skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not an exaggeration. I was there, joining several protests including the CHRF 2M protest. In addition, the police estimates is always wrong (of course they want the numbers to be as low as possible). One example was a protest around Victoria Park. According to “official police figures” it was 180k attending - but they only counted the people in the limited Victoria Park square, it was completely PACKED. They didn’t count the hundreds of thousands of people outside the square who couldn’t fit in, they also didn’t count the people stuck in the MTR next to the park, who couldn’t even fit on the streets. The “official police statistics” is always off by a magnitude of x.
They pretty much do allow subs to do whatever they want as long as it isn't illegal and also as long as it doesn't draw negative media attention to reddit.

They will usually crack down on the latter. They will sometimes ban illegal activity subs unprovoked but really it's fairly rare right up until they draw outside attention.
That's a great idea. Easing things up! Excited to try it out!
you buy them in workstations through your account manager with your friendly tier 1 vendor. ouch I really ought to be doing something to provide something beneficial from 3 decades of corporate purchasing but just slinging this out there skips the pro salesman v pro salesman level of attention required tho it isn't rocket science but neither is rocket science... like the vram upgrade I genuinely badly want to wave my arms in the air shouting "come here I'll fund the smt assembly automation "
edit the rest is in my profile now since unreadable in line but details what I still want to do and will if the opportunity to set up shop for people to do like the article with dedicated facilities
I want a joint venture between Starlink and Cloudflare. Put compute resources on the satellites and have a distributed CDN + edge workers in space. Having satellite internet with latency competitive with cable is fine and all, but what if you could beat it?
I don't claim it's a long term solution, and that you should run of your cache for years.

But having that cache means you have the time to get a clean solution rather than having to rush something because nobody can work anymore can you can't deploy fixes to production either.

These yanking issues are really problematic, but if they interrupted your workflow, then there's something wrong with your build pipeline.
I agree with a lot of the stuff being said here, but it's entirely tangential to what I talked about. Our "cancel culture" is more focused on zooming-in on the minutia than the big-picture. I love my autistic friends, and never once would I describe their behavior as mean-spirited or "jerk-like". I treat them with patient respect, and they reciprocate the sentiment. I personally know that 2 of those 3 friends love RMS (haven't asked the third :p), and I fail to see what harm he can cause by rejoining the board. Stallman envisioned a free world, where people can communicate openly and without censorship. When people try to silence him, they're only showing how little they understand his goals. You can love him, you can hate him, but you can never stop him. I personally disagree with many of his opinions, but I fully support him coming back to the FSF. Richard Stallman embodies freedom, so he belongs there, regardless of his political or personal opinions.
The irony is that HK is being used as a model to get rid of peaceful protest in the U.K. - 10 years in jail for peacefully walking up the road with a sign that annoys an MP.
https://metacpan.org/pod/pp https://metacpan.org/pod/staticperl https://metacpan.org/pod/perlcc

But that's the worst way to deploy a program.
Woodland plants also expect organic matter in the soil column. It's one of the complaints about 'modern' forestry practices that leave no mature wood on the ground to decay. Real forests have rotting logs in them.

It's really conventional farmers concentrating on annuals that want something different. They're growing prairie plants.
This grouping convention reminds me a lot of Better Specs from the Ruby world:

https://www.betterspecs.org/

With rspec, you use the describe and context keywords.

At one level, yes, it's mainly syntactical sugar. As the test-writer, the two approaches may seem interchangeable.

Where I find it really helps is when I'm not the test-writer but rather I'm reviewing another developer's tests, say in PR. I find this syntax and hierarchy produces a much more coherent test suite and makes it easier for me to twig different use cases and test quality generally.
Perhaps the most frightening aspect of this is reading how much these posts come off like Harry Potter -- people terribly frightened to tell the truth, and resorting to back channels and whispers of what happened, and "He who shall not be named".

I don't buy the excuse that this is to prevent doxxing. This really seems to be primarily out of fear of being shadow banned.
Fun Ted talk of this point

The mathematics of weight loss
https://youtu.be/vuIlsN32WaE
I'd like to expand on this a little more. Do you think these communities are wrong for their protest? Personally, I think it's fair for the users of reddit to express their displeasure with respect to how reddit operates the business, even in situations where I might disagree with the sentiment (though this isn't such a case).
"If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism." - Dr. Stephen Shore
Do we need scare quotes around "censorship" when reddit is telling them particular names are unmentionable in any context?
Your position on the article is unclear. Has the admin pool gone to hell for hiring a likely passive accomplice in pedophilia? Has the site gone to hell for organizing blackouts when issues come to light (SOPA, this, etc.), or for reasons unrelated to the article?
I'm bullish on Intel. Having an engineer at the top will fix all sorts of subtle problems quite quickly. Their manufacturing process for both 10nm and 7nm are now supposedly back on track, and yet they have a large backlog of designs waiting for the new processes to ramp up. We may see rapid performance increases from them now their pipeline is unblocked.

