skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the UK when an airline goes bankrupt they lose their AOC (Air Operators Certificate) and at that point they can no longer fly

Many of those people aren't really stranded, they'll have their holiday as planned and the CAA will fly them home at the end of it

As new passengers aren't starting their holidays there's a rapidly decreasing number of people to fly back
Certainly, but at the same time -- it wasn't a free-for-all. I was lucky that I'd been taught to be suspicious and to have boundaries long before the Internet. Of course that doesn't preclude anything from happening and luck does play a part. It just means I wouldn't have engaged in some risky behaviours - I wouldn't go giving strangers my phone number (this was before mobiles, so my phone number was my parent's phone number) or home address, for example. This was at a time when people hadn't even warmed up to the idea of using their credit cards online; my folks using their credit card to pay the monthly Internet bill was a way out-there thing at the time.

I also wasn't _that_ young - I don't think I touched IRC until I was around 15 or 16.

I remember the first in-real-life 'meetup' was a big thing; it was with members of an IRC chat group from our local area. I was real-life friends with some of the people already, so it wasn't an entire group of strangers. I don't think that even happened until I was out of high school.
The real reference, which is available and downloadable from the internet to anybody who wants to read it don;t say the sex happened.

never, in the hundreds of pages of depositions.

Instead of talking about MIT that took money from Epstein, we're talking about Stallman that never did.
The one thing I hope for in this whole situation is that the F/OSS movement keeps going, and the quality of code and diversity of free software stays high, because I'm pretty sure there are individuals and companies who want F/OSS to end, and may see this as an opportunity to try to stoke further controversy and infighting to splinter and destroy the movement.
> "now Gatsby inlines ALL of the site's css in each and every page" Did this abruptly happen at some point?

It happened in gatsby @2.1.3 (a minor "patch" release!) [1]

> would probably try next.js next time just to know what I've been missing. Have you worked with it before doing similar stuff?

Not at the same scale. However, just reading their docs gives me way more confidence in that they are explicit about what the thing does or doesn't do. For instance, they can do prerendering like gatsby but there are many warnings about it in the docs [2], and you can always fall back to per-request SSR on any page if prerendering doesn't work there.

Also it does away with the whole graphql thingy (you just get a `fetch` that works both server-side and client-side) and call the "backend" api directly.

[1] https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/issues/11072
[2] https://nextjs.org/docs#automatic-prerendering
Running in-memory databases is a common use case for chewing through loads of RAM.
Consciousness - awareness of subjective experience
Use the clothesline indoors anyway.

Dryers ruin clothes, then you have to buy more.
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Honestly skype et al should probably detect if you're using headphones and turn on direct feedback if you are. It makes not only a stark difference for how loud you speak, but also for how annoying and derailing echo on the connection is.
I guess that it could be seen as employer discriminating on employee on basis of sex or something which could make the company liable, but on personal level First Amendment still applies and there is no way you could be prosecuted for that.
Indeed! We did Polymerase Chain Reaction experiments when I was in senior biology in high school almost 20 years ago.

$150 for 10 groups: Edvotek 330 Amplification of DNA by PCR, For 10 Lab Groups https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004W7ZAYI
> It seems

seems does not qualify as evidence

> circles that interacted with RMS

Like Thomas Lord?

https://archive.is/7qepC
>600,000 people stranded abroad
>For the 150,000 stranded customers who are British, the U.K. government has just announced

so the majority who are not british are just stranded?
If agitation is actually the main mechanism for breaking off microfibers, with the greater volume of water in a delicate wash just helping to float them away, then could it be that a normal cycle does break off more microfibers after all, but they enter the environment during drying or everyday wear instead?
Could this study be used as a proxy for wash cycle impact on durability?

Do clothes actually last longer washed under the delicate cycle?

And wouldn’t the microfibre release be highest for new clothes and decrease over time as the relatively weakly attached fibres progressively break away?

Until you get catastrophic fabric failure...
The fact that Facebook is behind it reminds me of Nolan Sorrento's desire to increase advertising space in the Oasis [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpPE85Jogjw
How is it different and what’s so good about it?
"Past time"

The only thing that's past time is that more people start to realize the real bullies and harassers are the ones who post medium posts saying "Remove $person"... in which they misrepresent or outright lie, which others in the press then launder, and then act like this is the height of speaking truth to power. The same way that Coraline Ada has hundreds of tweets of yelling, berating and denigrating people, even though "she's the woman bringing civility to open source" (wired) and wants to enforce a code of conduct.

It's all a joke, except it has actually weakened the community, and given power and influence to people who mainly seem to care about themselves, no matter which bodies they have to step over.

Diversity is a farce and geeks are useful idiots who believed it was ever about anything but narcissism. What is happening now is justification after the fact. If the accusers were expected to live up to the same standards of conduct they demand from others, these people wouldn't be taken seriously.
* This person is a graduate of MIT.

