skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what the overlap between pixel artists and vi users is.

And perhaps for this overlap a tutorial is not needed, but it would be interesting to me to see it in action.
In hindsight I should probably named everything differently, but I didn't expect the software to turn into a company at some point when I initially started it over 8 years ago for a hacker conference (see https://github.com/dividuum/info-beamer).

The main challenge was to understand how to use the HEVC decoder. There's no documentation at the moment, so the only source of information is this patched FFmpeg release: https://github.com/popcornmix/FFmpeg/commits/2711

Basically the decoder interacts with /dev/argon-hevcmem to control the HEVC hardware decoder. You let it decode into video core controlled memory and can then use the MMAL toolkit (http://www.jvcref.com/files/PI/documentation/html/) to feed buffers through a scheduler and finally into the dispmanx layers handled by the hardware video scaler. That way the frames end up more or less directly on the screen. Except for the decoding part, the same pipeline of scheduler and presentation can also be used with the older H264 based encoder that's directly addressable using MMAL.
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He is not stating pedophilia is good. If you assume he is doing that, then you don't understand the claims he does. (i dissagree with what he posted).
Yeah, from the looks of things, the FSF might become more of a threat to proprietary software vendors now, if they have new charismatic leader (at the risk of selling-out on their ideals, though).
Dealing with unanticipated needs (Dave Snowden) [video]
It helps to filter out contributions. If CI is broken you send it back to the contributor. Maybe with some guidance. Only if CI passes you take a deeper look. This helps to spend time efficiently.

Of course this has the risk that contributors spend much time on making a patch pass all tests and then get it rejected, since maintainers don't like the feature.
I am not at all in PC gaming community, but I had the impression that more and more people were moving to linux. In particular Steam for linux seemed to be praised a lot as a stable platform (up to a point where making non games run on Steam would be a viable option).

Would you see a future where gamers would embrace linux in enough numbers that it becomes a main platform ? I see their communities as willing to bear with some level of technical complexity as long as there are clear results, I was seeing the driver issues as the only real showstopper to have them move out of windows.
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He's entitled to have an opinion. He's not promoting pedophilia, merely stating that he's skeptical to the current opinions about pedophilia. It could be that in 300 years from now, pedophilia or rather hebephilia (what most people mean) is perfectly accepted by society. I honestly hope it won't, and I don't agree with RMS on these points, but he's allowed to be skeptical.
Mu. You asked if leader is defined by challenging things. I gave an alternative definition with an example of leaders not challenging things. (and sure, there are also those who do challenge) No-platforming is a completely different topic, and I have expressed no opinions about it.
No, but he did say that having sex with children is sometimes fine. Which is what I said.
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> the relentless denial of reality

This is a tried and true tactic and it works. Issue certainly is not "reading comprehension".

How many fingers?

http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/18.html
It's not about what we think, but what people in the receiving end of his advances thought at the time that was happening. Stallman IS a powerful figure in the Free Software movement. The mere fact the people are making blog posts or coming to HN in his defense after what he said, both in the MIT e-mail and in his blog over the years, is evidence enough of that. While it is hard to think that Stallman would go after those who accused him of anything, the guy has a huge enough following that people would be intimidated to make accusations due to the possibility of push back from the community.
No idea. Likely through the usual (for Google) means: candidate submits a resume directly to the company, resume is reviewed by sourcer, and a decision is made on whether to interview based on qualifications. I can pretty much guarantee that women not only aren't discriminated at this stage, but given preference if there's any doubt at all. Tech companies are under immense pressure nowadays to improve their diversity metrics. The fact that they are unable to do so is quite telling, IMO.
Very, in the UK a "beamer" is a slang term for a BMW!
This is super cool thanks for the link.
It sounds like you're burned out, and not 100% sold on the idea of doing a PhD.

I suggest taking a break from school for a year or two, try moving to a country you like better, and reassessing what you want.

If you decide you really are interested in doing a PhD in theorem-proving, and you have talent for doing graduate research in that area, getting back onto that track should be possible.
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The study has data to back up it's findings and suggests tree growth can help; what data are you using to back up your statement?

From the article: "The Crowther Lab of ETH Zurich has published a study in the journal Science that shows this would be the most effective method to combat climate change."
> In most countries a PhD will graduate around 24

Not in Germany. I started studying at 18, so as early as possible. Finished after 5 years with my Masters degree. A PhD would've taken a minimum (!) of 3 more years, so I would've been 26 or older. If you don't have a perfect start, take more than regular study time or take longer than those 3 years, it's easy (and not considered being bad) to be 30 when you're done.
Half of the academic computer science community is autistic and not attractive, and the vast majority of them somehow manages to refrain from making female colleagues and students constantly uncomfortabe, provoking outrage by doubting the well-supported testimony of a child sex abuse victim, and so forth.
> A default Ubuntu install doesn't require much if anything in the way of settings mungery...

