skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would commit a crime if it provided a clear benefit outweighing the risks, it's OK to do

Whoa, that's not OK in any meaningful way and I presume you meant it differently compared to how it came out. There are plenty of situations where nobody sees you yet I presume you don't murder folks for 50$ in their wallets, ie somewhere high on the mountain. Its called being sane moral person, pretty low bar for existence in society.
I've never heard anyone use the Rwandan genocide as an analogy for what's going wrong with the modern web but I think you've hit the nail on the head.

It seems that the most ardent supporters of unrestricted free-speech are the most optimistic in their belief in humanity to come to a stable, moral consensus if we all just say whatever we want.

The Rwandan genocide shows the darker truth that we're just as likely to talk ourselves into horrific violence and war over arbitrary divisions. Cultural and societal pressure over what's acceptable to discuss seems like a very real, and very useful bulwark against that possibility.
If you really wanted to be productive, you would have pointed out which arguments are fallacies.

Also, you only seem to care about "fallacies" when dealing with those you disagree with ... so please try to be less sanctimonious.
Here's a link that might help you: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sanctimonious
The article itself is about such studies in relation to the brain. A simple google search brings dozens of related results.

https://all4ed.org/articles/a-decade-of-decline-survey-finds...

https://theweek.com/articles/875253/unsurprising-decline-chi...

https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/1996/05/15/34roch.h15.htm...

https://ivyreads.com/blog/academic-literacy-is-declining

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247760981_Literacy_...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/us/reading-scores-nationa...

Furthermore, if your only metric of determining truth is a social science study, I think you're perhaps missing the forest for the trees.
Coinbase is against hiring DBAs, so have experienced several large outages and likely hundreds of micro-outages in the past couple of years, mostly from simple things like missing indexes.

They did a public talk on this in 2019, but get upset when it's mentioned.

A lot of SV unicorns are solely focused on features, and do not take eng. operations seriously even after signing up large numbers of paying clients.

They all get religion after a major data loss, or their head of sales loses it after a major client cancels.

Source: DBA who attended one of their post-mortem lectures.
As usual, Scott's take on it was far more comprehensible to me and more useful than the article itself.
I call BS. "Every single"? Come on.
…and? Did you not consider it useful to mention at all? Do you think you’ve already included what she mentioned?
But how could "pick the right" people possibly work out for everyone? Maybe some higher paying / more prestigious companies can do that.
But that would still leave the other companies with the original problem and not change anything about the industry wide statistics / problem?

However, the author also points out training. So changing the quality of education and the culture around the people can drive this into a better direction.
like other folks who have said this before, the question is who is this for and what is it that github doesnt provide but radicle does?

I can have git installed on my device, work locally and instead of pointing to github, have a scuttlebutt like updates for PRs

Question is who wants this? and what does this do to open source code?
Actually, Gitlab and Gitea allows mirror of Github repos with Issues/wiki/PR etc. So, having issues in Github is not at all problem.

I just gave you example of Fossil VCS which has issues,PR,etc. baked into VCS itself.

Actually,what Radicle is doing is to extend git with p2p and not inventing new VCS with issues,etc. baked in.

What i am telling is that p2p doesn't solve this unclear problem and p2p isn't much beneficial to git.

And will there be enough peers to guarantee availability of repo ?
> We wouldn't need these programs for student debt if you could declare bankruptcy and have the loan discharged that way.

Ok, then only rich people get to go to college.

Student loans cannot be discharged because they are not risk based. If they were risk-based, the only people who could qualify for them wouldn't need them anyway. 18-year-olds don't have credit history, and most of them don't have income either.

You seem pretty hurt about voluntary loans that have really, really good repayment programs -- better than any other kinds of loans that exist. Why shouldn't people be able to borrow to go to college under those terms? Keep in in mind that they have no other options, and they cannot escape into an ideal world where college is free, and they cannot legally force their parents to give them money. For a lot of people, this is a fantastic deal and it's the only way they will ever go to college.
There's probably a relationship between worrying that much about utterly unimportant online beefs, apparently not worrying about living in your sweatpants in a park (in fact, humble-bragging about it), and, you know, living in your sweatpants in a park.
They facilitated the war (through making it publicly acceptable) and made it easier to enact, just as social media supposedly facilitates terrorism.
Pretty much. Reading these phrases made my skin crawl and really put me off the article. I did not even know beforehand that this was written by DoreenMichelle.

Maybe it is out of personal experience dealing with people that warp reality to fit their narrative but I tend to become overly sceptical when I see this style.