* I have no immediate reason to think they are at MIT, so I don't think it's likely that they can be removed.

* "Burn it to the ground" is obviously metaphorical language, which means (as the person themselves said), that anyone and everyone at MIT who stands in the way of firing Stallman should be fired too. (Note that they didn't "threaten" to burn it to the ground, as you say, because then it wouldn't make sense as a metaphor.)

Note that I'm not defending the language or the expressed wish, so don't attack me over that. I'm only clarifying the circumstances in which that statement was made for you.
It goes both ways. If you can afford to spend this (crazy) amount of money, you can pay for Apple Care as well.
This is not true, I can make a clear definition of a chair which allows someone to recognize it, for the concept of conscience I cannot
> He didn't harass women during the two days I interacted with him, therefore he has never done so

Exactly, he's innocent until proven guilty, like everybody else.

You're implying that "I heard from someone that heard it from someone else, that heard it from their dad, that read it on a mailing list, 20 years ago, that he did, therefore ho did"
> I don't think which side is right is really important

Sometimes one side is just right. Compromise isn't always appropriate.
DJB's CurveCP / MinimalT framework is probably a much better solution to the problems MPTCP is trying to solve - and also adds security, increases address space as well. But .. MPTCP it is; at least something is gaining wide use.
I'll usually hold onto my laptop for 4-5 years and smartphone every 3 years. I tend to buy top-of-the-line with decent price-to-performance ratio electronics so it takes a long time for them to feel cost-effective to update. And as time's gone on, the jumps in performance don't feel like they mean as much to me compared to say battery life (which is an easy repair to get a new one) so like every one else, I'll probably start holding off upgrades longer.

A lot of times as new features are added out there and others are dropped. For instance, my wiped 2016 Razer Blade running Linux has no-longer-upgradable BIOS because of Razer's demand of Windows 10 to launch a GUI just to upgrade them. I'd like to migrate to another brand for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities alone, but the Nvidia 1060 is still good for most uses and it's hard to find a worthy replacement laptop with a hi-res screen supporting 100% AdobeRGB or DCI-P3 for photo work. Phones are hard to upgrade because now everyone wants to drop the 1/8-inch headphone jack I rely on.
Ask hn: Why does the web assume everyone works sitting at a desk?
There seems to be a very common assumption throughout articles and blogs that everyone works sitting down at a desk in a mostly sedentary job.

I don't recall ever reading article that considered maybe the reader doesn't work at a desk. The intent or advice of the article becomes irrelevant for anyone that doesn't work at a desk.

Excuse me if this seems a bit of a rant. I just find it an odd assumption when people doing non desk/sedentary jobs are so common.
Was it Mondo 2000 that had full-on profile stories of people who didn't exist?
Go on then, give me a definition for chair, and I'll show you how it's not an accurate definition.
And their spin cycles really pull out a lot of water.
You can read the measurements in "Importance of Water-Volume on the Release of Microplastic Fibers from Laundry" by the team at the university of Newcastle : https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.est.9b03022/suppl...

Edit: the publication of the full article seem to be under embargo (https://eprints.ncl.ac.uk/259968)
You can't. A democracy, and a binding referendum, stands on the shoulder of the public being informed and interested about matters. The public does not know enough about the topic. They can't, because the enemy listens as well in this global world. Hence, the proponents can pull FUD and appeal to authority at will.

I'm a proponent of binding referendum, but I don't see how it would solve the problem in this case.
You forgot to mention that white nationalists are to blame.
For complex subjects I prefer reading.

I find that programming made me absorb and create content non-linearly. I write a bit of code here, and then there, and then change a little thing in the first bit...

I read like that. I read the book from start to end but I'm constantly going back to back material. (Or sometimes googling stuff.)

In a video, the "pause-rewind" loop is not so easy.

Also, I can't skim a video.
Object Detection with PyTorch
The blockbuster that wasn't:inside an alleged $14m scam to make the next Netflix
I think this article is underestimating the future CO2 impact of Africa and India.
Something about architecture astronauts comes to mind...
>There was a time where his style of firebrand-like vitriol against proprietary software was crucial. But that time is over. GNU/Linux won, it won years ago.

What the fuck? What percentage of consumer computing devices in the world are running free software? Windows+OSX+iOS+Android account for >96% of market share. In what world, in what possible conception, did GNU/Linux "win"?

>GNU does not have the influence it once did. It is an organisation geared up to solve the problems of the early 90s.

Like: free phone OS, decentralization, federation and self-hosting, real-time voice and video chat, accessibility, an AI assistant. [1]

>cling to these idols who bully, cajole and generally act like obnoxious arseholes.

