skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans sometimes draw conclusions which are overly reductive.

"This person is an addict" is a very tidy and convenient explanation for a multitude of symptoms which would otherwise be vexing to analyze and treat, and it also is a not-that-improbable answer in terms of the base rate.

Keep in mind that these examples are cherry picked failures. Actually, when you consider that they're presumably the worst cases the author personally knew of-- they're surprisingly not that bad. None of them featured the patient being killed by police officers as a result of misdiagnosis of addicition and especially poor handling by the hospital...

Even if we had chosen "make them easier to get" you'd still probably be able to find examples of laughably false addiction diagnoses resulting in poor care...
These kinds of announcements from Microsoft still boggle my mind a little.

It seems only a little while ago that I heard stories of a friend’s high school programming teacher, who received threats from Microsoft’s legal department for emailing them a patch
to fix a crash in Windows 95.
Do you know their business model? Looks like they are open source company. How they earn money?
Gervais is hugely powerful because he has the money to survive being unpersoned. Not everyone is in his position. His comment is like Shaquille O’Neal saying you actually can walk around and punch anyone you like in the face, because nobody retaliates when he does it (just a hypothetical, of course Shaq wouldn’t do that).
To get a second chance you need to realize what you did wrong and apologize (at least that the standard I set for kids). Until that I assume he's still just as bad as when he made the "mistake.
I use it for a long time. Maybe there is a better alternative
Oh good, another dog whistle to look out for.
Parent asked what the slippery slope argument to be had here was, and aazaa responded with the answer to that question. Why are you confused?
>> It hurts to see people continue to make mistakes over and over,

Its because

https://vimeo.com/76499047
Great stuff! My suggestion is to really leverage the possibilities opened up by the design choices that make Dark different - the structural editing and db/infra/editor integration. E.g.:

- Have multiple projectional views of the system, triggered on keypress, e.g. caller context, database context, handler context. So if I'm editing a function I should be able to see the handlers that are affected, also the call stacks up and down, even show function calls inlined, current live errors overlaid, etc.

- Easy example based testing. Can I just click on a function, type input values at the top, then dark shows my intermediate values and output, and then I mark a 'check' on this trace to stamp it as a test case? Then every related change (or a special button) runs affected tests and I can see what's failing. I didn't see any testing in the demo.

- History of each function, each handler, each table - absolutely need this, with 'blame'.

- Immediately live is nice but really you want to roll out some related changes together, and a 'diff' of a snapshot against another one is great. I should be able to see the db diff, the function diff and handler diff in one integrated view. Should be able to 'label current version', in addition to auto-save.

- Annotations - these should be allowed everywhere. I assume functions, AST nodes, tables, columns etc are already reified, so I should be able to link to them in free form annotation comments that I may put in the code or just floating around by themselves. Documentation needs to be integrated as well. At the very least I should be able to link to a function or table via an external hyperlink.

- A standard CRUD UI for DBs should be available.
Looks like open source company. What's their business model? Does any one know, How they earn money?
Chasing wokeness is eventually self-immolation. You can never be pure enough.
That does not mean it is ethical to accept willingness (or whatever) as evidence of consent or capacity for consent. Perhaps in cases like this it is simply impossible to know if that person has given consent. And these laws provide a boundary where that uncertainty becomes overwhelming. So whilst an underage person may have the maturity to give consent. A person in a position of power should never actually accept that.
Billionaire owner of ‘American Factory’ defends his anti-union stance
Stakeholders don't care. You still have to get X amount of work down by Y date. You should take all the money you can get.

Would you trade a 40% raise for 2 days off?
If wework folds, owners of the buildings might just market leases to the existing tenants
I think this is an awful way for the life's work of someone as dedicated and impactful as Richard's to come to an end.

It's an utterly disproportionate consequence for Richard's missteps which amount to nothing more than a discussion in a mailing list.
If your views are pro voluntary pedophilia I think maybe you should suffer. That's a pretty ageless thing in regards of people not being OK with it, and that shouldn't be a shock to you.

The government isn't telling him that he can't share these views, so take your free speech bullshit somewhere else. You're free to say things, and we as a society are free to show you the fucking door. He shared his awful views (and was an active abuser) for decades, and finally we're showing him the door.
Isn’t this a use case where BitTorrent would shine?
I honestly feel those numbers are correct.

Remember when everyone was sharing youtube videos. Or when you would sit and endless watch. I feel like that faded about 45%.

Google dropping makes sense. I visit less sites and the search results are not that great for discovery. Most sites I visit by typing a letter in the browser and auto completing.