This comment also has a nice observation:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25311796
(I'm not shooting the messenger here) If so, that would mean pushing/pulling within the LAN only... which Git supports already
Why I would recommend Thoughtworks for others?
But it's still up to you to resign at that point, or to back down.

They can't accept the threat itself as a resignation. That's not how threats work.
For men and postmenopausal women that could just be dumping excess iron to avoid organ damage. If the albumin had similar results for regular blood donors and premenopausal women, maybe we need albumin.
i think this is technically interesting, but i'm curious in practice what it gives project maintainers over hosting their own gitlab instance or similar...
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Just because someone exists doesn’t mean you get to quote them anonymously in the article. You don’t write an article about a Mars rover and include “some geocentric societies claim that Mars is not real and space is not real”. You need to establish why those people and their opinions are in any way notable otherwise it’s pointless to include them
There are definitely not 20k+ Victorians out on the streets every night. That figure almost certainly includes the vast majority of homeless people who are sleeping on mates' couches etc.
You can do this in the browser extension Reddit Enhancement Suite. It allows me to block the subs I want so that browsing All or Popular become good for sometimes finding new subs
How many were dying from overdoses before Corona?
youtube-dl?
Linux is pretty much the original open source project. Just fork the repo and maintain 32 bit code yourself if you want to keep it.
It’s the exact political opposite of Reddit. Which makes sense, I guess.
And here (Sweden, Norway) the student loan is used for living costs: rent, food, books, and nothing goes to the university.
Are you sure?

Looks like 99% of the mass shootings are organized by young people and 99% of them happens in the US (in the west)
That's a lot of useful information. Thank you!
Just kicking the tires. The beta was released just a couple of days ago. The very basic features seem to work just fine, and the rest is an obvious WIP.

The team behind it seems super responsive and engaged.
It seems that Robert Spaethling's book 'Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life: Selected Letters' says most of it: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/sep/24/biography.musi.... I've been meaning to read it for ages and ages, reckon this story has spurred me on to add it to my next book order.

Amadeus was certainly entertaining albeit annoying for its inaccuracies. It's saving grace was F. Murray Abraham's wonderful Oscar-winning performance of Salieri.

Another aspect of the film worth noting was the fact that it was filmed in Prague before Communism finally fell, this really added to the visual character of the film. The reasons for filming there were mainly that there were no advertising billboards or hoardings anywhere to be seen across the city and the fact that under Communism there had been very little modern development in the old city which meant that its architecture was still authentically of the Enlightenment period—it'd been preserved par excellence (which was amazing given the ravages of war and the onslaught of the 20th Century).

I can attest to that, my first visit to Prague was before Communism fell and it really did look like like that. Some years later when I visited again after Communism's demise there were billboards and hoardings everywhere. The visual change came as damn horrible shock. If you want a lesson in how to make a city ugly in one easy lesson then Prague's the quintessential example.
You could use a merge queue, that does an rebase on latest master, then tests your code and merges.
That "gaseous pollution" is mostly CO2, a gas responsible for global warming and perhaps the biggest environmental threat we are facing right now. You can't limit yourself to comparing the amount released of both pollutants and not consider the scale of things. CO2 spreads all over the planet and remains in the atmosphere basically forever, until it is taken away, and particulate pollution is local and does not remain in the air for very long. Both should be addressed but they are not interchangeable.
> Should CI create a merged branch behind-the-scenes and run tests on that before allowing the branch to be merged?

The answer to that is: yes. The final test cycle before landing code to master MUST be against the code that would be in master after merging.

This is what the better workflow tools do, among other things to prevent these weird error situations. We have Marge-bot for Gitlab. Uber open-sourced their tool for the same some time back.[0] Bors comes up often as a reference, too.[1]

0: Discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19692820

1: https://github.com/bors-ng/bors-ng
I can't recall the last time I had a BSOD
There are complications of counting and registering death that make real time data hard to provide.

When talking about suicide we have roughly 3 different definitions.

1) That used by coroners or medical examiners. This is normally a tight definition that will exclude some deaths. It's often along the lines of "the deceased ended their life and intended to do so". Sometimes that has to be proved to a high standard. (EG, in England until very recently it had to be shown "beyond all reasonable doubt").

2) That used by national statistics organisations. These will use causes of death mentioned on death certificates and then try to code the cause of death using ICD10, and then combine these with coroners inquests. These tend to be robust and accurate, although you need to understand what coding they use and when the deaths happened.

Both of these tend to have lags in. The first needs to wait for coroners to hold an inquest. The second needs to wait for all the data to be sent in and coded and compiled.