I don't think any user would be bothered in attempting to install Ubuntu to replace Windows unless they are 'tech-savvy' enough or a software engineer. Such users would only see that as a double negative in losing their apps + UX mental model just to get things done. They first have to unlearn Windows/Mac and then replace their missing apps just use the selected Linux OS (Ubuntu, ChromeOS, etc) which just isn't worth it.

> I recall many a nightmare of getting drivers working on Windows back in the day.

Yes, Windows is a nightmare for getting drivers working, but I have heard worse stories of Linux users complaining about X11/Wayland bringing down their desktop plus the graphical issues Wine has when running Windows apps and games.
> I’m more than happy to spend $30+ on a simple shirt that won’t change its fit after a few cleanings, but struggle to find a consistent brand.

Yes I face this problem as well. It seems that no matter how much you pay, you get the same clothes manufactured in the same sweatshops but you pay extra for a "better" logo/brand.

I like Zara, but it is debatable if they actually do have better quality for the higher prices they ask for.
They won't have to. Disabled people and those caring for grandparents prone to falling will seek out a Tesla with summoning if it helps them get around or can drive them to the hospital.
Just as a political lesson, reforestation is fascinating.It seems to have casually gone from seeming unfeasible practically and politically to feasible... without much of a struggle.

Impossible until it isn't.
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Threat modelling. In most models, if someone has uninterrupted physical access to a device, it's theirs.

Phones are more important in that you want to protect the assets from thieves, so we do add non-destructive physical access to our scope, but it's with a higher bug-bar. Someone being able to take your phone, compromise it, then give it back to you so you can input new assets means that a vulnerability has to be severe to be as important as a minor remote vulnerability.
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Germany hands down: learn a new language, a new continent, better work-live, happier people, better IT and gov for IT
> What does "running to much success" mean exactly?

When you ask questions like this, you sound combative, rather than curious - because the success of Discord is rather well documented.

> Why could you not have achieved the same results using alternative tools?

How can this be answered without trialling every other tool? Again, you sound combative.
I would imagine that it's been automatically removed due to a large number of people flagging it, rather than manually removed by the admins.

My understanding is that automatic removals (from flagging) get reviewed and unremoved if the admins don't see a good case for the submission being flag-worthy.
Note how I said it was an incomplete list of patches only.

There's also signinficant tuning and optimisation, both for the Erlang VM and FreeBSD.

There also things like (quotes from Highscalability):

"Mnesia: Using no transactions, but with remote replication ran into a backlog. Parallelized replication for each table to increase throughput."

"When Rick is going through all the changes that he made to get to 2 million connections a server it was mind numbing. Notice the immense amount of work that went into writing tools, running tests, backporting code, adding gobs of instrumentation to nearly every level of the stack, tuning the system, looking at traces, mucking with very low level details and just trying to understand everything. That’s what it takes to remove the bottlenecks in order to increase performance and scalability to extreme levels."

Or even the things like "What has hundreds of nodes, thousands of cores, hundreds of terabytes of RAM? The Erlang/FreeBSD-based server infrastructure at WhatsApp". Oh, wait. Erlang's default distribution mechanism grinds to a halt when there are more than ~60-80 nodes. And Mnesia has a 2GB limit on table sizes. So you have to work around those limitations yourself.

There are no magic bullets. Erlang will only take you so far. The rest (80-90% of the way) you have to take on your own, and you have to know what you're doing, and what needs to be done: patches, tuning, workarounds, limits of the systems you work with etc.
Oh absolutely he's allowed to be skeptical. He's allowed to say whatever he wants, and he certainly has used that freedom.
Cool. I thought it was only some online gambling shop taking up maintenance. Having NHS on that list as well gives me more confidence.

Some more info on riak.org about the current story regarding who maintains would help me a lot in choosing it.

To me Riak was the only noSQL scale-out-able data store product that really made sense.
> Until this debacle I didn't realize so many people in our industry can voluntarily refrain from most basic reading comprehension. There's no discussion with people who simply refuse to read and comprehend a plain English sentence.