>Crucially it serves as an excuse to let abusers, psychopaths and other nasties continue to abuse people "because RMS, Jobs & Ballmer all did it"

Again, what the fuck, am I seriously missing something here, or when did Stallman ever "abuse" someone? How is he a "psychopath"? A "bully"? A "nastie" (what is this, 2nd grade)?

[1]: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/
>So, it sounds like you're speculating.

So, it sounds like you’re calling me a liar.
The solution (to me anyway) requires BOTH that parameters must be named, as well as cultivating a culture of creating types aggressively (and, together with that, a language that makes it easy to do this, to avoid the onus of making types leading API developers to make the wrong choice).

Instead of doing:

downloadFile(String url, String filePath)

which runs into the ordering issue raising in the article, if it was:

downloadFile(Url from, FilePath to)

you no longer have the issue.

But, having some way to name the parameters, which can take _many_ forms works just as well. It would help a lot if the language can enforce that you must do this:

named params:

downloadFile(from = "https://something/foo.txt", to = "/some/path")

objC style where the function name is split up:

downloadFileFrom: "https://something/foo.txt" to: "/some/path";

same as above, but with fluent-style intermediates:

download().from("https://something/foo.txt").to("/some/path");

pass an object (Javascript):

downloadFile({from: "https://something/foo.txt", to: "/some/path");

these all work just as well. And nevertheless, this:

download(server, file)

is cleaner than all of the previous attempts, and allows passing these concepts around helper methods and the like. So, _IF_ it makes sense to change the types of the arguments so that you no longer have the same type for different arguments, it seems preferable to me.

However, in the case of CopyFile, to take that to its logical conclusion, you'd have a separate type to represent a 'from file' and a 'to file', but that seems too much of a stretch: The notion of a file fundamentally doesn't have a 'direction' concept built into it; that makes sense only for a copy or move API. Making separate types to represent the tuple of [direction, filepath] seems like a hacky way to introduce named parameters.

So, have both.
When did you stop beating your wife ?
And we can now measure webpages in Doooms (JFYI):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13211120

https://twitter.com/xbs/status/626781529054834688
> on the downside, they doubled its price so for the non-Hollywood customer, there still isn't a desktop machine. Even 3k is much for a deskop machine

I think there were more benefits to an ordinary user to getting a tower in the past then there are now.

In the past even a hobby or prosumer photographer would see a big benefit from getting a Mac Pro. Nowadays an iMac or Macbook Pro with very normal specs can edit large RAW files without breaking a sweat.

The extra HDD bays on a Mac Pro were great because you didn't have to mess around with USB2 (cheap but slow) or FW (fast but expensive). Now you have USB3 (cheap and fast) or TB (very fast but expensive).

I guess that leaves upgradeable graphics cards, at this point it is easier to just get a PC or try a hackintosh build if you want a beast GPU for the latest games.

> There was even a time in the past, when a Mac Pro would start below 2k and consequently was very popular.

2006:

Mac Pro base model:
$2,199 ($2,800 in 2019 dollars)

30" Cinema Display:
$3,299 ($4,198)

Soundsticks (Of course!) $169.99

2019:

iMac 27" 5K base model:
$1,799

iMac Pro base model:
$4,999
The firebase problem states that there is no optimal solution. so it can be as easy as increasing the size of the gold mine in a way that a brute force solution it's not posible and you must find sub optimal maximums applying heuristics. The travelling salesman problem has a lot of literature to understand this kinds of problems that are usually some variations of this problem originally stated near 200 years ago.
Not the same chip, quality differs, some units would require higher voltage for the same frequency. Some CPUs are more power efficient because they can take lover voltage.
But her emphasizing with his point would logically only lead her to put further (even all) blame for his death on him, and wouldn't result in writing more "balanced" or wise but simply spiteful and patronizing, which I think this does a good job avoiding.
> I'm sorry, but being a rude and obnoxious person doesn't mean the local lynch mob gets to decide when you have to step down from the foundation you created in the name of ensuring human freedom for generations to come.

No, but considering that his is a position of mostly PR and management nowadays, the majority of the community can agree that having a rude and obnoxious person as their visible head is neither doing any favors to their external image nor helping them move forward internally.

Linux has won in the server (and others) by being the better technical product. Linux has lost the desktop war (and laptop, and mobile unless you count android) by being the inferior product in terms of UX, ease of use and in general ignoring everything that isn't pure technical areas. As the parent comment said, this was fine when tech was mostly isolated from mainstream users, but it doesn't cut it anymore. We need new kinds of people, and new visions, for new kinds of challenges.

This is not a judgement of him as a person or his former work, mind you. It's a judgement of the qualities that we'd hope for in a leader/public face and whether RMS fits the role nowadays.
I think the confusion comes because you have to do

ln -s bar foo

so that "ls -l" then prints

foo -> bar

People who look at an existing symlink before trying to create a new one will get confused.

