skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel it has to do with a distorted concept of privacy, people want to share something right now with their friends, but they don't want to be judged in the long run by this content, they don't want people to be on your profile and see a thousand pictures of your parties, maybe you looking ridiculous.

I usually feel that instagram posts are meticulously planned and reviewed and edited, while the stories are something authentic and ephemeral.
Inclusivity isn’t a single axis. When a politician calls a group of people by a label that’s unfamiliar to them and that they don’t recognize or identify with, that’s exclusionary and alienating.

Example: I’m from Bangladesh. It means “country of Bengalis.” We fought an independence war with Pakistan to have a country for our own ethnic/linguistic group. The name of the country is exclusionary of the non-Bengali ethnic and linguistic groups, including the indigenous population. If an academic wants to come up with a different label for us, they can do that. But politicians shouldn’t use it until we broadly accept the label. It’s not Elizabeth Warren’s place to take a prescriptive position on what Bangladeshis call themselves.

Stepping back, identity and how it’s defined and what it’s defined by reference to is an explosively complicated issue. Focusing on issues like gender inclusivity is a western, and particularly American, way of looking at language and identity labels. Different cultures will sort out how they want to approach these issues. It’s not something white Americans like Elizabeth Warren should just parachute into.

> Académie Française

The French can do what they want with their own language. But as an Anglophile I have to point out that they could easily solve the problem of gendering in French by just speaking English instead. That would also solve their problem of having to come up with French words for things invented by English-speakers.
The whole problem with current journalism is its desire to influence instead of objectively report. This whole article is about the struggles of creating a fan base and the potential pitfalls of relying on tech platforms. Journalism has become more about becoming a celebrity personality. The story has become the opinion, everything is an editorial, and you have to mine multiple sources just to get a full story and who has time for that? The author has said the quiet part out loud. They are part of the celebrity class whose opinions should be treated as such.
Borg only utilizes one thread and does not support multithreaded zstd, so the write throughput will likely be (much) lower than ZFS -- typically 60-120 MB/s. Since ZFS can also dedupe, Borg might not even be faster for heavily deduped backups.
The first example is, but the second and third are not.
No, I am not ignoring the context. If anything, phrasing Google's response as additional "Yeah, this is for the best" language while denying her terms for ending employment (when in practice it is very rare to immediately let someone go when they want to set up an exit date on their own terms) is cherry picking.
Can we apply this thinking to all of the crooked "financial advisors" and mutual fund managers ripping off working class 401k holders?
I still don't see any other utility other than digital gold for bitcoin and speculation for all the others.
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... which means freedom is only for nerds or people who don't have to work and therefore have time to manually configure and maintain things? The general public gets lock-in and surveillanceware. This is structurally elitist and classist and is AFAIK the opposite of what is intended.

The current model doesn't work... unless you only want freedom for nerds and the independently wealthy.

Edit: wanted to throw in one more point on usability:

Lets say my time is billed at about $50/month, which is low for a software engineer. Now lets say a Linux desktop/laptop requires 5 hours of system admin time per month to troubleshoot drivers, upgrades, etc. That means a Linux desktop/laptop costs $250/month. For that price I could buy a new Mac every 10-12 months. I have a Mac right now and spend less than 30 minutes per month futzing around with it, so it's far cheaper.

A lot of the people who don't get this are young people who are middle class or above (in the developed world) and who therefore have an abundance of free time. Telling busier, poorer, or older people with families they should set up their own servers or run their own Linux systems is sort of a "why do they not eat cake?" attitude.

This neglects the structural profession elitism here-- that only people who know how to admin Unix-type systems should have freedom or privacy.
You can mount partitions/drives but something like a yubikey, mic, etc you can't right now
I've spent most of my career writing free software, and I pay a mortgage in one of the highest-cost-of-living cities in the world.

Go figure.
I actually have the opposite take. The use of "X" instead of «X» in Russia started with the typewriters, not the computers. Apple added the correct quotation marks in iOS 11, and you could see how people very quickly switched to using them on social media. The software helped people rediscover the correct symbols and drop the typewriter-era bad habits, all it took was a small software upgrade.
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Then don't, because clearly you made incorrect claims to start with.
I used a 20x20x1 taped to a box fan for over a year as an air purifier because I had ferrets, and ferrets leave a particular odor floating about most of the time.

I didn't want to use an odor-removing filter with charcoal on my furnace because they're super thick and put strain on the motor, and I don't care about the box fan.

