skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“biggest enemy is a white liberal”:

https://www.thetimesnews.com/story/opinion/columns/2019/01/0...

When I was younger, I had a hard time understanding Malcolm X’s position; but individuals like Clarence Thomas and the ongoings of the 2020s have made it very clear.

I’d love to see moderate Republicans and the “equal opportunity” Black caucus find more common ground here.

Why? From first-hand experience (non-white) I can also attest to the racism of the liberal camp being present and more insidious.
It depends on what you're after?

For me I would say The Lean Startup, On Writing Well, and Atlas Shrugged for very different reasons.
"You better not hurt yourself! That's MY job! Stop resisting!!"
Um, because it was monkeys that did it, not humans? And humans =/= to monkeys?

It's surprising because (a) we generally consider revenge to be a human emotion, so seeing it in animals is a bit surprising, (b) seeing a coordinated attack between two species that are kind of adjacent on the food chain isn't super common. Killing in the animal world is primarily done for hunting. The monkeys aren't eating the dogs, they're just killing them.
>Also, maybe the important thing is to not buy into walled gardens that have stores with complicated deployment setups in the first place?

You mean like having a standard cross-device open and uncontrolledly platform for running your application on any mobile device? Oh wait a second...
I believe it was mostly economical circumstances just like the other poster said. People put up with everything as long as there is a market and they are getting paid.

As for Smalltalk I can say that it's the only language that has never clicked with me. I have tried the usual languages including Lisp and some weird ones like Forth, Factor and the APL family and never had an issue with those but with Smalltalk I can't go beyond writing factorial. Actually if you sat me in front of a Smalltalk environment it would take me ages to figure out again where to click in order to even have the chance to create such method. The biggest problem with Smalltalk is that you have to give up your tools in exchange of some alien technology that isn't really that good to begin with.

Disclaimer: I have tried Pharo, Squeak and some commercial offerings such as Cincom.
> - Why is this function returning "void"? This makes no sense, that's not a function.

Personally the distinction between subroutines and functions always struck me as overly math-centric thinking, because it's not an interesting difference as soon as non-local state exists, which is almost always the case.

> - =, +=

I don't quite get why this remains contentious; even in math these are somewhat overloaded ("=" in equations vs. "<=>"/"=" for equality of equations, for example); code simply is not math. Why would the symbols mean exactly the same thing in a different context?

> - Why {} braces?

Big braces have always been used to group stuff together (e.g. case distinctions, summaries etc.), so it kinda makes sense to use that for groups of lines, i.e. code blocks.

> - Why do we need a ';' at the end?

C/UNIX was originally written using actual teletypes, so not only does ";" make it easier to parse, but it also gives you a very explicit marker that you definitely reached the end of the statement. That matters when every line you're looking at when interactively editing a file uses up some paper.
It's just an english idiom that doesn't mean much. It's like saying "If you are looking for an honest response, the answer is no."
Just use (A)GPL. Blender, OBS, and VLC use GPL and stay high quality open source software.
One skill we do have is the ability to realize that what we said is not what we meant, and make a correction. This is more goal-oriented than what a transformer is doing. Its only goal is to continue onward in a plausible way and it could be in any direction depending on a random choice. It doesn't care which way it goes.
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently" --Warren Buffett (b. 1930)
I can read Ruby and Smalltalk but C++ is like ancient hieroglyphics that require a PhD in classical studies or something.
>> Among the deaths detailed in the USA Today report, published in April, was one in 2017 involving a suicidal 39-year-old man in Arlington, Texas, who was shot with a stun gun by officers who had watched him douse himself with gasoline. The electrical currents immediately set the man ablaze and burned down his house, the newspaper reported. He died several days later.

A bit like finding a man with a noose around his neck threatening to hang himself and kicking the chair from underneath him to stop him hurting himself.
r/rust is pretty good. I don't have a lot of experience with Rust but can still grasp things discussed there.
I’m sorry to say that I was shocked by this article. I have no objection to Wolfram remaining closed source - if they prefer that model and want to make money from it then it’s up to them.

