skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A different take on your different take: it might not be coincidental that said current wave of villification coincides with large technology corporations (ostensibly) embracing "open source". The causality is unclear - it could be some nefarious attempt by corporate interests to weaponize public sentiment against "obstacles" to said corporate interests, or it could simply be corporate interests becoming more 21w/illing to dip their toes in "open source" as its more fanatical figures get pushed out - but the correlation is plain as day.

What's especially concerning to me is that such an alignment with corporate interests has somehow managed to successfully brand itself as "leftist" here in the US, both among right-wingers and among people who sincerely believe themselves to be advancing leftist causes by aligning with these large corporations against people with fairly strong anticapitalist leanings. Like with the FOSS movement, I strongly suspect that the ownership class is engaging in its own form of EEE against leftism: paying lip-service to it to appear to "embrace" it, while intending to "extend" it with things outright antithetical to workers' rights (like, you know, celebrating when large corporations terminate employees as long as it's for the "right" reasons, or celebrating when workers are prevented from acquiring arms and ammunition) until it's weak and fragmented enough to "extinguish".

We're approaching a new age of wealth consolidation, be that wealth in the form of real estate, money, intellectual property, you name it. A new gilded age, with all the monopolism that entails.

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Were there any allegations of him doing unwanted flirting? This post seems to be conflating rms' cancellation with other people's unwanted behavior.
I use a 4 year old Xiaomi phone that cost around $150, shipped with Android 6, and stopped receiving updates after 7. LineageOS and PixelExperience are really easy to flash onto it and supported well enough. It will likely receive Android 12 support via PixelExperience too. I don't use a phone enough to warrant replacing it or spending more than $150 when I do.
These manual pages have an exhaustive list of supported types and language constructs:

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.burst@1.5/manual...

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.burst@1.5/manual...
Why do people even implement this? Does Facebook pay for this kind of data?
This supports the aforesaid statement.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-astraz...
Digital calipers can only measure relative position changes (by counting pulses) and would have to be re-zeroed every time when turned off. Since a well-designed pulse-counting circuit can run for many years on a coin cell, it makes sense not to have an off switch, just like a wristwatch doesn't. The problem is that for some reason the companies making cheap knockoffs don't manage to keep the idle power consumption as low as the name brands.
Yeah, being rich is a great insulator. But RMS isn't rich.
Something I've noticed: when people in my surroundings bring up worries of long-term effects of the fast-tracked vaccines, they somehow tend to not consider the unknown long-term effects of covid. Even though the argument that we cannot know the long term effects yet should apply equally.

When I bring this up they do seem receptive to this argument though, provided I'm not dismissive of their own skepticism. I'm not trying to convince them to get vaccinated, but I do wish that my friends stay safe until the pandemic is over at least, so I ask them to please be consistent and be worried about the unknown long-term effects of getting covid. Especially given that for the latter we do know that it's an actual disease that has already taken lots of lives and given lots of people long-term symptoms.
> People who claim to have "moderate OCD" are just people who like things being tidy

Some people are actually diagnosed with "moderate OCD" though. Some psychiatrists like to use descriptors like "mild" or "moderate" or "severe" when they make a diagnosis. The DSM-5 doesn't include those terms as specifiers, but that doesn't stop some clinicians from using them anyway. (Clinicians vary widely in how strictly they adhere to the DSM-5.)

Also, while the DSM-5 doesn't include the concept of "mild"/"moderate"/"severe" OCD, some rating scales used clinically in diagnosing OCD do include such a distinction. Y-BOCS (Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale) scores are divided into four ranges – subclinical, mild, moderate, severe, extreme. A person with an OCD diagnosis who scores in the moderate range of the Y-BOCS will quite possibly be told they have "moderate OCD".

The DSM-5 does include three specifiers of level of insight for OCD: "good or fair insight" ("The individual recognizes that obsessive-compulsive dis­order beliefs are definitely or probably not true or that they may or may not be true"), "poor insight" ("The individual thinks obsessive-compulsive disorder beliefs are probably true"), "absent insight/delusional beliefs" ("The individual is completely convinced that obsessive-compulsive disorder beliefs are true"). It is an oversimplification to equate that to "mild"/"moderate"/"severe", but some people will do it anyway.

Clinicians need to convey to patients (and their family members and others) the severity of the individual's condition in terms which lay people will readily understand. Terms such as "mild","moderate","severe", despite their limitations, meet that need.

> People really need to stop saying they have OCD unless they've been diagnosed by a professional.

Self-diagnosis is always a dangerous thing, but I think it includes a big spectrum of behaviours, from "I saw a TV show once about X and now I think I've got it" through to "I've read the DSM-5 and dozens of books and papers on X and I think I've got it". In both cases, the person could well be wrong, but arguably they have a significantly greater chance of being right in the second case than in the first. (And a lot of the time when people who engage in self-diagnosis get it wrong, they actually do end up diagnosed with something, just not the thing they expected.)

