skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what does that even mean (like they only abuse alcohol?)?

Only about 35% of the homeless population has an addiction. Less than half of the homeless population neither has an addiction nor a mental illness. [1] Just because there is lots of substance abuse (and yes, there certainly is), doesn't mean that the average homeless person does drugs. When you talk about the homeless population, you have to include people who are really quite like you but had a bad turn. Many of them have a story like "I got a mortgage with a large down payment just before 2008, when I lost my job and then shortly my house. I had to go to the streets because I had nowhere else to go."

[1]: https://sunrisehouse.com/addiction-demographics/homeless-pop...
> doing it all with 8 backend engineers

Wait, what? Whatsapp had 25 backend engineers in 2016, and they use almost exclusively Erlang, not Elixir. They’ve said many times that the Erlang platform has allowed them to do a lot with a small team, but let’s not turn their story into an urban legend...

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87lW4Llsj7E (2:20)
Huh:

"I mistook them for inky caps [...] even though I spotted an Amanita nearby [...] I should have been more suspicious as mushrooms do grow in colonies."

"I couldn’t find my Mushroom book, was in a hurry, so I trusted my judgment, fried them up in olive oil, and ate them as a side dish."

"I should have recognized then that they weren’t inky caps, because inky caps exude a black substance when you fry them."

"At that point, I got concerned. I covered it up by saying, “I’m OK, I know what I’m doing and I don’t feel sick.”"

That's... a lot of interesting decisions, for something potentially so deadly. Had I known this person afterwards, I think I might have politely declined any dinner invitations.
Unfortunately, the situation is so bad in San Francisco that even a very conservative, moralist, and generalizing article such as this happens to make quite valid observations and arguments.

At this point I don't think there's any serious public disagreement that the city's policies of radical tolerance of drug use and refusal to pursue forced treatment of the mentally ill has become too extreme and counter-productive. There are plenty of politicians, perhaps most of them, that would swing the pendulum back. But generations of rhetoric regarding the history of forced institutionalization, War on Drugs, and minority discrimination, has been internalized. Not just the sad truth of it, but the rhetoric, divorced from the reality of that history and thus impenetrable to reassurances of a changed context. So whenever the city tries to change course it's far too easy for political opportunists to inflame passions and stoke cynicism, making the political risk of change intolerable.

For example, Mayor London breed opposed a bond measure to raise more money for homeless housing, drug treatment, etc. She opposed it because as a newly incoming mayor she wanted to the ability to use the prospect of more money as leverage for reform. That is, she supported a bond measure in principle, but not until some policy reforms were in place to insure the money would be more effective. But opportunists and activists outside the political process pushed ahead, which meant all the various departments and political interests knew they had money coming without having to seriously reckon with their manifest ineffectiveness. And the public were willing to just throw more money at the situation--anything to just make it go away--because they've internalized the rhetoric that the homeless and drug use problems are purely structural; they were overly credulous of promises that things would change with just another round of new money.

It's a very unfortunate state of affairs, and in many ways I see similarities to how, on a national scale, generations of conservative rhetoric has been internalized to some non-negligible degree by the entire country, which has in turn resulted in an extreme rightist element effectively being able to drive the national narrative.

EDIT: Removed the "[now ancient]" qualifier on the history of forced institutionalization, in case people thought I meant it to apply to minority discrimination.
> I consider it a bigger problem when a homeless person who survives off of government programs does drugs than when an otherwise functional adult does drugs

I agree! But I think the ugliness GP alludes to comes from the fact that this boils down to: the law that people want is essentially selective enforcement weighed against the people who presumably have the least as is (a consequence of their own choices or otherwise).

Alternatively, you can't legislate root causes: you have to legislate against symptoms; the problematic results of drug use. But that seems to be too hard to do too and does seem like a round about way of attacking populations in need.

I think it's a hard question that needs to start with: what rights and options do we want to extend people who for one reason or another find themselves in conflict with "civilized society."
> Most importantly, I believe we must find a way to stand firm for software freedom while also making a safe environment for victims of sexual assault, sexual abuse, gaslighting, and other deplorable actions.

I understand and I fully stand by his belief that software freedom does not mean egalitarian and morally righteous principles have to be undermined in order to progress.

However, it is not the FSF's job to make sure those values are upheld in every facet of moral righteousness. The goal is clear: make and keep software free as in liberty. That's it. Anything else should be completely within the realm of personal viewpoints.

I completely and wholeheartedly stand by the fact that we as a society need to deal with sexual violence much better than we are currently doing so.

