skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well there is no type stability or scoping rules to worry about in Python, so just for the sake of comparing the two, I was indeed thinking of 'naive' Julia code vs 'naive' Python code.

The thing with Python is that 'naive' Python code is already pretty close to 'unoptimised' Python code, so one can write naive Python code with numpy and still ends up with not-too-shabby performance, provided they chose an efficient algorithm, of course. In other words, there are not as many performance mistakes one can make with Python (perhaps because it can't get any worse). I imagine that's also why so many Python users who tried Julia were disappointed that direct translations of their Python program fail to perform as fast as advertised.
Great project! At first glance it looks like the differences in approach are substantial, but I'll think about it some more and see if there are ways I might be able to contribute.
Domain registrars will often make the initial registration of a domain cheaper than the renewal costs. Beware the renewal costs, or be prepared to rename to a new domain.
The consequence was that he talked to people about it, changed his mind and apologized. That this gets brought up after the fact is not a consequence of his current opinion and everyone knows this. This is a consequence of a mistake he were big enough to public apologize for (unlike most people online) and then later used against him.

Besides much of what RMS is saying and doing that makes him stick out and he gets harassed over is because of him being neuroatypical.
> a word made-up by a botanist who noticed there wasn't one

Aren't ALL words made up?
How to Manage a Dark Ages Estate
This is a translation of the Capitulare de Villis - rules for managing Charlemagne's estates - written at the end of the 8th century.
Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 air-traffic controllers (1981)
Feminism as it is practiced today in the West is a lost cause, but it's been dying for decades. Like many movements around social justice it was hijacked by radicals and became totalitarian in its beliefs, to the point that it brings dubious value to or even harms the interests of most women.

The big topics like violence against women have not been properly addressed and feminists focus instead obsessively on minor topics like abuse of Hollywood actresses or gender imbalance in software engineering.

The strategy has also changed - such factions are focusing less on equality and more and more on taking something for themselves, transforming the dialogue into an us versus them and turning it hostile. The problem with this thinking is two-fold:

1) One can take only so much before the ones that are being taken from push back, especially since there's no shortage of groups that want to take.

2) Other factions also want a piece of the pie and don't care about female victimhood. Feminism has for example failed to tackle both culturally influenced violence against women perpetrated by misogynist immigrants and the zero sum game they play with transsexuals.
I don't have good recommendations for a book, but I can recommend spending a few weeks implementing it. libpacp is probably the easiest way to send and receive raw ethernet frames, and you only need to implement ARP, IP, and TCP to have something not unlike telnet.

ARP and IP are fairly easy to implement, and TCP is as well as long as it doesn't need to be fast (e.g., live with a fixed and smallish window size, discard out-of-order packets, don't bother with selective ACK, etc).
A rather bold usage of "professionals" there, and for that matter "adult"
Remote Work Is Here to Stay. Manhattan May Never Be the Same
> The problem is what is good for society can hinder progress in certain individuals, as in this case.

That was exactly my point.

Sexism in the workplace has gone from normalised, to being recognised as a potential issue, to having a process which can deal with it all within my lifetime. To expect a perfectly executed deescalation undoing hundreds of years of history across all of society is disingenuous.
> to power their transactions

That's purely artificial, it's unnecessary, this has been discussed to death. PoW is useless work. You aren't doing useful work you are randomly double SHA2ing energy back out into space just to play the lottery... oh look I found a nonce which hashes to less than the magic number, who cares, this has no material value, it's not functionally useful, it's contrived.

PoW is not fundamental to blockchain or crypto currencies.
In this scenario, how is a polycarbonate screw any more environmentally damaging than one made of e.g. some aluminum alloy? Neither one is decomposing any time soon.
#3 someone always pulls the "Linus Torvalds programs using nano. Real programmers don't need better tools.". And our culture is extremely toxic and bro-y, making it impossible to admit that maybe we're not all Torvalds.
Medical Technology in Healthcare – Pros and Cons
Most people can't articulate visions for themselves let alone human society.

Could anyone point me to an author/thinker who can provide a meaningful vision for society in light of this rapid technological progress?

I see Zuckerberg wants to embed us in virtual reality, Elon want us to go mars and evolve to cyborgs with neuralinks, Bezos want us to sit all day and one-click-buy from automated Stretch powered Amazon warehouses, governments want to bring coal factories back and print money, and the rest of us just busy speculating about NFTs, stocks, bitcoins, real-estate and posting on HN and social networks..

