skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Judith Butler on culture war, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”
"One side fits all" :-)
> All it does is open websites

This... sounds good to me?
Yeah of course, if I'm already in the process of acquiring some skill, willing to do all the exercises, look up what I don't understand somewhere else, etc., I will learn that skill and the book will help and be a good foundation or guideline.

But the point remains: Just reading the book, as in consuming page after page, is not enough.
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>Don't judge a loose movement as a whole against the standards of some members. And it is perfectly fine to advocate for an ambitious position even if it is not yet achieved.

Not just some members, but the founder members and in fact the organisation that they set up to promote free software, the FSF, which campaigns on the basis that non-free software is "An exercise of unjust power".

As for not yet achieved, the free software movement was founded in 1984. Richard Stallman was celebrating the achievements of 15 years of free software back in 1999.

I'm sorry, but your conflation of Open Source with Free Software would appall Stallman and the FSF who go to great lengths to emphasise that FLOSS is quite separate and has had a very specific meaning right from the start.
The executive order can also be found here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-or...

The core of the EO seems to be the following passage. For those who are opposed to this, could you please explain why?

all Government contracting agencies shall include in every Government contract hereafter entered into the following provisions:

“During the performance of this contract, the contractor agrees as follows:

1. The contractor shall not use any workplace training that inculcates in its employees any form of race or sex stereotyping or any form of race or sex scapegoating, including the concepts that (a) one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex; (b) an individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously; (c) an individual should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment solely or partly because of his or her race or sex; (d) members of one race or sex cannot and should not attempt to treat others without respect to race or sex; (e) an individual’s moral character is necessarily determined by his or her race or sex; (f) an individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, bears responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex; (g) any individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race or sex; or (h) meritocracy or traits such as a hard work ethic are racist or sexist, or were created by a particular race to oppress another race. The term “race or sex stereotyping” means ascribing character traits, values, moral and ethical codes, privileges, status, or beliefs to a race or sex, or to an individual because of his or her race or sex, and the term “race or sex scapegoating” means assigning fault, blame, or bias to a race or sex, or to members of a race or sex because of their race or sex.
Should social networks tell you if you’ve been following a fake account?
That’s how you know it’s performative wokeness.

There should be more uproar about an indefensible salary like that but the CEO is a woman with asymmetric hair and conformist opinions.
> It sounds like you're arguing that Mozilla could attract a more competent CEO while paying them much less.

The current CEO is well remunerated and seems by many popular accounts to lack competence, so this seems like a relatively low bar as bars go.

> How?

Hiring competent staff at any level is a challenge and depends on many things; there's no magic bullet. I at no point argued that hiring a competent CEO was easy, just that linking salary to competence as part of that hiring process is a faulty metric.

I'd say refining any hiring process by removing faulty metrics would be a good thing. Wouldn't you agree?
I'm confused, the article seems to be actually asking the question. "It varies" is brought up multiple times, but that doesen't exactly help outlining how we would be able to define minimally good life.

It also asks whether a reasonable, caring and free person would trade places with the worst off, which I'd find very unlikely. What you can realistically do about it is unknown.
Looking at from the other side of the globe, as a non-american. I get the impression that in silicon valley, technology is all about skin color, what you have between your legs and what you want to do with what you have between you legs - end of story. Those are the really important bit. Everything else is just the details.

It looks like pure politics, keep conservatives out and keep liberals in. His fault wasn't the donation. His fault was being outed as a conservative.

I think someone should try wearing a trump hat to work at a technology company for a week and see how long they last in the organization.
> What is to stop someone from borrowing slightly further beyond their means than you?

In Europe, banking laws.
Jordan Peterson railed against a guideline that, from what I understand, had no consequences to him. He blew it up as if he was being persecuted but the actual law was just “hey please consider using people’s preferred pronouns”.
There are also German and Spanish models. Great!
You might want to put these on nounproject.com, where people can find them and you'll get royalties for their use.
I have the excact opposite experience. The closer you live, the more people protect their privacy sphere around them and more often avoid real connections with people they run into, like neighbors. After we moved from living close in the city to outside the city limits, with way more space around us, we went from "hello" when meeting a neighbor to now stopping up and talking for real and taking a real interest in eachother, helping eachother out, etc.
Waterfox is a decent de-Mozzila'd fork of Firefox
An “instagram” inspired Linux theme is underrated, but why?
Those ideas look solid. It will require the board to make some critical decisions and there has to be a person for the moment. Do we have the analog to Steve Jobs in this situation - Brendan Eich?
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This doesn’t make it much (at all?) better to me. It might even make it worse that the explanation should make this any better.
I've seen it a lot with government. Usually happens because the sum of contracts signed with the unions over the years results in them not being able to ask employees to work substantially outside normal business hours in the capacity required to perform the maintenance. Since government has a monopoly on the service upper management doesn't worry about losing customers and pissing everyone off with daytime maintenance. So even if all the line level bureaucrats and their direct managers would rather the service be up and don't mine staying late one day to do it it may still get done during business hours because sucking it up is less of a pain than burning political capital trying to get an exception. Sure the people who actually work on the service want the thing they're responsible for to be up but it's just not worth the fight a lot of the time.

