skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding Down Syndrome, those who carry pregnancies are coming to a similar conclusion as Stallman (prenatal testing in many cases leads to termination of the pregnancy):

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/the-las...

EDIT: Sidenote: We were offered embryo genetic testing and selection as part of IVF rounds. Didn't give a second thought to not selecting unhealthy embryos.
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Yeah that part confuses me too
100%. This is a modern day witch hunt by dangerous fanatics that think they can gang up against and cancel someone they don't like.

I'm glad they put their names down as I want nothing to do with these people.
Sure, Unix and Linux are worse than Plan 9, but I don't think that's the reason why they are more popular.
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The downvotes will be due to your comment’s lack of relevance.

There is a small connection though - Trump himself noted that America refusing to trade with Saudi would just lead to more trade with China and Russia. My above comment has a BBC link which notes this.

"If we foolishly cancel these contracts, Russia and China would be the enormous beneficiaries,"
I'm talking about someone I know who has been in precisely this situation.

You don't know anything about me, or that situation, but you are happy to accuse me of:

- Claiming to speak for lesbians
- Spreading propaganda from bigots
- Using "abuser tactics"
- Having unexamined prejudices
- Making prejudicial assumptions
- Having no respect for trans people
- Not engaging in good faith

I'd actually be really happy to discuss this topic in good faith, as it's important to someone I care about, and you clearly have a very different opinion. But I'd want you to read the HN guidelines first and make an effort to follow them.
First, he owed no-one anything. He could set the price to 1 billion for all he cared. His former employees could take it or leave it.

Second, you speak as if his claims were irrational. The way I see it, however, you would set for 125k (probably much less judging from what you write) while he, the sentimental fool, scooped up double the money. Therefore, your decisions, which you personally claim are rational, would have left you with half the money the "irrational" player would get. Seems to me, the "irrational" is actually the rational one, as he netted more profits. Economy and market are not math games in a vacuum, and players are not formless ideas.
Actually, the opposite is true: an objective examination of both world history and contemporary society produces a pretty favorable view towards religion in terms of net positive effects.

It is certainly true that a lot of bad has been done in the name of religion*, and that there are some number of close-minded religious nutter types that make the news but relative to the totals these are both minorities. And as for the idea about societal control, the notion that it is a 'primary' reason for their existence is unfounded.

* People who seek and wield power will use whatever tool they can get their hands on; if religion plays a large role in a society, then obviously that is a tool that certain people will attempt to use. Removing religion from the equation doesn't make the problem go away - those same people will just find different tools to use. Government suppression of religious freedom/diversity has played a large role in this too.

Edit: a few quick references out of many. Sociologists have long been aware of positive impacts of religion (e.g. https://www.pewforum.org/2016/04/12/religion-in-everyday-lif...) for individuals and "local" societies, but even at the macroeconomic level there is strong evidence that religion has aided economic development, globalism, etc.:

https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/4/1/145/htm
http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/11...
https://www.hoover.org/research/religion-and-economic-develo...
This thread has more votes (454 points) than any on the front page apart from number 1 (540 points) with more comments, 205 vs 118 from the top post.

As of now, it seats on the second page at #44.
I could joke that not having social media in my life has made more time for my HN addiction, but I really like not knowing most of you. Benefits of no social media engagement include:

- All of my personal relationships have normal adult boundaries based on what we bring to it today, and don't operate on precedents set when we were in middle school.

- Freedom from the awareness of people talking about me and the urge to influence that conversation.

- I can try things and really suck terribly at them until I'm good enough that I don't anymore, and do them for the pleasure of doing them instead of whether they get me approval and likes.

- I'm a refreshing person to be around because the perceived problems of the world seem alien and silly in my environment.

- I can engage deeply with complex ideas and problems without being assigned to a "side."

The downsides are things like when I have an idea for a product or do something creative, I absolutely lack a channel to put it into to get fast feedback and refine it.

It can be a chore for people to "explain" you in business contexts when you don't have a bunch of pictures of your food they can just look up and confirm that you, too, are the sort of person who takes pictures of their food, which creates risk you can't be trusted to just get it that people take pictures of their food now, or you don't value the same things they do. I literally eat 3x+ a day, so it's not like an exotic holiday for me, though I guess with the internet being global, that's not true for everyone, so I can see why they take the pictures. Having to explain why I don't take pictures of it is social friction like being vegan 20 years ago.

Anyway, it's a balance, and there are good reasons to stay on it, and sacrifices if you leave it. It's just a disequilibrium right now.
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Selling a consulting or web dev type business is different then selling a product based business. With some rare exceptions when you are selling a web dev business you are selling your client list, current and future planned work etc. With that, many times comes a set of developers that work for the business etc, but the primary payment is for the "book of business".

