skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm asking you a genuine question. I note you didn't call RMS out by name, but you certainly seem to be imply it.

Re: the article you shared, I didn't really see much evidence either way there? It's clear that RMS is, to put it mildly, "difficult to like", but there's a big difference between that and being straight up abusive, particularly given that it seems quite obvious that the mens rea is missing: as far as I can tell, most of the time RMS genuinely has no idea when he is being offensive.
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. This point has been argued to death a thousand times here already, and no interesting discussion is going to be had by changing the subject to it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Moreover this article is from 2018, so bringing it up in this context is an anachronism.
So what is Tencent a copy of?

And which application does wechat copy? Or Weibo?

What is Huawei a copy of?

Your simple fact, sounds awfully like racism.
That’s funny, because the one I keep hearing about is Taobao.
Upvoted for your last paragraph, which is more and more important every day. Far too many software developers’ ethical compasses start and end at “well, the boss told me to write that code so that’s that!” We all have the ethical responsibility to understand the ultimate purpose of our labor and ensure it is a good one. “Just following orders” has a bad history.
New Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger To Host Webcast [1] About Intel’s Future On March 23rd. We will see if we have more details then. But Pat seems to be committed to the IDM model.

>for TSMC to get sloppy like Intel did, and everything stagnate again.

I dont see that happening any time soon. Not in this decade. Not with the current and upcoming management of TSMC. Even assuming the worst of a culture change within TSMC it will still take time to rotten to its core and time for it to manifest. Intel loses out has nothing to do with technology, but the combination of pathetic management and record making profits at the same time for years.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16560/intel-ceo-pat-gelsinger...
I find your disagreement to be toxic.
I hate everything about this.

I hate the concept. It feeds into the phony elitism that these companies use to sell themselves. It suggests classism, like an invitation to join a caste system based on employer.

The website is garbage. We are ~15 years past the release of the iPhone one. HTML is mobile-friendly by default. Make a mobile-friendly site especially if you are targeting people who work on the web.

And finally, I hate the cringeworthy copy that uses pseudo-code and unironically says "happily ever after". Tech people are not robots and enjoy reading things in human language.
Don't hate MOOCs.

They did not break the traditional learning way, but they help a LOT of people, me included, to learn new things.

Could I learn them otherwise, from books and web pages? Sure, but MOOCs help. Did I already attend a university before, so I can guess what MOOC is good and which one is BS? Sure. Are they much less effective than traditional university? Yes. Of course.

But, they are not useless and I am glad they exist, even when they were a bit overhyped in the past.
Does anyone have any idea how long this has been going on?

And: it only happens when rendering the filenames to a browser window right? So only when I browse folder y in bucket x are my filenames for that folder shared with FB?

Backblaze, I really enjoyed being a paying customer. Until now. Bunch of dorks.

Edit: goes to show you have to encrypt EVERYTHING at rest, even file names...
> I think most people here would agree that working on a side project in your free time using your own resources (Ie, not using your employer’s) is perfectly reasonable and hardly comparable to fraud.

It's still probably against your employment agreement, especially if you work at a BigCo where just about anything computer-related could be construed to be in their line of business.
So much this. Thanks for putting it in words better than I would have
How can we know for sure that's actually what happens?

Are there audits to check compliance?
I don't get it. What's the problem?
Slightly off-topic, but I'm sorry you were subjected to that abuse. It's not ok.
Well said, nadya
Typical wokeism
It doesn't require complete agreement - it does require same level of agreement and cooperation that allows us to have common language, common culture, common laws, Open Source projects, charities, etc. Just a common understanding that empowering people that thrive on tearing down and destroying others is bad for everybody, and we should not fall for any noble words they veil themselves with and see through it to the core of power lust and zeal for destruction.

Yes, there will always be those who do not abide for the societal convention for one reason or another. Cultures have dealt with this problem for millenia, it's not something new. As soon as we succeed in developing a common norm of not enabling the cancel trolls, we will have cultural mechanisms of maintaining this norm, as we maintain many other societal norms that allow us to exist as a culture and a society.
I feel like this is a programmer’s equivalent of using Excel to record UAT results or Configuration decisions. Absolutely possible and is mostly fine, but really isn’t the best tool for the job.
I heard of a company with serious security process having Facebook like buttons on each page of their internal wiki.
This article doesn't even attempt to show differences between mental health effects in school districts with in-person school vs those that stayed in person. It might as well be an opinion piece.
Moved data aggregation from Oracle to `awk`

The process was loading 40GB files to database and aggregation took more than 5 hours.

