skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still think that this tone is counterproductive, but that might be personal preference. I hate working in an environment where I know I can end up on the receiving end of some public humiliation if I voice a dissenting opinion or make a mistake. That's how you end up with people censuring themselves and not pointing out when somebody is actually making a mistake because they don't want to suffer the abuse.

This is especially inexcusable coming from Linus because it's not like he needs to resort to these tactics to be heard or make an impression, he's one of the most respected software devs in existence (and for good reasons). You could remove all the abuse from his posts and you'd lose exactly nothing IMO.

But this discussion is hackneyed, I know many people love Linus' style and think it's perfectly acceptable and even a good thing, I'm just definitely not one of them.
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(to GP) I really have to say, this is not how you should ask someone else to fix a problem. Going at the developers on a personal level is NEVER a good thing. If it was my project, I probably would have closed the issue completely after you insulted me this personally.
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This happened with The Wheel of Time TV tights too; whichever company owned them released a piece of shit single episode pilot and nothing else, solely to keep the rights
The only noteworthy "use an existing term" happening with it, is people using the term "Open Source" recently trying to fool people into thinking their not-Open-Source-licensed software is.
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>As long as Linus is blaming the work done and not the people behind it, that's fine.

I think your comment is just wrong and generally pure garbage. I can't believe some poor server will have to host this nonsense for years to come. It's the most inane thing I've read all year.

I'm just talking about your comment, not you though, so clearly no hard feelings here and it's definitely the right way to frame my argument to have a nice, peaceful and constructive technical discussion.
> Your hypothetical assertion is heavily undermined by the actual reality of what happened with Werner Von Braun.

How so? Werner Von Braun didn't invent the A-Bomb. His rockets were more of a novelty than anything. A single firebomb killed more people and caused more damage than all the V2 rockets during ww2. And Von Braun's weapons weren't used against the US. It was used against britain.

If Werner Von Braun developed nukes and germany nuked San Fran and Baltimore, do you really believe he'd be a director of NASA? Rather than undermining it, your example supports my assertion.

Werner Von Braun was responsible for no american civilian death. If he was responsible for 200,000 deaths and poisoning hundreds of thousands of american civilians with radiation and we allowed him to be a director of NASA, maybe you'd be right.
You can make use of the 40% rule to verify it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product/market_fit#The_40%25...
> If you look at data from the Low Wage Commission rather than ONS data

If you're rejecting the Office for National Statistics there's not much I can do. These are robust and reliable stats with detailed information about method and limitation.

Do you mean the Low Pay Commission?

Can you link to their report, because I can't find it.

The only report I could find from them is this, which disagrees with your point.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

> Once in work, evidence shows that people from ethnic minorities progress less far and earn less money than their white counterparts. Baroness McGregor-Smith led an independent review of the issues faced by businesses in developing ethnic minority talent from recruitment through to executive level. Race in the Workplacereported a number of areas of concern at the time:

Here's the Equality and Human Rights Commission Report, but that supports my point that black people are paid less than white people in the UK. (Page 29 median wage) https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/rese...

Or there's this research: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/095001701244509...

> Research repeatedly demonstrates significant ethnic labour market disparities in Britain. While some groups do better than the white British majority, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and black Africans suffer higher rates of unemployment, lower occupational status and lower earnings (Berthoud, 2000; Heath and Cheung, 2006; Heath and McMahon, 1997; Platt, 2005). Such ethnic penalties remain even after controlling statistically for indi-vidual differences, for instance in respect of education.

> What racism?

> there are a huge number of non-white students

You appear to be splitting people into "white" and "non-white", and then looking at the non-white group as a whole. That's not a good idea because it causes you to come to incorrect conclusions.
This essay covers some interesting aesthetic trends, but its timeline and evidence are manipulated to fit the author’s argument.

But rather than nitpick, I just wanted to say that I find the current “style maximalism” to be quite fascinating. That was always the promise of globalization to me: the juxtaposition and mixing of aesthetic and cultural traditions. Of course you will sometimes get Trump’s gaudy excess, but that’s more of a comment on his lack of taste than an argument against the baroque in itself.

Edit: For an everyday example of what I'm referring to: compare the original Blade Runner (1982) to the sequel (2017). The first film is far more baroque, dusty, maximalist, and messy - and it lends the film a real sense of atmosphere and authenticity. This scene is a good example [1]: it's raining, there are neon lights everywhere, the characters are speaking in a hodgepodge of numerous languages including Hungarian, Japanese, and German. Later in the movie, you have a variety of bizarre characters, androids, robot dolls, and city environments.