Speaking somewhat personally – I've listened to school teachers and psychologists tell me all these things our son does which are "symptoms of autism" and I'm sitting there the whole time thinking to myself "what's 'autistic' about that, I did that too as a child, I even still do that as an adult?" That's not saying that I do or don't have ASD – I've never sought a formal assessment of it for myself, maybe one day I shall, maybe I never will – but my suspicions that I might have ASD probably have somewhat more weight to them than "oh I saw a TV show about it once and now I think I have it".
There is no such thing as IT skills shortage. There is a shortage of skills in some manual labour sectors, where you need to wait a few weeks to do the job because there is not a single (even non-)competent person WILLING to do the job.

There is no shortage of skills in markets where employers can filter people by 'culture fit'.
Another way of saying it, there is shortage at the price point the most companies are currently willing to pay.

Mind you, the rest of Europe pays even less, but now UK is less attractive for an European to move in.
All modern columnnar/analytical databases have no problem in pulling back older data; in fact, that's the point of running large scale analytics.
Age of consent is seriously tricky business. And I think that's in part because it's really two things which are muddled together: young people having sex with each other; and older people having sex with younger people.

It is absolutely fine for young people to consent to having sex with other young people. A minimum age makes little sense there. Very young kids do stupid things all the time, including touching each other's genitals. By some definitions, if two toddlers "play doctor", the older one is somehow a criminal. That seems insane. I remember being 14 and doing sexual things with my 15 year old girlfriend. At that point we were both falling foul of the law. But once she turned 16, she was suddenly a pedophile and a stutory rapist because I was only 15? Again, that seems insane.

Then there's the issue of older people having sexual relations with younger people. This is where things become a lot more complex. It's pretty clear that it's inappropriate when authority figures are involved (e.g. teacher and underaged student). But then that can be inappropriate regardless of age. I can't imagine 14 year old me having been sexually interested in anyone over the age of 30, but that seems entirely arbitrary and subject to taste. I can certainly imagine 14 year old me thinking that my sex life wasn't anyone else's business. Some 14 year olds are more mature than some 18 year olds. Yet the former somehow can't consent to anything, but the latter can consent to sex with anyone aged 16-120+?

Age is a pretty good proxy for maturity on a population scale, but it's a really lousy proxy on an individual level. Perhaps we, as a society, would do well to remember that individual differences can be huge, and that consent is more important than merely the age.
NFT and the Great Paywalling of the Internet
You could get over the 5-symptom limit in this study just with knackered lungs.
This happens in Spain too, and I bet more countries are on the list.

Universities can't train people in the lastest tech. It's not what they are for. That's the job of "Professional Formation" as we call it in Spain, and I know other countries have similar programs (Community Colleges, Trade programs?).

Now, if you want someone with deeper theorical knowledge (uni) + hands-on training, you're either looking for people who engage in programming very early (not many, you have to compete for them) or you're looking for someone who wen't through both Uni + FP which is probably way less people.

In the end, you'll have to spend money in juniors, like it or not. It's a fact of life. Which mean you'll have to hire senior developers (who can teach & mentor) and allow them to spend time and resources on this people.

This isn't new, it's what trades have been doing for thousands of years. If you have the money, don't be a lazy fuck and do it.
I don't see how these are contradictory.

If you're not getting paid enough, you're more likely to leave.

If companies aren't hiring as many people locally, you're also more likely to want to go and find work elsewhere.
> but sadly having to think about types and lifetimes robs precious energy which should be devoted to thinking about business rules and what am I actually trying to achieve.

That's a really strange argument, because as soon as you're not in a GCed language, you need to think about the lifetime of your objects. The big difference with Rust is that you can't make mistakes when doing so, because the compiler will catch it.

You don't have the mental burden that if you make a mistake everything will blow up and you can focus on your business rules instead.
Pretty sure this is wrong. The UK and the EU paid to set up separate supply chains for the AstraZeneca vaccine, with the UK having first dibs on the output of the UK one (which ended up with better yields, likely in part due to being agreed on and set up first). The EU kept on blaming AstraZeneca's failure to supply enough vaccines to EU countries on them exporting the EU-produced ones to the UK, but as far as I know there's no evidence that ever happened despite police raids on the production facilities and new requirements to get licenses to export vaccines. Also the numbers don't add up at all.

