skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've reviewed code that bad, and even muttered invectives about stupidity under my breath, but never let my bewilderment turn into a vicious attack. When I encounter code that's as awful as all that, I ask questions. Do you know of (blank) alternative, did you test this code, are you aware of this consequence. Then, I make a pronouncement; this code is not up to standard and I won't accept it unless the above are fixed, or if it's utterly incomprehensible, I'll say that I cannot see a path forward. Bottom line, the code is defective, there's no reason to make it personal.

If Linus was viewed as less than a god, I think more people in our community would recognize this sort of tirade as ad hominem and they would be ridiculed as such.
Never seen so many dead posts on a thread before. Clearly a polite bunch.
Exactly my reasoning for moving out of Poland. It's fun to watch and cheer if you are a normative citizen who will never be affected by this, but for everyone else it turns into hell sooner or later. There are multitudes of people I know who ended up under psychiatric care because it's becoming hopeless for them as the anti-modern kulturkampf gains in strength.
> gives us an advantage over China?

1) What exactly has China, its people and government done or doing to you, your people and your country specifically

I don't think HN is the type of platform for BS political flame baiting but...

2) I am curious as to why you felt the need to include win against China and if you think that's a reasonable statement.
I don't think it's that black and white.
Sure, you are not responsible for everything that happens with technology you created. But I do think that considering the consequences of ones actions can be very valuable to the public and oneself.
> Perhaps the government should open companies [...] that are good for the people but bad for business?

Perhaps the government should close companies that are good for business but bad for the people instead.

In France after WW2, the companies that had participated in the German war effort, or to collaborate were simply confistated. When I see this kind of revelation, which show a complete breakage of corporate oversight and an evaporation of personal responsibility, I wonder whether the easiest solution may be to void existing stocks, have the government take over the board and re-auction the company once the management structure has been cleared.
A question for the American dominated commenters on this forum....

How many more years and anniversaries do you intend to do?

You got 9/11'd, spent 20 years invading two countries who weren't responsible, ignored and apologised for the one country that was responsible and are still not very good at the Paralympics.

when does it end?
Sorry, autocorrect transformed « Jest » to « Heat ». I meant « Jest »

And yes you are right about Chromatic. It informs you directly in GitHub PRs about the number of stories that changed, visually or at the dom level. And has a nice UI to review changes visually in a click.
Removal of the patent system would be the "free market purist" answer to this one. Though ethanol already wasn't patented, hmm.... I can only assume the leaded fuel was cheaper.
Who’s on the other end of that options trade?
If you could move in space but not in time, then you would be in two places at the same time which would violate conservation of matter, right?
>Telemetry is not a vote

From the developer point of view, this is incorrect, the developers are using it to decide which features to prioritize. If you are aware that it's happening and you leave it on, then I don't see what the problem is. Resource and bandwidth usage should be very minimal, if it's not then I would urge you to actually measure it and report bugs. It should be possible to compress it so that it doesn't eat up your bandwidth. Remember that it also takes bandwidth and CPU to post on Hacker News, so you will have to compare it to that to have any kind of meaningful data.

My point is, it if lacks the data from those users, it would make sense to start sending them that data. It doesn't make sense to me to complain about them having incorrect data on you when you intentionally don't send them the right data and then threaten to jump ship because of what seems to be your own actions. I personally also disable telemetry but I know full well that I'm opting out of an important system for them so I don't expect to get attention in return for doing that. If you wanted to help, I think they would very much welcome attempts to fix the telemetry and make it more bandwidth-respecting and privacy-respecting, rather than finding ways to just throw it out.

>You can of course make a zero telemetry browser, relying 100% on your own research and what the users volunteer to tell you directly. And those most passionate about it with tell you the most, a wonderful positive feedback loop.

In my experience, this is an unreliable way to make products, the type of user who is passionate and volunteers this information is not the average user. You will end up with a very niche product that way, and the cost would be very high since you would be expecting the same quality of features but for a smaller number of users. If you're interested to do this I would suggest you to fork Firefox and attempt to get funding, and try that out just to see how much work it actually is compared to how little those users are actually willing to pay. Take a look at Waterfox if you want to see an example of how this would be done.
Great resource, thank you. I've been slowly transitioning my programming time to Elixir/Phoenix the last couple years. Every couple weeks I dive in, but mostly going back to Rails. But recently with the `1.6.0-rc.0` release, this time it might stick. HEEx templates are fantastic, esbuild as the default is a really good choice, LiveView is getting some traction, and the packages seem to be picking up. Fantastic language & framework in general.
"To point out the absurdity of this study using only 31 users with varying degrees of other types of drug use, as well as measuring some highly subjective metric, "

This is the reason he does not like the study.
He's right though.
Can you express graph attributes such as edge weight in RDF?

