skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No doubt! I wish I hadn't grown up obese, it was probably the most damaging thing to ever happen to me psychologically. It's not fun being the fattest kid in school. But there's only so much your parents can get right - I was loved, well-cared for, never abused or molested. I'll never know what sort of burden someone who grows up in extreme poverty or around violence carries.

Could my parents have fed me a few cheeseburgers less? Absolutely. But it's a very small tarnish all things considered.
> Can it possibly be be used with Libreboot?

No. Libreboot lacks support for any of the hardware under consideration by this project.

Libreboot is essentially a dead project. It only supports a limited number of Penryn-era (roughly 2007-2010) Intel laptops, and -- strangely -- the RK3288C-based Chromebook C210.
It looks far from baseless.

I googled - people are attaching their names to this on twitter. It's not anonymous. It's not "I heard he did x".

It's he did X to me.

We'll find out if any of it is true - but I'm going to guess that a lot of it is. Hence, resigning before he can be fired.

https://twitter.com/imontheradio/status/1343598441226792960?...
https://twitter.com/brianabreen/status/1341921383354224640

Also, Radiolab doesn't seem to be downplaying this:
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/note-...
I'd expect less activity around the MIPS port because it is, by and large, already fully functional and a first class citizen of Android, while RISC-V is still being fully bootstrapped.

Further, software like Chrome/Chromium and V8 already have functioning MIPS ports, which will be (a lot of) additional work not currently being performed for RISC-V.

Compared to RISC-V, almost everything in the Linux ecosystem should already "just work" on MIPS. I think it's fair to ask why there wouldn't be more development of MIPS, which is effectively a Chinese owned ISA at this point, since it's more mature than RISC-V, if not as "exciting".
2nd system effect, badly written mods perform poorly regardless of the language.
Yes, this is well worth reading: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/11/business/media/new-york-t...

An excerpt:

> The assignment, Mr. Flood recalled thinking, was both hopeless and quite strange in its specificity [...] Ms. Callimachi was singularly focused. “She only wanted things that very narrowly supported this kid in Canada’s wild stories,” he told me in a phone interview.

> Mr. Flood didn’t know it at the time, but he was part of a frantic effort at The New York Times to salvage the high-profile project the paper had just announced.
Was he fired for his bad journalism or for his past misconduct?

I couldn't tell from the article.
Ok good find. It should be disclosed in the article.

Maybe my view of Reuters is colored by that local newspapers cite them for the "there has been an election in Nigeria and the tomatoe harvest in Spain is bad this year" serious kind of news.
They deleted my curated playlist for programming while I was a paying customer and with zero warning. I just moved to a new service (and in parallel keep my playlist locally, with good old mp3 files).

Thanks for the warning, but unfortunately when it comes to Google one must never be surprised when their data is no longer accessible.
A somewhat disingenuous argument. Debian isn’t physical hardware.
Eh, Streamlit and PyCharm is a much more powerful combination IMO. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but something about variable explorer always felt like training wheels to me.
Cool, I see the request! Will send you all the info the next week already.
Whatever native bookmarking utility comes in whatever browser I'm using. Because whatever I'm doing there will likely stay there.

Back in the day I used Delicious, but after that went kaput I realized I didn't really need it.

If I really need a link for later I'll email it to myself as an actual send or as a draft.
I spent about 4 years creating educational videos and posts, and it's not irrelevant: it takes a ton of time, especially writing and editing, to make a video short and dense in information.
That said, I created videos because I could charge way more for them — even if it for myself, I would rather have the content in the written/illustrated form.

Maybe the problem today is the lack of financial incentives to create good, but short written content?

From the point of view of the consumer, “short content” has a big problem: a short summary from a 250-page non-fiction book rarely creates a profound effect on the person reading it. I'm not surely why, but my guess is, without the anecdotes and examples, the hero journey, and the more complex narrative, we don't take the content as seriously and even approachable for ourselves.
happily, this story doesn't end with "and he's still a registered sex offender today!"
and this: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/18/944594193/new-york-times-retr...
I read the article in your link with the ruling regarding IE. All Microsoft had to do as the result was to offer a default browser choice screen during the installation experience for Windows OS (with IE still being there), and only in select 27 EU countries + 3 Scandinavian countries.

And on top of that, they don't have to do it anymore either, and MSFT is able to have (and actually does have) IE set as the default browser in EU again since late 2014 [0]. Which eventually transformed into Edge as the default browser, but you get the idea.

0.https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather/microsoft-no-longer-needs...
>people who make personal boundaries mistakes should never have jobs again.

