skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I deliberately left that point out and try not to provoke some ( or even more ) negative reaction.

My thought and observation is that there are silent majority on HN who usually dont get into these sort of discussions but are now vaguely aware of the consequences.

Also worth pointing out today is Sunday so on HN it tends to be a quiet day. Just like twitter as if anger only works from Monday to Friday.
The period of 1933-1938 offers a wealth of information on how dictatorships are set up, how a war economy is financed (quantitative easing), the march through the institutions, censorship etc.

The other obvious parallel, Stalin, is more messy because a revolution started it all. Germany went from fragile democracy to full dictatorship overnight with the enabling laws (after the Nazis had marched through the institutions for about a decade).

It is a perfect analogy and does not mean that all of the "progressive" left are Nazis (though some of them would have participated in the Nazi movement, too, because they are just power hungry and don't care about the specifics of the cause).
I disagree his ideas of merit-based entry would alienate a sizeable portion of perspective MIT students (the article also shows supporting polls). MIT, not merit-based, are you kidding?
Argue the argument, not the argumentator.
It is also a concept on electricity grid management: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_blackout
I doubt that would help, since generic code is implicitly inline.
Wait, isn't a point of NixOS is that your updates are guaranteed to be smooth? I haven't used it, but your story now worries me. I don't want to be back at "just reinstall the OS" days, even if configuration is portable.
As Mounk's essay notes, the vast majority of the public agrees with the professor on affirmative action. MIT just told that public what it thinks of their views.
Swap which was one first, I meant. It was either M3 or MX. Sounds like it was M3. So, “BMW could have sued Mazda” instead of “Mazda could have sued BMW”, which ultimately has no material effect whatsoever on the point I’m making, since I could have chosen any number of non-BMW, non-Mazda examples there. I’m sorry that you felt compelled to write a page-long proof that BMW was first; no argument here! And I hope you’re enjoying your M3 :)
Been leering at lisp in the corner for 23 years. Been doing c/c++/delphi/go/objC/swift all this time. I finally have had it with OO and static typing.

Javascript was my first intro to the liberation dynamic types and functional programming can bring when I built a project in Vue. I kinda loved it.

I started writing code in emacs lisp to help me write and navigate xml and it's been wonderful. now im deciding on whether to use Common Lisp or guile to build some projects. I'm sold.
> The gap between white and Asian outcomes is due to immigration policies

source?
> They don't have any power, other than to annoy the institution. The only power here is the power that MIT has over the people they book to speak, and since MIT doesn't want to be annoyed, they canceled the speaker.

The ability to get others to do what you want them to is absolutely a form of power.
Exact same word in Romanian, huh
> Dr. King put it best: "a riot is the language of the unheard."

Sometimes. It can also be the language of those who know they're powerful enough to do what they want.

Classic example: Lynchings.
As far as i know .NET binaries cannot run from a network share which is a big limitation.
I'll preface this by saying that I'm not fond of the Github monoculture, but something like Github discussions or a forum on Github would be better for most of these things.

> If someone combines discord + discourse (basically an app, that has all your forums on the side bar with just one login, and people can create a new forum for anything, similar to how you can create a discord server) then I think we might end up going back to forums with more meaningful discussions and all information related to some issue in one place.

That's interesting, you seem to favor a "per tool" usage (all forums on one tool), while I would favor a "per project" usage. I prefer the "per project" as I don't want to have my identity always connected between projects. On the other hand, Github is almost forcing everyone to have a "per tool" usage. Since everything is already on Github, your only way to escape them is to enforce a "per tool" separation.
Facebook: We sell ads for eyeballs. Nothing else matters.

That's it in a nutshell.
I’d say it’s worse, they’re usually trying to imply that the people engaged in the activity aren’t sufficiently allied with their pet political or moral causes. If you engage with their tweet-sized sniping the conversation inevitably leads to “why aren’t they spending their time and resources addressing climate change/wealth inequality/poverty/etc.”
In the same way Safari does (so it basically doesn't :) We can go into various reasons why is that the case but fundamentally we agree with that approach.

What we are planning to do though is have "Web apps" support, similar to Flotato [1], which will allow the user to achieve the same (or better) effect.

