skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fictional but germane scene from The Martian:

> [after hearing he has to take the top off of the Mars Ascent Vehicle] I know what they're doing. I know exactly what they're doing. They just keep repeating "go faster than any man in the history of space travel", like that's a good thing. Like it'll distract me from how insane their plan is. Yeah, I get to go faster than any man in the history of space travel, because you're launching me in a convertible. Actually it's worse than that, because I won't even be able to control the thing. And by the way, physicists, when describing things like acceleration do not use the word "fast". So they're only doing that in the hopes that I won't raise any objections to this lunacy, because I like the way "fastest man in the history of space travel" sounds. I do like the way it sounds... I mean, I like it a lot.
If you read the medium post the author admits she had no idea who Stallman is and that it was not really about him, and instead of admitting she was wrong on several point she went on and digged some stuff and put them together trying to paint RMS in a way that fit her accusation and her call for his removal.

Coming from someone who admits to have written out of anger accumulated from different personal experience, admitting she iss after someone she had no idea who he is, who misrepresented what was said to fit her views and narrative, I would not give much credit to anything that was added afterwards in this appendix.
I'm aware of the violent hooliganism, and they probably deserve to be on the blunt end of some illiberal treatment. That doesn't change the fact that it is illiberal, and involves all sorts of "pre-crime" measures justified by the argument that someone might commit a crime, rather than being imposed as penalties for a crime actually committed.

Really that's the core liberal/conservative policing distinction: the conservative argument is that some people are really bad and that justifies measures taken against them, and the liberal argument is that actions of the police should be judged as acceptable or unacceptable regardless of who those actions are against.

Protest has also changed from the anti-"G8" anti-globalisation days.

> anti-brexit, anti-austerity and anti-trump protests

All those things appear to still be happening despite the protests. I should have said "effective".
ZFS on Linux is neither mainline nor userspace. Feel free to either fix it or contact its maintainers.
If they're lagging behind kernel versions, it's their fault.
iPhone 11 Pro review: the BEST camera on a phone
It's not true. I don't particularly like RMS, I don't agree with his views about free software and I don't like GPL as a license. I also think his views on many political issues are naive, go against human nature and if implemented would cause a lot of harm.

Still, I think the way he was forced to go is shameful. Some journalists couldn't interpret a simple statement (sadly very common), started an outrage and the pressure became too much. I hope he sues them and wins enough money to have a peaceful retirement. I don't want a world where some of the biggest contributors to technological wealth we have access to can't freely state their views, qualms and doubts or even start a discussion about controversial moral issues.
> It literally says it right there. The ISS is not a piloted, powered aircraft. Also it was Mach 6.7, not 6.2.

But aren't the Soyuz capsules that dock with the ISS piloted and powered ?
Inserting humour in a HN comment and making it highly upvoted is an artform in itself.
Sad to hear that PyCharm is considered old school these days.
I remember how I learned C programming. It was a summer class .. first week, the prof said read the first half of King's C programming book. The second week, he said read the other half now. It was pretty awesome. We did have a 1 year foundation in a toy programming language (called Turing) at that point.

C is a small language and this was possible to do. More modern languages seem so bloated that this is not possible anymore I think (with the exception of Go).

So yeah ... you can learn to code reasonably well in 4 dedicated months. But be clear about your goals. If you want to learn web dev, you might want to learn Javascript but that is a larger language than say Go. Python is another great choice ... easy to get into and quite deep.
The comment said only action. He blocked their IP range but probably contacted them too.
thats probably due to having more expirience, but you still have to do the crud yourself and all the other things that you otherwise would get for free.

i like next.js now but for simplicity's sake i think parrent is right.
If an nytimes article (or any article) is not interesting to the HN community, wouldn't it simply not get upvoted and left to decay and rot? Why is a ban needed?

I feel a ban will only serve a minority audience, not the majority of HN who can choose with upvotes.
> If you had any cultural context around the history of violent football hooliganism in the UK

If this was a good justification for this kind of measure (abuse) can you imagine what Germany should do given their history? Yet they'd rather go for less divisive solutions.

What if there are better ways to prevent repeating the mistakes of the past that don't involve making even bigger mistakes? But those ways give more power to all people instead of just some people so I can understand why mass surveillance was the go to instead.

> those measures were considered necessary and a re supported by a large part of the public

All slippery slopes start somewhere high and this is all people are shown at first. But it's the bottom you should worry about instead.
There is, but nowadays it is quite generous. Firefox for example by default accepts up to 64KB long bookmarks [0].

[0] via https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/b6fa95/bookmark_lo...
I think that one is London Bridge area...
They're obstructing maritime traffic in international waters, which is a different offense from annexing another country's territory.
It's a metaphor. Once you become Google is something that is attached to your person, everyone call themselves "ex Googler", "former Googler", etc.
Even though it isn't without controversy, Brave browser has this exact feature through use of its BAT token [1].

