skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of stuff on amazon/ebay is fake - tools, any kind of parts including automotive and even books (cheap reprints).

All these fakes ends up in brick and mortar stores as well and in some cases you have to pay more than original should costs for poor quality fake without even knowing it.

Amazon / ebay won't move a finger since they get to collect they fees. Removing fake listing is time consuming and even if they will remove it once, those will soon be back in stock again...
Why is that? Perhaps they get business value out of it?
Did you read the article?

There are 2 cleanrooms. The 2nd story one is undamaged but needs the 1st story one to be repaired (I assume it's a structural thing?). So I'm curious how, from 1 picture, your comment can be informed?

Also from the article, the fire damaged 5% of the first cleanroom and 11 machines. Maybe they're able to get the other 95% back up and running without having the damaged 600sqft fully functional?
I kinda lost whatever trust I had in Backblaze here, but I don’t think they’re in the habit of deleting paying customers’ data in vengeance.
> Bunch of dorks.

This is uncalled for and devalues the rest of your comment.
This is a disingenuous take. English Heritage verdicts are relatively easy to know in advance, so the developers knew full well what they were doing. Which is why they were slapped hard: you can skirt the law but you cannot take the piss.

Note, btw, that even if they might have been allowed to demolish the structure, they were definitely not allowed to change what the land was used for. Do you think they would have left the land empty? No, they would have built the flats which had already been refused, then applied for retrospective permission and accepted a fine as the cost of doing business. Which should not be possible - it’s not acceptable, in a civil society, to have a business where “willingly breaking the law” is an item in the P&L.
Well, for many of us this is where it starts:

I might very well start using backblaze next year or maybe even next month[1], but that is depending on the outcome of this event.

For a comparison: one good friend once called med to apologize that he had been laughing behind my back with some friends.

Guess who I definitely trust today? The one admitted his mistake. He always was a nice bloke and I guess he will never ever do anything like that ever again.

[1]: I won't start using it this week or the next however.
If they keep eating one another so publicly and randomly, they won't achieve the necessary internal stability.

Successful authoritarian movements have a clear set of rules that make you safe as a member, and only turn to internal purges once they destroyed any external opposition.
As a European it seems funny to bash at NASA when at the same time the defense expenses in the US are several orders above the SLS cost.
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When you are done praising Plan 9, head on to Inferno and Limbo, which are actually the last OS developed by the authors at Bell Labs and contain the genesis of Go.

http://doc.cat-v.org/inferno/

http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/

http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/docs.html
There ya go, hehe, I wouldn't want to deal with it.
His argument wasn't difficult to understand, and I accepted it in good faith.

He believed the term "sexual assault" should be reserved for those cases where content was affirmatively withdrawn, and physical violence was used.

He believed that the broadening of term would lead people to believe someone accused of "sexual assault" was guilty of the most morally reprehensible version of the crime imaginable (formal withdrawal of consent combined with physical force).

In this specific case, he believed that his friend hadn't committed "sexual assault", under his preferred definition, and found it more plausible that his friend thought the victim was willing, or was lead to believe she was.

It's a pedantic defense.
Yeah, there's sort of an "expanded set" like you describe, but there's definitely a thing where there's a very standardized subset of "normal fork, normal spoon, normal knife".

(Which is to say you're not wrong at all, I'm just stressing how standardized that subset is).

You can really see it with plastic utensils. If you get them from a restaurant, the spoons and so on are pretty consistent - not absolutely so, but it's interesting how often they'll be a certain type.
I agree. If you're spending years getting a PhD, and losing the data would put that degree in jeopardy, then it's definitely on you to ensure that the data you collect can't be lost. It's a necessary skill of being a scientist, just like keeping accurate lab notebooks, doing statistics, and everything else. If nobody taught you how to do this, you'll just have to learn it yourself.
When I lived in Tartu, Estonia, there were two free, privately operated bus routes circling through town, they had several convenient stops, one of them happening to be the large shopping center that operates the line.

We often used these busses, just to get around town, and, well, sometimes to get to the shopping center.

Seen isolated, these bus lines were losing money, they made literally no profit, all expense, no ticket sales.

Them being free, however, was not charity, their presence generated so much additional revenue in the respective shopping-centers that it made sense to run them.
As far as I understand, they were funded through the rent paid by the shops in the centers. So "transporting customers to your shop location" was included in the rent, neat.