The 3rd definition is much broader. It takes real time data from police, hospital, and coroners (but before an inquest has happened). It's sometimes called "real time monitoring" data. Because it uses data from coroners before inquests have happened it sometimes avoids the word suicide and uses phrases like "suspected self-inflicted deaths" instead. We use this data to in suicide prevention when looking at frequently used locations or emerging clusters.
When you get a advance warning about a "lie", is it really still a lie? Although I would argue that even if it is, the warning is enough for you to establish consent to be lied to, so it's not actually harming you. Real censorship is different.

Of course, the real problem with censorship is that whoever ends up in charge of it, automatically gets immense political power - including the ability to suppress opposition to censorship, thus perpetuating the arrangement. I would argue that the only reason why we haven't seen more abuses of that yet is because the Internet infrastructure was not originally designed to make such large-scale censorship easy, and as this changes more towards centralization, censorship will be more pervasive and more oppressive, as well. Countries where the government could mandate infrastructure tailored to censorship (e.g. China) are a good example. Now, some argue that, so long as functioning democracy is retained, it doesn't matter, because any such censorship in a democracy would be majoritarian in nature, and thus it's a fundamentally different and justifiable case, but one only has to look at historical moral panics in various democracies to see the flaw in this argument.
Do I dispute that she provided an ultimatum of which one side was a resignation offer? No. But can I say that this ultimatum wasn’t the result of Google pulling the rug out from under her and putting her in an unfortunate position from which she felt her only way to exercise her leverage was to make such a proposition, then pretend like they’re blameless by “choosing a provided option” of terminating her without looking at the reasons why she had to do such a thing? I’m not sure yet. I don’t think we have enough information at this point to judge, so I’m a bit concerned with comments like the one I just responded to that ignore like this concern doesn’t exist.
And will for 80 more years?
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I read the title of this link and thought "Hmm, Radicale... not quite sure how a CalDAV server can be a Github alternative".
This won't help all that much (though, it is slightly better)..

Testing the merged branch at say 10am, then actually merging the PR at 11am says nothing about how that PR interacts with all the changes merged between those 2 points in time.

The only way to ensure always green master/main branch is to test every change as it goes in serially. (There are optimisations that allow you to test things serially but in parallel - which of course sounds like madness .. https://zuul-ci.org/docs/zuul/discussion/gating.html explains it better than I could :D)

I miss having Zuul CI on the projects I work on - was far better than any of the others I've used :)
It’s academic welfare but also woke political welfare / a PR exercise. It shouldn’t be legitimized because it is just inviting unnecessary political controversy into the workplace.
They send hate letters to each other with stagecoach services?

The problem is that there is no such thing as "freedom of speech" it's BS, there is a right to have an opinion, but some opinions are crimes and should never become speech, let alone be public

Corollary: public speech must be granted to everyone, because it's in the US Constitution, but you should not use it to badmouth the US
I have to wonder, how big is the overlap between people who understand and want to use algebraic datatypes, and people who program in PHP?

PHP’s main selling point has always been its low barrier to entry. Introducing high-level abstractions like ADTs will hurt that user group.

At the same time, I don’t think PHP can ever catch up with high-level languages that were built on less shaky foundations (and cleaner syntax). So what’s the end goal here?
Well, reading issues is something you cannot when you are offline from github. Unless you downloaded them beforehand of course.
Ah, right. The assumption that "new ReflectionClass($qcn)" where "assert(class_exists($qcn))" works should still be valid as RefelctionEnum[sic] extends ReflectionClass.

I'm not completely certain on this, though. If not, it'd definitely break things.
The main problem is that different people have different definitions what pile of corpses actually is.

For me covid is not a big deal and it should have been ignored. And I have came to this conclusion looking at the official data. For a lot of people that are very passionate about masks and lockdowns this is incomprehensible - that I could look at the data and come to different conclusion.

That is the point - for me covid isn't killing many people. It is killing tiny amount relative to the global population and it is usually people that were on the way out.

Which ones again shows how difficult is to argue with someone when your basic axioms, values and definitions mismatch.
Do you really think it's valuable for me to regurgitate an entire discussion that I've provided a link to (and which anyone can easily read) in my comment when what I'm actually trying to do is make a wider, but relatively pithy, point about journalistic integrity and the impact that the lack of it is having on our societies more than comment on Timnit's specific case? I will say that your comments are an almost perfect illustration of that point though.
It's a shame you got so heavily downvoted because your core message - that loneliness is a miserable existence for many people - is one that is understood by people working in suicide prevention.

