skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the British have a higher affinity for bitter tastes due to their own heightened levels of bitterness. Maybe it's the weather.

As a Brit, I resent that! And plenty else besides. And that's despite the brief window of nice weather we're now having.

Which, incidentally, is too hot, and is making many of us terribly bothered. Some of us even border on the flummoxed.

Still more incidentally, I personally don't have strong feelings on marmalade, but I have very strong feelings on the proper way to prepare a scone. This is an issue that divides my nation. I refer the reader to an article which is about as British as the mind can comfortably conceive:

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/quee...
This is a bit rich from a company that has undercut many markets by classifying its workers as independent contractors.

"I know we drove everyone that offered better pay and conditions out of the market, but now that we've done that we'd like the law tightened up so that same thing can't happen to us"
The -ing part of a place name is Saxon, from memory, something like "ingas" meaning "people of". So, People of Dork, literally, and whatever became Dork (a person/place/event) is probably lost to historical memory. We have an awful lot of places with "ing" in them around here, probably due to a lot of C7 Saxon settlement.
Disclosure: I contribute to the software mentionned next.

Definitely implement OpenTelemetry [0] instead of specific providers sdk even if promised to have better features. Lock-in is hard to escape when you need ship 2 features for yesterday. However OTel is quite young though (still not GA) so you'll feel some missing features (logs are still WIP for ex).

On the question of where to host the data, on the early days i would recommend to opt (if available) for your cloud platform products (Stackdriver for GCP for ex) since it will be easier to setup. Later on you will be able to easily switch to something better as your needs will evolve.

[0]: https://opentelemetry.io/
> when I asked my British university class what they had learned at school about colonisation, “Nothing really!” was the chorused reply.

I am not surprised.

For what it is worth, during my UK education I never really got taught any "general" history. There was no high-level history of the country, no general sequence of world events, no lists of kings and queens or which prime minister was in power when and so on.

History classes would instead pick some arbitrary time and location and then "deep dive" into that single subject for the entire school year - e.g. we covered the Russian revolution and only the Russian revolution for one entire school year. Other years it was The Normans, another it was the Great Depression.

History class seemed to be less about the actual history (i.e. facts), and more about the approach taken to scrutinise the sources for reliability/credibility and come up with your own judgement based on what you have available.
RMS is a brilliant mind and someone I have had the luxury of meeting.
Every now and then I like to look at his rider list and have a little chuckle: https://github.com/ddol/rre-rms/blob/master/rider.txt

I came across a site that just rotated pictures of him, using his laptop in some strange places: https://rms.sexy
Aussie here. Home made seville orange marmalade is the good stuff. Everything else is just gross orange sugar goop. If I wanted to spread flavoured sucrose onto my bread, there are much more appealing options like blackberry.

(And don't get me started about lime. Lime is the most overrated citrus.)
Free as in 4 freedoms.
> the colonization arguably could be a net positive for current and future generations

I think this is a misleading statement anyway, because it requires a comparison point. If it was to "no interaction at all with the colonial powers", then maybe? If it was to "free trade with the colonial powers", almost certainly not.

Even in the first case I say maybe, because who knows what their society would have looked like. It may have advanced more slowly, but maybe that would have left them with more natural resources, more culture in tact, different advancements that benefited them in different ways. The trade-off there is very unclear and just saying it would be a "net positive" is a massive leap to me.
(Disclaimer: I'm not British nor a native speaker and have no interest in claiming one side or the other)

When Edmund Hillary was born in Auckland (in 1919), New Zealdn was not yet independent, but a "Dominion" of the British Empire.

What would even be the best demonym to refer to anyone born in that dominion?
> Footnotes

> The word “free” in “free software” refers to freedom, not to price; the price paid for a copy of a free program may be zero, or small, or (rarely) quite large.
However they do not emit a warning if the assignment is parenthesized, like in the exploit. I think static analysis tools are the same, they would be way too chatty if they emitted warning for a parenthesized assignment.

Static analysis already has way too many false positives as it stands. For a well maintained code base the rate can easily be 100% false positives, which gets annoying after some time.
And anything used in construction has been heavily treated to resist water damage, so I wouldn't want to be near those fumes, let alone eat something cooked from them.
Obviously it is not just about information, but anything they can scrape bucks out of.

If it were a service they could copy, they would. Meaning probably your job as well.

So fine, they copy it and you are fine with it, you still offer a premium and theirs is a cheap copy and you have a business.

But in addition, to maximize profits, they also somehow prevent you selling your service. Like they did here by hiding visibility.

Meaning that they don't just offer same kind of thing, but prevent anyone buying anything but their own product.

And you will keep thinking this will happen to someone else, until it happens to you. It just starts from artists, writers, etc. whose work happens to be easy to copy with the current technology.
Don't see the poshness? Elaborate?
If a doctor says no, it's because of legal liability and risk to licence.

