skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm responding to your appending "phobic" to the end as if that was a symmetrical response to something like trans-phobic which refers to a protected class in the US - these get _special_ protections that individuals do not get. RMS is probably a protected class for his disability, but that doesn't prevent him from being excluded for actions unrelated to that.

No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service doesn't equate to "RMS is a bad person" if RMS happens to not be wearing a shirt, it just means he won't served based on that.

This org isn't RMS phobic, they are - against the actions / views RMS has perpetuated, and from his position of power, so they would like someone else to be in power, that's a pretty simple request, and I am sure there are a lot of qualified people to lead who haven't brought so much baggage along with them.

That said, this is clearly just a polarizing issue that folks don't really appear capable of discussing because I mean, what's there to discuss, are you on the FSF? Do you know RMS? Have you worked with that org at all? I haven't!
This is really neat. I got rid of all social media years ago because I thought the downsides outweighed the benefits for me (well I have a LinkedIn that I almost never sign in to). I've thought about getting rid of my smartphone too but I use maps too much. The Garmin is a good way to get around that. If there were a similar phone to the one he's got that was good for texting too I might give this a try.
I really enjoyed this site. Thanks
At what point do the police get involved? This is a guy who openly supports pedophilia on his webpage and has been catching flack for it for years. He even defended Epstein. Anyone defending RMS or signing his paychecks at this point needs to have their home and devices searched, at the very least.
Having read the apparently damning set of things RMS has said linked from the page, they sound very similar to the sorts of things I would have thought when I was an unsocialised 10 year old. All 'reasoned' in some technical sense, but hurtful, misguided, ignorant, impolite and basically no longer defensible. To be honest these sort of 'internally consistent but clangingly bad' takes on morality and social norms come out a lot in ASD people. The puritanical bent to RMS's prognostications on Software Freedom are also like this: if X then Y, and it MUST BE Y, and I don't care how you feel about it. I have no idea if this is in play here. It sounds like he is being excluded based upon his views (they mention "actions" but this seems to be 'act' of sharing his views?) but not actually taken to task or challenged about them?
I developed a Chrome extension to help student research colleges better
After applying to colleges, I found out I was spending too much time researching colleges because there were so many websites to visit. Hence, I developed this tool that aggregates all college data in one place.
Bradley M. Kuhn was one of the few who wrote a good retrospective in public and his own role. I can not imagine that he showed up at libre planet this year to receive his deserved award if he knew upfront that rms was back on the fsf board...
If past French actions are any guide, not much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
It's totally an issue.

There have been tons of critical Android vulnerabilities over the last years that cannot be fixed by app updates, e.g. remote code execution via Bluetooth stack or MMS.
When paired with mountain, I'd say blue is more accurate. 青山 is a fixed term (not quite "idiom" but you get the idea) originated from Chinese.
> Second, 1999 was barely more than 20 years ago. As late as 2003, there were still no smartphones, no Facebook, and Google was still just a search engine. Going back to the life you had 18 years ago is just like riding a bike.

The article appears to agree with you, more or less:

A lot of people around me don’t understand how I can live my life like that, they tell me they will never do it. What they don’t realize is that we all used to do it, smartphones have only been mainstream these last 10 years. So unless you’re ten, you’ve lived your life just fine without it.

The ability to "just sit" is a wonderful thing. I never thought about it until early adulthood - one day I was pacing anxiously around, while my girlfriend and a friend of hers talked on the sofa, and suddenly her friend looked up at me and said "Men never just sit, do they?"

But this was almost 30 years ago, long before smartphones.
Here's the blogpost from a few months ago: https://svelte.dev/blog/whats-the-deal-with-sveltekit

TL;DR, it is the new officially recommended way to build apps with the Svelte framework. Compared to its predecessor, it promises much faster local development based atop Vite and ESBuild, and it can be deployed as a static site, or a node server, or as serverless functions (whereas previously you only had either server or static site options). There are a ton of other small new features as well in the docs.
Yes, why don't we come up with an extremely elaborate scheme to issue more or less faux certificates to these devices that still breaks in practice because it looks like DNS rebinding and requires an internet connection for the device and some VC funded service on the other end in perpetuity for correct operation?