Then, compare a similar scene in the new film, 2049.[2] Its style and atmosphere are far more minimal, modernist, and simplified. It feels a little too sterile, too clean for a post-apocalyptic city with hundreds of millions of people. The rest of the film follows suit: the abandoned locations don't seem that abandoned and the characters are all pretty straightforward. It is nowhere near as strange of a film as the first one is.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcwOApqmJMQ

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opDlMeqRACI
The amount of TV watched might be correlated with cognitive decline, but is certainly not the cause.

I doubt there is any activity that can accelerate the rate of decline apart from the things we put in our bodies (food & drugs). It's better to think of cognitive decline proceeding at some baseline rate and the mental and physical activities we engage in act to buffer this pace. Watching TV happens to be a poor buffer, especially over such long stretches of such passive stimulation (requires little mental or physical exertion). You would get the same low buffer effect staring at a wall, flipping through a picture book, or knitting a scarf for 3.5 hours. This might be obvious but TV isn't causing decline, it's just not helping to prevent it.
You can't really wield 'social reaction' like that.

In many western societies in 2020, for example, many people's learned reaction to loud puritanism is to casually wonder what skeletons are being so desperately hidden.

I'd be much more comfortable with my children's math teacher stripping or doing porn than being some puritanical moral crusader, just based on recent history.
Really looking forward to this future as there is several advantages following this approach:

1. Decentralized, therefor more difficult to attack or destroy.

2. Increase in autonomy, which in my opinion is always good (I'll be glad to stop paying those parasites more money just because they decide to increase the prices though they have to pay less for buying power somewhere else).

3. More knowledge about physics will spread - more knowledge is always good in my opinion.
Older people have had more practice operating the TV. Just getting the phone to work is often a mental challenge.

A ton of them are constantly inadvertently opening control center and then accidentally turning it on airplane mode or whatever. Another issue is that software changes constantly and any slight interface change they have no clue what to do.
Yeah, but all traffic from googlevideo.com is uncapped, but traffic from google.com is... how do they know which IPs to block? Youtube has like a ton of them and they probably change from time to time. If it's IP-based, how do they compile a list of IPs that are guaranteed to be youtube video content, but not anything else?
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Adding two rationals boils down to adding 2x two integers. Integer arithmetic is in general less complex then floating point arithmetic. But of course that's not true if your hardware supports single instruction double floating point arithmetic (which any relevant 64bit architecture does).
Also true. Subjectivity is unavoidable as long as we are relevant.. or so it seems circa 2020
I think they're hinting it's arson by people who hate Christianity (i.e. Islamic extremists), but authorities are covering it up because publishing that "truth" would cause a religious civil war (national security danger), and they also can't write that "truth" here because they'll be downvoted (oh the horrors, downvotes!!).

It's fucking disgusting how cowardly these couple of commenters are, but also how many seems to have showed up on this thread.
The thing I’ve been wanting is to have a diagramming tool that can serve as a live health dashboard with links to logs.

Infrastructure diagrams always get out of date, unless they’re looked at frequently. By hooking the diagrams with live status and logs, it becomes a tool that’s used daily. It would make logs easier to navigate and diagrams kept up to date.
“ create Scenario's for your diagram. Each Scenario is meant to capture a different set of conditions, and is composed of multiple Frame's”

Friendly suggestion: Fix these spelling errors.
Or a piece of code that doesn't do anything useful or meaningful and may be skipped by compiler as well.
There are probably dozens of holes one can drill into this sensationally titled click-baity study. It's surprising what gets through Nature's review system these days.
Windows only + not open source?

This is a real deal breaker.
A simple reasoning on why spinlock is slower than mutex in a heavily contested situation.

A thread (S1) attempting to acquire a spinlock will busy looping to hog all of its time slice, preventing other threads (S2) from utilizing the CPU to free the lock.

S1: [**busy spinning**][..waiting........][**lock & run*****]
S2: [..waiting........][**run & unlock***][..waiting........]

A thread (M1) attempting to acquire a mutex will sleep to give up its time slice, letting other threads (M2) to utilize the CPU and thus have a chance to free the lock. The given up time slice can be very substantial, leading to much better performance.

M1: [sleep][..waiting........][**lock & run*****]
M2: [.....][**run & unlock***][..waiting........]

If one really really wants to use spinlock, the way to use it correctly is to boost the priority of the thread holding the lock to make sure it got priority to run over all else, so that it can finish its work quickly and release the lock.

S1: lower priority [..waiting........][**lock & run*****] higher priority
S2: higher priority [**run & unlock***] lower priority [..waiting........]

I assume the benchmark and the user-mode spinlock doesn't do that, and thus has the measured problem. OS/kernel would have a better idea to raise and lower priority with spinlock than user-mode code.
Pretty sure this is Keith Richards.
Agreed, your response was totally cool and I'm sad to see people downvoting it. I honestly didn't think of children as a tax-impacting event, so I was glad it came up.
Well, that is a bit on a 50/50 coinflip currently. There has been intentions but we need some collaboration from upstream to make this happen.

