skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure what to think about this as a Fitbit user! I have been trying to find an easy way to get sleep and exercise data and Fitbit seemed to do the job well enough (I use my phone app during runs to get GPS data). Google's history of killing off successful but stagnant projects (RIP Reader) does worry me a lot! My prediction is that Fitbit merges with Google Fit which I used to work but I had trouble getting any useful data besides daily steps off of it.

Maybe I will have to find a new option for fitness tracking! Nike+ -> Google Fit -> Fitbit -> ???
Don't let knowledge of old * nix tools be effectively gatekeeping people from joining a FOSS project.

grep is not a sufficient replacement for indexed search with fields. Just try to use Discord's search feature, you can specify constraints extremely easily. The equivalent in grep (if you even have logs going back that far) would be some gnarly regex that you have to reference what characters you need to specify unless you're very familiar with regex.

IRC isn't hard, but it has real shortcoming and real problems. The user experience hasn't meaningfully changed in 20+ years, but people's expectations and how they interact with chat platforms has. This is coming from someone who uses IRC every day, both at work and at home.

What we really need is most of the features of Slack without it's terrible threading mechanism and no GIFs.
That appears to be accurate. BitKeeper froze out kernel developers in April 2005[0] and Git was started the same month[1]:

> Git development began in April 2005, after many developers of the Linux kernel gave up access to BitKeeper, a proprietary source-control management (SCM) system that they had formerly used to maintain the project. The copyright holder of BitKeeper, Larry McVoy, had withdrawn free use of the product after claiming that Andrew Tridgell had created SourcePuller by reverse engineering the BitKeeper protocols.

But as the BitKeeper article makes clear, the relationship between BitKeeper and OSS had been frosty for a while.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitKeeper

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git#History
Agreed 100%. I don't think I would work as a software professional if growing up I had to buy (or somehow finagle) computer manuals for closed-source systems in order to learn.

Maybe I didn't read the code, but I learned so much by compiling it. Knowledge I wouldn't have bothered with had I just downloaded a binary blob.
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I think it's a pun with plasticity, a field where she did work in.
I'm joking, I love my pebble. Just sad to see the company who should support them begin to die.
Assuming Google legitimately doesn't try to retain deleted data as they claim, you just need to delete your Fitbit account before the acquisition closes to ensure Google never lays hands on it.
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for clarifying
I don't understand why people bring up identity management in IRC like it's a problem. No one has issues with this.
It looks like the author wrote this to sell software. I tried scrolling down on my phone and got a full-page pop-up trying to sell me software. Not cool.
dang, this is clearly on-topic. ICE is in the title of the post.

Not every response to a political post that is apathy incarnate is an "ideological flamewar".

Some things have to be named as what they are, this is not hyperbole. This is happening right now. And I'm sorry anything but your typical "but what about refusing services to the gays" makes you uncomfortable.
Okay, as bad as Chrome then. Thanks for the clarification.
NYT piece has much more info https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/01/us/politics/elizabeth-war...
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To me, the primary value propositions are: issues, merge requests, comments on issues and merge requests, related stuff like tags/milestones/etc., and the ability to expose this stuff in a friendly way to project managers who don't use the commandline.

I guess since my team uses a self-hosted instance of GitLab, I'm biased and don't put any value on the social network aspect or the hosting aspect.
Exactly. We need an elegant interface between design and development that effectively hides each teams implementation details.
I say eliminating inequality may be impossible. No where I make claim about reducing inequality.
And no-one's yet mentioned Monotone, Graydon's project a bit before Rust. My English Literature teacher was right, Nothing Is Written In A Vacuum.
No. It’s to not mock someone for their side of the argument.

That person may have never once been racist or shitty to someone yet they have society telling them they are terrible. Blaming whole groups of people for the actions of portions of that group is not how things are going to change. You lose allies from people within those groups because they begin to get attacked. And if you’re thinking “who cares about those people,” think if equality really is your goal or is it really something else.

It seems like people are more about bringing the other side down instead of bringing everyone up.
The problem with summaries and TL;DRs is that they don't allow you to start a conversation. So I can't provide you with a short answer because everybody is going to interpret it with their own filter.

That's exactly why I wrote the book. You can't change people with a tweet. Sometimes not even through an article. But that's the magic of books.

Is it all gloom and doom? That depends on how we react. But I have the feeling that if we don't spend some time thinking about these issues--collectively--then it'll be gloom and doom for sure.
There's a huge qualitative difference.

Prior to this technology, a detective could certainly go with a suspect's name to the secretary of state and compare a driver's license photo with a security camera image. I have no issue with that, and I suspect the ACLU doesn't either. Subsequently, they're able to passively monitor all security camera images and compare them to millions of driver's license photos to track the locations of people not under investigation: that's a vastly different action.

