skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi! Didn't expect this.

Mesh is still very much an alpha. Since the last public commit I have been experimenting with:

- different text representations of the sheet (to make diffs as readable as possible)

- ways to compress more functionality into the 'boilerplate' included with each sheet.

On the to-do list are:

- persistence (including fixing "save sheet as URL" and local load/save)

- selecting input cells with a keyboard while editing a formula

- a way to include 'standard' spreadsheet formulas such as 'SUM' on-demand in the sheet file

- case-insensitive cell references

- much more polish...

JavaScript's lack of a built-in parser is a real bummer, and it means that while Mesh's backend logic can be written as a spreadsheet, in Mesh [1], the file has to include a third-party JS parser, which significantly slows down the editing process. I'd also like a proper SQL and first-class table support, but we work with what is supported by Internet Explorer 11.

I remain confident that we can substantially improve the status quo of spreadsheets and, by extension, programming.

[1] https://twitter.com/MeshSpreadsheet/status/10195553103635046...
The photon ring is just one possible stable orbit. Just like there is nothing that forces all the stars to orbit our sun, there is nothing forcing the universe to place all the photons in the universe into one stable orbit around a black hole.
Can you link those posts?
> who hole weird and objectionable views

And if they publicly talk about those weird views they may find themselves being asked to leave their organisation, especially if those views are that child sexual abuse isn't so bad.

> in Australia consent is age 16 so he had a point there.

Can you link to the Australian law that shows the age of consent for coerced prostitutes is 16?
Would it be more effective than growing the number of phytoplanktons? If so, by how much?
In most countries a PhD will graduate around 24. It’s only a marathon in the US, and isn’t such a huge investment in time in other places.
> Maybe, but maybe they would have other tools, better tools, built by the people his behaviour, and the behaviour of people like him, have driven from the industry

We do have some evidence as to how likely that is given that projects such as Mastodon, NodeJS, GIMP and others have been forked by groups claiming to be dissatisfied with the 'toxic' behavior around said projects. They have indeed produced elaborate code of conducts, but no computer code to speak of.
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In what way? Regardless of whether they're using CI they still have to pull and mainline your change.
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He might have thought she was attracted to him. Anna Nicole Smith claimed to have been attracted to her 90-something husband. There have been enough historical examples where power or intellect apparently attracts. Or maybe he thought she was attracted to Epstein's money and wanted to be on his good side by "entertaining" his friends. Or maybe he was fully aware of the situation.

We cannot know what he thought, and we cannot even ask since he is dead, and we did not even know what actually happened after she "offered" herself (unwillingly and coerced by Epstein, of course).
Why do you think the second case happened? He resigned from a prestigious position on his own terms. If I expected anyone to tell straight "I've been forced to resign" or "I've been fired due to politics", it would be RMS. He didn't, and nobody seems to be preventing him to take part in public life - as evidenced by the number of posts, there's a number of people who still want to work with him.
Not sure what you mean by "nameplate capacity there", but renewables beat nuclear in at least three ways:

The first is Levelized Cost of Energy (total cost, divided by total energy generated.) For solar and wind this is current 3-4x better than new nuclear construction. This is an enormous difference.

The second is time to market. Renewables can be brought online much faster than a nuclear plant. This (along with staged introduction) allows renewables to track actual demand rather than needing to be able to predict future demand. Failure to do that was the cause of much utility pain in the first nuclear era, including the bankruptcy of the WPPSS ("Whoops"). Demand for electricity suddenly stopped growing. The same dynamic occurred more recently as the "nuclear renaissance" collided with suddenly cheap natural gas.

The final metric by which renewables are destroying nuclear is rate of improvement. Renewables have shown strong and consistent experience effects. Solar improves in cost by ~20% for each doubling of cumulative installed capacity. Nuclear, on the other hand, has not consistently shown any experience effects. This is likely related to the fundamental complexity of large, integrated nuclear systems, vs. the improvement trends seen in design and manufacture of small, highly replicated systems (a phenomenon well known in Silicon Valley).
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Exactly. I was gonna say that by some international port blacklist we can easily punish them, and of force them to make a huuuuuge donation to a clean-up fund in order to have the ban lifted.
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Hmmm...

> The China Tribunal has been initiated by the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC)
Ask HN: What makes software engineering great where you work?
Funny, the "professionals" took over. I knew it was inevitable when software engineers started arguing for certification, talked about how they were so much better people because they hated writing code outside their jobs, talking about how people learning to code was a conspiracy to ruin software engineer salaries, and began constraining strictly the spaces that people could act in. All that was always a harbinger of IBM-as-life.

