skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Establish an initiate like ‘Ruby Together’

> Ruby Together is a grassroots initiative committed to supporting the critical Ruby infrastructure you rely on.

> Your financial backing allows Ruby Together to pay expert, professional developers to work on improving critical infrastructure projects.

> The Ruby Together board of directors, elected by members, selects the most impactful projects to fund.

> Ruby Together publishes monthly updates showing progress and our proven results.

It brings together companies and individuals concerned about stability and health of the ecosystem, provides a aggregated place to do high impact sponsorship of the ecosystem and the elected board then sets about making a detailed workplan and working out the best distribution of funds.

One dev on lodash? Discuss its importance; offer the dev funds to keep things up-to-date and if not them, have the resources to work out another way.

Check out their early reports to get a better idea of the initial refactoring work they did within the ecosystem.

https://rubytogether.org/
I don't know a ton about jesters historically, but in Shakespeare and in contemporary fiction (Robin Hobb's Fitz and the Fool comes to mind), the jester is one of the few characters who says the things that aren't socially acceptable, and since it's a "joke," the criticism isn't cause for offense.
> the right of a state to remove itself from the union that it had voluntarily entered.

Funnily enough, CSA's constitution not-quite-explicitly didn't grant the Confederate states that right.

I have yet to find a "state's right" that the CSA argued for that they didn't then refuse to grant to their own states.
I've realised the simple things: good diet, restful sleep, ample sunlight, a little exercise, and nourishing friends make a TON of difference, more than any of the things listed.
That comment wasn't even the original. It's a repost of a comment from 2012, and the discussion the original one sparked is worth reading.

https://www.reddit.com/r/circlebroke/comments/3tsd5o/south_p...
> If a game explicitly banned players from creating characters that look like black people, would you still make that comment?

YES! Without a shadow of a doubt I would. In the most extreme case I might say "Wow, very disappointing, I won't be purchasing any more titles from that publisher" and that'd be the end of it, I certainly wouldn't regard it as newsworthy discussion except in a gaming forum.

I'd also add that for the vast majority of gaming history, the vast majority of games do NOT allow you to create black characters, and while I've heard activists decry the lack of inclusion, I've never seen the lack of black characters in a specific video game title presented as a news story.
Microsoft has perfected being both boneheaded and nefarious simultaneously.
The 1893 version that is in public domain (and linked here above) of RRO is actually surprisingly short and readable. The version that has become such a big tome after all these years since, that is still held in copyright by Robert's heirs, hasn't diverged much and while it answers/fixes some edge cases and adds some procedures that may be of use to modern meetings, you can run meetings pretty well today with 1893 version and have everyone read it.

> (so large that you would rather do anything than separately ask everyone for their opinion or even their vote on a matter... the "voice vote" mechanisms are thereby designed to try to shortcut real votes)

My brief time as a parliamentarian for college meetings suggested the opposite is true: voice votes (yea/nay) on the question are a great shortcut for small meetings when you can trust volume is count rather than emotion (and only need to ask "all those in favor? [aye]" and "all those opposed? [nay]"), but gets unwieldy fast in larger meetings where you either have to the ask the question individually to each member in a voice count one at a time or switch to a hand or ballot count.

RRO, from my reading, was built to cover the gamut of small meetings and large meetings, it wasn't focused on one or the other, and most procedures (especially in later versions) are as much about splitting large meetings into smaller sub-meetings as anything else because smaller meetings will always be easier to manage and faster to run.
>Jews (that abuse Palestinians)

I'm not 100% sure that the Jewish religion can be associated with Israeli foreign policy. Israel would be fighting with Palestine whether any Jewish believers lived there or not.
Depends who you ask. Some might say toxic expressions. Others might say people who declaim toxic expressions. Clearly MS has the latter goal in mind.

I can imagine a very reasonable argument for this. Someone who puts a Confederate flag on their car seems highly likely to engage in other toxic behaviors. Just like someone who calls someone a nigger once is likely to do it again. So we use the behaviors as a signal of underlying tendency. We don't want people who have this tendency on the platform because they will tend to make life worse for other users, and the loss of their business hurts us less than we gain from other people feeling more comfortable. Therefore we ban them.
Bouncing the noises.
In C++, you get an error at runtime: https://godbolt.org/z/C_JFez

Note though that C++ allows using enums as bitfields, so some form of loading non-enumerated values has to be allowed.
Fun facts: Helmholtz Resonators [1] are used all over industry and in aerospace to do just this. For instance the shroud around a high bypass turbo fan will have a honeycomb sandwich layer with precise holes in the middle of each cell to create an array of resonators tuned to cancel out specific frequencies.