[1] https://www.flotato.com/
Historically, minting and printing were both physical processes.
It's not only about the security practices, it's about the visibility. I'm not a huge fan of Discourse, but when projects use it, I don't need to create an account to read, and it acts like a webpage, not an application.
yep, you need due process. Other replies referencing metoo and MLK make an excellent point - that mass movements are usually a response to 'due process' that is in practice deeply flawed and biased to the point that it is ineffective. But a) Unlike metoo and civil rights, afaik a formal process that even aspires to fairness to decide issues such as speaker cancellation doesn't exist in the first place, b) even in the case of issues like metoo, surely the ideal outcome is to fix the structural biases and flaws in the processes so they work in practice, rather than rely on ad hoc journalistic investigations indefinitely (aside from preventing such crimes from being committed in the first place, of course)
There are certain problems for which different inputs do not require different amounts of computer. "Add one to a number between 128 and 256" is an obvious example. The question is whether there are useful problems with that property.
I mentioned the segment of rioters who use it as a cover in the comment you replied to.
At this point over 200 million Americans have been vaccinated. 700k people have died of COVID-19. In the US there is no independent individual who could come to a conclusion other than it is safer to get vaccinated than to get COVID-19. I’m not sure who is spreading the anti-vax nonsense, but at this point it seems like more of a Darwin Award than a conspiracy by the elite.
Use the same Twitter mob to target and destroy the spineless administrators what made the decision in the first place.
If I hadn't listened to people telling me things I know to not be true, I wouldn't have the political and economical understanding that I have today.

Anyway, doesn't it ring an alarm bell in your head that you can say "I am smarter and morally superior to this dude", when you can be almost certain that he would say the same?
In the functional realm which LISP inhabits, two combinators suffice: S and K.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKI_combinator_calculus
How is Mersenne prime verification useful? It’s in the same league as calculating pi to ever more enormous numbers of decimals…
I'm not suggesting JS is particularly high quality; I'm just saying that it's not completely broken. There's a middle-ground where it can be both good enough quality to be usable, and good enough to not be considered broken.

Given the fact JS is used by hundreds of thousands of developers it is obviously not totally broken, so if you're going to say it is you need some very strong evidence to back that up.

Half the time when I see "JS is so broken!" posts they're by Ruby devs. I can't help wonder why they're all so keen to move away from Ruby.
Hemodialysis costs Medicare $90,000 annually per patient.[1] Space kidneys could cost $500K and the government would probably still save money, especially if they're based on the patient's stem cells (or very close matches) so immunosuppressants aren't necessary.

Kidneys don't mass much. We don't need super-cheap launch to make space kidneys worthwhile.

[1] https://pharm.ucsf.edu/kidney/need/statistics
I guess it's all the standard trouble with DSLs: poor tooling integration, having to work at different layers.

An IDE that understood SQL would probably mitigate almost all opposition and yet nobody came up with one after all these years. So I guess the standard DSL defense doesn't really doesn't work.

All right, point taken, I'll take my downvotes and go home :) I don't use an IDE and most people I work with don't either. But this is a useful reminder that the world can be very different outside of one's bubble.
> "Minted", not "printed". Most (>95%?) currency is now digital.

Coin is minted. Paper is printed. Fiat money that exists as digital record of accounts is neither minted nor printed (though frequently metaphorically referred to in the latter way), but created in credit transactions.
I've heard a lot that when you want to focus on performance, you should benchmark instead of relying on intuition, and I think this is another example of that.
It has nothing to with what I don't like. I don't believe you should extend to people those rights they argue against.

For example, if someone wrote a comme t on hacker news saying "not all people should be able to comment on hacker news", one wonders why it is that they ought to enjoy the very right which they seek to deny.

I have said quite clearly in my comment that those wishing to cancel ought to be heard... They just ought no to be listened to. Perhaps if you read my comment (it's only a few sentences long... There's no need to be thick headed), you would have read that part.
Spacemice
This is a master class. So many good tidbits.
The bees will still fly to the next field over, land on sprayed crops, and get poisoned.
Humans are amazing at driving. Given how many billions of miles are driven every day, the number of accidents is mind-bogglingly tiny. You'd think there would be many, many more.

That is quite a good analogy to JS actually.
Offering a social, outreach-based task to a man whose views are cause for alienation against prospective students not just prospective MIT students, but the field at large, which is substantially larger than the four-thousand undergrads MIT has, would indeed not be meritocratic.

I'm not going to debate what his views actually are, and I personally agree very heavily with merit-based admission. Like I've said elsewhere in the thread, it's likely I'm not far from the professor's views. However his views have been interpreted in a way significantly different from how you frame them by enough people that MIT saw it fit to not go forward with his speech. It's a PR and outreach game, not an inside baseball conference.
The only one I use is; App.eq.community - you have to (request t join) focused on underrepresented groups.

“In summary, EQ is the space to support each other, learn to engage in meaningful dialogue, and access hidden opportunities. “
LifeOptimizer Archive
Please don’t spread misinformation. This is absolutely false.
Okay that's great, but it doesntm mean we ought to abandom those values out of some made up historical notion that only white people want such things.
What are you practically going to do with the decrypted secret records of Phillip II of Spain (1556 – 1598), the James A Garfield administration (1881), or suspected spy Joe Bloggs of San Francisco 1930-2000 ?
Just to be clear - I blame "Twitter" the platform not "Twitter" the corporation. The platform gave voice to people who want to cause outrage, whether the corporation wanted or intended that is only secondary. Maybe it's a distinction without a meaning, but it makes sense in my head.
Is covid waning? Many states have multiple restrictions still on gathering in public and in private.
I'm not sure I buy this (about Canada).