Not an ounce of my being, however, places the burden on dealing with this onto Stallman's, or Kuhn's, or any other FSF member's shoulder. Help if you can. Help if you want, but if your job is to make software free, you're doing great. If you can solve other moral issues while doing so, even better, but it's not required.
And really it’s even more meta than that - as far as I can tell. It’s the treatment from SO management of moderators who had honest questions and feedback around authoring answers without pronouns being called bigots for the position that it just makes for a better answer overall without pronouns.
In my view, the new hooks paradigm in React combines the best of both worlds in FP and OOP.
> As long as RMS wasn't actively using his power/influence as head of the FSF to advance his odd-ball views I really don't see what the problem is.

Let me reverse that, if Stallman weren't heading up the FSF, would anyone give one iota of damn about his other oddball views?

Of course not. They would dismiss him as a nobody.
It's not really about leaders at all but about the public and press who will listen to and amplify anything leaders say even if it's off-topic bullshit.
A surprising number of people seem to think that. No correlation AFAICT. Some of the best mushrooms are colorful (eg. chanterelles).
Shot in the dark (coming from a MS in Biomedical Engineering): circadian control to stabilize the body’s metabolic activity to lessen the “wear and tear” of the body’s condition to intensely survive for but a cosmic microsecond. Once we can “hack” ourselves to de-couple the body away from its heliocentric regularity, we can “slow aging”.

After all, ex vivo cellular immortality exists. I think it’s the hormones that ruin everything.
So how does a serialized format such as dna beget 3d protein graph structures?
Cryptographic Sponge Functions
VOD is available - starts around 6min into the video.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/495999132
I don't know what's the best OOP language right now, but Pharo is pretty enjoyable to work with.
You're allowed to have interests outside of your job, but most workplaces expect you to leave them aside, and focus on doing WORK at work.

If your job involves being a public speaker, who is 'on' 24/7, then that's what you have to deal with. You're always free to pursue flipping burgers, or fixing cars, where you only need to be focused on work for 40 hours a week.
I found interesting that he closes his post with an excerpt about how safe mushroom picking is, and how adverse outcomes only happen to ignorant fools who know nothing about mushrooms and don’t bother learning.

In an article that opens with “here is a list of things I know and books I read, and here’s how I poisoned myself anyway.”
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My concern with fiat money and the benefits that cryptocurrency provides align very well. My concern with fiat currency is that it is entirely possible that tomorrow we will wake up to discover that the digital systems banks use to trace and account for money, systems we know are antiquated and maintained and expanded with the least effort and expense physically possible, are meaningless. The discovery of a persistent system of exploitation which has made the balance numbers held by all banks into nonsense is entirely possible. If it is discovered that large economic players or criminals have EVER manipulated the values recorded as an 'account balance' to represent instead pure fiction - game over. I would expect this observation to be announced first by a nation foreign to the US, followed by that nation no longer accepting digital transfers of any kind in US dollar denominations, as their basis for value, solely trust in the digital accounting systems of US banks, evaporated overnight.

There is no possible way for a bank to 'prove' that the billion-dollar balance of a Walmart account represents anything of value. They can show that their systems reflect it, but it ends there. They can not prove that, say, $500 million of that balance is invented 'funny money' that represents absolutely nothing. Cryptocurrencies can not have this happen, as they manage their reliance on trust. I can prove a bitcoin is legitimate mathematically, and I need ask nothing of the other party for them to be able to verify it themselves. I can not prove a dollar displayed as part of my account balance at a bank is legitimate. And, as far as I understand matters, neither can anyone else. I must ask the other party to trust my bank, or trust the FDIC, or trust the US governments computer systems, or something along those lines.

The ideal situation, of course, would be a government-backed cryptocurrency with the government guaranteeing that the cryptocurrency would be honored as legal tender. But the political clout of banks makes such a thing very difficult. It would place banks in a position of actually earning their profits through the lending and borrowing of money, rather than actually profiting from garnering nearly every single monetary transaction which occurs (solely those which are conducted purely in cash exempted) in the economy in an act of cryptotaxation (the crypto prefix here meaning 'hidden', not related to cryptography).
On the Relation Between Weak Completion Semantics and Answer Set Semantics
Non-competes in America are insane. The article points out the even fast food restaurants are forcing their fry cooks to sign non-compete contracts, preventing them from flipping burgers at a different chain.

This is basically slavery. People that take these kinds of jobs tend to be vulnerable, tend to lack other options, and these non-competes remove even those few alternatives.

But they're morally wrong at every economic level. If a company wants to control what you do with your time, they should pay you for it. If you aren't actively employed by them, they should have no say in who you are employed by.

Protecting trade secrets is fine, but you don't get to tell an engineer that she can't write software for Amazon just because she also wrote software for Google.
But what's an AI, what's 'artificial', when does something become so if it's made by/of 'natural' things? Which reminds me of BSG, they have airlocks too.
Maurice Bach, "The Design of the UNIX Operating System", on page 73 describes the format of directory entries: https://archive.org/details/DesignOfTheUnixOperatingSystemBy...