However, that they feel that they have to justify this by implying that their approach is clearly superior to open source in innovation, long term commitment and user experience I’m afraid leaves me with a rather negative impression (to put it mildly!). A lot of open source is flawed but some disproves these assertions comprehensively.

If they really wanted to ‘unify all of computation into a single coherent language’, which sounds like a mammoth task, they would surely welcome quality contributions - beyond just picking up and using other open source projects - from whoever feels able to make them rather than a small group of individuals working in private.
why not spin up a VM dedicated to that client and confine all crapware to that VM?
Pluto TV is owned by ViacomCBS and Tubi is owned by the Fox Corporation (the non-Disney one), and as others have pointed out, all their content is licensed. There's also Xumo, owned by Comcast. Pluto TV has partnership deals with Roku, Vizio and others to provide them with content for their branded apps. Amazon has a somewhat similar service with IMDb TV, although it has a crappy interface modeled off Amazon Prime's. And of course even Plex has now (sadly) entered the game with their "Live TV" section.

What annoys me about these free offerings is that they have cannibalized their content from paid streaming services. Before, services like Hulu and Amazon Prime would stock their catalog with tons of old "classic" TV shows that you could binge commercial free. Now, the only way to stream many of those shows is with commercials, they are no longer available as part of any paid commercial-free packages, unless you are willing to purchase the individual episodes.
It looks like they want to prevent ad-blockers taking over. Now they have more control over what is blocked and what is not.
We are on HN so I used bug tracking and CI as examples of things people want a history of. NNTP is another example that was not limited to technical topics.

If you really need e2e chats, then xmpp and matrix can self host. I do think this is niche though. Every client logs history, so compromising one client completely defeats e2e.
I'm in the process of implementing it in prs as well.

https://github.com/timvisee/prs
I mean, the old adage is:

google knows what you browse

facebook knows who you know

amazon knows what you buy

but for a browser company, isn't a browser extension better than some other way to opt out? otherwise they would have to associate you to an account.
> Take into consideration though that these minks were bred specifically to kill them for their skin.

Is that not much more 'evil', to breed something specifically to kill it for its skin? If it's not, then why is it not allowed to be done by the same species to itself?
I kept the post contextless actually.
For different purposes, different books can be life changing.
Career or Non-career can be one context.
> What is the alternative, credible source backing up this idea that carbs are harmful?

I didn’t say that, you read that in.

However, as it relates to T2D as I stated there is not a single case where the patient did not chronically spike their insulin levels through consumption of carbs/sugars. I’d welcome you to find any study or record of a single T2D patient that did not consume carbs/refined sugars.

Similarly, I would welcome you to present a single study or patient on record successfully reversing their diabetes without changing their diet to reduce, if not eliminate, carbs/refined sugar.

There are hundreds if not thousands of studies on reversing diabetes, I’m link just one. The study notes that reversing T2D isn’t a goal in modern medicine rather management. But it’s also noted that prior to development of insulin, low carb diets were the prescribed treatment/management of T2D and it shouldn’t come as a surprise it is the very thing modern studies are finding reverses T2D. So low carb diets go back at least 100 years to pre-insulin treatment and are not new as many like to pretend.

If it were plastics like you suggest, I find it odd that T2D can both be avoided and reversed with similar dietary approaches minimizing carbs/refined sugars. But maybe it is, again that can continued to be studied, but in the meantime we have a working solution to avoid 100% of cases.