Basically, you earn BAT either by directly depositing money into your wallet, or by viewing "privacy respecting ads" (herein lies part of the controversy), which let you earn 70% of the ad revenue as BAT. These tokens are then distributed over the content creators who have signed up for the program. The exact distribution depends on how much attention you gave each creator.

[1] https://brave.com/brave-rewards/
the implication is that he slept in his office. Common among hackers and people with a passion for computing, also 1970's
Richard Stallman Resigns as President of the Free Software Foundation
Ben Johnston's compositions scratch my microtonal itch
This.

And on top of all that, he quite literally voluntarily resigned, it's in the title.
The problem with that approach is that often they include ingredients in very small quantities that most people won't have, and buying the ingredient yourself requires getting a container with 1000x the amount you need. Even if it's cheap, people balk at that.

But yes, the packaging is insanely wasteful, not to mention the ecological cost of shipping itself.

I definitely cooked more often when I had a HelloFresh subscription. And when I do cook now, the variety of things I make is much smaller.
It is unsafe to mix trusted and untrusted code in the same process. This is why Chrome runs the renderer in a separate process. My concern is that using Java to execute JS increases the probability they are doing this bad mixing. They could be doing it safely but it increases my suspicion.
>which makes me wonder weather the NBN was worth it.

Yes, the original NBN plan was definitely worth it. Even the current NBN plan is still in many cases going to be better.

The reason <choose wireless technology> is "faster" than <choose NBN connection option> is because there's a lower density of people using it for higher bandwidth applications.

Do you remember the 3G networks in Australia before the iPhone 3G launch? It was fantastic and fast, and there were some unlimited plans but few phones that could make use of it. Then the iPhone comes along, everyone suddenly every mobile network grinds to a halt as they don't have a high enough tower density and/or not enough tower backhaul.

It took Vodafone and Optus a long long time to fully recover from that.

If carriers don't carefully manage demand, they're going to run into major congestion issues - their networks just can't handle a significant shift of data from wired to wireless.
I agree, people are arguing in favor of self-moderation, but if we are here is precisely because we like the moderation.

Pay-walled and lower-than-average quality articles promote people judging the article by the title, going to the comments to actually understand the article's content or post without enough information.

Banning NYTimes would increase average comment quality by forcing the link-poster to find an article readable by everyone, possibly higher quality and less click-baity.
Rind et al. Controversy
When I was a kid I had his "Game Maker" game and it still seems like an ambitious application:

http://www.garrykitchen.com/product_history/garry_kitchens_g...

...it had it's own programming environment, sprite and background maker, and music composition tool.
>Can't wait for a true democracy without middlemen selling our resources/interests to other middlemen for private profits.

Be prepared to wait, forevermore.
I have no experience with Hello Fresh, but Aarstiderne in Denmark strives on making their offerings uncommon. They arrange their subscriptions by how difficult they are. Of course, there is no 'chef' level, so to speak, because if you're at that point, you don't really need something like this.

But as someone who is reasonable acceptable at cooking, I do like the idea of something where I can get outside my comfort zone.
The map is not the territory: A brief tour of Minnesota’s paper towns
Can you tell them we are trying to get a paid account, see if you can get them to give us temporary access, and maybe we can cache the result so we don't hit their server that often.
Me: ok I'll do that

I’m not sure I would feel comfortable doing that - stringing along a fellow engineer for the benefit of a freeloading PM.
I had no idea that Coleco was originally The Connecticut Leather Company. Reminds me of Nokia pivoting from rubber boots to mobile phones.
Interesting - but I don't recall academia being quite that extreme but I am in the UK.
I find deconstruction so useful...[essay deleted]
Richard Stallman Resigns from the FSF after Epstein Comments
Thing is here, RMS was talking about an accusation being misqualified in relation to Mens Rea and some person took offense and misrepresented his words to present him as saying something else[1].

Then again I beg to differ, the vast majority of people do not live in the US and have different local definition of underage, also the US has a reputation for having a fascination for sex with teenager (one of the most popular porn sites categories during the last 25-30 years).

[1]:https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21...
Then the places that you've made accessible will be also swamped. It's a textbook case of induced demand.
You need to understand that people do irrational things all the time but feel like they get a positive benefit from it. Meal kit delivery is easier than picking out recipes yourself and then buying ingredients yourself. It's certainly not easier than ordering takeout from a restaurant. But there's the "feel good factor" of doing the cooking yourself but removing some of the prep and decision-making. It's not all about utility; emotion factors in heavily sometimes.
> RMS' emails bemoan wishy-washy reporting, and are centered around calls for clarity and precision. With some insensitive words.