Where is the delighted vision for humanity in the next twenty years in the mix of all of that? I'd be happy if someone could share one with me.
Exactly, freedom is dangerous since it means we might have think for ourselves and take responsibility for our own lives. I'd rather have government deciding what to do.
It does make me wonder if something else was changed and this was what they wanted you to notice (as a diversion).
> Yes, you are accountable for the communications you make, whether via keybord, orally, or any other way.
I agree that you are accountable for the things you say. Unfortunately, people are attempting to hold RMS accountable for things he did not say. This situation is the result of willful misinterpretation and dishonest and sensationalist media reporting.

Hold on here for a moment. We're in our collective two minutes of hate. You have to hate or you WILL be the next object of hate. Truth has nothing to do with it.

It really saddens me deeply that our civilisation regressed so much in last few dacades. There are really important topics we should be able to discuss and make better that we can't because of it.
Theory and Practice of Sprixels
My layman's intuition would suggest that once one end is free, it should be possible to "wiggle" the other end out. If they can rotate the hull into a more parallel position, couldn't they rotate it back, repeatedly, with a longitudal vector component in addition to pulling sideways, and pull the other end out a little with every direction change? I'd expect a sandy canal ground to have a quite considerable delta between static and dynamic friction.
They have medlars at the Cloisters in NYC--at least, a few years ago ...

https://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/2008/11/14/rotte...
This is semantics, semantics of perspectives.

If your perspective is one where you care about "culprits," and whether they are good or bad... motivations matter.

If you're characterising the system, not judging culprits.. you don't care about motivations, historical reasons or such. You just care about how the system behaves.

A sexist office is one where people are treated differently based on sex. That could be because of office rules. It could be because of cultural or religious reasons. It could be because of #metoo. Etc. Say you walk into that office, experience or observe sexism and walk out. You don't know why it's sexist, but you do know that it's a sexist office.

I get that you don't want everyone inside that office painted as sexists. Maybe they're not. That doesn't mean that it's not a sexist workplace. This isn't a criminal trial.
Yes to the second, which is inherently self-consistent policy in a taxation system that taxes income/profits.

The first depends on the type of compensation and whether a prior 83(b) election was made (and taxes paid at that time).

But in general, the money’s going to get taxed and if the taxpayer is a US citizen, the US will get its cut.
Ask HN: How to create a torrent and seed it properly?
Hello,

a few days ago, I have finished an open source project:

https://github.com/keks24/raspberry-pi-luks

Now, I want to distribute a large image file (~8 GiB) and some text files via Torrent. These files are also uploaded to a file hoster:

https://gofile.io/d/48Rnkz

I have created the Torrent file via "mktorrent" like so:

$ mktorrent --verbose --announce="http://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announce" --announce=[...] --web-seed="https://srv-store4.gofile.io/download/48Rnkz/ee3a464731dc8453f7d9b214cdc445dc/raspberrypi_sd_card_backup.img" --web-seed="https://[...]" --output="raspberrypi_sd_card_backup.torrent" raspberry-pi-luks

This generates the file "raspberrypi_sd_card_backup.torrent" with direct links of the mentioned file hoster.

For testing purposes, I started seeding the Torrent via aria2c, which is in the network 192.168.1.0/24 and listens on port 44444. I then connected my laptop with my router's guest wifi, which is is in a different network 192.168.2.0/24, so I do not distribute the file via the internal network. Guests have unrestricted access.

When I started the download on my laptop via Transmission, the trackers indicated, that there is 1 seeder and 1 leecher. It also indicated, that there are 5 web seeds available, but the download did not start at all.

I also tested this setup with different clients: ctorrent, rtorrent and ktorrent, but all of them did not download anything.

I checked, if I did a mistrake creating the Torrent. ktorrent only indicated me, that only HTTP links are allowed as web seed link, so I created another Torrent file using the same links, but with http://, but it did not work as well.

Then, I checked, if my router configuration is correct. I forwarded port 44444 (TCP and UDP) for aria2c and I noticed, that my router uses a DS Lite tunnel, where IPv4 packages are tunneled through IPv6, so I checked, if aria2c listens to a IPv6 address and it does.

What did I do wrong?

-Keks
This seems more of a comparison of 2 different operating systems rather than the hardware as the title seems to indicates ...
UBI+existentialism

That's basically what Star Trek has for a post-scarcity world. It assumes that people would be motivated to better themselves or the world, be curious, etc. despite not having to work.

I think some people would flourish in that environment and presumably still be contributing. Many scientists were basically trust fund kids before the 20th century. They didn't need to work. But there is a good amount of worry some will just derive no meaning from life and turn to social media, video games, drugs, etc. (The WALL-E future)

There is a huge amount of thought going on, but I think the open questions are regarding how effective the solutions will be. We as a society may need to shift our values considerably for any solution to be viable.
There’s been like 2 dudes out there with an excavator for a week. Absolutely nothing about this has made any sense. Based on the amount of revenue lost due to this blockage you’d think every military on the earth would have descended there.
>which will automatically apply to software licensed under the GPLv2 or GPLv3 with the "or any later version" clause (which is present in the standard boilerplate).

