skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This entire approach of calling for resignations/firings (no matter the person) rejects careful, balanced thinking about the best way to proceed. Instead, it seems to feed on knee-jerk reactions to isolated statements and actions, often only heard second- or third-hand, that remind me more of a witch hunt than a thoughtful plan. I rarely see constructive discussion stemming from this approach. I'm curious about what characteristics the community really values in a leader of the FSF, but the discussion instead seems to overwhelmingly revolve around who can be forced to resign in disgrace, which leaves someone else to figure out how to actually improve the situation.

I think this can be appropriate when the situation is dire and all other courses of action have been exhausted. I'm just not sure this is such a situation.

In addition to not being particularly constructive, I agree with your point: the mob mentality means if I'm interested in discussing how to proceed _before_ everyone on the board of the FSF is fired, I open myself to the same mob that wants it done _now_. This makes discussing an already difficult problem significantly harder and more risky. Even if I bring myself to engage in conversation, many of the more deliberative folks I would like to hear from won't engage, likely for the same reasons that gave me pause. I encountered this to a surprising degree reading through comments on Ars Technica's coverage of this[0].

On the topic of the FSF, I really value that RMS has a very mature and well-considered understanding of the dynamics of computers and their software, and how those can shape society. But the points about him making others uncomfortable on a routine basis are concerning, and I think a more charismatic leader would certainly be an improvement. I would want that leader to have a similarly strong understanding of the core issues, though. I wonder if someone like Eben Moglen could perform in such a role. Come to think of it, it might be cool if Cory Doctorow could play a public-facing role for the FSF.

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/free-software-ad...
I don’t think this situation is inherently different from buying a proprietary library, and discovering that the vendor stole code from the Windows kernel. Or a musician buying a sample, and discovering it was copied from a Disney movie.

You’re responsible for the stuff you use. You should audit it as well as you can—but realize that crap always happens.
I don't think the John Wick movie is useful analogy. People are "dredging" these up to raise real questions about the judgement of someone who was hired to use that judgement to moderate their social networks.
Yes, but with the Quectel EC25 modem used the blobs are isolated on the modem itself, your device does not need to load any binary blobs to bring up a usable cellular connection.
Apparently Hell has frozen over
I wrote open source initially because I wanted to skip those assignments but still be fair to the hirers and because it took less time and was WAY more fun than take home tests.

What I discovered was that they'd be willing to make me work 5+ hours on their assignment but wouldn't spend 5 minutes reading my code.

Though it wasn't my intention it inadvertently gave me a quick and easy way to filter companies which actively disrespect candidates' time.
Anecdotally I've been seeing a lot more birds of prey in my area over the last 10 years or so too. They're so cool to watch.
It's a fundamental issue of the kind of people who will do whatever it takes to have power over others. You meet plenty of people like this that work in corporations stepping on others and backstabbing to get promoted or get that raise.
>a full 80 percent of Americans believe that “political correctness is a problem in our country.” While today some smear the free speech movement as a “racist dog-whistle” or a “far-right talking point,” it turns out the numbers don’t fit that narrative.

This seems irrational. For example, I both "believe that political correctness is a problem in our country" and believe that "the free speech movement", in the modern context, is composed largely of "racist dog-whistles" and "far-right talking points". They aren't mutually exclusive opinions, yet the author writes as though they obviously are. Besides believing that "political correctness" has silenced important discussions, I also believe it's only one example of many forms of irrational side-taking and hatred that have silenced important discussions, committed across the political spectrum. It seems like the author is taking advantage of the instantly recognizable noun "political correctness" as a way to package a biased opinion that purposefully ignores closely related things that are damaging discussion and civility just as dramatically.
we (US voters) should be pressing our government to stand up for Taiwan against ccp's bullying.
Tell that to Gab / Parler / etc
I run https://www.waveform.com and we help a lot of folks like yourself get better signal. It's not really worth messing around with cheap options - your productivity is on the line and it's worth spending a little for great connectivity.

