skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some reason when I walk I get some time where I can really think, and organize my thought, and it gets me into this peaceful and calm state for weeks after. I used to do this when I was younger as well, if I'd feel really down I would just skip class and take the day off to walk endlessly in the city, always made things better for a while.

I think this idea has been echoed multiple time in history. For example, the Peripatetic school[1] (in ancient Greece) etimologic roots is in "walking" or "the pleasure of walking". Some rumors say that it is by walking that thinkers could achieve correct or deeper thinking.

Apparently, a lot more philosophers have a very deep relationship with walking. Nietzsche and Kant both spent hours walking to think[2].

I think inherently, we are not souls, we are not brains without a body. When we do something, our entirety gets to work, and sitting all day in front of a screen is no way to think or live.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripatetic_school

[2]: https://fs.blog/2014/05/a-philosophy-of-walking/
Not repeating the others:
If a package does end up using multiple version of the same lib, nixos can even deduplicate it somewhat, by symlinking one’s documentations to the other’s.
> Trademark squatting is when one party intentionally files a trademark application for a second party's registered trademark in a country where the second party does not currently hold a trademark registration.

https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/newsletter/inve...
Why link to the first thread in that tweet. The answer is in, like, tweet 20:

> Boom. @WSJ has just confirmed that the Mercers and their hedge fund are behind Parler.

Also, it's from November 2020.
Ill be honest, convincing my friends to sign up for this seems futile.
This thread is back from Nov 13, 2020.

Any updates in the past 2 months?

Edit: as other comments added in the past couple minutes, the answer is Rebekah Mercer (thanks, gumby, for the link):

> On Saturday, CEO and co-founder John Matze said one of the privately owned company's early investors is Rebekah Mercer, who along with her father, hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, has been a backer of President Trump and is also a major donor to conservative causes, including Breitbart News and former White House strategist Steve Bannon. "John and I started Parler to provide a neutral platform for free speech," Rebekah Mercer wrote on Parler on Saturday.

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/14/934833214/conservatives-flock...
not the GP, but I've had multiple times in my career when I and the team I was on were given pretty high-level problems to solve and left alone to solve them. The request to use JIRA was basically our managers and the product people wanting some vague reassurance that progress was being made, but nobody was concerned with the details of the tickets, etc. This included early-phase 'R&D' work on a medical device. Of course in that setting once the device was on a release cadence, if we were contributing to the 1.x line of the release we had a lot more overhead :). However even then you could always file yourself a more R&D flavor ticket, as long as it was going to the long-term branch and not to the release branch...

What it came down to, per the article, was that everyone in the co. respected that the engineering team was capable of delivering results and solving problems.

But i think per your question about JIRA, it gives you autonomy if:
- anyone on the team can add a ticket
- the team is trusted to make small changes in scope or spec to tickets in response to things they encounter as they work
- there is little to no ceremony around accepting tickets as done
- the team is trusted to check their own work first, and then collaborate with QA / stakeholders / etc. on releases
I disagree with this. Splitting this simple pipeline into more variables makes stuff a lot less readable. Splitting it into variables would very clearly indicate to me the intermediate computations are used elsewhere. Which wouldn't be the case here.
This is fear speaking, stand up for free speech that isn't inciting violence, racism, etc - like everyone else - and we'll all be safe, and we can all fight against tyranny when it shows itself. There's a nuance to understand as well that these people deplatformed aren't victims: they still have their freedom of speech, just not on these private platforms. It's inconvenient for them, yes, that they depended on them, but their TOS were always clear from the beginning if they actually read or cared about their contents. This scenario isn't akin to the Nazis going after one group, then another, then another - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_... - violence isn't a group even if a mob forms a group, and understandably they're an angry mob who believe to some degree that the election was fraudulent (but hypocritically it wouldn't have been fraudulent if their pick one) - which all signs point to that it wasn't - but because they're not accessible to talk to and their media channels are perpetuating the lies and lack of critical thinking, it's manifesting how expected, and why Trump et al have been inciting violence. January 6th could have ended with many more dead, could have been much more tragic had they been better organized.

If your child started saying racist things, would you just let them? I assume not. I assume you would escalate punishment until they understood and behaved with what's appropriate, and if they didn't, you'd probably kick them out of your house once you're legally allowed to if for some reason they've become a terrible person; people won't change until they're ready to or there's an impetus - sometimes, if not most of the time, all it takes is a parent saying you won't get dessert if you don't behave.
I buy extremely low cost broad market index funds for any assets I don’t need in 3+ years. VOO, etc.

