will be a major factor in their survival.
huh? why publish if you don’t want it used?
Eh, there are some who do - I’ve never met one in person, but I have seen many online.
They're not showing IP addresses, they're showing /8 CIDR blocks, that's very coarse granularity.
I also like the TouchBar and use BetterTouchTool a bit. But the limitation that annoys me is that I can't simultaneously customize it and display app specific context buttons. As in one section customized if a spotify thing is playing, but otherwise make the space available for overriding.
It did change in the later period, but again, scientists were moving progress rather despite the regime, than thanks to it. Stalin was just one of the most egregious examples of that sort.
Onboarding is broken, can't get through.
Computer Scientist Richard Stallman Resigns from MIT over Epstein Comments
Good ol' Dreamweaver. Used that for awhile.. worked great for the time :)
I know. They make Washington politics look practically straight laced and we all know what a den thieves and cut throats it is.
Uh, Google is unlikely to standardize on a single language. The codebase is too big, the incumbent languages are too well entrenched, and they've heavily invested in supporting multiple languages. I'm not sure anyone claimed that either?

If anything the trend is towards slowly adding acceptable languages, but the bar is pretty high.
Pretty amazing that a single company can own an entire block of IP space, if I understand this correctly. Approx how many addresses is this?
This is how you destroy an institution. Now a politically correct person will take his place, likely a young women. She will increase equality and participation, and also those nerd computey things.

Funny this is not happening everywhere, just in the west. Makes you think.
> I'm sorry, this is a terrible argument. That's definitely not a common usage of Generics.

It is very common indeed in the three large Enterprise Java houses I've worked in over the past 15 years. FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition is the reality in all three of those places. Not only is it reality, it is requirement.
The language itself is pretty bonkers, to be sure. I think the Amiga probably did this better with ARexx, simply because Rexx was much better for "friendly scripting language." I was going to say I'd made my peace with AppleScript, but it'd be more honest to say "I've gotten better at beating AppleScript into submission."

iOS Workflow/Shortcuts is what Automator should have been in a lot of ways. If Automator was superseded by a macOS version of Shortcuts, I'd actually love it, as long as it didn't lose any of Automator's functionality. (All they'd really need to do is add Shortcuts that run AppleScripts and shell scripts, I think, and be able to use automator actions exposed by applications.)
Was this his only MIT affiliation?
Tech is cyclical. I got punched in the face financial-wise by the dot-com crash of the early 00's. I have little reason to believe such crashes won't happen again.

For example, our web standards are ill-fitted for productivity-oriented business applications, creating a lot of wasteful busywork. If new standards came along to address that, many coders would be let go.

And I'm sure there's an AI bubble at play. The PE ratios of AI companies are not realistic: they can't carry themselves from revenue alone. When the crutch of investment money dries up, they'll fall like dominos. If you are in AI, have a Plan B career.
That's actually insane to me. Is the price just the relative cost of getting clean drinking water on the east coast of Florida? I just can't imagine ever paying that much for water. What do you do if you're poor?
And the best part is it's still based on UDP
Do you trust it?
> The US does all these things, too. It has a shorter history, though

An important point that is being almost universally ignored here.

The history of a modern, organized US is about 150 years old at this point. Anything prior to the Civil War is a baby-level of development, hopeful, maybe, could be, nation just learning how to crawl. It's rather absurd that the US is being browbeaten in this thread against cultures that have existed for many hundreds of years or more; in some cases a thousand plus years.

The US has shifted from being ~80% white European-descendant culturally to being 55%-60% (in real terms, as the US has ~25 million illegal immigrants that are never net leaving, and they contribute culturally to the pool) in the span of 40x years, with a massive injection of Asian and Latin-American-Hispanic cultures since the early 1970s. With the point being, the US isn't even remotely close to being a settled, well established cultural structure. Who knows what it will or won't become in 200 more years.
> Also a great way to throw out massive red flags to any enterprise user that cares about privacy and non-disclosure.

If you want to have a business relationship with someone, pay them.
You make it sound like all regulation is bad. There's surely some unnecessary and bad individual regulations, but overall, I prefer a world where a startup can't have success dumping toxic chemicals into a river.
Shogun is such a great book. I like to escape to it every year or so.
Maybe they could optimize by turning off (and not paying for) cellular when WiFi is available.

Seems disgustingly plausible, tbh.
Yes! Sublime Text certainly has the functionality, but the search/replace UX is a big part of what keeps me going back to BBEdit for technical writing.
I can't believe I haven't seen this before!
I took about three and a half months. The trip can be done much faster if the goal is to reach London ASAP - I estimate about 17 days. I spent about a month in China exploring it using her High Speed Trains. Also stayed in cities for varying durations depending on the feel of the city.
> Anyway, he probably should have know better than to weigh in.