Israel was one of the first to vaccinate most of their population - and they are a tiny country with no domestic manufacturing of the vaccines.

Although Israel quite openly stated they paid a premium to get early access to vaccines. So basically, it was simply a question of commercials, and ponying up the cahs.

Singapore did likewise - basically bought out every vaccine they could on the open market, and rushed to vaccinate their population.

I live in Australia, and it does appear our nation's leaders dragged their feet on the vaccine.

Our Prime Minister even publicly stated "It's not a race", regarding vaccinating the population.

A letter leaked recently, which showed Pfizer's managing director requesting an urgent meeting with our health minister, so we could get millions of doses. Pfizer was then told that the health minister wasn't available to talk with them, it got fobbed to some underlying in his department, then the deal got adragged out for six months after that - in the meantime, the UK and US signed up:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/12/in-hi...
Non-programmers can be easily bamboozled by marketing: for example they may sincerely believe bitcoin stores energy in some magical way.

For a dev there's no such excuse - they know for a fact bitcoin isn't backed by anything and all energy used for mining is irrevocably gone, and that no mechanism exists for bitcoin holders to earn transaction fees (because miners are a separate entity). There's no escape from knowledge that bitcoin is a negative sum game - which means claiming it's anything but a new version of a ponzi is a deliberate lie.
As I've said multiple times in the thread, my own viewpoints are very close to the professor's! Public opinion of people who are not already in the system, however, is a different game, and you should always go with the safest bet if doing propaganda. It's critical.
Yes but if you want to say if there are an infinite number of green pebbles on an infinitely large beach then the problem you need to solve is finding the distribution of the green pebbles on the beach. It's only possible to do that once you've found a few green pebbles and gets much easier if you've found many.
Here's what happens when men in tech share their salaries
If I understand money (who does?) then: if I borrow $500,000 to spend today (at low interest), and pay it back, as time goes by, with money worth only $300,000 (today) ... sounds like a net gain.
It's possible to assume that most twitter mobs are harmless and insignificant.

The problem is that once in a while, the twitter mobs becomes the yellow jackets.

So you need a way to jauge how likely it is that the keyword-activists will get up over a particular topic.
I don't actually think he's Satoshi, I just think it's a great story.
Ah seems someone has a real understand how these things work. I always wondered: how do you “print” money these days!?

How does the credit transaction brings money into the system?
For sure money has different gradients of taint.
> The government didn't "allow" Facebook as though there is some permission system involved for setting up social media sites

And that's completely irrelevant to my argument which is that, since Facebook is the only public square by government fiat, it ought to be treated as such regardless of how it got there.

When government exercises eminent domain for the public interest, it does not worry about why it is the house it is seizing was placed there. It just notes that the house is there and then takes proper action to secure it's future aims for public benefit.
Reframing a condemnation of something as a fear of it is a rhetorical trick often in use. I used to be shocked by the number of people who hear the name of a movement or ideology and then assume it's an accurate reflection of the views expressed, rather than a marketing slogan. Words are indeed weapons.
This doesn’t paint a clear picture.

There are two versions of Waterfox: Classic, based on Gecko 56 that has backported security patches (but is not recommended to be used unless you are desperate to use XUL extensions) and the 3rd Generation (G3) based on ESR releases.

Waterfox Classic is based on XUL and while we back port security patches as best we can, I always try motivate existing users to migrate to the newer versions. I’m not going to force an upgrade on Classic users as it will break their current setup and instead leave it their choice.

We follow the ESR release currently for “current” versions (the default download on the website) and since ESR78 didn’t support ARM on macOS there were no builds for it.

Now that we have the beta out for the ESR91 version, ARM support for macOS is available:
https://github.com/WaterfoxCo/Waterfox/releases/tag/G4.0.0b2

I’d like to think that Waterfox G3+ does fit in your criteria.
This is interesting. But I wonder, was this really a unique time or was it unique to you because you were young and you were discovering a new and unexplored part of your world at that time? What I mean is that what you described sounds very similar to stories from entrepreneurs in the 90s pre dot-com bubble, or founders of hardware startups such as Apple or Cisco in the 70s/80s.

Maybe in 2035 we'll look back at the 10s with the same nostalgia and sharing stories about how it was different and special "back then". It reminds me of an essay often posted on HN which I can't find now but that went something like "we always think this is the end of the story, there won't be new revolutionary startups/techs, and yet there's always new players who emerge that no one saw coming".