Ultimately, the question is why the fuck my browser needs TurkTrust, Saudi CA or others to authenticate the device when I could do that right fucking now by turning it over and reading a label. No 3rd parties required.
> No one is saying transition is a "regrettable outcome".

Please for the love of christ just spend 10 minutes reading some of the gender critical arguments before trying to represent them here, because you're saying stuff that is 1) untrue and 2) very obviously untrue to anyone who's given even cursory attention to what these people are saying.

Transition currently has very low rates of regret; lower than many other forms of surgery. Hip replacement has higher rates of regret and there's not a mainstream movement trying to prevent access to that.
Moving to a privacy-focused and open-source comment system on my blog
> RSA is in fact somewhat notable for being the only widely used asymmetric cryptosystem where the underlying operation is block cipher-ish encryption primitive and not key agreement primitive.

Debatable. It's sort of true of RSA-OAEP. That's not true of RSA-PSS (signatures), nor of RSA-KEM (key encapsulation). Really it's the OAEP that's block-cipher like, and the fundamental RSA operation (modular exponentiation) isn't "encryption" or "signing" or "decryption" or "encapsulation" or anything else cryptographic on its own.
> If you make blanket statements like “I’m not attracted to people of X group,” you likely have some unexamined prejudice

Does that also apply when the group is men/women (as opposed to AMAB/AFAB folks which would be the 'gender critical' view)? Should we all be pansexual?
Show HN: Crystal Web Archiver – a website downloader
I haven't used Sapper, but I've read a bit about SvelteKit. Afaik the main reasons for the rewrite were to clean up the code, and make the framework platform agnostic. This means that you can use different adapters for SvelteKit to make it usable in places where Sapper wasn't optimal, such as serverless hosts.

For more in depth info, refer to this page: https://kit.svelte.dev/migrating
I'm kinda confused what FSF was even thinking reinstating RMS. This was such a obvious reaction and consequence.

Either they should have stood by RMS in the first place, or they should have let the matter be. But flipflopping like they did is pretty silly.
> Shared hosting is awful

Depends on your use case.

For my use case, I upload a bunch of HTML files via SFTP, and it just keeps working. I don't have to deal with the server software, someone who can dedicate a lot more time does that for me for a nominal cost (because keeping the server for 10000 people updated is only marginally more difficult than me keeping my own server updated).

I pay the same or less than I'd pay for a small server, and someone who provides the benefit of a managed platform gets some profit for the value (hassle free website) they created. In exchange, I save an hour or two of fiddling with the server per year, which makes this a great deal. You're not paying for infrastructure, you're paying for the "managed" part of a managed service.

Could I just use a storage bucket? Probably. But I'd have to figure out how to make Let's Encrypt work with that, and if someone decides they hate me and downloads my site with a million bots several times per second, I'm getting a bill that costs me more than a lifetime of shared hosting.

If I were to use PHP and MySQL... they'd probably still update it more diligently than I would after a year when I get busy with other things.
No, but you get a pass because he was not yet convicted.

