skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would be nice if they had a web app that would cycle through the entire collection randomly. I have an old purchased Windows app somewhere that has several hundred images of the Louvre collection that I used to view that way on a projection screen. They say search results can be exported as a CSV file, so maybe a search that returns everything would produce a file that be used with a simple script to display all the images.

I tried exporting all the paintings and got a file with about 10,000 lines of this kind of content:

cl010055411;"Une Négresse portée par deux maures";"Desportes, Alexandre-François ; France";"1600 / 1700 (XVIIe siècle)";"INV 3891; B 1739";"Département des Peintures"

cl010052671;"Sainte Famille";"Girolamo del Pacchia ; Italie";"1500 / 1600 (XVIe siècle)";"MNR 827; D 55-7-2";"Département des Peintures"

cl010052673;Cavalier;"Anonyme ; Italie";"1400 / 1500 (XVe siècle)";"MNR 761";"Département des Peintures"

That first number is the catalog number which can dropped into a URL:

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010055411

Some photos don't seem to exist (like the one above). Should be fairly easy to use curl and a script to pull a copy of the photos and display them though. Possibly they would get upset about someone using a bot to copy/view their entire photo collection, though maybe not if it only downloaded one photo every 5-30 minutes. If lots of people started doing this and didn't save the files locally their bandwidth use could go through the roof.
A tag on the end will make the photo fullscreen in a web browser:

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010208581#full...

So a Javascript app might work well, though it would be nice to fill the computer screen rather than the browser window frame. Maybe I'll write an app and send it to them if I get inspired. Not high on my priority list, but doesn't seem too difficult.
From the thread:

Our continuing mission: To explore strange new platforms. To seek out new bugs and new software. To boldly shitpost where no one has shitposted before.

Mission accomplished, LMAO.
Unbelievable that you are being down-voted.

Almost all pandemics started in China in the history, apperantly habitat is suitable for that. You knew that but still play with deadly viruses there, then accidently it spreads and you try to cover up and make it worse and cause millions of deaths. Fair mistake, it is an accident!

If it is originated from a lab, I think people should not find out this. I’m not sure. It will trigger some feelings against China, hopefully it won’t turn into something racist.
It can cover exactly that scenario depending on the situation.
Usually substack is just reposting news with your opinion... it is editorial in nature not journalism.
The evidence behind the decline is still controversial. Even if their is a decline in some groups, the WHO suggests levels of sperm are still in the normal range.

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/info%3Adoi%2F...

> Although there were no statistically significant changes in the prevalence of
infertility in most regions amongst women who were exposed to the risk of
pregnancy, reduced child-seeking behavior resulted in a reduction of primary
infertility among all women.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3253726/

> Since 1980, the fertility rate for men in their 30s has increased by 21% and
for men aged 40 years and older, the rate has increased nearly 30%. In
contrast, the fertility rate in men younger than age 30 years has decreased by
15%.

https://academic.oup.com/humrep/article/33/6/998/4967751?log...

> Exposure to maternal smoking was associated with lower sperm counts but no overall increase in sperm counts was observed during the study period despite a decrease in this exposure.

Meta-analyses suggest a continuous decline in semen quality but few studies have investigated temporal trends in unselected populations recruited and analysed with the same protocol over a long period and none have studied simultaneous trends in lifestyle factors.
Germany?

I was advised by my friend in HR not to give any feedback on my rejections because it could put me in trouble.

I didn't follow her advice, but only because I haven't hired anyone, and my feedback was positive.
Indeed, and between buffer overruns and "accidental quadratics", null terminated strings gaining widespread adoption in core system APIs are probably the biggest and most expensive mistake of computing industry.
I had to look this up; in case someone else is also not super familiar with modern US history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
Depends, if you wanted to do Swing apps that didn't suck, the books for Java were exactly the same as for MFC.

It is quite telling how Swing got its fame.
> Are you therefore claiming that executors of orders bear all of the responsibility?

Not something I claimed.

> In reality there's universal* consensus that Hitler and Goebbels et al do bear overwhelming responsibility for the atrocities of the Holocaust.

Feel free to provide a citation.
Why not? Its rules of operation are merely those that are agreed upon by a loose coalition of people. Those people decide to change the rules arbitrarily, viz. hard forks.
In math books they only give solutions to half the problems because you learn more when you solve them yourself. :)
"it's not a bug, it's a feature"
> Most people would consider crossing the street because there is a black man walking towards you as a racist action.

Yeah, and that is weird, isn't it?

Because most people nowadays would not consider it a sexist action for a woman to cross the street because there is a man walking.

In fact, these days it seems to be demanded of men to notice the situation and cross the street if they are walking near a woman, so to self-discriminate. And the man would be considered sexist/misogynist if they didn't self-discriminate this way.