It's not always maintenance that this happens to. I once worked at a facility that couldn't be snow-plowed overnight because they couldn't ask maintenance to work late/early and they couldn't hire a 3rd party to do it because that violated the specific language in the contract of the government employees union that the maintenance dept belonged to.
How could he support gay marriage without negatively impacting his ability to lead his devoutly conservative employees?

I’m in favor of equality in marriage and broadly the rights of individuals to live true to themselves and free from discrimination, but if a divisive topic is 50/50, it’s hard to see how supporting one side or the other wouldn’t alienate some portion of your employee base.

Obviously, never taking a stance on any issue is the most middle of the road, career-lengthening tactic to take, but that’s not exactly the world I want to live in either. I don’t have to (and do not) agree 100% with my CEO’s political views; that doesn’t impact his ability to lead nor my ability to execute.
To be honest I tuned out somewhere around the second 'y' in 'Heyyy'.
How to Get a Job in UX/UI Design in the Games Industry
I enjoyed reading the perspective given in this essay and agree Haskell's been (and continues to be) an influential language. So take this criticism as maybe my being overly particular about the meaning of descendant.

Idris as a descendant of Haskell I have no argument with.

Rust however, is more correctly viewed as (primarily) a descendant of ML languages, which all possess the properties the articles lists as derived from Haskell. Perhaps it is more correct to call Haskell and Rust cousins, both deriving from the same lineage of languages.

I would also not call Julia a child of Haskell. As it is more correctly viewed as an interpretation of Matlab as a Lisp, I'd therefore call Julia a descendant of Lisp. That Haskell single handedly popularized the utility of category theory in computing and that a category theory library is written in Julia does not make Julia a child of Haskell any more than it would have made Ocaml a child of Haskell (there used to be a category theory library written in Ocaml).

The popularization of functional programming, Domain specific languages as algebras, reactive (not FRP), property based testing, parser combinators, model view update for UIs, design principles secretly based on monads are all but a few of the ways Haskell has influenced programming. Which is the core point of the essay and with which I am in full agreement.

This thread somewhat has the air of an eulogy but it goes without saying that just because something is not the most popular in fashion does not mean it is dying.
This is the real problem innit? Like I've been saying: Trump will go away in 4 to 8 years regardless; but his voting base will remain. I don't think Trump is the last President of his kind the US has seen, but I sure as hell hope I'm wrong on that.
The legal system is absolutely insufficient and there’s no way it can ever not be, but the point is only one party is resorting to mob justice.
Well that explains! I was wondering what's going on there.
I am a fan of Haskell, the biggest problem for me was installing stack/cabal. I eventually got there, but I recall it was a very painful and frustrating process. With that in mind I can advocate for it in good conscience. Managing ghc versions and creating/generating projects should made easy.

I think rust got this right, rustup and cargo are great tools that are easy to install and work with.
GP was not trying to be racist, such a concept does exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-context_and_low-context_c...
My wife would be very quick to tell you that it would have gone very differently if a woman did the same thing.

I've heard numerous stories where she didn't talk like that and nobody would listen to her.

And I've heard the other stories where she did talk like that and got complaints from the other employees and ended up being talked to by her boss, even though she was correct and got stuff done.

So while it's nice to recognize that that tone can get stuff done, it doesn't work for everyone and people who don't use that tone can also get things done. You might just have to listen harder.
Since ChromeOS itself is just a stripped down flavor of Linux, they can hardly just drop Linux support. Unless they also give up on ChromeOS, which is unlikely but not impossible for Google.
Still it makes no sense to pay people millions of dollars when a company is not doing well financially. In this regards what Iwata did while being CEO of Nintendo during hardship (cutting his salary in half and getting no bonus) is the way to go.
I dunno. Start a company where you only hire people with conservative views. Many people from marginalized backgrounds like myself grow up in a world where we have to hold our tongues about how we really feel about things to fit into a dominant culture. Otherwise we get denied opportunities. Boo fucking hoo you can't say exactly what you want at all times and get every possible opportunity and be celebrated as some kind of a hero. Welcome to real life where other people's opinions matter and sometimes people don't like yours.
I think you missed the point where they mentioned you can change any and all keybindings in Emacs.
This goes much further than banning funding by the tax payer. It disallows companies that want government contracts from having internal training that goes against the ideology the government has dictated even when that training is entirely unrelated to the contracts the company is bidding for.
Didn't Brave use to take the money and "safekeep it for the publishers"?

