skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an unfortunate fact that the GNU projects and their email lists have always attracted difficult people. If your organization is founded on inflexible ideological commitment (as the FSF is) then you will end up appealing to a lot of inflexible, idealistic people who are very committed to having things go their way. RMS has been one of the worst offenders in many well-documented ways, but every GNU project I'm familiar with has had its share of "missing stairs", who are often among the most vocal people on the project's -devel email list. Many of them are extremely proficient technically, but abrasive to others in ways that they might not recognize.

For newcomers to the projects this can lead to unpleasant interactions that push people away from volunteering on the projects.

At the same time, this shouldn't push you away from getting involved with a GNU project if you find it interesting. Many of the projects are full of kind, helpful, hardworking people. The maintainers in particular are mostly excellent. If you have an unpleasant interaction, I'd encourage you to reach out to one of the maintainers in a private message to ask for advice on how to contribute and work with the community. Often they can help by pointing you to specific people to talk to and interact with.
36% for the USA.
You could make your own intelligence service, like those repo men who scan license plates.
Law people of HN: say you went into someone else's home, someone who owns one of these devices, and recited, aloud, your own License Agreement, from start to finish, where you state that the speech following the terms agreed by the processor of your own spoken records must follow certain hard rules etc. (i.e. your run-of-the-mill ToS language), and then just behave normally.

Imagine Google or whichever tracking corporation's server parses your speech and turns it to text. Which then gets labeled, processed, fed back into other databases, etc.

The question is: Would it become binding at any point? Would it grant you any rights, produce any liability?

Edit: added one key aspect.
Ok, but why did my app get 10 times faster? Why do so many other people report similar results? Perhaps factorial benchmarks don't translate well to the comparison of complex real world systems.

I think, when it comes to web apps specifically, there are a few advantages that make a practical difference. These seem to be the major ones:

- Compiled templates and more efficient string interpolation

- Improved parallelism and lighter weight processes. This leads to better handling of many requests in parallel (esp. while most are just waiting on IO), better db connection pooling, less blocking, etc.

A few other ideas are mentioned here by someone who seems to know more about this than I do: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12014243
Large ISPs (in the USA anyways) like Comcast turn on IPv6 by default.
I can guarantee you I'm not letting any of that smart crap into my home. The fact people willingly hook up something that records conversations and even video of their private lives...dumbfounds me.
> You're just entrusting a different set of un-elected un-accountable strangers with no economics degrees with your monetary policy -- the Bitcoin Core team

no i don't. they just happen to maintain the reference implementation.

> And the PRC where over 50% of the hash power is located

no trust involved here either.

> They could change the number of Bitcoin on issue, the rate, the block reward rate, anything, with zero recourse on your part.

no they can't and the fact that you think this means you have zero understanding of how bitcoin works.

> If you tell me they wont

i'm telling you they can't. bitcoin is defined by consensus rules and releasing a binary that breaks those rules or mining blocks that break those rules doesn't change bitcoin.
I'm not making a moral case. I do think there is a moral case as well but it is a very complicated do-unto-others-as-you-would-have-them-do-unto-you style one with some nuances that isn't going to fit into one comment. The case is that Google is potentially a direct threat to the right wing of politics. It would be prudent for the right wing to respond by trying to break Google up and neutering them as a platform, so that there are several successful competitors in all their markets. Realistically it is possible that the moderate left wing could be convinced as well - nobody is served by the risk that an entity as powerful as Google becomes an active propaganda platform. If they aren't even professing neutrality internally then they are on the way to becoming one.

Google could have avoided this situation by not explicitly championing political views inside their organisation.

Also the energy situations you cite aren't really comparable, the companies are only lobbying for things that make them more money and they don't have the same sort of power as Google in the political sphere.
It was a Linux bug: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/970
>When did "eatery" become an acceptable term for restaurant?

I can't recall a time when it wasn't.
Wikipedia. You can find respective sources from the claims in its reference.
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Well, depending on your definition of "DIY" and "make"...

I have a Roland DXY-1100 from ~1990, an A3 flatbed design that is very precise. To make it go I had to build a weird serial adaptor and a weirder two-voltage DC power supply, so I count it as DIY! Because old plotters like this were originally designed for commercial use (design, architecture, engineering, etc.) they're often very well designed and well made, so still good despite their age.

Chiplotle (note the extra "l") is a handy Python library for controlling plotters like this.

Unfortunately I managed to short out my power supply and fry one of the voltage converters, so I need to remake the power supply and make an actual case for it so I don't do that again!

I also have a much bigger Roland plotter (not flatbed), but I haven't got that going yet.
Classic games programmer logic. I've heard it a billion times. "X feature abstracts the hardware and therefore I could never use it for programming in my tiny niche and therefore it could never become popular."

