skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> us idling around chewing the cud on this isn't really hurting anything

Or... maybe it _is_ hurting?

Junk may displace quality. An HN page filled with low-quality comments may discourage people with expertise from contributing. "Eternal September" and "Someone on the internet is wrong!" being less engaging than informed (or even just not energetically misguided) discussion. I certainly have a predicate of "ok, there's no point in my commenting on this HN post; it's 'gone bad'; there's now an inverse correlation between people having a clue and their being likely to wade through all this and potentially see my comment".

There's also "You play like you practice", and this is negative training on ignoring the criticality of recognizing expertise and its limits.

A bar discussion with an expert can go like a seminar. Or if without, yet with experienced people, like a panel. But as the available expertise declines, things can rapidly collapse towards a stereotype of a DC cocktail party, with nonsense lapped up and shared due to an inability to judge expertise and its limits. You get bad reddit, with babbled nonsense undergoing memetic selection largely disconnected from reality. FOX News, and the NYTimes's deemphasis of the role of political and economic interests, also come to mind.

> chewing the cud [...] isn't really hurting anything

So perhaps, alternately, it might be viewed as a intellectual integrity fail? One with civilizational impact?

> Anyway, at worst this is entertainment,

So then... its like HN and US public discourse about trade wars, sanctions and shooting wars and their civilian casualties, regulatory capture and industrial policy, education, public health, ... and so on? All sort of a reality tv show? /end snark :)

Hmm, random thought... my fuzzy impression is that views on lies are bimodal, with camps of "white lies are necessary social lubricant; to think otherwise is to be immature and inconsiderate" and "all lies are toxic; to think otherwise is to be oblivious to unintended and broader impacts". I wonder if there's a similar divergence of views with respect to comment and thread intellectual hygiene?

Ideally, we would have more flexible discussion fora. Discussion preferences vary among people, topics, times of day, etc. Sometimes I enjoy reddit pun chains, sometimes I find them an annoying distraction. It'd be nice to be able to toggle seeing them, rather than everyone getting a similar view all the time. But for now... I think of HN discussion as "breaking down" as topics become distant from tech.
It only opens dotdot once at the start, though, and calls creat(dotdot) later.
There is feedback in sentence collector. If your sentence too long it will tell you straight away. If your sentence is rejected by people it will appear in "rejected sentences" tab. If your sentences are approved you can see it in GitHub repo.
presumably you would hash many variations of the initial thumbprint, and then simply compare the new thumbprint hash against the list of possibilities, passing upon finding the first match
Or maybe it's a clever ruse.. checkmate adversary
Fundamentally the platform (facebook, google, etc) the majority of folks use to connect with be the best one to market products and services on.

The issue is that these platforms change over time and across generations.

In short, as firms, markets, and societies change so will effective marketing strategies.

We can still bicker about whether or not FB has reached its high watermark. It looks like it has for Firefox users though.
If by "feminists" you mean GNU maintainers and other free software hackers (who may well be feminists, but this is a sharp subset of feminists in society as a whole), then correct, his personal political views are not by themselves the reason they want him out. It's the fact that he is so committed to the advocacy of his personal views that he is harming the free software movement. See, for instance, this post from the author of this email (and linked in this email): https://wingolog.org/archives/2019/10/08/thoughts-on-rms-and...

> The great tragedy of RMS's tenure in the supposedly universalist FSF and GNU projects is that he behaves in a way that is particularly alienating to women. It doesn't take a genius to conclude that if you're personally driving away potential collaborators, that's a bad thing for the organization, and actively harmful to the organization's goals: software freedom is a cause that is explicitly for everyone.

and this, from a former member of the FSF Board of Directors who resigned so he could speak up: http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html

> More importantly to the FSF, I attempted to persuade RMS that launching a controversial campaign on sexual behavior and morality was counter to his and FSF's mission to advance software freedom [....] After years of conversing with RMS about how his non-software-freedom views were a distraction, an indulgence, and downright problematic, his general response was to make even more public comments of this nature.

and this, from another former member of the FSF Board of Directors: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/52587.html

> Stallman is driving away our natural allies. It's inappropriate for him to continue as the figurehead for free software.