"Directory entries may be empty, indicated by an inode number of 0".

So if the pseudo-code is correct, this may be an utility to squeeze out those empty entries.
and the air is recirculated more often I believe, which leads to less fatigue and high altitude problems

I think you mean less often, as in more fresh air? Recirculation increases CO2 concentration, which causes fatigue.
Et tu, Brute?
What's even wackier is that in commodities trading, insider information was allowed.

The loophole was a key plot point in the movie "Trading Places" and when the 2010 financial overhaul rules were passed, this section was nicknamed "The Eddie Murphy Rule".

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/07/09/200401407/epis...
Facebook has reviews? That's news to me.
To consider that an airliner can carry passengers, baggage, and 20 hours plus reserve fuel on board - it's damned impressive.
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Most U.S. Dairy Cows Are Descended From Just Two Bulls
That parody needs to happen on Ferenginar.
I mean wasn't it also revealed that an overwhelming amount of people on the site were male in the same breach? Id guess that would be a motivating factor more than the privacy
> I'm curious if parents still admonish their kids not to eat wild mushrooms.

Absolutely. Really, eating anything you find in the wild is risky unless you’re completely sure what it is. (Wild strawberries are pretty easy to identify, for example.)
I love learning a phrase for the obscure preferences that my wife always makes fun of.

Of course she also makes fun of my obscure phrases.
This isn't new and it's a consequence of how publicity works. Some views make the news and others don't, depending on how outside the mainstream they are. Public figures are judged by all their attention-getting views.

Maybe it doesn't matter too much if nobody knows who you are, but it's why some authors write under pen names. (Back when the U.S. was founded, writing for newspapers using your real name was apparently pretty rare.)
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Because of their public-facing role and influence, whatever opinions and interests they express while in that spotlight will widely be interpreted, fairly or not, as being implicitly endorsed by the institution they represent. That's a tradeoff of being someone whose actions and decisions profoundly affect and direct the work of everyone in the institution.
Still, even single threaded applications can be distributed across the cores by the simple fact that you can run many of them.

And web browsers eat a lot these days :-|
Because no one has yet come up with a better system that works.

If there exists differences in skill, then there exists arbitrage opportunity. How one can prevent that arbitrage opportunity from being used in order to keep things “fair”, I do not know and have not heard of any compelling ideas.
It also looks like the last release for the Clojure library was in 2017
Daily blue-light exposure shortens lifespan, causes degeneration in Drosophila
He's allowed to sell, he just has to jump through some hoops. He just can't log into Robinhood and make some trades.
There are essentially no general hard and fast rules like that when it comes to mushroom hunting, there is no substitute for knowing how to positively identify specific species, where specific species should be growing, and knowing what distinguishes them from similar poisonous species.
> I'm sure your credit card is 100% safe

Thanks for reminding me about that. Credit cards I get cancel and get new ones, but my passport data which Cathay Pacific failed to protect, this unfortunately cannot be changed and the data is floating around somewhere.
>You should be able to do more than one thing at once.

Depends on the things.

Remain President and play golf? Sure.

Remain a spokesman for free software and repeatedly and publicly expound on your belief that pedophilia isn't harmful, and that children are capable of sexual consent? Yes, apparently.

That, and then toss a match on the PR tinderbox that is MIT's involvement with Jeffrey Epstein with a tediously legalistic argument over the definition of sexual assault which appears to the rest of the world to be an attempt to defend Marvin Minsky's alleged involvement in child sex trafficking? No. Turns out that's the straw that breaks the camel's back.
I grew up deep in the woods. Like any good mother, mine was a little over-protective; I was instructed to not even touch any mushrooms (or other fungus). Period. But if I did touch them, to wash my hands as soon as possible. To this day, I generally leave them alone. If I do pick one up while on a hike, I'll generally wash my hands with whatever drinking water I have on me.
Anecdote: The only Beverly Hills mansion I have ever been in was owned by a class action lawyer.
Because he got himself poisoned right when he ignored everything he knew should do.
I think you have it totally backwards. Would anyone give a damn what the FSF said if RMS hadn't been its leader for 30 years? I sure wouldn't. The FSF has put the personal political goals of some of its members ahead of free software. Stallman would never, and has never done that.
The US nuclear forces’ messaging system finally got rid of its floppy disks
I will probably get stomped on for this but to me it's a giant elephant in the room.

When that one purist on the team proposes mandating having 100%, 80%, or any hard number of unit test coverage, most sane people tend to disagree and understand its wild impracticality and counter-productivity.

However - when one (ie, a Haskeller) says that the code must universally pass 100% strong static type verification coverage -- arguably SO MUCH worse cost/benefit than unit testing -- and you say "no that's impractical" it's suddenly a different game.