Of course, the solution is to remember that ln is in the same family as cp and mv; ls is a different family.
"it seems unlikely that he will be an effective leader and public face for GNU"

He never has been, if you ask me. The Unix-like operating system he invented is known to the public as "Linux", despite his repeated, loud insistence that it's a misnomer. But hell, GNU is his project; in fact it's him. GNU without RMS is not GNU, it's something else.

[1] I don't read twitter, sorry.
[2] That's not what he said; you've just repeated the apparently-deliberate distortions of the tech press.
[3] By "these comments", do you mean his defence of Minsky on the CSAIL mailing list? He didn't defend Epstein, he didn't excuse child abuse. Read his actual remarks (and read them carefully; he uses precise language). Pay no attention to the way they have been twisted by Vice and TechCrunch - two publishers whose words I will in future be taking with a bushel of salt.
> people have called him creepy for asking out MIT undergraduates

So every male at MIT is creepy then.

> defending adults having sex with children.

He was just arguing about the science available at the moment and even links the study on his website (everything is still there, he is not hiding anything)
There is some truth to the theory of "cultural Marxism" but it's usually presented in an unflattering and conspiratorial light.

Gramsci, a prisoner of Mussolini, questioned why Marxism had failed to foment revolution in the west. He came to the conclusion that the working class were indoctrinated, and that a "counter-hegemony" of thought based on progressive values was necessary to grow a more egalitarian society.

Herbert Marcuse, perhaps the defining philosopher of the 60s, continued this line of thought. There was no conspiracy or deception, however, since Marcuse was an open Marxist. He had a significant impact on the radical culture, and the sexual revolution of the 60s.

In this sense, if you are opposed to "cultural Marxism," then you are opposed to the cultural shift of the 60s. Personally, I think the cultural shift of the 60s is to be celebrated.
I bought an Amazon Alexa Auto so that I can control Spotify via voice: https://youtu.be/WBUKw4801HE

But I can do that now using the voice commands on the v10 update. I know there's a guy who tinkers with the firmware code and found that the voice commands for temp and other settings are dormant on a previous update.

https://twitter.com/greentheonly/status/1112574502678994944
Yes, I say that happen.

An account reposted a tweet as their own and then hid all the Replies flagging it as stolen content.
Much of their communication. Is body language and things like smells.

A friendly greeting, followed by smells says a lot.

Where they have been, are they hurt, sick? Hungry, what they ate recently and more.

Context matters.

That verbal call for attention often means, "see me" and think about what is seen, etc...
what certainly doesn't help is the graphics of the game which looks exactly like something out of a movie 20 years ago when people where making tons of VR dystopia sci-fi flicks
I have a VW radio with a touchscreen.

Fortunately the volume knob is in a fixed location so I can use it without taking my eyes of the road and the skip/play buttons are on the steering wheel.

While aircraft use glass cockpits , the important controls keeping it in the sky are still good old button/levers even with different shapes/textures.
> An event that happened and was publicly known over a decade ago, I don't see how it could have broken the camels back right now.

You can see it if you assume that some (even most) of the people judging weren't part of the community at the time and might just have learned of it.
I am honestly not sure how to react to that post. So let me give you some points, in no particular order:

- Just stating bad press has some connotation of "fake news", there is a lot of bias in the media regarding Musk and Tesla. So much that it is close to impossible to get a fact based view. Yet, the facts ot there aren't that great, especially regarding the finances. So if you are making a point about opinions being based on bad press alone and criticize others, provide fact and data.

- Saying others talk garbage is kind of a personal attack, you might want to refer again the posting guidelines.

- One of the interesting points about HN is the multitude of opinions, you don't have to agree to learn something new. Quite the contrary. And here the guidelines come in to have an open discussion.

On a side note, I didn't downvote you. Reason is because in threads like these it doesn't help a lot anyways. Also, I think personal opinions about the discussions here themselves are perfectly fine. Just tone it down with regards to opinions you don't necessarily agree with.
Write some custom code. Probably in assembler, because it's an unusual special-purpose architecture.

> The ISA consists of instructions with up to 4 slots with complex values. There are only eight instructions in total – two DMA read and write, three dot-product operations, and scaling and element-wise addition.

That's not something you're going to target with a standard compiler. It doesn't even have any control flow instructions. Effectively they've built a "convolve machine": all they have to do is set up the addresses for the areas of memory containing the image and the weights, let it run, and collect the result.
For users who have a fixed TDP budget, there's a substantial difference.

The AMD power calculation is not "bit different", it's Intel who is cheating big time.

On a system with constrained power values, those who buy Intel will suffer a substantially higher hit than those who buy AMD.
That's business though. Do ShowHNs advertising some private company need to be ad-like by disallowing mention of competitors?