It is not because they simply disagreed with his political beliefs - he can believe what he likes. It is about the fact that, as a leader in the free software movement, he was driving away more people with both his public advocacy of his views and his behavior (hitting on women at conferences as soon as he met them, etc.), i.e, he was not doing his job.
What a coincidence. This sounds exactly like what happens with OOP. Every discussion here gets swarmed with clueless people who think Java is the apex of OO programming, because that's what gets taught in universities these days. They don't understand any of the core concepts that prompted Xerox Park to develop the OO paradigm in the first place. They aren't aware of any of the relevant research. They operate under the assumption that OO was born out complete ignorance of functional programming, even though people who kick-started its rise were keenly aware of Lisp (for example, Alan Kay frequently references McCarthy's work and research papers in his talks). Etc, etc.
RMS is a difficult person. Anybody who has had anything to do with him knows that.

But he is also (relatively) a old person. He comes from a era when to get heard you had to shout. His generation turned out a lot of well intentioned, but bullying, people.

We are much more inclusive these days, we make efforts to broaden the appeal of our groups and ensure that people other than the usual alphas can function in them. But in that process we have become intolerant of the shouty bullying men (usually men, but not always) of old.

This is mostly good. But for RMS and Linus and lots of others of the old guard there is a difficult adjustment.

It is OK to have opinions. It is OK to express them. But what RMS and co. (me too, I had to, I am the same generation) had to, have to, learn is that we need to always speak our opinions softly. Because those who are "weaker" personalities than us view our shouted opinions as a affront. And if we want them in our groups, and I know I do, we have to accommodate them.

It seems RMS is stepping out of the way. I know Linus did. Any takers for a sweepstake on when Theo de Raadt will?
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Newly found “short sleep” gene reduces need for sleep, prevents memory deficits
So if somebody asserted that INTERCAL-72 is the proper language to use for production code, you would consider it unfair to contradict them until you've used INTERCAL in production code yourself?

Personally, I would not necessarily disbelieve somewhat propagating Haskell as a production ready language. However, I'm fairly confident that it would be thoroughly unsuited to any areas of work I regularly operate in.

I have tried a number of times to learn Haskell (from a variety of tutorials and text books). I find myself nodding along sympathetically at the fundamentals (functional purity, non-strict evaluation). I can follow the initial chapters. And somewhere between "Functor" and "Applicative", I tend to lose the plot.

Then I look at supposedly real world code like the URL shortener in Allen/Moronuki's "Haskell Programming from First Principles", and I just can't make heads or tails of it: https://github.com/bitemyapp/shawty-prime/blob/master/app/Ma...

app :: R.Connection
-> ScottyM ()
app rConn = do
get "/" $ do
uri <- param "uri"
let parsedUri :: Maybe URI
parsedUri = parseURI (TL.unpack uri)
case parsedUri of
Just _ -> do
shawty <- liftIO shortyGen
let shorty = BC.pack shawty
uri' = encodeUtf8 (TL.toStrict uri)
resp <- liftIO (saveURI rConn shorty uri')
html (shortyCreated resp shawty)
Nothing -> text (shortyAintUri uri)

If that's supposed to be the way to write production code in the future, count me out!
This sounds very tinfoil hat...
Yeah, "run towards your fear" is similar to "life is a meritocracy". We only hear from the people who it was true for.
OTOH, very fast and hard reality checks.
No, this is not as complex as you make it out to be. First, the unification of Europa as a process started back to the 1950s. The EU isnkust the latest if a series of institutions that were founded and replaced in pursuit of that goal. Second, if you look at the western European countries before 1945 you will see that they had been quick to go to war with each other consistently throughout history. War was merely a tool, a way to continue policy making by other means. This approach got out of comtrol and caused World War I. World War II was cause by mad men who stoped at nothing to inflict as much death and damage as they could possibly do. Tjose horrors made the survivors realize that Europe cannot go on like this. This is what led de Gaulle, the former commander of the French army to approach the West German Chancellor Adenauer and ask for cooperation in building something that guarantees lomg term stability on the continent.

There are approximately 30 countries on this continent. With so many actors, the chances of enduring peace over long periods of time are rather slim, no matter the external circumstances. Just look at prevalence of armed conflicts in the rest of the world.
If you want actual diversity, go an hour or two inland. Sacramento and Stockton are a fair bit more diverse politically/socially while having a very similar degree of diversity ethnically. I can also attest (having grown up in Sacramento, and currently living in the SF area) that there's a higher degree of ethnic integration within neighborhoods and even within households/families.
Calvin Wong != "widely"
Here is what a real scientist says:

Koomey says that de Vries’ work is “fundamentally flawed” because it backs into bitcoin’s power consumption by estimating miners’ revenues and expenses. “Any time you do that, you introduce multiple layers of error and uncertainty. It’s a completely unreliable way to do the analysis, and no credible energy analyst would ever do that.”

