skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming this email is the root cause of everything.
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6405929/091320191...
Could you explain what part of this email is legitimately abhorrent about?
Two pieces of advice:

- Getting easily distracted is normal. Don't set a goal of never getting distracted: it's unrealistic and counterproductive. I've spent hundreds of hours meditating, and still get distracted (albeit more briefly). Instead, feel good when you notice you're distracted. The goal is to train yourself to notice and return to the sensation sooner, with positive feedback.

- Don't try to block out everything except what you're meditating on. That should be your main focus, but you should let yourself be aware of other things in the background.

The Mind Illuminated has some good practical advice in the early chapters. I can't vouch for the later chapters.
https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Illuminated-Meditation-Integrati...
Strangely, every article on the community's rejection of this move by the FSF board has been flagged and killed, sometimes after many dozens of upvotes and comments. Free as in what now?

on edit: Links.

RMS Open Letter (121 pts, 131 comments, flagged) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26558348

Red Hat statement (81 pts, 76 comments, flagged) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26585378

/Reverse/ open letter in support of RMS (80 pts, 102 comments, flagged) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26585378 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26565107

OSI response (25 pts, 13 comments, flagged)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26559049
Please don't be an asshole on HN.

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

Edit:
We've had to ask you this surprisingly many times. I don't want to ban you, but after years of this I think it's reasonable to expect you to know the rules and follow them.
I wish I could find the reference, there's an old Roman (Greek? likely older?) rhetorical trick to public speaking.

The speech flows as you invite people to your home, and walk them through it. So, the front door is like the greeting, welcoming guests into your home. The picture in the front room is the first point, the couch is the next point. the dining room table is the next point. etc.

practice the speech by looking at each item you select, and mapping it to the point.

It's pretty amazing.

Everyone knows what their living space is like, and hopefully it's a safe comfortable space. Anyone can talk for a long time without notes. The memory of home is emotionally calming. Inviting listeners in gives a warmth that's hard to explain.

I mean, rehearsing helps a lot too, but mapping talking points to objects in the home is an amazing trick.
A lot of sibling comments are talking about shelf stability, which only tells part of the story.

> From there you can add chicken and fresh herbs.

Due to the car-centric nature of the US, where it is really common to be over 2km from a market, and a trip to the market requires a) driving there, b) parking, c) driving back, the average USian visits the supermarket less frequently than people in other countries because it's more time and resource intensive. This results in larger trips (shopping carts occur in 100% of markets, and also Costco is a thing) and more processed foods with preservatives due to increased time between trips requiring longer shelf life.

Fresh herbs, unprocessed cheese, non-shitty bread, et c - these are way more common in societies that visit the store every 48h (or sometimes even every 24h if there's a bakery on the corner of your block that you pass on foot every day) as opposed to the USA where you might only go to the market every 5-14 days.

Just one more way in which the religion- and racism-motivated US shift to single family detached homes and suburbs cratered the population density and took neighborhoods, sidewalks/walking, camaraderie, local exploration, and fresh groceries along with it as collateral damage.
I mean, sometimes that's a feature rather than a bug. The blandness can tip the scales in favor of some fussy eater actually eating it, and makes it easier to cover up with other ingredients (butter and black pepper make anything taste better, and Kraft Dinner ain't an exception).
This was a stressful week as a rails dev with a release needing to go out.
Hasn't treble been around for years now?
Math Library Functions That Seem Unnecessary (2010)
Very happy Vercel user here. My default choice now -- supremely simple and fast deployments with great UX.
Everyone should be allowed to find work, but that does not mean everyone is entitled to a highly visible leadership position of an organization that (presumably) represents a good chunk of the free software development community
earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26596378
I use bookshelf js for reading and knex for writing. The bookshelf models are a hangover from my previous REST API; I'd just use knex for reading now as a nicer syntax sugar over SQL.

I also have a couple of small helper functions for generating data loaders; I'll edit this comment and post them in a min when I'm back on my laptop.
Yeah! The command I use is: `rsync --recursive -vv --delete --filter="protect /.well-known" /path/to/site/on/local/box user_site@ssh.phx.nearlyfreespeech.net:/home/public/`

I add `--delete` to clean up any files I might've created on the box (e.g., to test .htaccess), and then `--filter="protect /.well-known" so that I keep any files related to serving as https.
It’s not that simple, as many OSes render characters that aren’t strictly look emoji “as emoji” and there is no standard way to check for this.
> I don't understand why Americans buy these kind of (expensive) processed and branded food products. Why not just buy pasta, the cheese (grate it if you want) and some other seasoning, as the raw individual ingredients?

Same reason we don't all run OpenWRT on our home routers - yes, it's objectively better and possibly cheaper but most of us don't have the time to prepare the meals ALL the time.