The "insensitive words" seem the issue for me, from my reading of his emails, and referring to them as just that seems an understatement.

> The announcement [...] does injustice to Marvin Minsky. The injustice is the word "assaulting". The term "sexual assault" is so vague and slippery that it facilitates accusation inflation; [...] The accusation quoted is a clear example of inflation. The reference reports the claim that Minsky had sex with one of Epstein's harem. [...] The word "assault" presumes that he applied force [...] but the article says no such thing.

Yes the above words are insensitive (calling such accusations "vague and slippery" by definition does a massive injustice to anyone who's ever suffered such a fate), but much more objectively, they're also blindly or wilfully false. The article he links as a reference opens with the following words:

> A victim of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein testified that she was forced to have sex with MIT professor Marvin Minsky

There is no more direct contradiction of RMS' statements than the opening words of the article he links in his email. There's absolutely no question of his communication on this being appropriate.
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Soyuz can be manually piloted, but are normally automated (Progress can not be piloted and is essentially the same thing after all). They're also not aircrafts.
Distributed Tracing – we’ve been doing it wrong – Cindy Sridharan – Medium
Perhaps products should include a tiny circuit (e.g. challenge-response) that can prove that the product is genuine.
Same thing for mental health medication.

The hilarious thing is all the druggies and doc shoppers know exactly what kind of stories to tell to get what they need. It's just honest people with honest issues that suffer.

The entire concept of General Practitioner needs to be overhauled. They are poor at diagnosis and poor at choosing medication regimes. The fact that most come with a 'holier than thou' attitude is just icing on the cake.

I had a GP accuse me of shopping for roids and had to open google and show him that yes corticosteroids are in fact a first line treatment for heel spur.
I wrote "ripped off" which implies malicious intent on your part. I should have phrased that differently since that is not the case. To late to change my comment now.
Primary lenders ( the ones that actually lend their own money and at the end have the best rates -- arrived at adding the total expected cost of the APR plus add junk fees ) do not use non-automated underwriting for conforming loans. They win over the lenders that do not use automatic underwriting by tens of thousands of dollars.
In terms of what's been available for developers I'd agree with you that IDE's (especially JetBrains and especially for languages like Java) have had an advantage for some time. Language Server Protocol is taking this advantage away. It's not as if turning code into AST and transforming tree data structures is out of the reach :P.
some employee

It’s not “some employee”. It’s an entire management hierarchy that failed to prioritise and budget for and create a culture around security best practices.
If you need input validation like that, which you normally wouldn't in Ruby because your models should do it for you, I'd probably use grape or something similar:

require 'grape'

params do
requires :age, type: Integer
requires :name, type: String
end
get "/hello/:name/:age" do
"Hello, #{params[:age]} year old named #{params[:name]}!"
end

In any case, my beef is more with the macro than with the function annotation, which is rather spiffy. The macro hides the fact that string manipulation in Rust definitely requires a little bit of manual reading. And I feel that as soon as your app becomes more complex Rust will just start getting more in the way. And to an experienced Rust dev that might not be a big deal, because an experienced dev knows how to work with strings or which memory management strategy so it won't bog them down. But if you're just working on something and you quickly want to whip out a service that tells people what age they are, I'd definitely go for a quick Ruby or Go service.
Accounting the wrong thing?

I think most people are interested in their battery life when they are measuring their battery life.

Numbers you get while plugged in won't have any relevance to battery life or performance. That even applies to mobile devices, despite their learnings.
That’s what I’m saying. The set of addresses allocated to Apple (in their /8) is an even larger ratio as the private ranges don’t count towards the denominator.
I disagree, it feels like a witch hunt because it is one.

I read the original post that started this witch hunt and my baloney detector went off all along, in particular when I read the quote from RMs stating one thing and the author calling for his removal misrepresenting and misunderstanding them as if they said the exact opposite.
> Exchanging money for goods and services is the most essential feature of capitalism.

Trying to pass off corruption as a "most essential feature of capitalism" is disingenuous and simply wrong on many levels. There's no need for petty ideological jabs. If you have nothing to add to the discussion then refrain from adding noise to an otherwise interesting discussion.
You could (and should) do that with IPv6. Down with NAT! :)
Oracle Shows 1060 Raspberry Pi Supercomputer
The anti-war demonstrations in the UK were the biggest ever seen, and yet we went into Iraq.

What protests are ever "effective"? They're a warning to those in power more than anything else. Usually the repercussions for politicians are felt years afterwards, for example Labour losing elections and Tony Blair being unable to participate effectively in UK politics any more.
It seems that Jira/Confluence and few other Atlassian cloud products are down for almost 2 hours now. Do they offer 99.9% SLA? If yes, then they do not meet that now. Customers should remember to apply for "Service Credits"! https://www.atlassian.com/legal/sla
Made me want to read the “right stuff”
> That's curious. I'd read the Register article before it was posted here and there were comments to that effect - did you too read it before it was posted on HN?