Facebooks earnings raising 20% makes sense as more people are advertising on it. I notice 71% less people less original activity.. photos/status updates more groups/ads filling the gap. I spent 71% less time on and reduced my daily visits.

We're always chasing yesterday's tail. I bet twitter's numbers are down.
AliExpress: a massive company that somehow never bothered to observe a new user using their software.

Why the heck does the ordering window have 2 or 3 “Confirm” boxes that I have to press?

And if I haven’t, why can’t it just tell me what’s not confirmed when I hit “Submit Order”?
Malware botnet Emotet awakes and resumes its global spamming campaign
The statement is NOT "it's ok because he didn't know".
The statement is "he probably didn't know". If he did have sex with her, it's still not ok, regardless of whether he knew or not. And yes, he would still go to jail.
I used to wonder why amazon didn’t prioritize “name” brands as a proxy for quality but then I realized all they are doing is sourcing cheap crap too. So what’s the difference if it’s a one man shop or a big name if the original source is the same crap. Amazon is merely a exaggerated reflection of just how bs the retail marketplace is these days unfortunately.
> Legally, sex with underaged people is rape regardless of consent.

There are many jurisdictions where this is not the case.
Thinking about how your actions affect your coworkers and customers isn’t some giant imposition, my dude. It’s a minimum baseline of professional competence. Any barista in the country knows better than to act like that in a professional setting.
That is a good question; I don't believe anyone including the OP comment defined intellectualism, so we all likely have our own definitions.

Personally I think intellectualism consists of a few components. The first is pure, raw "intelligence" or "brilliance", neither of which is particularly well defined, but it is my main criteria. For a nation, this is is essentially the power of science, invention, technology, etc.

Next would be something like "diversity of thought" and "beauty of art". This includes both how "free" the people are, as well as how meaningful the creative, artistic, philosophical works of the nation are. This includes art, poetry, scripture, books, TV, music, theater, etc.

Finally, I use a "modern day weighting" system. This means, if there was some hypothetical country that was historically a powerhouse, but was not remarkable in modern day, they'd be ranked equally to a country which was a world leader today, but inconsequential historically (or didn't exist until recently).

With these criteria, I believe a country like China has sheer intellectual power and the artistic contributions which outweigh the (quite terrible) conformity of thought; Korea, on the other hand, is "too conformist" given the weight of its contributions.
Almost entire population of Ecuador has data leaked
"If the ski resorts were all closing down because there was no snow I think it would shake people from their lassitude a lot quicker."

some of them are so people just go to other places.
Not any more. See the recent (still current?) push towards cancelling David Chapelle.
That is why I am confused why so many websites put up warning banners about gdpr. If you don't do business in Europe it doesn't apply to you. A large chunk of the internet is USA based
> But I'm two clicks away from access to Nazi and extremist content right now

So? Don't make these clicks and you'd never see them.

> The political control of internet arguments is more obvious than ever, and the quest for advertising money

Advertising money has nothing to do with it - FSF doesn't need advertising money. They're just live in deathly fear of the woke Red Guards, as many before them (e.g. Mozilla) - and that fear may be very well justified.

> but I'm fairly sure I can start and run a website/subreddit/blog for whatever niche idea and be left alone.

Sure you can. If you can do without: hosting, DDoS protection, DNS, advertising, search engines, social media, payment processing, etc. All those have recently been engaged in deplatforming people for political considerations. But yes, you are free to lay your own cable infrastructure, set up your own data centers, build out your own internet, and there have you own website about whatever you want, completely free.
Security contacts needed at these organizations for a critical vulnerability
Generating Piano Music with Transformer
And mobile apps?
Wow. Brings back memories. We used to spoof mail to the Sysadmin and think it was funny as hell. We were such little nerds :-)
If you're trying to write high performance Java, that driver was a pretty poor attempt. While not idiomatic in the normal sense, there are a lot of low-latency, high throughput Java apps that never allocate after startup (and maybe some object pool growth before hitting a steady state). That benchmark was even running out of memory when using the non-collecting GC which shows they were allocating quite a bit, and their allocations probably escaped and needed to be moved off the TLAB and become expensive. I'm not sure they really knew how to write performance Java.