The AstraZeneca vaccine is also the only one with this kind of segregated supply chain, apparently as some kind of contingency plan against vaccine nationalism cutting off imports. All the others, the UK has been content to order from plants within the EU and trust that they won't pull some cynical, Trump-esque vaccine nationalism stunt and cut off exports to distract from their own problems. This appears to have been a serious misjudgement. (And to be clear, distracting from their own problems is pretty much all it would achieve. The UK is so much smaller than the EU that cutting off exports would give very little help to their own vaccine roll-out despite causing massive disruption to the UK one - and that's before even considering the possibility of retaliation.)
Would seem logical. I was alien enough to boys to land at the "girls table" in school canteen when I was 11. Pieces of experience like this could probably help to start considering the possibility.
To me they have downsides, like being unable access your messages if you lose your device. I care about not losing my 6+ years of old messages even more than I care not to lose my 10+ years of emails.

Security is good, but sometimes truted third parties are "gooder", maybe we disagree on the next example but I like that the police is able to forcefully block some financial transactions, or that my bank can disable my credit card remotely.

e2ee encryption with convenience is also very likely to be broken by design,
it's 1200°C so you burn already before your body even hits the lava. During the Pompeji eruption people got killed by the hot ash (arriving first and travels further) which cooked them alive:

> The individuals in the boat houses died relatively quickly: The volcanic ash blocked the entrance to each structure, and the temperature of the air within probably rose to about 400°C—even hotter than a wood-fired oven. -- https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/studies-reveal-grues...
Napoleon in Italy: A Legacy of Institutional Reform?
The lava is substantially denser than you, so you'd probably float on top and bake until you are dry and then burn.

The victims at Pompeii got buried in pyroclastic ash, not lava.
Co-Founder of Shazam Dhiraj Mukherjee on its origin story
Is low-dose aspirin contraindicated with any of these vaccines?
Pretty much this. Id say half the time in the FTSE100 its the same also
It makes sense that high taxes can simultaneously cause both those problems (the cost of employees goes up a lot even as salaries don't go up enough to attract workers yet), though the way they stated it was rather nonlinear.
NASA is certainly a victim of misaligned incentives and Darwinian selection. Its budgeting process rewards political savvy (e.g. jobs programs and pork), rather than effective delivery of its stated goals.

It's tempting to align their incentives more towards outcomes, but we saw how that rewarded risk taking in the Shuttle program (and self-deception about those risks, e.g. Challenger's o-rings).

The current two-level model seems like the worst of both worlds, with NASA being budgeted politically, then funneling that money to monopolistic private contractors which are 'too big to fail' (ULA, etc.).

The disruption of those contractors by SpaceX, Rocket Lab, Relativity, etc. (and perhaps Blue Origin, if they actually deliver anything) was sorely needed. For NASA, this gives a credible alternative to the pork, without politicians appearing to be 'anti-NASA/science'.
>a difficulty in making many technical profession seem appealing to young people, especially young women

I wonder what is the effect of having the media tell people constantly for a decade that tech companies are evil organisations trying to invade everyone's privacy and mislead everyone as much as possible. They people who work in tech companies are "tech bros" who have no morals, and only care about making money, stealing private information, or spreading damaging and false political information. They are also sexist and racist work environments.

That's the impression that a young person would get from media coverage (coverage written by the direct competitors of many of the tech companies). I'm not downplaying the problem of sexism and racism in tech companies, I just think that it gets outsized attention in the media compared to any other industry. For example, does the energy industry have a racism problem? Or the pharmaceutical industry? Yes the impression one would get from the media is that these issues are particularly bad in tech.

It's not just the traditional media that portrays tech as evil either, its also the culture more generally in shows like Silicon Valley or the Social Dilemma.
>>Go back and study some history,

I know history rather well, this is why i am opposed to centrally planned economies, They always fail and always cause more suffering then they resolve
https://brazilian.report/coronavirus-brazil-live-blog/2021/0...

A lot of countries are pressuring other countries in not using "other" vaccines these days.
"We need digital literacy and common sense, not someone who can program a Raspberry Pi to control a robot," Mr Howell told the BBC.

What is lacking most of the times in university hires is common sense or a good grasp of foundational concepts. People struggle with simple data structures or naming things or how to take notes. I think some University is still good but once you are 21-22 it is much better to move into an apprenticeship program or a job. Unfortunately for young people most companies are terrible at training new personnel so that is not an easy route either. I cannot speak of bootcamps but being detached from "real business" I struggle to believe they would work.
A safe space is simply a space you control, or one moderated in your favor.

So for instance, your house is a safe space if you own it and decide who comes and goes, or if your parents are on your side and kick out people that cross your lines.
Is Alex Salmond Scotland's O.J. Simpson?
Why do we think capacity is not a complete commodity? Is it because of the high setup costs or just the fact that its perpetually in short supply?

