skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I’m following this from the sidelines but by now I’m really wondering what the Freenode staff was expecting and what their goals are?
Somewhere between "drone" and "fighter jet" in most cases.
You mean like a web search engine? A quick search on "gio lib" shows a wiki for Gtk's GIO as the first result. You might narrow down the search adding domain-specific keywords to it, like "gio lib golang" to find something like this - https://github.com/vlorc/gioc (completely different field and name, but still can be found).
>If animals had a language we would have discovered it a long time ago and we would have learned to communicate with them. The reason we can't communicate with them is because they are dumb.

I love this kind of hubris. People thought that there is no use for the appendix either.
If it makes it more clear, my comment was mostly "if your code page has a valid signature you can mark it as executable".
Stupid, light, fast

I got used.to discord but it's not the same
Many of them use vapor chambers, they are quite good as a cooling solution[0].

[0]https://www.1-act.com/resources/heat-pipe-fundamentals/diffe...
Freenode debacle prompt staff exodus, new network
Not everyone is into multiplayer games. There's a lot of single player market available.
Some of it is to take money out of authoritarian regimes and move it into more rule of law countries. Another reason is a hedge against inflation which we may be beginning to see right now.
Something a lot of people re implementing GUI toolkits on OSX might not realize is that emacs/readline shortcuts work in all of the textfields (since ctrl is more or less "free" thanks to the command key.) IMO the GUI toolkit is one of those things OSX got really right and if you're not going to bother using it you might as well just target X11 and save yourself the trouble of putting effort into your OSX port.
Licensing and copyleft are a necessary aberration because even if you are a hardliner that IP isn't a thing, enough of the world is staked into it, all you can do is try your best and play the civil disobedience card as harrd and often as possible.

It's not even a debate as at this point. More just sadness.
There's the cheap devices but even more worrisome are cheap, possibly not up-to-spec cables.

If you buy a fake cable that pretends to have display-port alternate mode or something but doesn't, meh, you're out 10 bucks. But if it pretends to be able to carry 200 W but isn't and burns your house down instead, you might be out a tad bit more...
And Eve is a McRib.
A New Crop in Pennsylvania: Warehouses
Today's Wall Street Journal morning newsletter says, "On this day in 1667, mathematician Abraham de Moivre was born in Vitry, France. In 1688, he fled to England to escape King Louis XIV's persecution of the Huguenots. In London, de Moivre discovered the normal statistical distribution (the "bell curve") and worked out the formula for standard deviation, or short-term volatility."

I had heard of the De Moivre's formula but was not aware of his other discoveries. (Is the WSJ correct in its attributions?)
... and no one will have the slightest clue what their chargers, cables and devices support.
I think cycling deaths and injuries are a really complex issue. Some thoughts on causes:

(1) There aren’t that many cyclists on the streets in the US (in part because cycling can be so unsafe) so drivers aren’t used to them and don’t know what to look for to prevent an accident.

(2) There is a culture that people on bikes don’t have to obey the laws of the road (e.g., routinely running red lights) which puts the cyclists at risk, and there is zero enforcement or licensing.

(3) There is a trend towards giant trucks/SUVs that have massive blind spots and are much more likely to cause serious injuries.

(4) Our roads in the US are designed in ways that (sometimes unintentionally) encourage drivers to drive fast, but faster cars lead to more serious accidents with cyclists and pedestrians.

Some of those are self-reinforcing. The safety issues cause there to by fewer cyclists, and the lack of cyclists means that drivers aren’t used to having them on the road, which causes more safety issues.
Is this not what Keybase and the like are for?
You'd need to pour in insane amounts of energy. The people who build particle accelerators are trying to do exactly that!
To call that bend on the Volga where Kazan is located Europe shows how much you need to stretch the facts to support that view. Citing Bosnia might have helped your point better, I guess.
> Absent the US existing, the world doesn’t suddenly become a utopia of people living happily ever after.

And importantly we can't know the counterfactual, so we can't claim that the US is responsible for all those good outcomes with any real certainty, and it's entirely possible that the incentives were there no matter which nation had the resources to control global affairs.
Why is it that as citizens we are powerless against such clearly broken laws as DMCA? Can't we do something about the situation, declare it unconstitutional or something?
Yet the US is still the premier nation that everyone tries to immigrate to, because as a nation it actually works. The same can’t be said of many of the nations you mentioned, and that was before U.S involvement. The cool narrative of today is to point a finger at the west, but most people I think who espouse this view haven’t had the misery of living under the absolutely nuts regimes that exist in this world.
I agree with you. The idea that using e-prime makes one's writing more clear isn't a "fallacy". People might disagree but it's hardly fallacious. There are many items in this list that aren't fallacies (e.g., "Dog-Whistle Politics"). This list seems to be a mix of actual fallacies and "Things I don't like".

