skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If my reading is right, it filters out any with a leading null-byte before writing back out. My guess is that that is how they implemented unlink/rm - just write zeroes over the entry.

As for the sys write: my current hypothesis is that .. there is a placeholder for an argument which is written to by the preceding dac .+4. ('"If a program can't rewrite its own code", he asked, "what good is it?"'). But I can't make sense of what it's actually putting there - I'd guess length, but it looks like ~(dir - 2) + 8.
Taking off and landing is also dangerous.

But more so, so is increasing flight times by having a stop over in between.

I've never been on a flight where it was not possible to walk around for a hour. (Or just do the leg exercises, take a aspirin)

And most flights allow you to pay more for legroom.

Why should everyone pay more for legroom? As a 6 foot person I've never had a problem of being uncomfortable. So you're talking a small percent of the population. (Tall people are often smarter so perhaps HN is biased)
Thanks for answering. I find it valuable to understand how others manage their emotional states. I find regular exercise, meditation and good sleep hygiene to be effective. I'm reading about stoic journaling now. I did not know about this.
The Ashley Madison Breach comes to mind. If the core demographic cares about not wanting their data on the platform to get out, they will vote with their feet. That said, I think this example is not the norm, and most people probably won't care for most applications.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Madison_data_breach
The other day I was visiting my sister and she asked me to scan the codes on her 2014 Silverado.

When I put the key in the ignition position for on (without starting it) so I could read the codes, it complained that the battery was low, and to start the truck soon.

Oddly enough, my dad's 2001 Silverado always had the same problem (just a red battery light back then), 2 years of ownership so far and it's battery is still fine, same warning right before you start it that goes away once it's on.

When I told this to her she told me her old Jimmy did the same thing.

The code her truck was throwing was coincidentally the same code as my dad's 2001 truck, about the evap canister.

I was flabbergasted, 13 years age difference and this truck was no different.
The point is though that future study doesn’t necessarily have a higher value than current study. Especially if the art is likely to degrade over time in some respects anyway.
You could write pure code in JS. You'd just need a linter to enforce it.
The Zen of Erlang goes into this, look for “The reason restarting works”.

https://ferd.ca/the-zen-of-erlang.html
I think that's factually accurate. He's not a professor of sexology and (to my knowledge) has never pursued any formal study of the topic.

Not everybody needs to be Dr. Ruth, but in some sense, Stallman going on about sex topics when he's not is as much a problem as Sagan once going on about the "reptile brain" without considering how much of the neuroscience he was contemporary to had already disproved that hypothesis.

If you're going to have strong opinions on something and want to maintain your credibility in general, at least find a trustworthy and informed advisor on the topic.
Just think of the possibilities: 'When the Yogurt Took Over' https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/10/02/when-the-yogurt-took-...
Cuomo’s a putz.
> No one has ever walked into a school and punched or kicked multiple people to death

It's not a broad claim and not even relavent to your point. But while we're on the subject, we don't have a "mass knifing" or "mass cleaving" problem in America either.
Positive and Negative Liberty
And those policies, internationally, alienate the disenfranchized and lead them to a life of crime and likely an early grave.

Asia has a bit of an escape hatch in how essential and inescapable family is - its rare you have someone so thoroughly hopeless there because its the obligation of their blood relatives to do something about them before they are publicly homeless and drug addled. So you don't see people in this state as often, but when they are, it is the worst place to be homeless and helpless.

Its casting a wide net of "Asian" but Japan (or at least greater Tokyo) has a housing first imitative of their own that does work resoundingly well for their very infrequent homelessness cases. Its legitimately hard to perfectly "fall through the cracks" there between familial obligation and state support programs.
As someone who started a company and had it fail years ago, I still consider that a defining moment in ruining my life today. The knock-on effects are not so simple unless you have the benefit of tens of millions of dollars of exceedingly wealthy investors' money to play with. Relationships destroyed, people's finances ruined, people that had nothing to do with my company losing their jobs. I was often told my biggest mistake as a founder was that I cared about people rather than money.

This post reeks of the privilege of a VC who sells self-help books.

https://xkcd.com/1827/

To put it kindly, I disagree.
Did you read the article? Until it gets all 'get rid of the homeless' in the second half, it breaks down this argument in a lot of detail.
One particular inconsistency in the article is that it intersperses mentions of a sizeable mentally ill homeless population with an expectation and recommendation that they can be supported or housed in a manner that requires these people to accept responsibility for themselves and keep to a "single standard of behavior for all" - which is not really compatible with many of the involved mental illnesses.

The author does mention relevant aspects of multiple different subgroups, but still suggests various universal "solutions" that might work for one group but obviously can't work for another.
In France, at least some authorities think it is insider trading:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-29/deals-...
No, it doesn't seem like you read anything that i've said thus far. You have not articulated any problems. You have gestured at them. Someone's kidney being removed is not, in and of itself, a problem. Play the scenario all the way through. Where do the problems start? You seem to want to imply that there will be latent health consequences to the people doing this. But even the slightest amount of research would quickly dispel that myth.

