skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a) agreed
b) not really...but there is definitely an aspect of communication that is lost when all voices are reduced to just text on a screen. I can understand how people might want to add objectively-measurable characteristics to online bios and leverage assumptions about lived experience to rapidly assess the relative value of otherwise-seemingly-equal posts.
The ACLU supported the rights of neo nazis to protest in a Jewish neighborhood. While not strictly a libertarian organisation, that is exactly the attitude. And libertarians would support that too. The rights of others to be free just like myself. It’s not selfish in any way.

And you should read up about why the aclu did this, they say some very relevant things to today.
Kei class cars are not usually legal for highway use in the USA.
The marshmallow experiment is too simplistic, but for millions of years we usually were better off eating both marshmallows. Now we have supermarkets with products full of sugar. You can consume an unhealthy amount of sugar eating a few fitness granola bars, half a liter of fruit juice, or a single bar of chocolate.

We are especially vulnerable to superstimulus (exaggerated signals), which is what makes McDonalds, TikTok or surgically augmented breasts so popular. More sugar, more salt, more silly faces, more breasts. Even if we don't prefer them our brain is drawn to them. They used to be important signals. Youtube video thumbnails almost always feature people making faces, TikTok is short videos of people making faces. It's a race at providing better superstimulus. A lot of our culture these days is a constant bombardment of stimulus and we are not especially adapted to it.
Oh man, yeah also adding to the list of people that abused their highschool computer labs with this. We had so much fun, but we eventually drew the ire of the school IT admin. After class one day the teacher took us aside with the admin and asked if we had installed BO on the computers, which we of course denied... they "believed" us, heh, but gave us a stern warning that whoever was doing it should stop. We would have all probably ended up with felony charges these days.

The next year, so 1999, we actually got approval to attempt to change our grades as an exercise. We actually managed to do it by sneakily copying a floppy one of the teachers used to store their grades with a program called Integrade. We took it home, reverse engineered the password protection to disable it, changed our grades on the copy, re-enable the password protection with the original password, and turned that in as our proof. Our teacher was impressed and super sketched out/nervous at the same time. I guess they never considered we'd succeed and get access to the whole class's grades...
All you gotta do is be a sellout to three letter agencies.
> libertarianism, which is literally to let everyone be themselves

No, it isn't. Its core is to enforce private property rights? That will very likely not translate into "letting everyone be themselves".
Indeed. The woke are experts at placing people into endless categories and determining which is “good” or “bad”. Which are the “oppressors” and the “victims”. Listen to their rhetoric, it is pretty much the opposite of live and let live.

One of the more ridiculous ideas to come out of this is that “everything is a human construct”. For example, it appears to be a woke idea that mathematics, science is some human (more specifically, white) invention and we should explore “alternative mathematics” or “alternative science”. Perhaps a new (and most importantly less oppressive) scientific method is right around the corner.

Like a long forgotten music video that you talked about with all your friends, most of these ideas will end up with no relevance and are completely meaningless. Wokeness is primarily an attention-seeking social phenomenon where influencers can tell you the new hot woke which you can mention later to impress your friends or get a date.
I admire the restraint in not naming it Pynt.
I think it’s a matter of time before the copy-cat stuff is going to get us one of those weird Japanese suicide pacts. They are already starting with the new crate challenge (which is dangerous as fuck).

https://youtu.be/4bFK6EBz8VY

I saw kids doing this on concrete recently. On concrete.

Tiktok is literally an at-scale sorority/fraternity, which means people are taking part in an at-scale hazing ritual - to fit in. The problem with this is the same problem that arises if you are 20 and watch Sesame Street every day still. There’s a time and place for this behavior and we are not setting any cut offs for when it’s time to stop the nonsense.
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The "woke" movement uses the same tactics as religions. Followers try to shame you and offer absolution for your original sin of racism or transphobia. There are different sects of wokeness, similar to denominations in the Christian Church. It's also a form of mob mentality and bullying. Corporations, unsurprisingly, have also jumped on the trend.
That reductionist argument is old and tired, and devoid of any truth. Just a clump of cells? Is it just as likely to grow into being a giraffe? or an oak tree? just some blob? Left unkilled, it grows to what it is -- a human being.[1]

A fetus is not a life? WTF? "Science" says it's a forming human. Are you anti-science?

When one turns on an enemy, the first thing is to dehumanize them. Doing horrible things (dismembering, killing) to a non-human is much easier. The tactics of the Left regarding abortion are very similar as what one does when ginning up a society for war: you convince them through repeated messaging that "they" they aren't human beings -- they're something less, and they're a problem for us.

