skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm opposed to it because in reality the interpretation of whether something fits that definition is going to fraught with issues and likely to result in the outlawing of anything that doesn't fit a right wing ideology. I'm particularly concerned because it's couched in language that deliberately denies the factual history of discrimination in America.

It's also particularly concerned because the phrase

>the United States is fundamentally racist or sexist

Is at best, a controversial political opinion and not a statement of fact. For example, crafting an executive order to ban people from discussing the systematic oppression of black people seems to me like the act of a fundamentally racist country, I guess I better not bid for any government contracts.
WFA and platforms make major progress to address harmful content
Every piece of enterprise software I have used is frustratingly bad and cumbersome. I have determined that the problem is because enterprise software is not written by the end user, whereas say, a smartphone operating system is inherently written by an end user. It’s not enough for the designer of software to have knowledge of the end use, they actually need to be a user to get it right.
Other languages are planned and are on the way, albeit w/o any hard deadlines - French, Italian, Polish, Czech
IIRC Rust was influenced more by OCaml than Haskell, but I could be wrong.

The article really rubbed me the wrong way with this tidbit

> (we don’t talk about Go…)

So since the author is speaking of "premier system’s language" we choose to ignore the world's premier cloud language? Interesting.
The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention (2018)
I don't get what you want to say.

You don't have to have full control over a complex dynamic system to wreak it.

Can you rephrase your argument?
Why Have Belarus and Other Eastern European Countries Seen Few Covid-19 Deaths?
What statement in the above isn't true (other than the numbers of course). "Most people don't care about most things, most of the time" seems pretty apt, especially for national politics.
The teaching of CRT isn't banned. You can teach CRT all you like, just don't expect taxpayer funds or government contracts.
The government shouldn't be funding racist ideologies or vendors who teach such ideology. CRT, in teaching what amounts to original sin, is at best reinforcing stereotypes and at worst is boldly racist.

I would not support an actual ban because it violates the first amendment. That doesn't mean we (taxpayers) should have to contribute to a divisive ideology.
I like the line from @sivers "Hell yes or no"

As you get older, your time becomes gold. You really have to focus on what is really most important to you.
>For anyone who does not know yet, STLWRT is the successor to GTK+ 2

...

>But after that's done, it'll be time to run a build of the whole thing and see how many megabytes of warnings and errors we get. The last time I ran a build, I got over 100 MB of errors and warnings!

This seems a little ambitious for something that doesn't build.

TIL though that MATE dropped GTK2 support 3 years ago: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/03/mate-1-18-desktop-releas...
I've read several articles / books on this topic lately. In short: it's not only you that's contemplating on the "good life", plenty is being researched and written about.
Our genes make it hard for us to be consistently content and happy. It seems like evolution may have given the slightly paranoid / always needing more genes an advantage for obvious reasons. One research even showed lottery prize winners aren't any happier 1 year after winning than average. So we're very good in experiencing contentment for short bursts and then it's back to our normal mental mode.
So a lot of it is genetic. Some you may be able to control with different techniques. Different things work for different people.
Have you been able to replace Notepad++ with UltraEdit? The column mode is superb. Also the way to remove trailing spaces ALT T G. etc.
It was 12 years ago.
...and is also a nice way to showcase Hungarian's ability to concatenate words, similar to German (it means "flood-proof mirror drilling machine").
There are some ways to mitigate some of the threats that you mention. Using Qubes or Whonix could prevent network access to other programs. The unencrypted requests can be blocked by turning on the EASE option in the HTTPS-Everywhere preferences. Tor doesn't have any way to protect against global adversaries performing timing analysis or attacks though.
If we disrupt the balance, after some time we will reach a different equilibrium state. It currently looks like we are going to cause a cascade of tipping points which will result in the earth reaching a new stable equalibrium called "Hothouse Earth" some 4-5 degree celsius above pre-industrial levels [1].

In such a climate, earth would possibly not be able to sustain a large multi-billion human population.

[1] https://phys.org/news/2018-08-earth-hothouse-state.html
I'm coming around to management being a key part of Mozilla's problem. Firefox did legitimately find itself in a situation even the best turnaround artist would struggle with, but the situation calls for self-sacrifice at the top when there's so much money available to experiment with new lines of business. Nobody would complain about Pocket if it was just one of an intentional and visible program to find a viable course away from depending on Google.

Pocket is fine. Pocket randomly appearing on the gunwale of the sinking ship to tell you how great it is while the crew takes the life rafts, not so much.
Is there any easy way to use those tax evasion schemes as a private preson with a lower income, too?
Which is kind of funny, because phrenology is literally:

> or (9) meritocracy or traits such as a hard work ethic are racist or sexist, or were created by a particular race to oppress another race.
A little browsing gives some really interesting details:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99063812/1918-10-2...