For us, the kids prefer it (even over homemade), and once a week we let them make it themselves for lunch. Done and done.
The number of bytes necessary is incredibly important for security reasons. It's arguably better to make the number of bytes be the primary value and have a secondary lookup be the number of glyphs.

To be fair, some systems distinguish between size and length (with size expected to be O(1) and length allowed to be up to O(n)). For those systems proceed as parent.
> Can you recommend a quick, easy method for scanning all the pages?

The trick is to use a hopper fed scanner that scans both sides at the same time. Not a flat bed scanner.

I use an old Fujitsu fi-5120C scanner.

I haven't found an OCR yet that will decipher handwriting. I would think that with all the advances in AI this would be an easy problem.
why do you have the feeling that the company you work fork and its competitor are mortal enemies to you ? It's just a job to make money or humm more money at the end of the day, isn't it?
Same landlord? Same building?

Wow, it’s almost as if people aren’t paying for landlords and their buildings. Almost as if people are paying for access to communal amenities like jobs, public transit, education, restaurants, other cultural centers.

Almost as if landlords don’t deserve a massive cut of something they had no hand in producing...
> Everyone should be allowed to find work

So was chairmanship of the free software foundation the only available job in the world?

Stallman is already a 10-millionaire and bordering on 70 years old. He can retire and let somebody who isn't a pedophilia apologist run the FSF.
Something involving NFTs, I guess.
This is the manual for my Instant Pot: https://instantpot.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Duo_Crisp_...

> Wash after each use with hot water and mild dish soap and allow to air dry, or place in top rack of dishwasher.

> Remove all parts from lid before dishwashing.

> With steam release valve and anti-block shield removed, clean interior of steam release pipe to prevent clogging.

I also had to buy extra seals so my beef barley soup doesn't taste like chili.
RMS can find work somewhere else. Just like any employee that gets fired.
The long term historical trend is falling interest rates. So at least for the last 100+ years, the standard case scenario has been that your highly leveraged and refinanceable asset outperforms the market.
Fun trick: adding a pinch of salt and a pinch of MSG to most foods (that haven't already employed this trick from the factory) instantly multiplies "flavor" (for savory foods) by 2x in almost all cases.

It's sort of like the loudness trick for headphones.

Even for sweet foods, adding a pinch of salt is sometimes an insane flavor-enhancer. It doesn't just work on caramel.
I love my sous vide but if you want to get the Maillard reaction (the thing that causes your food to brown and gain umami) you need to still fry or grill your food. Ends up with extra dishes, albeit totally worth it.
A quick Google of "China cyber security law" should give you a hint.
Reading her books was one of the best parts about my childhood. I read my first Ramona book when I was in third grade (though I forgot the specific book). I feel in love with characters like Ramona, Beezus, and Henry, and I ended up reading every book in the Henry/Beezus/Ramona series that was published at the time (which ended at Ramona Forever, though there's another book, Ramona's World, that was published after I outgrew the series). Though I haven't touched a Ramona book in about 22 years, I still vividly remember the characters and the Alan Tiegreen illustrations. Beverly Cleary also wrote another series of books that I love featuring a hotel-dwelling mouse named Ralph that was given a toy motorcycle. I still have my copies of "Ramona Quimby, Age 8" and "Ralph S. Mouse" somewhere.
Stick the link into archive.is and paywalls are trivial to circumvent.
You are limited to one *.neocities.org site, otherwise it's $60 per year.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/9ke3ke/famed-computer-scient... [2019]

Turns out people don't want to do business with you when you make comments like that.

Doesn't matter how much cool software you wrote. Or how much you donate. After a certain point people would rather not be involved with your behavior if it doesn't align.

Fortunately in this specific instance we see society taking SA and r**, as serious topics.

Let's hope we have more of this. Maybe one day I'll finally meet a female colleague in the tech industry who _doesn't_ have a harrassment story to share.
Why, only a dollar a kilobyte!
> Yeah when the blastocyst is a few days old they can extract a few cells and cryogenically freeze the remaining blastocyst with minimal chance of having ruined it. Those cells are sent to a lab and screened for many chromosome and genetic defects.

Would that part would be different from in utero tests? (short of the freezing of course) It has been 15 years that we did the tests (on amniotic fluid) so the world must have moved forward by now.

> to build a model on genetic compatibility.

I guess that this can also be done for "standard" to-be parents.

> or do it and request the blastocysts be preserved and potentially implanted anyways. Now THATS an interesting debate.

Oh yes - the debate on abort or not abort is already have-a-seat-and-get-popcorn worthy, adding to this a dose of "willingly implant a known defective blastocyst" turns that in to an action movie.
Emoji draw attention to themselves in a way that plain text does not. I assume this is why Hacker News does not allow bolding text and strongly discourages use of ALL CAPS.
What I don't understand (due to my ignorance, please explain if you can)... what keeps the driver blobs from continuing to work from one version of Android to the next?