I can't remember exactly when "Flame Warriors" came out ( https://www.politicsforum.org/flame-warriors/ ) - possibly back in 1999 ... but it was clear trouble was ahead...
There are many countries in the world where the age of consent is 14. It was so in Canada, our physical and cultural neighbor, until 2008. Why is it so wildly unacceptable opinion to question an arbitrary line of US law?
Sure, it's the physical design of the device. But that's a consequence of making something cheap from lots of small identical parts that self-assemble. You could make something that didn't require the reference signal, but it'd cost significantly more. And you could always allow inspections if people are really concerned.

Changing the beam target would require a repointing of the satellite in addition to the new guide signal. If you somehow do that militarily, it's still a pretty weak weapon; it'd slightly increase people's body temperature and they'd have to evacuate unless the guide transmitter could be found quickly. It probably wouldn't be hard since it's sending a signal that can be detected 36,000 miles away.

I'd like to see a real engineering cost estimate of transmitting power from one side of the planet to the other, by wires or any other method. I really doubt it can be done for four cents/kWh. And it would certainly introduce a possibility for hostiles to cause wide-scale power outages.
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As a freelancer I have a luxury to be a master of my time, with all the bad and good that comes with it. Last week I worked half Sunday so this Monday I have hours covered.

I also work on my project, sometimes whole day, or two, sometimes even a week.. it depends on my clients' requirements and how skillful I was in planning the time.

It took me some years to get there, however. And now with kids it gets even more challenging.

Regarding socializing, it is true, my circle is now rather small, but I take it as a temporary state.
I hate to be the one to draw the feminism card on HN because I know I'll attract a swarm of people that'll 'disagree' with me by shouting things at me, but that is called rape culture, and despite the confusing name, it is not solely about rape.

If that sounds hard to believe I can empathise, it took a personal anecdote for me to get and notice the spread of it too.

If you're wondering how one would be disincentivized, have a lot at how people react:

https://medium.com/p/a7e41e784f88/responses/show
My social skills are just fine thanks. I’m still not under the illusion allistic people like autistic people, or accept them except under the condition that they hide who and what they are.

I don’t think autistic people are creepy perverts. I think that normal people pretty much automatically think they’re creepy because there’s something off about the way they interact socially. The degree of offness varies but if you never had it you were never autistic.

If you’re under the impression people are accepting go to an autism or asperger’s support group. You will be quickly disabused of your high opinion of humanity.

https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2019/04/24/on-stimming-a...

> Being able to pass as nonautistic is an important skill. We live in a world full of people who hate autistic people. Other people find the natural way our bodies move to be upsetting or repulsive to look at. It is not realistic to expect nonautistic people to change, so those of us who can acquire the skill of passing will often be better able to achieve our goals if we can pass.
It's well-known he's since recanted his thoughts in those posts:

https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...

Are people allowed to change their mind after having conversations that convince them that their position is wrong?
One of my favorite writers. In his collection of short stories the two opposing math concepts are mentioned:

The Aleph - A point in space through which the whole universe can be seen and comprehended.

The Zahir - An object that has the power to create an obsession in everyone who sees it, the obsession so strong that after a short period of time everything else disappears.

The A and The Z. Infinity and Zero.
The real question is: What is the alternative?

There are some useful review sites like Wirecutter that arguably cut through the clutter in a lot of cases. But the amount of "stuff" and experiences (e.g. restaurants) out there is pretty overwhelming for what's left of professional reviewers outside of some fairly narrow domains.

I do a lot of travel. Are Yelp and TripAdvisor reviews of restaurants great? Not really. Are they generally better--given some critical mass--than picking a restaurant at random or because it has a cool name? Almost certainly. (Of course, online menus and the like can be somewhat useful as well.)
> There's a difference between tolerating it to a degree and letting leaders continue uncomfortable awkwardness. If it's enough to distance people, maybe they're not a great candidate for a leader.

Honestly, they got him because they could. There's plenty of politicians, including state heads, regularly making offensive and sexist comments. I haven't seen anyone attempting or even proposing a coup because of that. It usually gets a day or two on the news, and then is remembered only in jokes.

> That doesn't remove anything from their achievements and abilities to contribute or to spread new ideas.

Of course it does, because being a leader is the ability "to contribute or to spread new ideas". Moreover, in this particular case, we're hearing plenty of voices trying to retroactively deny RMS's achievements.

> entirely omitting the space occupied by almost all of us: between homelessness and being a leader of a global movement/organisation.

In this particular case, it was a jump over that space occupied by almost all of us. In a blink of an eye, this incident made an old person not employable and apparently (according to the TFA) homeless. Maybe a different, more emotionally and intellectually balanced person could handle this and resume a fulfilling but low-profile life. But such people don't generally end up with achievements or roles as RMS did. It takes a pretty unbalanced person to persist in pushing views that go against the commercial zeitgeist so long, so successfully, and without compromise.
I think it's worth pointing out that there is also a commercial imperative involved in the tension you cite.

