skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rather than aimlessly spending public money it might be better to encourage better corporation across the various companies.

I've been reading quite a bit of Dr Deming's thoughts recently and he had the view point that there should be corporation through out the supply chain, not just trying to squeeze every last penny. He felt it would be better for market and society as a whole.
I'm trying to weigh this very carefully and it's hard to get a complete picture (which is part of the problem,) but I think the thing that rubs me most the wrong way is the general flimsiness of the arguments against RMS.

It's very clear that he has words and actions in the past that must be addressed and atoned for (and perhaps has) -- but it is not at all clear to me that these words and ideas justify removing the guy that essentially started all of this, without further discussion or investigation.
Are you sure? I'm on quite a few anime subreddits and they all explicitly state sexualisation of characters that are even canonically adults but have the appearance that someone could mistake as being a minor is disallowed. They are/were so heavy handed about it that there were revolts on a few of the meme subreddits, but nothing was changed as it was global rule changes, not sub specific.
Well, to me personally this might be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back. Time to ditch Firefox and switch to Brave for good.
Oh indeed you are spot on - https://wiki.xiph.org/OpusFAQ#Does_Opus_support_higher_sampl...
Well, there go my annual Tor donations, oh well. Let's see if they can make up for these losses by going the cancel culture/censorship route.

And Mozilla has been a joke for a while with their latest CEO. He's literally trying to jump on anything currently trendy, to hold onto his seat and salary for as long as possible while he drives its projects into the bedrock.
This may be true, but I suggest you keep this to yourself. We also see that college majors with the highest average IQ (like Physics, Engineering) have the least women: http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/25/average-iq-of-students...
I did directly address your very first trope: that you claim it’s solely a decision for yourself, when it’s not.

As for the rest of your complaints, I can’t manage to find the patience or empathy to respond in as productive of a manner as others[1] have already done in this same thread.

Good luck to you, wishing you good health. Glad your parents recovered well.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26573727
Or, you know, implement mass transit systems underground like those in Europe and Asia.

If it's a densely populated place, I don't think that "less polluting cars" is the answer.

This underground train thing doesn't have to be called train as I understand trains are considered communism in the USA. It is actually a sharing economy of connected electric vehicles, atmospheric pressure hyper-loop if you wish. Many of those are autonomous too, like level 5 autonomy without LIDAR. They are often used with a loyalty card(called "Osyter card" in London, for example) and even work with your mobile phone if you prefer not to carry a plastic card!

You can always say that in 2 years it would be pressurised and run at supersonic speeds!
How do you interview people who are changing industries then? The only way a cook or a librarian can get out of that and into software could very well be side projects and open source contributions. With your heuristics, you'd only consider their cooking experience and say "well that's not software" and pass.
The table test model provided in this chapter is an adaptation of the one automatically generated by Goland, i find it really cool to use !
If you have the IDE right click > Genenerate > Table test !

I plan to add more content to the cheatsheet in the future , so stay tuned :)
I'm really curious to see how this plays out, especially for larger Bay Area companies.

Every worker has their own preference about where they work best. If you don't allow remote work, how do you weigh the risk of losing good employees who don't want to return to the office? If you go remote-first, what about employees who really value the office? If you try to do a mix, how do you do it well? And there are other effects to think about, like on costs, company culture, and productivity.

As time passes after COVID is no longer a large risk
(which isn't guaranteed), I think we'll see tolerance for remote work decay at large companies. As fewer other companies offer flexibility for remote, the office will return across the board as the default.

I think the lasting change will be an increase in flexibility, though, like allowing WFH N days/week and more frequent exemptions for some employees to work fully remote. A few companies will recommit 100% to the office and a few will allow greater remote work, but the majority of employees at medium/large companies will again spend the majority of their time at the office.
Because it ran its front into ground, it's not just grounded. See front picture: https://mobile.twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1374725707738267...
Return of Stallman sparks outrage among open-source and free software leaders
Matcha gives me an initial kick but then I get so relaxed it’s hard to stay awake.
Calling the cops for a sustained and recurrent noise, environmental and traffic disturbance that means you can't reasonably enjoy your home or its immediate environment at the weekend... Seems fair, not racist or even bizarrely NIMBY.

"This is a tradition" isn't good enough. It has to remain a tradition that people want in their back yards. If they don't, find somewhere else to do your noisy car things.