So the valuation isn't based on profit/loss so much as client list, client quality, avg client annual value and repeat business etc.

With the numbers you've shared, likely we are talking 10's of clients per year, or if it is higher then they are likely low value clients, meaning your book of business isn't worth much. I mean no disrespect, just trying to be honest as I have been through this.

I'd get the interested party to put a number out that they are thinking. Give them some basic info and let them propose a value and then see how you feel. Sometimes they need the business history bad enough to pay for it. Sometimes they have a need to angle into a few clients that you have and so they'll somewhat over value the business based on their opportunity.

Obviously the more sophisticated the business the more I could be wrong. If you really want an idea without sharing any details with the potential acquirer get with a business broker and have them do a non-binding quick eval to give you a ballpark. I've done that and paid a small price for it since I wasn't going to use them most likely, but it usually is worth the small cost (relative to the size business).
Why isn't Saudi Arabia afraid of US sanctions?
Biden should do something.
Is it the case that self-signed certs don't work in iOS at all? I'm looking around, and I appear to see tutorials for how to properly configure one in iOS.

https://medium.com/collaborne-engineering/self-signed-certif...
Haha thank you kind stranger! I've been a member since 2012 and while I've visited my profile tons of times, for checking comments and submissions, I've apparently never stopped to look at the settings and what they might do. I have a userscript that makes the main view 69ch wide and blurs my username, but I've never even been aware that the site actually has its own customization settings. :facepalm:
This. Fuck ‘em all.

This creates more divides, more animosity and discredits us all. It is not welcome.
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Very solid devices for cutting back internet dépendance or for traveling without but still having the basics.
It always has been a powerless organization. I'm a Myanmar citizen and I grew up thinking naively that one day, the UN would come and free us from the military dictatorship. It never happened and I eventually got scholarships to study in the US. Before I left for the US, I learned more about the UN and how its affiliated NGOs work/function (e.g., UNICEF) when volunteering at a couple of NGOs that work with the UN. Since then, my impression on UN has never been lower.

Now that the military coup happened a couple of months ago, and seeing the UN being the same old, I am not surprised. Most of Myanmar people, including my mother who is living there, are pinning their hopes on the UN to save them from this coup. I feel really sorry for them about believing in such a false hope.
Cache is not memory, it is more complex - LRU and all that, often with several access ports (quadratic space dependence). SRAM is memory that is on-die and it is much cheaper.
I would include a camera too. I don't really want to carry a dslr, i like that google photos are pretty much synced and backed up. It not fun for me to run some crappy data back up thing.

I like taking pictures, i like looking back on them. I use them for painting inspiration too. I don't really need to be a photographer though with a dslr or whatever is cool now
Regardless of its unofficial status, it's a post promoting the company's products in a public space, where the employee is representing the company. As a GitLab employee agrees above, it's fair to judge the company and hold them to a high standard based on how their employees present their work in the public sphere.
This is absolutely the case.
Looking forward to the world no longer giving the Saudi goverenment / royal family a free pass on everything. It's ridiculous at this point.
Hey Rich, is partial hydration on your roadmap for SvelteKit?
L2 really has nothing to do with Uniswap V2 vs. V3. As long as the L2 protocol is byte code compatible with the EVM, any contract that runs on main net can be ported to L2.
That was brilliant :)
Sounds like you're using Windows, and I believe both ultimately outsource that to the OS, so you'd need to look whereever windows manages certificate trust to find and remove any old trusted certs. HTH.
Their reasoning for kicking him off is pretty weak. I'm taking these quotes from the list of incidents linked from the first.

> Especially chilling is when Stallman addresses the accusations that Marvin Minsky sexually assaulted one of Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking victims

This incident as it was initially reported was fabricated. This letter admits that but tries to reify those fabrications by twisting his words. Saying that maybe his friend Minsky didn't realize what was happening is not defending Epstein or rape.

> He regularly and repeatedly makes comments about “the dishonest law that labels sex with adolescents as ‘rape’ even if they are willing.”

The US criminal code is not above criticism. From Stallman or anyone else.

> He recommended that, should someone find out they are pregnant and the child tests positive for Down’s syndrome “the right course of action for the woman is to terminate the pregnancy.”

Not really an uncommon opinion. The movement to not abort down syndrome babies was really an offshoot of the pro-life movement. Stallman is vocally not pro-life, and you really shouldn't expect him to be. If he believes sometimes abortion is the right choice, more power to him.

> RMS has spent years on a campaign against using people’s correct pronouns. This is poorly disguised transphobia.

Having literary standards is not transphobic. There's no evidence Stallman ever prevented someone from participating because of their identity. There's no evidence Stallman doesn't mean what he says or that he says and speaks coded language only his detractors understand.