Wrote a simple awk one liner with associate array and process was completed in minutes
Foreseeable, eh? Are there any other foreseeable pandemics we need to know about and prepare for?
Symptoms of Coronavirus
In theory it would. But either the schools are so good they can make cheaters good in the workplace or the workplace doesn't need the best and brightest (I guess cheating the the workplace could be a third answer).
One possible, slight, softening factor - if it's an accident/bug, I might consider them, if they can explain exactly how it happened and what extreme measures they'll take to ensure that it never happens again. But... their initial answer on that thread is

> Believe that's the Facebook pixel we use for tracking, we've forwarded to our web team for review in case that is not intended behavior.

Just... "in case" it's unintended is not promising.
Great comic and great link
> That's right, that's what we're doing.

Your position is that this is better for the people in the US who used to make that stuff?

> There are better systems than a flat minimum wage like wage boards since they're more flexible

If you want flexibility, just let the employee decide if the wage is too low. They're the person with the best knowledge of their own situation and also the one with the strongest stake in it.

> Personal responsibility doesn't exist at the level of societies. Sometimes you just get scammed, and it takes a while to get out of the situation if you do. Banning bad jobs is useful the same way banning any other scam is.

The patronizing thing you're doing is assuming that all low paying jobs are bad.

They almost universally have countervailing benefits. They're closer to where you live, have more flexible hours, are less physically demanding etc.

Because otherwise nobody would take them.

> UBI substitutes for unemployment here but it's not the same because the funding source is different. In particular the one for UBI doesn't exist.

Taxes don't exist? Unemployment isn't funded by a tax?

> UBI does not substitute for minimum wage though, because it doesn't have the effect of eliminating bad jobs.

That's exactly what it does. People have the UBI, so not taking a bad job doesn't cause them to starve, so nobody takes a bad job.

Except that now it's the actual bad jobs they don't take, based on their own understanding of their own circumstances, instead of a bureaucracy's flailing incompetent efforts to implement central planning from an ivory tower.

> In practice min wage seems to have other positive effects from this like forcing employee productivity to increase faster

This doesn't come for free. It most often comes by eliminating redundancy and slack, which increases efficiency but harms resiliency. It e.g. makes it more likely that productive companies go out of business, because when you have slack and something bad happens, you cut the slack and survive. If something else already consumed the slack and something bad happens, you go bust.

And there are already plenty of incentives to eliminate slack in favor of efficiency, so smashing the balance on purpose is counterproductive.

> in the limiting case with a monopsony employer it even increases employment because they have no other pressure to offer a market clearing wage.

A monopsony employer is a catastrophic tyrannical threat to everyone. Any solution other than "destroy the monopsony with righteous fire" is nothing but a suicide pact.
But how do you prove that the artist was the one who issued the NFT?
I think Stallman's monomaniacal adherence to logic and rigor sets them very much apart.
>"In early 2015 I numerically analyzed the

Fourier properties

of the Magic Kernel Sharp algorithm, and discovered that it possesses high-order zeros at multiples of the sampling frequency, which explains why it produces such amazingly clear results: these high-order zeros greatly suppress any potential aliasing artifacts that might otherwise appear at low frequencies..."

[...]

>"Following that work, I analytically derived the

Fourier transform

of the Magic Kernel in closed form, and found, incredulously, that

it is simply the cube of the sinc function.

This implies that the Magic Kernel is just the

rectangular window function convolved with itself twice

-which, in retrospect, is completely obvious. This observation, together with a precise definition of the requirement of the Sharp kernel, allowed me to obtain an analytical expression for the exact Sharp kernel, and hence also for the exact Magic Kernel Sharp kernel, which I recognized is just the third in a sequence of fundamental resizing kernels. These findings allowed me to explicitly show why Magic Kernel Sharp is superior to any of the Lanczos kernels. It also allowed me to derive further members of this fundamental sequence of kernels, in particular the sixth member, which has the same computational efficiency as Lanczos-3, but has far superior properties."

Paper: http://www.johncostella.com/magic/mks.pdf

PDS: My thoughts: Absolutely fascinating! (Also, that the the "Magic Kernel is just the rectangular window function convolved with itself twice" -- was not obvious to me, so it's good you included that!)
> Or they care more about being right than being diplomatic.

This doesn't seem like particularly assholeish behaviour.

Caring more about being perceived as right (even when erroneously), sure, but if the person is actually right of course they should care more about that than diplomacy. Surely we have enough examples demonstrating the pitfalls of fostering a culture where the truth can be ignored if you don't like it.
I know it's popular to blame malice on part of organisations, but I don't think it's in the interest of the school to overlook this. In fact I heard about this in a discussion/information saying how this was a problem and what to do about it.