In fact, it is that - not "the community" - that is the ultimate decision maker here, though naturally the community being part of the USP, the commercial enterprise undermines it at it's peril.

As you disclose, you are seeing this from a particular point of view - the mods (whether or not you are one yourself).

It is worth bearing in mind that is a minority - if heavily invested - point of view.

Most users probably have little interest in the politics you describe, and the business only in so far as it affects returns.
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I think you might be a bit emotional. Can you provide some solid proof of Richard Stallman harassing or abusing people as a pattern or any evidence at all?
The trees would do more than just photosynthesize (in general a forest is in practice carbon neutral), one of the problems of deforestation is that it changes local climate due to the trees effect on temperature and humidity.
> a lot of pseudo-English words (Denglisch) such as "beamer" (protector) and "handy" (mobile phone)

These are real German words. The reason they sound like English is because they were imported and adapted like any other neologism. Denglish (or Frenglish, Ponglish, Spanglish, etc.) refers either to words that don't exist in any of the 2 languages but borrow heavily from real words (a lot of corporate lingo in most languages has these fake words adapted from English), or to using literal translations of expressions or “false friends” between that language and English even if the meaning inadvertently changes.

And "beamer" is actually used by a lot of non-native English speakers to refer to a video projector when speaking English.

For example words like "substance", "amusing", "mobile", or "confusing" are of French origin but since they are in the dictionary they're not considered Frenglish (Engch?).
Was it? I've never met or heard of anyone using it except on Hacker News

I also doubt it made any revenue
https://stallman.org/archives/2006-mar-jun.html#05%20June%20...

> I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing.

https://stallman.org/archives/2003-may-aug.html

> The nominee is quoted as saying that if the choice of a sexual partner were protected by the Constitution, "prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia" also would be. He is probably mistaken, legally--but that is unfortunate. All of these acts should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness.

> Some rules might be called for when these acts directly affect other people's interests. For incest, contraception could be mandatory to avoid risk of inbreeding. For prostitution, a license should be required to ensure prostitutes get regular medical check-ups, and they should have training and support in insisting on use of condoms. This will be an advance in public health, compared with the situation today.
That may not be the case...

We don’t know if it’s true but:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21103133

In either case, to your comment, he was stripped of his life. To say otherwise is disingenuous.

It’d be like saying: I took your house and job, but left you the car.

That’d still be striping you of land and title (to your comment)
Maybe you haven’t noticed this, but Gitlab is an open-source project.

It’s pretty hard to claim a technical moat when most of what you sell can be replicated with a repo fork.
Interesting! Maybe I've been misinformed. I might have my timeline a bit confused, I had always thought this was the case.
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So where exactly does the article say this method will stop the climate crisis?

It doesn't, because it's not true as the ETH reseachers are well aware and will readily tell you. As I mentioned in my post, trees ALONE will not stop the climate crisis because the only thing they'll really help with is CO2 absorption, and climate change is driven by more than just C)2 levels.
If I know anything about human behavior than these incidents were a final excuse to get rid of Stallman. I personally don’t care for him, but he has done so much for FOSS. Also I am surprised more people trying to condemn him are not seeing that Stallman is basically autistic. People are essentially being mad over someone with autism acting in some ways autistic.. C’mon people need to start cutting some people a damn break this worlds lost all sanity..
> A fully growth women, so terrified of any contact with men to barricade herself behind a geranium all day, should raise a red flag.

Cool victim blaming.

> Any adult women should be able to stop and deal elegantly with an undesired proposition.

They're in a professional environment, they shouldn't have to deal with this.
I am sorry but that is a pretty awful article.
> This is a tough rhetorical device.

There is no particular charge to defend so it is indefensible. It is more insinuation than accusation. It also sounds vaguely convincing without needing to provide any actual evidence or cite any specific instance, and turns singular instances of not-really-a-problem into a 'pattern' (eg, like what happened to his door sign).

> But maybe he doesn’t have a pattern but some people incorrectly perceive a pattern.

I went to a Stallman talk on Free Software once when he was in Australia. The questions he fielded after the talk where honestly jawdropping and one of the first encounters I had with how little some people understand subtle arguments.

"Software must be free, but people can be paid to work on it!" then "So what you are saying is that people should work without getting paid?" style exchanges.

Stallman is defiantly no stranger to having his words misunderstood. It wasn't even malicious, people just didn't understand him.