It worked really well, probably the biggest challenge was securing the filter to the fan: I put my filter on the "out" side of the fan, and it was really hard to keep it attached. Duct tape and the like actually often would fail, and air would just start moving around the filter. For good airflow through the filter I really had to give the air little other choice.

I'm curious if it would've worked just as well had I filtered the air on the "in" side of the box fan... keeping it attached would've been much easier, but I'm not sure if there's any forces that would make "pushing" air through the filter work better than "pulling" air through the filter.
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Like most articles that align Go strategy with real-life phenomena, this
mangles the essence of game concepts like sente, gote, aji, seki,
etc. People who write these articles either do not play the game or overstate
the case for ... what exactly? Foisting a false narrative by appealing to
Go's mystique? These writers are better off comparing their subjects to
Monopoly or Chutes n' Ladders.
They're not really teethed though. I grew up in DC and new plenty of parents who were ex-chief of staffs or whatever and they literally would tell me that they were working for a lobbying firm as a "consultant" because that was a loophole for getting around the "can't join a lobbying firm rules."
Why not use SUSE then? Oracle is the last option that I would ever trust. They always have something up their sleeve
I think you raise really valid points, even as someone who uses linux as my primary work OS day to day, and free software on the server as well, as well as free programming languages/environments/platforms.

It's a tradeoff. And I think for a while there in the midst of the history of free software an idea took hold that we could have our cake and eat it too -- that you could provide free software (as in Free software, capital "F") AND earn revenue as a for profit business to profitably sustain a company and extend its ability to contribute free (Free) code.

I wonder if recent history has shown that this is unrealistic. Maybe we should go back to seeing free software as almost accidental, as a wonderful anomaly -- when incentives are aligned correctly, you can subsidize its development, through government funding, or university research, or nonprofits, or hail mary last-ditch business efforts, or self interested loss leading spending by corporations (a bank contributing patches to a Java library, for example).

(I don't think this contradicts the goals of GNU, by the way. Because successful Free software tends to just keep going and live, and even seeming moribund code can be resurrected at any time because the code is out there, I think we could end up using free software for a higher and higher percentage of our computing lives as time goes on, even if its funding is ad hoc and unreliable on balance.)
I had no problem running XFCE desktops under WSL and WSL2 using XRDP and standard Windows's remote desktop client. Still feature set, GUI and overall experience under VMWare feels way better to me. Also ability to test with systemd is a plus.
Freedom of speech has always applied only to the freedom to say things without prosecution. Any extension of that idea into the private sector is completely ungrounded in what the law actually does.

The idea that we can’t criticize companies in a thread full of criticism of Google is just plain silly. Of course you can criticize companies. But if you’re criticizing your employer, you do have to accept the risk of there being private consequences. This has always been the case.

Heck, it’s not just limited to employers. If I was to walk into my local Starbucks and make a nuisance of myself by screaming, I’ll be banned. That’s not a violation of my free speech rights, nobody is prosecuting me, but it’s an obvious consequence of my speech.
There's a small delay while the other singers catch up to the harmony changes of the lead that makes it sounds more natural, it's a nice a touch.
Topic already discussed this week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25440832
> The person or entity is not engaged in commercial use of the Software

This make it seem you can't use the software at all, even if your company satisfies their conditions.
The entire sector is somewhat fraudulent in its nomenclature, because it’s still a pretty young field. We’re basically going through what mechanics and physics went through about 250 years ago. At that time there were no legally-defined engineers, anyone who could do reading/writing/math could develop entire factories.

At some point it will have to clear up its act. I expect it will take another 50 years or so, as employment demand stops growing and eventually falls, at which point it will make sense for incumbents to raise formal barriers to certain titles.
Yeah, I meant it more in a metaphorical sense. I don't think many artists are as dedicated and to some extent extreme as sceners. I think one guy of Farbrausch got a heart attack on a release party. Sceners seem to seek crunch time...
Robinhood probably has a binding arbitration clause in their contract that prohibits users from joining a class action lawsuit, no?
Yeah, that’s not really the point. People are going to avoid using these types of services, whether it’s Robinhood or some other startup, if they think they are going to get scammed. It is bad form, and the thing is that they knew that people have been skeptical about their sources of revenue for some time now.
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Having grown up in a small town in the 1990s, I used to get pretty dark skies at night. The night sky combined with a few books on amateur astronomy from our school's library really fuelled my desire to understand the universe and our place in it.

I got photocopies of two star charts (for both hemispheres) off a book I found in our school library and began using the star chart for the northern hemisphere to study the night sky. The winter sky was and still is my favourite. To spot the easily recognizable Orion constellation and know that its second brightest star with the distinctly reddish hue is a red supergiant star that could explode any day was fascinating.