If you have substantial amounts of that, I’d look into diversifying by obtaining desirable land, especially commercial real estate that will be able to generate cash flow.
Identity servers are currently not federated so everyone needs to use the same one if they want to be able to find each other. That's why no one is talking about hosting their own.
We've banned this account for abusing HN for ideological flamewar. We ban accounts for that, regardless of which ideology they're for or against, and regardless of how wrong other people are or you feel they are. You've been doing this a long time, you've been using the site primarily for it, and we've asked you many times previously to stop.

HN is a site for thoughtful, curious conversation. There's no substantive and interesting discussion that can't be had that way, and accounts that are unwilling to stop setting fires and attacking others are not cool here. Ironically, the people destroying the commons this way have far more in common with their enemies than they do with the bulk of the community, who come here to find interesting things to read and to escape this sort of ragey shitfest.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. You've posted some good comments in the past, but the damage caused by the abusive ones unfortunately far outweighs the benefit of the good ones.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The Denazified Library
Fun Fact: Most of the backbone cables from China run through Russia rather than under the pacific. It makes distinguishing attacks between the two countries nearly impossible
> Conclusion

> If you made it this far, thanks for reading! Feel free to create issues, send pull requests or star the code on GitHub.

Done, fixed 3 bugs there https://github.com/64/cmake-raytracer/pull/4 https://github.com/64/cmake-raytracer/pull/5 https://github.com/64/cmake-raytracer/pull/6 . Do I deserve a medal? A punishment for feeding an abomination?
Just make your own platform bro

Just create your own online shop bro

Just host your own platform bro

Just host your own videos bro

Just make your own DDoS protection bro

Just make your own ISP bro

Just create your own law firm bro

Just create our own payment processing bro
I think you might mean something different by optimal control than I would. I'd bucket that into control theory, but it seems you're drawing a distinction.
Most forums can run on a single server, scale is cheap when you just exchange text messages.
You can add all kinds of fancy stuff, you can improve the design and usability of the UI's but here's a big important problem waiting to be solved: audio quality and graceful degrading of the quality when needed.

At the end of the day we want to be heard in the first place. Nothing is more irritating than someone's (or your own) poor connection that makes people ask each other to repeat, watch participants freeze, wait, waste time trying to reconnect etc. etc.

Can it be solved? Degrade the quality, compress more but deliver the human speech as nicely as possible, on time. I feel not all options have been tried in this area yet.
There's a big reason they act in unison now though.
They're responding to a single national security threat event and possible consequencial liabilities. So it is not a random time do be doing this. There has previously been legitimate concern about extremism, and from this event seems only to accellerate until mitigated. People should enjoy free speech, but how these platforms work, the side-effects of algos and what kinds of conversations is facilitated do matter.
Sorry for the nitpick, but I find the title rather confusing; shouldn't it rather be "Rust front-end for GCC"?
Thanks for answering.

1. I think the website does your project a disservice instead of amplifying it. This is because it seems to focus on the cool engineering side of the project (really cool!). Instead, I think it should focus on the value it could generate for the clinics and how close you are to make it work.

For example, you change the first paragraph as follows. (English is not my first language, so phrasing and grammar could certainly be improved.)

Current version:

"I'm trying to validate a program I've written to help your clients see what they might look like after a breast augmentation instead of using Photoshop or relying only on vests. Maybe they'd like to see how they could look by using Breastimate? Please take a look at what I've come up with so far and offer any feedback. (These results are from my rudimentary proof-of-concept)"

Suggestion:

The idea

Showing clients how they would look like after breast augmentation often requires Photoshop or wearing a vest. This costs time and money, and results are often inaccurate.

My goal is to immediately provide accurate results, reduce the costs to the clinics, and increase client satisfaction by using artificial intelligence and computer vision.

Proof-of-concept

Currently, my software simulates breast augmentation results that are quite close to real-life augmentation outcomes. The below pictures were produced in 30 seconds from uploading pre-augmentation photographs.

[Photos: "before", "after (software generated)", "after (real-life outcome)"]

Partnership

To improve the results and validate this approach, I am looking for breast augmentation clinics to partner in using and developing this software.

What I am offering:

- Free lifetime access to this software

What I am looking for:

- feedback on improving it from a clinician's perspective

- access to pre- and post-augmentation photographs to further increase the accuracy of produced results

2. I couldn't find the comparison pictures in the format that I described above.

3. I would move the technical details to the very bottom of the page or a separate page. Instead, to build trust, I would write a sentence or two about who you are, add your picture, and link to your resume or LinkedIn.

4. I would remove the "bizarre experiments" because they distract from the main idea and suggest your software is not working well. Someone who skims the text and doesn't know what labels or masks are may think that your software produces Total Recall-like breasts.

5. You could also address how your software is better / cheaper from other options. I found one example here: https://www.epsteinplasticsurgery.com/procedures/breast-proc... BTW, you need to make sure that the vast majority of clinics indeed relies on Photoshop and vests. Otherwise, your main selling point suggests that you don't know this space and may turn off people you are contacting.