RMS is not exactly famous for his keen social skills.
I worked at a (big) company where this happened: Very expensive HQ offices built with policy that >= Director get private offices. Due to miscount, restructuring or some combination thereof there ended up being ~3 offices less than needed. "Fixed" with a policy change that only >= VP get private offices. This left a very large number of vacant offices and the HQ looking a ghost town.
Yes, but will he step down from his role with the Free Software Foundation? I'm more concerned about that, since that's a more public-facing role.
the collective.. Tildeverse is now the BoRg :P Almost works too. lol
Same here. I use it constantly with a handful of plugins, never had an issue.
They did get competitive pricing, but they have a lot more wiggle room because they’re a giant company with far more revenue, marketing, and branding than a couple ma and pa stores. These distributors may or may not have the exact same terms, but at the end of the day, these other corporate stores had enough foot traffic that provided them ammo to help define their own terms. You just didn’t have that leverage as a smaller shop.
If a company the size of Apple finds this that useful, perhaps you should consider charging for your service, rather than just complaining on Twitter about the free usage you appear to have willingly given away?

Or perhaps you have reached out to them, but are for some reason still complaining on Twitter to drum up PR or something?

Regardless, this posting is ridiculously context-free to the point of being click-baity. (But hey, good job, I clicked on it anyway.)
Both need to be solved but the problem spaces of "the doctor wants to you to come for an appointment the next day" and "the doctor thinks you're addicted so won't prescribe you anything" are completely unrelated and I don't really see how the former ended up in this article.

Solving pain relief without being labeled an addict certainly shows value even if you have to inconveniently schedule an appointment to be prescribed.
Great post - I'm running almost the same exact thing - Flask instead of Django, Saltstack instead of Ansible, rq instead of celery - supervisord, postgres, redis, ubuntu, nginx, aws (actually multicloud, BigQuery for data).

It's very good stuff!
My strategy is similar to yours and I buy a $400 phone every 2 years. In 2017 I got an LG G5, which served me well. This year I got a Google Pixel 3A, which has also been great. I tried phones in the $200 range, but the user experience wasn't quite as pleasant as I cared for.
My comment is substantiated by the millions of MBPs they sell every year. I’ve worked with thousands of people who use MBPs since the touchbar came out, and the only people I’ve ever heard complain about it are online “pundits”. Most people I hear mention it love it. The only alternative explanation is that Apples market research is wrong, and that all sales of MBP since the release of the touchbar have been anomalous. It’s completely obvious how out of touch most Apple commentary is with their market.
WeWork Is Likely Delay IPO After Valuation Plummets
The article title states "reportedly"; this is not official. Can the title here be changed to reflect that?
I don’t like conferences or unconferences. But I find conferences at least bearable whereas unconferences are egregiously unbearable. The scale of political gamesmanship and signalling is just exhausting especially when it is dressed up in so much self-unaware insistence that it’s totally not just political networking or signalling. It has the same vibe to me as cultish start-ups.

Conferences are often quite bad too. But I’ll take the structured interaction any time. The structure and scheduled topical constraints make it better, not worse. The problems that mainstream conferences have are not things that self-organizing look-how-salt-of-the-earth-we-are-just-having-a-potluck-or-hacking-in-a-garage “enlightenment” attitudes can solve.
What you’re missing is that comparing a company people have never heard of to a FAANG company generates clicks.
1) No, the only one I could see an argument for would be the escape key, but I'm not fussed about that personally, but I also don't live in Vim. Apps also have custom touchbar functions that are more useful than just the function keys in my opinion (you don't have to learn as many keyboard shortcuts for each app).

2) I don't, other than the customization you can do within macOS. I think the only thing that I've really done is remove the Siri shortcut from it.

3) Good so far. I have a 2018 model which has the silicon membrane under the keys and is supposed to be a bit more resilient. One benefit that this whole mess does have is when my battery deteriorates I can get a new one for free by using the keyboard replacement program. At this point if I didn't already have the MacBook I would wait for the next keyboard design to buy one, but personally have not had issues (yet). As far as the typing experience I find it good for short burst typing and the short key travel is generally fine with me, despite using mechanical keyboards elsewhere.
YMMV. I've seen an adtech company who purchased hardware to install in colos, and a couple of years later their failure rate was almost 5%/year. I would never bet on four nines from a single commodity box.
Uhh, I've messed it up a lot more ways than zero, and it's easy to do. In fact, doing the exact same thing in a console app and a Windows Forms app will result in a deadlock in one of them, for absolutely no obvious reason.

Async and await in C# may be wonderful to some, but they are horribly broken to others.
That's about $4000/month in bandwidth costs, assuming retail pricing.

FYI he is bragging, not complaining. There are a dozen ways to reduce or eliminate this problem.
Classic example of UI error.