I don't get your question - we're talking about $10 over say one year - who cares how exactly it's split, whether it's evenly or otherwise?
Or better, since these sites most likely publish their donation addresses, why not donate directly and split it the way you want rather than some magic metric like "attention" or number of HTTTPS calls?

These payments are a solution looking for a problem.
How would you even begin the comparison? Seems like it would quickly devolve into subjective shitshow when deciding what gets included in each count.
They look good, but my feedback is... why? There are hundred of mono icon packs around there. What's special about these ones?

The SVGs use 5 decimal places of precision. That's excessive. Especially for something designed for icon use. Drop that to zero or one dp to shrink the file size.

They are clean and consistent - and I appreciate the MIT licence.
That's true.

I am however very pessimistic about our (as a species) ability to deal with something that's even more long-term than i.e. CFCs or SO2.
You can bulk download these with wget like so;

wget http://www.ghibli.jp/gallery/{ged,chihiro,karigurashi,ponyo,kokurikozaka,marnie,kaguyahime,kazetachinu}{001..050}.jpg

However they're low quality 1080p jpegs, so you're better off splitting out the frames of a blu-ray rip of the movie using ffmpeg or something.
nice perfomance
I think most people, in both the 40% and the 60%, avoid involving themselves in or thinking about politics as much as possible. They are conflict avoidant. They just want to get along and their approach to unpleasant truths is to think about something else. They vote as they do not out of any conviction but to avoid conflict with their less conflict-avoidant neighbors and relations.

In this world it helps to be not only opinionated but violent and maybe a little unhinged. The more enthusiastic you are about conflict and the more damaging you are to others in conflict the more the conflict-avoidant majority around you will side with you to protect themselves. In other words, this is a world that favors bullies.
Just to counter some of your claims with publicly available sources:

- We do control clouds and cloud cover albedo [1].

- Human-induced changes to composition of earth's athmosphere result in about 3 Watts of additional heating per square meter of earth's surface [2]. That's almost 1% of the normal solar heating, or > 2K of (eventual) equalibrium temperature increase, so maybe we should call that "climate control" after all?

[1] https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ap...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_forcing
CFC concentration in the atmosphere has only gone down since the Montreal treaty so it's still a success so far. (edit: I should have said "since 2000", the treaty was a phase-out to zero emissions by 1996)

What happened was that the rate of decline of CFC concentration slowed down[1] after 2012. This was an indication that there were new emitters. China then found the emitters and shut them down. [2]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0106-2.epdf

[2] https://nationalpost.com/news/world/china-makes-arrests-shut...
Well, and yet here we are in a thread that is essentially about how Mozilla collectively failed to do their job under Eich's replacement. It may be obvious that a CEO with a political stance that is anathema to some subset of employees will impact productivity negatively, but it is far less obvious that this negative impact would have been worse than the negative impact of the CEO they wound up with (and who it stands to reason was chosen on the criterion of not being close to Eich politically, rather than anything else).
I think you really need to take a step back.

Do you genuinely believe that a full 40% of Americans have "violent fantasies of a Civil War", or that legitimately want to "destroy democracy"? Have you met a single person in real life that thinks that way? Or have you only seen retweets and characterizations of a couple people online and have associated that with large swathes of the population?

> always demonizes the 60% as sub-human violent scum

> the 40% has violent fantasies

You have to see the irony here, right? You are doing more than your fair share of demonizing.

For a little perspective, only ~ 40% of people vote in presidential elections (and ~half vote democrat). So your percentages are way off from the start. Even among those that do vote, there are a huge portion of people who "don't really follow politics". The reality is much closer to 5% galvanized left vs 5% galvanized right, 90% people who don't really participate.

Perpetuating hate and division does nothing to help anyone.
Nice project, I saw you on Reddit a couple of days ago. We're building a News API [1] and I'd like to know about how you get the data.

If you have any other questions regarding news aggregation feel free to contact me (check bio)

[1] https://newscatcherapi.com/
> What you don't seem to grasp is the difference between a project, and the eco-system that grows around it. SSH, WSL, Docker, third party language servers etc are not a part of VS Code.

In my mind, the remote capability is pretty critical. It's something a ton of people use and would consider it a core feature of VSCode. It being a 3rd party plugin is semantics. I know a number of people who use VSCode because of that feature alone. It's a defining feature of the editor's editing experience.