It's not set in stone currently.
The kernel doesn't support booting zstd compressed initramfs' yet, but you can very well use zstd compression with dracut and mkinitcpio
Copernicus was also guilty of wrongthink.

Why is it necessary for walled gardens to enforce political standards on a supposedly decentralized Internet?
And yet you provide none. What do you base this on?
I'll push it to https://github.com/oyato/promqueen when it's ready. Hopefully I will have time to work on it over the next week or two.
I use git to version my Keepass database files. It's not great, because if you store binary files inside the Keepass database, the git repo's size grows very fast. I do it because I don't trust the apps I use to not corrupt the file. Does anyone have alternative solutions?

Something like pass lends itself ideally to version control, but all my entries' metadata (names, dates) are visible, which is a problem for me. I want to be able to store my secret database even on untrusted infrastructure.

Currently, I'm pondering storing big or often updated binary data separately from the passphrases and similar low-footprint data.
Even after choosing Blank Page in both the "Homepage and new windows" and "New tabs" settings? After setting both of those to blank, I'm not seeing any of the Home content here, without needing to explicitly uncheck the various categories within it.
40Hex Magazine is live. This was one of the earliest virus e-zines (1991-1993)
Better video for the door hinge hack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1cWL8OxzFY
I would think you instead would have copyright on the new bit that is mixed in, and because of that, the combined version as a whole still contains your copyright and therefore cannot be copied freely.

I don't think that would give you any new rights over the original work though.
I bet it was some dialect with non-standard extensions to make it actually useful. Like all the ones ever actually used, but different.
A significant portion of the article is literally about painstaking work that is being done to start building a body of evidence.

Anecdote and informal observation has always been, and must necessarily be, a prior stage to formal evidence-gathering.

That the evidence-gathering is only starting to happen now indicates nothing about what the outcomes may be.

But the fact that there continue to be vast numbers of people suffering "mystery" and "incurable" illnesses means there really needs to be far more of this kind of observation and early-stage evidence gathering.

I'd invite you to do some reflecting on what motivates you to be so dismissive of research that could turn out to have huge benefits for huge numbers of people.
Then where is the publication that uses GPT-2 for a long-term NLP task, like, for example, reconstructing the rules of the great vowel shift from a corpus of all pre 20th century English?

Synchronously parsing the meaning a single text has at one moment in time involves no time series at all.
For that experiment to be valid you'd probably want to do a control where you try the stretch, then wait doing nothing for the same amount of time that you would roll your feet and try again and another where you just rotate your ankle in the same way you would if you had a tennis ball under it. Taking your baseline reading one day and trying the tennis ball plus stretch the next day or week would be good too.

This wouldn't really convince me because I find any additional stretching helps with my reach and I'm more likely to chalk it up to a warm up effect or maybe some other effect on the the tendons or muscles. I don't see any particular reason to attribute it to fascia release.
I've been using SyncThing for years with my KeePassXC database without issues (including Android for use with Keepass2Android).

On the odd occasion it's been modified on two devices without a sync and SyncThing produces a sync-conflict file, a simple "Merge from database..." within KeePassXC happily pulls in the newer data from both databases to merge them again.

I use the Staggered File Versioning feature on at least one device + a separate backup mechanism to satisfy my paranoia about losing the database.
> the engineer in me weeps at the loss of a little bit of coolness

Me too!
I like the end:

> Lots of users, all of which are basically buggy-by-definition, and all you can do is a bad half-arsed job of trying to make it "kind of work".

> Reality is messy.

> Linus
IntelliJ works fine without F-keys, but I prefer a bit bigger keyboard over the folio ones so you an almost normal keyboard.
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The ocean will take longer to recover. Unless there is an ice age.
You might be interested in Svgbob https://github.com/ivanceras/svgbob and AsciiGrid: https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/asciigrid/
I've used GoAccess in the past, but didn't find it a good fit esp. since I prefer JSON logs. I don't know if it supports this - maybe I didn't read enough docs - but at the time, I remember it was easier to spend an hour whipping up a tool in Go that did exactly what I wanted.

As for loki, it's a separate server but the setup takes maybe 10-30 minutes of reading some docs, maybe changing some config files and the systemd unit file to keep it up and running is less than 10 lines (most of which is boilerplate).