These signees should do better.

EDIT: Removed "Stallman-phobic" wording. Even if that's an apt description the phrasing has proved distracting in a different comment thread.
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The alternative to this is corporations have their own set of laws that they choose themselves, and any local laws don’t apply to them.

Put another way with a company more people on HN love: should google get to ignore the GDPR because it hurts its profit margin?
Gabriel is coping. In Plan9's case, better is better.
No, it doesn’t, as you suspect. The article that sudosysgen links to up above treats this question nicely.
Can someone explain to me how this is not cancel culture? Us folks on the liberal left end of the spectrum can't complain about the right for employing cancel culture tactics, yet use the same tactics hypocritically.

Not only that, if this isn't cancel culture and/or this needs to serve as the one exception, would we not also be required to go for the full nuclear option and stop using not only the GPL family of licenses, but all software that refuses to migrate off said licenses? Merely asking the FSF board to stand down is a meaningless gesture, as the entire foundation would need to cease to exist as it shall always be under rms's shadow.

Cancel culture is a dangerous thing, and shouldn't be tolerated in any liberal community that intends to protect the rights of individuals using ideals such as Freedom and Free Speech.

Note: Although I dislike how RMS conducts himself in person from time to time, that isn't a good reason to shove him under the bus. He makes arguments with zero tact, but does not make arguments made in bad faith. He clearly is somewhere on the Autism spectrum, and most likely was never diagnosed due to proper diagnosis not being invented until his 20s, and proper treatment not being invented until his 40s. The community needs to make sure we don't become some violent revolution that turns around and eats our own because its convenient.
Chief Impact Officer - WTF is that ???.

We got a token useless guy here - he get's paid not because of his worth but he knows Oprah and has her number and the VC's will get to meet a real prince.
Occasionally you'll see someone step up to question the narrative, and they almost always preface their comments with a bit of moral signaling. It's like a bizarre ritual. They'll disavow, insult, or otherwise distance themselves from whichever 'other' is the target of the mob's ire, and only then will they offer up a contrary opinion.

I suppose they're responding rationally to the 'karmic' incentive.
The goal of handling young criminals should be rehabilitation, not forcing the entire family into a spiral of desperation.
> and if the open source project generates no revenue?

For example 0.1% of 0 is 0 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentage)

Whoever gets the revenue from the software should be paying.

Regarding any constructs with foundations and other tax avoidance schemes, that's probably another topic.
So is it apples responsibility to work with totalitarian governments?
Is anyone surprised? They're at least consistent if nothing else...
I must be missing something. Why was RMS brought back?
Milk has fairly significant environmental costs (cows are large animals, after all), but bees make honey while they're pollinating plants (including our crops), and we depend on that pollination. I find the idea that humans are cruelly exploiting bees to be hard to wrap my head around. Beekeepers don't rob hives of too much honey, as that would kill them. I've been a vegetarian for 35 years, and I avoid dairy products for the most part (mainly for environmental reasons, but also ethical ones), but honey doesn't seem problematic to me, I'd keep bees myself if my neighbors would let me...
That said, archive.org is accessible to anyone with an internet connection. This is good for those who don't have access to private libraries or family that have science magazine subscriptions.

Future generations will have a different experience than those in the past. Theirs will be slightly more fair
You are universalizing your lived experience. This invalidates the lived experiences of other people, who differ from you.

Ironically, misapplication of moral universalizing is what leads people to be bigoted against trans people in the first place.
It made me think of the progression of men's 100m dash times. I was really hoping it would line up better. I think long jump might have been a better choice for a spurious correlation graph.

https://imgur.com/a/5quyLWC
So then I have to install a root CA for every random IoT product I buy? Which also entails handing them the keys to my machine, since being a root CA means any certificate they generate will be trusted.
I agree - as I was reading the article, I thought “they’re using police as social workers again”.
> all ip addresses except 10.0.0.0/8, 192.168.0.0/24 and 172.16.0.0/16

I assume you're trying to exclude RFC1918 addressing. As such:

> 192.168.0.0/24

This should actually be: 192.168.0.0/16

> 172.16.0.0/16

This should actually be: 172.16.0.0/12

(10.0.0.0/8 was correct)
Am I the only one who sees the timing and tone of this open letter somewhat suspicious?
Technical stuff aside, I am not a RMS supporter or friend, I just exchanged like 5 words and shook his hand once, like huh... maybe 20 years ago at a conference. He may not be a winner in politically correctness, but I would expect a letter like that to be written against someone who actively behaves in some way, not just by being so stupid for making his odd ideas public.
> Something like less than 1% of trans people regret transition

Sure, but most of the contention by far is around kids and teenagers who are kinda sorta thinking that this "trans" thing they keep hearing about in their social milieu might perhaps apply to them, and statistics align with the (eminently reasonable) expectation of higher regret rates in that restricted subgroup. It's not a simple problem, there are very real issues involved.
The least bad system is far more transparent.
With pleasure.