Just my 2c.

I hope this helps and that you succeed!
Just like Americans are funding dissidents and bolstering free speech in Hong Kong in order to undermine democracy there, this is an obvious and blatant attempt by Fascist Russia to undermine American democracy by promoting free speech and undermining repressive and antisocial megacorps!
How many $100 millions does a good sedition + terrorism legal defence run these days?

Factor in asset seizure / forfeiture.
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Hi there, thanks for the interest!

Edit: new line characters don’t seem to work on HN. So the commands might not make much sense.

1. A couple of examples I’ve been using for development:

# Joe Smith
314 395 112

% why is the sky blue?

+¥:3
Carrots
Avocado
Tomato
Spaghetti

$Joe Smith
Long time no talk
Hi Joe, it’s been a while. How are the kids?

# - create contact
% - research (will open browser with this search term when getting home)
+ - add to list
¥ - shopping
: - denotes length of list. The above will ignore spaghetti.
$ - send email

Regarding the separators, I’ve obviously been using new line for the different arguments, but could use anything. More so I was trying to make it so you could annotate any page from the past in glyphs. Just annotate a few glyphs on an existing page (or whiteboard) and it’d run operations.

I’ve tried lots of systems, but there’s always pros and cons. Open to suggestions!

2. More so I’d use them to remind me of dates or set wake up alarm. Reminders throughout the day doesn’t really help me (plus the phone isn’t with me). But there’s no reason you couldn’t do all of the options you mentioned.

3. I did a proof of concept as a desktop app. I’d just upload pictures I took to cloud, and pull down. Because desktop is much more powerful for the user, I could write custom scripts and run them from the notebook. But an app would be a good idea for those who don’t mind the hit in flexibility.

DEFINITELY have support for custom glyphs. Because I’m using Google OCR I don’t currently have support for custom glyphs (a little shape or squiggle), hence the glyphs are just symbol characters. But yes they can be created and assigned actions.

I’ve been using it on any old book. Just make sure the lighting is ok. Of course it’s not always perfect, but it’s close enough if you take effort to write clearly.
While I have not played the game this review is beyond useless with its postmodern Pynchonesque gibberish on entropy.
I'd just be happy with a video conferencing tool that doesn't slow down my computer to a crawl while screen sharing.

I've looked around a lot and couldn't find anything that isn't a complete CPU hog.
Yeah, sorry, pithy is me being snarky really. That was cheap of me and I apologise.

Actually that is what I'm saying. Was the average insurrectionist more planning than that in this case?

I know some bombs were found, leaving them out this seems like a mob with guns. They coordinated the date and location and just winged it from there it seems.

If someone has a complex plan, you can't be sure they'll go through with it till they've taken significant action.

If the plan is "meet in Washington on Tuesday, bring a gun so we can shoot democrats,see you there" then it seems you can arrest that plotter as soon as he has a gun and a plane ticket.

I think so many people either have public profiles or wore ID or literally spelt their name out to reporters, they can't have been actual planning, prepared criminals.

Edit:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/10/us/politics/capitol-arres...

I picked the above up, it seems like 2 people Brough zip ties to take prisoners. 2 more were in possession of firearms when arrested. That's the level of planning with these people, most of them seem to have just turned up.

I'm not at all saying that excuses their actions. Quite the opposite: it brings the bar for actual conspiracy down when the crime is simple.
They're configurable. In our Xmas party house the entire kitchen is one broadcast domain, like the kitchen at a party. But in the local pub we built for Friday evenings we have "booths" and you must sit down in the booth to talk to people in that booth. By default it's just proximity, so like a real pub there were always two or three girls in the toilets having presumably a private chat.

So you do need somebody technical to make the space work how you need, and if your users are all non-technical you probably only want one type of rule everywhere or it'll confuse them.
My argument is that the criminalization of sex work is what incentivizes abusive people to set up criminal enterprises around it.
There's also all those apps being removed from the Apple App Store for being critical of the CCP. Many such cases!

People act like this is just being done because people have the wrong politics, but it's a far more pervasive problem than they realise
"Proving" you're smart is a terrible idea, if you're smart it'll come across pretty quick and if it's not obvious to other people the attempt seems pretentious.

I don't think you should guard smartness by pretending its the same thing as practicalness. I know a lot of people that spent time on brilliant work that had no point. They were smart as hell just impractical

If I'm hiring a coder and I get one that writes the boringist work, or a brilliant person that writes their code as a quine, I respect quine guy but I want boring guy.
As a consumer, I also want to know the competitors on the product I'm buying.

I don't think this practice is generally bad.
Right, I think this is evidence that they're not doing as well at that stated goal as they could be.
The other languages without a spec don't market themselves a C/C++ replacement or as systems languages.