My favorite application similar but different from what you’re describing from antiquity is the acoustical effect of certain Mayan and Aztec pyramids. Here’s a video[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz_resonance

[2] https://youtube.com/watch?v=wsMGCF_pS-M
Not a fan of any of the big tech companies, but Apple needs to be applauded for this feature. Can't wait to see how many such behavior is exposed by iOS 14
Wish lisp have these like jupyter integration.

And my first computer lecture many decades ago is really about how he hated fortran and why FORTRAN is still not dead (Mainly negative view due to haveGOTO that time). And it is still not dead.
I wrote some code to do this in high school when I couldn't figure out SQL. Then I learned why databases exist.
I left my last company because one of my co-devs would always do crazy hack-job things, and when I complained to them or higher-ups, the excuse was:

< "Well all the work was already developed, and it would take too much time to rewrite it. You should have said something earlier"
> "When?" I asked, considering she had just put up the (big) PR's and PR's ARE the time to review...
< "Check her commits as she pushes them to the repo" - as in her bugfix/feature branches, not master...

My jaw dropped. Especially since I was hired on as "Lead" and had all the accountability but no actual power.
Yeah, I tend to agree. There seems like there'd be a ton of noise in clipboard content to actually make use of it.
The cutoff point for reposts is about a year, so it's good that you didn't see them and then not post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
From my point of view, government is far less accountable than a typical private corporation. Voting is occasional and highly manipulatable. The same people shuffle around different posts. It can compel revenue through pointing guns at people and locking them up in cages.

It's not like a business that has to meet payroll to survive by attracting customers. That's accountability.
I dont think its interesting in itself so much as in applications. I remember talking to someone once who was working on a project where you stick a probe in some soil, and then it uses wikidata to tell you the best type of plant to grow. I have no idea whatever happened to this project, if it worked or not - but it always struck me as a great example of the enabling value of wikidata - that you can use it to power ideas totally unrelated to the original purpose the data was collected for.
If it's the case that some people are flying that flag who genuinely do not know the recent history of it (it was introduced in the late 1940s by the Dixiecrat party to symbolize their opposition to integration and the civil rights movement), then informing them of that history would surely cause them to immediately take it down.

One could even argue that it's at best negligent to fly a flag without knowing the most basic history of its symbolism, but if that's really what's going on, then surely it wouldn't be hard to educate all these people who are unintentionally flying the flag.
The 737 is pretty versatile though. It's limitation is capacity and perhaps range. Range has been improved over the years allowing a lot of medium-range thin-capacity flights. The 737, 777 and 787 combined have eliminated the need for the 747, 757 and 767.

The classics have mostly or entirely been retired, with the most common models being the -700 and -800. The family has enough flexibility to evolve in range without needing a completely new family. The 737 still has its place as the short to medium haul work horse, so I don't see it going anywhere for a long time.
Swastika is a symbol of prosperity in Hindu culture for hundred of years. It doesn't seem right to ban it because Nazi used it for their doings.
The city hired a non-profit to manage the park. The vast majority of funds spent in Central Park come from the taxpayer. The main reason for the setup is so that the city will have plausible deniability when rich people want to use part of the park for their own endeavors (weddings, galas, etc.). You certainly aren't pretending that Central Park is some sort of privately provided amenity, are you?
I think the legalese should be taken seriously!

For instance, we can draw a comparison to recent controversy with social media platforms. Do you think that social media platforms should be able to remove any content on their platform, regardless of legality? I believe that they can! Otherwise objectionable is hopefully that catch all.

I view the OP as a bit of a misguided test. The blog post, in all likelihood, will remain up. The control the authour speaks of will still remain in the cloud provider's hands.
If you have access to the email account, you have access to the linkedin account (via a password reset). The security argument is entirely baseless.
I'm still regularly refactoring code I initially wrote 35 years ago. https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/11301
Yes I believe slavery was the straw that broke the camel’s back but it wasn’t the primary factor of conflict. Slavery and protecting the property of rich plantation owners was not the reason poor southern kids were fighting and killing their own family members. To completely dismiss the more prominent factors at play including states rights as “historical revisionism” is itself historical revisionism.
The lifecycle impact of a 747 is much worse than a 737 or an Embraer 145: https://escholarship.org/content/qt6m5865v5/qt6m5865v5.pdf

Regardless of the plane size however, there's no getting around planes depositing pollution in the upper atmosphere is worse than we thought and cannot be thought of in the same way as emissions from a train or power plant: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2207886-it-turns-out-pl...
He took "What I cannot create, I do not understand" to a whole new level.
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Maybe people are holding Parler to a lower standard?
This is a very romantic idea of it. There are always limits, and if you think those limits were the same strictness for the people the court loved as for those they hated or thought beneath them, I have a bridge to sell you.
Very insightful, please share more.