With that in mind, the best option is a Pepwave MAX HD2 Dual SIM. Then put a Visible SIM from Verizon in one slot and a Calyx SIM (T-Mobile) in the other, or sign up for the AT&T iPad plan. Either use whip antennas or ideally use a roof-mount 4x4 MIMO antenna to get the best signal.

Using Pepwave's VPN you can run WAN smoothing and/or bonding to make sure that your connection is rock solid.

Worth looking the LTE hacks facebook group, though they tend to use cheap gear, and I'd recommend using something beefier.
Guessing said person has no children. I wouldn't have my kids within 10 km of this utter creep.
And her partner.
Here’s the thing to understand: the “economists” you’re watching on TV are not representative of the field, and TV economics is hardly a better source of information on economics than Facebook is on immunology. Confusing the cargo-cult for the real thing is the actual mistake here.

I think it’s easy to claim all the economists at Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and UChicago have no clue what they’re doing, and you could design a market better than Vickrey himself by throwing darts at a wall.

But the reality is that while they do disagree about a great deal, this disagreement isn’t different from the disagreement you see on the cutting edge of cancer biology or physics.

And sure, you’ll be able to find “Marxist Economists” for every Nobel Prize winner with a PhD in mathematics, but if you stick with the respectable academics (and especially with those focusing on microeconomics and game theory) they tend to agree about much more than you’d expect.
There was /r/jailbait. There was also the time the CEO defended /r/thefappening and copyright infringement. It got awkward when some of the girls in the pictures said they were minors when the pics were taken. Oops.

Not CP, but there was also /r/creepshots. Ironically, that was more legal than /r/thefappening.
> And to make it obvious: yes, yes you should find this and the notion that someone would fantasize about it utterly gut wrenching.

I don't. Theft is obviously immoral, should I condemn people who enjoy heist fiction? People who enjoy roleplaying soldiers in a Civil War re-enactment? People who murder people in video games?

There is a difference between fantasy and reality.
> 5. The forum is very helpful, and I was able to get my issues fixed without anyone telling me to RTFM or being mean

D forum is one of the most gracious and nice. There is a lot of gratitude.
Sounds like the couple of times I've seen white tailed eagles near where I live in Scotland - I can see why they are called "flying barn doors".
"Note how docile Chinese mainlanders are when they travel around the world." what would this have to do with Chinese police sent to stop a protest
Do you have an opinion on grouping pytest tests in classes?

class Test_my_function:
def with_default_arguments(self):
def with_some_other_arguments(self):

If you can make your eye stop twitching after seeing snake cased class names, this is at least another option of grouping tests for a single function.
Moderators provide much less unique/irreplacable value than the current narrative suggests.

However, the philosophical positioning Reddit has taken historically is that the Moderators own the subreddits, so yanking one away wholly from the moderation group would mark a substantial shift away from that positioning.

Maybe that's a good thing for Reddit, though.
Why don't Covid-19 vaccine trials report statistics for the first 14 days?
my #1 reason for not going nomad is I HATE LAPTOPS. I just love my PC. my two big ass monitors. a keyboard and mouse. a station that's always set up. I don't need to drag around nothing. I am always connected via ethernet.
I very much doubt the hardware in this can keep up with a video chat. It can barely play a YouTube video at 480p.
Bentocart (YC W19) Is Hiring a Director of Biz Ops – Employee #1
A little tangential, but I definitely wouldn't characterize this as a business model change. For some reason people interpret everything Medium does as a pivot. But the business model has been stable for three years.
When I helped to take Zulip open-source in 2015, I wrote a simple script that scrubbed secrets from the commit history using git fast-export and git fast-import. We replaced all our secrets with xxxxxxx placeholders, replaced internal customer references with dummy names, deleted and renamed certain files, and even did some code replacements that caused certain commit diffs to become empty so those commits could be removed from the history.

https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/3.3/tools/zanitizer

https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/3.3/tools/zanitizer_conf...