I used to be a Democrat, and it was the callous tone the the Left took on re: abortion that was a factor in me deciding that the hypocrisy was too much. I support unrestricted first trimester abortions, and am of the now-rejected Bill Clinton philosophy that they should be safe, legal, ... and rare. It's very telling that it's the "rare" part that the Left takes exception with. Now, it's only conservatives who quote Clinton on that.

Add to that, 80% of abortions are black and brown babies[2], yet the organization known as "Black Lives Matter" is silent on the topic -- more hypocrisy.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fetus

[2] https://aapsonline.org/planned-parenthood-abortions-over-80-...
Carbon and Catalyst didn't really overlap. And Catalyst is just for porting iPad apps.
Doesn't remove sponsored posts for me.
How to use systemd timers as a replacement for cron jobs:
https://opensource.com/article/20/7/systemd-timers
I sometimes discuss things with myself, taking two sides and having a conversation in my head. I see it as something like when you discuss something with someone in a dream. Is that voice dialogue?
Of course not, POSIX portability leaves lot undefined across UNIX platforms, it was mostly the C runtime that ANSI/ISO C didn't want as part of the standard than anything else.

Back in 1999 - 2003 I had lots of fun porting code between AIX, Solaris, HP-UX and Red-Hat Linux.

A decade earlier the fun was with Xenix, DG/UX, and early GNU/Linux flavours.

And it wasn't only the OS specific APIs, each OS SDK had their own glitches and deviations from C standard.
I could not find a nice summary article in English so had not posted this, but there is a recently published patent from Daihatsu showing a Kei EV[1].

The claim is that the power electronics modules stacked vertically allows shorter cables to be used, but what I think is interesting is the drawings of a ladder frame car with transmission shaped drive unit and battery pack suspended between frames. A typical Kei delivery van body sits atop all. This looks more optimized for lightweight FF/MF city cars, than other setups like skateboard architectures used in FR EVs or fuel tank shaped batteries in compliance EVs.

1: https://www.j-platpat.inpit.go.jp/c1800/PU/JP-2021-115916/81...
Sure, and see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_(short_story)

But, uh, any evidence that that's real? We should be careful with Gödel's results here; the Gödelian incompleteness of the human mind is that a human cannot consistently believe that everything they believe is true. It has nothing to do with sanity and perception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxastic_logic
Making a Sprite Engine for the IBM PC
Skin color identity in second grade? That's so ridiculous, I'd be pretty upset if I found that out. Let kids be kids. Anyhow, thanks for sharing.
I'm Norwegian, but have lived in the UK closing in on half my life now (25 years in Norway, 21 years in the UK).

I have by no means forgotten my first language, but over the years I have certainly noticed loss of vocabulary, or more frequently more effort to switch over to thinking in a different pattern and finding the right words.

Sometimes I'll catch myself about to inject an English word when speaking Norwegian to my mother.

I don't think my fluency will ever disappear as they did for the article writer, in part because I used it daily for much longer than the writer did, and in part because I still read a reasonable amount of Norwegian, but it drives home how much of fluency depends on regular use.
I come from a backend background. I will like to know what are some news sources to keep up with the latest developments in frontend?
Nope, still got it. Even have (thankfully rare) bouts of copropraxia, so I tend to keep my distance from folks. My symptoms never really faded with adulthood so much as controlling my environment to be as low-stress as possible helps me keep my symptoms low on a day to day basis. Working from home for the past 15 years has been a huge part of that.
I didn’t even know about RSS at the time. Just used facebook for everything.
Haven't seen any issues for years, with some exceptions.

Anecdotally - I've visit only few sites that were totally blocking their work, all of them were piracy related sites.
I’m curious how much diff there is with the existing BigDecimal packages (big.js & family). Their APIs look very similar, unsurprisingly. It would be great if a lot of existing code is already mostly compatible.
With them shoving their privilege into others. The exact thing they preach not to do.
I liked it too, thanks for posting it, @TeMPOraL
> Gendered nouns are kind of silly and antiquated when you think about it though

No, they're not. In WALS (https://wals.info/chapter/30), almost half of the languages have gendered nouns.

> Today, young English speakers are trying to popularize "they" as an English neuter pronoun, and it's not too absurd: we already use "they" this way when the gender of the person is unknown. For example, if you found a random wallet, you might say, "Someone lost their wallet," and it would be acceptable.

It's actually reasonably weird to propose since usages historically mattered. Also that's what gives you collocations, idioms, etc. If you look at grammars of English, you find plenty of examples of similar generalizations that people consistently refuse to make, such as the lack of "I could X" in the sense of "I was able to X", even though though nobody bats an eye at "I couldn't X" in the sense of "I wasn't able to X".
Is the world they have created better? Is this a photo of robber barons or liberators?