Additionally, US politics is now aligning across the aisle against China, and relying too heavily on TSMC looks like a potential future geopolitical problem. Intel is the only firm that can realistically keep up or out-fab TSMC and thus the USG will be loathe to let it even look like it might fail. Simply having fabs physically within your territory but managed by a remote firm, is clearly no substitute for having fabs actually managed by a domestic company (consider how many ways there must be to do the equivalent of SSH-ing into a fab, or otherwise subtly sabotage it from HQ).
I love it. Hats off to you for your hard work on this. Who builds your illustrations/graphics ? Looks cool.
They don't HAVE to enforce anything. The whole idea of internet regulations is pretty against what it was intended to be. Everyone is terrified of words now though so I guess that's what we're going to do. It's gonna look like network television within the next decade.
It's from Stallman himself: https://stallman.org/saint.html
I have some coworkers in Costa Rica, it is close timezone wise to where I live in the USA now, and I saw this absolutely insane house at an unbelievable price a while back: https://www.coldwellbankercostarica.com/property/11337/

It looks like a fantastic place to live.
The gamble was higher engagement on the Google app and Chrome. Google have been trying to turn Chrome and their app into news portals to squeeze some more monetization avenues out of them as search revenue growth begins to max out.
My critique is this seems a distraction.

Just have standard terms of service.

A snowflake is always “for now.”

Placating people who don’t like your ToS is not connecting with people in your market segment.

Your market segment is people who don’t care. Your differentiation is treating them better than you can get away with.

Again I don’t have any issue with what you are doing.

I think privacy theater is a waste of your time and energy.
Prince Harry Joins the Aspen Institute's New Commission on Information Disorder
Some bad habits deserve to die but anyone wanting to snuff this is bonkers - this is legit, creative, authentic culture. It's the most rare and valuable thing. They should be encouraging it.
Great to hear that. We support both IOS and android. You can have a look at our doc page. https://docs.sawolabs.com/sawo/
Out of the box it doesn't, but it's 99% of the way there.
They explicitly defended and espoused free speech/open discourse in the early days. It was very much part of the ethos. One of their founders (Aaron Schwartz) was a famous activist in areas intersecting with free speech. They were known for allowing edgy content on their platform, even if they didn't approve of it, like exotic but legal porn and stuff like FiftyFifty. There was really huge pushback from the community in the mid 2010s to instances of censorship. In 2012 their CEO specifically said "we stand for free speech".

https://www.theverge.com/2015/7/15/8964995/reddit-free-speec...

Reddit also used to be open source, but they moved on from that, too.
I am glad that is your experience.There is no single answer for all people. I think you as an employee are making a wise choice. If you can get paid a full salary for 20 hours of work, it is in your best interest to keep that alive!

As a business owner, I am not sure you would hire on the same axis. I would personally not hire someone that can only work for 20 hours a week, there is too much to do.
You generally become better with more practice though, right? Whole 10,000 hours thing? Surely someone who spends more time developing will be better at it.

Now of course this doesn’t matter past a certain point — people could spend all their time working on something that doesn’t help them grow.

Then once you have those 10,000 hours of actual growth, you are probably close to a Senior developer level. Which after 5 years in an office job working 40 hour weeks, you’re there anyways.

But at the earlier levels of developers, it seems that working on projects outside of work would definitely help you improve faster!
It's reminiscent of the /g/ sticky, but I think the image macro goes back much further than that.
Why are we treating this as an either/or? China and America largely use the same tactics to suppress protest, and they're bad in both places.

The only significant difference is that in China, the media suppression comes from the government, and in America, it comes from the leaders of the media itself.
Amazing idea !!!
I do love to see people come out with a public statement that says "We believe that a guy who, in public meetings, representing his organization, picks toe cheese from between his toes and consumes it in front of people, is absolutely the right leader for us! We believe that a guy who showers once or twice per year is the best public face for us. Out of all the billions of people on Earth, he's the one!"

Takes guts to make a statement like that. Bravo.

Here's a link about Stallman for the many HN readers who obviously don't know anything about the guy. I urge you to read it before forming your opinion about "cancel culture".

https://daringfireball.net/2019/09/richard_stallmans_disgrac...
Some covered here https://metro.co.uk/2021/03/24/chaos-at-reddit-as-dozens-of-...
U.K. Study Proves No-Test Telemedicine Abortion Is Safe and Effective
The more time I spend with Python, the more it seems to me that a language defined abstractly and having multiple implementations (none "official") seems to be the healthiest compared to one with a reference compiler/interpreter. D seems to have one "reference compiler" and just a "reference manual".
> could a library author claim their old code infringed on copyright to force users to upgrade to a paid version?

