skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get using FB tracking for your payment flow but it’s sketchy as hell to have it on every page of a paid product.
The point of an ideological project (or any project, really) is to try and get everyone pulling in the same direction. GNU/FSF is an organization for one specific ideal: free software. It's not intended as a vehicle for any random ideal people care about.
In my experience, even the best Android drivers just took locks when using OpenGL from multiple threads, even for resource creation, so it's sort of moot.
Hmm, true. Thanks for the useful insights
Nadine's point was that people should not be unduly punished for making intellectual arguments for or against anything. "Being punished for what they say" is precisely what happened to Stallman.
You both are pathetic. Go pay off your debt, dumbass, because it sounds like you're one step away from being one of the people that this complete idiot renewiltord is referring to.
So do you think Florida is lying and underestimating the number of COVID deaths to greater extent than California is, or the California is exaggerating the number of COVID deaths, or maybe that there's a difference in behavior between Floridians and Californians (maybe California had stricter laws but Floridians act more responsibly in terms of disease prevention).

If you don't have such an explanation, and California, with some of the most stringent measures in the US, had similar outcomes to Florida, with a much laxer approach, I'm not sure how you come to the conclusion that California's approach was "very good".
They answered in the Twitter thread: they send data about paying users to Facebook so they can build lookalike audience targeting for new user acquisition. Other major ad platforms (Google, LinkedIn) have similar features.

This doesn’t look like the right data to be sending FB for that, though.
Thats not something that translates into digital content. That original lightsaber is valuable because it is unique, it can never be recreated, a jpeg is infinitely reproducible, thus less valuable
Or you could interpret their message to mean authoritarian..
Working for a company and working for visibility only differ in the capital gain (in the broad sense of the word). Your goal is still external to yourself and towards the need of the capitalist system.

An analogy would be, if you want to write an article, you can write a soft sell (work for a company), an article of a popular topic (work for visibility), or something you think is valuable (work for interest). Which will you choose?

Sometimes, the latter two coincide, but more often than not, they don't. The result of working for visibility depends more on your marketing skill rather than your technical skill. (What would be the most popular framework in two years?) And the value you create will fluctuate as the fashion changes.

Changing from working for a company to working for visibility is definitely an improvement, but I'm skeptical of its effect on ameliorating capitalist problems the author talked about in the beginning.
No, I think claiming one can extrapolate from one particular autistic person to all autistic people is "unfairly generalising about autistic people." Autism is a broad spectrum (and far from unidimensional) which manifests in a broad diversity of ways.

I'll generally excuse people who are trying to do the right thing. Richard is trying to do the right thing. If you don't, you'll do very badly in other cultures. By US standards, most cultures do things which are extremely abusive or neglectful (and vice-versa).

I will also mention autism is a psychological term defined in DSM, not a self-identity term. Many people who are autistic don't believe they are, and vice-versa. It's not a personal choice.
It died within Claris/Apple because nobody knew how to describe it and sell it. Was it a programming environment? You didn't need to be a programmer to use it. Was it a database? Claris also sold FileMaker so it couldn't be that. It could have been a "multimedia authoring suite" but it was black-and-white and to get color images or video you needed janky XCMDs.

So it languished in Claris and ended up so out-of-date it would need a complete overhaul. The best chance it has was when they attempted to integrate it into QuickTime as an interactivity layer, but that was still when Apple was in internal management chaos and someone quit and the project died. It made sense Apple abandoned it, they had bigger fish to fry.

The question GP asked was why didn't someone else create a clone and sweep the floor? And that's a good question! There was SuperCard, and a bunch of clones on Windows. But despite expanding on HyperCard and fixing its issues none of them caught on. Why?
Thank you for the clarification. Please understand that I don't mean to be pedantic.
Indeed, San Francisco has dramatically better Covid outcomes than almost all large US cities.

The thing SF screwed up worst was opening indoor restaurants/bars for a couple months in the Autumn, which alongside holiday gatherings/winter weather resulted in a more than 10x increase in cases during that time (thankfully starting from a very low baseline). I would guess that mistake is responsible for more than half of all Covid deaths in the city, as both before and after that period (after suitably offsetting the data by a couple weeks to account for delay between action and visible outcomes) case rates were steadily declining.

SF also did a poor job, especially early on, at getting targeted testing and outreach to working class neighborhoods.
I literally made an account an hour ago to post that article because it's so crazy. Is that you referenced in it? If it is congrats man!!
Yes, he did, multiple times.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20994216
they should just enroll inmates with room and board at Harvard ... it is apparently cheaper than jail.
Joke aside, what's to prevent anyone from selling an NFT for "the first NFT"? They've done it for tweets... And what would that make of their claim of "verifiable unique" ownership?
Corruption is incentive-based. There is always an incentive to lower effort. Indeed to a certain extent it may be essential for survival. It seems it can only be counterbalanced by the constraints imposed by ethics (i.e. guilt and shame) and punishments (i.e. fear). The only positive mindset way to reducing corruption is to inculcate the view that life is for service - but that does not gel well with capitalism, I guess.
Interesting how poor the visual experience is
> then you have to deal with drivers.