If it is a fallacy we should be able to construct a simple argument from it. With the "Be-verb Fallacy" what would that be? Perhaps, "You used e-prime in your argument but all people who use e-prime are part of a cult, therefore you are part of a cult (and are wrong)." That's a fallacy all right just not the "Be-verb" one.

I also found the definition of a fallacy at the start lacking. It conflates good argumentation with rhetorical technique. I prefer T. Edward Damer's definition from my old logic textbook:

"A good argument must have premises that are true or acceptable, premises that are relevant to the truth of the conclusion, and premises that together constitute good or adequate grounds for the truth of the conclusion." Fallacious arguments violate one or more of these three principles.
100 niche markets combined is no longer a niche market.
They're still paying the price for what the US did to them, I don't think it's too uncommon for reparations to be payed by different people because usually reparations are on behalf of the government itself. If a different government took over the US then I think it would be a bit unfair to expect reparations. But as it stands it's the same government and a lot of the people who took part in the atrocities are still alive today, it's not like it happened hundreds of years ago.
what interventions would lengthen the lifespan given these markers?
All this is because humans prefer to generalize rather than be precise and this applies to both left and right.

Right, because Islam is an old religion and has been a part of Europe (and other continents) for centuries; these native Muslim communities are in general well-integrated and have a rich history; they have nothing to do with ISIS-style extremism. There are peaceful Muslim communities often react immediately when a crime is committed in the name of their religion.

Left, because "all cultures are equal" it's a convenient lie t with no connection to reality. There are toxic, terrible cultures where some members mutilate others, for example. Sometimes these atrocities are related to religion, sometimes not. Whether we allow some of these customs to take root in Western societies should be a matter of public debate, not a political decision that future generations will have to deal with.
It's also a good use case for a good old .vcard, which already has semantics for plenty of contact fields, so I wouldn't be surprised if there are some for IRC.
> small companies do not posses datasets worthy of exploration

Or with a cash flow for a permanent position. Tech workers are used to be in companies with healthy gross margins and revenue where they make sense (theoretically at least). But even it tech I would not be surprised if there are teams of DS/SWE people in Uber or Doordash helping their companies to lose money faster.
> Unfortunately some are also moving to entirely closed source platforms like Discord

From an openness point of view, yes, that's unfortunate. But discord channels are arguably way more useful than IRC nowadays. The mere message persistence is something that tips the scale in favour of Discord.
If only there was a law that allowed you to deduct a significant amount of mortgage interest from taxes on a home but not on other property....

Oh wait...
Government fell disastrously short in dealing with Covid – Cummings
Alinsky Rules For Radicals rule 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
I know many pick up artists that are in a long-term relationship. The group that call themselves pick up artist is too heterogeneous to describe them as people that have ill intentions.

People that don’t know about hackers assign similar ill intentions to hackers, much in the same way as pick up artists.

But at HN we know that a hacker (criminal) is not a hacker (curious techie). The same goes for pick up artists (womanizers that are systematic about it with questionable ethics). You have a lot more pick up artists (men not being able to find relationships for years and deciding to fix that problem).

Both groups have members in them that do stupid and/or criminal things which is unfortunate.
I added part 2 and part 3
https://picostitch.com/tidbits/2021/05/learning-rescript-par...
https://picostitch.com/tidbits/2021/05/learning-rescript-par...
USB-C sure turned into a mess, didn't it? So far, I only have two such devices (a cell phone and a set of headphones), and there's no problem charging either. But even there, we already have proprietary extensions (Qualcomm quick charging, for instance), and then there's Thunderbolt, and now this.

I'm not enthusiastic about wading into the world of "every port looks identical but isn't" that USB-C has given us. I have to keep my cell phone charger cable with the charger at all times, because it's my only cable compatible with Qualcomm quick charging. Naturally, there's no visible indication of this.
I don't think you understand software like you think you do. Those protocol rules do exist, and yes cryptography is involved, obviously, but those rules exist because the miners all agree on it, see: BIP2: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0002.mediawi...

I.e. These rules CHANGE, and since they change(and have changed in the past) if you can convince a majority, you can change the rules to be whatever you want.

Also see: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Economic_majority

Which is exactly what I said. If I have 51% of mining I can make BTC do whatever I want, but that doesn't mean the majority(or any) of the exchanges will accept it, which is basically what the above is saying.

