skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As an engineer if you leave a manhole cover open and people fall down, it is your responsibility.

In an OSS project, you can just provide it as-is without any kind of warranty and clearly tell this in the license.

Maybe you are confusing OSS with actual paid work and paid software (services)?

Of course sometimes the business has OSS components that customers expect to have a certain quality but still... nobody is obliged to work for free, especially if the end user is a for-profit corporation.
This is fantastically wrong. Just imagine to what you would have to raise the minimum wage to disqualify an individual from any government assistance. And then imagine what that would do to the prices of the services those people provide. WalMart makes about $6k profit per US employee and if they gave all of it to the employees, the employees would still qualify for welfare. So what you’re actually talking about is making Walmart customers (mostly low income people) pay more for groceries. Taxpayers aren’t subsidizing Walmart; they’re subsidizing Walmart customers. You really sound like youd prefer the poor be poorer so long as the rich are less rich.
It's a nice refresher about (anti)fragility.
> Okay, but that's the thing: from one perspective (the signal's) the signal is indeed subluminal, but from another (an observer's, e.g. the sender or recipient) it's not. So which math applies?

All observers are valid. The maths answers differ due to different inputs but they apply the same formula. All should get self-consistent results, though not necessarily the same results: the idea that two events are "simultaneous" is observer-dependant.

Details here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity

If _any_ observer, including one not on the fast spaceship, can communicate FTL, that will lead to paradoxes.

> Except there is a way around that, no?

No.

> Specifically that from the signal's point of view it was not actually superluminal,

Irrelevant. Another observer - for whom the signal is superluminal - can leverage that.

> and therefore not subject to the infinite energy requirements of locally-superluminal travel?

I didn't mention infinite energy, and it's a problem for FTL, but not the problem that we were talking about.

> If A sends a message at tA=1, and it takes one second for the message to reach B (so, tB=2), then how does that result in tA > tB? No matter which frame of reference we're using (A's, B's, the signal's), I'm failing to see where causality would invert.

If a signal can travel at lightspeed or lower from A to B, causality of A -> B cannot invert. if it _cannot travel_ , then all bets are off, which is pretty much the point. Basically by stretching "Relativity of simultaneity" to breaking point.

> From which frame of reference is that light cone authoritative?

All frames of reference are equally valid.

> where does that leave room for the W message to reach me before it was sent?

An observer moving with respect to A and B can "hack" this to produce effects before cause in their frame of reference. It's no co-incidence that Alice and Bob in the Tachyonic antitelephone are moving with respect to each other, therefor with different frames of reference.

> the signal is itself traveling faster than c within its own frame of reference,

That's not a thing. The tachyonic antitelephone is a dialog between two observers with different frames of reference. The "Tachyons" could be miniature starship enterprises in "stationary" warp bubbles, flying back and forth; and it would work the same.

So in line with "this has been said before" it's what is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26617487
Note "I can find a frame of reference" - all frames of reference are valid, and should be free of paradox.
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Classically trained pianist here, but never learned to sight read at good speeds... instead, I read enough of the piece to memorise it. To be honest, I think this was really bad and essentially locked me into pieces I memorised rather than allow me to learn others at a faster pace. Now, 21 years since I even touched a piano, I'm going back to basics (learning to sight read is my main aim).

Nice job OP.
Yes, unicode is fine. What is broken is that nobody cares. Not even perl5 cares about non-identifiable identifiers.

Btw your snippet does not work for identifier validation. There is much more needed to pass the identifier security guidelines.

But here we just need a simple terminal escape sequence stripping library. Unicode is a bit harder. Only Java, rust and me did that.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18612251/

Eating disorders are not good for your life expectancy. From the study: "For example, statistically, a woman who has had AN since 15 years of age is likely to live 25 years less than predicted for the normal population."
>religion, the basis of most of our shared morality

lol
> or anything that touch on him running the FSF.

Can't you see that a position that requires public speaking requires someone who is good at public speaking? Someone who doesn't continually cause misunderstanding because they're so poor at communicating?
It's probably too expensive, and require human intervention (skilled labor) to function. It's much cheaper as it is to hire humans.
They put 8 natural spike proteins on a well-known backbone, WIV-1. SARS-CoV-2 is not made up of any known viral backbone. It's an entirely novel virus, which differs from all previously known viruses throughout its entire genome. This is very much not what you would get from these sorts of infectivity studies.
No it's not, sharing the source code of stuff you create yourself with others is not 'pirating', it basn't then and it isn't now (we're talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_track_tape here)
I didn't say I couldn't. I said it made it vastly less likely.

It was a big company. You could date and marry coworkers but you couldn't date someone in your chain of command.