It's all so wonderfully self-contradictory.
https://flaxengine.com/licensing/
Thanks for the information. So the 54 gigabytes is just plain text JSON? How big is the full image dataset?
Yep, comby did good job for me by reducing 10 kB Rust program, which crashes 2 months old nightly compiler, to 5.5 kB minimal one.

Not sure is I should report this bug.
Sorry, I hope I didn't come off as aggressive or overly intrusive. I just wanted to point out that expecting to be able to purchase a (~median) home on a single income (even if that income is a tech salary) is not something I think most people would regard as a reasonable expectation.

To be perfectly clear I agree, given the facts I have available to me, that purchasing a 1.3m house on just that income would not be the most prudent financial decision; it's just not one I would regard as "totally catastrophic" - obviously there's the tail risk of both the real estate & SWE job markets going bust at the same time, but for reasons that are too long to go into here I don't think we'll see anything structurally similar to the dot-com crash ~ever again (though there may be other more localized bubbles that pop). I myself haven't purchased any sort of real estate despite pressure from family because I also live in SoCal and I'd be paying a significant premium over renting for basically no benefit, given my current lifestyle. But I also don't _want_ to own property, so it's mostly just convenient that renting makes more financial sense.

I don't think you should "settle", just wanted to clarify that it seemed like you could actually "afford" it in both the most literal sense and in the "how likely does this cause life-ruining financial catastrophe" sense. I don't want to own property myself so I don't totally understand the impulse, but often what someone calls impossible is possible, just not with whatever trade-offs they're currently making.
It sounds like the dev mentioned was extremely passionate.
Facebook Digital Identity Solution Concept
Governments generally care what economists think, so (fluffy articles aside) criticism by economists is a legit reason regardless of the energy concern.
Agree, the OSI model was what smart people who thought deeply about the issue decided we should do. Unfortunatly the timing was bad and the coherent model emerged just a bit to late. Maybe if the major networking infrastructures had been in Europe a switch could have been a possibility.

Americans are very pragmatic: make the stuff work and get on with your life, if problems arise in the future we will fix them. American standards are usually but a formalisation of already accepted practises (and this goes well beyond network stuff), this is why they are so effective and so poorly thought out. I guess it's still better than "ideals" that nobody follows.

And of course this is an oversimplification of some sensitivity difference between vast parts of the world, we individuals are but samples on the agregate sociological context that drives this sort of things.
Todays govt collects your info versus tomorrows govt may not like you very much.

Thats a very large risk no?
Remarkable! It's not quite there but it can only get better.

This is why I like HN on a Monday morning.
Rails 5.2.5, 6.0.3.6 and 6.1.3.1 were released with the updated dependencies.

https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2021/3/26/marcel-upgrade-rele...

From the release:

"Before 1.0.0, Marcel—which is distributed under the terms of the MIT License, like Rails—indirectly depended on MIME type data released under the incompatible GNU General Public License. Marcel 1.0.0 instead directly packages MIME type data adapted from Apache Tika, released under the permissive and compatible Apache License 2.0."
Well, its a pendulum that was swung for very long time into one extreme, and now it swung into the opposite similarly extreme one. We can hope that over time things will get to some sort of balanced state, but that might be a wishful thinking for very long time.

It's also quite geographic - in this case I mean US-centric (and spreads to rest of the western countries). Ie in eastern europe/former eastern bloc, there wasn't so much sexism, all women had to work and generally things were way more balanced. Not saying it was perfect, almost nothing there was, but to see current trends from that perspective looks like a bit as western world going slightly cuckoo.
Why would anyone post something boring on a photography site? There's a bar for quality on flickr; it's not twitter.
Note that:

> On Thursday 26 March, mimemagic was updated again to v0.4.1, which restored the MIT license and removed the GPL covered code – theFreedesktop.org Shared Mime Types database. Users must now provide that themselves.

More information here:

https://github.com/jellybob/mimemagic/pull/3
English is no more or less fault tolerant than any other language. You can make the exact same sentences in Russian, German, French (I speak those so I can draw parallels) and they make the same amount of sense and sound the same (incorrect) - but you get the meaning. People here saying that native speakers of other languages are not fault tolerant but that just isn't true. There are exceptions, sure but for the most part people speak with me in German/French just fine even with the mistakes I make (Russian/English being my mother languages).
https://twitter.com/SearchEngineMap/lists
All I would like to add is to say what a sad state of affairs we find ourselves in when good natured advice is best avoided out of fear.
> You get paid next year a rate based on how productive you are today.

Not particularly. While highly paid developers like to pretend the industry is some platonic ideal meritocracy, no one has any real ability to measure individual productivity, or to predict it with any precision in hiring, so, no, that's not a particularly good approximation of reality, certainly not where a 1% improvement would would even be noticeable in the noise of assessment.