Of course this is inevitable. When I was young, you just did what you did and tried to find other people who also did what you did. Maybe they liked you, maybe they didn't. If they didn't you found someone else or you made that group of people. It was all about freely associating.

The nerds got beaten but that was always going to happen when this thing became big.

When Terry Davis (of Losethos fame) said deeply offensive things that were personally offensive to me, we all tried to understand that it came from a troubled mind, that we could admire the work without tolerating the outbursts. With the socially awkward folks, it was even easier. We could gently direct while moderating their extremes.

Cancel culture is a mistake. I'm not bold enough to face it under my real name so I'm just going to weather it under the tarps where my people stand with their tenets like lit beacons barely visible in a storm. If you invoke Crocker's Rules, if you can forgive and redirect, and if you can disagree with words without invoking nuclear retribution, you can find the rest of us in our scattered micro-communities.

Good luck.
Didn't read the article but I met a Danish fellow doing laser prop shaft alignment on Friday night in Shenzhen. He told me there are packed out waiting lists for the installation of these devices right around China right now. Until then, I'd never heard of them.
First carbon dioxide battery is seven times more efficient than lithium-ion
Trees help, but alone won't "stop" the climate crisis, and wont do anything to combat the worst greenhouse gases.
This story has obvious falsehoods and as far as I can tell, is totally false or about the wrong person.

1. As far as I can tell, he was never on the board of VA Linux.

2. RMS was never married.
https://www.quora.com/Is-Richard-Stallman-married

3. It is a widely known that if anyone ever associates RMS with "open source", he will interject to say that he vehemently disagrees with open source and had nothing to do with its creation. The fireball guy who posted this story, clearly knows very little of RMS to post this without mentioning the fact that this part absolutely is false.

4. He dislikes the word "open" in general, and would never ever use it to describe anything he was involved in. Again, key fact that is clearly false.

5. RMS does not usually have bad hygiene.

6. One of the people who coined "open source" was involved with VA Linux, his name was Eric S Raymond. Perhaps this this is about him.
As someone who has a PhD in informatics, I would say it's only worth it if you (mostly) like doing what is required for getting the actual PhD (research, writing papers, giving presentations - often to an audience that is not really interested in what you have to say but still has to grade you).

Having the PhD is not that useful unless you want to be a professor / academic researcher. In my case I work for a Japanese governmental research institute, which hires both PhDs and "supporting staff". Supporting staff have less freedom and have temporary contracts. No-one really gets paid that well. In terms of work, I'm still coding a lot, but also need to read and write many papers, proposals, etc.
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Few jobs explicitly require a PhD, but realistically for many jobs a PhD is the only way to acquire the experience, reputation, and connections to get the job.
Maybe you think of this magnetohydrodynamic simulation: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1907o/

The NASA video is a visualisation that "simulates" the optical distortion.
>only the U.S was successfully able to put someone on the moon

But is that because it's hard to put people on the moon or because only one country tried? (Sure, the USSR tried too, but they stopped trying before succeeding to put a large enough rocket into LEO).

There is a very unique challenge in landing on the moon, and most moon landings still fail. But that can be perfected with unmanned landings, and Space X has the unique advantage of having plenty of experience with powered landings, and not requiring a separate lander.
https://stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#05%20June%20...

https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#04_January_2...
I would say there are limited number of fields where having PhD is an assumed norm, and would influence your hire-ability. Molecular biology is one of those, from my experience?

Your time is probably better spent interviewing, networking or searching for internships.

Your idea of how PhD works seems quite bleak, from what I heard, it can be a bit more creative/involved version of things you already do for your MSc thesis.

So if you hate MSc, but really like the research you do, and your advisor and research-group, I would consider staying. Especially if they know how to write grant-proposals ;)

If you don't like the research, run.
I wish I had 1000 points to upvote this comment. But I just want to thank you, sometimes I feel I have become insane or out of touch, seeing the way people twit or comment here. It feels good to know there are still different opinions from the now ubiquitous ultra-SJW worldview.
Betteridge's law thwarted at long last?
You can go back and do a PhD after working for a few years - I did this.
I have similar experiences with H&M, and a lot of other cheap basically colored shirts. It’ll feel great at first. Then I’ll leave it in the dryer for a few minutes too long, and the fit completely changes while the material looks degraded.

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.

If anyone has recommendations, please let me know.
So you're saying US public schools are great, US public transport is great, and people can easily get treatment in public hospitals for the same price that they would suffer bed shortages for in Country X?

Just trying to understand your points because I think they are quite easily refutable.