I've been using USB DAC on Linux for years, always worked out of the box.
I cant think of anything more depressing than saying art is showing off you have money.
Sorry about that. Trying to figure out what both comments meant to convey given the ambiguity of language, especially in a heated discussion.
John Cleese has done how many pieces of architectural art now?
I Photoshopped Your Photos
can i make something epic using your photos, watch the video
I am here to say I am pleased to see RMS active in software issues again.

I am a fan of his ideas related to software, and his gift to us has paid me and most of my peers off over and over. Tons of others have added to all that and here we are today.

Personally, I will consider what he says about software, data, IP.

The man is not often wrong. Has a lot to say, and he should be heard.

There are other issues, and that is all quite difficult. Painful. I would say unnecessary, but I know better, save to say I do not see that in terms of bad intent. I do see a very different set of priorities. Not speaking to right or wrong here, just understanding and a desire to move open ideas further along, bolster them to endure.

I sincerely hope everyone involved can help keep the focus where it counts.

I do not plan on speaking to RMS as a person, nor giving his opinions weight outside of computing freedom. Given these times, an RMS, however painful, seems necessary.

I just want the software, data, IP vision to endure, thrive and continue to deliver far more use value than any one contributor adds or user invests. He can really help to do that, and I think he should.

OSS is a beautiful thing.

I remember the first time I heard about GNU. Was profound.

Took a while, and the likes of ESR and others who took the time to write and speak to people like me seeking to grok it all.

Unlike physical goods and services, software can be a multiplier. The whole is greater than the parts. We can, and often easily do, get more than we may give.

These ideas have empowered people all over the world.

And they range from curious, driven people of little means dumpster diving to get going through to others who may want for nothing, all able to pick up the body of OSS code and open data and run with it.

I feel deeply our actions, law, norms, expectations all set now will matter for a very long time.

Getting all that more right than wrong is going to touch pretty much everyone and the potential impacts are profound. The possible futures vary widely, and not just degrees of good. It could all be not so good at all.

Either way, this will all solidify.

Does not have to be bad. I sure hope it isn't.
> the browser itself can't overcome the fundamental bloat and decay of the web as we know it today

There's nothing "fundamental" about web bloat.

Here's a simple litmus test for Gemini: take a look at a few of the personal websites for people who've spoken highly of Gemini. How many of them have exercised restraint and eschewed with all the sorts of things that Gemini disallows? How many of them have embraced features of the Web that are not permitted in Gemini?

> rather than trying to build on top of a platform that, by its nature, inevitably tends towards centralization and capitalization

If we take it for granted that it's true of the Web (and that's being generous), why is Gemini going to fare better?

These all seem like a bunch of vague and empty talking points for a piece of tech who's main catalyst for coming into interest and capturing attention comes down to NIH, and not actually any fundamental correctness about its nature.
You know what?
I went to college for computer programming. Included was a course on business ethics. Later on a job near the end of the programming I saw a possible major problem that would put the company in a bad ethical position (possible legal proceeding to under payment, ANY UNDER payment). When I bought this up with the CEO of the company all he wanted to know was the costs of the extra programming and instead insisted they would manually avoid the problem despite the fact that legal costs would far out weight the programming costs if things went wrong. He refused the extra programming.

Guess what? That company does not exist today.
This is wonderful news. The hero has returned from the cancellation underworld.
I'm pretty tired of everyone yelling "Whataboutism!" all the time.

Just because it's a tactic used by shills doesn't mean whenever the point is made it's shilling / irrelevant.

Sometimes it's actually worthwhile to point out when an instance of behavior is actually part of a much larger, much bigger problem.
they need it during the day for banks to carry out operations, etc.
> The only real problem is that the Gnome Software program lists these programs with a green "Sandboxed" badge when the app may have anywhere from full sandboxing, to literally no sandboxing.

The current mockups[1] for a UI refresh of GNOME Software have the “Sandboxed” badge and the permission details replaced by a context tile giving an overall “Safe”, “Potentially Unsafe”, or “Unsafe” rating, with additional indications and a safety dialog giving the full information. The ratings are determined from the permissions as well as license, whether the runtime is no longer supported, and whether the source is known.

[1]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/software-mockups/-/raw...
nothing? okay
I got so much closer to my young kids this year. I didn’t quite realize how many precious moments I’d already lost by having to spend time at an office every day. (I had a somewhat flexible work schedule before this, but being around them all the time was just orders of magnitude different.) We started playing nightly family games during lockdown last March: card games, board games. I watched the entire ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ series with them over the winter. It’s been such a silver lining of all of this.
> One effective way to do this is to isolate the responsibilities of individuals such that no one but the top few have the whole picture view.

