skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so true. I've always had horrible usability issues with YoutubeTV, especially when using with a Chromecast. I was always shocked that the app/website had so many bugs, the same type of bugs OP is talking about. It was literally the buggiest piece of software I've used in the past few years. The person I share the membership with never ran into these bugs somehow, so seeing this comment really makes me feel better about my experience. Still scratching my head about how so many bugs could show up in production for so long. I'm guessing severely inadequate testing.
the intention is not to make it easier for companies to use, it's to put a burden on them. The aim is not to make the software widely used - but ethically used.
He's right and 100% on Google maps it's awful other than just looking for an address, any kind of planning like maps used to be used for, its shit.
Little late to the party here but I am a heavy user of GitHub both personally and at work, and these recent changes have made it much less enjoyable, usable, and efficient.

I feel as though they were driven by some need to refresh the look of GitHub, but not by the need of the users. And this I think is the biggest mistake here.

If you have roughly 40,000,000 active monthly users — how many of those do these design changes serve? And how do they serve them?

That's what I'd be asking now if I was on your team.
This is the sixth or seventh incident within the past 10 years. Every time economy goes to the gutter, they make a speech about how "outside forces are trying to bring us down" or "the world is envious" or "we will shut down twitter". Two weeks later, everything goes back to normal. So far, wikipedia took the longest to recover because everyone was too scared to take action without asking the president and he was probably too busy with other things like blaming trump for the devaluation of turkish lira or inciting war in idlib. It's mostly unmaintainable posturing. He got a little ruffled up after his candidate lost the election for the mayorship of istanbul last summer and the competing party started spilling out their money laundering schemes. It's usually all bark and no bite.
It could be a solution if markets agreed to the same rules. To me, this form of trading has questionable economic effects in my opinion.
> Just like how Poland and Hungary are EU members and they are walking their own way not giving a f about anything, rewriting the constitutions and laws as they wish

There are mechanisms in place to change constitutions and laws in all countries. The primary function of parliament is to legislate. In Poland, Hungary and the rest of the EU.
Append-only external disk, is there sth like that?

And one flips a hardware switch to start overwriting from the beginning, if disk full
A less intrusive approach could use kernel queues[0] on most Unix-like systems. This way, LD_PRELOAD would not need to be used and the process for responding to desired disk I/O is independent of the processes performing same.

0 - https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kqueue&apropos=0&s...
They are because being kicked out of the EU requires unanimous vote and hungary and poland just veto eachother into the EU. Nobody expected two states to become fascist at the same time when the EU was created.
Bulgaria is another notable outlier. Formal EU member, democracy by constitution, government officials relatively well respected in Brussels. Inside - autocratic regime with no division of powers, facade institutions serving the interest of the political oligarchy, no authentic political parties representing the interests of the wider population.
Can you clarify what you mean by “those” projects? Because this project is supposed to be about “everyone”:

>”Common Voice is part of Mozilla’s initiative to make voice recognition technologies better and more accessible for everyone.”

If people with speech/voice disorders are not represented in the dataset, then this is not inclusive of everyone.
Maybe we could start the revolution by doing away with the caps lock?
> perceptually slower

Well, interfaces are perceptually very different than they were in 1983 too...
Yes. It's mentioned near the end of the article.
Caste system is pervasive in India. It invades almost every religion in India over time. As an example, here’s what I wrote in another response.

This Jati is so pervasive in India that even the non-Hindu religions such as Sikhism and “Lingayat” which were explicitly formed to be away from the Hindu caste system couldn’t escape it. So we now have a few dozen Jati within Sikhism and Lingayats with an overly of Verna.
Won't these oil and gas companies simply hire their own developers to create software that they need? Doesn't that mean lots of development time will go into solving problems other projects have already solved? This seems like it could create competition, but it doesn't seem very likely to me that it would ultimately help the environment.

Perhaps the awareness it spreads has a greater impact than the rest of it.
"he's a hell of a leader, and he's a tough man, he's a strong man"

expect to see parallels.
Interesting, I always thought of fields as the interface to measure underlying particles interactions instead of the "base thing" itself. My reasoning was that since it was impossible to model effects from individual particles behavior, we were modeling the aggregate effect using fields, but underneath it was just "small objects" interactions.

Edit: reading the rest of the guide, I find it very enlightening and at the perfect level of complexity perfect for me (no formal maths since Uni 15 years ago).
Especially the "indirectly" part is probably something everyone can be guilty of if you search long enough.
So, a great license if you want no one to use whatever you write. No idea why you even bother licensing it then, but to each their own.
The "journalist" could have picked any two events. Picking these to make it seem there is causation without proof.
He said social media companies would be forced to appoint representatives in Turkey to respond to legal requests, which he said were currently ignored.