For the same reason, it's harder to hire some rando budget doctor because the field is gate-keeped by the requirement of a licence, and liability.

You can't magically make Engineering the same without the same conditions. Add barriers top entry that see my pay rise, or have cheap programmers with no liability.
I'll bite, since I wasn't around at the time and am not deeply attached to either, but have some thoughts none-the-less for sport. I'm going to "flip" several of your points and "reword" them from the perspective of a dirty NeXT sympathizer ;)

OpenStep was built on top of a then rather battle hardened Objective-C toolchain and "IDE" which had been in development since the 80s, and was an open standard that would target both the Mach OS, Solaris, and Windows NT.

Mach 2 always shipped with a full BSD kernel running as a server -- the modifications were such that BSD would request resources like memory and process time from the mach kernel. This is why for many years Mach based systems kicked the butts of other BSDs. While CSRG's BSD kept its awful virtual memory system from VAX that crapped out after 30-40 MB of address space, Mach's VM system was scalable and performant.

(Mach 3 and above were "more proper", and indeed Darwin's combination of OSF/1's Mach derivative and 4.4BSD-lite's kernel/userland was for performance reasons.)

Mach also gave NeXT a threading model, something absent from BSD. It is exploited by the objective-C framework and the driver layer natively.

https://src.paperfox.es/next.jpg

Because of its BSD roots, NeXT shipped with support for multiple users (something Haiku still lacks real support for to this day, with everything "Be" related stuck under a single user, although the underlying "not-unix-but-POSIX" layer does support it), and a mature BSD sockets library, along with its own (horrific, but there!) interpretation of domain services, NetInfo.

Be shipped with a pseudo-unix environment, with a fair amount of POSIX represented, and a bash shell and GNU utilities preinstalled, albeit lacking any concept of users or permissions...

And to me that's the kicker -- both OSes intentionally had "UNIX layers", Be's was just home-grown and lacked features compared to OpenStep's "4.4BSD but with patches and significantly enhanced resource handling" environment, with much greater software compatibility as a result.

NeXT had the advantage of being an older piece of software, with a much greater depth of "backwards compatibility" while also having a fairly well designed native framework with a well-represented stack of native software. If I was given some (ridiculous) mission of building <x> desktop OS from either BeOS R5's kernel/low level userland or some late release of Open/Rhapsody/Darwin, it'd be a no-brainer to me.

(as a final thought, it's curious you'd mention running a personal web server as an example, when the first web server was developed on NeXT)

(I also ignored Be's filesystem because it is, frankly, superior, however I believe it's not enough by itself to change the merit of the entire OS, since its value either depends on developer buy-in or how much utility it gives to the OS shell, and OS X implemented similar features within Finder using indexers and databases. Ugly, but if it works...)
I think that might be fair, but when she makes org came out it pitched itself as trust us we will take care of things, so yeah they don’t owe us anything but track record matters for trust in future ventures by these search engine orgs
Last I checked Red Hat was a for profit company not a commune.

Point being, Free Software doesn't talk about price. Most people who develop FOSS software do it as part of their dayjobs.
Nobody’s discussing an amendment here, at no point did they suggest it should remain unchanged, and concerns over interpretation apply to any future amendments anyways.

Picking up a gun you’ve found from the larger cultural war and shooting random commenters with it is fun, but quite inappropriate for HN from what I’ve seen of it.
I think you are not copying the terminating nul character.
Thanks for sharing. It seems the low ram usage is because the developers specifically care about it and only process each input file in chunks rather than preload it in its entirety and even provide options to monitor ram usage; typically multithreading or otherwise adding parallel processing to a pipeline rather increases ram usage rather than is a reason for it to decrease.
Footnote 1 of the article:
The word “free” in “free software” refers to freedom, not to price; the price paid for a copy of a free program may be zero, or small, or (rarely) quite large.
> Imagine if NYC had a baby with SV...

shudders
The biggest trends in African tech and startups in 2019
That much is obvious, every country extracts their resources. In this context "extraction-oriented" means extraction to a foreign power, ie building roads to ports and disregarding all other infrastructure needs that do not further the exportation of raw materials and goods to imperial ports.
Yes! This is what I'm thankful about on /r/science and HN. A few times I find an article and as a layman, do not really fully understand. I generally look to see if it has been submitted on /r/science or HN to see what people more knowledgeable than me say about the article.
> we support laws that could make that possible

> But America needs to change

He's not here to make a case for what Uber should do to make it better. He's asking for America to change the frame of reference so they can look better without actually changing a thing.

> you're using a get-out of employment rights to undercut other companies!

Uber and the media branded this as "disruption". Uber played by their own rules to get big. With that goal achieved and with no more need to keep running afoul, they're asking for their rules to become the official standard.
In Brazil's case, it was a colony for sugar extraction(and other farm products) and later gold extraction.