Also see: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_is_not_ruled_by_miners

Again, what they are saying is what I've said, they just put flowery language around it saying, see, miners can't do EVEYRTHING, which isn't technically true, but practically true. Miners can technically do whatever the hell they want, assuming they have the majority, but that doesn't mean exchanges like Coinbase will accept it and exchange the BTC for USD.

so what I said above is generally and technically true, see my other comment in this thread as well, where I said it would be a giant mess and likely ruin BTC forever if someone ever did execute a 51% attack. So there is little incentive(financial or otherwise) to do so.

The closest real-life example we have(that I'm aware of) is the BTC cash stuff, where it hard-forked and became it's own crypto currency because they couldn't get a majority to agree, but enough agreed to fork themselves.
I don't see that (some communities opting for libera.chat, some for OFTC) as a problem, though. Recent events show that some amount of IRC network diversity can only be a good thing.
Is it hard to believe that an expansion to the rest of the solar system will be anything other than yet another gold rush, in the same way it has been for every "new frontier"?

And I don't just mean literal gold or mining.. The Internet in the late 90s and early 2000s, cryptocurrency today, etc... there will always be early adopters and entrepreneurial risk-takers (of varying levels of competency) who precede, and sometimes outlast, the corporations where there's money to be made..

In the Expanse lore, this happened because of the Epstein drive, a relatively cheap type of fusion drive that allowed humanity to go further faster, even in small scrappy ships.

So it would make sense that early pioneers would rush out to the belt and beyond to stake their claims..

Look at mining in the third world today. Not so automated, right? Why would it be any different out in the belt?

Hundreds of years and millions of people trying to eke out a living, particularly when you also consider the state of planet Earth in the Expanse (essentially a giant welfare state).. that creates an third-world equivalent out there, and I think it's pretty plausible..

Anyways, I respect your take on things regardless.. this is just mine.. the story gets so much better beyond book 1, if you're ever thinking about reconsidering. :-)
Seen a few people pushing it.

That said I keep having the good old plain data link
That's arc welding power, 50 volts at 5 amps. I fail to see how a connector is going to last more than a few cycles under load.

Also, don't use that near anything flammable.
What is the evidence?
This is really creative, nicely done!
You're free to treat it as unquestionable, but the fact remains there is ample evidence of our scientific process being deeply broken with a really bad incentive structure if nothing else.

If you think there is no incorrect science at all in regards to evolution and climate change you're no better than the zealots of any religion.
You are essentially correct - popular scientism outlets do not have an appropriate degree of humility when reporting on things like this. However, the physicists themselves tend to have a good understanding of the caveats and context of their predictions, even if this doesn’t generally end up getting communicated to consumers.
Hubris, they believe freenode is the home of FOSS projects. They literally say that in the latest (and frankly, quite ridiculous) post on their website: https://freenode.net/news/for-foss

> freenode has been the home for the entire FOSS community for over 20 years.

> Freenode is freenode, and freenode is FOSS

They see those of us who are moving our project channels elsewhere, as "an illness".
Key Points from his evidence:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57254915
But what is the point? Why introduce an extra layer of complexity to mitigate changing URL's, something which has no purpose in the first place?
I think about to write a mail to the company, because I would like to buy a product again and I also wonder about what they say about the story.
Most software has a limited lifespan, why should this be any different
An Excavation of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Yeah but coronaviruses don’t mutate as rapidly as flu viruses, the vaccine from last year will protect against next year’s coronavirus. This will probably become like the measles where everyone gets a jab at age 3. And maybe a booster shot every 10 years afterwards. I don’t know anyone who’s ever caught the measles.
But we also can’t explain in detail how sedatives work... We have no idea whatsoever how most classes of sleeping meds function.
It could be that the rich are getting into real estate as a hedge against inflation, even if there is no income. But rental income is really nice... the most extreme version of this is the Duchy of Cornwall, earning rent since the 1300s (currently $21M) for the Prince of Wales:

https://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/features/duchy-cornwall
To clarify, I'm not against the idea of punishment for theft, but humans aren't simple reward maximising bots. IMHO no punishment doesn't work, and also too much punishment doesn't work.
You can’t take a laptop with a battery larger than the 16” MacBook Pro on an airplane either! https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/13/20962380/apples-16-inch-...
If you don't know about the SCP wiki, I really recommend checking it out, but be aware that it can be a really deep rabbit hole. The most important articles are the SCPs like this one, basically anomalous objects or beings. But often much more interesting are the tales, which are storys about the SCP foundation and everything else in the fictional universe.

And if you are confused: There is no shared canon, so articles can contradict each other (and they often do).
This measure of value is no longer relevant. Short term rentals are the lucrative market segment now. Long term tenants provide stability, but much lower upside.

There are other factors at play.

Bonus depreciation rules from the tax cut and jobs act. Real estate investors can depreciate 100% of an investment within the first year until 2022.