(without having a personal comment on this article ) Is there a more nuanced approach here? Having a job is really different from being in a leadership position at a company that has global reach and impact, no?
Cancel culture is what happened after the revelations about the podcast. Some people got angry they felt he wasn't punished enough and turned to cancel culture to punish him instead.
I'm not much of an Anaconda fan, but installing Spyder as a user package (pip install -U spyder) has always worked out well for me. After an upgrade, all I've ever needed to do was to upgrade to the spyder-kernels in my venv.

Spyder is such a great tool and much more useful than Jupyter Notebooks for explorative DS work, imho. Thank a lot for maintaining it, Carlos. I don't mind the kite installer - but I've tried it out and found the completions pretty useless.
As someone with aphantasia, I strongly object to this test which has nothing to do with coding.
Agreed, "journalists" should be held to a high standard for the information they disseminate. Have we all forgotten "A Rape on Campus" and the fallout for Rolling Stone?
My point is that "overconsumption" has a very different meaning inside the context of "underconsumption" to the point that binge eating is a substantial source of your calories and might not be considered "overconsumption" at all. If you don't eat the apple in the first place avoiding junk food doesn't do any good. Furthermore, there are probably hundreds of millions of people silently malnourishing themselves through fad diets that non-doctors prescribe and overexercising. Such a rigid view of nutrition as the parent poster implied (e.g., health problems in america are generally traceable back to high availability of food high in sugar and fat but low in fiber and a culture of non-exercise) obscures deeply complex ways that people consume food and how this is informed through the media and social norms.

Anyway, I'm not gonna stop chugging milkshakes any time soon; I need the nutrition to gain weight.
No need to pass so much judgement.
Is mustard oil used in a lot of Indian cuisine? I wonder if that has something to do with the high rates of heart disease in people of Indian descent?
"The auto industry is running a highly misleading and fearmongering ad campaign in Massachusetts in an attempt to hinder independent car repair."
Wonderful little movie - just watched it. A little sad because of the nostalgia for the silent movie era. So nice that the movie is simply available on the NFB website.
I have installed Spyder both from its own repo, and using Anaconda, and I don't have Kite. I don't recall doing anything special during installation.
Why?

In many cases, the hard part isn't so much making a working vaccine, as proving it works, scaling manufacturing, etc.
There is almost always a cop there. I walk by pretty frequently and I can't recall seeing it open without a cop. Could be wrong - not exactly casing the joint on my lunch walks.
Don't be evil -> Don't don't be evil
Let's be honest, telling people they have to accept their abuse and "get on your abusers' level and 'outsmart' them" is kind of wrong. The advice to leave your abusive boss and your insecurities behind and find a better paying job is, really, the only ethically correct advice. Your "option" of "trying to outplay" your boss only plays into the victims' insecurities and validates the abuser's hold.
One rebuttal for this logic could be that everything you do has side effects. Messing up your health costs society tons of money in lost tax income and the burden on healthcare.

But as a starting point, I've thought the same in the past and I don't think it's bad. Just that crossing a red light, even if no one was harmed that particular instance, may still be judged to be reckless and fineable, and even if it's only about your own dead body (let's say you didn't run in front of a cyclist), that's still an impact in the way described above. Nevertheless, if you use "don't bother others" as a general rule for what should probably be legal and then define exceptions for particular situations and reasons, or even if you just look for those side effects, it might be useful.
He resigned do to social media backlash it appears
No mention of blood test results in the post.
Sure you can - by finding something better, which is all anyone is concerned about from leaving anyway. The other parts (badmouthing you behind your back or whatever), have no effect on you once you’re gone except to highlight even more why folks should leave. People are not ignorant of the type of bosses that do that sort of thing, or what it means in my experience.

Worrying about the narrative some asshole is going to spin about your departure just puts you in their power - which is why they do it. The folks on the line generally don’t care, certainly not to the extent that should let someone control you in a toxic environment.
I think it's fair to point out libreboot is a fork off coreboot, and while libreboot is basically a dead project at this point, coreboot development continues. Chromebooks tend to use coreboot natively, and on some chromebooks, you can recompile and reflash coreboot, sometimes with no binary blobs.

Google makes this (reflashing the firmware) surprisingly easy in many cases, although there are often many caveats to running linux/alternative firmware on chromebooks, to the point it's kind of hard to recommend buying one for this purpose.
San Francisco sues its own school district
I'd go with both. There are plenty of smart people who i would consider delusional. Which is separate from people stuck in their views.