that is what a conviction means -- we should not punish people before it, nor should we punish people that associate with them
let's encrypt does not like that use case btw. because you would need to validate the cert and store it somewhere and then download it to the specified box, since the service can only be inside an intranet.
Hey, thanks for the article. The goal of Hotwire is to remove Ajax calls and minimize Javascript client coding as much as possible. That starts with Turbo as the foundation and then Stimulus is the next layer up. There's nothing wrong with doing what you did w/ Stimulus, but calling it Hotwire creates unnecessary confusion for those new to Rails+Hotwire. That confusion is what I'm addressing in the grandparent comment.
I can't do that with my Chromecast, though, which my point. There are devices that depend on HTTPS to function, but are designed such that the user who owns the device cannot add their own certificates to their trust store.
Self-signed certificates seem reasonable in this context - unless I’m missing something.
No room for redemption these days
Since the SushiSwap was anonymous fork of Uniswap, I'm wondering how they plan to prevent an another anonymous fork just by using a different license?
Andrei Arsenevich Tarkovsky is definitely greater than Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch in my book. He's a genius and I highly recommend reading "Sculping in Time", a book he wrote to explain his approach to film making.
It seems like it's going to be tricky to balance between flexibility to support all kinds of workflows and streamlined experience by standardizing workflows. Where does Runway stand in terms of this tradeoff?
Will you still need HSTS Preload going forward (for Chrome)?
To second that I think Discord's been publishing stuff about high scale concurrency so I'd think they spent quite some time and intelligence getting that right, and it's not trivial.
I thought the Quantum threshold theorem said that it was possible to scale up quantum computers as much as you like? Or am I misinterpreting it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_threshold_theorem
Aeron: Low-latency, reliable networking over UDP
The persuasion power of the word “because”. Because humans are weirdos
No. Someone having opinions you don't like isn't reason enough to ruin their life. Put me in the anti-rms-open-letter camp.

We all interact with people that have strange opinions everyday, we just usually don't hear them, let's all move on.
> Once you scale you will no longer afford to use AWS and have to colocate your own hardware, along with entirely reimplementing your stack to use open source software.

If you price right, then if you scale to the point you need it for ongoing costs, you'll have money to spend on the one-time cost of building an abstraction layer over any locked-in services and switching to that, enabling both a migration off and, potentially, its own resellable product.
Uniswap is the biggest current threat to Coinbase.

Uniswap was trading more than Coinbase Pro during certain periods of 2020.
There's some extremely heavy subtext in Conservancy's press release about it, which was published after the news: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2021/mar/22/fsf-award-bkuhn/

> In his acceptance speech, Bradley gave advice to software freedom activists, noting that all should follow a few simple principles: take care in the words they choose in their communications, be prepared to "speak truth to power" (both to powerful proprietary software companies and to other Free Software leaders), stubbornly refuse to use or develop proprietary software, and find ways to bolster and coordinate with other important social justice causes, such as those that seek to ameliorate systemic bias and combat climate change.

> Bradley also acknowledged that his work in collaboration with Conservancy's Executive Director, Karen Sandler, has allowed them “to achieve accomplishments in Free Software that neither of [them] could achieve working alone”. While thrilled to receive this individual honor, Bradley views his collaboration with Karen and Conservancy's staff as an excellent example of how software freedom activism is bigger than any single individual's achievements or views. Bradley added: “we succeed with the best results for the future of software freedom when we work together, set aside personal ambition, and reject cult of personality.”
> What barrier is there currently to open source projects. Take the code, do whatever you want with it.

There is a barrier to participate in development of those projects. Developers are expected to work for free and not every developer can afford to do it, so these projects are dominated by people from privileged backgrounds.

> What is the difference between an open source project and a "so-called open source" project. Is the source available freely available? Then its open source. It is a gift!

I am not sure why do you mean by this question.

> Billions of people don't get to do exactly what they want to do. Many (most?) open source contributors work on the open source in their spare time.

The problem is that "Open Source" is a source of free R&D for companies who don't have to pay salaries and taxes and developers are expected to give up their time for free.
Big companies are promoting this, because it saves them money in the long run at the expense of developers.
This is the same situation as with unpaid internships. If a company offers an unpaid internships, only people from privileged backgrounds can afford that (e.g. parents pay their bills) and people from poor background are missing out because they need to find a paid work often in completely different sector. That's why in many countries (for example in the UK) unpaid internships are illegal to level the playing field and to reduce the social divide.