I didn't know the internal structure of the IT department, but if he was high enough in the chain of command, there would be many positions below him. I had an entry level job. Transferring from an entry level job in a different department would have meant I would be getting an entry level job in IT.

I was having trouble figuring out how to get a different job in the company as is. I was having trouble finding the kind of info I wanted that was pertinent to me and having trouble understanding the internal job listings.

Adding the possibility that someone had just asked me out who was high enough in the department I wanted to get into that many of the jobs that might interest me would make him my boss made it overwhelmingly difficult to try to navigate the process of transferring into IT.

As I said, I already had plans to leave for unrelated reasons. Had I stayed, maybe I would have eventually drawn different conclusions and found a path forward.

But based on the info I had, my emotional reaction was "Welp, I can stop fretting about whether or not I'm doing the right thing by leaving. I'm basically going nowhere fast at this company."
Not exactly sure that's how it works. I don't think there's any established correlation between low testosterone levels in males and comfortable lifestyles in society. I hope not, but it's possible the inverse maybe true. High testosterone drives males to compete for status, the by-product of which in human society is much of the complexity we see around us. Nobody really knows what happens to society when testosterone plummets - your warm meals and the roof over your head could be casualties of that.
That reminds me of when I was very young, when I felt treated unfairly I often thought a lot about what I might have done wrong to deserve that kind of treatment. Naturally, in time I also learnt that sometimes people just have a bad day or pent-up aggressions or are simply dicks, and to be wary of projecting too much meaning into these negative interactions.
If they had had the misfortune to invent movable type we might be stuck with it even today.
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They explicitly call out ways to respect and accommodate all pronouns. This footnote describes methods of using pronouns so that they don’t conflict in situations where a pronoun may not be known or understood.

The previous item says that gender identity should be respected and so purposely using the wrong pronoun would be in conflict here.

Interpreting this footnote that seems to provide more detail on how to work with diverse pronouned people as a transphobic issue is not a good piece of evidence to label RMS as a transphobe.

Especially since it seems to be pro trans and pro inclusivity.
PHP already uses GitHub and pull requests there, it's just not been the canonical git repository until now. It's not really a big change for most; if anything it's easier.
He's pretty good at communicating. The problem is just that people don't like what he says.
My only idea of why you need a tube is to keep your bag clean from a dirty used screw?
Interesting. I wonder how Hyundai will use those themselves.
Or, told another way:

For several years, Zoom has spent much more than it has earned ($300M more in fact), on expenses like staff, rent, services and supplies from other companies - which will have generated large amounts of income taxes, payroll taxes, sales taxes, franchise taxes, municipal taxes, etc.

This past year they have grown dramatically, and will have generated even more income taxes, franchise taxes, municipal taxes, etc than ever before, and also some present or future capital gains taxes due to the huge increase in the company's valuation.

They just don't have to pay federal income tax yet, until the net income they make exceeds the net losses they recorded over previous years.
Correct me if I am wrong, wouldn't that mean if the stock value goes down and is sold at a much lower price, the collected tax would be much less?

And isn't it possible to reduce tax even more from capital losses from stocks?
I also support RMS but I would not sign that letter with my real name. If I did not support him, I would feel no hesitation to sign the other one.
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Great title for a blog about glue programming.

Pretending that's what this is instead - is the increase in the amount of glue programing job (i.e. assembling software where most of the work is really done by libraries and frameworks) really just a sign that we're missing a layer of abstraction with more appropriate tools?

(bonus question: is a comment unrelated to the posted content still off-topic if it brings the conversation away from discussion about a blatant marketing post?)
My school(in Europe) used MS Teams. I’d argue you didn’t HAVE to go with Zoom.
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What would be the novel scientific contribution over any other image classifier? What's the storyline? How do I get excited? You collected a dataset for some boring class and trained a standard sota model on it. This is an undergrad project report, not a research paper.

The main question people ask when considering reading a paper is "So what??"
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One of the big mistakes we the OSS developers made is to give people the impression that software is not associated with costs. Be it personal time you put into developemnt, be it the time you spend fixing problems someone else has. All these things are costs for yourself and people don't value that.
Engineers are quite choosing beggars (https://www.reddit.com/r/ChoosingBeggars/) when it comes to OSS libraries.

Most of the time OSS libraries are completely free and provided as-is without warranties of any kind. Still people act as if they were a customer who has signed an SLA with the maintainers.

It's OSS, fix it yourself. Or pay someone real money to fix it. Or just buy a SaaS version or paid library. Or DIY.

Why would anyone be obliged to work for free for you?

(yes, some businesses have an OSS product, it changes things a little bit but even still it's as-is without any warranties)
I think everyone here is better off by not drawing broad conclusions about behavior based on anecdotes. I am sure that a lot of people born in the 50s and 60s would have called the police in the same situation you describe.