The following is probably just an already completely debunked conspiracy theory with zero basis in fact but what you describe is precisely how special compartmentalized intelligence works. Maybe many of the corporate and government organizations in security and intelligence operate in this siloed way, possibly at the risk of a lack of oversight and accountability which helps any abuses go unaddressed. Official secrecy oaths and classification perhaps compounds this vulnerability to misuse.

And except for the public heads very occasionally rolling, it's likely nobody takes responsibility (in a justice sense) when abuses occur. How do you get people to carry our these things? Simple finance, and isolation could be one way as mentioned. Coercive control via blackmail, planting evidence, fake accusations or intimidation could be other effective methods, especially when you need to secure the cooperation of key people outside the organization, and especially when your daily work involves intelligence collection and deception.

If it occurs at a deep level under the security and compartmentalization shields, then it's unlikely checks and balances could correct it if this sort of corruption was occurring.
Philip’s Theater
Nix doesn’t guarantee binary reproducibility. It does help with reproducing build inputs and the build process, as do the tools used to create Flatpak applications and runtimes—flatpak-builder and BuildStream. Nix can build packages in a sandbox, but the same is true of flatpak-builder and BuildStream.

The Freedesktop SDK has a CI pipeline (run on schedule, not on every change, because it is expensive) that tests reproducibility, similar to r13y.com. Currently everything is reproducible except a few components.

There are also many respects in which Flatpak is objectively better than Nix (other than sandboxing, which is an important one). For example, Flatpak guarantees atomic updates with restarting merely the updated application. NixOS only guarantees atomic updates with a reboot (`nixos-rebuild boot`); `nixos-rebuild switch` can still break your running system, though the Nix store is safe and problems will not persist after a reboot, which is still a huge improvement over traditional package management. Still, using containers allows giving stronger guarantees.

Another example is that flatpak-builder and BuildStream are substantially faster than Nix. Evaluating Nix expressions is quite inefficient, even if they are convenient to write. Worse is the cascading rebuilds that come with the Nix approach when dependencies like compilers and glibc are patched or updated. Rebuilding after significant updates to gcc and glibc has advantages, such as benefitting from newer compiler features, but it is very desirable to have the option not to do that.

Also, Nix’s languages lacks domain abstractions for building packages, which makes tools to generate and update derivations have to rely on assumptions about their format or be unnecessarily complex. In comparison, flatpak-builder and BuildStream use JSON and YAML. The result is less expressive but more convenient, consistent, efficient, and simple to manipulate.

Similar to nixpkgs-update, Freedesktop SDK uses a simple auto-updater[1] for BuildStream and Flathub apps can use the Flatpak External Data Checker[2] for a bot to open merge requests or pull requests to update dependencies in the runtime and in application manifests.

OSTree uses a content-addressable store for all files, giving Flatpak deduplication for free. Nix gets deduplication only with an expensive process (`nix store optimise`) that involves scanning the Nix store and replacing duplicated files by hard links.

Yet another advantage of Flatpak is that due to dependencies being “flat”—that is, apps can depend on runtimes and have extensions, but there are no complex dependency trees—there is no need for dependency resolution. This also reduces the amount of metadata that needs to be downloaded. This makes installing and updating software with Flatpak very fast, which is unfortunately not at all true with Nix.

So, there are tradeoffs, and overall Flatpak has the better of them. Employing Nix to manage dependencies or to build apps would cause Flatpak to lose many of its advantages.

[1]: https://gitlab.com/BuildStream/infrastructure/gitlab-merge-r...

[2]: https://github.com/flathub/flatpak-external-data-checker
Benchmarking different programming languages for a simple bioinformatics task
Ones not covered in other replies:

> sports teams

Of course they are based on self-interest. Team members all have different statuses and pay. They compete with the other team members to not get cut. They switch teams to gain personal advantage.

> Countries

are forced collectives. The more the country tries to run the lives of its citizens, the worse the country does.
https://youtu.be/VMBrhS9lNFQ
Just tried it out, it works nicely. Congrats on the launch!