What prevents people from using the same drivers for a device on Android 7 and upgrading the OS to 9 or 10? I always understood that drivers would continue to allow the OS to recognize the component that the drivers are for unless something drastically changes on the OS side of things.

Why can't we say "Fuck you, Qualcomm" and continue to use the older drivers for newer OS versions without having to wait for them to officially support it?
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Thirded.

Use it to host my blog; free tier is good, but I really like them and have really phenomenal limits, etc, so just pay (even though my blog is not updated nearly as much as I'd like)
> The other question is how you managed to move where you live now to begin with.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/priced-out.asp
> To think that the military does not know what they need shows a very narrow understanding of the people fighting a war.

To think that they clearly and unequivocally do shows a very narrow understanding of the rather extreme diversity of opinion within the defense establishment.

And if you recognize the disagreement but are somehow deluded into thinking that the actual policy decisions always reflect the side with the objectively stronger case within the community...well, that's also wrong.
You need to find something interesting in what they are saying. Buy in, it takes practice, but good listeners continue the conversation, they don't change it to something more interesting, however, sometime you can focus on the particular item you find interesting that they are talking about. Often to stay engaged I direct questions about what the person is saying towards items I am more interested in hearing. This is selfish, but also its the best thing you can do if empathy is not your strong suit, you are speaking/listening on something that you are more likely to bring clarity or comfort to. This is because it is something you care about. Additionally, I have found with time more and more items have become fascinating to me, and focusing on one item lead to the ability (habit) to focus on other items I would have never been able to.

Lastly, generally find its not that I lack empathy (the ability), but when something is mundane, and I assume they are being pathetic, that I choose (whether subconscious or not) to ignore their pain. The solution comes back to finding something they are saying that you find interesting, however mundane or small, and it just gets easier from there. Direct focus, tempered by selfish interest, leads to the habit of indirect focus on varied interests.
Good. The times, they have changed, and who you associate yourself with be it personally or publicly (in this case as a foundation but the same applies to for-profit companies) matters. Engineers want to work for organizations that are increasingly socially conscious and with people that foster safe, productive work environments. So, since association, with RMS is toxic (for things he's said and stances he's taken) it makes perfect sense to me for Red Hat to take this decision. It's their money, let them vote with their wallets. If you don't like it you can fund the FSF yourself and if enough do then Red Hat's decision won't make much of a difference.
I really enjoyed her books when I was a kid. I'm male but I really loved the Ramona and Beezus books. The male version (Henry Huggins?) was no where near as fun as Ramona and Beezus books. Those books, Judy Blume books, Roald Dahl books (Danny, Champion of the World) and C.S. Lewis books formed the basis of most of my reading for a few good years.
The Epstein thing is a relatively minor incident of Stallman just being really stupid about what hill to die on and when. In the most charitable interpretation of it, he's defending Minsky as an ingenue who couldn't possibly have known that it is wrong to have underage women pimped at you just because they might be willingly pimped. Most reasonable people would recognise that making this defense, as a public figure who is supposed to be representing an entirely different political movement, is extremely bad PR for your other movement. It's a bad way to be a leader, to be sort of by proxy kind of defending Minsky's associations to Epstein. It leads to bad press, which it did, and it weakens support for your other, actual cause of software freedom.
This is good to hear. I assume location must play a large part in this? Solar must be more cost-effective in, say, the Mojave desert, than it is in Alaska.

I sometimes wonder if the widespread adoption of solar is going to have an environmental impact that isn't immediately apparent. Every solar panel you put on the ground is going to take up solar energy that could otherwise be absorbed by a plant, which in turn means that plant can't absorb carbon from the atmosphere. So unless we just limit ourselves to rooftop solar panels there's sure to be some sort of environmental impact if we just switch all our energy to solar.
Based on how outlandish the GW setup is, this is definitely a bank.

It could conceivably belong to a defense organization, but if it did, they wouldn't be able to write up a blog about their findings.
This is not accurate analysis.

Perhaps most important is to understand that zoning and open ended environmental review has added huge costs and risks to building and has effectively slowed construction. This is the primary reason that there are not enough units and most other problems we see emerge from this. There are important other factors such as the financialization of housing creating a situation where demand is essentially infinite and relates only to investors and not to families or income from labor.

As far as affordable housing goes, the majority of affordable housing is in older buildings. As buildings mature they tend to get paid off and reach a point where operating costs remain low until the structure needs to be rebuilt or replaced. This may be awkward to model, but realistic observation of markets shows that affordability is something that more or less inevitably happens to a property unless it gets removed or rebuilt relatively early in its lifetime because of a hot market.