I agree upon what you are saying, and would love to know what active steps I could take to fill my days with deeper feelings and make them meaningful.

As far as the article is concerned, I do concur with his analysis, especially about mindfulness, and CBT. I have practiced mindfulness and it does keep me stable, grounded, sharp and happy.
Even if my personal account was in an Estonian bank?
It's magic but the SparQL language is very hard to learn.
Hey! I just saw this and thought I'd follow up for posterity's sake in case anyone else came across this.

This gets into how we want to define "diffing", but I would say no, no there's not any diffing on the body, manual or otherwise. Per the linked section:

"Before each render, Turbolinks matches all permanent elements by id and transfers them from the original page to the new page, preserving their data and event listeners."

So, at no point is it attempting to determine a difference between two pages. Instead, it simply queries for appropriately tagged elements (from the source code, 'this.bodyElement.querySelectorAll("[id][data-turbolinks-permanent]') and copies those over to the next page.

Thus, it's declarative rather than algorithmic and not what I would consider "diffing" at all. In this context, the parent to my comment stated it's "still having to diff just like react/vdom", which certainly isn't the case.

Cheers!
Or they need to be lambasted for not making it a permission like it should be.
Apple suddenly catches TikTok secretly spying on millions of iPhone users
You are underestimating the impact of that choice on language design. When Java was designed, garbage collection was one of the major features, and almost all languages with GC were either interpreted or using a VM. Static native binaries with GC and goroutines is something relatively unusual in the design space. I can think of OCaml and Haskell doing something similar for example.
Those transformations are not allowed in every situation. Usually they are only possible because of aggressive inlining that eliminates function borders. Once you cross multiple functions after optimization escape analysis is unlikely to work out. The best thing you could perhaps do is add optional restrictions that make escape analysis easier. The end result would be something very similar to the borrow checker in Rust. However, it would be much easier to not rely on escape analysis and just add value type semantics directly into the language.
There's an old photo taken in 1894 of a Native American girl smiling - her modern seeming expression makes the photo seem like it was taken yesterday.

It really changes my impression of what the late 1800's were like - it makes me think that they were more like me and less like a stodgy caricature.

https://mymodernmet.com/smiling-19th-century-photograph/

I suspect that modern video will humanize us to posterity.
> Respectfully, without a place to read about the intimidation tactic of statues, I'm not sure that I put much weight in it.

Five seconds of googling yielded several results from when this was last discussed in a major way, in 2017:

NPR piece includes a chart of dates for confederacy iconography: https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544266880/confederate-statues...

HuffPo piece says it was never about "history and culture": https://www.huffpost.com/entry/confederate-monuments-history...

Vox talks a bit about the process:

"But the story of the monuments is even stranger than many people realize. Few if any of the monuments went through any of the approval procedures that we now commonly apply to public art. Typically, groups like the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), which claimed to represent local community sentiment (whether they did or did not), funded, erected, and dedicated the monuments. As a consequence, contemporaries, especially African Americans, who objected to the erection of monuments had no realistic opportunity to voice their opposition."

See: https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/8/18/16165160/confeder...

And then some newer pieces:

https://www.history.com/news/how-the-u-s-got-so-many-confede...

https://www.wral.com/confederate-monuments-were-meant-to-int...
I haven't heard of that, but those hearing aids aren't anything special w/r/t shape or size. They're using the same batteries as other hearing aids. I'm sure they're getting their cost savings somewhere else.

See this photo: https://www.listenlively.com/_next/static/images/rechargeabl...

They claim to be "invisible", but what they really mean is that the tube from the aid to the ear is really thin and transparent, and the aid itself is skin-toned. But it's not invisible, anyone can see it, and it's still big! (though light-years smaller than they were in the 90s...)

First, a clarification. There are in-the-ear hearing aids and over-the-ear hearing aids. The difference is usually one of power. An in-the-ear hearing aid is usually for older people with minor hearing loss. Someone like me that is profoundly deaf or with a severe hearing loss needs more powerful amplification. More power == more energy, and more energy == bigger batteries. That means that we need an over-the-ear hearing aid, like the one in the image above.

The size factor for over-the-ear aids isn't due to design, but rather to the battery. The battery is the biggest part! They're this big: https://helpingmehear.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/hearing...

This means the aid cannot be ANY SMALLER than the battery.

If we could eliminate the battery entirely and rely on some other energy store, then the size of the aid could be slimmed down to almost flat.