Anyway I like stories like yours about times long gone.
in the context of S and K, lisp is not functional
Thank you for this summary, your last comment seems most important. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd summarize that as a willingness to see people as people.
No, the takeaway is given at the end

"Only by remembering xenophobia’s first instantiation do we bring these broader battles into focus. For the contested ground named by Jean Martin de Saintours became far more than a matter of semantics; it buttressed aspects of Western ethics, psychology, science, economics, and political power. In the end, what was at stake was nothing less than fundamental notions of identity — of I and thou, us and them, stranger and host — that had been thrown into question by new forms of global interconnection and radical technological change, disruptions not unlike the ones we face today."

That the changing, ambivalent, and contradictory nature of the term is a reflection of a history that is just as complex. To yet again simplify language and to immediately tie it to a perceived grievance politics today would be making the same mistake that some people made then.
OP is literally criticizing the citations. Reading and comprehension are important.
Vivaldi is also a web browser: https://vivaldi.com/
I’m trying to solve this problem with shoto.io

My goal is to offer a digest of tech news so you can get rid of the infinite feeds!
On my phone, I have the newest version of Firefox Fennec and IceCatMobile (ancient and barely supported) - they both launch and function at, as far as I can see, exactly the same speed. Where is this speedup you mention actually found?
This may be the most practical use for proof of work type bitcoins but it does have me asking what the network costs for bitcoin mining are? A quick google says 500kbps to 15Mbps assuming your provider doesn't throttle you and then you get cold...
Is this an 40% increase of the total number of "dollars" or just and 40% increase of the total number of "dollars in bills + coins"?

Most of the dollars are only a abstract entry in a database, not a piece of paper.

Increasing the total dollars (bills + coins + database + whatever [1]) would be very bad.

Increasing only the number physical tokens that people sometimes use to exchange abstract dollars is probably only a rounding error.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply
I don't think it's at the stage yet where exploits are worried about. They are even still part of the fun, there is even a playlist on the youtube channel about finding, exploiting and fixing them. I do thing the youtube channel is the reason this project has gotten popular. It even motivated me to make two kernel PR's and drop a ruby port! It was a fun experience and watching some of the videos demystified the process.
I think the blog post about load shedding by Netflix has some good examples.

"Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding"
https://netflixtechblog.com/keeping-netflix-reliable-using-p...
I have went pretty deep in nix recently and imo the "Fixing other people's garbage is the bane of any package system maintainer, it's no different here" + high learning curve + lack of xattrs and permissions support in nix store makes it a bad OS. The amount of custom code to fix "issues" and "issues" that are only fixed because the maintainer thinks he knows better than the dev is too big to be maintainable. Still a good package manager for eg macOS if you dont need that.
I dunno, Lenovo managed to make a very competent Surface Pro competitor in the X1 Tablet 2nd gen - and yet despite its svelte construction, it unscrews, and within you will find a removable M.2 SSD. I don't really buy this notion that repairability is a necessary sacrifice on the altar of portability. Sure, sometimes you have to solder components that it would be nice to have socketed - but there's no excuse for gluing things together so you can't even change the battery. Screws aren't any thicker than glue.
There's free speech in legal term as coded in US constitution which have nothing to do with Non-US citizen like me. Then there's free speech as in universal value that every member of civilized modern society should uphold. I think GP is talking about the later.
If this GUI stack were ported tok Linux, it would just be another Linux DE. You want coherent, just use and stick to GNOME/KDE/XFCE/whatever; if ~3 options didn't help, ~4 won't. And once it's on Linux, inevitably you'll want to run Firefox (GTK) or wireshark (QT) or whatever, and there goes your coherence.
What's after singularity?
nah, they had Drawbridge running on Midori, which allowed nearly perfect app compat. it really was a case of internal politics as far as I know.

though another way of looking at it is that rewriting the entirety of Windows in Midori would be been a monumental feat, and by the time Satya became CEO it was clear Windows wasn't the future of the company, so that kind of investment didn't make sense.
Umbrellas.. like umbrella companies?
So much hand-wringing as the nature of power mutates and changes hands.

I generally agree that the outcomes of "cancel culture" are undesirable, but I am glad to see that in our little democratic experiment, a new form of power has found a voice and is causing those previously in power to quake in their boots.

I am confident that a new equilibrium will eventually be reached that won't have such occasional appalling outcomes. In the meantime, I wish those who are constantly apoplectic about "cancel culture" would be a little more self-aware and perhaps even happy to see some minority voices getting some undeserved wins here and there.

After all, the suffering that some of these minority voices have historically experienced is unthinkably bad. Remember that: unthinkably bad. Worst imaginable. And it is absurd to argue that the lingering effects of that are not still with us in uncountable ways, big and small.
I guess we have met different subsets of engineers :)

I wish people were more open to learning more languages. A good DSL can be amazingly expressive. But you are correct in pointing out that gluing languages together is a pain, and it's a good reminder. Lesson learned ;)
Yes, that's one of the many reasons Chrome is unsuable.