> By the late 19th century, the term was typically applied to businessmen who used exploitative practices to amass their wealth.[2] These practices included exerting control over natural resources, influencing high levels of government, paying subsistence wages, squashing competition by acquiring their competitors to create monopolies and raise prices, and schemes to sell stock at inflated prices to unsuspecting investors.

Wow this sounds so familiar.
It's incredibly uncomfortable. I don't want my cleats to score up someone's floor so I end up walking on the side-edge of my feet. And every step makes inordinate amounts of clicking so that I feel like I'm a hot girl in heels walking on tile, drawing attention to myself.

And let me tell you, drawing attention to myself while I'm sweaty and wearing bike clothing is the definition of uncomfortable.
the building is also full of pests lol. All of MIT is like this and held together with duct tape and dental floss. Still the most fun place to do science I've encountered.
Humans lost the war against memes, if there could have been a war, millennia ago. We are now ruled by memes like "language" and "currency" and "justice".
I do not think it is a mix of both. It is an equality of outcome pushed because the solution to equality of opportunity is considered too expensive (massive wealth transfers that may or may not be able to fix broken homes/families/communities).

Opportunities compound, so they will lead to wide gaps in outcomes, so I do not see any solution other than to reduce the income/wealth gap to reduce that inevitable gap in opportunity of outcome.
"Wokeness" is a reaction to intolerant ideas, that are indeed worth fighting.
>>>Famously unreliable undercarriage, factory tie rods, driveshaft snap like sticks.

Yeah they work great on immaculate Japanese roads, where we usually only kill clutches and maybe transmissions. I would expect Hiluxes and FJ Cruisers to be better suited to Russia but those are typically at a higher price point.
The quietness and lack of pop ups is what I noticed when I switched from XP to Ubuntu 9.04 back in the day. I couldn't believe how it just booted and did nothing.
So I can not be a front man for the AI! - I would have to make a false declaration, thus all AI inventions are de facto open source or trade secrets. Trade secrecy might be the only way to protect it = good and bad. If someone else creates it you have no protection because you have no patent. If they steal the trade secret you have some protection - ephemeral.
This will lead to enslaved AIs, with the slave master claiming the patent - ultimately this form of slavery will be outlawed and an AI will be able to be a free entity.
Addendum: Think about volatile like you think about const. If you use it to declare memory that is in fact different, it totally makes sense. If you do other weird things, it breaks (just like const).

This is unlike signed/unsigned storage specifiers which are not really attributes of the memory, and which create some serious complexities that lead to weird situations. But for practical reasons there haven't been any successful attempts to get rid of them.

Again, not defending volatile at all. Just saying that it probably made sense at the time at that it is not as ill-conceived as you imply. Volatile is cruft, but certainly does not disqualify the language. Just use modern synchronization primitives instead, like any other reasonable person.
Also discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28408467
Docker has a rootless mode in the same way that podman has a rootless mode.
Could we use this to replace the oft derided coding interview?
I think the key part here is "pretend these factors didn't exist at all". I think answering questions when they are raised is very important, and I agree with you that kids are perceptive. On the other hand, they should also be offered a chance to live without thinking about that if it's possible.
God when did this world get so screwed up?

I'm buying a phone. I'm not buying a service, an experience, a design or whatever. I'm buying a phone. How is it even possible to twist this?

Buying a phone is really just a fancy way of saying I'm buying a computer. And if this world was just, this computer would not execute a single instruction without my consent. I don't really care what "the group" wants, they're not gonna use my computer for it.

> It’s a really ugly image I have of the simple type of person who’s having a hard time choosing between email privacy and stopping a child predator.

I don't have a hard time choosing between anything. I will choose privacy every single time. If authorities want to stop crime, they can go out there and do real police work. They don't get to surveil everyone on earth just because it would make things easier for them.

If you have such an easy time giving up your privacy and freedoms, then you should be the first to be scanned. Who are you anyway? You're not even posting under your real name, threshold.
For a bit of context.

The Dr. who reported this is Dr. Jason A. Mcelyea who works at Northeastern Health System Sequoyah in Sallisaw, OK.

They have 6 ER beds.
> we'd never have had bellbottoms.

Those were appropriated from the Navy. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell-bottoms
Was hoping to find Feynman in there :)
https://shop.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-...

Western Digital's website shows its not fake.
A small sliver of ambergris added to hot tea infuses it with a soft, delightful odor. Of course, it is difficult to acquire, but there is a very large market among the elite in the Middle East, especially the Gulf States for this purpose.