Presumably they will ignore this request as well.
I wonder where Stallman lies on this. 'There ought to be a law!!!' or his actual beliefs.
Tramp mode lets me do that with Emacs, and I get to keep my custom environment.
That is why I call that gambling and not investing.
Statement simply not true. First example is comparing offline interface to online one - more realistic comparison would be to something like first BBS's and the experience with those was generally insanely slow.

I didn't bother reading the rant because I think it doesn't make sense but is just personal "feeling" of the author. Objectively speaking computers are insanely faster and can do much more things. For exmple I use Sublime Text editor with multiple plugins and features, and all those feel instant. Also with web apps that I use 95% of time the experience is very instant-like.
So what would happen if, say, an Australian or Haitian converted to Hinduism? Or is that not possible?
Nope never heard of it. That is amazing.
It's just called "spoliation of evidence." The evidence is contrary to police claims, so they are destroying it. It's fine. We the people have backups for them now. No hiding it now.
It's always seemed to me that vim and other lightweight editors are most popular among people who are working in dynamic and functional languages, and heavyweight IDEs are most popular among people who are working in big, static, enterprisey OO languages like C++, Java and C#.

I don't think that's just a coincidence.
Using software covered by a license like this is the legal equivalent of Russian roulette.

Without precedence, nobody knows how “The Software may not be used in applications and services that are used for or
aid in the exploration, extraction, refinement, processing, or transportation
of fossil fuels.” would be interpreted in any of the thousands of different jurisdictions an online business could be sued in.

In the broadest interpretation, almost any business with a large customer base could be found in violation, because some customer has a customer that does something related to oil.

So while this license might be well intentioned, it would make any open source project that adopts it toxic to large corporations. That would cut off a lot of potential corporate support, and spawn forks and competing projects. Nothing good will come of this.
The drug that looked very promising for the last pandemic, yet turned out to have no benefit, and now looks very promising as a treatment for this pandemic...

Smells to me like someone in the remdesivir marketing department is doing very well... Are there any scientific studies that don't have vested interests and show it's a good treatment?
Right, but in this scenario Walmart is closed and the people want food.
Sounds like rachelbythebay.org?
What's to stop any Indian from changing their last name? Are there other sure-fire signs of caste status, other than name?
That's not what's happening here. There's as much proof as you can have without reading the mind of Erdogan. He had entire press conference where he referenced the attacks as justification for regulating social media.

"We experienced similar attacks in the past. The lack of monitoring on these platforms have a role in the rise of this sort of immoral behaviour. These platforms do not suit this country. We want these platforms to be banned, taken under control."

This also comes after arresting and detaining several social media users for tweeting the insults.
I've been working remotely for nearly 10 years now and I think it's a mistake to look for "remote" jobs. If you've got a strong skillset then most developer roles can be remote. If a company allows developers to work from home some days (which is most these days) then full remote is just a point of negotiation. I usually try to be as flexible as possible, offer to spend a couple of weeks on site in the beginning to get to know people (I prefer this actually) and make it clear that I can come over if there's team days and that sort of thing.

This has definitely gotten far easier over the last couple of years and I think post covid the trend will accelerate.
This Twitter thread explains in detail how the pharmaceutical pricing works: https://twitter.com/chimeracoder/status/1278041777883303936
Imagine going about your life like a normal person into your 40's or 50's, then one day deciding as the CEO of a company that you'd rather millions of people die than let your investors down or let your company go out of business.

I suppose there are fiduciary duty ramifications too that will potentially ruin your life, but still... one day you're a moral, law-abiding person, the next you're a mass murderer (by abstention).

And then you have to be able to sleep at night too.
Would it help Indian citizens to change their last name?
In a dictatorship, cracking down on social media is a no brainer. But I think social media undermines democracies as well.

Social media vastly amplifies loud minorities. Democracy assumes that the majority of people are reasonable, so majority rule will also be reasonable. Loud minorities undermine majority rule. Loud minorities have always existed, but social media is now amplifying them to the point of obscuring what the majority of the country actually wants. This is why we can have an election outcome that no one in the media predicted.

Add to that the fact that social media is highly game-able and scalable, and you have small groups of people working against the majority of the country.

Social media is also a prime playground for international enemies.

In that light, I'm moving away from the idea that all social media should be allowed, and seeing actions like this as something worth exploring. I hate imposing restrictions, but social media is a strange and unbelievably influential paradigm, which needs to be handled "like a weapon instead of some toy".
Don't know about 1983, but a lot of software is definitely slower than it was 10, 20 years ago.