Property values are traditionally supported by incomes. The current environment where property values grow well beyond incomes has little precedent and there is little reason to think this situation is stable. When people in the past talked about their property not losing value what they meant that there would be both income opportunities and reason to live in the area. When opportunities dried up or communities became undesirable then the housing values would crash. That is entirely different from expecting housing values should increase beyond incomes or inflation.
I was there during the 2017 DRPK nuclear test frenzy and we saw military aircraft overhead every few days heading in and out of Russia, so there was a fair bit of apocalyptic ambience.
Depends if by "find work" you mean actually get work or just to be able to search for it.

There is little chance RMS could get a job anywhere now. The FSF is basically the only place he could go.
> Can we refuse to do business with people when their opinions are legitimately abhorrent?

Absolutely. Unless the refusal is about several legally-protected categories.

> Can we distinguish between differences of opinion and abhorrent opinions?

Some people can, some people can't.
Seconded. I am a back end developer and had a lot of fun watching your Svelte Sapper series; thanks for your work!

Quick question: which color scheme are you using in VSCode? It looks a lot like jellybeans for vim, which I love.
> Do we want to live in a world where a single incorrect thought made decades ago will forever tarnish your ability to participate in society?

It seems Some of us do want to live in that world. For those who are fascinated about that, please google Culture Revolution in China from 1966 until 1976. You could learn so much about how to destroy those who had made a mistake in their lives (BTW, don't worry, if they don't have made any mistake yet, you could found some or make up some for them), and also along the way, destroy yourself.
Steve Jobs's unorthodox management continues to make Apple a success (2020)
I ask basic questions in my interviews to see if a person is even aware of GC and potential for object leaks in dynamic languages. We have a pretty standard webapp with a handful of backend services, not HFT, but we did have clueless interns write leaky code that wasted memory and crashed, and I don't need that to happen again, so yes, when a webapp programmer cannot even recall the term garbage collection that's not a great sign for me.

I'm additionally amazed at people who show up at the interview sometimes claiming C and/or C++ experience (completely not required for the role, but hey, they do claim that experience) but then seem to be completely unaware of any basics of memory management.
Scanning sounds like a pain.

eInk tablets are the future and confer all the advantages of pen and paper. Perhaps they need to undergo a few more generations of UI improvement, and the eInk company itself needs to have its patents expire so the tech isn't held up, but the experience is real. It's tactile, vibrant, and smooth. Battery life is never an issue, even with wifi.

The advantages of having notes always with you and being able to organize into folders and move sheets and figures around beats paper a thousand times over. Highlighting a figure, dragging it to a better spot, rotating it to an affine angle to give it life, and then resizing it to double size is an earth shattering experience.

Erasing, also, is finally a first class experience in a way it can never be with paper. You can even re-sort lists of items with ease.

I'll never go back to pen and paper.
King County Metro in WA is mostly electric and has been so for 50 years.
Mob Mentality Threatens the Free Software Movement [video]
so first of all, there's really no way mac and cheese is healthy unless you serve it with a side of brussels sprouts. it's comfort food.

aside from that, I think there must be some regional price differences here. a box of annie's mac and cheese is like $1.50, which goes down if you buy in bulk. if you're fancy you can add a pad of butter and/or some whole milk, but otherwise that's $1.50 to feed two people. an 8oz block of cheddar cheese is already $2 at target, and you still have to buy the pasta, milk etc.

mac and cheese is a surprisingly expensive food to cook at home though. I could definitely make a rice and beans for less money.
With new Android versions come new kernel versions, and the interfaces to drivers are not stable, and I assume Android-specific interfaces also do change.
Maybe I am being dense, but wood also biodegrades, and is an easier building material to use...
That might be a worry. But the f35 is a good aircraft demo by Israel that it can strike without detection. Not sure it can beat the chinese as there area and drone might be an issue. But without replacement one can talk talk talk but the flight go on.
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> but that does not mean everyone is entitled to a highly visible leadership position

You are correct - because nobody is entitled to any specific job. In a functioning society the most competent person that will perform the work for a reasonable compensation is hired.

Presumably RMS fits the bill.
> So if you are lucky enough to make the "average" pay in the area that means you can get a 1bd apt...assuming you qualify. A very low end house you need to make $75k/year to purchase...again assuming you qualify.

I think in many parts of western Europe average earners can’t even afford a 1bd apt.
Just wanted to chime in that I agree with you 100% and was pretty disappointed to read the moderator's response.

Not surprised, though, since if there's one thing that the groupthink here usually reaches consensus on, it's that "cancel culture" as described by Fox News is totally real and a dangerous threat to discourse and that we should be able to say^H^H^H joke about whatever we want without regard for the feelings of others.
my favorite character is still Nosmo King