The script was really fast (all ~10000 commits in a few minutes), which allowed us to iterate quickly on its configuration as we audited using gitk and other tools for remaining items to scrub.

Doing this work allowed us to release with an essentially complete history going back to the first commit in 2012, which has been a really valuable resource for understanding why various Zulip subsystems were written the way they were.

Nowadays there are other tools for scrubbing history that might be more polished, like BFG: https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/
2m out of 7.5m showed up to protest the loss of Hong Kong Sovereignty, that’s more than 1 in 4 of the entire pop

The storming of the capital was by a crowd of a couple thousand in a pop of 350m. So something like .0057% of the entire pop

In response to the HK protests individuals running for democratic office were thrown in jail on abstract and vague clauses from the new National Security Law, which coincidentally is a treaty violation to the original Sino-British agreement

In response to the Capitol riots, Trump lost his Twitter and Parler was shut down by private tech companies

It’s not the same.
> possibly including the individual in question

Even assuming that Reddit learned nothing from the /u/spez-debacle and that admins can still edit comments, it would be a problem in its own right if she already had such far-reaching permissions when just getting started.
All skills to take time to develop, well said. I am confident that looking at how a candidate interviews will no doubt show the fruits of that time spent without weighting too much the time spent, regardless of whether that time spent comes from contributing to open source, from their full time job, or just studying and honing their skills efficiently under harsher time constraints. We don't want people to target the metric of "time spend coding on OSS projects" do we? I don't.

Besides, having a diverse experience base and pipeline (parents, non traditional developers, non traditional paths to SWE, and even single people with a ton of time and fortune to be able to do things like robust side projects) has served us particularly well in having a team with a wide breadth and depth of experience and viewpoints. Specifically weighting side projects in lieu of technical/EQ interview performance would ruin that in favor of the latter group.
You'll always get a fairly near-immediate answer on the Discord too.

Yeah, it's not a popular language. Probably won't suddenly take off as one.

But if you like it and you're writing software for yourself, who cares. It has the most practical C++ interop of any language, which may or may not be important to you.

It's got a core community of very active, helpful folk.
I thought Mark Zuckerberg controls the majority of voting shares, thus making it impossible to 'wrest control'?
I'd argue that it's not Reddit's aggressive moderation, but that Reddit is now so popular that the racist, illegal, fickle beast that can no longer stay on topic. If they weren't so aggressive, they'd have a much bigger problem of everyone thinking they're a cesspool of hatred.
It's an article about pedestrian deaths, my comment was entirely on topic and relevant. I'm not going to be artificially polite about it, I've long since noticed that being polite doesn't matter here. In the past when I've made polite "political" posts I get the same vitriolic replies from people trying to score karma points off my "unpopular" opinions.

The net effect of a moderation policy like yours is further entrenching of the status quo, since that's always the most "polite" opinion. Any challenge to power structures or other entrenched ideas is always read as "impolite", because that's how power reacts to a challenge.
Shudder...
I'm no expert in this domain but it seems to me that RedLeaf (implemented in Rust and formally verified) is vastly superior to seL4. AFAIU RedLeaf is orders of magnitude cheaper to formally verify to a much higher standard[1] while also being significantly more performant[2] and that Rust's properties are key to both of those advantages[1,2]. (Note: I only skimmed [2].)

Edit: It seems RedLeaf is immune to meltdown due to its design while seL4 has meltdown mitigations[2]. I would assume the same goes for spectre, but that would be an assumption on my part. (Note again, I've only skimmed [2] so I can easily be wrong here.)

[1]: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~aburtsev/doc/redleaf-hotos19.pdf

[2]: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi20-narayanan_vikram....
I came from DFW (technically one of its suburbs). You're either in the suburbs, or you're living in a sea of hot concrete. Unless you retreat to one of the less-wealthy (read: genuinely middle-class) suburbs, everything from the restaurants to the billboards is steeped in corporate pretension and wealth-signaling. And then you're still, well, in the suburbs.