I live in Germany and am not a fan of the high taxes but see more from the 42% I pay here than the 33-36% I paid in the US.
> The whole Stallman story very much seems to be modern day thoughtcrime

It's actually not a modern day thing, it's more like classic propaganda. Someone motivates someone to lie about something, then tells specific people in the press who are willing to write about it, often for some monetary gain. This has been done for as long as "free" press existed.
As a former tech recruiter, if you want to be a data scientist, a PhD helps. So look to see if the jobs you dream about ask for a PhD.
What do you think about this tool to get rid of social media routine?
Unless something has changed recently, stallman is still the head of the GNU project (https://www.fudzilla.com/news/49493-richard-stallman-says-i-...).

and according to stallman's personal site, he's found interim housing (https://stallman.org/).
1/5 Stars - Would not review again.
He pretty much was / is. He lived at MIT, his life’s work was GNU and the FSF. All three were taken away, and more than that - people were excited and driven to do this.

He’s had to move, he’s lost all his potions, etc.

There was very little discourse and punishment was swift. That’s not really the way justice should be served. This man (RMS), essentially spent his life fighting for others. He was thrown to the wolves without discussion.
The one place you could potentially win is VR: each console could run the same codebase, independently, to generate the left and right eye views - whatever one console can do for one display, two can do for two; the amount of information required to keep the two game simulations in sync would be relatively small (world/view transforms and frame timing from master to slave console to let the two simulations stay in lockstep).

People would balk at having to buy two consoles for VR though.
> You have just outlined the double-speak of the SV technocracy

It's not just them, this seems to be a far leftist direction in general.
There's also a perverse incentive in this age of outrage to incite public lynching and write posts to spark maximum hate where you're rewarded with reach, followers and self-reinforcing Internet points on social media and more clicks on link bait articles of which it appears to be all upside, there doesn't appear to be any downside for mischaracterizing or falsely accusing someone on social media, with enough hate-fueled reach any disinformation will eventually drown out uninteresting contradictory facts and be adopted as truth.

None of the hit piece articles I've read portrayed a true characterization of what he wrote, most presented quotes out of context and instead focused their efforts on colorful commentary to suggest he was somehow in support of child rape - an accusation that's clear to invoke the ire of the masses.

If he were more socially apt maybe he would've known to never share his opinion of what he assumed the thoughts of his late friend were, not even on a private mailing list, unless of course it's to join the chorus of hate and accusations against him.
> in an even-keeled and level-headed manner in other cases where similar concerns are raised.

It's so nice and heartwarming that you're complimenting his even-keeled and level-headed manner on a subject both of you know as much as a first-grader knows quantum mechanics. It's the blind leading the blind and complimenting each other for their clear-sightedness.
The other names are already on the German wikipedia page: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durchsteckschl%C3%BCssel
I find this very interesting. This is the first time I've seen a developer provide a AppImage for Linux and a build-it-yourself for Mac and Windows. Not sure if the dev owns any computer that runs Windows or Mac, but that seems reasonable. Also is there a reason for using Metal rather than MoltenVK for macOS?

Other than that, great project, spot on license choice, and best of all, Rust!
Pretty much the same as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20360513 ...
In some sommellerie school in France, you train your nose using an "aroma box" (https://aromaster.com/fr/produit/coffret-master-aromes-du-vi...). Being interested into owning one for quite some time now.
Most of your post reads as if you really don't want to do a PhD, but are looking for someone to convince you to stay. We can't really help you with that.

If you really want to do a PhD, I thought I should add a clarification regarding this:

> Equally concerning to me is that I think I'd likely be miserable during the PhD process. It seems very lonely, and I don't find much enjoyment from, say, sitting in my office reading papers all day.

My PhD was by far the most intellectually stimulant job I ever had, and now that I'm in industry I find myself missing it. This is of course dependent of your research group, but some of my weekly PhD activities included

* a weekly seminar where we would all read a new paper and discuss it

* a weekly course on specific research topics - first it was Neural Networks, then it was Reinforcement Learning. We made a point of having a programming part to it, in order not to remain purely theoretical.

* optional courses on topics that each one of us found interesting

* discussions with other researchers who would come to our offices and ask for input regarding a specific problem they had

* a weekly "meeting" in which we got together to have cookies and talk about life

Add the yearly sprint to get things ready for a conference and the random tasks such as organizing a conference, and the end result was that there was always something new to keep myself busy.

Of course, not all PhDs are like mine and some people are truly miserable. But it's not a given that all PhDs will be like that.
> Who needs proof…

You need proof to accuse someone of a crime. He didn't mention "a child". He said, quotes: "We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that
she presented herself to him as entirely willing.".