Unless I'm missing something, the "or any later" clause means that a new GPL would cause further software releases to be dual licensed as GPL v2/3 and 4. The project could choose to go to v4 only, or continue releasing it under both.

I can only imagine that causing problems if they say released a non copyleft v4, and it's hard to see that surviving a legal challenge.
The Deno Company
Welcoming Ian Kelling to staff seat on FSF's board of directors
If you have been to university or got some educational somehow and can think for yourself, which you probably are given you are in this forum, by all means go, it is a free market, and share with us your vision and insights.

But to assume everyone can do that for themselves is just fantasy and idealistic thinking.
Everyone should at least try. It's part of being a decent human being.
This is the same idiotic phrase as "Freedom of Speech is not Freedom from Consequences".

You know who else thinks this way? Many repressive countries such as those who control how women / minorities / etc behave in public. It's essentially mob pressure and destroys genuine freedom of speech.

You're basically expressing a threat that will be used against people who openly do not agree with the majority.
It is never the author's responsibility to provide support, unless somehow a contract is formed and agreed upon beforehand.

Even one of the most permissive and popular open source software license, MIT, states:

"IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE."

You can write, in a file linked you README.md (e.g. CONTRIBUTION.md, github issue is a contribution instead of a request after all) that all contributions in the form of github issues must ticks a certain criteria in order to be prioritized, e.g. issues title must be specific in describing the problem, issues with proposed solution will prioritized, etc.

Also, for the article author, thank you for making an effort to help. To help others solve problems you have encountered and triumphed over is a very generous gesture.
Certainly not.

The first example of context-sensitive constructions in natural language was found in 1985.

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~shieber/Biblio/Papers/shieber85...
You could replace multiple minimally-skilled workers with one skilled engineer monitoring multiple robots. This is how manufacturing is going. Robots don't need to be completely autonomous.
I would like to point you towards Hoeffding's inequality. The probability of deviating more than epsilon from the mean after n experiments is exponential in n.
Just turn off js or go incognito. Are you a hacker or not?
I agree with your comment, but also want to point out that
binary RPC seems to have a comeback with gRPC.
i googled "anonymous data collection + $carrier + opt out" in german and they had a website
THIS!

> 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.

have spent the past half a decade living in various countries from the former Eastern block mostly working for local companies and not much exposure to the outside. Over here women are generally more comfortable with choosing jobs in STEM and the male reaction to them isn't seen as competition or as toxic as it seems in US. idk what's the reason but perhaps they are not allowed to behave like princess barbies by their parents. But as you indicate the whole cuckoo from the US is spilling over to this region as well. Thanks to Instagram (beauty standards and trendsetting) and US propaganda that tells people how to apply any kind of norms (which is compared to "old" countries massively divisive).

I'm not saying people in the Balkans are less sexist (OMG no :D) but they seem a lot more chill in dealing with this issues. The number of times I had women use the most profane insults hurled at the opposite sex simply because this is how they speak (they swear a lot over here) often balances men's mysogonystic remarks.

edit: clarity
> I wonder if the signed features of GitHub

Uh, you mean the features of ... Git?
I will get excited when I see this making images bigger than 256 pixels.
Eastern Europe is generally behind on adopting the latest social transformations compared to Western Europe, which in turn is late compared to the US.
As such EE is currently not facing the turmoil which has engulfed the US and is well underway in e.g. France or Germany. On the one hand, there's more problems with discrimination and violence against women in EE (except those perpetrated by immigrants), on the other hand EE has the opportunity of not overcompensating like WE and the US did and finding a reasonable compromise.

I wouldn't say that the Eastern Bloc had it better. Based on the experience of my own mother and others from her generation, women both had to work and take care of the children. But the roles were very well defined and people didn't waste time debating everything ad nauseam, for better or for worse.
Not sure if it's applicable in this case,but the UK has an interesting concept where you might end up in a prison with additional years piled on for failure to pay the outstandings.There were some high profile cases were VAT fraudsters kept getting additional years for failing to pay the taxman.
Thanks for your interest! I agree about the pronunciation. The first of the videos is on that very topic. Also I second your suggestion of Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata. That is a great text. My goal is not to replace any of the existing tools, but rather to supplement them. There is no such thing as too much practice. Also, this presents a free alternative for those that might need one.
I agree with you on all points. Freedom of speech is the same as freedom of thought. Actions should be punishable, words shouldn't
That's just that first image. Meanwhile they've been going at it day and night with 6 long boom excavators at the same time.
French pharma giant found guilty over deadly diet pill
ad 4. If you are referring to Nuntii Latini then it is no longer broadcasted. The final news service was emitted in 2019.
I don't believe all these stats... I'm pretty sure China would have their own version of the 'Press Freedom Index' which shows China as having perfect press freedom and US and Europe having terrible scores.