In my first round of interviews out of college I interviewed with a company in Dallas. It was going well, but towards the end of the day I was frank with my interviewer and told them I simply didn't want to live in DFW. I didn't have another offer yet, but I found one in Austin and moved there.
Looks great! Seems there were some issues in conversion into HTML chapter titles. For example https://www.practical-go-lessons.com/chap-31-logging#log.fat...
Dissecting the development of Dwarf Fortress with creator Tarn Adams (2019)
This seems to work. The compiler has to see the previous add to know what is in the carry flag.

#include <stdint.h>

uint64_t addWithCarry(uint64_t x, uint64_t y, uint64_t z) {
return x + y + (y + z < y);
}

Output here: https://godbolt.org/z/zfP7PnGcs
Is there any doubt that in today's political environment we never would be able to pull this same conservation effort off? We'd hear endless reports from Republicans about how DDT really isn't that bad, how scientists are lying, and how we couldn't possibly do anything to "hurt the economy".
CCP bot go brrrr
I agree with you but that's not AMP's fault is it?
They don't have a right to a megaphone, though.
> in Canada one can now be imprisoned for using the (in)correct pronoun of a relative

Source?
> Some people would argue that "censorship" would not apply to a private company owned platform.

These people would deliberately enable corporations to restrict your freedoms, and are simply seeking justification after the fact for it by hiding in the letter of the law, and ignoring its spirit. This goes against the fundamental values of the West and goes against what anyone who ever wrote a free speech law would have intended.

Reddit is one of the public squares of the internet. The only content that should be banned sitewide should be content that is expressly illegal in the countries that host their servers. That's it. Subreddit moderators should have a much firmer hand, because if you don't like a sub, you can create another one. The site as a platform, which was created expressly to be a bastion of free speech originally, should not be in the business of banning people for their ideas.

Reddit instead picks and chooses what people can say and think, and can't even hide behind 'obscenity' as they allow plenty of porn but don't allow anyone who doesn't abide by their strange new set of ill-defined postmodern values. Can we get a list of the concepts that fall into their new wrongthink? Hardly.

I'd prefer they just state their policy aloud, in clear terms, rather than couching it. Just say you can't advocate for or even argue in favour of white people, for men, for heterosexual cisgendered people on the platform. Just be honest and say it like it is. It would be much less insulting and much easier to deal with conceptually if there was even a shred of honour in their approach.
Nice to get some good news.
Limiting the RAM so AI researchers buy Quadro/Titan cards.

Just like Canon that downgraded their DSLRs to protect their cinema cameras, NVIDIA will loose shares with enthusiasts while AMD (which got solid TF/PyTorch support recently) can finally catch up.
I'm sorry -- are Trump supporters not able to speak any more? To my knowledge that is not at all the case. There's even one subreddit dedicated to asking Trump supporters questions, although posts have to be approved by the moderators.
It's not helped by people using sources such as Linehan who are using this person's bad behaviour to bash all trans people
In this case people are saying "don't give me awards, you're sending the subject of my complaint money"
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

> postmarketOS now boots on over 200 phones and tablets (as of 6 May 2020)

That, I believe, is about mainline kernel. And only boot.

[1] https://tuxphones.com/postmarketos-boots-200-linux-phones-ta...
Interesting, could u share a bit more pls?
Not only is this a very interesting story, but it's still developing and there isn't much to discuss until we hear the next development.

In other words, is Reddit telling the truth when they stated it was autoban mistake?
>foundrrs

Meant founders, and I messed up the HN asterisk formatting stuff.
I don't like how mouse scrolling works in Firefox. I can't determine exact details what's wrong (jitter? inertia? delay?), but it feels subtly broken, and after a while it makes me nervous.
It has changed a lot, but server-side rendering seem to be making a comeback [0].