Now, in more taxed countries, like Denmark, a goverment-run model would work as well in more populated areas, as transportation becomes free, people become more mobile, and will travel more often to buy goods, and more sales-taxes result.
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"Boys will be boys" was usually said when boys were doing something asinine. I've never heard someone frame it the way you did.
They weren’t forced to run a bar, they were forced to keep a historic structure up. It could have been turned into other commercial activities without any question.
The company I used to work with was a b2b portal. Their Chinese customers were having issue to submit form due to the firewall and was taking 22 seconds. What I simply did was sending close header from server which made client browser to shut the request and release. Behind the scene it was still taking same time but at least customer weren't waiting. It was kind of Ajax but using apache flags.
Pixel tracking on an internal customer page... scanning and uploading metadata about users backups? How much am I misunderstanding?
Stallman is a disgusting pig. His behavior towards, and around, women cannot be excused by his technical contributions. He knows he is being sexist, and does not care.
> He literally used to have a mattress on the floor of his office. He kept the door to his office open, to proudly showcase that mattress and all the implications that went with it.

LOL'd hard at that. My PhD student used to have a mattress on her office because she liked to take a nap after lunch. She also had her office next to the main door, and left it always open (except when taking the nap), so the mattress was visible to everybody that went into the lab. As far as I can tell nobody felt "threatened" by that, if anything many people said that it was a good idea and that they would like to bring a mattress as well. If you see "implications" in something like that you are truly a deranged person.

> He’s a sex pest and a creep.

I find your assessment of the facts really creepy!
"Not obvious": yes, I was originally writing up the paper just to contain the derivation and results of the Fourier transform calculation — whatever it turned out to be — and was dumbstruck when it turned out to be sinc^3 x. The original title was just "The Fourier Transform of Magic Kernel Sharp."
It all turned out to be more interesting than a boring calculation. Some of it also doesn't quite flow properly because the story kept changing as the mystery unfolded, but I think it's close enough to summarize it all.

I also realized while writing it that the original doubling "magic" kernel (the 1/4, 3/4) was just the linear interpolation kernel for a factor of 2 with "tiled" positions, which I added to the page after writing the paper. I have since seen that others had previously made that comment (which I missed, but they are completely right). It's interesting that the infinitely repeated application of this "second" order kernel, i.e. what I now call m_2(x), originally led me (i.e. in 2011) to the "next" one, i.e. m_3(x). I still haven't fully sorted through how that works, but it's lucky that it did.
I agree with the sibling that there are many things in life that we just can't reduce to numbers. Sometimes you can't make a decision based on hard, irrefutable data. You just have to go by what you think will or won't happen based on the possible choices.

In this case, though we actually could, if we wanted to, find some data. We could go around and ask a bunch of people if they wanted to get involved with the FSF but didn't, and see how many of those people were turned off by RMS. Another option could be to look at the demographics of people getting involved in the FSF before and after RMS had been outsted, and compare.

None of that is perfect, and especially the second option would only give you a correlation, not necessarily causation. But, again, our data will always be incomplete, and you just have to go with what your experience tells you will or won't happen.
Comparatively the F-35 is a lot better anyway. Its nowhere near as bad as people like to scream about it, it was just built for a world that doesn't really exist anymore and didn't meet the ambitious targets set for it originally. New F-16s are just as expensive (flyaway, presumably cheaper to maintain, but an F-16 is going to be a sitting duck against a stealth fighter with a modern sensor package as time goes on)
> Trust, but verify. Especially FB.

In the particular case of Facebook many of us simplify to "don't trust if not absolutely necessary" ;-)
At this point, every developer should (and needs) to be aware of how invasive any tracking code they blindly copy/paste into a website. I think it's required from people who operate normal websites, blogs, etc... but missing it is somewhat forgivable, especially from people just starting.

But the level of irresponsibility with customers' most private data from a company who's MAIN JOB is to protect it is absolutely shocking. Yes, it's the freaking pixel that does the tracking, BUT IT'S THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO KNOW WHAT THE HECK IS HAPPENING ON THEIR WEBSITE. Don't they have any sort of vulnerability assessment or security code review? Their reply tweet is almost as infuriating as how something like that could even happen to begin with. Like yeah, sorry, ain't our fault! It's astounding.

I considered using backblaze a couple of times and now I'm very happy that I eventually didn't.
A simple mistake that leaks 20M users' data
> I don’t support all software being “free of cost”.