The elephant in the room is this. Haskell and strongly typed languages are highly impractical, academic pursuits. They do not at all respect the dynamism of the real world. You can certainly build production systems in any language including Haskell but by picking Haskell you are throwing sticks between your legs unnecessarily.
I do make this comment a lot because free speech advocates on HN seem to think that private companies are compelled by legality or morality to equally broadcast all speech. A private company has limited resources and a right to choose for whom it uses its platform.

Would you say a music venue is harming speech by refusing to host a racist metal band?

And what is your proposal to fix this? That we extend the First Amendment to include private organizations, which essentially trampels their right to speech?

If you think we should break up monopolistic publishers, like Facebook, then fine. But that's not going to make extremists good for business. No one wants to swim in a pool people are peeing in.

You've rightly identified a culture war, but you haven't provided a good reason that the status quo in the US should change.

Also, re: the history of free speech: there were morality laws as recently as the 90s in the US that made it illegal to say certain things in public. You couldn't burn a flag for a significant part of US history. As far as the government is concerned, speech has never been freer here.

The thing most of you seem to object to is that the invisible hand doesn't like certain ideologies.
This is absolutely ridiculous and completely reflective of California liberalism where if you don't agree with everything the group thinks you are seen as evil. We saw the same thing when that guy from google pointed out that the number of women in software is a result of women not wanting to learn programming rather than men keeping them out. I've seen it my entire life. It's the same mentality that Portlandia famously satirized. This is a California phenomena. If you go to other places in the country it is easy to find open minded people that identify and fit the traditional category of "liberal".

This is the same state where racist political groups organize to get more hispanic people voted into office without being called out as the hispanic supremacists that they are. Even more ironically, hispanic people are the racial majority in California.

Richard stallman did not do anything. He shared his thoughts. Thinking something is not a crime. Are you so perfect that every thought you've ever had has been the right one. This guy has been tried and convicted by these fake poser moralists for nothing less orwelliam than THOUGHT CRIME. Everyone pointing the finger at a guy for having thoughts, even if those thoughts were that all white people dying wouldn't be that bad or supporting American companies acting as instruments of a foreign government like China or supporting the witch trial of Zuckerberg for selling information by the same government that bought information from Zuckerberg for years, it wouldn't matter, you can't point at someone for thinking and call them evil. These are thoughts not actions. I am absolutely sick of California liberals. Sick of them. They don't think for themselves. They don't believe in the rights of Americans. They don't vbelieve in freespeech, not only imposing censorship from everything from twitter to a fucking videogame, but actively support everyome that imposes censorship. They don't believe in the 2nd amendment, or even realize why it's there. They don't believe in the right to face your accuser. They are not open to logic or new information. The group is always right and individuals are always wrong. Fuck this guy and fuck the entire programming community.
I've been reading up lately on the earlier OS's that influenced Unix - the Compatible Time-Sharing System, the Berkeley Time-Sharing System (Project Genie), and Multics. Bitsavers.org and Multicians.org both have a lot of information on that early era (and Bitsavers has a whole lot more).

Lots of the ideas in Unix came from those earlier systems. What Thompson and Ritchie contributed was synthesizing these ideas into a more coherent whole, and demonstrating that they could be made a whole lot smaller. (Both in terms of the PDP-7 and 11/20 being smaller computers than the mainframes previous systems were written for, and in that descriptive command names were reduced to cryptic abbreviations. CTSS's LISTF was shortened to ls, ARCHIV to ar, RUNOFF to roff and then nroff/troff...) And of course Unix ran on the most popular computer of the 1970s and got rewritten in a portable language to let it run on every popular computer since then, while just about every other OS was tied to its specific hardware platform and died off as the hardware did.

All really fascinating stuff.
Most of it is just rephrasing of the same few comments, which are mostly semantic arguments such as "a 17 year old isn't really a" child". This may be evidence of him holding "problematic" views, but it's no campaign.
The full text of this paper is free. From the abstract:

“We investigated the effects of light in the model organism, Drosophila melanogaster, and determined that flies maintained in daily cycles of 12-h blue LED and 12-h darkness had significantly reduced longevity compared with flies maintained in constant darkness or in white light with blue wavelengths blocked. Exposure of adult flies to 12 h of blue light per day accelerated aging phenotypes causing damage to retinal cells, brain neurodegeneration, and impaired locomotion. We report that brain damage and locomotor impairments do not depend on the degeneration in the retina, as these phenotypes were evident under blue light in flies with genetically ablated eyes.”
Oops - I used the wrong word. I should have said replenished or replaced (as part of the pressurisation system's method of pumping new air into the cabin and bleeding off stale air).