Sure, when oil extraction started, Brazil has not been a colony for a century but the extraction culture was there.

Still, without colonialism, Brazil wouldn't be a thing, there was pretty much no commerce there, unlike with some african areas
When was this written?
Advantages of Google Ads or PPC Campaigns for Your Online Business
Anti-trust q: how is celebrity net worth "your" business if ~100% of your users came from Google in the first place?

Seems to me, you're entitled to lock up the data behind a paywall, and Google is entitled to not send you its users. Google's users can switch search engines.m and some do, e.g. I use duckduckgo for incognito.

More to the point, how would regulating Google change any of this? Who would determine a fair price for every piece of information?

My sense: to the extent you don't care about the privacy impassioned of CNW, they're a legit value- added service. The exact economic value is somewhere between $0.01 per year and $100B. The free market can be cruel, but it's the best mechanism we have for price optimization.

Personally, I'd have pushed back on Google researchers and told them that we know our content is unique, and if they want accurate results, to consider entering into a legit partnership... for example, publish N year old data for free but require captcha/ToS (excluding search engines) for current data. Individual users may not care, but search engines will want the fresh stuff as a competitive matter.

Of course, this all assumes there isn't a second CNW competitor with good-enough data, offering it for less than CNW... and if less=free, then too bad CNW...

This to me is the weakest link in the CNW business: too easy to gather good enough data cheaply and there's not enough value beyond the basic number e.g. what's the breakdown of CelebrityXs NW, NW over time etc etc - very little market for this premium content.

Put another way, i could create a website called "what's the current time in Minsk?" but its economic value would be closer to $.01/yr because it's undifferentiated and there's no premium value, so search engines can and should just display the time.

Now let's take weather: in some places the weather is pretty easy (see LA Story, with Steve Martin)
and in others (cough nyc cough) the free feeds like NWS are crap and you never know whether to pack an umbrella. Accurate weather for NYC would be amazing value to millions of people and highly differentiated. The problem is that this data is super hard to get - even current data are often wrong! But if by some miracle you had this data, no way would i publish it - instead show that you've got the goods and license it. Google might play cheapskate but the weather apps would pay up and probably uber/lyft, the city of NY etc. Once you've got a few customers then approach Google: this data would be useful across the enterprise. You'd make a killing. But oh yeah, it's really freaking hard (unlike CNW).
For each of those examples, there are also positive social justice arguments if you look at them in different directions:

- Microsoft/GitHub's work with ICE [prevents illegal migration, saving those workers from a life of wage slavery]

- Google's China search engine [gives more information than otherwise would've been available]

- use of AI in military applications [can save lives by no longer bombing civilians where it can be avoided]
That may be technically true, but decoding sad encoding JSON without reading numbers as doubles is a special feature.
Apple Corps vs. Apple Computer
Freedom zero should be only for people.
Apple should provide them with beautiful logo suggestions that are designed to be further from their own logo.
I agree, the question is unfortunately in many of these cases. Will the lawsuits actually cost us billions, or will we get a slap on the wrist and actually be better off in the end if we take that hit. Because we can grow faster now.
See Google or Microsoft anti-trust.
We need some articles along the lines "A male artist...". You know, because equality cuts both ways. If you elevate one sex over the other, you're being sexist.

English is my second language and it has genderless nouns by default. That's enough if equality is really what you want.
I'd say it's impossible to administrate such a system in an objective manner. If you could administer it in an objective manner then you can quantify and formalize it.

A point system doesn't mean the parameters are well chosen but by it's very definition it's more fair then an interview without any formal requirements.
In this context "extraction-oriented" means extraction to a foreign power, ie building roads to ports and disregarding all other infrastructure needs that do not further the exportation of raw materials and goods to imperial ports.

Of course Brazil, Australia and Norway export their goods, but they also build other infra needed by their citizens. Colonizers, not so much.
pedophile says what
Started with react but never got into it enough to finish anything production-ready. Then get hooked up with the Vue and now working with it for like 4 years now.

I've even wrote a note about it: https://lukaszkups.net/notes/thanks-to-vuejs-ive-found-front...
Man serving life sentence for $30 marijuana sale to be freed
Isn't Stallman a major creep? Can we stop taking shitty people seriously?
I sincerely doubt it, as there are celebrated British comedians of various ethnicities, for instance Romesh Ranganathan.
> Last I checked Red Hat was a for profit company not a commune.

Last I checked Red Hat was bought by IBM and everyone with half a brain was bailing out.
...And that's where torrent sites and government blocks come in.