> They aren't paying for it because the person who wrote it didn't want them to pay for it.

As I wrote above, in many places it is illegal. Everyone should be paid for their work even if they are privileged and don't want money (then they can send it to charity).
It's an application framework for Svelte which replaces Sapper.

It uses Vite[1] for development and has been designed from the start to be able to produce static sites a la Gatsby or Next (Sapper wasn't great at that). Svelte Kit runs SSR on Node JS servers like Sapper did, but also on cloud functions and I think even Cloudflare Workers which do not run Node.

[1] https://vitejs.dev/
How is scaling to the state legislature scaling to a world wide issue?
The dark side of c is a pathway to many abilities, some considered to be unnatural
The words themselves are modern inventions, reflecting the western medicalization of the concepts, which in turn reflected bigotry — declaring something an “illness” is a great way to get people on board with eradicating it. But gay people and gay relationships existed in pretty much every society for which we have records, long before the British decided to coin a new word. (And in fact, so did trans people.)

A rose by any other name smells just as sweet, etc.

Your ignorance on this is truly stunning.
I wonder what Stanley Lieber would think.
The A64fx also has hardware synchronization barriers to synchronize cores, which is a pretty GPU-like thing (at least it is very common on GPUs, and rare on CPUs).

https://github.com/fujitsu/A64FX/blob/master/doc/A64FX_Speci...
Would you say the same level of benefit could be had by simply just turning your phone off and placing it in another room while working?

I've done this with pretty great results. Actually, I will do it again right now.
Ah, got you. But then "affirmation-only" seems like a misleading name. Cause it's not really "affirmation-only", it's more like "be supportive and nice".

Edit: maybe I'm just not being charitable enough to jargon. I guess I can see how "affirmation-only" might be understood to mean "affirmation-only of felt gender identity" in the context of certain communities.
That's such an incredibly vile article, it pretty much amounts to cyberstalking. It's pretty disgusting how he morally grandstands after digging out the fetish content of a really troubled 15 year old:

> Whilst we might recognise that Aimee Challenor is a tragic victim in this mess, we must remember the positions of power and influence he held and how quickly and easily he reached them.

The Spectator is equally vile too. It's the best example of how the British class system gives the most mediocre fringe twats a platform to deliver their vitriol with a public school veneer.
The case for, and against, the still-unseen Planet 9
Is that risk found in their S-1?
I predict this winds up as a giant gift to the arbitrage bots.

Right now, the only real way to front run is to take liquidity ahead of a large order. Since swapping costs fees, this restricts front running to trades larger than 0.3% of the liquidity in the pair.

In V3, it will now be possible for liquidity providers to “jump the queue”, by adding liquidity in a narrow range. If an arbitrage bot is monitoring the pending block, it’ll be able to predict exactly how much the price will move on the next block. It can then add liquidity at exactly that range, collect the lion shares of the LP rewards, then instantly remove the liquidity at the end of the block. The only remaining hurdle is the gas cost to add->remove liquidity (which on L2 will be virtually zero).

I really hope they beta test this, because it could potentially be disastrous. Right now, front running really only costs money from large traders. Liquidity providers actually benefit from collecting fees on the extra swaps. But this has the potential to destroy the incentives to LPs, and drain all the liquidity out of the market.
What's interesting about this comment is that it demonstrates the core sources of sclerosis in the EMU. Instead of engaging in a careful investigation to identify roadblocks to the rollout, removing said roadblocks, and then engaging in some soul-searching as to why these roadblocks are there, one immediately starts denouncing their favorite villains, blaming them and while at the same time indulging in fantasies of moral superiority to compensate for one's failures.

"Yes, comrade, we have no toilet-paper, but we do not exploit toiler-paper workers!"