I am familiar with RDF triples such as "Book", author, "Jane Doe". How would you express "10 minute phone call at time t between persons A and B"?
> you can discover that for f(x)=x^2 you will find that when the jiggling (call it j) is small, around a value x, the amount of change is roughly (2x)(j)

Are you implying that the change corresponds to the derivative of the function, or is that just a coincidence in this case?

(I'm guessing from your characterization of rise over run that the answer is yes. But you know what they say about assumptions.)
I don't use it, nor do I drink alcohol, smoke tobacco (or vape), and I don't use any other drugs at all. I haven't, for decades. I'm no fun at all.

That's because I burned through my quota by the time I was eighteen.

As far as I'm concerned, they should totally legalize it, to the same extent as booze (which, if discovered today, would easily be classified as a Schedule IV narcotic).

Here in New York, we had the Rockefeller sentencing laws in the 1970s. There's people still in jail, today, for offenses that would get a slap on the wrist, these days.

I doubt that it will suddenly make America look like the parking lot of a Grateful Dead show. People who would have problems with legal weed, are already having problems with it now, or are having problems with other drugs (like booze). Most folks won't have any real issues with it. Some will have problems that will cause things like traffic fatalities. Big Tobacco will take over the industry, destroying many of the mom-and-pothead dispensaries that we have now, and we'll probably see an "artisanal cannabis" industry, like the wine industry, today. I suspect that Napa Valley will become known for things other than wines.

Personally, I think it could be pretty cool. It will be another industry that would promote "back to the earth" values, like farming (except for the inevitable factory farming).

If we were really concerned about protecting people's health, we'd still be in prohibition, and tobacco would be 100% illegal, as would whole classes of junk food.
It doesn’t make sense for competitive gaming.
I recommend "Introduction to Logic", by Irving Copi and others. It is intended for philosophy majors I think, but works very well for general readers.
> On the morning of September 11, 2001, Goss and Graham were having breakfast with General Ahmad [head of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI)]

Secondary source for the $100k money transfer from the ISI head to Atta:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jul/22/usa.september1...

> Significantly, Sheikh is also the man who, on the instructions of General Mahmoud Ahmed, the then head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), wired $100,000 before the 9/11 attacks to Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker. It is extraordinary that neither Ahmed nor Sheikh have been charged and brought to trial on this count. Why not?
I think the gp post was not suggesting “get rid of copyright and leave oss unprotected” - by “OSS should be the default” i read that it should continue to be protected while copyright is removed. It would not be hard for new laws to enshrine + protect OSS licenses
> You now have the immunity, so act like it!

This is factually incorrect.

The Covid-19 vaccines significantly reduce symptoms, risk of hospitalisation, risk of death, and transmission rate. They are worth it on balance if you care about your own health, and/or the health of other people you interact with, especially those close to you, for almost everyone above a fairly low age.

But they do not provide complete immunity, which is called "sterilising immunity".

Which means other people's behaviour still affects you.

Some vaccines for other diseases do provide sterilising immunity. For example the smallpox vaccine does, which is why that disease is pretty much eradicated. But unfortunately none of the vaccines currently available for Covid-19 provide sterilising immunity.

Even so, if we are able to dampen the transmission rate in each community to below R < 1 by a combination of measures, which includes vaccination, the disease will gradually fade away instead of spreading to everyone. Probabilities are everything in this game.
I don't think Erlang/Elixir is many people's first language, no. It's advanced.
Someone who is doing their 1st programming project would be better off choosing javascript / php / ruby if they are building for the web. It's quite unlikely their first use cases will be 2 million concurrent web sockets.
So given it's not mainstream and it has the advanced aura I think it's fair to call it exotic or " language aimed at academics and very advanced programmers but lacking mainstream appeal" as you just said.
Exactly. They should be able to live comfortably, so that they don't have to take bribes to survive. But wealth inequality in the US is so large that we can't pay them enough so they won't feel like they have to keep up with the joneses. If we made the salary, say, $10m/year we'd get the problem of totally unqualified loons pursuing the job and doing anything to keep it just because they wanted the money. So I think N times the median where N is between 1 and 10 is about the best we can do.
owned by famous leftist Jeff Bezos!
It doesn't show that at all. It could mean that that profession selects people who are the best in the world at those things, and cannabis is entirely coincidental.
I thought exactly the same
Personally, I found that working with clients where everyone, designers included, followed the principles laid out in atomic design[1] (or closely enough), not matter the tools used, and favoured reusing existing components, was much simpler and pleasant.