Stallman and the FSF agree with you; selling software is perfectly OK:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling
Agreed 150%. I think a lot of older generation engineers like him because he is an asshole, and says things to women that they, in turn, feel. I think the sun is setting on the old, rude, archetype of engineer that cannot tolerate those different from them.
Regardless of the make or source of measuring equipment they should be calibrated if used in any kind of regulated process. You can have a brand name caliper that zeros dead on every time on your gauge block but have a parallel error that the calibration lab can spot. The calibration is good for a year if the equipment is treated carefully.
> Why would elements being classes change this?

It's more the other way around: having non-objects allows things to change.

Being able to transparently bridge between Objective-C and Swift is very valuable, particularly because the vast majority of library/framework code is written in Objective-C.

So Swift Arrays are designed to be bridgeable to NSArray whenever possible, for example by simply pointing to an NSArray as their backing store. NSArrays can be non-contiguous, largely due to them not really being arrays in the strict sense, but more like Smalltalk OrderedCollections, meaning you can, for example, add and remove elements from the front.

However, non-object Swift types cannot be stored in an NSArray and would thus never be expected in Objective-C code. Therefore, there is no need to bridge those, meaning that you can use different kinds of backing store.
I worked on highly visible internal work. Improving your colleagues' quality of life can be highly visible.
You can buy cheap digital calipers for just £5 on ebay these days. Big Clive did a tear down of some that he found and found they were pretty good except for the fact that the digital circuit drains the battery even when it's off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKSSY1gzCEs
> That said, materials science is vital for incremental improvements like modern composite airplanes or SpaceX rockets etc, and if we ever do get to space elevators or room-temperature superconductors, the potential is life-changing.

There are a lot of other directions that materials science is exploring that might turn out to be transformative. Higher energy densities and power densities in batteries and capacitors, weldable ceramics, thin film thermal insulators, electroactive polymers, tunable optical refraction and reflection, biocompatible materials for implants, etcetera, etc.
The first uncancellation?
By separating intention and action. Everyone can be perceived as thoughtless or mean or an arse by anyone else for any action, but we also know from experience when we've been the "baddy" that we may have had good intentions, even the best.

I'm sure you also know of times - I know I do for myself - of times you've knowingly and purposively been an arse.

There's the biggest difference.
I gave up trying to find "computer speakers", I tried some "high grade" ones, but they were trash, even though expensive.
A cheaper, and better setup for me, was to buy a Scarlett 2i4 USB Dac and a pair of PreSonus Eris E5 monitors, nice sound, can play very loud (given the size of the room), and gives some nice flexibility for doing stuff with sound and midi too.
The point with these sites is to obscure the point.
>When we apply "toxic" to a person or his behaviour, we borrow that seriousness.

what makes you think so?

words means in theirs contextes whatever people attributed to them, and I've never seen toxic used in other context than somebody trashtalking somebody and being called toxic, so definitely not dangerous.
CORS is about safely allowing two cooperating, different origins to communicate. In this case, Facebook and the host are cooperating.
No. A large part of modern web accessibility work is using ARIA to bind assistive tech APIs to applications. Lynx won’t give you anything unless you’re writing flat HTML sites.
Works fine for me. As in, I set it to usb audio and it keeps the setting after I restart the computer or resume from suspend. Sometimes I want HDMI audio and then I switch the output using the Gnome volume app and that works as well.

If it's a PulseAudio issue, it's very likely that you can change something in a config file somewhere to change the behaviour to whatever you want.
Fruit trees make a mess. The fruits fall if you don't pick it. Rotting fruit smells and attracts insects such as wasps.
> Forced usage of IRC. I shouldn't have to run my own bouncer to get features like history, push notifications, identity services. I cannot comprehend how in 2021 at a major corporation I would receive irc messages from usernames like "cloudpizza9000" or "m0use" and be expected to know who these people are and take things seriously enough to work together. It seemed like I was in a 90s chat room with a bunch of strangers.

That sounds great! Would love to work for company like that. Meanwhile in my company we are now migrating to Teams from Lync and Slack and general IT infrastructure is usual MS-shitshow...
> I know people don’t like tracking but usage analytics are invaluable to improving the product.

I wasn't aware that Facebook offered a Google Analytics style service, I was only aware of the Facebook Analytics for your Facebook page.