This does far more than make it more difficult for the guilty to get away with crimes. That's not a cause anyone would advocate for. What it does that people are rallying against is that it makes it far easier for the innocent to be wrongly charged. And the old maxim that it's better for 10 guilty to go free than one innocent be punished would suggest it's wrong to pursue the former at the expense of the latter. Institutions like law enforcement will always seek to increase their power, that power needs to be limited by society's concerns for the rights and freedoms of its members.
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I know all the academic work that goes into calculating inflation, but it’s never tracked to my comings and goings in a very high COL area. My health insurance premiums alone just increased 10%, not even counting the increases in deductible, copay, and oop max.
I would like to pose a question to you, what if our culture, the tech culture, is a pop culture? Often times technologies become popular at the expense of others. If the technology that got popular wasn't the best technology but got popular for other reasons like, let's say creator was popular, then it's clear that technology might have actually destroyed a lot of potential wealth that otherwise would have occurred!

And empirically hasn't this been the case in our history in tech? Windows being popular over Mac, IE being more popular than netscape, etc etc.
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It’s also possible to do a lot in excel, it is just not always the best tool for the job.
Society does care, tune into the positive things that are being done for men like acknowledging their mental health needs and enabling their role as carers.
Even Linus suffers from imposter syndrome? Never would have thought. If Linux was a "one-hit wonder" it's been topping the charts for decades...
Love that sub. It's rather poignant.
Ask HN: Office Chair Recommendations?
Most people on HN probably spend their entire working day sitting.

Which office chair would you recommend to your fellow software developers and techies? Why?
>To get an idea how bad it can be check out the APA's guidelines on treating men

What is the problem with these guidelines? I didn't see anything particularly controversial or objectionable there, although I did just skim them.
Sometimes people do, they say "Django" instead of "in Python using Django" which I think is fine. People who know Python will take the hint.
> What would be interesting is to limit the AI processing speed to human capacity, which is something like 60 bits per second.

What part of human processing capacity is this slow?
Not all projects are birthed in public. It may have been extracted from a larger private project which may have issues sharing its exact history of development.
What are you talking about? I did not imply in any way that popularity determines morality. I stated that organ harvesting is obviously immoral, you made the suggestion that committing an immoral act means that the perpetrator believes the act is moral, I am simply refuting that fallacious argument with the point that China concealing the act shows us that they are aware it is immoral.
I think you’re overestimating what the public response to such an event would be. The vast majority of the public doesn’t care if their privacy is utterly violated by the government as long as there’s some flimsy justification for it catching bad guys or saving children.
TIL! Thanks! Interesting, though, that it doesn't appear to work with MacOS built-in apache (webrick works fine though).
A large established and (based on personal connections) loyal fan base is a failure? Growth is not everything. Growth isn’t even really sustainable over a long enough time span, and Fitbit’s been around awhile.
That was my question. What information does WhatsApp share with the law enforcement. Just, as you said IP and so, or also the messages?
I had a thought that this is even beyond the word psychedelia and extends more broadly to all modern health. But then, I think the word is just right, since psychedelia has as much to do with LSD as vitamins have to do with vitamin water. If you disagree with the analogy that’s no issue, it’s simply A Catchy Hook.

Psychedelic simply means expansion of the mind and is independent of any particular practice or substance.

Mindfulness seems to be another, or even, “the,” new culmination word for “safe” psychedelia in the west (as contrast with the “unsafe” roll-your-own a.la burning man). We can tell it’s the current culmination word because it’s polarized, the one word with a significant amount of scientific research, but then at the same time oddly clinical and paradoxically overall too LuLu lemon & vitamin water. It just doesn’t seem to have that same oomph as eating acid and stealing fire in the desert, but it’s receiving medical approvals that pave the way for economics to benefit people at scale. Mindfulness seems to encourage passivity, but then it’s practiced by navy seals. At the core, it’s all wrong by placing too much focus on the mind, just like we’ve always done in Latin-based languages.

Whatever the word is, developing a perspective that we individually believe is worth cultivating is the root of a connection between well-being and performance.

It doesn’t sound like a SASS app because it isn’t. It doesn’t seem like a good business idea because business is a dirty word, like mindfulness, people think there’s a way to do it.

Two quotes stood out to me:

“But what we really need are psychedelic models for business - business that defines new standards for integrity, equity and ethics; business reimagined with a technicolor glow.”

“What would I have done if I had known that this would happen?”

The second seems like exactly the right question. If you have an answer I’d love to chat, even just for fun.
This reminds me when Microsoft acquired Nokia for some reason.
Asterisk 17 is not an LTS release, which means it won't receive backported security fixes when 18 is out. The latest LTS release is Asterisk 16.
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> Failure + failure = success?