But it usually only went as far as having the designers follow it in Sketch, Figma or whatever, and the devs separately implementing the components themselves.

What is the (supposed) added value of something like Storybook over this?

[1]: https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/atomic-web-design/
> That's exactly what I'm saying

Oh well, end of the argument then :)
There is currently a Humble Bundle where you can get this book and 13 others from No Starch Press for $18: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/machine-learning-bookshel... .
Expensive. For all the legitimate pointers to quackery, it seems he somehow scraped together >$10k (maybe much higher) to get a photolithography batch done.
Google glass failed because it was not a very good product - it was very slow to refresh, the screen was hard to see without rolling your eye up into your head, it cost $1500, and it didn't have any kind of killer app. These are a fifth of the price and are decent at doing the 2 things they set out to do. They have improved on everything I hated about spectacles and added budget airpods to the feature list.
Use your skills and expertise to land a job working with K8s ->get rich->donate to your favorite cause!

https://komodor.com/blog/vcs-are-betting-big-on-kubernetes-h...
That's what I meant by "stable investment".
The sample size was also 31 users, 40 controls. This really isn't a meaningful result.
> I can provide links, if you'd like, but they show up in the first two pages of results.

Please share a link to one you trust.

> Surely you'd agree that someone with actual knowledge and experience in a certain area is more trustworthy than someone with none at all? That's all I'm getting at.

That’s obviously false. We have examples of people being untrustworthy at every level of expertise in every domain.
You're one of the few people who does things right then :)
Wow, is it really normal to publish results from such small sample sizes? This feels like tossing dice and publishing the result.
I mean, I always thought that was intended as part of the format: of course you’re supposed to assume that Brain = smart, and be surprised and amused when that turns out wrong.
I think that proves he really believed what he was saying!
> A significant body of research links lead exposure in children to violent crime, he writes.

I thought this was actually correlation vs causation, and it’s been shown that the methods that keep citing this aren’t very good but it’s out in the zeitgeist anyway so everyone keeps citing the same discredited work?
Exactly. At one end of the scale, you're not travelling through space (or practically-zero on a relativistic scale), and you're experiencing the full affects of time.

At the other end of the scale, you're travelling through space (or practically-C on a relativistic scale), and you're not experiencing time.

So the whole theory of zipping around space and coming home to find you've barely aged, is just spending more time at a higher "angle" than everyone else.
>Is that so hard to believe

Yes. It's virtually impossible with the physical security measures I employ. Also, if someone did that, my phone would either be left off/prompting encryption passphase - which would be incredibly suspicious, or prompting the screen unlock code, which I could safely insert, realize the phone was tampered, re-install my system and use a different screen lock password having given no useful information, even if the attacker was sophisticated enough to emulate my wallpaper.

In the comically-absurd case you still need to protect yourself against that, having a separate device with /boot in a safe location is simple.
Airlines (outside of bush planes) are not using AvGas in any substantive quantity, and have not been since the early 60's. The amount of AvGas used a year is dwarfed (several times over) by the amount of Jet Fuel (Jet A does not have TEL in it).

AvGas (which uses TEL) is used by general aviation exclusively.
Fuck OpenAI for real. They're gonna get us all killed
https://archive.ph/Zozh1
Kind of shocking that any urban American these days would think that Indian food consists only of "curry," and contains only one spice. That writer must subsist on Big Macs.
Look into ai dungeons censoring by open ai. Mostly porn fantasies, ai dungeon supposedly was quite good at it, even with non consensual or pedophiliac stuff. They really didnt like that.
One in your shoes may ask oneself: "why would the US military invade a country whose government was actually a cooperative ally, rather than an enemy?"
That's a good point, and I didn't read far enough in the paper to see if they tested that assumption or not. It seems like they developed some kind of model of noise exposure as a function of elevation and proximity to the road, so it's possible they developed a similar model for pollution.
I agree, it is hard to say whether a decision that fucks over customers is actually bad for Google.

For example, the decision to start charging users for storage beyond 15GB. Even though I am not happy about it, I am paying and it looks unlikely that I will leave the Google ecosystem anytime soon.

The interesting thing about Google, though, is that they have so many products that they can actually run experiments over different approaches to product development.

Unfortunately, I doubt many people at Google would want to experiment with a product development approach by putting their career progression at risk.
My argument is that these are unverified tweets, and nothing more.

It holds water perfectly.

Your argument seems vaguely conspiratorial.
Agreed on most counts.

However the Rule 3: What you don’t disambiguate now, you debug later it is so hard to follow.

I am guilty of using -1 so many times on numeric returns
. The alternatives Null,None,nil types break the type signature for many languages.

So that leads to constructs like Option(None) in Scala

Raising exception (if the language allows it) does not seem right either if returning a missing/unexpected result is "legal" just rare.

