skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Free Software Foundation (FSF), a Massachusetts 501(c)(3) charity with a worldwide mission to protect computer user freedom, seeks a principled, compassionate, and capable leader to be its new executive director. This position can be remote or based in our Boston office.

The FSF is committed to the notion that users are entitled to control their computing, individually and collectively, and therefore to control the software that does that computing. The executive director will work closely with the president, board of directors, and all Foundation staff to achieve this goal.

The FSF faces many challenges as software becomes increasingly central in the exercise of all fundamental human freedoms, including speech, association, privacy, and movement, and as software owners seek to exploit their control over us to profit at the expense of those freedoms. The executive director has a vital role in enabling the FSF to continue meeting these challenges, starting from the strong base that has been built in the last thirty-five years. The Foundation has recently reached record-high membership numbers and was awarded a perfect score from Charity Navigator, as well as its eighth consecutive four-star rating. Efforts to improve the Foundation’s governance are underway.

The executive director is the FSF's chief employed officer. The position reports to the president/CEO and the board of directors, and is responsible for management of all other staff, all day-to-day operations, and oversight of the Boston physical office. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to hire for additional key positions in the management team.

For more information, including the list of job responsibilities, benefits, and application instructions, see https://www.fsf.org/resources/jobs/apply-to-be-the-fsfs-next....
Here’s some great instructions on how to use JSON to do just that:

https://stopa.io/post/265
I would say, it's rather primitive than just simple language. Lack of absolutely necessary features like generics, not to tell about memory and thread unsafety by design. There's zero sense to start a new project in C in 2021
What tools have your tried with redshift ? which has helped.

Does a spreadsheet like thing help for columnar database ? Please let us know usecases.
This is part of Tesla's plan to transition to a vision-only system:

- FUD-free Tesla Daily coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3zsmZx4kfA

- Details from Tesla: https://www.tesla.com/support/transitioning-tesla-vision
So it's basically a slightly nicer interface to interactive rebase? Would be nice if the Readme explained that!
There's all sorts of rumors for why Elon / Tesla is doing this. The most probable rumor IMO is that the chip-shortage has hit the Tesla radar especially hard.

Instead of idling plants (like other automakers https://www.autonews.com/manufacturing/ford-idles-f-150-plan...), Tesla decided to cut out the radar entirely.

That means cars can be produced, and sold, without these radars / chips.
My read is it's just the NHTSA not granting a certification for things it hasn't tested. Ie, "forward collision warning, lane departure warning, crash imminent braking and dynamic brake support" without radar. Tesla will release the new versions (if they haven't already), the NHTSA will test the new models, and they'll grant the "check marks" again.

In other words, it's non-news (unless you happen to be planning to buy a Tesla this week).
There’s this guy, Randall Carlson, who claims the great pyramid of Cheops is a scaled version of the northern hemisphere. If true, I guess it would mean the Egyptians knew the earth was round.

https://sacredgeometryinternational.com/the-great-pyramid-de...
The difference between this and a full lisp like Clojure is that this must be turing-incomplete. From the description:

>JsonLogic has no setters, no loops, no functions or gotos. One rule leads to one decision, with no side effects and deterministic computation time.

Also it appears that sci is still experimental: "Experimental. Breaking changes are expected to happen at this phase. "
Get a job working for a company that works with renewables..

Wind turbines, solar panel factories, grid operations, etc.. all need lots of software -- you could be the one to write it.

Of course, it means giving up a comfortable career in tech.. :/
> For example, they have only considered how something looks, not how it works(for both people using accessibility tech and those who don't).

When Sun or Google created their own, non-native toolkits designed to run on Mac OS/iOS, they were fully aware of what doesn't work. However, they balanced that con against the pros of the ability to write cross-platform code once (ground floor engineers), and on strategic level, they wanted to commoditize Mac OS/iOS into a dumb pipe (one of many other dump pipes to deliver code/content to), rather than a platform with inherent value - they consciously considered this to be more important than users' griping at the weird scroll-speed curves. One can create a shim for native widgets like QT does, but you'll be at the platform owners mercy when it comes to release cadence.

It's good business practice to commoditize your complement - seen in that light, the decisions are far from "not smart". Not great for some users, for sure, but they come from deliberate decision-making over control.
Your use of "Nix" to mean Unix (if that is what you are doing) is confusing!

(Nix is a package manager for Linux.)
OB is ridiculously stressful, in an antagonistic kind of way.

1. A good subset of patients have wildly unrealistic ideas about pregnancy and delivery, and when their ideas meet reality it's not always reality that wins.

1.B. You will be the target of their ire whenever their desires are not fulfilled, because patients seem to think docs are actually in charge of something at the hospital. We usually are not.