Yes they require a passport at registration, but it's difficult to decide for an admin who sees someone for 2 min and looks at the passport for maybe 10s that that person is not the person on the passport. Especially so if you are not expecting it and the person comes from a different background (we struggle more with distinguishing people from other ethnicities)

I think this is how they got wind of the scheme though, someone got suspicious.
We are using Fivetran for new ELT pipeline. Earlier we had written custom api iterator in python. Now it's just configuration of connectors
Almost twenty years ago, found a debug logging function using O_SYNC. Took it out. Test ran so fast that a teammate said that they thought it didn't run.

Now, of course, there's zero reason to write every debug output with O_SYNC. Classical case of cargo-cult programming. I'd like to say I've never seen something like that again, but then I'd be lying.
It helped that states in Australia could close their borders internally. The US justification for having different legal systems in each state, experimentation, doesn't apply when states basically aren't allowed to close their borders.
“Is Parallel Programming Hard, and, If So, What Can You Do About It?” v2 Is Out
>I recall being told early in my freshman year “If RMS hits on you, just say ‘I’m a vi user’ even if it’s not true.”

The idea that Stallman would only violate women who use emacs is cartoonish levels of absurd. Personally, I'd expect he'd be thrilled they're at least using free software.

Besides that, the door thing seems to have been graffiti. And though I agree the dating anecdote makes him look bad, but also sounds like the actions of a person suffering from some mental illness.
He is, and I'll quote the relevant part from Stallman's statement that is included in the article:

"The injustice is in the word “assaulting”. The term “sexual assault” is so vague and slippery that it facilitates accusation inflation: taking claims that someone did X and leading people to think of it as Y, which is much worse than X... The word “assaulting” presumes that he applied force or violence, in some unspecified way, but the article itself says no such thing... We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing."

Not only is Stallman wrong about the fact that sexual assault requires force or violence, sex between a 73 year old man and a 17 year old is not only sexual assault but statutory rape, something which Stallman in another post declared to be a 'technicality'.
> They were required to maintain a historic structure.

That is flatly untrue. Please don't do that.

> two days _BEFORE_ English Heritage was due to _RECOMMEND_ the pub be granted Grade-II listed status, the owners ordered its demolition (emphasis added)

This building wasn't a historic structure under the law. This isn't about historic structures. This is about gangs of bullies getting pissed off that their bar is closed, and wresting control of private property because of it. It is repugnant to all sense of morality and decency, and every one of you cheering it should be ashamed of yourselves.
I was on Twitter once, and one day I logged out of my account and threw away the password. I never regretted it so far. I had to tell people several times that I do not use twitter, but it never been any problem whatsoever. Unfortunately, there is still some content that is exclusive to Twitter, because some smart and otherwise reasonable people insist on putting it there. I wish they would choose any other platform.
I cursory look at the JSTOR front page results shows a lot of those links are writing about internet memes- in other words people posting things about people posting things on Twitter. Journal articles in places like "The Social Internet Reader." Not exactly the stuff of evolutionary biology. I'll concede there would appear to be some academics taking it seriously among that noise.

Culture and thoughts may not mean the same thing, but people are not using the word "meme" consistently- hence sometimes it means cultures and sometimes thoughts and sometimes it's a term for cat pictures on twitter.
I don’t understand how those services always claim to be „HIPAA compliant“ and yet they do this kind of stuff. Can anybody enlighten me?
see kortex' t-SNE related comment below
It's a pet peeve of mine for people to make a bold statement like "Covid barely spreads through children" when there's no scientific consensus yet.

I want it to be true, but it would be pretty incredible if it were. There are probably other factors at play.
You can use CSS generators to avoid some time-consuming tasks
As an often brow beaten defender of liberalism in the face of progressivist cancel culture and zeal for censorship, I’m glad Strossen is standing up for liberalism. On the other hand, I’m that much more disappointed in our apparent moral cargo cult that it takes a voice like Strossen’s for liberal criticisms of progressivist cancel culture to be taken seriously.
> Since this is for a site/app which lets users upload data, I am really trying to avoid S3 due to crazy costs. I might look into DigitalOcean's offerings. Anyone have any other recommendations?

Dumb suggestion: Run it yourself? Minio is easy to use, even in multi-server mode.
For what it's worth I agree, but I would personally have a hard time firing 1000 people, throwing a wrench in their lives. Especially during a pandemic and especially with poor social programs.