Still I am not demonizing carbs, it’s possible that at least some people can manage them just fine. However, on the other end of the spectrum dating back thousands of years, first documented by Egyptians, carbs/grains/sugars have been used as tools to fatten up live stock. They cause high blood sugar, they overwhelm and fatten the liver, and they trigger the production/release of insulin which is a hormone that tells the body to enter a catabolic state and store energy in fat cells.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6520897/
So you've moved the IF statement that was checking the logging level from the program code into the JIT. Great. No saving. (And I doubt it actually does this - as it's not gaining anything)
Judging by the photo the OP posted it self extinguished. So it doesn't readily sustain a flame even when exposed to fire, and that makes it fire retardant.

It probably does emit some very nasty gases while it does that, plastics are, as a rule, not nice to be near when they are burning or exposed to flames, all kinds of nasty stuff can come out of them, including dioxins.
Yes, and I'd also add that being a rounding error probably isn't enough to justify the business decision.

Usually the reason that big companies open source big longstanding projects is to commoditize a complement of their main business:

- Search makes billions of dollars, and you need a web browser to search, so Google should make a fast and secure web browser (not to mention you can fill it with all sorts of dark patterns!)

- Users purchase Windows to run applications like spreadsheets. We should offer a free high quality IDE so that more applications can be made, increasing the value of the ecosystem.

- Java: Sun sells hardware, and software is the complement to hardware, so we should make a new programming language (???). To be honest, this one always seemed suspect, and maybe that explains why Sun went out of business :-/

https://www.gwern.net/Complement

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
... the desire to rewrite everything in rust?
I prefer ublock origin.

https://ublockorigin.com/
Hulu + LiveTV is $65 and Sling is about $50 and Youtube TV $65.

These aren’t really comparable to standard Hulu or Netflix or Amazon Prime etc. It’s for people that want to pretend they’re cord-cutting while buying the exact same thing from a streaming company.
I had the same problem in graduate school until I realized that Smalltalk is not designed to be read outside it's IDE.

Most of the problems with that language, rightfully flagged in this article, are not as problematic when the code is read inside it's native environement.
Perhaps a land value tax only for dictionary words that relate to the field of use. If Toyota builds a brand reputation, then they should be able to hold on to that brand value without being taxed on it.
I still try to understand why anybody would want a logger that executes embedded code and loads remote code from aribtrary web urls. That's like having a toaster that needs regular tire changes so it doesn't run me over.
Disney would DMCA the NFT marketplace, like OpenSea or whatever. It's happened before, although I'm not sure if Disney specifically has done it or not.
That’s not really an answer to the question. It would be nice if all situations could be de-escalated, but that’s obviously not the case. De-escalation also has its own risks for the officer. Again, not saying I support what happened, but it seems so hard to manage a situation with a belligerent person when I imagine trying to do it myself. Even doing something relatively benign, like removing a loitering person, is not something I’d want to attempt.
$100 might be tough to get, but my Moto G Power was $200, and I don't feel it's limited in any way.

Heck, with the SD card slot I can film terabytes worth of videos and not worry about storage ever, and it lasts 2 days on a single charge.

That said, the extra $400 worth of difference between that and an iPhone 12 won't exactly turn a millionaire into a pauper. If $200 is the cost of necessity, then $400 expense on top of it to feel good for whatever reason is pretty damn low as far as spending goes.

It's less than furniture, less than expensive watches, less than anything close to luxury clothing (or even solid quality winter gear). $400 is a decent bicycle.

I don't get why people care so much about other people buying expensive things that they themselves wouldn't buy.
Ask HN: What are some good web development blogs/websites?
Looking for some inspirations.
It works this way wherever you are too. There are no democracies. Democracy is like freedom, like God, like equality - political slogans that people who don't know any better take seriously.

Read this comment for a polite and concise explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29112349
Blender has thrown other software out the window.
If you were profiting from from private messaging, it would either be at the expense of your employer or your client. Even if the second case, JP Morgan is taking on reputational risk, so at the very least they wouldn't encourage it.
A tree falling in the forest can either make a sound or not.

If someone is looking however, it must emit a sound.