2. It's wildly litigious. Their child was perfect (in their imagination) before being born; then you got involved, and now their child is not perfect. You must have fucked something up in the delivery and ruined the perfection of their child.

3. Way too much family involvement. When you're doing surgery, you're usually dealing with a patient's attempts to understand what's going on. When you're doing OB, you're dealing with the patient, the husband, the mother, mother-in-law, etc. Each person will come up with their own distorted vision of how things should be, and when it doesn't align with reality, the doctor is an idiot who doesn't know what they're doing. (Doctors are not perfect - just people - but it seems like every single person without medical training seems better equipped to identify the proper medical course of action than a physician is.)

4. Lots and lots of on-call time. Lots of unexpected interruptions and lots of drop-everything-and-drive-to-the-hospital.

5. There used to be good money in it. There isn't now, which makes all of the above grate on one's nerves.

The results of the above really add up to demolishing the spirit of OB/GYNs. Points 1-3 really make you feel like you're persistently at war with patients, which is the worst feeling ever. I've never been on anyone's side but the patient's, and having them treat me like an enemy ruins my job, and ruins my ability to do my job.

I ultimately chose to pursue a niche thing that shares a name with an existing medical specialty, but is a distinct niche. I can't really identify it without doxing myself, so forgive me for not.
Just like the tides. And magnets.
I'm leaning more towards solar activity and H2O myself.
I suppose they could have hugged the coast all the away around Africa. It's also possible that the voyage never happened.

But yes, being first doesn't matter as much as being first to be successful and following up. Other Europeans got to the New World first but Columbus kicked off Spain's colonization and that led to everything else.
Recommended reading for those interested is "Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters" by Steven Koonin. Presents a great deal of context around climate science and reporting which is helpful when processing headlines like this one.
It's so good to see Jon Klassen getting recognition on HN!

His books are superb! Short, sweet and extremely funny :D
Yes that's a fair point
Yeah, it's kind of funny. A couple years back, V8 had a baseline interpreter and optimizing compiler, then added a baseline compiler. Spidermonkey had a baseline compiler and optimizing compiler, then added a baseline interpreter.

My guess is that all of the main JS engines will eventually evolve into crabs.
Are you referring to Little's Law?
I was going to mention Reddit as well. It will be really interesting if one day they silently make it the default.
It's not just children that are negatively affected by these apps. It's everyone. The only way not to be affected is to not use them.
Running from the Pain (2018)
Interesting. My oldest also loves all three of these books, while his younger brother loves "The Very Hungry Caterpillar".

They're great books to make funny sounds with. They're also great for asking our kids questions about the stories.
Doesn't almost everybody? I mean let's get real here, what's the IQ distribution at FAANG or any other competitive software engineering company?

There may not be an explicit "IQ" portion to the process, or a hard number, but they are absolutely filtering on intelligence. An uncomfortable aspect of our society that I'm both surprised and not surprised doesn't get talked about much.
> The entire point of FizzBuzz, as a programming practice, is to ensure the programmer does not try to write this exact code

No, the point of FizzBuzz, which is an interview practice is to make sure that the candidate has literally the minimum ability to translate a natural-language problem description into code.

There is no point using it for anything else. Not demos of languages or tools, not looking for a particular shape of solution, you don't even really need to let them finish writing a bug-free version of it. It is only to filter out the people who "learned a language" but cannot actually write a program. Which is unfortunately a ton of people.

https://imranontech.com/2007/01/24/using-fizzbuzz-to-find-de...
I don't care. Downvote away. I care much more when someone explains to me that I'm wrong and why. I interpret a downvote as someone's own insecurity about their own opinions. I upvote well articulated comments, regardless of agreement.
Some books I’m willing to read repeatedly: I Am A Bunny, and I Am A Mouse, both by Ole Risom and illustrated by Richard Scarry and John P. Miller, respectively, in a realistic style, as if they actually made the time to observe the plants and animals; Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown; Stack the Cats, by Susan Ghahremani; and Bear and Wolf, by Daniel Salmieri. The latter is my favorite so far because of this line, among others:

“Bear and Wolf walked through the quietly falling snow, using their eyes, and ears, and noses to take in the snowy woods.”

Bear is female, Wolf is male, and they are at home in the cold, as we can be if we allow ourselves to acclimate. They explore together, go they separate ways, and meet again in late spring.
Vaguely related: the movie Moebius (1996) where a ghost train disappears in the Buenos Aires underground. To find it they hire a mathematical topologist.
Zero Gas Fees Blockchain with Private Block Transactions
Hi I'm Andy this is my first time posting here. I have forked a Blockchain from Consensys. The new blockchain is called Babylon Blockchain. It has 0 gas fees as default and supports private block transaction with a pub/priv key store connected to every validator node running on the network. More info and the block explorer at

https://www.babylonblocks.com/about

There is a social network that is built on smart contracts deployed to the Babylon Blockchain.

https://blockface.fun/

There is an associated ERC20 token on Ethereum called Babylon Bridge Token. The token doesn't do anything yet but it will be a utility token that will be burned when you transfer assets between Ethereum and Babylon Blockchain. I plan on creating a bridge between the two blockchains using zero knowledge proofs.