FYI: [dead] means the account is (shadow)banned, while [flagged] just refers to the particular comment.
It is, which is how you know it is not a real risk.
It definitely has it's issues but it's not on the level of facebook or twitter just yet. I can kind of see them circling their wagons to protect a staff member given past reddit overreactions that end up with the staff member getting doxed and death threats all over the internet. Mostly because of the pile on mentality of a lot of redditors.
Thanks for the feedback- I'm always looking to improve (I just bought a new webcam). I'll look into a pop filter today!
> I’ve heard of this before, but I’m still puzzled by the logic of a loan that never gets paid off. Was this just a bad idea, or does this still happen

It sounds weird but it's not a bad idea, no. In essence an infinite set of future payments has a finite present value, due to inflation.

i.e., suppose inflation is 100%, this means prices will double every year, and the real value of a nominal amount will halven every year. So $100 today, will be worth $50 (in today's money) in a year from now. A year later (2 years), a $100 then will be worth $25 in today's money. Another year later (3 years) it'd be worth $12.5. And so on.

As you can see, a nominal future payment, say $100 in 300 years, will start to approach zero.

Of course interest rates aren't quite that high, but it's just to get the point across. The interest rate is essentially a discount rate, which lets you value a future amount of money, in today's prices. In the above example, $100 in 3 years would be worth 100 / 2^3 = 12.5

This means that an infinite series of payments (perpetuity) can be calculated as well by simply taking the payment divided by the interest rate to discount it with. So at an interest rate of say 5%, a $100 per year infinitely, would be worth $2000 today.

In other words, in a world with 5% interest rates, you'd be indifferent to receive $2000 today, or $100 ad infinitum. They have the same present value.
in LA, almost every train stop has nothing over it, like no retail, no commercial, and no residential at all. it's such an easy win to have a commercial developer build a 6-story mixed use complex right on top of the station. but no, we need to make sure everyone has to walk at least 1/3 of a mile to their final destination.
I was under the impression the Strassen method was rarely used because it has a number of drawbacks such as harder to parallelize, uses more memory, has bigger constants for complexity, less stable, etc.

It's not really designed to be optimal for the current hardware, but just to lower the number of steps. It could be more useful in the future though.
Maybe, but aircraft tend to follow much stricter paths than one would normally believe. Particularly around urban centers (airports) they queue up and only really fly a few routes through the area. On clear nights you can often see the lines of nav and landing lights forming as aircraft approach the city.
Have you not ever met the guy? Yeesh.
Make your own CA, install on each computer, install certificates, voila.
Additionally, the increase in space access is increasing the scope of humanity to well beyond the Earth. It may seem ludicrous now, but the same tech that makes cheap satellites possible will open up other worlds, in particular the Moon and Mars.
So many people treat texts like they're synchronous, though. Haven't you ever had people send you follow-up texts half an hour after the first one to "remind" you to reply? I've found this to be really common.
Still think pangolin on the avalanche network is a much better dapp than uniswap can ever be in PoW ethereum.
Can you be forced to sign something that changes the terms of your employment agreement?
Ask HN: SaaS in the Porn Space?
Curious if anyone on HN has a SaaS product that caters mainly to adult entertainment / porn? Or knows of SaaS companies in this space.
I feel like something will be lost when the barrier of entry for the web goes from "Host an HTML site on a domain" to "Obtain a certificate, host an HTML site on a domain configured to use a certificate" but maybe it's not as bad as it sounds. I'm loathe to let a random script modify my nginx config.
This, exactly. One added issue is that ZGC does NOT support compressed oops at all.
You're correct. I think this comes down to confusion on the operator precedence. I read it as O(n^(3 log 2)) because otherwise it's kind of very obviously not correct (no way it's n^3, that's already known), but should have stated that, because according to usual notation/precedence it's not that.
Looks promising,but good luck keeping up with the appstores' unannounced changes. Btw what kind of metrics would be available for users?
They do the same on linkedin and that was the reason I unfollowed them, too many buzzwords for short content. GitLab used to have a really good technical blog (like postgres articles), but you wouldn't believe the top 10 things they started doing! Unfortunately recent posts are medium.com quality.
One of the biggest issues I encounter with concurrency is whether the code I've written could be optimized to reduce cache misses.

I feel like a lot of resources including this wonderful book gloss over reducing cache misses. Is it really that trivial? What are the tips and tricks involved?