> No, I am saying it seems like some millenials seem unaware of the possible consequences of their behaviour to others and to themselves.

Yes, this happens with every generation. Now what does that have to do with the idea that "bullying made society better"? I mean, you know that quite a lot of people have serious psychological consequences from bullying, some people have even killed themselves, right? It's not something to joke about, and if (and that's a big if) the price to pay to stop bullying is having someone call the police on a discussion, I would gladly pay it a hundred times over.
I makes me realize how much we live in a eco-catastrophy:

- Every few days, such a ship lands in Europe and all 122km of goods are dispatched to everyone’s houses (122km is the length of its containers), half of it probably being styrofoam,

- 10-20 years later, all this gear lands in landfills. And we keep piling them up. Transferring so much mass for a century from Australia (ore) to China (transformation) to Europe can’t possibly not change the Earth’s rotation axis, let alone raise the average level if land in Europe ;)

The logistics of 500 million humans are truly staggering. Ecologists want us to save 40% carbon emissions, but that can’t possibly be enough. It feels like we should be 10% as many as we are, plus save 40% ecological footprint per person...
>He founded the damn thing. Let him lead the way he likes it. So far, he was quite successful in carrying with the organization's mission.

My mistake, I missed the part where he declared himself dictator for life. Or the part where I declared I'd support him even if I thought he wasn't a good choice for the job.

Yes, he did such wonderful work on GCC direction or that abortion joke he banned people from removing from documentation.

Anyways, what FSF-approved distro has successfully gained notable market share in any consumer market? Ubuntu is more open-source than Free Software, considering e.g. people like to play Steam games on their AMD cards with nonfree microcode (actually 55% of gamers use Nvidia-proprietary IIRC).

The Free Software community did a whole lot of good work, and I'm sure you've read the paper that proves it was literally all due to Richard Stallman, who by the way was the sole inventor of the concept of sharing software.

>If you don't like the way he runs FSF, you can start your own foundation right now. No?

Aw shit, that'd be a mess - we'd have to replace the GPLv3 with a license that gives someone else stewardship over GPL3'd (or whatever we call the new license) IP.
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That's the gamer tax in effect. Sci-fi looking hardware with wild claims about bandwidth and latency for ultimate gaming performance lets them charge a premium.
Let's pretend for a moment that he is autistic, and it's the autism that causes him to say stupid stuff.

This means he has a disability, and when people with disabilities are at work we provide a reasonable adjustment for them to allow them to continue doing the job. For RMS this might be an assistant to check his comms before release.

He's had many years to put this in place. Why hasn't he?

Maybe he doesn't understand that he causes work for other people when he sends out unchecked comms. Other people have to spend their time, and money, responding.
"The "joke" is that they are virgins and thus have to have said honour taken away from them. "

According to the article, the "virginity" of never having used EMACS before. I dunno - doesn't really move my "hate RMS" meter, tbh. Not that I think it is a joke that is necessary to be made, but not the end of the world, either.

"Ultimately it's highly dependent on context, but if women are made uncomfortable by it in this case I don't think it's unreasonable to try and stop."

According to the story, he asked her for a date, and that was it. So he did stop?

It is a nice thought to avoid things that make women uncomfortable, but it is not actually a practical rule. Sometimes you can not know beforehand what makes them uncomfortable. It also seems unfair to simply demand unattractive men should never attempt to get dates. And you should not simply give a group of people to rule over other people at their whim - if you establish that rule, women can just control everything, because anything else would make them uncomfortable. For sure they can control who gets to be made the boss of companies or organisations.
"in my experience Russians tend to be slightly technocratic valuing pragmatism over ideology"

Strange, I always experienced the FSF as ideological and Linux as pragmatical with their grey areas of closed drivers. This reads like the world upside-down :) Is Copyleft Free Software suddenly pragmatic? No offense, mostly just curious.
> in reality any qualities you had were irrelevant - it only mattered what someone else decided about you, arbitrarily, and with a good incentive for being biased about it.

I really don't know how to make this any more clear to you, you almost there. And now think an inch further...
Most of the land just adjacent to the canal is a security zone. In the past, US naval ships would get shot at from the banks as they passed through.
Situation is so bad. I guess there is no easy way out, and many people are hurt, let alone others missing out.

How about creating a tag that would be attached to a person profile anywhere it's online, saying something like "Criticism welcome" or "Criticism is not sexism". So this would serve as assurance of not being willing to pursue any feedback by the tag/badge holder.
I wanted to question this phrase too - length prefixing is so common in network communications
Still, is kind of "weapon" that is hold like in deterrence.