But of course you prefer this digiconomist spewing FUD as a hobby and winding folks up:

"Digiconomist's index has emerged as something of an authority recently. The index was developed by Alex de Vries, a 28-year-old consultant for PwC with a background in data and risk analysis who now specializes in blockchain, the technology that underpins bitcoin. He founded Digiconomist as a hobby in 2014 and acknowledges he has no previous experience in energy economics"

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/12/21/no-bitcoin-is-likely-not...
Not all companies -- we're seeing many companies that have been able to stockpile massive amounts of cash, e.g. Apple.
Two weeks, Just as much as for any other new language.

After two weeks new member can introduce simple features. After a month - relatively complex ones. Full development speed is achieved after half a year and is roughly equal to all languages because all this time people learn problem(s) domain(s) and its (their) mapping to the code.

For example, if I ask you to optimize Kaldi's HCLG-based decoder, you won't get any interesting results even after two months EVEN if you known C++ well. Just to tip you with something: you can save off about 10% of execution time just by presorting HCLG graph by BFS - it is scale-free and there are nodes which decoder will visit more often than others. To do this, you have to look at the graph, you have to know about scale-free graphs and their properties. Which are way outside of programming language scope.
As someone who does have this merger, which one (of Mary/marry/merry) does "wary" most resemble for you?
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+1

Also, I ROFLMAO so hard when I read your comment and then looked up and realized your username was Frosted Flakes!
It seems like there are a lot of these IPOs lately. The article mentions Uber and Lyft, but there are others. Peloton is a recent one. WeWork had to shelve its IPO. Pure Storage is still losing money. How many of these companies can never make enough money to justify their IPO price, and how many are wisely investing in growth and market dominance. How long does it take to tell? Amazon took over a decade to show profits, if memory serves.
Who owns the copyright? Novell?
Citizen-Based Taxation
Synchrotron Radiation
With the current limits on construction in CA eliminating Prop 13 would mean the fixed income senior citizens would have to sell their house to pay property taxes and then move out of state because they can't afford the rent on a 1BR.
Upvoted this, for some strange reason
Huh,

From where I sit, to think it's possible seems ... religous. To each his own I guess.
La Liga:

> The Spanish football league La Liga has admitted that its official smartphone app has been making audio recordings in order to identify pirate broadcasts of football games.

> The league said its app detected the location of users, and if they were found to be in a bar, it then recorded audio clips using phone microphones.

> The app used an algorithm to identify whether the person was watching a football game from the recording and compared that with their location to see if it the bar owner had paid for a licence to show the game or not.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/06/12/spanish-fo...
The only thing worse than moderators is the sites with no moderation. I've been watching a site I liked turn into a venting ground for mentally ill people, trolls, and people with a strange, obsessive hatred of one particular person and everything he does. It's rather unpleasant.

So thanks for all you do. You get lots of complaints (nobody likes being on the receiving end of what you do), but the site is far better because of you.
One nuance is that if you want to live forever you only need to hit longevity escape velocity where every year there is another discovery which buys you another year of healthy life.

Of course it might lead to living to 800 and being confined to a wheelchair by 80.
>* It isn't invented at, supported at, and marketed by a FAANG-type company. Money moves mountains and Ericsson doesn't spend as much on Erlang/BEAM as, say, Google spends on Go.
Indeed it wasn’t. In fact it was designed before any of the FAANG companies existed. And was specifically designed for systems that have downtimes measured in seconds per year.
I moved to Australia last year and was shocked that it took me less than two minutes to file taxes. What a dream.
Couldn’t it just have a lcd display with a scrolling alert message? Maybe even a red light that turns on to draw attention.
HBO Max to Stream Studio Ghibli Films
Yeah, this assumes the existence of something like FileCoin/Storj that stores the actual data off-chain, with metadata & access keys on-chain. The blockchain is used to validate the integrity of the data blob and to financially compensate the host(s) that are physically storing the data.
Scientists and doctors call for a moratorium on the roll-out of 5G
When I was 17, I started dating the woman who I married when I was 20. She was older than I was, so it's fairly horrifying to me to see people publicly equating "pedophilia" with "sex between adults and teenagers". It makes my old wounds ache to see respected community leaders like Andy Wingo publicly accusing her of pedophilia and, implicitly, of abusive behavior, promoting the unwarranted social stigma we had to struggle against for the entire duration of our relationship.