The Evening Herald., October 23, 1918, Image 1

"NO ARMISITICE 'TILL HUNS GO HOME"

Here an explanation for "Huns":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terms_used_for_Germans...

At the same page:

"INFLUENZA IS SPREADING IN MOST STATES"

"GET A MASK LIKE THIS"

"Get your mask right away and
wear it continuously. It may be the
means, not only of saving you from
an attack of the Influenza or some
other dreaded contagious disease
but may also save some of those with
whom you may come in contact."

More than 100 years ago.
I think it's more because it's not the end user buying the software, and the people that do don't choose the software that's best for the end user. I've worked on enterprise software and often there are lots of end-user feature improvements that we'd like to work on but get deprioritised because that's not what will allow us to sell the software.
Of all the ways to help this individual, letting “Jake” sleep at the office is absolutely, unequivocally, not an option.

OP is not just risking the lease. He or she is risking the business and the lives and livelihoods of all the employees.
My comment didn’t advocate for anything; I am not sure where you got that from.
Why Narcs Self-Sabotage Relationships?
i dont think her sex has anything to do with it. its a company culture thing.

in some cultures interrupting is necessary to get heard even at the slightest, while at others people will outcast you as a 'different to work with'.

in her next job, stuff might be totally different

i've been in both cultures.
You just defined "funding by the taxpayer". Since money is fungible, any monies paid toward vendors teaching CRT is defacto taxpayer funding.
CMake punishes you whenever you choose to do anything which in the configure/build step that is not blindigly obvious, adding friction to all the crazy stunts one might dream up.

This a language an evil genius might come up with while trying to do good.

Of course it sucks when you actually need something nontrivial.

Saying this as a heavy CMake user with a strong love and stronger hate relationship with it.
There is often multiple stories not related to tech or covid19 on the front page of HN... not sure what your point is.
(Not a direct reply to you)

If anyone likes the icons, doesn't like the float precision, and is in a Node environment, https://github.com/svg/svgo has a bunch of config options to help optimize SVGs. https://lean-svg.netlify.app/ is a site that lets you play with settings to see what kind of gains you can get.
From what I've heard, the locals didn't trick them. One captain apparently had to do his business in the bush and used the leaves to clean himself. He was just unaware.
A "compiler". I've never read anything about this being "compiled" in some sort, at least not before this. Interesting!

I think I understand how this works and can make my own solution even faster.

I thought memory bandwidth is a hard limit, but no!

I'm allowed to "cheat"! :D
Compiler error if these are ever instantiated/need to be monomorphised? The problem is that this is very unrustic by having the error be very non local.

But maybe this is unavoidable once you have sufficiently complex const fn anyway...
For users wanting to prevent their ISP from sniffing around then tor works as intended. Against advertisers it also work decently as a self cleaning browsers that constantly change its IP address.

For developers and sysadmins that want to get an outside look at their own services or investigate third party websites (like fraudulent lookalike) it work pretty effective with some caveats.

It also works mostly fine against national and ISP firewalls that is intended to censor citizens and lead people away from places which the state has declared unsuited for its population.

Against police force it seem to mostly work as a free tool that get used by criminals as something better than nothing, but with some larger caveats and the police have cases from time to time where they have identified criminals (from either good investigations or parallel constructions depending on who you ask). The tor browsers has also not been immune to malware.

Against national-level intelligence agency, "citizen scores", and whistleblowers employed within such agencies, the protection granted by tor may be very far from 100%. It is not recommended by anyone to depend on tor against that threat model.
Swift has no concept of fault tolerance. If you by mistake make an illegal array access, multiply two numbers that are too big or overflow your stack (which is limited to ridiculous 512KB on secondary threads), your app crashes and that's that. Apart from a horrible user experience (you don't even get a "nice" customised 500 error page, just a "Gateway timeout" or similar), your app is now offline for everyone.

What other backend language doesn't allow you to recover from errors? It is my understanding that even Haskell allows you to catch "error".

I developed a Swift server-side app (not with Vapor, but with Kitura - but the point still stands) for two years and this was one of the biggest issues, and despite ongoing discussions, it just has never been fixed.
>But as a CEO if you decide to wear your politics on your sleeve (which nobody forces you to)

So you have to shut up and kowtow to the popular opinion?

Society is going to weird places.
Nothing like canned replies for "setting culture".

> If no one has told you yet, as your career in tech progresses you will eventually become a “custodian of culture.”

Hope I never get to work with any of these custodians.
Yeah I agree with you, I'm not a native German speaker but I have a hard time with regional German dialects, especially in the South. You're correct though the trend is mostly the same it's very rare to hear the Berlin dialect but it does happen from time to time.
Have you read the executive order or the article?