He never mentions his old friend had sex with minors. He only points out is not clear the only scenario was a) a minor, b) using force.
He did not say that.
For completeness, here is a modern simulation that also simulates the physics of accretion disk in detail: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1907o/
Maybe we are talking about 2 different things. I want to stretch the image to the bottom of the visible area not to the bottom of the site. If the height of the parent is 100% and that parent is the site itself and it's 5000px high (because the rest of the content made it that high) then setting the bottom to 0px will stretch the image's height to 5000px.
Being capable to extract precise logical meaning from text is something everyone with STEM education learns in their introductory mathematics courses. It has nothing to do with social ability.

> visiting professor has a poor grasp of social context and an inability to synchronise with other people.

I am not that interested about the broader political context. I would like to know who (and why) shot Franz Ferdinand so to speak.
This short essay[1] (with links to 26 translations now...wow!) by CS Prof. Douglas Comer of Purdue helped me find solace when I was struggling with a comparable dilemma.

[1] https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/essay.phd.html
He was witch-hunted on the internet by a serial witch-hunter, some "journalists" who lack basic reading comprehension and the lynch mob that ensured. It's naive to believe he resigned voluntarily. He was pressured into it, probably believed the witch-hunters, lynchmobgoers and finger pointers to a certain degree that he indeed is evil, resigned to protect what he created and therefore was nice enough to not shit all over the institutions he created on his way out.

His reputation was set on fire and burned to the ground, he was expelled from his life's work, might even have become homeless as a direct result, and most of the people he considered friends or friendly vanished over night (tho, some remain as you pointed out, but decidedly few) destroying most of his social (support) network.
Yeah, took him until a few days after the whole storm had started. Good timing to have such a profound reversal in your view on pedophilia.
> before someone goes into a defensive rage... rms being a creep and particularly women at MIT going to great lengths to avoid him is well documented

I can't believe this hasn't been asked yet - if the allegations are founded, why didn't MIT do anything as his employer? They have a statutory obligation to provide a safe workplace.
> But one man's cesspool is another man's hot spring.

A cesspit is still a cesspit even if some people choose to call it a hot spring.
stallman is still the head of the GNU project.
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You can get gesetzlich versichert (for example with the TK) if you are self-employed. You pay a ton, probably as much as private insurance, but you do get insured.
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The first fucking line of your "proper newspaper" article

> after leaked emails appeared to show him downplaying another academic’s alleged participation in the purported sex trafficking of minors by Jeffrey Epstein.
"Increased risk of wetness linked to reduced distance from water, studies suggest."

Human bodies autocalibrate for their environment to a remarkable degree on virtually every axis, moreso during childhood and adolescence and to a lesser degree after reaching maturity. I can't fathom why anyone would doubt that spending all of your time staring at nearby objects causes your eyes to adapt to staring at nearby objects.
At home with your mates? What about streaming with your mates? Or in a public conference unrelated to your work with your mates? Or just anywhere where you could be recorded?

The kind of people that grossly misinterpreted (and I use these words because my English isn't good enough to use stronger words while remaining polite) Stallman's comment about Minksy won't care about the situation or context.
But, and this is important, there is no natural law algorithm for working out what the words "raping" and "children" mean.

People have to occasionally talk about difficult issues to find out. There isn't a common moral or legal standard about what either of those words mean on the margins, in globally or in the US.

If people can't voice opinions that are wrong, they have no easy way of finding out why those opinions are wrong.
As the trope goes, if the author asks a question in the title of their article, the answer is "no, not really."

I'd counter that online reviews still have pretty much the same value they ever have had, and that we're more aware of what the limits of that value is.

Lot's of real-person reviews exist on many platforms, and reading through a few often gives you a decent idea of what you're getting yourself into.

Paid-for reviews are certainly a scourge, and one business getting loyalists to down-vote a competitor is also a problem. But that's been a thing since the beginning of recommendation features, and we should celebrate a little bit that we're more hip and conscious today to these operations.
Did you read the article? Because it makes clear that this is not what RMS said, providing the quote from the mail in question.
I’m not saying he’s oppressed. He’s a super giant nerd and people don’t like nerds. Other nerds don’t like nerds. No one owes anyone else shit. Normal people don’t like fat or ugly people either, and avoid them too.

The idea that autistic people do not make allistic people uncomfortable is completely at odds with my experience. The more obviously autistic someone is the less allistic people want to be near them. People who are crushing monomaniacal bores with poor social skills are tolerated if they have some valuable skills, keep to themselves, or parrot the party line.

Autistic people can make allistic people uncomfortable by sitting quietly in the corner of a room. They look funny, they stim, they do that flappy thing with their hands, or rock.

Stallman wasn’t oppressed. He was booted for being a huge outspoken driven asshole with no political nous, but he’s been a huge outspoken equal opportunity asshole for decades.