So, i'll ask again: What if any, specific, negative consequences will accrue to individuals or society at large as a result of a market in kidneys?
> organizations need not and should not elevate spokespeople and leaders who speak regularly on unrelated issues that organizations find do not advance their mission, and/or that alienate important constituents. I, like many other software freedom leaders, curtail my public comments on issues not related to FOSS. (Indeed, I would not even be commenting on this issue if it had not become a central issue of concern to the software freedom community.)

I really respect this. Kuhn is articulating a principle here and then gives an example of how he himself makes a sacrifice to adhere to this principle. This makes him much more credible to me than if he was using the principle solely as an instrument against others.
Thinking about Stallman leading FSF while chewing on these topics of sexuality reminds me a bit about a bad joke I heard regarding the Libertarian party.

Question: Can a party with the Libertarians' political philosophy of government's role in society be trusted with the Presidency in a country where the executive has so much power?

Answer: Doesn't matter; they don't have a chance at the Presidency until everyone forgets about the time the one candidate for party chair stripped naked on stage at their national convention.
Can't wait to try if this release will improve wireless performance when configured as an AP, until now I have never been able to get speeds above 10 Mbps with OpenBSD.
Darpa SC2 Team MarmotE modem is open sourced
Unfortunately, a somewhat popular Clojure library for machine learning on GitHub is also called Cortex, because this is going to make discussing machine learning APIs in the context of Clojure that much more confusing.
This would involve the opposite of the competitive instinct being describe here. IME - the type of executives being described here sees everyone else as a competitor.

Moreover, the billionaire executives I have met/worked for didn't seem to 'enjoy the competition' as much as they seemed unable to comprehend any other way to live.
There was an article on state in OOP posted here a few days ago that I found very thought-provoking[1]. The blog post and related youtube videos are pretty interesting as well[2][3][4].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21238802

[2] https://medium.com/@brianwill/object-oriented-programming-a-...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRTfhkiAqPw
yes, it's clear that he has some unorthodox views, though all of them are backed by a degree of logic that most people don't apply to these things.

I wouldn't personally touch any of these topics. Too controversial, no gain. But I can't really fault his logic. Of course, social and sexual morality runs on feelings rather than logic, and perhaps that's what RMS doesn't get!
This got me thinking.

One of the problems with Stallman is he doesn't realize that it's a normie's world and normies make all the rules.

The upshot of this is that his autistic well-actuallyism w.r.t. definition of terms (like "sexual assault") is at best annoying and at worst causes psychological harm to vulnerable individuals. What Stallman needs to do is read more Wittgenstein and understand how words are actually used by real humans. Their meanings are not DEFUN forms in some piece of Lisp code. A spoken word's meaning is the effect it has on those spoken to. Mainstream society considers any sexual activity by an adult on those under a certain age to be assault, therefore, "sexual assault" is an appropriate term to use for any such activity. Mainstream society considers copying a copyrighted work without permission to be a form of theft; therefore, "theft" is an appropriate term to use for copyright infringement. RMS insisting it is not theft does not change the fact that James Gosling feels very much stolen-from.
Airport lounges for sure
The scale isn't different. Do you remember the insanity that was the Pokemon craze?

How about a drug that's not dangerous at all and has never caused a direct death? Don't pretend that there's logic in creating all laws.

Everything is related to a seratonin and dopamine kick. This is such a general statement you shouldn't have bothered writing it.

GoW is a single player game. Comparing it to the MMF2P genre is silly, they're on opposite sides of the spectrum.

TF2 wouldn't have the longevity it has without the trickle of updates and items. PoE wouldn't even exist without this model.
Especially, not exclusively.

Also, are cryptocurrencies not currencies?
> run the rest off

Yes, its sure to solve their homeless problem by putting them on a bus and dropping them in a desert.

I mean, it will solve their homelessness problem. When they are dead.

That is such a gross and inhumane way to approach it. If people are homeless you figure out why that is and fix it so they can be housed, not kick the can over the fence into the next precinct over.

The mindset that it sure it inconsiderate of people to exist and be inconvenient in their existence is why the problem happens in the first place. Have some damn humility and empathy, there is no gene to be homeless, its a product of circumstance and bad luck. For every lucky bastard who grows up with the right people to make the right connections to get the right break to make it rich there is someone who grows up with the wrong people who abandon them to drug addiction and the streets.