Clearly the police here disagree, and feel that anyone can be as disruptive as they like.
There's no shortage of containers per se. The problem is more complex because due to the pandemic the whole logistics line isn't functioning the way it used to. Ports are understaffed because of lockdowns, factories close down so the goods at ports can't get delivered to manufacturing, shipping carriers reduce the number of vessels at sea to avoid a drop in ocean rates so there are ships sitting at ports and no one around to move the containers where they're needed, and so on and so forth.
> I'm skeptical of the idea that having heterodox opinions or being a bit of a stubborn ass should be a fireable offense

It's more of an issue when someone is part of the leadership for a group though, as they are seen as representing the whole group.
So at least one method - peeing in a circle around your clothes (yourself as well?) to include in testing
Yeah this tool called Kinto[1] was posted on here the other day.

[1]: https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto
This is only true if you assume 40 hours a week produces better software than 20 hours a week. I’ve not found that to be the case. Software productivity is in large part a function of developer happiness. Plenty of people are happier and more productive with less hours. That’s not even getting into burnout and cost of replacing people.
Cloud Lessons Learned from OVH Datacenter Fire
Given your username, I suspect your method of obscurity is very good at putting people off the scent.
We aren’t talking about just any given instances of self-prescribed injections. Are you trying to make this about drug use or something?

We are specifically talking about the COVID-19 vaccine vs the virus itself.

Stop moving the goalposts of the discussion.
Mozilla once again shows themselves to be a biased, cancel culture friendly organization. I am less and less inclined to continue using Firefox or other products associated with them.

Here are a number of instances where they revealed their political biases and their anti-free-speech stance:

Firefox rejects free speech, bans free speech commenting plugin Dissenter from its extensions gallery
https://reclaimthenet.org/firefox-rejects-free-speech-bans-f...

Mozilla turns its attention to censoring decentralized tech
https://reclaimthenet.org/mozilla-turns-its-attention-to-cen...

Firefox maker Mozilla calls for “more than” deplatforming
https://reclaimthenet.org/firefox-maker-mozilla-calls-for-mo...

Firefox introduces extension that automatically censors “hate speech”
https://reclaimthenet.org/firefox-introduces-extension-that-...
DeepRobust: Python Toolbox for Secure Machine Learning and Deep Learning
This. Like probably most programmers, I tend to read code more than I write code and when I read tests, I want to know immediately what a test does and checks. I don't want to read the test itself, unless I already know it's of interest to me.

In my experience, when a unit test has no clear name, this is usually a sign that the test does too much (meaning that it's actually not a unit test anymore) or even comprises multiple tests, leading to all the known bad consequences this has (leaking state between tests, unclear test assumptions etc.)
The "magic" is very simple and understandable if you read the docs; I fairly quickly gained an understanding of it that allowed me to dig into the odd performance issue or bug without much trouble

1) Observables are properties on objects; when their getter is called, it becomes "tracked" (subscribed to) by the currently-running tracked function. When their setter is called, it publishes to all subscribers. This happens through JS proxies for plain objects, and class decorators for class instances.

2) A tracked function is anything that must be re-evaluated when an observable it depends on is modified. This includes React render functions, computed functions, and any other side-effects you've created via autorun(), reaction(), etc. Though the idea is to avoid side-effects, so 90% of the time it's just render functions and computed functions. In these cases it amounts to a cache-clear on a pure function: "the return value will be different, so re-evaluate it and use the new return value". A computed function is an observable property getter that's also a tracked function (it doesn't have a corresponding setter; instead, it publishes when it's published to).

3) Tracking works by a) marking global state before a tracked function is run, b) making note of any observables that report back during that time, c) clearing the global state (and subscribing to the observables) when the tracked function completes. Because this is done temporally based on before/after the function has executed, any nested function calls get treated exactly the same as the top-level function call. There's no special magic necessary for that.

That's about all there is to it. Everything else in the library is just another permutation on these concepts.
Have you tried looking into academic literature? There's lots of papers on text analysis, including several surveys. Start with [1] for example, which creates a word list suited for applications in finance, and then work with forward citations.

[1] DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2010.01625.x - "When Is a Liability NOT a Liability? Textual Analysis, Dictionaries, and 10-Ks" by Loughran and Mcdonald
I believe there is a significant chilling effect in regards to speaking out in the defense of Richard Stallman, a man who has never been convicted of a crime, and who in response to the allegations in the open letter has said things such as:

"We know that Giuffre was being coerced into sex – by Epstein. She was being harmed,"

"Through personal conversations in recent years, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm her psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that,"

and

"Nothing could be further from the truth. I've called [Jeffrey Epstein] a 'serial rapist,' and said he deserved to be imprisoned. But many people now believe I defended him—and other inaccurate claims—and feel a real hurt because of what they believe I said. I'm sorry for that hurt. I wish I could have prevented the misunderstanding."