I've been a part of systems that process million of events a second and never allocated. These will beat most C++ systems I've seen, and Go doesn't even start a chance. Java and HotSpot can do some amazing things (esp around inlining), but you do have to do them a little differently (and carefully), but at least you can. My experience with Go is that I never had the same level of control, and I don't think it is possible.
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This wasn't a witch hunt. This should have happened a long time ago. He is a creep, and has been problematic for years. “He literally used to have a mattress on the floor of his office. He kept the door to his office open, to proudly showcase that mattress and all the implications that went with it. Many female students avoided the corridor with his office for that reason…I was one of the course 6 undergrads who avoided that part of NE43 precisely for that reason. (the mattress was also known to have shirtless people lounging on it…)”

Sorry, but you have to be explicit with your accusations. Call me naive, but if you say 'mattress and all the implications that went with it' in the context of hacker culture : the obvious implication is that he is a hacker, who likes to immerse himself in his work, pulls all-nighters. At worse it implies a lack of hygiene and a healthy separation between life and work. Okay a mattress might be taking to the concept a bit far but bean-bag culture is rooted in the earliest days of Xerox PARC, Microsoft, Apple (both Steve Jobs and Bill gates have talked about a lifestyle of sleeping in their office and not going home for days on end), Homebrew club, etc.

I read the medium article and its accompanying appendix, and imo, its scant on facts, and filled with weasel-wording, political posturing and self-obsession.

There is mention of a report of sexism in AI labs. But what are the facts of the report. Was Stallman implicated in this report? The article doesn't say so. It looks like the author ju just put it out there to make a association between RMS and sexism in the minds of the readers.

The only real factual account( by 'factual' account i mean explicit about the alleged details and facts of events) is the one where the management undergrad was hit on in the restaurant.
That's fair. Thankfully my children are under a year old, so my wife and I have ample time to prepare.
Solomon Islands Switches Recognition from Taiwan to China
> inexplicably, instead of actually fixing /dev/(u)random, the Linux engineers decide to add a new getrandom() syscall which implements the correct behaviour of only blocking if the PRNG hasn't been seeded.

FWIW the OpenBSD folks first implemented getentropy() and recommended that Linux do the same[0], because devices causes various issues (e.g. chrooting, attacker-controlled FD exhaustion, …) having a reliable syscall is extremely valuable.

Sadly the Linux folks way over-engineered the thing with all kinds of tuning knobs so that you can get any preexisting behaviour you want: by default getrandom will read from the "urandom source" but block until the entropy pool has been initialised once.

However, you can also:

* GRND_RANDOM to have it read from the "random source" and block if "no random bytes are available"

* GRND_NONBLOCK to have it never block on lack of entropy, whether from the entropy pool not being initialised at all (!GRND_RANDOM) or because "there are no random bytes" (GRND_RANDOM), in which case it can also fail (getentropy should only fail if you give it an invalid buffer address or you request more than 256 bytes)

[0] https://www.openbsd.org/papers/hackfest2014-arc4random/mgp00... also through the libressl project complaining about the lack of safe way to get good random data[1]

[1] https://github.com/libressl-portable/openbsd/blob/4e9048830a...
Did he resign from MIT? If so, he won't be sleeping well- he actually lived in his office (it was also his residence)
Correct. Like I said, it's pervasive to the extent that we just assume it's the only way it could be, but it's behind every terrible thing.

I know this first hand, I built these systems. The end state is to know and predict everything you do, and then sell you something about it. Whether its a product or an experience or a feeling. That's where it all leads - you lose your agency. Getting rid of online marketing or nudging it one direction or the other won't really change it. You can ban it online outright, but it will persist in another form.

Our entire world economy is based on different groups vying for your attention to monetize, to the point that as we go further, nothing is not monetizable.

It's the Truman show, but everyone is Truman.
People are using their offices on large discounts
Identical? That’s not what the English language suggests.
From stallman.org:

16 September 2019 (Resignation)

To the MIT community,

I am resigning effective immediately from my position in CSAIL at MIT. I am doing this due to pressure on MIT and me over a series of misunderstandings and mischaracterizations.

Richard Stallman
Blue Apron and WeWork share a common problem, they’re viewed as tech companies, even when they’re clearly not.

Being tech companies means that they’re viewed as part of a group of companies who have pulled of billion dollars IPO, so they’re wrongly focus on “no less than the one billion”. Mentally the jump from 1 billion to 2 billion is also a lot less that the jump from 150 million to 1 billion, so why not go for 2 billion.
Hi, creator here. Never imagined this would make its way into HN. :)

I created this to study Rust(yes, I'm still new) and to explore what's possible with current Rust and WebAssembly. I think it turned out to be okay to continue with Rust and I'm more than happy.

Currently it comprises of a parser which reads LDraw(https://ldraw.org/) file format and a basic renderer. For now the page itself is just a single page with rotating 3d model but eventually would transform into a complete website for creating and sharing your own creations.

If you are interested you can track the development at the GitHub repository(https://github.com/segfault87/ldraw.rs) It's slightly outdated and the current code heavily relies on the bleeding edge of Rust (e.g., nightly, async await, futures 0.3, wasm-bindgen, ...) and needs to be cleaned up before pushing.