Sorry, I was talking about HN comments. To be honest I didn't even realise El Reg had a comments section (though I wouldn't have read them anyway - HN is the only site's comments I read)

> As I say - it's a love it or loathe it rag but I don't see them as being overly negative, except where due.

Their comments regarding OpenSSL weren't. Back when Heartbleed was announced El Reg were heavily critical (as many people were) but they then ratchet up the tone by recommending people use other, largely unproven, cryptography libraries. They've also reported other vulnerabilities as being disastrous - using the same language as they did for Heardbleed and ShellShock - but for vulnerabilities that are purely theoretical and extremely difficult, impractical or even out of scope for 99.999% of consumer devices. El Reg have often been amongst the worst for misrepresenting the real world implications for vulnerability announcements and that's entirely down to the tabloid nature of their reporting.
If you go virtually anywhere except the national parks in Utah you have the place to yourself. I’ve been in slot canyons with nobody but my brother and I around.

Or just go in winter. It’s not hot, prices plummet, you don’t have to be up at stupid-o’clock for sunrise and there’s nobody around.
Where you are born is more predictive of your future than any other factor
Except there's a core of truth in what they say, though I might differ on the point about protests. Football hooliganism was well on the way to being solved by the early 90s. The international ban ended in 1990. It was the seventies and eighties that most would have been hesitant to take the kids along to a match, and the big clubs had scary reputations. Most of the measures since have not been necessary, and most of the fixing of the problem wasn't down to cameras.

Police tactics, ground changes, putting responsibility more on to the clubs, and a good degree of managing the groups of supporters. Companies would once finish early if there was a Wednesday match and their office was even vaguely on a route to the ground. By the nineties and noughties, normality was far more expected.

Far more has been for security theatre and red top media campaigns that the "government must DO something!!!!". So government does do something. Like rings of steel around London. Tanks at airports (huh?) and all the rest. Despite this a man in a van can still perform a terrorist outrage on a bridge, or take a bomb to a teen pop concert.

We're far more likely to hear some days after that some perpetrator was known to police or security services, than all the security theatre prevented some atrocity, or the perpetrator was arrested en route.
Related discussions from earlier today:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20990583

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20989696

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20990251
I have set the cache expiry to 24 hours. If the cached data is more than 24 hours, it will fetch fresh data from Amazon.
UWB will allow the internet’s next major act – augmented-vision smart devices
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/108985/is-it-po...
Well, probably rpa could help here.. If it makes sense is another story :)
Oh man, I used to drool over that ad in the computing magazines! Sadly, my parents had bought an IBM PCjr with no hope of ever running such an ambitious piece of software.
Most Massive Neutron Star Ever Detected
Australia doesn't act like they're a fair enforcer in the world. Australia helps East Timor achieve independence, and then plants a bug in the East Timorese Government's offices in order to help Australia in stealing ('negotiating to their advantage' to use the political terminology) territorial claims to oil deposits in the East Timor Sea.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-09/east-timor-tears-up-o...

None of the superpowers, or their little hangers-on, exhibit the kind of personalities you'd save from a burning building. They probably lit the fire.
If I consider one of the options the most probable, should I be afraid to express it because someone will judge me just like you did and I will lose my job? Yes, I think it's not only a neutral action, but a positive one, because you value seeking the truth more than social conformity.

By the way, the sad joke here is that Minsky was not even accused of anything. What we know by now is that Epstein asked the girl and a witness says he refused:

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/339725/
So what you are saying, after a rather long discussion, is that you can't point a fault in what Stallman wrote, but you think that those who were outraged must have had a good argument to be so. And you agree with them despite not knowing what that argument was. Is that correct?
PowerPoint, the worlds least favorite programming language is too!
I never used that one but I worked with stuff like SEUCK and to think back at it now it was pretty awesome you really could do all of this stuff with some graphical editors and get something that was a bit simple in terms of gameplay but would look and sound pretty decent. Lost countless hours inside that program....
This newly detected neutron star is 333,000 times the mass of the Earth and 2.17 times the mass of the sun. But the star is only about 15 miles across. This is close to the limit of how much mass a compact object can contain before it crushes itself into a black hole.
The most intuitive explanation of GPs came to me from McElreath's Statistical rethinking. What was most sticky was that was explained in terms of a thing needed for a simple regression problem that becomes hairy with continuous variable. It was an example of modeling a caffe's wait time which varies more continuously with different covariates like time of the day and IIRC size of the cafe.
Or an OS manufacturer to preinstall their brand of the browser. Oh wait.