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Debunking the Debunkers: Free Will on Appeal
I'm no historian, but it seems to me the hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic, and the resulting destruction of many Germans' life savings, were a big factor in why Hitler's rhetoric was appealing to many.
The starting point for windows laptops with 15.6" 4k screens is ~$1200 nowadays (280 ppi). Current gen macbook pros are 227 ppi. They also cost more, but obv not relevant if you need mac os for some reason.
You're joking right? Lots of people use twitter. It's not just for tweens anymore. This is as good a way as any to get Apple to take notice and maybe send some bucks their way. It's a half joke/half serious attempt
> scientists were moving progress rather despite the regime, than thanks to it.

No, it is more nuanced than that. Those scientists only had their positions because the state chose to allocate resources to keep them employed. With the fall of Communism, when academia was exposed to market forces, those departments were often gutted.

Also, certain fields gained considerable state support precisely because the regime felt they served its own foreign policy goals. For example, the USSR was a powerhouse for the study of the Iranian language family. This was not only because a number of Iranian languages were spoken within the USSR, but also because the USSR wanted good Central Asian areal studies so that it could better extend its influence over Iran and Afghanistan. The same is true of many of the Third World nations where the USA and USSR were fighting for influence: name a language in Africa or Asia, and there is often a very well-written Soviet-era grammar or lexicon that linguists everywhere still cite today.
I think there are other ways recent generations have managed to ruin the futures of the generation now being raised (the whole time telling youngsters how good they have it, no less). But this is certainly one of the starker ways. It is sad.
It really seems like his real 'sin' is not being neurotypical.

Should he try to have more tact? Sure, of course. But failing that, the correct response is compassion and gentle correction, not a witchhunt. Not driving him out of his jobs.
Masters of the Fountain Pen: Kiyoshi Kato
IIRC the largest ISP in Australia is Vodafone who provide more mobile IP connectivity than anyone else. (Source: Personal discussion with senior management, ~5? years ago)
With that level of corruption I'm not sure I'd be so trusting their is a "functioning justice system" just because it's locking important people away - it could be a sign of the exact opposite.
> You know what's one thing that makes people very unhappy with their lives? Severe chronic pain.

That's my point. Having taken an opiate actually has little to do with whether they form an addiction. So we shouldn't be focused on restricting supply to treat and prevent addiction.

> Any flesh and blood human will become dependent on opiates after a few weeks.

Yes, if by dependency you're referring to withdrawal symptoms or tolerance. Opioid addiction however varies wildly depending on the demographic, despite all having consumed opioids. It's not the act of taking opioids that predicts whether someone becomes addicted. Research points to addiction not being caused by the drugs themselves. This isn't surprising when you consider that humans get addicted to such a wide variety of totally unrelated chemical combinations. When you think about it, isn't it a little suspicious that almost any chemical that can be consumed is potentially addictive? That strongly suggests that addiction is not about the drugs really, and research is finally corroborating this.

Having said that, now think about the fact that all food is drugs (chemicals that affect and manipulate your biology) and it becomes apparent that addiction is a much much bigger issue than one might assume when only thinking about things like Oxy and booze as drugs. If one qualifies harmful diet as drug addiction it turns out the majority of our society is suffering from addiction. But there's very little research going on in this area, despite diet probably being the most prevalent and harmful form of drug addiction. You can't unsee it. The similarity between someone talking about their struggles with poor diet ("but that cheeseburger/cheetos/soda/etc. is all I have, can't I have just one thing to look forward to?") and someone talking about alcoholism or smoking is almost indistinguishable.
Yes, I am sure this will destroy an institution with a $16,000,000,000 endowment.

Perhaps you should step up, donate, give them a comfortable nest egg so they don’t feel the need to take donations from a convicted sex offender. They are obviously that hard up for cash.
CTRL: A Conditional Transformer Language Model for Controllable Generation
I once watched a fight to the death between a wasp and a brown recluse. The wasp won and tried to carry the spider away but it was too heavy.
It's a /8, which is 2^(32 - 8) = 16.7 million address.
It sounds like a misconfigured build pipeline which re-downloads the model for every single build.
Chalk up another scalp for the neopuritans.
Oh, cool! I tested clojure and graal some months back and, at the time, it was a lot clunkier to get working and only worked with clojure 1.9. This looks much simpler and works with 1.10, awesome!
FWIW, I met folks from Panic when Coda was first released, back when the Macworld Expo was a thing, and said -- honestly -- that the program struck me as "Dreamweaver without the suck." They joked it was a shame they couldn't use that as a tagline.

Coda is more like VS Code and Sublime Text in some ways, but it definitely has Dreamweaver's "one stop shop for big web sites" thing going. (BBEdit also has that to a large degree, despite being even more of a pure HTML/text editor.) The biggest liability Coda has is that it feels designed for a time when we were primarily building sites out of hand-coded HTML; like BBEdit, it really isn't optimized for working on MVC-based apps, whether server-side or front-end.
requiring an extra adapter to connect you phone to your laptop really goes against the "it just works" creed
Which ones were troubling? I don't see anything that stands out on the page linked.