It's obvious why this type of casuistry is so appealing to the powerless, but what's scary is when those in leadership become slaves of the same memes - that's when you know that things will only get much, much worse - as owning your failures is a pre-requisite to learning from them, which is a pre-requisite for effective reform. The EU is a system to grow bureaucracy but reform is effectively blocked by the moralizers. Thus, things will continue to get worse until the all the sanctimonious people are kicked out of office or until the society itself collapses under the massive weight of moralistic bureaucrats.
> Meanwhile, there is a moratorium on evictions so cheaper apartments are not becoming available at a natural rate.

If there weren't a moratorium, then there would be a surge of homelessness. Is that somehow better?

The amount of available high-end apartments never mattered to the people who couldn't afford them. Where the rich people move has literally zero effect on that.

The fact that rich people are leaving "high-end" apartments vacant should demand that rent go down in those apartments. That's what would be happening if supply and demand actually had an effect. Instead, even with significantly fewer tenants, landlords are still able to charge obscene rates for their "high-end" apartments, leaving no supply for the growing population of poor.

So what part of this is inflammatory click-bait? The rich are getting a break (more housing opportunities at lower cost) while the poor are getting shafted (fewer housing opportunities at higher cost).

This isn't just about zoning and NIMBYism. The housing exists, and so do the people who can't afford it. Landlords are simply demanding a higher return than the poor can afford, without a care in the world about homelessness, just as every socialist in history predicted. This is a system of greed, and we desperately need it to change.
Hey Gitlab,

This is as worse as it can get. This is tabloid stuff. Have lost respect for you.

Name calling Heroku which is known for its UX and ease of use. And then offering nothing but some made up nonsense and buzzwords. What happened to your good standards ?

Why can't you be serious and build a better Heroku instead ? for real
You interpreted my post as a bizarre absolute. I meant "no one here," not "no one period".

Either way, your post is nit-picking. My point was that being against affirmation in all cases is simple not the same thing as viewing all transitions as a "regrettable outcome".

> Transition currently has very low rates of regret; lower than many other forms of surgery. Hip replacement has higher rates of regret and there's not a mainstream movement trying to prevent access to that.

Wonderful. But hip replacement is not elective surgery based on the subjective feelings of the patient. As long as one person regrets it, it is my opinion that we should prefer a watchful-waiting approach and I can say that without "failing to support trans people".
The title edit makes this topic pretty confusing.
Ask HN: Would you pay for a beautiful and stable Linux-distro for high-end PCs?
By high-end I mean at least 16GB RAM, 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive (or better), min. base frequency of 2.50 GHz, quadcore Processors and above (no Ultrabook support). Think Dell XPS 15 Laptop (here: https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/xps-15-laptop/spd/xps-15-7590-laptop/xn7590edldh).

Distro would have the following focus:

1. battery life; above 9hrs [CRITICAL]

2. beautiful and fast UI [CRITICAL]

3. intuitive and pleasing UX [CRITICAL]

4. developer focus: stack exchange integration, git/Mercurial plus GitHub, GitLab integration in explorer. tons of programmable interfaces for booting, screen etc. [CRITICAL]

4. only support for resolution 1080p and above (1920x1080)

5. only support for high-end pcs and laptops

6. limited drivers support to a small set of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other common devices (based on who's willing to pay)

7. Linux based and open source

8. no support for legacy drivers and devices

Expected audience is a small set of maybe around 10,000 people / developers who are willing to use it as their primary operating system and have an eye for battery life, design and speed.

Given these focus areas how much would you be willing to pay? If not for the OS itself, but for its development over a period of 2 years?
> 1. Create your own root Certificate Authority.

2. Ensure that the security around your new root CA is watertight, so that if your environment ever gets compromised, someone can't generate a new *.google.com or *.yourbank.com certificate signed by your CA and then MITM your connection.
Any device manufacturer that does this should not be allowed to touch anything related to security. It's one thing to have a little article about why they get the big scary security warning and how to add their device's cert as a one-off exception but "let this random IoT manufacturer vouch for any website" is nuts.