99% of the time the only thing separating you from anyone else you walk past on the street are the collective circumstances that led you to where you are now. Nothing innate preordained your successes or failures.
What were not the painful points of SharePoint development?
Firefox does not need to do everything better than Chrome to be great. It is a false presumption. It just has to do the job well and browsing easy, which it does. After overcoming initial unfamiliarity, I find it better suited for my regular workflow. And, of course, FF never tried to destroy my eyes like Chrome did: one day the wiseguys in Google decided that everything should be extreme WHITE [1]. First, when they had enabled it, you could reduce whiteness by turning on a hidden flag in preferences, but in the very next update, they removed said flag completely.

I read from my phone very often in the dark environment, and Chrome usage became excruciating even on the minimum screen brightness. So removing that option was a final straw for me, and I switched to FF on both mobile and desktop. And honestly, never looked back, learning to appreciate what I have with FF. I never noticed anything laggy about scrolls, and power usage on Android is about the same as Chrome (likely less, due to everything being NOT SO FREAKING WHITE!).

[1] https://support.google.com/chrome/forum/AAAAP1KN0B0rbZd_cEpW...
This is how it should work, and has worked for decades, centuries even. Unfortunately more and more companies (with an emphasis on those based in Silicon Valley) feel the need to coddle users, as if they're too stupid to decide for themselves what information to believe, or even breaking down matters of opinion into the "right" opinion and the "wrong" opinion.

Make a fact checking company. Let the burden of attracting users fall on that company alone. Let them compete for ad space among users. Push the responsibility of providing an accurate and unbiased service onto them. Let them fail and go bankrupt if no one wants to use those services

In short, stop hiding behind the veil of keeping people "informed". People are as informed as they want to be, and if you truly feel people desire to know facts versus lies, make a company and compete in the free market like everyone else who has an idea to sell.
Couldn’t you just search ‘clojure cortex’? As this isn’t actually clojure?
> Especially, not exclusively.

It's like the difference between "car" and "vehicle". Not all vehicles are cars. Not all money is currency. The boundary is not precise. Is an SUV a car? Maybe. Is a semi truck a car? Definitely not. But it's still a vehicle.

Is a dollar bill currency? Yes. Is the balance in your checking account currency? Maybe. Is a check currency? Definitely not. But it's still money.

> Also, are cryptocurrencies not currencies?

No. It's arguable whether or not they are money. The U.S. government treats them like a commodity for tax purposes.
When I was younger, I was taught not to pick up or eat colorful mushrooms - the more colors they had, the deadlier they were, supposedly. At the time, I thought it made sense as the same rule applied for poisonous frogs.

After reading the article and looking at Wikipedia's list of deadly fungus species, I'm not so sure if that rule also applies to mushrooms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deadly_fungus_species
>>"You aren't, for instance, going to get a homeless person who doesn't do drugs"

what does that even mean (like they only abuse alcohol?)?

There are not thousands but 10s of thousands of discarded needles being cleaned up monthly and weekly (https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/09/04/the-city-picks-...)

>> Feels like an inherently biased sort of investigation.

this is a weird call out.

What is the proposed alternative here?
Is this a good pattern though? Seems to me like a low standard for our leaders. You should be able to do more than one thing at once.
What is the point of your comment? OP never claimed to be doing it right in 2012.
Agreed. Judge will not accept his weak argument.
Surprised someone would use or recommend FileZilla after their numerous adware issues.
This doesn't look to me like the difference between functional and imperative so much as the difference between recursion / iteration and map / list comprehension.
I recommend /r/mycology for all your mushroom identification needs.
I think they are relevant to his discussion of RMS, not his discussion of Mike Weaver.

I read the e-mail thread and was trying to understand its relationship to the ongoing public arguments over the leadership of GNU. Andy Wingo's blog posts seemed to illumine his perspective in that debate.
I'm curious if parents still admonish their kids not to eat wild mushrooms.

The first time I was with a family friend and watched him pick and eat wild mushrooms, it was as if I'd discovered a new strain of magic.

Today, I'll eat chicken mushrooms if they look exactly like the ones I've seen before. Otherwise I'll pass.

I sort of feel like those killer whales that have to be taught by other whales that fish are food, as their pod specialized in seals or penguins.
Alternate link: https://www.neweurope.eu/article/preventing-digital-feudalis...
Ask HN: Resources to study the UI/UX of explanations for complex subjects?
I love great explanations for things.

By extension, I love documentation, diagrams, plots, blog posts, presentations, etc that take complex topics and explain them efficiently and effectively.

Is there a name for the study of what makes explanations good? I'd really like to study this. Can anyone recommend any resources?
the bias is "don't upset the apple cart".

I think the complaints about it being liberal are only valid in the context of not being rabidly right-wing.
There are companies whose business model is funding litigating in exchange for a percentage of the settlement / judgement.