Based on what I can observe with my own eyes and having travelled around the world, I don't think there is much press freedom at all in US or Europe. The only difference is that in China, they suck up to the government but in the west, they suck up to corporations. There are pros and cons to either but I wouldn't say one is better than another.
Though I sympathize with your concerns, maybe that attitude is part of the problem? Why do you expect anyone else to have a vision for you/us?
I cannot possibly agree more with that last paragraph, you’ve summarised that so well.

A discussion I was party to recently was debating which of open source vs several competing commercial products to use for a new development. Chief complaint raised about open source product by the team members on the business side of things was “oh it’s open source, that means there’ll be no support right?”. Comparatively my teammate and I had the reverse reaction: we know for a fact the open source alternative is at least 90% as good, if not better than the alternatives, we don’t have to wait to go through the rigmarole of purchasing, approvals, waiting for someone to sign contracts, finance to sort things, finding out you need another key because another person will be working on it as well, discovering the support is invariably shitty, and then being stuck with it when it turns out to be poor software and the business side won’t budge, because that means they’ll need to do things again (which will take weeks at best) and they’ll inevitably just end up re-signing the contract for another year.
Interesting MVP. I'm interested in how this progresses further.
Also, WordPress. WordPress is pretty much everywhere.
Clearly his directly outer conscience thinks it's the 2010s
> But these days, single parenting is the norm rather than the exception.

This is a rather unusual observation I have to say. How did you come to this conclusion, might I ask?
Show HN: Submit Your Startup Video
Hi Community,

I have accidentally created a directory for YouTube videos where videos can be organized by tags into library-style collections. And I’ve realized, it can be used for startups also to browse startups by different categories: industry, sector, technology, country, city, etc. I would be really interested to see who is working on what. Would you?

So, if your startup has a video about its team, product, or service, add the link in your comment and I’ll add it to the directory :)

https://findtuber.com

Thanks
The notice starts out by saying:

> Yesterday (2021-03-28) two malicious commits were pushed to the php-src repo [1] from the names of Rasmus Lerdorf and myself.

…and ends by saying:

> We're reviewing the repositories for any corruption beyond the two referenced commits. Please contact security@php.net if you notice anything.

Are you sure that using recent commits as confirmation is a good idea?
If you accused of crime and go to court, you will be guilty in the eyes of your neighbours no matter how baseless the court case was, no matter that someone else had confessed to that crime. That's the sad reality.
UBI = universal basic income
(to save others a Google search)
How about a well placed 50-500kg? shaped charge to take out the rudder
I would actually love the non-joke version of this article about how to constructively criticize, especially when you have to do it via text.
Europe’s Digital Decade: digital targets for 2030
This is one of the more unsympathetic and arm-chairy threads on HN I’ve seen in a while. It would appear that no one here has had an experience, tangential or otherwise, with eating disorders and are hypothesizing on it like some article on arxiv. A relative of mine has had an eating disorder their entire life, they look like a walking skeleton. In grad-school one year I went from 160 to 130 pounds because eating regular meals was often “inconvenient”, I’m 6’2”. To respond to comments here:

Eating disorders are different from alcohol and substance abuse because no one expects you to do those things.

The way women are expected to look in society is unrealistic in addition to all other things society demands of them. People in movies look that good because they are paid a lot of money to do so. Men, try to get a body like any of the Avengers and you will go mad. The process involves weeks to months of bulking up and then days of dehydration and food abstinence before a shoot. A weight lifting friend talks about how an average joe could out-lift any of them on shoot days.

There is no advantage to an eating disorder. It’s miserable and makes anything with your friends around food awkward. Escaping an eating disorder is difficult because undertaking one fundamentally rewires your brain, it took a summer and the help of my partner for me to come to grips that yes, I do need to eat more. The proceeding year I had to very actively focus on eating regularly and I felt so much better and actually performed better academically because of it.

Finally the article: TikTok should remove the body altering filters. Young people see images of digitally skinny people and don’t recognize it’s a filter and think that’s how they should look. They will do this in vain and in the supreme detriment to their health mentally and physically. Both platforms should ban ads on diets or weight-loss supplements.

If you’d like to learn more, and stop Dunning-Kruger’ing yourself into oblivion, go on down to /r/EatingDisorders or listen to any episode of the podcast Maintenance Phase.