Realistically, you might be justified in saying that my pay 5 years from now will be affected by the aggregate productivity in the past of developers generally and the broad, easily observed factors that conventional industry wisdom assesses as individual predictors of productivity within those broad aggregates. But, with that in mind, investing time in promoting online the idea that things I already have on my resume are predictors of productivity, while unlikely to have noticeable real impact, is probably a better cost/benefit trade-off than paying for dev tools, even if my employer was going to let me use personally purchased tools, which they aren't.

Outside of corporate work, in the personal development time I spend which does have impacts on bit actual productivity and my ability to have indicia of productivity that the market values and where I do have the choice of tools, assessing and paying for dev tools is more friction than benefit. I did it more when the gap between paid tools and free tools in quality was much higher and (because the internet as an easy discovery/distribution medium was not what it is today) the friction between the two was closer. Even though at the time the financial cost compared to my means was much greater.
The problem with paid for OSS developer tools is:

* The customers making serious money off improved developer tools - the kind of customers who'd pay $10,000 per seat for a great developer tool - are big businesses.

* Big businesses basically won't pay for things they can get for free. Oh, they might occasionally sponsor a conference for PR purposes - or even pay for developers implementing features they want - but nobody's paying $10,000 a seat for Eclipse out of the goodness of their heart.

* You might think I'm saying "Well then, closed source tools all the way!" but the tools in other engineering sectors that do manage to extract that much money from companies (SolidWorks, Altium...) have a bunch of problems as well - mostly around user lock-in efforts blocking anyone making compatible tooling.
Long live open in new tab.
For the Aussies out there, this will set your map to Sydney Harbour Bridge, and if you rotate the Ever Given you'll see it's a very handy fit.

map.setView({lat: -33.85248, lng: -208.78863});
Its also impossible to master because what can be 100% correct in the US is wrong in India or in the UK or in Australia or New Zealand - all of who have English as their native language.
That was a very stressful decision at 4:30am, so glad it was the right call.
> “We need to be realistic and that is that the stem of the ship is still very much stuck” [emphasis added]

I am reminded of this website (forgive the profanity):

https://fuckyeahkeming.com/

And this ceramic piece:

https://geary.smugmug.com/Art/i-qCBqjqb
You don't see the obnoxious headlights if the car tails 2m behind you at 160kmh on the highway. Only if it's SUV, but then the situation is hopeless I admit.
We're not talking about the "tell you their name" part, we're talking about the denial specifically.
I’m working on exactly this right now. I’d love to chat and show you what I’m up to; if you’re interested, email me at noah@coterm.dev
Not the OP, but generally speaking by not having ad-blockers installed I try to to give the more honest websites that rely on advertising a semblance of a chance at financially surviving. It's also a good way to decide which websites to visit and which to not visit, if said website is too bloated I close the tab immediately (like it happened here).
> why can't citizens of prosperous democratic nations also liberate people living in dictatorships/theocracies/other bad circumstances? - Because we are only human, not Minds, would be my answer.

We humans are also all that we have to rescue us humans. Decrying that we aren't gods doesn't help. If someone is screaming for help, how can we not go?

> So our forceful interventions are much less likely to avert more suffering than they cause.

I think that's the nature of force. Use very little.
I guess part of the issue. I just don't interact with git enough that it matters much.

I might spend half an hour every now and then trying to figure out right incantation for this specific issue, but overall SourceTree just tells git what it needs to hear and I can carry on with what I really want: code.
> has met all the safety and clinical study requirements

That's an interesting twist on the facts, since I think none of them have met those: that's why they are all getting Emergency Use licenses vs the regular licenses when they really meet "all the safety and clinical study requirements".

Certainly, the Sinopharm and Sputnik V have less data available publicly, but everything points that they are not unreasonably unsafe (after all, almost 0.5M people have been revaccinated with Sinopharm vaccine in Serbia), and they are using the tried-and-true methods of vaccine development in use for dozens of years. Basically, we are talking about simply different levels of "unknown" vs "totally safe"/"unsafe".

As far as efficacy, they all seem to provide at least a decent amount of protection against hard illness after getting infected with coronavirus, which is what I hope most people care about at this point of the pandemic.

In Serbia everyone is free to restrict what vaccine they want to get, and many went for the Chinese one because of it being readily available (I had it in my list too even though I've gotten AstraZeneca one because I was low-priority thus was one of the last to be vaccinated who signed up for it, and it was about the time AZ was getting all the negative press so nobody would take it).
No, I'm not.

The only "personal" production of energy is from solar panels. Which still comes with its own problems, as you generally still want to be connected to a grid, in which case utility companies generally attach a lot of strings.