Or maybe I just don't know the jargon complete commodity.
Ads are micropayments that work. I don’t like them per se and run an ad blocker and PiHole, but the fact that others don’t allows me to micropay for a lot of content with my time.
According to (https://www.rocket.com/sites/default/files/images/media/news...), the engines being flown have flown like 6-12 times, for 4000-7000 seconds of firing. Engine 2045 flew 12 missions, 14 restarts, and 7016 seconds.

No Merlin has yet achieved that, and we don't know how much refurbishment they need relative to the RS-25 either. But no RS-25 has ever failed during flight, whereas Merlins have failed multiple times, and Raptors at this point seem to fail quite often.

Now, I'm a SpaceX fanboy so I'm rooting for Raptor and Starship/Super Heavy, but I think it's unfair to say that the RS-25 hasn't proven itself.
Yes in May they are looking to open up more to people outside of Schengen with vaccination certificates. My parents are British, vaccinated and looking forward to coming over to visit as we've not seen them since Christmas.
It’s bullshit is how. The shortages are always bullshit and there is always a shit ton of competition anywhere shortage is described.
Not the OP, but GNU/FSF has stagnated in the past 20 years. There's no cohesive vision; GNU is more of a ecletic collection of software packages than a complete OS. The FSF has no huge influence; most of its impact is based on its historical role.
After the plague of mice, the flooding, and now the spider infestation..I would just move back to Wales at this point.
I used to occasionally worked 80+ hours at a time in my younger days, during a period where I was working for an oil services company, building tooling for migrating different business systems to SAP.

The company has several locations across the globe, and each was using something different to be migrated to SAP. One time I flew to Brazil to build SAP integration tooling for the local division of the company - 3 flights over 20 hours (all in economy), and I was expected to go straight to the office on arrival. I then worked feverishly, drinking gallons of local coffee to sustain me. Everyone else was doing the same. We ended up making some bad decisions (I think because we were all so tired), and at one point I totally lost my shit with the Brazilian project lead, coming close to getting violent. I'm absolutely not a violent person, but that amount of sleep deprivation, pressure and caffeine are not a good combination.

I'd do this for 2-3 weeks at a time, and feel completely fried at the end of each stint.

I simply couldn't do that anymore, but I'm also convinced it was a false economy - if we'd just worked normal hours without all the pressure from above, we could have achieved the same result, without all the mess along the way.
I myself appreciate READMEs that tell simply what the project does with a couple of good examples and links to the full API description. I dislike pompous and overly embellished APIs as it makes it seem that the author(s) care more about looks than the content, so I wouldn't go overboard with images and badges and whatnot.

The fact is you can't satisfy all users or all use cases so making me, the developer, not waste any of my time trying to implement something that is not possible with the library makes me really appreciate it even though I may not end up using it.

Being boring isn't necessarily bad. It's just that under- or over-communicating is a delicate balance that has to adjusted based on the project and its scope.
Lots of things that must be memory-safe are run on top of the Linux kernel, which doesn't give you the OOM-safety you're looking for because of overcommit+OOM killer.

Anyway, for Windows and other plateform where this is a reasonable goal, there is work in progress to add this to Rust. See this RFC[1] which has been merged and whose implementation progress can be followed here [2]

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2116

[2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/48043
I wonder why some people draw such ire and others don't? For example, I'm surprised Charlie Munger hasn't been canceled yet. That old dude says whatever the hell he likes and DGAF.

Anyway, I'm glad we have strong, independent voices in the world, and that not everyone has been brainwashed by sensitivity training.
> what people want is programs that behave correctly (or correctly enough for their purposes, which may not be very correct at all) for their particular inputs and execution environment.

Ah, yes. This raises an interesting philosophical question with real ramifications for software quality assurance: is a bug in the algorithm that never manifests in the system really a bug? Something like that happened in two well-used pieces of code: There was a bug in the TimSort algorithm used in both Java and Python, whose probability of actual failure is similar to the probability of failure due to a bit flip caused by cosmic rays. Because hardware can only be correct with probability, no running system can be soundly verified, i.e. with certainty, anyway, so while the correctness of algorithms can be absolute, the correctness of system cannot. And since soundness has a big cost in verification, many in software correctness research now focus on unsound techniques that are cheaper.

> Conversely those of us who want the industry to advance the state of the art generally don't want to just produce correct programs at a particular point in time, but programs whose correctness can be easily maintained even as implementations and requirements change. More than that, we want to produce libraries and frameworks that will lead as-yet-unknown programs to be correct.

True, but that is not a winning argument for soundness. The cost of soundness manifests even at maintenance. It's therefore an equally strong argument that a language that compiles quickly and more easily allows running, say, concolic tests, mutation tests etc., serves that goal, too.
Is the bicycle at least AI-powered? Otherwise I don't see the point
Building a Bot as an Alternative to Classic User Interface. Why Is It Better?