Something that used to result in 2MB application with 5MB in memory requirement is now done as half a gigabyte of resources that will spawn dozens of processes totaling at least 1GB of memory. Sure, computers are faster, but not by that much apparently.

Looking at all those electron (et al) apps. Cheap to write beats user experience I guess.
What could Stallman possibly do to Microsoft that he hasn't been doing for his entire life? [1] [2]

He lives and breathes free software and arguably coined the term. If Microsoft deems Stallman a threat after 30 years of being heckled by him I would be very surprised. Additionally the developer community within Microsoft and outside Microsoft would become militant. A decision like erasing all GNU repos would punish thousands of people other than Stallman.

Additionally, Github's value is derived in part from how many people use it. Lots of people use it because it's trustworthy. When Microsoft took over Github there was a lot of skeptecism about MS$ maintaining impartiality. If they start throwing up red flags by taking down prominent open source repos and messing with Richard Stallman (the literal figurehead of open-source) they would be betraying open-source in general and the reprecussions would be swift. That was everyones biggest fear, and if Microsoft proved that fear true the exodus to other SCM platforms would be instant. Within a week there wouldn't be any worthwhile projects left on Github.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.en.html

[2] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/microsoft.en.html

[3] https://stallman.org/microsoft.html
So if I create a library that helps chemists predict how to do something 30% more efficiently, and I license it with this license, refineries won't be able to use it, even if they are trying to improve their current processes to make them more eco-friendly...
Wow, multiple mentions of open source in the comments, even a mention of Trac, but no mentions of Phabricator yet? It's the most modern and effective open source issue tracker I've seen so far, definitely worth a look if you value FOSS.

https://www.phacility.com/
The UN's annual budget isn't extraordinary, and it's certainly not the largest nonprofit of them all. As the very off-the-cuff numbers mentioned elsewhere in this thread hint at, the largest nonprofit in the world is probably involved in healthcare. (some very quick googling suggests the UN, the Gates Foundation, and the Kaiser Foundation all have annual budgets close to $3 billion, with Kaiser the highest at $3.5B)

It actually would be interesting to know how the UN addresses hiring and diversity in the companies they contract with, but their hiring is not a force that's going to move society in any direction.
It depends. GCC (the Google Closure Compiler) indeed does some transformations that will improve run-time performance, but it is not its forte, and definitely not its primary goal.

In the benchmarks of Scala.js [1], another compiler that uses GCC behind the scenes, we have shown that:

* the GCC optimizer alone often introduces performance improvements (not always, and sometimes it worsens performance)

* our optimizer does better than GCC on its own

* the combination of both does not improve over using only our own optimizer

Scala.js uses GCC essentially for its code size improvements, not for its impact on run-time performance.

[1] https://www.scala-js.org/doc/internals/performance.html#in-p...
The lack of utility is a valuable trait for a currency. If a one dollar steel coin can be turned into a 5 dollar tool, then why would you keep your steel in the form of coins? But if you are trading in manufactured goods, you are essentially just bartering.

Gold also benefits from its high density. If you are expecting 100 grams of money and have a scale that is accurate to 1 gram, someone can shave off .5 grams of material and convince you they are still giving you the full amount. The lighter money is, the more accurate your scales must be. On the other hand, making coins of the same material twice as heavy means using twice as much material: which both increases its bulkiness and cuts the number of coins in circulation in half. Making your coins from a dense material means you can have lots of small, easily carried coins instead of a smaller number of big bulky ones. Gold was the densest material known to antiquity and remains one of the densest materials on Earth.
Why $3000 for remdesivir is not an arbitrary number (thread)
Totally, I read about 10 lines and gave up becuase it's just a massive angry rant
Is this really a comment? That people should be racist towards Indians now?

How about white people being racist towards Asians, of which there are many more instances than the opposite. By your logic what we really need to do is not allow whites to live in the country.

You've taken a very half-baked understanding of caste-based dynamics and ran with it to create a whole immigration policy thesis. I really hope someone like you never ends up in power, for my own sake.
> the intention is ... to put a burden on them

Sounds like a great model to get people to use software.
No worries at all mate. My post is very tongue in cheek and should be taken lightly.

Although I work closely with many people in India I don't understand the caste system at all. So I'm just listening to the rest of the conversation and being informed.
Good. I always thought the stuff about letting weapons manufacturers and oil companies etc use OSS was rubbish. May there be many more of these licenses - perhaps ones stipulating gender balanced boards, or forbidding specific tax practices, or banning union busting.

I accept my downvotes gladly, because at this point anyone who wants to improve the world has to use any means at their disposal. Props to these people.
FYI: education in EE is actually pretty common for people in ML. The math needed for control and signal processing has a lot of overlap with ML, and many EE labs do research in ML. I don't agree with her responses to LeCun, but I don't think her education should impact her credibility.