Thankyou for reading the post
IMHO: For those who want more frequent upgrades, then I would say a container-based solution is a good fit. Then the container don’t need to care if the underlying host has very old packages.
Can you link to a specific study that you claim is left wing science denial?
Are you objecting to 'mother' in the Dutch as if 'wife' in the English doesn't imply the same?
Real software engineers don't make mistakes?
S-expressions do all of this, which is why everyone is suggesting you've reinvented Lisp.
They're trivial to parse and easier to read than JSON for this use case.
Making Geospatial Joins Interactive at Scale
Where Did All the NYC Yellow Cabs Go?
> Don't have kids.

and find a way to work towards something of a solution in your daily life. The work may not go anywhere and the problem may be intractable, but by not having kids and doing some work towards a solution, its at least a local anesthetic for hopelessness.
The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox
TL;DR: Tesla is removing radar from vehicles to transition to a vision-only system. They will ship vision-only cars before NHTSA has tested them, so the NHTSA can't certify untested vehicles.

> Newer Tesla Model 3 and Model Y vehicles will no longer be labeled as having some advanced safety features after the automaker said it was removing radar sensors to transition to a camera-based Autopilot system
I don't have experience with Vimscript, but I know both Lua and Python. It seems that the biggest benefit is gained by stepping up from Vimscript to any of those two. Switching to the other would only have diminishing returns, if at all.

Apart from that, Lua was explicitly designed to be embedded. Python is designed as a scripting language that can bind to C code, and embedding seems to be an afterthought.
> Don't eat meat

https://youtu.be/sGG-A80Tl5g
Are there any competing dialects of Lisp which have deterministic runtime? If people are reimplementing half of Common Lisp, then they are not implementing something that competes with this project because their language is probably turing complete. From the JsonLogic website:

> JsonLogic has no setters, no loops, no functions or gotos. One rule leads to one decision, with no side effects and deterministic computation time.
There is a whole division within Research called Google Health led by David Feinberg (https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-feinberg-4b5b76/) which works on these sorts of problems. It's sort of situated between Cloud and Research, as many of the problems they want to solve are... well, research problems that need large real-world datasets to solve.

Verily has its own things it wants to focus on, and I don't think large EHR analytics projects are one of them. Their ambitions are probably budget limited now (IE, they have to be selective about which projects to take on) while Google Research and Cloud have a lot of funding to build products like this.
It really depends on the type of memory usage though. On current Intel multi-socket the bandwidth a single process can have for core meditated memory accesses, even for node local memory, is seriously disappointing. Often < 10GB/s. Yes, it scales reasonably nicely, but it's very painful to tune for that, given that client and low core count, single socket, SKUs end up with > 35GB/s. And that this affects you even from within VMs that are on a single socket.

I heard that ice lake sp improves a bit in the area, but haven't gotten access to one yet.
This only applies to new vehicles that ship without the radar module. Tesla is switching to vision-only but the vision-only system hasn't been tested by the NHTSA.

Nothing has changed for vehicles that have already shipped with radar modules.
Average New Home Sale Prices in U.S. Reach New Record High
I'll just leave this here: https://notrickszone.com/2021/05/24/paradigm-busting-new-stu...
Tesla has been pushing camera-only autonomous driving (ditching LIDAR) since well before the chip shortage. I would assume this is part of the same drive.
I live in India, even after working hard and making good money it's not possible to live a comfortable live here. There's no space for you, everything is packed up in tiny spaces.

Yet some people keep reproducing here, it's true birth rate has fallen in educated people but there are simply too many people at the bottom here in India so our population isn't going to come done anytime soon
Citizen’s dangerous effort to cash in on vigilantism
For some reason, this project seems to be drawing rather nasty comments. I'd like to remind everyone of the guidelines:

Be kind. Don't be snarky...

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
Well they’re not removing radar on 3/Y in Europe…
I think it was actually the first extension available in the new FF Android version, it’s availability was the reason for me to switch as I need no other extension on mobile.
So where is my simple answer wrong then?
It should be mandated that all ships have a summary email written (what was shipped, why’d we ship it, who worked on it, how do users like it, metrics etc) and sent to a “shipped” list. As in, it’s not optional and the thing is not really shipped until the email is sent. You can also syndicate this list in a slack channel or something so that people can discuss.
Thanks, will check some of those out at random.
> Put down your pitchforks—it looks like the DMCA warning was bogus.
Vancouver, Canada will be hit hard: https://globalnews.ca/news/6102304/sea-level-rise-metro-vanc...
Early Television Museum:

https://youtu.be/4YGdoib7S9k
I'm having difficulty understanding the timeline here.