From the article: "agencies are directed to initiate adverse action proceedings against managers who continue to hold CRT trainings"

This does not sound like a dispassionate funding policy change, more like an ideological purge of a set of ideas on which there is an ongoing debate across the country.
This is very similar to my experience. I moved from an apartment complex in a city, where everyone was - and wanted to be - anonymous to a village, where people are way more open and genuinely interested in each other. Quality over quantity.
Stopping by for a chat, coffee or beer, joining for a walk or bicycle ride, helping out or asking for help etc is something natural here, while in the city would have to be arranged days in advance.
It builds ,but the project is not yet complete. both gtk3 and gtk2 apps can be run under STLWRT. It is made to revert controversial Design changes that GTK3 brought which some opposed(and many liked).

https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/horrible-gtk3-gnome-ui-desig...

https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=59646#p59646
Libertarian ideas aren't racist. This is a false equivalence.
Well, if Brendan Eich stayed CEO of Mozilla, maybe we would now have a kind of firefox/brave mixed browser.

But instead, we can choose between Firefox, and Brave. 2 competitors for Chrome, from which users can choose. So, in the end, maybe it was for the best?
For context, there is a completely different plant affectionately known as "bushman's toilet paper" (an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachyglottis_repanda). It grows more or less in the same places as the Gympie Gympie (the plant referred to in this article).

An easy mistake to make, and a very, very dangerous one.
> CMake might be the best thing we have in C++

CMake is not the best build tool for C++, in a technical sense (pretty much every hash-DAG based tool like Qbs or Bazel is better), but it is the most common tool, which has little to do with merit.
> The problem is that a caste-based reservation did NOT eliminate caste-based bias, it amplified it.

Would love a believable citation (which means not from standard rightwing mouthpieces).

I can believe that it did not eliminate it. That's a tall task that will take time.
My understanding is that the general argument is that if we all require security for comedy browsing, the traffic of the people who require better security is better because it’s less conspicuous? See also declaring your personal pronouns as someone who thinks they will never be misgendered, or using Tor for normal browsing
> the basics of survival

How about medicine? Medical care in worse cases? Also, do you plan to have children? If so, how about child care and education?

I think there are other reasons for the complexity of human societies. (To say nothing of the military implications of having wealth and technology.)
CME, Nasdaq to Launch Water Futures Contract
That's fair. It's definitely not true. I considered changing the words but decided to keep probably since it is after all a more accurate statement (being a weaker assertion) and partly because it's more damning of his supporters I admit.
Son, you’re not going to get where you want to be until you resolve whatever lead you to find this thought important enough to write down in public.
I thought the wiki at least used to do this? Did they finally give up the pretense?
Firefox’s decline was already well in progress before anything changed with extensions. The problem was that Google’s ad profits allowed them to pour money into Chrome without needing the browser to be profitable, and their advertisements of Chrome on the most popular websites were hard to counter. Extensions weren’t moving the needle on that and, as many people involved have explained, the old design was a substantial maintenance cost preventing other important changes to remain competitive with Chrome.

The big question is whether there’s a model for browser development which isn’t subsidized by huge companies which profit elsewhere. Short of government support (antitrust, direct funding, etc.) I’m not sure there is a viable path forward.
Of course it says that he left. That's how business works. "We agreed upon parting ways, so XY can focus on other projects." It's never "we kicked his ass and threw his stuff out".
Yep, I think so. ;)

You're always 'in the' queue (or queuing) though, not 'on' it. So if you must call it a 'line' or a 'line-up', I sympathise most with 'in'.
If you have a link or other details I’m interested in who you’re referring to that hijacked/influenced development. I’ve never heard that and am really curious. I too really hope they can turn it around but sadly have been less and less hopeful.
"So we're very good in experiencing contentment for short bursts and then it's back to our normal mental mode." That is exactly what I've observed and experienced. Well said!
The reason is that encrypted websites are a bit harder to hack and inject malicious code into. In particular MITM attacks are much harder to pull off - such as those by airport/mall free wifis.

Using the latest version of TLS makes us safe from hacking.
>Funny you think giving gays and lesbians the same rights as everyone else in this country

I'm a straight, white male with a long-time significant other. We never got married because marriage is a religious ceremony, and we don't share those values (for example, the church's views on gay marriage). At least in my country, being married doesn't give a person any more "rights".
This is well understood and as like the rich and powerful in many places do, thought that the rules and laws do not apply to them and their maid (Parti) was too afraid to report them to the government.

In this case, they thought incorrectly and have been caught, exposed and worse.