How does this work internally, though? How is ssh used for tunneling
Ask HN: Do you feel motion sickness by working on a computer fast enough?
I often feel like vomiting while sitting in front of my computer. I work quite rapidly with my keyboard and mouse.
You appear to be missing a footnote. I assume that this is what you are talking about though:

https://www.motorsportweek.com/2020/05/08/mercedes-designed-...
The tax code is also heavily influenced by the very wealthy allowing for massive tax relief through various tax havens, shell companies and loopholes. Of course that all takes a team of high power accountants to figure out.
> “I was being bombarded with these conspiracy theories... about how it’ll go to $X,000...
Also Whole Foods in the US.
You did a great service for Humanity! Game is now much much better to play.
Out of 300 AI models, none are of potential clinical use due to flaws or biases
Drink a Toast: Langage Map
Work at YC and help YC startups hire great people
I bet you cried when it was proven Trump paid low taxes for his hundreds of millions in income, while also believing, without even a twinge of cognitive dissonance, how every one of his business ventures hemorrage money.
The website is super smooth and the experience is great! Wonder what it's built with...
On the same ride. I got help from a friend over Instagram early last year, and it’s become an ingrained routine. It has become such a pandemic cliche, but I don’t care - it’s really satisfying. Calming, fulfilling, and just really nice to have good bread!

(Sourdough Pizza has been another big thing in our house.)
This is not a good look.

I appreciate that their Twitter account is looking into it, but feel like this should be a pretty quick fix. I'm hesitant to even log into my Backblaze account again until it's sorted.
So now we have lordstown and nikola.

Byton also seemed like vaporwesr for a long time.
Product is the horse (Stoic Designer Lesson 79)
or the CNN anchors
Does it really incentivize the state to incarcerate more people? Surely it costs more than 1k/month to keep someone in prison even in more cost-efficient locales.
It's worth noting that the GPT-3 paper did train models with more sane sizes (e.g. 1.5B) as a point of comparison. I am surprised/annoyed they never released them though.
Imagine if this money was used to rehabilitate. Or to remove the conditions that lead to crime.

Now you see what abolish prisons and police is.
What we can do is speak to their actions and leave the door open for them to improve.

And I am not talking about avoiding consequences. Those are ever present as they should be.

However it all plays out, if we do shut that door, what inventive is there for people to improve?

Secondly, how do they actually present having done it, or even begin the attempt when those doors are slammed shut?

It should not be easy, but should also be possible.
Not really - since i don’t think those arguments were ever about children as much as they were about protecting the feelings of infantilized adults.
Does it matter? Its authoritarian behavior regardless of the sales pitch.
> The AstraZeneca vaccine looks not so good

This study, from Scotland, looks at risk of hospitalization after first dose of either Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine. The Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines look equally good. If anything, in the raw numbers AstraZeneca looks a little better that Pfizer, but the difference is well inside error bars.

https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n523

> especially against the South African variant

There is this one study, a proper randomized controlled trial from South Africa with 2000 people. But it only studies the AstraZeneca vaccine. They only saw mild (15 vaccine recipients and 17 placebo recipients) or moderate (4 vaccine recipients and 6 placebo recipients) infections, so they can not say anything about severe disease, because no one got it.

And they only studied AstraZeneca. Unfortunately, this study has been giving AstraZeneca maybe an undeservedly bad reputation, as media goes around saying that AstraZeneca specifically is not effective against the B.1.351 variant, suggesting that other vaccines would be. But as far as I know, similar studies of other vaccines do not exist, so we just don't know yet if they would be, maybe, equally bad against the B.1.351 variant or not.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2102214
You fine-tune an existing pretrained model on your proprietary dataset.
Using any third–party scripts is a big security and privacy failure.
I think these more functional, utilitarian aesthetics reflect the reality that brands are everywhere — from your physical presence, to packaging, to web experiences, to modern advertising. Photography is a highly complex, three dimensional format that makes it challenging to design all these surfaces in the same way.

In about 10 years, when computing is more ahead and lifelike three dimensional interactions and animations are possible on the web, the photorealistic aesthetic will probably have to return.
I don't think people agree on the primary goal. Most people think there is an element of justice and repaying a debt to society. Also keeping them off the streets so they can't do more harm. Certainly rehabilitation comes into play as well, but I don't think society would accept pure rehabilitation, even if the data supported it.

For example, imagine if data shows the best way to rehabilitate any criminal is to give them 1mil. Imagine the uproar from the families of murder or rape victims at the policy. We just wouldn't accept it.
> The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing.

This doesn't take the edge off, it makes it sound worse
I can't name what I do hear. And there are A-B comparisons that I can't call the winner of but my wife can. I can't imagine reproducibly labeling various audio qualities with terms reminiscent of the "citrus notes" that wine people use. I can tell if I need external speakers instead of the monitor's internal speakers and I pretty much always do.
I don't want to pull you out of the techwear Matrix too early, but Arcteryx has used the model you're afraid of for some time: e.g., they make rain shells designed to wear in the city, etc.

Also, that is a model followed by every similar company-- a model started by Patagonia back in the day when a technical piece of clothing was literally a rugby shirt.

In short, if you woke up in a nightmare universe where all optometrists wear Arcteryx you'd probably end up with a few more pieces in their technical line.