However, as the saying goes, science advances one funeral at a time.
VS Code is not really an IDE, either. Of course, what is an isn’t an IDE isn’t so clear-cut these days.
"A camera slowly stalks a woman walking to her SUV in a desolate, empty parking garage. 'If question 1 passes in Massachusetts, anyone could access the most personal data stored in your vehicle,' a narrator says. 'Domestic violence advocates say a sexual predator could use the data to stalk their victims. Pinpoint exactly where you are. Whether you are alone …' The woman’s keys jingle as she approaches her car. The camera gets closer. The woman whips her head around. The stalker has found her. The screen flashes to black. 'Vote NO on 1,' the narrator says."
> I have no doubts about the safety of vaccines in healthy people. I have some harmless curiosity about people who are not known to be healthy. How do you actually determine if someone is "too immunocompromised" for a vaccine?

My understanding is that being too immunocompromised for a vaccine happens in two different ways:

1) the vaccine contains live virus and so there's danger that the weak immune system couldn't fight this off

2) the vaccine isn't live, so it's not dangerous on its own, but the immune system is too weak to recognize it, so it doesn't build any immunity to the real thing. (One doctor I was talking to said the mRNA ones should be good here, because your own body produces so much of the lookalikes that even a weak immune system should notice it - and then you're much better prepared to fight the real thing off faster.)

Only the first is immediately dangerous, so the standard seems to be to just stay away from those.

I'm not sure if much is commonly done for the second, in terms of looking for response, but you can get tests for measles antibodies and such, so that would probably be how?
At what age have you started working with your kid to get her into coding, and what would you suggest as the first step?
Again, you can simply take them off. Perhaps scarier to contemplate is a future humanity that just couldn't cope with real, unfiltered pixels.
John Gruber's 2020 Apple Report Card
I can almost hear the bitter weeping of the people who missed out on being in the pile on, and the solemn oathes being sworn not to miss the next one.
Nevada Bill Would Allow Tech Companies to Create Governments
Indeed. Those who would like to know more may want to read the NYT's own repudiation of Caliphate. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/business/media/new-york-t...

This Vulture article is a good overall summary of the timeline, which I would absolutely call a "scandal." https://www.vulture.com/2021/01/caliphate-controversy-new-yo...

Those who are replying here to decry "cancel culture" are falling for his story. This guy is resigning in disgrace for producing journalism so bad, so false in every regard, not just in one article but in an entire podcast spanning months, that his employer had to return his Peabody award.

Andy wants you to think that he's leaving because a Twitter mob is mad at him for giving a co-worker a back rub, and if you fall for this, you're Andy's next victim.
A Twitter campaign sounds like cancel culture. There are avenues to address misbehavior. There are ways to report inaccuracies. I’m not defending the man’s mistakes or his podcast. Like I said, there are some things that are table stakes, telling the truth at a news org should definitely be one.

His story isn’t unique though about how social media descends on an individual to ruin their lives. He mentioned how the campaign made its way into the NYT via Twitter. All I’m saying is that we are all human, we all make mistakes, we should all be given an opportunity to learn from and grow from those mistakes.

Does he need to be publicly visible in NYT’s, probably not considering the history.

Could he produce shows where he’s not asked to determine the truth but just report it, possibly.

There are levels to mistakes, I hear you, and to make a public post about it on his blog definitively shows he doesn’t exactly know why this is happening to him or he wants to make a big grand stand about it.

Doesn’t matter. My statement still stands. People make mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes have nothing to do with their jobs and yet, canceled...
The thing is, I'd like to help, but I'm not dedicated that much as to mount a multi-year siege campaign to fix some error in Wikipedia, even if I know it's wrong. Life is short, TODO list is ever-growing and I have only so much attention to be spent on fighting petty bureaucrats. I just know Wikipedia is not to be trusted in any controversial subject, because the advertised idea of finding truth by consensus is false in practice - it's pushing the point of whoever knows the arcane bureaucracy best and is most obsessed and out-games everybody. The factual truth plays very small role in these games.
As I see it, a major problem in software is that when you have a problem, it's often not clear who or what is at fault. Let's say my laptop is slow, particularly when I have lots of browser tabs open. Should I blame:

1. My hardware?

2. My OS?

3. My web browser?

4. My browser extensions?

5. Websites?

6. The chat app I keep open in the background?

7. The Electron settings app for my RGB Keyboard?

8. My internet connection?

9. A virus?

10. "Technology", presumably alongside some wistful thoughts of "the good old days"?

Most users, even non-technical ones, are going to blame one of these things. And, more often than not, their conclusions will have more to do with marketing and happenstance than the actual cause

All of which is to say, that quote kind of bothers me. You cannot actually be focused on user experience while skimping on technical details. You may have created an experience in which users feel inclined to blame someone else, but that's not the same thing. You are the knowledgable developer, and your users are not.
"One person died" isn't a refutation, it's just an appeal to emotion.