Anybody can claim anything. Only the holder of the infringed copyright has standing to sue, so the library author in your example has no power to force anything. They may also be civilly liable for damages to the library users and, if unlicensed code was planted deliberately, then also criminally (extortion).
for desktop GPUs 1000 is bit much, but 600-700A are totally doable under LN2
These are some very unfortunate consequences of GPLv3 licenses. One of the best VSLAM libraries out there that was fully open (BSD2) now terminated from the original maintainer and creator because of possible similarities to GPLv3 source code.

I can't imagine the open source proponents for GPLv3 had this in mind when they created it.
Please don't compare RMS and Epstein. RMS made a comment re consent, which I believe he said he had reconsidered.

Epstein was not just a pedo but a pimp for all sorts of rich and powerful people, complete with a pedo-jet, private-pedo-island and shitloads of money nobody seems to know from whence it came.
Yup I'm actually setting up my own Lemmy instance as we speak. Started last night, weird timing.

I have a fun swedish domain for it and everything.

I think it could be great. In my opinion AP is very well suited for stuff like message boards, comments, tweets. Not so well suited for Instant messaging chat because when it starts lagging you're not Instant anymore. That's what I've seen with Matrix. When they had trouble scaling the chats were basically like message boards.
How am I supposed to feel about this? Someone has sexual fantasies about clearly immoral and horrible acts, but has apparently (I only skimmed the article) never acted on them. I am supposed to, what, think this person is vile? That anyone who associates with them is vile? Why is it any of our business what this guy is into?
Wait, doesnt reddit have control over it servers? It surely can revoke such rules.

Looks like all this drama is to give an illusion of control and free speech. Am I missing some other dynamic at play?
I've been re-discovering organs (and specifically, pipe organs) and I think they are an early pre-cursor so electronic synthesizers. Wendy Carlos got me hooked on electronic music back when that was still brand new (ok, Theremin), and her Switched On Bach record is one of very few vinyl records that I still own.
That's the thing - it works for Erlang/Elixir, because it tends to live in its own ecosystem with its own libraries etc. If you are working on something where there's an existing large ecosystem in, say, C++, you'll be reinventing the wheel. Or jumping through hoops with a multiprocess implementation (pipes, sockets etc), and having fun synchronizing those.

Now, not all projects are like that - but reusing libraries from other languages is common enough in large projects. Thus, languages that can't accommodate that use case, don't become truly mainstream. Within their niche, they can be much more pleasant to work with, though. So I don't think there's anything wrong with Elixir per se, and for some tasks, it makes perfect sense - but it's not a very general-purpose tool.

Note, by the way, that I'm not talking just (or even mostly!) about JS, but rather about async/await in general - e.g. also in C#, where that syntax originated, or these days in C++20. On Windows, if you write "modern" (UWP) apps, regardless of the language used, they make a lot of async API calls for stuff like UI - and the implementation is all in native code, running in the same process as your app.
Exactly the same thing happens with non open source, proprietary code which leaks into open projects.
I've had to warn you before about using HN primarily for nationalistic battle and flamewar. I understand that it's a different situation when you're representing a minority viewpoint in defense (I'm imagining myself into your position here) of a disparaged group that you either belong to or know a lot about. If that's the case, fair enough—but you still have to follow the rules, and by focusing overwhelmingly on one flamewar topic, you're not doing that.

Moreover, you're not just defending, you're playing the same flamewar game that the others are, with tedious "no you" disparagement and name-calling about the West which mirror the things you're objecting to. That's not cool.

Worse yet, you're crossing into personal attack. I know how difficult it is to resist these temptations, but everyone who posts here has to follow the rules. You're breaking them, and we need you to fix that. Whether you're breaking them as badly as the next person is irrelevant.

I've put a ton of time and energy into the difficult task of convincing HN commenters to be level-headed and decent when addressing China/West geopolitics during this time of heightened propaganda and nascent enmity: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... I've stood up repeatedly for HN's Chinese users, and/or users of Chinese descent, and/or users who have a family or business background in China, for their right to share what they know on the site and not be attacked or hounded off. What you're doing here, unfortunately, undermines that.

If you want to post in the spirit of sharing knowledge and helping to overcome ignorance and prejudice, you're welcome to do that. If you're just fighting a nationalistic battle from the minority side, that's as bad as the comments you're objecting to, and you're damaging this site. That's not ok.

I realize this asks more of you in terms of dignity and self-control than it asks of the users who are in the majority position and therefore under less pressure. That's not fair, but it's how group dynamics work, it's the same all over the world, and it isn't going to change—we have to play the cards we're dealt. If you can find it in yourself to post in a spirit of respect and patience, no matter how ignorant others are or you feel they are, that would be lovely. But if all you're after is "triggering folks", we're going to end up banning you. I don't want to ban you, so would be grateful if you'd please fix this. Currently, you're giving ammunition to the lame and foolish accusations that we're trying hard to combat here.