- Tesla is going to remove radar from new Model 3 & Y cars starting later this month.

- Tesla is going to add back the removed features via software updates at some point in the future.

- All Model 3 & Y cars sold since April 27 will not have these NHTSA check marks.

Why is there a one month overlap? What's different about the cars shipped on April 27?
Both can be done at the same time lol! Realistically those populations are gonna grow at a crazy rate. Every country needs to adopt a minimal growth rate and be rewarded for being sustainable.
Exactly, we thought food aid would solve hunger, instead it caused population explosion and more hunger. Some cultures just breed to capacity.
So if we were going to purchase one soon, should we instead wait for this to be fixed?
Switzerland and Austria were not NATO members.
NHTSA tested Tesla cars that had radar modules. Tesla has decided to remove the radar modules and use only vision systems. The new vision-only models are not NHTSA certified yet, so the NHTSA had to clarify that the safety certification only applies to vehicles shipped before the vision-only transition. That is, any vehicle with radar is still certified, but the new vehicles will apparently ship untested.
This is the most credible source for guidelines on image descriptions: http://diagramcenter.org/making-images-accessible.html

I have a perceptual visual disability (severe convergence insufficiency) that does not affect actual visual acuity. However, I do rely on screen readers for reading and I use (and have access to) several libraries for people with print-related disabilities.

The above guidelines are an initiative of Bookshare.org, which is the world’s largest digital library (which only people with print related disabilities can legally access).
maybe you're too young, I've heard the doom and gloom sine the 80s and those older than me have heard it since the 70's. If you look out across a sea of people there will always be a group of people holding a sign reading "Repent sinners, for the end is near".
I doubt guesstimating based on interpreter loop overhead is going to get you that far, because Sparkplug looks like it has ICs. I would expect their impact to dominate on many, many workloads.
Tesla did not ditch LIDAR, they never actually used it (not in production cars at least?).
Cory Doctorow's

https://pluralistic.net/

He's a pro-tech (anti-industry) left-wing futurist and science fiction author. I read him to get out of my filter bubble.
Cool. I've been using this for many years. Before that, I used quilt[1], and before that, Andrew Morton's patch scripts[2].

It's a great workflow that makes you look like a genius who rarely makes mistakes. Absolutely vital if you need to maintain a set of patches against a bunch of branched source code (e.g. maintaining an open source driver with variants upstream (linus's plus stable kernels) and also for various distro kernels.) This was my main use case for years, but I still use it even for things that don't fit that pattern, just because it's convenient to do so.

Sure everything that stgit does can be done with git by itself (duh, that's what stgit is doing under the hood), but I find it's a lot easier with stgit.

[1] http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt
[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/13518/
Thankfully the patents are starting to expire in 2024. Nothing holds pack progress quite like the patent system.

The problem with causing $300 of destruction and lost work time vs possibly saving a limb is there's no fine woodworking operation or framing carpentry operation that requires a table saw. Technically if you feel unsafe working with a table saw you can do absolutely everything very slowly and tediously with a router or router table or bandsaw, or manual tools like a chisel and hammer. Anyone concerned about safety doesn't use a saw stop, they use an entirely different technology than a table saw. If you make a table saw too safe or too expensive to actually use, people will simply use something else. The death toll may or may not be lower...

From a marketing perspective, the people most likely to buy a saw stop because they're scared of table saws will save a lot of money by not buying either sawstop or table saw, and they'll cut dado slots using a hand held router (more dangerous in a different way) or break down plywood using a tracksaw (unholy expensive and many crushed foot injuries) or cut beveled edges on a router table or zillions of alternatives. Meanwhile the people who don't care about safety because they're not drinking on the job or they actually use the substantial amount of safety gear that makes a table saw perfectly safe OR they only do operations on the table saw that are inherently safe by nature (as opposed to relatively low risk operations, and some very high risk operations that people do anyway), will continue to save a lot of money by the combo of not being dumb and not buying sawstop. Finally the real dumb woodworkers who get drunk and get hurt or simply don't care, will continue to not care and not buy sawstop and will not live too much longer in a world either with sawstop or without table saws anyway, so its not like the world will net improve, the Darwin award winners will continue to win Darwin awards. So sawstop is a VERY hard sell.

A similar problem is well manufactured table saws are safer than homemade table saws. The concept of "put a round blade on a motor" is too simple to legislate out of existence. So making table saws illegal wouldn't eliminate table saws it would just mean the homemade ones will make table saws, on average, more dangerous.

Arguably, radial arm saws are more dangerous than table saws and "the marketplace" effectively eliminated those decades ago, so its not like the marketplace dislikes safety or whatever.