Having a webapp depend on a CPython implementation detail is very different from having a kernel depend on an implementation detail of a language without a spec that was used to implement it.

And languages actually stack on top of each other. Imagine depending on a CPython implementation detail that depends on an implementation detail of a specific C compiler. Those things do happen and they make programmers' lives miserable sometimes, but imagine how often that would happen if C didn't have a spec that all compilers strive to implement.
My electrical engineering students, too, get bored when my differential equations course does not talk about circuits in any significant way.

Why do people not realize that skills and knowledge gained in one course will be used in specialized ways in another course? And they don't know enough just yet, to realize that specific topics chosen in the first course have been chosen with the intent of helping them do well in the second course?
It was a crutch when windows 95 introduced it, and it is still a crutch today.

I prefer when applications do not assume that it is available at all; if they do, they are broken. Applications, that force themselves on the user upon startup, then sit in the systray and are resisting the user that is trying to close them are outright black UI pattern.
Tell me how you feel after the walk :)

By queue I mean a set of task yeah. The whole point is to take away your will to organize (or at least place it somewhere) and set a queue of tasks to work on in front of you. You can then spend your entire focus on the task in front of you, then when you're done go to the next task.

From time to time (at the end of every week) you can re-organize your task lisk, but most of the time focus on one task at a time.
Hey at least it's possible. System Preferences-level config has a cognitive cost, it's ok by me to move 1% or fewer level stuff to plugins. My example is that I want the scroll direction reversed when I have my trackball plugged in, but not on the trackpad, and there's a helper app called Scroll Reverser which does the trick.

Alas, my white whale is focus-follows-mouse, and I just... can't have it. Not worth abandoning the Mac over, not for me, but.. arrgh.
Chapter 4 was used as the SQLite Code of Conduct until there was an uproar on social media: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18273530
Tips fedora...
FBI, NYPD told Capitol Police about possibility of violence before riot
Windows 98 had the best GUI

Everything that came later has turned into crap

Also, I use the Lazarus Pascal IDE. After updating from Kubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 20.10, it has started crashing every other time I open a file with its GTK2 file chooser.
I noticed that a lot of the porn actors sticking up for Pornhub were the ones putting out their own home-grown content, who essentially benefit from Pornhub as a publishing platform.

Rather than ones with pre-existing professionally published content who have seen their revenue and livelihoods decimated by the tacit acceptance of illegally pirated material that is essentially Pornhub’s business model.
This is insane-all the carriers listed in this program are globally connected and by definition China is connected to them as well. Therefore, access to cloud based services is easily achieved by their hackers. I spun up a small DNS service yesterday to test and the first IP address to hit it (within minutes) was from China. They are constantly scanning our networks.
Excellent letter. Worth reading.
That's too generous. Even if these these businesses "conspired" to do this, that's still not a conspiracy in a legal sense, which is about an agreement to commit an actual crime. As it's not a crime to end business relationships with an entity (which btw almost certainly has been in violation of TOS), no amount of prior coordination would make this a conspiracy. It's not illegal to conspire to do something that's otherwise perfectly legal.
I bumped into this accidentally having ever heard of it. It is one of those pleasures of browsing through a library. Lovely book, easy to understand with a broad range of topics and insights. Recommended!
I agree the problem is two-fold: One being the Big Tech overreaching in the name of "our safety". The other being the overly vocal minority who clap hands for them and come up with excuses defending them, as if they were propagandists.
A mortgage is a lot of money, how can so many people not be reading them?
> The Gnome maintainers refuse to add it for whatever reason.

Because the issue would be solved, "this is why we can't have nice things"
Also Safari is suggesting perler.com when searching the url.
I never cared about low-level programming, until I got my hands on the PineTime/Colmi P8 smart watch. With just 64KB of RAM and 514KB of Flash memory, you can't avoid it.

In just a few days, I learned a lot about:

- Memory allocation

- Image encoding

- Bluetooth

- Drivers

I recommend it to anyone interested in learning embedded systems programming.
Ask HN: Newsgroups
Do people still do usenet groups? Serious question..
> It will only benefit the language to have more than one quality implementation.

As long as "quality implementation" means "implements the entire Rust language and not a subset".

Because otherwise, people will start getting requests to avoid using features that the non-standard Rust toolchain doesn't support.
Or perhaps the indictments are sealed.
Some people need to lose some attitude and respect fellow human beings. Nobody knows everything and believing random texts online is nuts. Just stay humble and help those around you and locally.

The irony is the bad qualities they hate in others, only festers in themselves, they're unable to let go of the hate.
I once designed a microcoded bit slice processor on paper. It's useful because it's conceptually simple enough to get in your head. And there isn't anything software related that really can't be mapped to it. Or an extension of it.