If you want more complex model you can try this instead: https://segfault87.github.io/ldraw-rs-preview/#models/6973.l...
Yeah but you don't book other peoples fees as your own revenue. VISA has a profit margin of 54%. Surely they are not counting the entire interchange cost (of which they receive a v. small percentage) as revenue.
Research engineers do. GP said he is not aiming to build a profitable above all else company. Maximizing fun in a hobby seems legit.
What if the DoH IP is running via Cloudflare? How do you block their IPs?

I agree about 1st party domains.
I don't get the impression that the majority of HNers these days actually advocate for Free software. It's not like the GPL is the most popular license, my impression is that the FSF and GPL had its peak growth in the early 2000s.

Nowadays most developers seem to prefer permissive licenses and distributing proprietary software for android/ios. They couldn't care less about RMS.

Just look at how little response Purism Librem 5 update threads get on HN. They're practically dead, and this device is the only modernish GNU/GNOME/Linux smartphone to speak of.
I don’t know. I don’t say gross things about women and I still manage to have a job.
This is like the argument from male managers who say they can't have 1-1s with their female workers. It's tired, and shows a lot about your character.

When you say this, you're sending up a red flag with a flare.
How the Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation
The code is already 90% include headers and microsoft has supported walking through it for debug purposes for a very long time.
Self-censorship is a norm which always existed as a social behavior, even online. In a small geeky world of early days of Internet, when community of connected people was small and more homogeneous, it was easier to touch certain topics without receiving strong reactions, but it didn’t mean self-censorship did not exist. It just concerned different things and the worst that could happen was a ban on the forum or IRC channel. It’s still the case for unimportant people: no one cares what random Joe says online. Everyone expects that opinion leader conforms to the norms of society - hence all those crazy scientists are being ostracized for spreading nonsense outside their field of research.
Like when prime simply meant two day shipping?
Yes! So much this. Every startup I've worked with regretted choosing a trendy tech stack early on. Speed of development is BY FAR the most important thing and the SPA/Javascript framework de jour trend of the past few years is an antithetical to rapid iteration. As a consultant, I'll happily bill hours to untangle that mess, but it's very frustrating to see startups with lots of potential spinning their wheels with unnecessary bloat on the front end.
"They found that people could mourn the disappearance or degradation of a species or landscape and the future losses of an ecosystem."

I assume this happens in a first world country.

My 2nd rate country still throws it's trash in the forest. Literally.
Because he has autism.
> They’ve killed the non Touch Bar MacBook Pro

I would not buy a laptop with a Touch Bar if they paid me.

I'm still using a 2015 MacBook Pro—since it's the last laptop that has all the correct ports and working keyboard, but I'm looking forward to their next event when they should release a new version. If there is no normal keyboard that doesn't break and it doesn't have a non-Touch Bar version, I'll start looking into hackintoshes.
The runtime environments of the time were incredibly flaky and weird, until well after 2000. Most of the cost of making and maintaining software was in working around horrible bugs and misfeatures in the OSes, particularly MS ones. MS set the whole industry back at least 20 years by having such horrible systems, and getting people convinced they were normal and acceptable.

After spending all day discovering a workaround for an OS bug, you might have a few minutes left to work on a feature.

In the earlier '80s, before MS-DOS, it was partly the very small market, and partly the horrible development tools available that kept prices up. We are spoiled today.
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Fair, but my argument would be what wouldn't be capitalism by this definition. Literally every government post feudalism was capitalist if you are going to say Stalin, and the US and everything idealogically in between were capitalist.

At that point I'd argue, whatever it is that this person dislikes, capitalism is just an empty word to represent it. "Reality", or "the world" would appear more accurate to me.
I think without heavy proponents for free software, we would be in a worse place, especially technologically. Never met a software developer that wasn't dependent on free software to learn about the fundamentals of programming and system design.

Calling him an ideologue in contrast to current pioneers in the software industry is a bit much, maybe he just had some hard principles.

> wouldn't settle for a simple apology

To whom? To those that endorsed questionable business relations that drew attention in the first place that still are in leading positions at the MIT?

> need in leadership also changes

Visionaries and thought leaders can probably have a positive influence. I doubt we will get a adequate replacement. There also is no strong leader/mentor that can make you magically smart. He would need to inspire you to learn yourself which I would argue Stallman did pretty well.

"Controversies" are seldom intellectually engaging and if you look at the core of his statements, the subject and reactions become quite ridiculous.
> WebKit was certainly started at Apple.

This is an extremely disingenuous statement. WebKit was forked from KHTML and everybody knows this. It "certainly" sounds like you're trying to rewrite history (and you make a similar assertion elsewhere in this thread)..