If you do want to help overcome ignorance and increase understanding, here are two things you can specifically do that would help a lot: (1) find things to agree with in the comment you're replying to—this is nearly always possible (if not, you probably shouldn't be replying), and establishes respect and good faith. (2) Scrupulously eliminate every trace of pejorative language from your own posts, regardless of how wrong the other comment is or you feel it is.
Life.so looks very interesting. It does one thing I wish all task managements did: integrate calendar so that you can schedule tasks on your calendar. This, to me, is key to actually getting things done.

I would love to also have notes built into it - that way I won't be context switching and could (presumably) add tasks from within notes.

I've signed up for your app - looking forward to seeing it!
I see that now your page links to my comment, saying, "More efficient ways of performing Gaussian blur have been noted; the Magic Blur was convenient in that it made use of existing hardware libraries and calling code stack."

But in fact what I described above is the Magic Blur algorithm, just in a slightly different guise, and it can probably take advantage of existing hardware libraries in the same way. However, I don't know what your hardware libraries are doing in the blur case!
> It’s not going to become a common mod. It’s likely not even feasible for someone to offer as a service due to the risk involved in shipping expensive GPUs two ways and then reworking the PCB with hard to source chips that can’t necessarily be guaranteed to work at the exact speeds expected by the drivers.

That's too bad. I prefer to buy a top-end graphics card once every 3 or 4 generations. I was up for a refresh with the 20-series, but the value was pretty bad so I waited. Now the 30-series looks great except for one glaring issue (aside from availability): VRAM capacity. With the imminent release of the direct storage API for Windows, I expect the 30-series cards will show their age much faster than previous generations thanks to their relatively small VRAM capacity compared to Radeon and game consoles.
There's also a chunk of us in the middle, who don't do open source, but still learn and have our own projects outside of work hours.
Libre software, if it ever becomes the societal norm, is revolutionary in the traditional meaning of that word - turning over the societal order (vs. smartphones which haven't changed the existing societal order much at all), and if you are seeking to create a societal revolution, the words and actions of your leadership matter beyond the immediate domain of your movement.

RMS may not have much in terms of money, but he has a lot of influence due to his stature in the libre software movement, and with influence comes responsibility and accountability to those in the movement he started.
Apparently, Mars has at least one active volcano, "Arsia Mons", that apparently erupts once per day, and puts out a huge cloud/gas/debris trail.

This is interesting to me!

Why?

Well, while Jezero Crater might be of interest to the Perseverance Rover and NASA, there are (at least) three places (or types of place!) on Mars that hold a higher interest to me...

They are:

1) Poles.

2) Active Volcanoes (Arsia Mons seems to be one of them...)

3) Caves (if any are found)

Why?

In an apparently endlessly repeating martian terrain of barren plains, rocks, craters, and mountains, the poles, the active volcanoes, and caves, if any could be found, are the statistical outliers, the extremes, the anomalies, the singularities, the "googlewhacks" (for lack of a better term) -- of endlessly repeating and repeating Martian terrain.

In other words, if there was something interesting to be found on Mars -- those would be the places to look for it...

The video referenced above -- discusses one of those places, the active volcano "Arsia Mons".

That's why it's interesting to me...
Remote Leadership: Why a Distributed Team Needs a Different Approach
That eccentric idea of calling the window system "8½" ... Back in the day when I was trying out Plan9 I spent a whole lot of time figuring out how to enter that on a keyboard.
The advantage is being able to replace the GPU, RAM, etc without having to throw away the VRMs.
This is definitely an issue with microservices, but how do frameworks contribute? I've moved more toward monolithic frameworks over the last year (Next.js and Phoenix specifically), and it feels to me like local setup is easier and build times are shorter than when I'm rolling more of my own setup.
> Some people are really good at interviewing and being charismatic enough to convince people to hire them.

Totally agreed. Traditional interview processes select for people who are good talkers. That doesn't correlate well with technical skill: you over-hire glib people and under-hire people who aren't. E.g., the shy, awkward, and anxiety-prone.

When I run an interview process, I focus on making it as much like real work as possible. Some pair programming, some technical discussion, some joint product collaboration and systems design. It's my firm belief that if we want to know if people can do a thing, we should try doing the thing with them. It's not perfect, but it's way better than asking people about their 10-year career plan or having them solve Mensa puzzles.
If rents start increasing, then investors will build new housing. All the city has to do is approve the permits.

>Take from the people who produce much, and give to the people who produce less?

Maybe? Depends if you want to avoid this situation:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/77/8f/07/778f07ec78b997b4f218...
Yes brother I agree!
This is just a report that collates the so called experts opinions and has no reflection in reality. I could create such report myself.