Solar will seem to be less centralized but in reality and over the long term we will have huge solar farms owned by big companies, for the same reason we generally have huge actual farms owned by big companies. And what difference does it really make for the regular user if they get their power from 40 nuclear plants or from 200 solar farms?

Wind is super centralized, big companies are building wind farms and big companies are operating them. You need a ton of capital for wind farms.
Hmm, reading into it it does seem to have been co-opted by corporate.

I've only heard it mentioned within gaming, and it typically means more than just bathroom (Encompassing instead a bunch of different biological necessities like bathroom, hydration, eating)
In American logic the listener need only question your motivations to demonize you. Eg. "would you have said this if I wasn't {Black,female,Olympic badminton athlete}?" If you find this incredulous I assure you that although it is rare, a minority will accuse you and their accusations will be taken seriously by many.
I've done this a few times, although I usually had Internet wherever I stopped.

What surprises me every time is how few notifications and important things I miss. It seems to plateau quickly, and whether I leave for a day or a month, it's about the same.

I guess the outrage doesn't affect me so much. However, being constantly hooked on a source of dopamine does. After an hour away from the screen, I start planning activities, fixing things around the house etc.
You are right, I should have said sexist joke.

I witnessed such a joke, from a brogrammer -- he thought it was funny, but noone else did, especially knowing how sensitive the female coleague was -- someone broke a pot of plants and he said "Why should we clean it, we have plenty of women around here" -- I just know the guy, the tone of his voice, and so forth, and I know he just tried to be funny, but at the end of the day, that was a sexist remark, we knew it, he knew it after he said it, he should have apologized, but he didn't.

But that was the only instance that struk me as sexist, and the guy always helped female coleagues, in no way did see any other "bad behavior" from him, it was just that guys generally have thicker skins when it comes to jokes and jabs, and he was usually very friendly, I've worked in male teams that were outright toxic, he was nothing like that.
Let's say I agree with you, why create a world in which everything is sexist? Isn't the entire point that we want less of it?
The right is for removal of search results from particular queries on Google etc.

The newspaper doesn't have to do anything.
So true. Deep learning is kind of lazy from the point of view of the model builder. Pretty much any other technique - ML models that require feature engineering, graphical models, differential equations, optimization problems, even running simple statistical tests - each of those is more rewarding to work with than DL.

The more interesting aspects of deep learning are often around engineering the whole pipeline and doing it efficiently at large scale.
Curious if you can have JS off for all and just whitelist as you need, whitelisting seems safer and more efficient for technical people that can guess if something is wrong when JS is off.
Yeah, there's "passionate about coding", and "passionate about getting out the door at 5pm and not getting fired".

I'm not always sure I wouldn't rather be the second kind...
> Why don't you engage in a discussion to try to see the other side's opinion

I've been engaging in discussion with the other side for over 20 hours and have written over a dozen comments, in a good faith effort to fully understand every other commenter's position. Hardly plugging my ears.

> I get paid way too much for stuff that doesn't feel like a real job. I love capitalism

For what it's worth, neither of those statements apply to me.

I've never earned huge amounts of money, I work long and stressful hours for the income I make, and I'm deeply curious about different economic and social systems that can make life better for people, particularly those at the very bottom.

The reason I engage in a discussion like this is to better understand what the real underlying issues are and what solutions are available.

I get dispirited when the arguments come down to simplistic takes to the effect that it's all simply a matter of evil giant corporations paying too little and treating workers badly, and if they just paid people more and treated people more nicely everything would be better. That's what I mean by "narrative". It's a nice-sounding just-so story, but overlooks a whole lot of really important detail.

After a 25+ year period in which I've studied business/economics at tertiary level, read/examined/contemplated economic and social issues very deeply for that entire time, been a business operator, an employee, a contractor and a volunteer in all kinds of different organisations at all levels and taken a deep interest in the issues for the most needy in society, I've come to understand there's a bit more to it than that.

Please don't assume that if someone is asking questions and making points that challenge the explanation you've settled on, it has to be because they care less than you do about those who are not well off.
If you're relying on intercontinental cargo ships then you probably already know you need to have a buffer, whether you actually have one or not.
> accuse someone of racism or sexism at any sign of prejudice

At anything that the most hostile interpretation possible could somehow construe as racism/sexism.

And basically, anything can be construed as racism/sexism given some of the current definitions.

Sitting peacefully on your couch minding your own business is racism, according to Kendi/diAngelo.

Treating women equally and not achieving perfect equality of outcome is sexism. Treating men and women differently in order the achieve equality of outcome: also sexism.

Leaving women to make their own choices, which may not exactly match men's, is sexism.

Giving women candid feedback is so sexism. Not giving women candid feedback: also sexism.
Wondering if there are any public NextCloud options that have support for Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE). Would be nice if there was a list of public instances on https://forum.collaboraonline.com/
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