They might not be great at addressing it yet, but they do know it's a problem.
5 years, I think. I got one interview with a YC company, which I noped from after seeing the work conditions. While there are good recommendations and some nice books, I honestly think I can live without HN. It's a positive thing, but hasn't been lifechanging, not as much as the resources from Y Combinator and its partners.

The most memorable things were discovering AI Dungeon from Show HN and finding out about Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Repair.
The design of GitHub means that your canonical upstream is only accessible through the internet, and so are your issues, PRs etc. If you're offline, you can't access it, and if GitHub is down, same story.

Radicle, on the other hand, keeps all of this replicated locally, so push/pull works offline, and the code/social artifacts are replicated asynchronously, when you are online, but you don't need to be online to work with your project(s).
Why do you think reducing loneliness isn't a valid mental health intervention?

Social prescribing is a thing for good reasons.
This study does not account for the statistical significance of changes in population structure. This study compares 2020 to data including 2015.

The 65-and-older population in the US grew by over a third (34.2% or 13,787,044) during the past decade, and by 3.2% (1,688,924) from 2018 to 2019. The world is aging in all of the countries reported in this study.

The peeks in March are interesting.
> Actually, Gitlab and Gitea allows mirror of Github repos with Issues/wiki/PR etc.

But GitHub does not mirror the issues/PRs from anyone, so it's a very one-sided connection.
The article buries a slightly chilling angle on the phenomenon:

> At a military base in Wyoming, Airmen in charge of launching America’s nuclear arsenal loved to eat acid between shifts. Monitoring the nuclear arsenal is a boring job and, to pass the time, airmen in charge of the nukes would get high.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m generally in favor of people having the opportunity to explore the potential of their own brain chemistry should they choose to. But if there’s any single group of individuals on the planet that particularly ought to be be sober...
He seems to be pushing his book and possibly at the end his school:

"Years ago I wrote a book – IT's All about the People: Technology Management That Overcomes Disaffected People, Stupid Processes and Deranged Corporate Cultures – that focused on the human element in technology. The premise is as correct today as it was then."

Projects are hard and deal with the unexpected. If you've never done anything like whatever you are trying to do before, you will encounter delays. These are really not failures -- in fact a lot of projects are "finished" with many additional "add on" pieces and enhancements scoped for future work.

Tellingly, companies that do the same thing over and over again (video game companies come to mind), are actually pretty good at delivering on time and on budget. With a stable and experienced workforce, the right corporate culture and reusable work breakdown structures, it's all possible.
> Ok, basically she is pissed as AI is picking normal language, that people use, and not using the vocabulary that is in vogue on certain political circles. Basically censure, and forced speech.

The thing is: The language that people use is often enough offensive: racial slurs, sexism and other forms of discrimination, plus seemingly innocent "code words" like "globalist".

AI developers should know about these problems and keep them in mind while developing training data for AI models. The consequences of ignoring such bias is continuing discrimination - with the most obvious and low-tech reminder being the "racist soap dispenser" which had only been trained on white people's skin and failed to dispense soap for people of color.

The danger in such discriminatory models is that while it's an annoyance that a soap dispenser does not dispense soap for a person of color, with algorithms running more and more of our daily lives, the impact is way higher: whether being refused credit or affordable insurance rates because an AI "thinks" the applicant is black and living in a black, poor neighborhood is grounds enough for that, or "predictive policing" AIs sending in massive police responses to everyday calls, this directly hits on people's survival without human oversight.

That is why ethics in AI are so important and why "social justice activism" is so desperately needed!
You are blindly trusting the "facts" one side alleges while claiming the other side does nothing but shamelessly lie to fill their own pockets. That is what I can not understand. Stating there is no controversy in this position is ridiculous.
> and it is usually people that were on the way out.

You haven't looked at the data closely enough if you believe this.

Covid is killing people an average of 10 years early. Most of these people needed no assistance in their day to day life before they died. This isn't the frail, very elderly, population you think it is.
If the title makes you think of zombie fish, acute usually means "short duration", but there's a less common medical definition of "rapid onset".
Tried out radicle a while back with a recent project - it's really cool!
GitHub is a “social coding” platform that provides collaboration features (access control, issues, etc) on top of Git.

This is a social coding tool that provides collaboration features on top of Git.

It provides a desktop app because it’s peer to peer. That’s an advantage over a web UI for developers looking to avoid a dependency on a centralised third party.

You are free to continue to play in walled gardens but this is very much an alternative to that.
See also for Australia:

Measuring excess mortality in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic

Provisional deaths data for measuring changes in patterns of mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic and recovery period.
Released
25/11/2020

https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/measuring-excess-mortality-a...