Similarly on string return signatures I've liked to use empty strings on failing conditions.

When some object is expected to be returned by function I've liked to return that object with default construction (ie returning a blank Dog object when no proper Dog is found).
> As I mentioned in another comment, let's not forget that preventing spread through all these measures is all in service of a greater goal: avoiding strain on public health infra.

If the ends justifies the means, what other public health interventions should we carry out, even in cases where there's no direct harm to society[1]? Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the US. Should we have blood pressure/cholesterol "passports" to pressure people into being healthier?

[1] ie. you getting infected and infecting other people, as opposed to the more tenuous link of you getting infected, having to go to the emergency room, causing the emergency room to go over capacity and causing someone to die because of lack of care
ChanServ is a relatively modern function of IRC. For a good while, still to this day on some networks, services did not exist.
ChanOps have always been a problem. Anyone who becomes one, is a dictator for life. There is no recourse, the only option is to either be on their good side, or go to a different channel or network.

I like IRC as an open technology. I don't like the lack of accountability from the gatekeepers.

It is the same problem on online forums like reddit. If the mods do not look upon you with favour, you are banned, even if the rules have not been broken.
You're trying to smuggle the "truth" criterion back into the "justification". Any standard of justification that depends on truth is impractical (to say the least) to meet, creates conceptual confusion, and, if applied to the definition of knowledge in this case, makes the "truth" criterion redundant.
The same property, increased ability to absorb water, both helps to remove excess of water and can cause a problem in the longer-term.

It's like using a towel to dry your shower tray: in the short run it's helpful but if you leave it there all the time you'll end up with a permanently soggy towel keeping everything damp.

EDIT: Some empirical evidence for the doubters- https://youtu.be/UvS_D4_lF5U
How to Troubleshoot Feature Flags with Komodor and Sentry
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It is instantaneous from the perspective of the object’s internal clocks.

Traveling at the speed of light results in infinite time dilation. Which means that from the perspective of an outside observer, no time at all is passing inside the spaceship.
They make a simple request that he insert a hook so it can be monitored how it's being used. The bare minimum of responsibility - and he refuses, and we're supposed to feel that he's the victim??

...

where ever page and program is trying to capture and store everything about our private lives and thoughts

Um...
Consoles also have the benefit of standardization, plus major companies with consumer relationships. And console-makers would still be well placed to act like studios. So consoles would still probably be consoles, but the economics would be different. The economies of scale for manufacturing and game development would still apply, though, so it definitely wouldn't be just like PCs.
I was pondering this when listening to stories of the fall of the Aztecs and the Inca empires (Fall of Civilizations podcast - some great hours-long stories there!). Officials from the Spanish empire came by and caused these meso- and south american empires to fall.

The empires that fell were indeed already warmongering, and dominating their part of the continent due to fighting successful wars and/or alliances. In that sense, it was "only" an empire taking down another. That viewpoint is however just the politics of the history. We can't forget how it affected the people.
This is one of the Saudi’s frequently mentioned in the report in connection to two hijackers, who was being financed by a Saudi princess married to a US Ambassador:

https://911research.fandom.com/wiki/Omar_al-Bayoumi

> FBI agents involved in the case had received several reports that led them to believe al-Bayoumi was a Saudi intelligence officer, living and working secretly in the U.S. His cover story was that he worked for an aviation logistics company owned by the Saudi government, but investigators found he never did any work for the company.

> Bayoumi got the hijackers an apartment and helped open a bank account, obtain car insurance, get Social Security cards and call flight schools in Florida—and also threw a welcoming party for the hijackers, during which he introduced them to the local Muslim community.

The Al Saud princess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haifa_bint_Faisal_Al_Saud?wpro...
For entertainment? Tone seems a bit over the top sarcastic.
Take IMDB - in the early 90's it was a fun little database hosted at the University of Cardiff, obviously limited content-wise but responsiveness was certainly not an issue. Fast forward to today and the modern behemoth it has become is essentially unusable (at least on my tablet) for quick enquiries, what with all the ads/video whatnot clogging up the homepage plus the utterly borked predictive search textbox - eurgh.
Sure, particularly the first one is unacceptable and I'm sure, if Mr. Torvalds could remove all instances of those he would. I understand a bit the rage, reading a byte a time using system calls has been a well known anti-pattern for a looong time. His rant reads a bit like letting of steam in a semi-private conversation among like-minded peers, like a chat room of a BBS. Of course, when asked, Mr. Torvalds would have then known that the lkml is publicly accessible and archived and for the whole world to see for an indefinite time. However I wonder, whether he truly was aware of that, when writing such.