I mean, UK's move against porn is even bolder, but I doubt it that Tor handles video well.
While I'm not sure I fully agree with his arguments, it is funny that he has a section in his article titled "Why don't you move to Russia"
I feel as that I should be offended, but then I realise the statement might have a sliver of truth in it.
The CCP will put you in an "education camp" if you don't agree with their ideas. Survivors from these camps are present all over the world, it is no secret - neither their existence, or how they work.

As an old Chinese man said, "love, ideals, loyalty, none of that matters anymore once your food is taken away." You _will_ report your family as traitors if that's what is standing between you and starvation.

We must never excuse the horrors going on in China, and we must always recognize that civil unrest is always the symptom, never the disease.
The Antichrist, what the Bible says
Europeans were the first to gain the ability to project power on a global scale and thus became the colonisers. There is a borderline racist trend in some parts of academia to frame colonialism as being a consequence of the inherent value system of white Europeans - but while it is true that racist and chauvinistic attitudes were used to defend colonialism, I think it is fairly certain that had Africans been the first to develop the ability to administrate a state across oceans then we could be living in a world now where England, Italy, and Denmark are struggling to reclaim their respective identities and sovereignty after only recently gaining freedom from their Yoruba and Kongo oppressors.
gates has one qualification: he's rich. that's enough for a lot of people to assume he's right about everything.
IEEE Spectrum: Python is the top programming language of 2020
I think this is why there are parantheses around current->uid = 0. gcc has the option -Wparentheses, which gives a warning if you write something like this:

if (a = b) doSomething;

But there is no warning if you write it like this:

if ((a = b)) doSomething;

The convention is that with these unneeded parantheses, you are signalling that you actually want the assignment here. I would assume other static code analysis tools use this convention as well.
Seperate the text from the author. Just because you don't like the author doesn't mean that everything produced is automatically shit.
As much as I respect his ideas, god he is cringeworthy.
I have (as far as I can tell) truly unlimited, including tethering. When we had trouble getting a fast connection to the house, for a couple of months we just hooked up my phone to the router and burned through 100GB+ per month, with not a squeak from the provider.

These deals seem to be getting more common here in the UK, and I pay around £20 per month for it.
Looking Back at the S Pen’s History of Innovation
"(current_euid() is a macro but it's written to not be a permitted lvalue)"

I'm not an expert at C. I followed up on this kernel macro out of curiosity, and it was a confusing learning experience because it turns out the forbidden assignment

({ x; }) = y;

is silently permitted by GCC (for example, with -Wall --std={c99,c11,c18}), and does actually assign x=y. Even though that's expressly prohibited by the C standard (-Wpedantic).

I assume this is old news to C programmers, but its insidiousness surprised me.
The word slave actually comes from Slav
DoingIsLearning blatantly admits to eating "foreign" food and from more than one country! Perhaps not being from the UK is no excuse! ;-)
Also, whole burying fish may be logically obvious in this case, it is almost never the correct move in any other situation. Actions that defy common sense can be really difficult to commit, particularly in times when the stakes seem high. What if they buried it, the world was ending, and they somehow needed all that food? It's an easier call to make here than it was there.
I think there will always be a discrepancy. Same with the beauty industry that failed to attract men proportionally. It grows for men, but not to a degree some articles would suggest year after year. Doesn't work anyway, look at people above 60 and the men don't look worse than women.

Nobody wants to look bad, but there are different degrees of effort people put into it.

That aside, I think retail will still suffer greatly compared to online sales since most have a service to send back clothing for free.
> there wouldn't be any risk for any executive

This isn't a real problem. I take it you have never worked outside of software. You don't need a law license to be the business manager of a major law firm or a medical license to manage a large hospital network. How often does such problems occur in major law firms or large hospital networks?

In other words this is a hypothetical complaint of some future condition that doesn't exist in order to avoid accepting responsibility in the present.

EDIT:

Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes%E2%80%93Oxley_Act
Let's see if the history turns around and another state(i.e China) saves millions of lives in a potential invasion of the USA
The Japanese Nuclear Commission had the following goals set in 2003:

> The mean value of acute fatality risk by radiation exposure resultant from an accident of a nuclear installation to individuals of the public, who live in the vicinity of the site boundary of the nuclear installation, should not exceed the probability of about 1×10^6 per year (that is, at least 1 per million years)

Their one in a million-year accident occurred about 8 years later.

You can't trust theoretically derived probabilities, such as those used when discussing the safety of the nuclear field for which the effective track record is only 70 years.
The main thing I still hate about anything that's not a wire transfer is the transfer limits, doubly true in all the fintech apps.

Hey here is this arbitrary limit for "security" purposes! Not good enough? Well now listen to this low level banker and customer support person make up a fake anti-money laundering law on the fly! We are still left wondering why the compliance team interpreted actual laws so ridiculously, or maybe this institution is just insolvent. Oh great, the entire population is also brainwashed to stigmatize ever having any actual money to transfer, can't talk to them about it either.