The other problem with batteries is that batteries need to be changed when they die. My battery lasts somewhere between 7-9 days before it dies. If we were to use a smaller battery than the image above, it would die even more often. And trust me, it SUCKS to be mid-conversation when a battery dies... and it sucks even more if you didn't have any batteries with you and now you have to run to a local pharmacy to buy some, and you're trying to communicate with a cashier or whatever while completely deaf... Oof... But I digress... :)

Anyway! So the dream, as it were, is to create a battery-less aid that can run off body heat or something magical like that.
This is so depressing to read.

I'm a self-taught developer with no professional experience, but for over a year I learned everything I needed to know to build a massive web application to fulfill my own need: a collaborative annotation wiki. I poured my freaking heart into it and could never get a single user.

I drew on Jimmy Wales' experiences founding Wikipedia for a lot of inspiration. But got nowhere near the traction he got. As in, I got zero users after nine months since launch. Now it's largely a portfolio piece as I try to search for a real job in tech, by leveraging the 14,000 lines of code in Python/Flask to prove that I know how to develop an app. ( https://anno.wiki is the url if you're curious).

I can only hope that the real reasons I haven't gained traction are that (a) the interface just isn't welcoming enough (I tried too hard to do progressive enhancement with almost no experience in UX) and (b) simply not advertising. After a nine month break I'm getting ready to start re-developing a new front end in React to maybe make it more welcoming to non-techie lit nerds, and then maybe target advertise on Facebook, but I just don't know.

My deepest fear is just that the web is not an interesting place anymore, and Wikipedia just wouldn't get a foothold now, and that's why I can't. I just don't know.
Inline JavaScript in HTML: Don’t do it, unless you like bad code
I have no actual idea about the state of the AI industry, but I was under the impression IBM was doing pretty well there, as well as in quantum computing R&D. But that's based largely on the obvious products they provide in those fields.

I don't think I'd miss Oracle if they ceased to exist tomorrow, though. Aside from VirtualBox.
>Intel has paraded its new ‘Lakefield’ processor design around the press and the public as a paragon of new processor innovation. Inside, Intel pairs one of its fast peak performance cores with four of its lower power efficient cores,

This is Intel in a nutshell. That was an innovation ARM made a decade ago. So why in the hell is Intel marketing touting it as Intel innovation. They clearly have some understanding of their customer base as morons. The atom cores are basically an expensive failure, doing a bad job of immmitating their larger cousins and a great job of reminding everyone that Intel hasn't designed a new CPU architecture since Itanium.
> strongest theme by far

Such perceptions are notoriously unreliable. People notice different things and weight them differently, based mostly on what they dislike: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... Since everyone dislikes different things, everyone has a different weighted average, each reflecting their own preferences. In other words they are in the eye of the beholder, which explains why people come up with such wildly contradictory generalizations about HN.

From my perspective, that's the strongest theme by far. Does my argument apply to my own perception? For sure. It has to.
Apple, make clipboard access a permission already.
In games they allow them since 2018 only: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45142651
Meanwhile as an indie dev I can't sleep because of GDPR... Hah, my shoulder just started ticking. :>
Responding to COVID-19 with big data analytics
'Codecademy for VCs' launches
The old order changeth to make way for the new: the era of Starships.
Nothing could be further from the truth. It first started as a battle flag during the Civil War. Then in 1948 the Dixiecrats reintroduced it as a symbol of their opposition to integration and the civil rights movement.

If it's being used now by people intending it to represent regional pride who are simply unaware of its history (which I find unlikely, but a lot of people are claiming that), then all it should take to convince them to take down their flags is to share that history with them.
These are rules specifically written for selective enforcement on case by case basis.
What I love is Reid Hoffman then going on about that move like he invented the fucking wheel. Like congrats, you stole some e-mail addresses and spammed them...you are now a genius growth expert? Joker.

His book is also staggering insight into how little ability he has an executive and investor (some of the stuff is intern-level mistakes, like maybe juniors who are in their first week and got the job because of daddy...but even then...rare).
Ambiguity, probability, and conflict can themselves be modeled.

As long as participants agree on something resembling a common reality, they should at least be able to agree that there is a disagreement.
Not only that but 747s are often doing transarctic travel, dropping soot on the arctic ice.
That might be technically true if you consider woke cancel culture as a single entity and compare it individually to each of the 200-ish less-than-median-size countries (and is definitely (technically) true if you count each state/province/city/county/etc government), but we don't actually care about the average government, we care about the governments that are the biggest threat to honest people, like America, Russia, and China.
Allowing it legitimises the racist ideas.

Yet racist aggressors have legitimised many horrors through victimhood.