When I look at this I am not outraged by the spending. I am outraged by the lack of federal social programs that directly burden the department of corrections with things like health care and retirement. The federal government should be handling these and reaping the economies of scale benefits of doing so.
In what way did integrating FB Pixels spyware into their product seem like a good idea?

I'm paying for Backblaze, now I'm wondering if that was a mistake.
don't know about that argument, they could have insisted to put that commitment into some kind of secret amendment, but wikipedia says that these are no longer practiced; well, who knows, wikipedia also says that there are exceptions to this rule. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_treaty#Decline_in_moder...
It occurs to me now that AMD probably would have taken the multithreaded crown from Intel with Zen 1 if Intel hadn't upped their (consumer socket) high end from 4 to 6 cores in the same year.

Although it's hard to say whether that was a direct response to the threat from AMD or not.
Please don't. You may not owe the third party better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...
This is just a part of the picture (although it's a good number to see).

You also need to know whether children spread the disease.
This sentiment is trying to say the US doesn’t have effective border control. When it completely does.

If the US wanted an international lockdown, it could have had one.
Good analysis of how recruiters ignore university refugees and recent graduates. Which is why I had to throw most of my 5 years of uni studies always and get a job in IT, which I was trying to run away from. But hey! At least I am extremely good at it.
It can be perfectly safe again once PR departments realize they can ignore the vocal minorities of Twitter without negative consequences to their bottom line.
This was largely a technical university. I also doubt that the hired students were getting top scores. That often was not the goal, for those privaledged kids, getting a foreign degree almost certainly guaranteed a cushy job back home. The grades didn't matter too much.
They have been doing it badly for a few years know yes, it’s not solved by any stretch of the imagination.
The problem is that the meaning blends together subjective offense and a desire for professional sanction in a way which makes the term very hard to actually engage with. Challenging whether some particular behavior is toxic comes across as nitpicking, while challenging whether people should get in trouble for toxicity comes across as minimizing legitimately bad behaviors.
“...enters the workforce...”

All the things you mentioned are before entering the workforce.
Ceci n'est pas un pont.
To the extent there is an anti-anti mob, sure.

Be skeptical of any actions that are hateful on their face, regardless of how impeccable the argument justifying them is. Judge people by whether they actually make your project nicer to be part of, not some theorycrafted definition of inclusivity. Common sense and human judgement are an infinitely better way to decide who to welcome, who to tolerate, and who to exclude (because some people have incompatible cultures, so any space will exclude some people), than any amount of political theory.
Wonder if it works with liquids
Is Remdesivir still in wide use? I know it was given emergency approval in the US, but I thought wider trials were now thought to show a lack of demonstrable results.
I get why they might be doing it ( audience building ), but they should have restricted it only to their HomePage or some info pages. ( check azernik's response on how to do this correctly ! )

It's easy to attack Backblaze.

Before attacking them for this, please make sure the company that you are working for or building doesn't do the same thing. ( I know for a fact that a lot of startups make heavy use of Audience building).

Note :
I have used their service in the past and moved on to OVH due to a different issue in the past . https://www.backblaze.com/blog/b2-503-500-server-error/
Seems like a missed opportunity
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Money modifies human behaviour.
Please don't take HN into flamewar like you did in this thread. It's basically vandalism and most certainly not what this site is for. Seriously not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> 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.

As someone who is not native speaker, what does "implications" mean exactly here? Little confused.
Over 3 Thousand Children
Dunno, never connected it to HDMI.

I recently switched from pulse/alsa to Pipewire with the Pulse shim, working pretty well so far. I don't have any reason in particular to think that Pipewire would help, ... but sometimes changing random stuff solves the problem without needing to get into diagnosis.
“What was left” certainly applies. These are predominantly the personality types, and socio-economic groups, that made it through this time period in open source.

It isn’t easy being on the receiving end of this: http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/Comes-3096.pdf
Adam Savage's Workshop
I hate being subservient to an algorithm, but I'm trying to build a business, what choice do I have?
Make every transaction public.
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Yeah, I was a little surprised seeing a Julia static site generator being used to create a Python tutorial.
Sigh. I was considering backblaze for s3 storage. Not anymore.
> Take Mr. X, who is outraged by Microsoft's behavior and refuses to buy Microsoft's products, tells other people about his problems with Microsoft, and tells everyone to use FOSS alternatives? Now, Mr. X also thinks that it's stupid to believe in god, and is not afraid to say it to everyone he meets. He's suddenly changed from "FOSS advocate" to "toxic workplace on legs".

What's toxic about this? Two perfectly sensible points of view and you think Mr. X is dangerous to be around?
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26537333 and don't do this on HN.