Well the world is not so simple. Apple + Next = ?
Totally. Click baity title. Interested because it sounded like a horror story - was just either his own software or affiliate marketing.
Funny, I like the slightly different version of MicroGooFaZon - because it includes that other org. which has a "few bytes" of data on lots of people, plus it sounds even goofier. ;-) But, right on with your comments.
Then once the subset of data is in distributed memory... you hittem w pyspark and all compatible libraries.
Agreed... it's easy to envision scenarios where Linux would have fallen off completely back in the 90's. (After all, Linus' original goals were 'better than Minix' and 'learn about the 80386').
It's good you mentioned HN. I also find it to be an extremely reasonable forum. Radical opinions pop up every once in a while, but somehow they still manage to cause little outrage and hatred.

Kudos to the team (and all of us too!)
Assuming you have a fitbit account. I don’t. But I did own and use a Pebble for many years.
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Though of course it should be noted that "linux" was not named by Linus.

"Linux itself got its name from Ari Lemmke who ran the FTP server the original Linux Kernel was uploaded to. Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, wanted to name the kernel Freax, but Ari instead gave him a folder called “linux” to upload his kernel to"
Not necessarily. To suggest that souvenirs are only used for showing off is pretty cynical. For example, I cannot fathom how people buying fridge magnets use them to let everybody know about their trip. I doubt they buy them with the intention of signaling to their house guests every time the guests look at their fridge.
A lot of people buy souvenirs (memorabilia) just for themselves because they evoke nice memories.

If the goal was to let everybody know that you went travelling, you can simply post pictures in some social media network.
Do you have any sources for a) society doesn't care about men's issues and b) it is okay to mock men constantly?
But why would you post if you don't care about people's reaction to your message?
The article suggests that this is an issue of rich vs. poor, not of men vs. women.
Yes, I can’t tell if his page is an advertisement disguised as a blog, or if it’s genuinely meant to be a blog.
GP: Men have problems we should pay attention to. It's not logical to conclude that if privileged people are men, all men are relatively privileged.

You: BS. Out of touch. Men are too ignorant to complain.

A better reply would have responded to the actual points in some substantial way. For example, we could go back to "the 1%" phrasing and stop saying "men" are privileged while also complaining about male incarceration rates.
I sometimes have nights like that when my wife works overnight, and my toddler wakes frequently from teething.

What I do is I take a THC tablet 2-3 hours before bed. Specifically, 5mg of delta-9 THC and 5 mg of TAC. It makes me sleepy enough that when I have to wake up for my toddler, I can quickly fall back into a deep sleep.

(I live in a state where pot is legal without a prescription.)

Many people don't realize this, but pot's effects vary widely with the strain. I suspect that the combination of THC and TAC makes the tablet very similar to an indica strain.
Men are risk-takers by nature. When we feel lost, we take risks, for better or for worse That's why the military still has great recruitment rates. It's also why many of the self-made wealthy are men, and the ones who aren't are often people more like JK Rowling.

Looks like fewer of those risks are paying off than usual.
Well put argument. A lot of posturing in comments in threads like these which try to mislead the reader into thinking that they are looking at the conflict from a higher, more rational, position.

I like the way you have framed the argument.
I am convinced that load average on a machine is one of the most misleading statistics you can view. It never means what you think it means and half the time it doesn't even indicate a real problem when it's high.
I'd say it's actually because of Graal. LLVM is helpful for writing a compiler but only changes the difficulty by say, one or two orders of magnitude. But the difficulty of making a fully statically typed compiled language is many orders of magnitude larger than one guy hacking together an interpreter.

The nice thing about GraalVM and modern gradual typing techniques is you can actually start by writing an interpreter, fully dynamic, no type system at all. Graal turns the interpreter into JIT compiled code on the fly, you can even create a standalone (no JVM) AOT compiled binary containing your language runtime, all with one command. Then as your language evolves you can add interpreter hints to gain extra performance, but, it's totally pay-as-you-go. There are no walls of effort facing you: you do a little work to get a little benefit, and a lot more to get to V8 type speeds. You can also introduce a type system gradually these days, as CoffeeScript/TypeScript or Groovy style languages do, again incrementally as your language evolves and gains usage.

Also with Graal you get the world's best GCs for free, plus access (if you want it) to the JDK class libraries for things like files/sockets/time&date handling. Oh, and language interop with other languages for free, no complex FFIs. It's pretty neat.

That said, are there lots of programmers itching to write dynamically typed scripting languages these days? Probably not. Languages like Kotlin deliver most of the benefits with very few of the downsides.
I'm not american, so correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I see in the american news many liberal strongholds have the highest homeless rates and aren't doing a lot to remedy the situation - lacking low income housing etc.