The 1990s were also a great time to grow up for an astronomy enthusiast like me. Two bright comets visited our neighbourhood in 1996-1997. First Comet Hyakutake visited us in March 1996 and then Comet Hale-Bopp became spectacularly bright in April 1997.

Now 23 years later, as an adult living in a severely light-polluted city, the recent Geminids meteor shower was rather disappointing. My wife and I went to our terrace to watch the meteor shower after midnight. A nice dark sky would have let us see about 2-4 meteors shooting across the sky every minute. But we did not have a nice dark sky. The whole sky was lit orange. As a kid, I would have never imagined a sky could have such a colour at night! We could spot only a meteor or two every 5-10 minutes.

I think it is very unfortunate that kids growing up in cities today do not get to see the beautiful night sky the way I did during my childhood days.
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It was more to illustrate how ridiculous such a fear seems compared to some actual adventure
There have been many quantitative studies presented over the years at
the IEEE Async conferences [1]. The best use cases until now have been
niche applications calling for ultra-low power where performance isn't
too critical.

[1] https://asyncsymposium.org/
It’s one thing I’ve always struggled with organizations like GNU. There is a vested interest in convincing me of something as opposed to being as up front and obvious as possible.

They aren’t trying to teach me as much as they are trying to persuade me.

This ends up resulting in awkward doublespeak as you described.

I love GNU and truly want it to survive and prosper into the future. I feel like the younger audience is too aware of these tricks and the technique at this point does more harm than good. Instead or persuasion, it is losing trust. Which is sad because of all the organizations in tech(when you include for-profit companies) GNU is one of the organizations I can trust the most to act in my best interests.
Do you think Facebook would agree with you? Great news for her if so.
It can give the feel of extortion. Settle or else. There is quite a window where settling -- even when provably innocent -- is easier/cheaper than facing an agitated prosecutor.

Settling has nothing to do with a finding of truth.
Looks like you took the path that looks very good to me, I would be able to take about 2 months off next year.

Maybe I'll visit both Southeast Asia and Central America to determine which I like better. As a practical matter Spanish is much easier for me than any Asian language I've tried so far, but I think life in Southeast Asia is much cheaper. So I'll have to think about it.

What's been your favorite travel experience so far, if anything I think life is too short to spend it in America just trying to get another raise when this entire world exists
Yep Bosch IMU, the Bluetooth chip is the NRF8001 and yeah it's using a PCB trace antenna!
>suggests that surgical masks worn by infected persons could have a clinically significant impact on transmission

could have, doesn't mean will have

and most people don't use surgical mask
Well, almost every industry could use more technologists. I don't think the energy industry has any more or less difficulties than anyone else.
> when we develop natural language understanding to the degree where we could implement an automatic critical theory censor, that would check for undesirable biases.

That sounds like more of a nightmare scenario than having to deal with this person... Its hard to even know where to begin with how something like this could go off the rails easily.
This seems to be written by a very sheltered person.
i love ui and ux deisgn
> I see a big problem with this argument, would you say that to e.g. Belarussian freedom of speech activists?

I gave multiple points in my post as to why governments are different than companies (it was in fact the main point of my post). Please read it again.
So by ‘debunked’ you mean to say that your impression was wrong and you’ve learned the correct information that most others already knew?
They're more common in Asian languages, iirc- Chinese at least uses something much like them though far more obtuse (I think it is a different character, not just font anyway)
JavaFX may be the most feature complete cross platform GUI framework after Qt. I have recently used it for a project and it tuned out much better than if I had used Swing.
>but still functionally correct for the most part.

Why, would any part be fuctionally incorrect under qemu?

I mean, aside for web and app development, not for writing hardware drivers...
The future gig economy sounds like it will be a nightmare for the majority of workers
There is now a dark theme option on Google News
Because there isn't any good example in the past year?
Kafka as a Storage System
I was talking about the use of `browser.tabs.executeScript`. You have to define a content script [0] in the manifest instead. I presume that's what Google's extension does, too.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
For system backups and logs and stuff that rarely need to be decompressed, but stored for a while and then deleted in rotation, I still strongly prefer xzip. It's much slower to create a .tar.xz file with the default settings, but also saves a considerable amount of disk space.

Side by side comparison right now between a full system file tree backup of a mediawiki server, the .tar.xz file is about 1.8GB, the .tar.zstd file is 2.15GB. The same thing in traditional .tar.gz format is obviously even larger.