And how many of the top 10 languages are running in a virtual machine? Which could be literally doing anything under the hood with your allocations, caching, etc?!

There is nothing wrong with saying, I don't see this working out in my domain due to these concerns it's just silly to say, I never see it taking off because it can't work in my domain.

I think this video nails it pretty dead on. My team works almost exclusively in C# these days for reasons mostly beyond our control. The team generally likes the language quite a bit (it's one of my personal favorites). But when I find myself asking for new features they come in two buckets. I'd like feature that help certain members of my team write less side effect heavy code and I'd like immutability by default with opt-in mutability. Basically I'd like more functional like features. But hey, that's what I see from my niche.
I had one for shift by negative number. It was in some error correction code. A different team had wrote this code and tested on a PC but the actual hardware used an ARM processor and both implement it differently. We did catch it eventually using a linter tool.
>MarkF from the Azure team here.

Glad to see you engage. Thanks to enterprise sub & monthly credit azure is def my favorite cloud right now :)
> I'm having trouble understanding how one can seriously consider NPR 'internal propaganda.' Their national broadcasts are like radically centrist and unbiased

“Radically centrist” and “unbiased” are mutually incompatible descriptions, the former of which is compatible with propaganda favoring the elite consensus.
Nice job stalking my comments, but I'll bite.

It's fucking over poor people because you didn't propose anything other than "get rid of public schools".

You're wrong for being angry because you're a fucking dweeb that thinks you're smarter than you actually are; like most of the libertarian shits on this site.
They absolutely do stop working and start "working"
Not sure if this is "null-check elisions" but there was the famous case of the Debian SSH daemon package generating easily guessed keys because the packager "fixed" the upstream code... the upstream code was using uninitialized variables to seed randomness, and the packager's software flagged that as a bug, so it was patched by the packager.

Of course, that's not a good way to seed randomness, so I think there's a real argument that the upstream code was, in fact, buggy.
Increase pay and reduce hiring friction. Most people with good skills aren't willing to do the long waiting game or take the pay cut to work in the public sector directly.
I think the major factors are:

* the scheme is not widely known/advertised among the student body, so it's closer to word-of-mouth recommendations than mass anonymous access. (Note that there are over 12,000 undergrads but they only lend out 100 or so pieces -- it's a self-selected 1% or so of students)

* there is a deposit plus the hassle factor of actually going to collect the piece, so you're not going to do it unless you actually wanted to display the art; this is a minor barrier to entry but it makes a difference I think

* students are easy to find and easy to impose penalties on in the event of actual malice, because you can just ask their college to intervene

* they take some obvious precautions to avoid major risk -- no lending of very valuable pieces, no lending of sculptures (which I guess to be at higher risk of being knocked over and accidentally damaged compared to pictures hung on a wall)
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Ask HN: What is the best vendor integration you bought/setup?
There is often a build vs buy with build being glorified for it's control. I want to hear of times when people made the decision to buy instead and how it worked out? Why was building with that vendor integration so great?
Right but in my case the mount completely covers the sensor. Samsung A40 and Topeak mount. The other phone is a Sony Xperia X Compact. Maybe the Samsung is too thin to have the sensor on the side.
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The boundary between 'peptide' and 'protein' is a little fuzzy. There are 'small proteins' like:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thionin

that are 45-48 amino acids which is less than the (arbitrary) lower limit of 50.

One distinguishing feature of a protein is that it folds, while peptides usually are too short to have a defined fold.
> Sending a bunch of ioctls to modify the KVM state seems no better than just having normal function calls for it

Seeing as how they're mmap()ing the fds, it makes some sense to leverage the other file_operations.
Or, are at least more likely to go for the long con than the smash & grab.
The law saying “likely to be a public charge” is already in effect and is decades old. The recent change that is currently blocked is only about the factors being considered when making that evaluation (specifically, usage of various types of government assistance).
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Posted it on Twitter. I encourage others to do so too. #freepromotion
Google Photos appears to give iPhones free unlimited storage at original quality
From memory?
It not that the Right to be Forgotten only applies to truths, it's that in addition to everything else, it also applies to truths.

If people are spreading lies about you in the US, you can sue them for defamation. Beyond that, silencing someone because what they're saying 'isn't relevant' goes against the US interpretation of the 1st Amendment.