Also there's some language servers too. Yes technically a plugin, but super critical to anyone who wants to use a language server's features.
Soumith Chintala also briefly commented on the release - https://github.com/pytorch/hub/pull/153#pullrequestreview-49..., which is very inspiring \(ᵔᵕᵔ)/
> The non-medical harm due to COVID-19 is wholly disproportional to non-medical harms for flu, it's orders of magnitude worse.... What did we gain for it?

We're lowering the curve. If we let the infection spread unabated, most hospital systems will swiftly be overrun. Just as in Italy when the outbreak first occurred, we would have people dying in the streets due to lack of care, leading to complete and total collapse of trust in the healthcare and governmental systems.

The lockdowns are absolutely necessary to avoid panic and potential societal breakdown. It's hard to imagine because it's not the path we've taken.

The lockdowns happened specifically because at the time, the two places with widespread spread of the virus(China, Italy) had overrun hospitals. The lockdown was implemented to pause the system and determine just exactly how bad this was and come up with a response.
The article I read it addressed the fire suppression issues, building codes and future changes, maybe you missed it or I read something else.
U.S. asks citizens to ‘reconsider travel to Ghana’ due to Covid-19
So he is a hero for being a homophobe?
comment with a reference to a different file where you explain in detail?
Apparently "Geaux" is the local slang for their sports teams, plus the pun with "Go vote". So it's pretty reasonable in my opinion.
I wonder if scheduled in this case means recurrent maintenance. That would be easy to prove or disprove.
Can somebody say/translate what kind of license is that? Can i use them commercialy? Like for example when demoing a product? Can they be remixed/edited?
Is it really open source? The files on Github look like they’re exported from something, so surely there is an actual source file that you didn’t include?
What we need is CMakeCMake. A special CMake for building CMake rules with its own special meta-language.
Yeah, that's very true.

Things have pretty much been consistently worse than predicted.
What is the acceptable salary for the CEO of a non-profit?
I have been using /e/OS on a Fairphone 3 for several months now, and I am quite satisfied.

Yes, it is built on LineageOS, though I am not sure how closely it is tracked.

They have their own cloud services, but you can opt out. You can use your own Nextcloud server as well, which I think is pretty neat: you can have a convenient cloud-based experience (contact and calendar sync etc.) with the stock /e/OS installation, while also having ownership of your data in your Nextcloud instance. (Their own servers are also heavily based on Nextcloud.)

Regarding app stores: I think it is the weakest point. F-Droid is nice but not enough, the /e/OS App Store is a bit murky for me; for most of the non-FOSS apps I use the Aurora Store, which seems trustworthy to me so far.
Extremely controversial.

Could we not also blame men for competing for the attention of the most attractive women, who then in turn can demand more resources?

I do think we attack men for being shallow more often than we attack women for being materialistic. The latter doesn’t get as much attention or critique, eg wanting a bigger house or label fashion is often seen as aspirational and positive; wanting a more attractive partner is not seen in the same light.

Why do men who have a partner already feel obliged to continue capturing more and more resources?

Are these just instincts that exist independently? Would removing one remove the other? Are they even so strong as to bind us by them?

In reality I think these instincts don’t rule us. Choosing a partner is a combination of physical and mental attraction, as well as a function of social status. We can choose. Timshel.
If it was just based on the title and the term "half-assed" then I would agree about technical debt. But having read the article, I'm not sure that is quite what he was saying.

He is talking about prioritization of effort and how thorough the solutions are. If you properly judge the importance of things or the level of sophistication actually needed to solve the problem adequately (but not necessarily "fully"), you may not ever need to revisit that part. Especially since requirements evolve. But also because bottlenecks (in terms of performance or requirements churn or bugs etc.) are often clustered in particular areas. So even though there is a more complicated solution that could be more elegant or flexible or performant, it may actually never make sense to implement because the relative importance just never increases.

What he seems to be more or less talking about is similar to the 80/20 Rule (ala Pareto Principle).

I think a less negative term could have been less confusing.
Probably because if they can't give you a cookie then they have to give you a cookie warning on every page you hit. That's fine for sites where you are just reading an article and then leaving. I really find the whole thing so annoying and wish sites would just ignore that rule or allow a default-on setting in the browser that lets the vast majority of people who don't care about cookies one way or the other just default it to accept.
It's this user blaming by the FLOSS community that really sticks in my craw. On the one had proprietary software is immoral, on the other FLOSS software not living up to the needs of users is, er, the user's fault for not being programmers or personally sponsoring their own development effort.