Edit: If you read her bio, she received her PhD in CS, and it looks like she's published multiple papers on things other than social issues in ML. What are you even talking about?
Because each successive generation of programmers grows less efficient with the resources available.

A new programmer in 2020 probably treats RAM and CPU as near infinite resources. Hence you have super simple 2D games that are 900MB in size popping up in /r/Unity2D and webpages weighing in at 15 MB and, etc. They just don't know those are unreasonable sizes because they've never tried to make a 100KB game/website.
The real scandal is that the drug doesn't really work the well. But the government can certainly sell this as a victory, especially since Trump was accused for promoting chloroquine and now he has access to both competing "solutions".
Ensuring free software does not depend, for its maintenance and continued development, on non-free, closed software, and on companies whose profits are based on the licensing of such software, is not "purity policing", it's part of the essence of the project.

PS - Commerciality in itself is not the problem. Perhaps you should read about the GNU project's "philosophy" page to understand what it's about:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/
Last I read, the trial results for Remdesvir were disappointing. Much less encouraging that the trials using steroids. Is remdesvir actually that valuable?
Poor choice of words on my part. Should have said something like "easily-grasped value prop". You want a very short elevator pitch for what you do, that makes it clear what value you provide.

I think of Corey Quinn, whose pitch is "I fix your AWS bill." Short, easily-grasped, specific.
I call bullshit. The sort of attitude expressed in this thread is important, because it pushes us forward. The author identifies real UX shortcomings with current software. Nevertheless, the assertion that "almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983" is patently false, and the comparison between online maps and paper maps seems almost intentionally obtuse. Yes, online maps could have even more capability and better UX than they do today. No, it is not more difficult to conduct mapping activity today than it was in the 90s. (For instance, the example given about finding interesting places to stop along a route: the 90s equivalent of that would have been a book, separate from the map, not searchable, and full of things completely irrelevant to your interests. So yes, maybe putting a mark on a piece of paper is easier than doing it in online maps, but every other aspect of that process is way harder without the internet.)
Doesn’t LS let you block internet access per app per domain? At that level of control why would dns resolution bypass matter when I can still block the app from talking to any arbitrary IP?
agreed. The atmosphere license seems to have better wording "...materially and directly invested..."
> All I want from filesystem watcher is to track files by pattern and just re-run the command, however complex that may be to implement via OS interfaces.

I've had good luck with modd: https://github.com/cortesi/modd/

I just tested exactly what you described, did not see any errors, and it ran my commands exactly the way I wanted.
Zed Shaw is an idiot who was arguing that Python 3 is not turing complete not too long ago. His books contain plenty of terrible advice and should be avoided.
Apple forcing app developers to implement auto-billing after free trial
But Turkey is not a democracy?
> one of the things that makes me steaming mad is how the entire field of web apps ignores 100% of learned lessons from desktop apps

Unfortunately it's worse than ignoring. It's intentionally abandoning, after years of A/B tests optimizing for revenue have found a perceptual sweet spot. Sadly for people who care about fast UI that point is way up on the sluggishness scale...
Yes, like typing a message in Slack takes longer to render on screen (at least a half second delay in some cases) than typing the same message on a Commodore 64.
I can remember Slovakia not doing all too well either on these grounds but couldn't find any so perhaps I'm mistaken.
This is exceptionally important to mention, too.

Imagine "doing the right thing", and then people lamblasting you, upset at you, and even actively working against you.
Sufficiently fast evolution is indistinguishable from cancer.
Anyone else getting a CSRF error on Firefox?
Productivity principles most knowledge workers ignore
I've tried 4 ISP's in India, its loading on 3 of them, didn't load on jio. on one of the isp's, DUCK.com loaded but duckduckgo.com didn't.
I'm 23 and about half my friends have and actively use Facebook. It's dying, but not _that_ quick. FB owns Instagram too, which is far more popular with the younger crowd.
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Back in 1983, i/o was much, much slower... which slowed everything else down. Floppy drives, cassette recorders, 300 baud modems, etc.
This guy never used GEOS. :)

(Ok fair enough, apparently it was 1986, so 3 years later..)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system)
Exact text from the MIT variant:

"The Software may not be used in applications and services that are used for or
aid in the exploration, extraction, refinement, processing, or transportation
of fossil fuels.

The Software may not be used by companies that rely on fossil fuel extraction
as their primary means of revenue. This includes but is not limited to the
companies listed at https://climatestrike.software/blocklist"

I am not a trained lawyer but that seems pretty easy to understand to me, and has less ambiguity than some other open-source licenses I've read.