EG: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiels-foundat...
Almost every year, I read an article about a family (usually from Eastern Europe) that was picking mushrooms and misidentified an amanita as somethign they recognized from their home country. THey usually end up at UCSF (world-class transplants) and it's typically the kids who are affected the most.
> It really doesn't matter what your view about the controversial issue is; a leader who refuses to stop talking loudly about unrelated issues eventually creates an untenable distraction from ....

I can understand his position, but this is part of the picture of a core problem in society today.

Its NOT that leaders aren't allowed to speak about controversial issues - its that they aren't allowed to advocate ONE side of an issue, while the other side is perfectly OK. You probably shouldn't say "diversity is important but not our only goal" as a CEO, but you CAN say "diversity is the best". That kind of large scale censorship only stifles dissent without changing the dissenters mind. Which is a state of affairs the far left happily accepts - "toxic people dont deserve a voice". Just pray you don't speak against mob or they'll cancel you. Better yet, just don't even think those unthinkable thoughts. Submit to the collective. All your opinions can be inferred from your tribe anyways. You don't really exist, only your tribe does.
Yeah he died a few months ago but nobody is supposed to know about that yet.
> San Francisco’s progressive self-image soon trumped common sense, and in 1996, at the urging of the Coalition on Homelessness, voters turned Jordan out of city hall in favor of former state assembly speaker Willie Brown. Brown had run on a compassion platform, but he soon came to repudiate it, observing with amazement that many of the homeless didn’t actually want to come off the streets. ...

When people think of the Great Depression, they tend to imagine bread lines, lots of unemployment, and general poverty.

What if a modern depression in the US looks like San Francisco? A deep divide between haves and have-nots. The have-nots spiral ever further downward, propelled by abundant drugs, while the haves struggle to comprehend (or even notice) what's happening. Leaders have run out of ideas about how to solve the problem, contenting themselves with damage control.

All the while drip, drip drip... the problems continue to compound.
That's admirable that he is showing restraint. But bigger moneyed interests might play into this over time.
That's a misleading date for UTF-dominance -- as the link notes, it's counting things as ASCII if they only have ASCII characters, no matter what the encoding was specified as, and ASCII is a subset of UTF-8.

I'd put UTF-8's real prominence with the popularity of XML (where it was the default encoding). That was specified in 1998, and ubiquitous within a few years. Nobody at the height of XML would have tried doing a non-UTF design for anything.
Yes, yes, but, it's nice to be able to treat schema as relational data itself. Indeed, the information_schema and pg_catalog already let you do that, but the information_schema is incomplete, and the pg_catalog is hard to use and unstable (that is, each release can change the pg_catalog backwards-incompatibly).

Besides letting you read schema via normal SELECTs on a well-designed meta-schema, something like Aquameta can let you run DMLs as DDls too. That means you can now generate and execute DMLs dynamically but without needing EXECUTE -- you can just have a bunch of normal INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE statements (including via CTEs) and generate schema from other data the same way you'd generate data from data. I think that's a big plus. But then I've worked with a database before that did this schema as data-in-a-meta-schema thing, and I find it very comfortable.

For example, without a metaschema you have to use CREATE THING IF NOT EXISTS then ALTER THING ... in order to apply schema changes. Whereas with something like Aquameta you just INSERT INTO ... WHERE NOT EXISTS ... (or with ON CONFLICT DO ...) and that's that. You can have one set of DDLs that create schema, and the same set of DDLs also updates schema. That's wonderful.
The article isn’t taking issue with housing first initiatives or the like. It’s taking issue with the normalization and enablement of deviant and anti-social behavior. Enforcement of laws and norms against such conduct is very aggressive in Japan (and Singapore, etc.). That doesn’t mean that, for people who are mentally incapable of following those norms, there can’t be compassionate care in an institutional setting. But they aren’t permitted to disrupt normal society.
I think we need to keep in mind that RMS was posting this stuff very publicly all the while FSF was a runaway success. If RMS were being nominated to lead the FSF today, sure it might be appropriate to point out that he seems like a wack-job. However, as it stands we've lost one of the most impactful thought leaders of the past several decades over some mudslinging and theoretical "distraction".
"Easy to grok" definitely means "for experienced Haskell programmers". That is who the article is written for. It doesn't matter how many other languages you've used - they are mostly the same as each other and Haskell is really quite different. Your lack of familiarity is not evidence of a defect.
> "With early diagnosis, another experimental treatment includes massive doses of penicillin to stimulate the liver’s defenses."

The solution to fungus is... more fungus! Really goes to show the incredible breadth of this form of life.
A "bug" in your phone could do the same.
I agree with ahartmetz's comment below:
>We should really elevate our level of discoursce above throwing -isms at each other...
This is a pretty grey area. Would not recommend trading on the info.
I am surprised this mistake is possible. Inky caps don't look anything like Amanitas of any kind, IMO.

I am assuming that the author doesn't drink alcohol, otherwise Inky Caps aren't so great either (though not generally fatal).