Arguably, we can create exceptions there for corporations (although we should expect a few court cases about it). But the (US) government can't restrict me as an individual from talking about another person's past in private or public spaces.
Thats a bit confusing, as proteins _are_ polypeptides. All proteins are (poly)peptides, but not all peptides are proteins.
The actual question is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y30VF3cSIYQ#t=5m31s , if you don't want to hear a 5 minute rant about how hard it is.
Just out of curiosity, why did you make a throwaway account for this comment?
I was unaware that the BBG had renamed itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Agency_for_Global_Media

For those who don't know what it is, this is the parent agency of RFE, Voice of America, etc.
That flood is terrifying btw. I can barely watch the 3G geographic movie models without feeling terrified. That would have been 5 million years ago though I think. The #1 rule of humans and archaeology and anthropology is whatever your dates are, it probably happened sooner :)

But tough to imagine that flood could have been it (although amazing story) and agree with your final paragraph.
That’s not quite true. You are probably thinking of the fact that when you sponsor someone for a green card you are required to promise that they will not use government assistance for x years, and if they do you will have to repay it.
I probably could have been more explicit. To be clear, the opposites here are 'the big bang is an expansion of spacetime' and 'the big bang is an expansion in spacetime.' Swebs claimed the diagram showed the former, but it acually literally shows an expansion in space (which, it so happens, also works for an expansion of space, and so does not, as it stands, show a way to choose between the two.)
1. states are not sovereign.

2. You used to be able to go to other countries using tribe issued travel VISA's. You no longer can.

3. The tribes are not "above" certain US laws. Federal laws still apply to them, local laws do not (state, city, etc). This claim of yours is akin to stating New York is "above" certain US laws because the laws of Nebraska do not apply in New York.

4. The federal government does not claim they are their own nation.

5. What you're suggesting is that the US government renege on agreements it made. Not a good look.

I strongly recommend you read over this, it will work to correct a lot of the misinformation.
https://www.doi.gov/pmb/cadr/programs/native/gtgworkshop/The...

> In a 2-2-2 opinion, the Supreme Court held that the Cherokee Nation __was not a state or a foreign nation__, and that the Court therefore did not have original jurisdiction and could not hear the case..

In addition you should read up on "Indian Trust Responibility", and understand that these things are the way they are because our government signed treaties.

And finally:

Many (most?) of your statements in this conversation have been factually incorrect. Which is why I bothered to comment. I don't have an opinion, but I felt that you formed your opinion based upon incorrect information and you should be given the opportunity to reassess.

However, your last paragraph above leads me to believe your opinions are racially motivated. It's certainly not an accurate portrayal of widely held opinions of Native Americans. What next, Asians are separatist because China Town is a thing?

I won't be continuing this conversation, I find this distasteful.
What would "normal function calls" mean? This is happening on the Linux syscall boundary.
You might be thinking of this old linux kernel bug where a gcc optimization that deleted null pointer checks resulted in a vulnerability https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-1897 . There's a more interesting write up of the bug and patch at https://lwn.net/Articles/342330/ .
> yeah we don't like our stack to be constantly shat on by Elixir guys)

Sorry to be blunt but this is nonsense, languages and stacks are just tools.

When I was working on banking systems the idea of using dynamic typed language would have been insane. Now that I’m in a two man’s shop working on low traffic web app I’m happily using Rails for the CRUD work. And if tomorrow I were to work on a public high traffic real-time app like Discord I would do it in Elixir. There is no such thing as your stack.
4. Private Equity
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> SwiftUI in particular seemed to stretch the abilities of the type system to the breaking point,

Past the breaking point. SwiftUI brought several new language features just to make it possible.
The other reply disagrees... Why would memorization of something so easily referenced matter?
Stallman hasn't been a significant technical contributor to any GNU project for more than a decade. Making important contributions to a project doesn't mean you own it forever - it's a bittersweet fact that groups, organizations, and companies can grow and evolve in ways that are incompatible with their original founder sticking around.

The FSF owns the copyright to most GNU projects, and RMS has resigned from the FSF. It's unclear why he would continue to have any formal authority beyond his personal power of persuasion.
I recommend reading "Being Mortal" by Atul Gawande to get a good sense of how hopeless "curing aging" is. Although that's not the focus of the book it does a wonderful job describing the challenge.

The way it reads to me as a lay person, the body just falls apart. Things go wrong. It's not one thing going wrong, it's a very long list of disparate problems that ultimately aren't survivable. Aging isn't a losing battle, it's a massacre. It's one damn thing after another.

What struck me is how our veins go "crunchy" in old age from the build up of calcium and how an expert can tell the age of a person within a 5 year period from just a picture of their gums and teeth. I put the book down and couldn't sleep that night.
SOLID applies only to OOP. Not using classes trivially satisfies the requirements of every letter. Hell, most design patters are trivial if you use functional programming.
We're not going to solve the debate over whether to use nominal GDP or PPP-adjusted GDP here, but let's just say that it's hardly settled which is more reflective of a country being rich or poor.