However, I doubt that true justice (as in legal punishment of some sort) will ever be meted out to the rich and powerful family.
I think it is in our nature to strive for more. An interesting read about this phenomenon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill

We aren't made to be happy, only motivated
Yes, lets hurry up this extinction event.
I did not know I could do {001...999} with wget! wow!
>stopped considering questions in terms of my own preferences and started considering them in terms of how they would connect me to others

Feeling connection to others is one of your own preferences, ultimately you act in your own interest anyway.

The tricky part for me is to evaluate my preferences when they are in conflict and choose what is optimal.
I just finished reading the EO. (Instead of clicking through the images, read it directly at https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-or... .)

The EO doesn't abolish CRT.

The title of this HN link is click-bait for whackjobs who use outliers as representative of the entire concept.
For a good take on this topic I recommend the "The Art of the Good Life" by Rolf Dobelli.
2-3 years away in Musk-time so likely 5-6 years away in actual time. It’s pretty neat to see what the plans are but overall this is a big letdown. I was hoping some fundamental breakthrough in battery tech or just generally something other than “bigger economy of scale.”
Visx – low-level visualization components for React
Funny. I've basically done the same with UltraEdit. Although, when it comes to certain languages, I prefer to use the dedicated IDE. Especially if the GUI is involved. For .net, it's straight up Visual Studio. For Java, OpenBeans. And so on. I think VS Code will serve the same niche as the text editor + compiler crowd. IDEs are way too comfy to resist.
The movement itself became anti-intellectual in my opinion, the discussion around it has been a total crash aside from that. Tumblr teenager were just ahead of the times, as were their detractors.

"Whatever young people get off to these days" is the established norm throughout western societies for at least 40 years. There are exceptions, but I think everyone is pretty free to live their fanciest fantasies.

> women who are not heterosexual are pathologized.

I don't think so, even with all the jokes about lesbians. They still commit 100% of space crime, btw. Homosexuality will never be a literal norm because it isn't. But in westernized democracies it is just a matter of time until it is accepted.

Policies might need modernization. That regards child support, tax breaks for couples, ...

I think the actual problem for people engaged here is that there is little to fight for anymore with the result that advocates end up in some weird purity spiral.
Facebook used to offer a free Windows client through the Microsoft store. But it was essentially just a web browser locked to one site. They removed it a few months ago.
Needs a (2017).

"It turns out talking about diversity, inclusion, and even just basic civil behavior can be controversial in technical spaces. I don’t think it should be, but I don’t get to make the rules." Yep. The three worst topics on HN are racism, sexism, and religious beliefs, precisely because it turns out that a lot of folks hold these beliefs and do not want to let them go, even in supposedly-technical fora.

I think that part of the problem is the need to ask why certain cultural practices arise. After all, no cultural practice survives without some sort of practical use, even if it's minor and selfish. Therefore, upon being told that a particular arbitrary cultural practice is simply not done in a certain context, the natural thing to wonder is by what justification, by why, the practice is unacceptable.

I think that this is the main reason why we cannot talk about racism, sexism, nor religious beliefs without having to explain why such beliefs are disprovable and incompatible with our modern scientific and empirical view of the world. People need justifications in order to be comfortable expanding their minds.

"This sentence doesn’t push my morality on anyone. If they want to do whatever it is elsewhere, I’m not telling them not to. I’m just cluing them into the local culture and values." Uh, that's explicitly not the case. Morality is memetic and thus part of cultural values. A society might forbid playing in a river because it has a dangerous undertow; this directly leads to a moral lesson.

Own your morality. Admit to being moral. To have morals is to opine that folks ought to do or not to do some certain things. Allow yourself to be part of your local culture.
No. Systems are not just people. I know many organizations which have really good people, but completely toxic cultures due to systems.

Systems are things like checks-and-balances, incentive structures, power structures, organizational design, and conflict resolution structures.

The US didn't work better than Soviet Russia because it had better people, much as Americans would like to believe themselves superior. It worked better because it had better institutions, starting with a very well-drafted Constitution.

Given a 2020 context, those structures are starting to function less well. You won't fix them by asking politicians to behave better; you need to address the structural issues.
That's a shell feature, not wget's.
I agree that in smaller places such interactions happen more organically. But you are still bound to who happens to live in the vicinity.

In the big city I do have less interactions with neighbors, but on the other hand, whatever my interest is and however fringe, I will find likeminded people.

I reckon it depends a lot on how far away your interests are from the norm as well as which and what part of the city you are living. The neighborhood I'm in, people do spent quite a lot of time in the corner cafes, restaurants and park and are open to make new friends, instead of just leaving the apartment to go to work.
Yea you are right, purchasing software would present different challenges because you would have different types of users.

My frame of reference was for companies that design their own in-house software but it still sucks. I work at a large insurance company and our claim software was designed in-house and it is just the worst thing ever. Same experience when I worked at a large rental car company.