Can you provide links to this service, as my Google-fu doesn't return anything.
Same same but different? Good video of a Tesla valve:

https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+%22Tesla+Valve+Expla...
Not everyone is dispensable. I doubt there would be true free software without him. We need militant people to push towards that direction and there are not many
sometimes I cry a little over the fact that people who only have access to under powered phones are the most incentivised to criticise apps despite being consigned to ultimate futility regardless of their actions, whilst it's a rare occasion when the owner of a flagship phone is going to give feedback of any kind about performance to the developers of a poorly performing app that may be software atrocities but given more hardware than the average high end laptop to consume...
Under what circumstances is something that does no harm not ok?
Did you read anything more than the incredibly poorly worded headline?

The data was harvested by the Facebook pixel as part of their audience building tech for acquisition of new customers. So you are being sold by Facebook, Backblaze just happens to have been quite careless here but they are not "selling your data".

The breach of trust is BB letting third party code on their platform and especially from a particularly untrustworthy third party. That's it, it's egregious and should be taken seriously, that also means discussing it seriously.

This kind of hyperbole is counter-productive, it only makes it easier to ignore your concerns as "crazy overreacting".
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I removed all Facebook many years ago.

In the particular case of Facebook many of us simplify to "don't trust"

There is no upside for Facebook to have anything about me.
I’m guessing she still wakes up in a beautiful room on thousand thread count sheets. Oh the suffering.
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> I guess they can’t afford to cover costs given current prices so they sell customer metadata to Facebook

This sentence, your thesis, is absurd. Where does it say they make money from selling data?

Furthermore, "I guess they can’t afford to cover costs given current prices" is a really strange foundation to leap from. Do you have any facts? Or are you just speculating on BackBlaze and making wild assumptions?

> now that other like-minded crazies can find each other faster than ever

You are right, there is nowhere else online where "crazies" gather - not 4chan, not reddit, not voat, not twitter, just Facebook?
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As a protection for the users, addons like Facebook Container for Firefox [0] can isolate all Facebook tracking and prevent the scripts from running on pages that are not facebook.com.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont...
> I assume it's a structural thing?

Maybe repairing the first floor will generate too much vibrations and additional dust on the external environment.
I'm young, single and without children, and even 40 hours a week feels like a tad much, even when I realistically worked 5-6 hours a day.

I can't imagine a life of 60-90 hour weeks be worth whatever carrot they dangle in front of those poor sods.
Not the poster, but I too am curious about their thoughts, however I have some of my own.

Men and Women experience socialization in fundamentally different ways, because of this I suspect the changing hormonal balance reawakens pathways not used normally, basically. In addition, you basically have a chance while transitioning to relearn socialization from scratch basically, with those new pathways awakened.
I totally trust Facebook. To fuck me over at every possible opportunity, even if they’ve pinky promised “we’d never do that!”. Because they have a track record of doing exactly that.
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Freedom is Slavery.
on the other hand the Prof gave to student one of the best lessons, the lesson of life

Kinda kidding, but the faster you learn how to handle critics, the better for you.
Lwn.net just published an article where a comment
https://lwn.net/Articles/849239/ described how there were no really lock-free data structures on modern CPUs:

A couple of decades of writing concurrent algorithms has taught me that scalability is really defined by the frequency the concurrent algorithm accesses/updates shared data, not whether the software algorithm is considered "lockless" or not.
Yes, please, I am very interested in what the OP meant here...?
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>> RMS’s loss of MIT privileges and leadership of the FSF are the appropriate responses

> I think it's clear that the GNU project needs a code of conduct

Why? It seems from your quote that people can be removed without a code and, as the FAANGs show us, a written criteria just gets gamed. A code of conduct is redundant and problematic. It victimizes the trustworthy.

> if the leader is opposed to the idea as much as Stallman is, then it's correct to replace him

The ultimate crime - even above anything in a code of conduct - is not wanting a code of conduct? Is anything else an absolute?
I was wondering the same thing. The linked article explains that they use an extra layer of indirection to perform copy-on-write for implicit upcasts. So, you can upcast in O(1), but your first write to the upcast array has an O(N) cost.

The upcast is type sound, unlike Java, but at the cost of an extra indirection, and a big hit for the first mutation after upcast. I would have been tempted to instead just have immutable array references that could be freely upcast, but this is also an elegant and safe solution.