I also don't know if I'd trust the conservative-leaning Tax Foundation to provide an unbiased estimate of state PPP. Doing a Google search for "GDP PPP of US states" and clicking through some citations brings up a very different set of rankings that WaPo cites [1]. It places California in the top 15 along with the other economic powerhouses, right between Switzerland and Norway, not exactly known for being poor countries. UBS [2] says that Los Angeles has the highest purchasing power of any major city in the world!

Who's right? Clearly it highly depends on one's methodology.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/08/26/i...

[2]: https://www.ubs.com/microsites/prices-earnings/en/explore/?c...
Just wanted to point out that voice control doesnt have to involve audio from peoples homes being streamed over the internet. We already have the technology to do everything client side aside from the search request itself. You can bet companies have no interest in pursuing this though. The voice control vs privacy narrative is preferable to these companies because they can pretend there are no alternatives and keep collecting.
Welcome to Baltimore. Of COURSE not having backups is unacceptable. Other things that are unacceptable include it taking 3 days to get the city to _turn off the pipe_ in response to a report of a massive leak into a river causing wildlife die-off (https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2019/09/13/water-main-break-ca...), spending money to put in a bike lane then more money to take out a bike lane when nothing in particular has changed (at least TWICE https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2019/04/29/roland-park-bike-l... https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-l...), having a Traffic Director vacancy for 5 years running (https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2019/09/19/a-transportation-de...), and nobody qualified doing anything about traffic light timing (https://www.baltimoresun.com/ask/bs-ask-traffic-lights-20191...), I could keep going.

Baltimore is basically a 'failed state' of municipal government.

While you can "blame the voters", being one myself I literally don't understand what the fuck is going on or what to do about it, even when we elect people who seem like they might do something different, it remains the same.

So... if individual people working in IT protected their own asses by documenting that someone told them to do the wrong thing... that's great for them, what it does for Baltimore is _nothing_. The IT director lost his job (probably? Maybe? So far just on unpaid leave?), which he thoroughly deserves, but that ALSO does nothing for Baltimore, cause people like this keep getting replaced, and it still doesn't get better.

Anyway, this actually doesn't have much to do with ransomware in general, but yeah.
Actually he still does a lot of work and is currently researching theories around "conservation". e.g. when the body is low on a particular micro-nutrient, it conserves delivery on particular pathways that are related to longevity.

So while he may have "retired", I mean, he's 90, so it's about time, he most certainly still works full time in the lab.
Zuckerberg fears erosion of truth but defends allowing politicians to lie in ads
Unless you really know what you're doing and have a good spectrum analyzer and set of horn antennas, you're going to detect 6, 11, 18 and 23 GHz band microwave in the general area of Camp Peary from totally ordinary telecom and cellular backhaul purposes.

Stuff like 1' and 2' size dishes on Verizon and TMobile monopoles, rooftop sites and towers forming point to point 18 GHz band, single or dual linear polarity, 40, 60 and 80 MHz wide links to other poles.

A cursory search shows that there's a plethora of ordinary FCC part 101 licensed microwave stuff in that area, to the point that coordinating a new point to point link would require some additional engineering work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Peary
That's clearly a manufacturing defect, warranty expired or not. You should be able to expect a car to function for many years beyond the warranty, to have a time-bomb like this on board is reason for a manufacturers recall and free fix, no way that owners of the cars should foot the bill for this.
Radically centrist in that they go out of their way not to be liberal or conservative in an attempt to stay unbiased, sometimes to the detriment of the programming.
but if private enterprise is more efficient than govt, what do they have to fear?
I think you did exactly that here and I agree that it is an unhelpful contribution

> If you've ever been passionate about something, something that's hard and takes a lot of effort and practice to become good at, would you really let microaggressions stop you from doing that thing?
His decision was a false dichotomy. If the problem was people in the office space (fire marshal), then he could have started having employees work from home. I'm sure that even in the dot com era, telephone and IRC and email would have worked out just fine for coordinating business.

That's sort of the middle road, between buying office space and firing people, right?
Operators are just functions. Learning the type system is the key. You can easily check any function's type signature in the docs once you understand how the type system works.
From his post, the only reason he spoke up now instead of earlier because he was being censored by the FSF and had to resign his FSF membership to be able to speak freely. However, Conservancy (his employer) spoke up quite a while ago, before RMS resigned: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/sep/16/rms-does-not-spea...
I don't know that I've ever used it, but there are plenty of places to eat that I wouldn't call a 'restaura t', and that's what I'd assume someone using it was referring to (a d possibly including restaurants in a context such as this).

Cafés, 'diners', crêperies/breakfast places, anywhere in a shopping centre/'mall', that sort of thing.
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