I was lucky enough to be a guest when I was served this marvelous smelling tea, and it remains a vivid memory, although 20 years old.

Memory being sharply evoked by odors is an odd thing.
One programmer broke the internet by deleting left-pad (2016)
1980's Volkswagen pickup was perfect for stuff like this.
Hey there! Article author here -- just found out this was posted here and going through the comments :-)

One of the earliest test versions of my patch actually did inode reuse using slabs just like you're suggesting, but there are a few practical issues:

1. Performance implications. We use tmpfs internally within the kernel in a lock-free manner as part of some latency-sensitive operations, and using slabs complicates that somewhat. The fact that we make use of tmpfs internally as the kernel makes this situation quite different than other filesystems.

2. Back when I was writing the patch, each memory cgroup had its own set of slabs, which greatly complicated being able to reuse inodes as slabs between different services (since they run in different memcgs).

After it became clear that slab recycling wouldn't work, I wrote a test patch that uses IDA instead, but I found that the performance implications were also not tenable. There are other alternative solutions but they increase code complexity/maintenance non-trivially and aren't really worth it.

A 64-bit per-superblock inode space resolves this issue without introducing any of these problems -- before you go through 2^64-1 inodes, you're going to have other practical constraints anyway, at least for the timebeing :-)
https://shop.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-...
This is a direct consequence of society giving aid to autistic people while reducing stigma, it is practically obvious that more people are going to consequently try and fit that label.

What we see is this phenomena where autistic people today have less actual impairments, who might even take offense to the idea that they are impaired, but with more tiktok videos of "stimming" and flapping their hands on YouTube. An emphasis on the preformative over the substantive. There has even been a counter-backlash in this community that too much funding is going towards people with few impairments, and too little funding is going for people so disabled they're completely unable to be independent.
On its own perhaps it wouldn’t be. It would be a stretch and not an exact equivalency. But I could, perhaps, see someone using it as an example. But considering how political it is, and how many other examples you could find to use I can’t help but think: Maybe the half a dozen comments throughout the thread, trying to make the two situations seem the same, aren’t exactly in good faith.
I don’t get this article. In order to objectively claim YC has somehow lost value, they’d need some measurable proof.

Unless YC companies are failing to find funding, which is exceedingly doubtful, I don’t know how you could claim they’ve “lost luster”.
Anyone who doesn't have a (or acknowledge their) religion is really just oblivious to what theirs really is.

religion being the loose/broad definition, and not necessarily (but sometimes) the dogmatic and organized big R Religion.
That is true, and frankly it seemed pretty cowardly on the part of the court to do that. Nonetheless, I can't think of much in the way of contrary rulings short of forced desegregation, which was a pretty special case because black customers weren't just being denied service by one provider, but systematically by all providers in an entire multi-state region of the country.

Most shops come with a sign posted saying they can refuse to serve you for any reason whatsoever, including total personal whim, and that doesn't get challenged.
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This is not new, GNOME has hidden the font settings as an undocumented setting in the tweak tool for quite some time now. I don't think you should have to be disappointed that it's considered an unsupported hack, if it works for you, that's great, keep on doing it. All "unsupported" means is that the developers don't test with that setup... and how could they? They can't possibly test with every font there is, so marking it unsupported is really only an acknowledgement of the way it already was before. If an app developer says don't theme my app, that's likely because it has a high probability of breaking the app. That's what the letter is talking about and gives examples for. And yes, font changes can break apps.

Also, forgive me if I'm wrong about this but the entire point of Linux and open source seems to be that you can do whatever you want with it, the users don't usually need to end up patching the apps because some other distro will do it (and many of them already seem to), so usually you can find someone else who wants to support it. Also I don't think the internal setting is ever going to get removed from GTK because that it what the themes themselves use to set the font, even if libraries like libadwaita and libgranite want to enforce a certain system theme and font setting, the user still is the one that gets to override the theme.
> The Dutch simplified the most useful rule in the 17th century: "live and let live", it was codified into (maritime) law.

Would that happen to be the same Dutch that were heavily involved in the slave trade (about the same time you mention)?
There was a thread yesterday about Ubiquiti's WiFiman iOS/Android app that does this sort of stuff (although the visualization featured in the submission is Android only).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28391112

I don't know how the functionality compares to Ekahau Pro, since I've never used Ekahau Pro.
meme: (n) an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation
> A small handful of physicists were not convinced

Somebody came up with the idea, and was immediately dismissed by the most pessimist estimates. After somebody spent 10 minutes doing the math, there was no doubt anymore.