Although we were only intimate partners for seven years, the relationship was not in any way a matter of her taking advantage of me or abusing me. The relationship changed my life dramatically for the better, and I still love her, even though it has been some years since we last saw each other.

I thank God I lived in New Mexico, where the age of consent was low enough to protect her from legal risks in addition to the social ostracism she did suffer.

To state my position clearly, there is nothing wrong with sexual relationships between adults and older teenagers. It is not a result of pedophilia, nor is that situation inherently abusive. It does require special attention to issues of inequality of power stemming from economic and social differences, as well as the special difficulties faced by any relationship involving teenagers or people in their early twenties stemming from inexperience and higher levels of impulsivity.

Of course, the relationship that provoked this controversy had nothing of this egalitarian character. According to the account of Virginia Giuffre, the victim, she was enslaved by serial rapist Jeffrey Epstein, who preyed on teenagers precisely because of their economic and psychological vulnerability; he ordered her to have sex with a variety of men who were presumably unaware of her enslavement. Her obedient efforts at seducing Stallman’s friend Marvin Minsky included accompanying him on travel around the country, but she has not alleged that they actually had sex or that he knew of her enslavement. Physicist Gregory Benford testified to observing Minsky reject Giuffre’s advances.

Epstein may have had an additional motive for preying on teenagers: he maintained a large library of surreptitious video recordings of famous men having sex with enslaved underage women. There is evidence that Epstein was working for the US Intelligence Community; prosecutor Acosta accepted an unconscionable level of impunity as a result.

Stallman defending his dead friend Minsky from wholly unfounded allegations of “sexual assault” on the basis of the above facts is what provoked the current controversy.

I find it profoundly appalling to see people like Andy Wingo equating people like my beloved first wife to perpetrators of atrocities like Jeffrey Epstein, asserting that the most important fact about our relationship is that I, like Giuffre, was 17 years old when it began.
"but it is nice and linear and easy to understand"

I never wanted "linear". My ideal tax software just has the forms to fill out on screen, but applies all the constraints and rules so that the return is either consistent or you have a comprehensive list of discrepancies. And cascades any fields that can be derived from others. Really, just like a compiler for taxes.

Edit:
TurboTax used to work like this...
Oh man, this looks great. I've been wanting a system that you can program close to the metal like this.

That being said, I think this will be just for the programmer enthusiasts, $200 is a pretty hefty price for consumers considering you can make a Pi that can emulate a lot of retro consoles for cheap. Understandably expensive, though, given what this is.
well as always when discussing functional programming people are not discussing the merits of functional programming but rather the merits of basically throwing away objective programming in favor of functional programming.
That is ofcourse complete nonsense but modern computer science politics like all modern politics only deals in absolutes
There are two big problems with these algorithms.

Problem one is less controversial: small groups of propagandists game the algorithms to gain more exposure than they could get organically.

Problem two is less comfortable: sometimes content that appeals to the majority does so at the expense of a minority. An algorithm that is purely democratic is only as fair as the majority is altruistic.
How does requiring a company to delete info from a specific computer materially impact the ability for others to speak truth?

It feels like you’re talking purely philosophically and ignoring the nuance of our legal system.

SCOTUS, including right wing literalists, have held that Constitutional rights are not iron clad in all contexts.

Main Street seems to believe the first amendment is very broad, but then there’s the whole shouting fire in a crowded room. Instigating acts of violence and threats, etc.

Freedom from and freedom to are distinct concepts in our legal system.
I read it as Eat, Drink, and Be Werry, and it took me a second of mild confusion to realise it was Wary, for much the same reason.
I think it's British or European usage.
I am a complete n00b at this but very interested in making a CoreXY plotter. I get struct at how to get parts like linear guides and servos needed for this. What is the best way to educate oneself about this. Is there something like sparkfun how mechanical hardware. Thanks!
So long ago, in the dark days before 1991, bloggers would send their blog posts to centralized publishers who would collect all of these posts together and print them on big sheets of paper every morning that they would bundle together and sell for a nominal fee to the blogers' followers.

Because the subscribers weren't willing to pay the full cost of producing these papers, the publishers would let local business owners pay them to include their own blog posts advertising their business. The people reading these papers each day would learn about local businesses and events from these advertisements.
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Attracting Tech Talent: Start with Culture Redesign