[0] https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=has%20richard%20stallm...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Personal_life
A lot of people were hoping someone would come up with a better way to make "extreme ultraviolet" (soft x-rays, really) light than the horrible kludge used now.[1] Syncrotrons were tried. (Whatever happened to Lyncean?[2]) What's used now looks like a physics experiment, not a production process. Drops of tin are hit with lasers to emit X-rays, which are then focused with mirrors on the mask and wafer. This takes a setup the size of a house that produces very little power at the output end.

Much of the industry was hoping something better would come along. But so far, it hasn't.

[1] https://strobe.colorado.edu/wp-content/uploads/STROBE_ASML-E...

[2] https://lynceantech.com/
They probably did but didn't want to be the one to say anything at the risk of being accused of transphobia.
Unbelievable... so autism is now a treatable disease?
Is LGBTQ++ also treatable according to you?

Your comment is bigotted nonesense across the whole gamut.
> One of the most idiotic and toxic features of cancel culture is reducing the immense complexity of the person's life to one - almost always distorted and misinterpreted - statement and focusing on it as if it were the only point ever.

I actually agree with this.

I never said "cancel him", I said it would be hard to support.

Although I strongly disagree with what he said, I can and should be able to work with people I strongly disagree with, otherwise society would collapse.

I have actually changed my mind :o
i suppose it allows for tax evasion - by paying directly in bitcoin, without conversion to a fiat, you avoid the gains from being detected and taxed.
Violet Gibson tried to kill Mussolini because she, a fanatic fascist, considered him a traitor to his race?
I hope Richard Stallman becomes the director again and fires every SJW at the FSF. If you don't fire these people they will fire you.
Please make this post link to the freely available open letter/ petition, instead of the pay walled article about it.

Also change the title to "Petition to oust RMS from FSF board"

https://rms-open-letter.github.io/

It's an impressive list of names, of whom I know a few personally and hold in high regards.

At this point I'm VERY curious to how RMS and the folks that requested him to come back to the FSF have to say in his defense.

I'm not fully aware of what he did, and to what extend he holds on to being a "misogynist, ableist, and transphobic, among other serious accusations of impropriety". Hence I look fwd to a defense.
No, I confirm that my screenshot uses the "new" Reddit.

The difference is that I open the threads in a new tab, instead of just clicking on them. Also I am logged-in (so no related content below) and I have an ad blocker.
Only if where you work and purchase necessities is far from where you live. If you live close or work remote, then it would be easy and convenient to walk.
Th Great Cannon – The Offensive Component of the Great Firewall
The other big problem is that countries that don't produce complete consumer electronics products have to export their ICs to China. If you're not a full-stack country, you have to get along with China.
Ouch! I somehow read it "China has been communist for a long time". Shame on me!
> the residents of this neighborhood don't want the noise ordinance to be enforced

I think that sort of local override is something that needs to be tested on frequent intervals. Communities change. They get older, they have kids, whatever, situations change. It's not enough to say that "this is the way we've done things since 1582". It's the people today that matter.
It's WebRTC... millions of bots would not affect a thing.
Only because we structure our neighborhoods to require cars to do anything other than walk the dog.
Ahead of IPO, Coinbase users speak out about locked accounts and lost money
All the time as they refer to themselves as Asian. In UK.
Tire pollution is also what's been attributed to killing a LOT of fish on the west coast, and likely elsewhere in the world where it rains and washes the tire particles from the roads into the streams, rivers and eventually oceans.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6525/185
I've always felt that the best non-CS programmers were physicists, because they are always looking for the simplest model (eg, the same community that rejected a 27 dimension string theory as being too complex, but don't quote me on this, I'm no physicist).
Inflation is not happening. There are a lot of relative price increases because everyone being stuck at home changed demand severely, and people stopped traveling so many better-off families increased savings a lot. The money printers are going to debt service and savings more than spending, which wouldn't increase inflation.

One reason people might think it's going up is that it makes you look cool and wise to say it is; another is that SV is expensive so you might think the rest of the world is too. But much of the world has negative interest rates, that's deflation.