It makes me a little skeptical that "the left"[1] care that much about the homeless.

[1] I'll be honest I think "the left" and "liberal" are kind of useless catch all term at this point and lumps too many people into one group together. For instance, for this conversation I mean middle class college educated men and women living in coastal american cities that had at least semi-stable childhoods.
worst pairing ever....from customers view. Or maybe not. Facebook would be the worst.
... and as a EU project private alternative to the likes of Dropbox, there's Duple, an app that gives you your full private Dropbox at home. Self-hosted, E2EE, and works just like a Dropbox (currently in beta): https://www.duple.io/en/
Vic Gundotra (VP Google) said back when Microsoft bought Nokia that "two turkeys don't make an eagle".

Google officially has become the Microosft of the mid 2000s. Lack of direction and innovation, buying up companies just for the sake of it.

Here is a link to Google's anology:
https://www.techspot.com/news/42338-google-attacks-nokia-and...
It is an interesting quote but leaves so much out. Where is the difference happening? Gradually between top 1 and bottom 1 percent? Or sharply somewhere in the middle? I think the way this difference is framed is not helpful. An example of where graphs are both more informative and more objective than text.
Power users should probably use unbranded versions of the browser that don't have these issues. AIUI, such versions are widely available, even from Mozilla themselves.
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Nice I didn't know this one. I did a quick search and found a lot of stories like mine where people tried to used my now defunct account, and they got zero support from AirBS
Definitely. I find SVN so much easier. But we must all use Git because cargo cultism is cool, or something.
I follow a large number of web developers, male and female on Twitter. I see a lot of complaints about men in general from women - some of it fair, some of it nasty. One dev in particular regularly rage tweets about men and makes the point her tweets are aimed at every single man - including those who are generally nice people and respectful towards women. Reading Twitter just makes me feel depressed some days, being constantly reminded that because I’m white and male I’m actually a fucking scumbag
ACLU sues FBI, DOJ over facial-recognition technology
Andrew Yang's national dividend proposal would be the next best thing to handing out jobs, better in a lot of ways because it would free up some mindspace for the minority of men who do have entrepreneurial potential but not the freedom to pursue their vision.
it's GitHub that makes git popular
Wow, the legal disclaimer at the end is as long as the whole entry.
> they found me on other software forums, posted threats to me and explained how the library that I had added, and someone else had removed, was crucial to their business and they'd lost such-and-such dollars in revenue with that library 404-ing without notice and that they were coming to find me and extract the money from me by force

Wow, that really takes "open source maintainer abuse" to a whole other level.
Mozilla intends to remove all methods for installing private extensions in the release version of Firefox. The extension source code must be disclosed to Mozilla during signing, and it must adhere to their add-on policies [1].

Mozilla is blocklisting benign extensions distributed outside of Firefox Add-ons which do not follow these guidelines [2].

They are working on disabling a method which allows users with root access to configure Firefox to load unsigned extensions [3], citing concerns over adware with root access. The feature is being disabled even on Linux, where such adware was never really a problem, despite making several other use cases impossible.

Requiring extensions to be signed by default is a great initiative by Mozilla, but we must be given ways to install private extensions in the release version of Firefox without disclosing the source code to Mozilla, or worrying that an extension for personal use may be blocklisted.

Forbidding local extensions in the release version of Firefox, without a way to override the option, guarded by administrative access and appropriate warnings, is heavy-handed and has a questionable threat model.

Signing can be turned off in Firefox Developer Edition (based on Firefox Beta) and unbranded builds (no automatic updates), but those browsers are not meant for end users. We must be given ways to install private extensions in the best version of Firefox, and that is the release version of the browser.

Not even Google is this heavy-handed, they allow installing local extensions in Chrome after users enable an option, although a warning is shown on browser restarts about the presence of external extensions, which can be dismissed.

[1] https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/add-on-p...

[2] https://github.com/jeremiahlee/page-translator/issues/26

[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1514451
care to elaborate? I fail to see how git would be considered 'overkill' for a project.
Threads like this in general will always have poor levels of discussion, regardless.
I think that the atomic weight of carbon is about 12, Joe thinks that it is 29. Therefore, what the atomic weight of carbon is, is subjective.

(No, it isn’t.)
I gave it a quick test. it seemed to work smoothly. Depending on the application you are using it with, the interface could be slightly cleaner.
I haven't had time to go through the entire source yet, which would be important in an application handling encrypted/sensitive data. I did notice the inclusion of billing code, is the plan to commercialize the application?
The problem is that a set of men deserving demonization and a set of men actually being demonized almost do not intersect.