We might be able to blow the old dust of the old Java Struts. Or is it Spring, or Liftweb, or some other new shiny? Scratch that - things have still changed a lot in 15 years :-)

0. https://twitter.com/sonniesedge/status/1369682513401176072
There are projects that redistribute the source code, such as Gitlab, and for those projects this is a significant problem.
Anbox is supported in various distributions, see e.g. https://odysee.com/@linmob:3/manjaro-daily-dev-builds-for-pi....

Video chat on the PinePhone is "early work in progress" at best, see https://marius.bloggt-in-braunschweig.de/2021/03/04/pinephon....
Case in point: she actually cited transphobia as the reason for her resignation from the party, essentially weaponising own minority status.
Isn't it totally verboten to put secret tokens / passwords into scripts? Regardless of language?

When I write, say, bash scripts which do work using ssh, I don't specify a password: The user running the script will provide their own manually, or use ssh-copy-id, or edit the authorized_keys file on the target machine if they want to save themselves some typing. That is - authentication is decoupled from my script's actual work. Why is that not how things work with PyPI?
> simply vanished

Source?
judging from all the recent moves by TSMC with a fab in AZ and opening a Japan subsidiary. i believe the TSMC leadership have the same concern as you. the latest tech is probably going to stay in Taiwan but TSMC is spreading out to reduce the risk.
The Economist did a comprehensive piece on the future of Hong Kong [1] recently. The CPC has little to lose by crushing Hong Kong's democracy, which they are most assuredly doing. Even if HK loses a healthy proportion of its best and brightest citizens (many are moving or have moved already), Hong Kong represents only a tiny fraction of China's overall GDP. In the long time horizon of China's development, Hong Kong's health is viewed as inconsequential.

To me, the Hong Kong situation is incredibly sad. Hong Kong was always this unique bastion of feisty entrepreneurism and social liberalism. It was a great place to visit and a fountain of ideas and dynamism that other regions would do well to take notes on, if not to copy outright.

I wish there was cause to be optimistic about Hong Kong, but I don't think that there is.

[1]: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/03/20/china-is-not-j...
ImmersedVR and an Oculus Quest 2. Up to five monitors right on your face.
Short answer is: it is eliminated through respiration, and becomes CO2
Not so long ago, we hired a guy who had been out of software for 10 years. We were nervous - what if he couldn't do it anymore? So we hired him as a contractor for three months at a low rate. If he could do it, we would hire him full-time as an employee at a real (market) salary. If he couldn't, we would lose him at the end of the contract. This approach let us gamble on him, with the only downside being the cost of the contract if he couldn't perform. He worked out, so we hired him.

You might need to structure something similar, so that a company isn't frightened off by that 15-year break.
> This whole thing is going to blow up spectacularly if it comes out that the father committed these crimes when she was in her teens, and she is a product of being a victim in an abusive household.

I don't think people care, even Linehan accepted as much in his final paragraph
Difficult is an understatement. You have to hire the right lawyers who know the right people who can direct you to make the right donations. And if you need a variance, you can 100x the difficulty. It’s a political game, and everyone wants a cut. Not to mention fighting the people who don’t want change in their neighborhoods or congestion on the roads.

And in the meantime, you might also be stuck paying property taxes or fees on a contract to purchase the land that you need extended because the zoning board meeting ran too late and they couldn’t get to your permit.

People don’t understand what it takes to develop property in already occupied areas, and why developers only build “luxury” housing. There’s a reason rents and land prices are high.
No. I used an iPhone for years because it was the only way to participate in iMessage group chats and Android had the same issues iOS had. Most people are using the iPhone because they have no other real choice, giving them freedom would be a good thing put I've personally given up all hope for both the platform and the company that created it.
https://www.google.fr/amp/s/nypost.com/2021/03/18/man-arrest...
I was gobsmacked that The_Donald was banned because some users 'threatened police officers' and then a slew of ACAB and anti-police subreddits faced no repercussions during the summer riots. I shouldn't really be that shocked though, it was well known that the admins and site moderators wanted The_Donald banned for quite a long time.