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/your-local-price-changes-a...
> Trying to squeeze some bonus fees from employers for a little justice boner does nothing for me.

cool, good for you. I'm happy to take the money while you sleep easier at night.
“Free Software”: An idea whose time has passed
Increased productive years are, though.
We can of course continue to look for disconfirming evidence, alternate explanations, or Incontrovertible Signs That God Is A Prankster, but come a certain point and the focus becomes one of refining rather than overturning theories and models.
I really wish Brave didn’t use Chromium.

Is there some non-Mozilla Foundation fork of Firefox?
To return the goal posts to their original location, my premise was that the title "Parkinson's gene may impair how new neurons are made throughout our lifetime" is misleading, as the neurons in question are not actually made throughout our lifetimes. The referenced paper, which uses zebrafish and a somewhat contrived cell culture model, does not provide any new evidence about actual dopaminergic neurogenesis in humans. It is fair to say that if they'd actually demonstrated such neurogenesis actually occurs, with or without PINK1, the paper wouldn't have been published in just Scientific Reports.
Did Stallman send a bunch of covid patients into nursing? Is that why they are trying to Cuomo him?
Intel is the only product you can go out and buy right now, so there's that.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26557175
Sexual harassment? The claim that he wrote "knight of hot ladies" was false: it was a vandal. He's never groped or raped anyone. The worst true accusation is that he kept a mattress at the office which he used to sleep on.
I don’t have a particular opinion of Stallman since I don’t have all of the facts but I wish Mozilla put more effort in making themselves more sustainable. From a cursory search it doesn’t appear that Stallman has every physically or sexually harassed anyone. Perhaps he has said questionable things but nothing substantial turned up on a search.

Hundreds of millions from Google and basically nothing to show for it other then Firefox. Firefox is cool, don’t get me wrong, but literally every year we have startups from Ycombinator come out with impressive, sustainable projects for less than half a million.

As for Stallman, is there an exhaustive list of so-called unacceptable behavior that he has done?
I would think healthier populations improves the economy. The people with the most disposable income are usually the ones who either never had kids or whose kids have all grown up.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the HN guidelines and ignoring our requests to stop.

This is not a site for political or ideological hell war.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Would not be ridiculous for serious online musical collaboration where you might want to send many channels at once. Perhaps there is some benefit to multiplexing inside Opus, instead of having separate channels? (Probably a similar argument as the one in favor of monorepos).
Quoting from their website, "The FSF is a charity with a worldwide mission to advance software freedom."

The question for the FSF Board isn't whether Stallman deserves to be punished, or anything - they're not a court of law. The question for the FSF Board is whether adding Stallman to the board accomplishes their mission of advancing software freedom.

The FSF is not the Stallman Foundation (the way that there's a Gates Foundation or a Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative or whatever), whose goal would be to support Stallman in his works and in making the changes he wants to see in the world. It has a specific mission, and the question isn't whether Stallman is so bad that he deserves to be excluded, it's whether associating themselves with Stallman helps them achieve that goal.

Given how much of the free software movement he has alienated, including past FSF staff, past FSF board members, and a number of present and former GNU contributors, as well as other organizations like Software Freedom Conservancy that work closely with the FSF and defend the GPL and software freedom, it seems very unlikely that it does.
I think the roaming law says that less than half the use must be roaming (not clear if it's time or data). That being said, if this operator doesn't check it, it's fine. But they could.
Man was the original gender-neutral word while wereman and woman referred to the sexes. Were-wolf was a literal combination of the words male-human + wolf.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Were
I wish things worked worked like that. That users could actually tell you exactly what would make their lives easier. Even more: that they would go ahead and implement those things themselves!

Good software design encompasses listening to and talking with users, and actually discovering what they need, where their pain points are, etc. They won't tell you explicitly.

Apart from being a software developer, i'm also a user of course. I use GNOME every day, and even though i'm affected by this, i haven't found the time, patience and dedication to actually go and try to fix it. I understand that the GNOME developers might not have the time either. But it's not like this issue does not exist, or that it's not important.

And if i, and many people who see this as an issue and could potentially fix it, don't do it, then how can we expect that non-technical users would?

I have tried to teach my mother how to copy files between devices countless times in Windows. It's not an easy task for someone who hasn't grown using a computer. I'd love to advocate for more people to use Linux, but i won't, because each little thing like not being able to see the image whumbnails when picking files can be a road-blocker for non-technical people, and add up quickly.
Seems like something that can only drag you down, baby, bathwater, the works.

Best to ignore despicable people.