See #metoo, where facts were kept hidden, until the society was actually prepared to accept the truth, because at that time, a woman would have been laughed in face, for accusing a man of sexism in the 70's ....
Figma is not open... not open source, or even file format.
As of today, they've moved the ship off the bank
Just sort industries by political leaning. Any industry that's 40+ percent conservative might have a handful of SJWs among the engineers but they're not at the critical mass to organize and really create trouble. Wokeness gets very little bandwidth in these industries.
I'd love to have an interlinear text Latin–German. There are such texts in Latin–English, but if someone klnows about a German one, please tell me.
The ending of this post (lots of cheap knock-offs exist after someone finds a good idea) shows the challenges of designing a hardware product. Just having a cool idea, ie screw-tent-stake, isn't good enough because even if you were able to get a patent there is no way you could slow the tide of cheap knock-off copy-cats.

I believe hardware is still a great opportunity though, you just need to integrate the hardware into a bigger business plan. Have a family of products, software/firmware component, subscription model, etc.
Does anyone else just cringe and not enjoy those subreddits?
Sometimes, I see a place like twoXchromosomes with an outrage post about mysogyny and even that makes me cringe. I think the top 1% of these topics skimmed off for us will be highly entertaining for many who love outrage porn.

I prefer mindless memery and simple jokes to all those outrage posts. I'm not being productive but it doesn't poison my mood.
Is this really accurate? Are they counting green houses?

Because this tool says Sweden harvests Avocados, blood oranges and grapes in winter.

I live in the southern most part of Sweden and I can honestly say I never saw a grape grow in winter.
Two examples of his actions with different genders do not show that there is absence or presence of a gender-specific bias.

Decision maker still could have bias towards men or women generally, but in those two cases some other factors could outweigh this bias, even if it actually was present. No way to tell.

The article also mentions this topic, by listing some factors that may influence decision in such situation:

> The degree to which men hold back on their advice depends on 1) how much is at stake and 2) how much they trust you. For example, you’ll be much more likely to get candid advice from an investor who has invested a lot of money in your company and you’ve known for years vs. a panelist at a tech conference giving feedback onstage who doesn’t know you and hasn’t invested in your startup.
Just ignore issues, and delete the ones clearly written without having tried to work around problems or read documentation.

Make it very clear in the README and give a paid option to offer paid customer service. No need to stress.
And VS code with C++ is downright horrid, almost nothing works properly using the official C++ extensions. Yes it autocompletes and it sometimes manages to find the right files when you switch header/source, but that's about it.

I still use it at work though because we don't have CLion there and that code base does not use CMake, but only because it is just slightly better than plain VIM with some plugins. But compared to CLion + CMake it's just one small step beyond a glorified text editor.
It's intellectually avoidable, but I don't think it's emotionally avoidable. Any plan to deal with it or resist it is going to have to account for that.

I don't think the root of the problem is intellectual. I think the root of the problem is the insecurity and fear and grief that causes the desire to blame something--anything--even when that thing has to be imagined.

I do think motivated people are taking advantage of that instinct and using it to drive people apart, encouraging them to blame -isms, and the problem can be addressed at that level too, but if we could somehow clear up the fear and sadness that drive people to look to anger as the easier emotion, those opportunists would be wanting the requisite opportunity.
> According to this standard, they would be being disrespectful whenever they meet someone with a strong preference about their pronoun, even if they had no knowledge of the preference.

No, the point is to use somebody's preferred pronouns once you know them.

My complaint is the GNU guidelines explicitly allow you to not correctly pronoun/gender somebody, once you know their gender identity.

Re non-native speakers, etc, all I am criticising is transphobic intent. People are, of course, allowed to slip up. Hence my use of the word "persistent" in some of my posts: I mean persistent and deliberate.
Until you start valuing time as invaluable.
So instead of calling a mediator you would have preferred if she had taken matters in her own hands and tried to beat you up? Upon which you'd have hit back in self defense?

Of course that's not what you mean. I suppose you mean that instead of crying for help from the teacher she should have just swallowed it up and obeyed you.

But it goes both ways. Imagine you had a teenage daughter and she'd be accused of something, in her mind unrightfully, by some asshole neighbor. Would you like her to just swallow it up and do what he says? Or fight back, risking injury? Or call a mediator? That's the point of view of your neighbor.

If anything growing up with bullies teaches is that in the long run, only standing up to them works. But that's not what you'd actually how you'd have liked your millenial neighbor to react to you.

(I'm not saying you are the bully here. I'm totally with you on calling her out. But your "growing up with bullies" analogy is way off here and you need to consider all sides before drawing broad conclusions.)
"Some guy" is minor GSOC contributor who thinks a lot of himself and makes a lot of noise.