Under 40 the survival rate is 99.98% for everyone -- including the already ill. If you screened for comorbidities and gave people great healthcare, you could get that 99.999% or higher. And save millions of lives (and trillions of dollars) by doing so.
Is Python actually so poor though?

Perhaps not in the general case, but in many cases it absolutely is. The problem isn't python itself but libraries. While JavaScript tends towards dozens of small libraries that do only one thing, python tends towards one library that does everything. Which is really handy in most cases, but very painful when you want to package something that just uses one of those functions.

In a concrete case I had a small script that ran a particular edge detection algorithm on an image and returned the edges in geojson format. The whole script was less than 300 lines. But the built dist weighed in at several hundred MB as it pulled in the entirety of numpy, scipy, scikit-image, fiona, shapely and rasterio, despite needing only maybe a couple of percent of the functionality of each library.
Bill Hicks on Marketing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0
The absurdity of the American health care and insurance system will never not amaze me. It's just sad and weird, and even weirder that you will always find a bunch of intelligent folks to defend it.
Wishing the author, who btw is a better writer than most writers, a speedy and complete recovery.
If I can't fix the work environment for me, I can't fix it for them.

The best I could do is to very quietly tell them "This is garbage. I'm looking. You maybe ought to be looking, too." (I guess the other thing I could do for them is to tell the actual truth in my exit interview.)
> these foods are so fibrous it’s difficult to have anything resembling a binge

You’re talking about eating too many calories, I’m talking about overeating and binging. They are related, but not the same. It is absolutely binging to eat broccoli to the point where you feel sick and can’t sleep and contemplate making yourself vomit (speaking from experience here), even if calorie-wise it’s less than a donut.
You can't reasonably expect a government to welcome a business into their country, while the business is working against the interests of said government. Apple and Google are businesses who operate in various countries with the objective of making money.

I still don't see why a tech company in the US should be in charge of engineering social behavior around the world. In my opinion, this is a dangerous path.
Yeah, the results aren't in yet.

> Consider this a pre-registration. I intend to share my test results here.

Of course, without checking/testing this would be a completely useless exercise. Or if you test in the wrong way, like a nose swab after doing nose spray vaccination. OP instead will do blood tests and does seem to have thought this through to an extent that I find reasonable.

However, henceforth considering yourself safe indefinitely and normalizing socializing during the pandemic and normalizing the homebrewing of vaccines... that's where I'm not certain about the conclusion (iff it proves effective in the first place - e.g. I also see no mention of false positive rates in the test they'll use).
Spains opt-out model for organ donation upon death
This is really unfortunate - their ice cream is some of the best I've had. They took a risk in trying to scale up rapidly and paid the price. It is what it is.
> Because there are many similarities

This just isn't true.
> Signal is an American company with it's headquarters in California. My point is that the global interests of nation states and their alliances are not only pursued through government channels but also through their influence on domestic private companies.

Please outline those channels which connect Signal to the US government. Otherwise please stop insulting me with this story. Selling basic human rights as some evil US government agenda is ridiculous.
I do sometimes on my dell xps 13 (scrolling, not selecting)
As a foreigner, I find American politics really entertaining sometimes!
> I haven’t heard of a single one of the available vaccines being held back by regulations, only the speed at which they could go through human trials.

The vaccine trials were drastically slowed down by the regulations against human challenge trials.
Sounds like a protection racket. You have the choice of paying for a cop to protect your property or getting robbed.
Yes, I agree with what you said.
Did you read the article by chance? The author wasn't "cancelled" on account of the misreporting. That was just what put a spotlight on him leading to cancelling him for unrelated actions.
Along with Hackbraten's answer — I don't know if this would be more or less work for you but would a per-user Homebrew installation help? I don't have any multi-user machines but for years I've kept my Homebrew installation in ~/Homebrew, where I have complete ownership of it. (Really you can install Homebrew in any directory) Or would the space/compilation cost be prohibitive?

Not a Homebrew maintainer, just a satisfied user.
> so it runs for many months on end

Danger. You want to restart it more frequently than this for updates.
> You can emphasize to the recruiter/HR/interviewer when pressed that - actually I'm happy where I am at the moment, but I am always up for a conversation and this sounded like it could be an interesting opportunity.

I agree with what you've said, but word of caution, this has to be handled with a bit of finesse, I think. I almost got passed over for a job because I said this and gave the recruiter the impression I wasn't that interested.

I had a acquaintance on another team who mentioned it to me, and I did a little "damage control" with the hiring manager. I got a great offer in the end -- and it was a great job -- but without that contact I would probably have whiffed it.
What is the rationale for doing this?