Low interest rates. Borrow money cheaply now and secure cash flow later.

Interest only financing. Financing schemes that allow investors maximum leverage. More leverage means more buying.

All together the current market is tilted heavily toward real estate investors. Unless the tax law changes, I wouldn’t expect things to fundamentally change until 2025.
Gulag is a poor analogy. Freenode can't imprison people or force them to stay on their service. Nor can it control the spread of information and opinions. Lee might own Freenode, but he doesn't own the front page of Hacker News.

In terms of effectiveness, this is perhaps more analogous to the boss screaming, "You can't quit, because I just fired you!" It doesn't keep anyone from leaving, but it does create unnecessary drama and make them look bad.

On the other hand, if Freenode had done nothing, it wouldn't have stopped some communities from leaving, but the flow might have abated all by itself. Like my mom used to say, "It won't heal if you don't stop picking at it."
Welcome to HN in the last 3-4 years.
Task Scheduler Application Using Huawei Push Kit and Analytics Kit
Freenode has always been convenient in that you can just join a channel for virtually any open source project and expect it to be there.
Businesses are just organized groups of people, for the purpose of profit, the leadership and management dynamics apply to any human group
Lockdowns dont work. Go to hell science deniers.
I don't quite get why "country" in the title here is in quotes - even though not an independent state, it's a country the same way Wales or Scotland is a country.
We should give anyone involved in the USB-IF a test:

Here are 10 different cables, you must accurately describe each of their features in detail (USB speeds, charging speeds/power delivery, video out? What version of Display Port does it support?). Make one mistake and you'll be executed.

Obviously I don't advocate for that but it's damn annoying you can have one cable do so many different things and not know by looking at it. At least USB 3 was often times blue to offer a distinction.

These days I plug in a cable and prey it functions as advertised (sometimes it's 50/50).

Awful mess.
Almost all countries allow foreign nationals (or their local subsidiary businesses) to buy land. The only change in recent years is that more ID checks are performed to reduce the extent this gets used for money laundering.

You could campaign to change that, but since it goes strongly against the free market and countries like money it's unlikely to go anywhere.
I think a lot of things attributed to 'business' or other things, are really just human nature.
HN is endlessly obsessed with disavowing monetary policy and the inflation we are seeing as a result. Your grocery bill and cost of gas are rising similarly to housing...just accept it, this inflation
Yup, there are lots of great communities still on IRC. :)
If you're new to this area of biomarkers and longevity, there are several people to follow with different approaches:

- David Sinclair Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To. Mostly focused on NAD+, sirtuins, use of yamanaka factors to reset epigenetic clock

- Horvath for horvath clock using dna methylation to measure aging in organisms.

- Michael Lustgarten a good curator for biomarker related research for longevity

- Rhonda Patrick has insightful scientific interviews and dietary and behavioral interventions

There's a spreadsheet with 9 biomarkers (with correlations) and age for Levine's Phenotypic Age floating around, based off this paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5940111/
Did you read the paper? It effectively has three US data points it's using: deaths in 2000, 2010, and 2017. And it's comparing to European countries in the same time to calculate excess deaths. But they're defining excess deaths as those due to living in the US vs. Europe. Not excess deaths in 2017 vs. 2000 or 2010. This is pointing to structural issues in the US (like healthcare, violence, opioid issues, etc.) causing a long-term mortality rate difference between the US and Europe (it's significantly
worse in 2010 as well as 2017). Not that there was a peak in 2017.
Over asking is a misleading metric as realtors are allowed to list a house at any price they choose. Some properties are listed artificially low to get more people to view them. Since people have some sense of what a property is actually worth, they know after viewing it when an over asking offer is needed. In the same neighborhood I've seen similar properties go for $1.6 mil to $1.65 mil Canadian, one at $50K over asking and the other at $363K over asking.
kicad, implicitcad, reprap, scopehal
Lets be serious. Libera is a direct competitor for the userbase of Freenode. If you went on to some message board and posted hey come to my message board we're over there. Even though the message board makes no profit, that is still someone's project and they will not take kindy to taking their userbase and will delete the message. Expecting otherwise is just acting entitled.

Honestly, the entire freenode nonsense is just a bunch of people acting super entitled over an IRC network they don't pay for and is basically their hobby. From what I can tell it basically all came down to the fact the staffers got pissed they couldn't control the domains which they didn't pay for. The fact they expect someone who bought the domains just to give the domains to them is nothing but entitlement.
I already disconnected from Freenode since receiving a large amount of spam a few days ago. I've been idling in #gentoo on libera.chat as soon as it was announced.

It saddens me to disconnect from Freenode after all these years. But, ultimately, it's just a name. The spirit will live on. Although it might be weakened.