From the research I've done on common uses of zstd it's much better suited to applications where very high speed of compression and decompression is a major requirement, but absolute smallest file size is not. Typically as a replacement for gzip.
> Hooks are the place to segment out effectful code from otherwise pure code

I know what hooks are. Neither of those things is true. The hooks are called/instantiated in the same function body that returns the render. This performs some kind of stateful magic which makes that function itself inherently impure. Then that function returns a render which calls into that magic to perform further side effects, so that’s not pure either.

> The existence of a hook is what should alert you to the fact that there may be some side effect thing happening here.

That is true, and is for sure a benefit. But a class sends the same signal, but with the benefit of actually being fairly straightforward to reason about (notwithstanding the complexity of lifecycle, but lifecycle can be complex with hooks too).

> Not sure if this applies to you but I've found that most people who criticize hooks haven't made the leap to using custom hooks and have instead only used ones provided to them (useState, useEffect, etc).

I try not to use them at all, to minimize state and side effects as much as possible, and to encapsulate stateful code from rendering code.

I find them hard to reason about, whether in the core interface or as abstractions around the core. They fundamentally change the behavior of a function component from “this is a function which receives input (props) and returns a rendered data structure (JSX)” to “this sets up some initial state and returns a reference type of some kind that’s used to track that state over time”, but with the same syntax and semantics. The former is what attracted me to React and JSX, the latter is what I wanted to get away from. But making the same semantics do both is even worse than just having different semantics for both.

> Hooks are functions

Well not really, they’re routines expressed as functions, but they cause side effects on their enclosing context. That’s why, for example, you can’t conditionally call a hook. If you do, React won’t know to treat this component differently from components which don’t call hooks.
This was painted 154 years ago. I wonder if in another 154 years, in 2174, we'll still need cautionary labels on images of genitalia. Or if we may have matured a little by then (if we survive). I wouldn't bet on it.
So would everyone else, and it would massively push up the price of housing. I think that was the point.
I disagree. There were several incidents where she appears toxic (and we only know about the ones made public).

1. Absolutely refusing to update her paper with feedback from a colleague - the whole purpose of the internal review

2. Demanding that Google reveal who gave her critical feedback - presumably to attack them in some way

3. Sending an e-mail to her superiors/colleagues, making ultimatums and threatening to leave if her demands were not met

4. Sending a message to a group at Google, telling them to abandon any attempts to help Google with diversity initiatives and instead start attacking their co-workers

5. Publicly blaming Google and saying that she was "fired" for an e-mail. She was relying on information assymetry, knowing that Google would be hesitant to respond fully to all allegations
yabai works without SIP, minus some features that requires it
I don't think anyone would claim corporations are democracies, but the view that the corporation is its CEO and/or its shareholders isn't so obvious, either. There are clearly cultural differences here (e.g. see the situation in Germany [1]), but I don't think that the American view of what a corporation is and who it serves is necessarily the only reasonable one.

I don't know any more details on this matter than those in the article, but I don't see why you assume that if employees -- well paid or otherwise -- make demands of management then it must be them who are toxic, or, indeed, that anyone is.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany
This is front running and illegal.
I don't think you'll get anything more business friendly than "Kelo v. City of New London" and that was driven by the left.

This is far more minor by comparison and protects the rights of people to enter into contracts, even those they don't like.
Link: https://dood.al/pinktrombone/
That's quite the statement considering that there's lots of PoC, women, queer people, sexual abuse victims, etc who have been suffering through toxic work environments for ages. What makes this group "the most toxic group" you've ever heard of?
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Interesting read, but seeing how the article was written by the "International Inequalities Institute" it doesn't give me a lot of good feelings that it is unbiased. I think most people can agree that if you zero in on just a single country and look at the top versus the middle it seems unfair, but what if you compare that country against others? Google, Amazon, Tesla and many other major innovators didn't arise from a country with high taxes on the rich. There has been nothing but suffering for the populations of places like Venezuela and Cuba (except for those in power who made themselves rich). You also can't take policies from a small country like the Netherlands or Switzerland and try to apply it to a large and more diverse country like the US or UK.

No one has it right, but to say it was a sham is unfair.
It’s a trap.

It implies it, but doesn’t guarantee it. Everyone wants to be that hero in the narrative, and by the time the people figure out they have been shirked (but not directly lied to) your company has been acquired and you’re out with bags of money.

Clever, unethical and legal (by the thinnest margin)
Ah, ok. I was trying to follow a support thread and it wasn't clear about that. It made it sound like WSL2 didn't support USB at all.
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I think you nailed it: it's a "now draw the rest of the owl" gag. Very subtle.
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