Of-course I have the benefit of a client library so I can just call a function on a struct at the end of a request with no need to worry about serializing the relevant data into some predetermined format, compression, etc.
Can I nitpick two things about the website? I don't mean to be an asshole about it or anything, I just hope it can help in some way:

- I think the mobile detection thing uses nothing but window size to determine if this is on a mobile browser or a desktop, so it mistakes my (definitely desktop) browser window for a mobile one. I know from my friends who do frontend stuff that reliably detecting a mobile browser isn't very straightforward (or even possible?) but perhaps a "my device was not correctly detected, request desktop site" button would help? Or at least a hint about resizing the browser window for technical users who are, nonetheless, not very web-inclined?

- The plural of "scenario" is "scenarios", without an apostrophe. Also frames, not frame's. Sorry if it seems overly pedantic but I see a lot of people (including native speakers) do this and it's driving me nuts.

Other than that I think like the idea! Me and web interfaces don't really get along so I can't say I've done too much test driving but I realize that's a personal preference of mine, and quite possibly something that puts me outside your target audience. I don't suppose there's yet a good web equivalent of Visio, and I'm fairly sure that the ones I've tried don't have the hierarchical/structured approach to diagramming that Terrastruct has. Best of luck with it -- I hope ten years from now I can tell my friends I went all grammar nazi on alixanderwang, world-renowned billionaire and the founder of Terrastruct!
Netherlands has speedcameras and average speed checks on a lot of highways. Mostly because it works as a good public statement to claim you have "caught a lot of speeding to make traffic safer" while you don't actually have to hire any extra police officers for it.
Just don't try to touch your toes

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i69PC4PJdAQ
There are two parts to my opinion:

1) I would prefer something that works most of the time (blackbox) than something interpretable that doesn't

2) if my DL converged to e.g. solving some complex partial differential equation, how does it help me that I could "interpret that" if 99.9999% human population has no clue what is going on regardless? "Your loan was rejected, because the solution to this obscure PDR with these starting conditions said so; these Nobel prize economy winners created this model with these simplifications and we deem it good enough to keep you where you are."
Plus I’ve heard that these make this difficult to use by “legitimate” entities too since they’re non-standard and hence require more legal scrutiny.
ISIS is a terrorist organization without heavy weapons or real logistical capability. It can't take over in an environment which is almost 100% non-Sunni (no local recruits) and so far from its home bases or international routes (no logistics).
Either that's not sufficient or the Google Stadia people didn't even bother tuning their systems for gaming, which I doubt.
That's also how Perl functions. No generational GC, just ref counting. So you're fine if you don't make circular references.
I went in with an open mind in 1775^, then

> My reader will not wonder, that, after having ascertained the superior goodness of dephlogisticated air by mice living in it, and the other tests above mentioned, I should have the curiosity to taste it myself.

Nope.

It’s important to remember that unbelievable beliefs associated with observations do not implicitly negate the observations, especially when it comes to understudied areas of the human body.

What we know about the vagus nerve today seemed insane and nonsensical fifty years ago, but historical writings for hundreds of years are filled with tales of drinking magic elixirs that change people’s mind and body. Magic? Probably not. Valid? Possibly so.

Further study is required, if only to separate the magic from the biology.

^ https://thoracickey.com/joseph-priestley-oxygen-and-the-enli...
I’m in the same boat as you. My PT has helped a lot. I discovered many of the treatments were in the book The Perrin Technique. The symptoms in the book described me exactly.

I gave her a copy to read and it has helped greatly. My PT told another one of her patients with similar symptoms who has gone from mostly bed/housebound to regular outings.
The dialect in Toyama, Japan has the famous "かか、かーかーかかーか" which decomposes/translates to:

かか、 mother (お母さん in standard Japanese)
かー this (これ)
かー this way (こう)
かかー write (書く)
か ? (か)

In proper English, that would be "Mom, is it spelled this way?"
FWIW 12 vs 15pt text used like this is called visual hierarchy (or typographic hierarchy if the differences are limited to typography, they're not here, there's also positional difference between the titles and domains).

Desaturating and down-sizing suggests the information is not important, but in this case is critical to understanding and of equal weight and so should probably have the same visual hierarchy, that's easily achieved by including "Arch Linux" in the title.
> "There's no such thing as a neutral platform,"

This is a very weird, and pretty clearly false, statement. There is absolutely such a thing as a neutral platform: A completely un-moderated forum is a neutral platform. We may or may not like what the outcome of that is, but it is neutral.
I think, the problem is deeper than just watching TV. The real question is what activities does it replace. 3.5 hours per day is a a significant portion of one's day, if you subtract sleep, food, shopping, doctor visits and other basic needs.

I wouldn't be surprised if those who watch less TV fill that time with creative hobbies, socialization, reading of thought-provoking books, etc. As a matter of fact, I would love to see a paper trying to structure those activities and correlate the prevalent groups to the cognitive performance.