In that sense your criticism is a vacuous one.
This is a good one: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/blm-terrorist-rosenberg/
Fair point... but it seem like, even so, doing that to monitor whether a single integer variable might change sounds like a lot of added complexity. Are there other use cases that would help to justify it? Reducing the impact of failing to follow logging best practices doesn't seem like an obviously sufficient cause.
> I’d like to see these Monkeys try and capture my 54kg (129lb) Doberman.

You're saying you would like to see a pack of monkeys attack your dog? Your post is either internet bravado or an injunction for someone to call and alert animal welfare about your conduct.
No. Most of these are about the power of paying another economic actor has on aligning his interests with yours. Open source software is huge partially because software companies have failed at this.
That is a ridiculous comparison and absolutely not what guilt by association is.

If you work for a political campaign before the candidate announces their support for killing puppies, holding you responsible for that position is "guilt by association", but if you go to work for that same candidate after the announcement, it is no longer guilt by association, you have made a deliberate choice to support someone who wants to kill puppies and now share some responsibility.

Much of Facebook's anti-privacy behavior is widely documented. Going to work for Facebook absolutely makes you a little responsible for that behavior.
I must have gotten a lemon because I got phantom key presses after a few months.

I really want to try it again, but nervous if I’ll be unlucky with the same issues.
Rust rewrite when?
I often wonder how many people block analytics, since it's the default AFAIK in uBlock Origin. For HN it must be the majority.

You'll not be able to block the next generation of server-side analytics tools like Cloudflare Analytics [0] -- seems like that's a direct response to increasing block rates.

[0] https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/analytics/
> Why?

No costs would have been incurred without Princeton asking a very scary question.

Additionally, by not disclosing that the question was research, they also skewed the results if they were looking to see what prevailing attitudes and practices actually are.
This comment is, with respect, wildly delusional. There are many instances of the "authorities" (the police) murdering people after issuing conflicting instructions, or even when people follow their instructions anyway.

Furthermore, many of the people in said situations are often mentally ill (and thus require healthcare, not the police), or intoxicated.
When did scientists get so afraid of a failed experiment?
How about just sticking a proprietary, "source available" license in the source and including it on the product download? Developement stays private, control stays in their hands, and it's still proprietary.
"Fact checking" by social media giants is an inherent farce, which would be laughable if it weren't leading to people getting oppressed and killed and governments being perverted.
It suprises me why western law enforcement don’t use man catchers.

https://youtu.be/Z4z-gzkb6s4

Battons and pepper spray don’t work well.

https://youtu.be/7M6-NLm0GBM
There is a video of a bunch of Chinese battery powered buses that go up in flames faster than that I think those buses could have been evacuated had they been in service at the time. Not an explosion, but scary fast.
They do have a loss function, that is analogous to human desire.

I think we are fundamentally missing something, that there is an irreconcilable difference between a mathematical expression and actual conscious desire, and until we figure out what they is, we won't crack AGI
On Safari, when you highlight this extension, you get this warning:

* Webpage Contents
Can read sensitive information from webpages, including passwords, phone numbers, and credit cards .....
* Can see when you visit all webpages

Is the cure worse than the disease? Analytics might be an invasion of my privacy, but it is benign compared with seeing my password. I am not saying that the extension steals my passwords, but how do I know it does not?
Same. I had to force myself to continue with the book because I had the same thoughts: goofy, self help.

But I finished it and now implement the system across work and school (back to school in my mid 30s). It was like a level up in terms of how much I can handle at once while simultaneously lowering my levels of stress and increasing the feeling of control.
My town (Mill Valley, California) has dozens of public steps and paths (https://www.cityofmillvalley.org/DocumentCenter/View/1565/SL...), including the Dipsea steps (https://stairwayfreedom.weebly.com/mill-valley--sausalito/th...).

My favorite, though, is the Central–Mid-Levels escalators and steps in Hong Kong (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%E2%80%93Mid-Levels_esc...).
> A huge reason why C syntax is "not weird" is because its weirdness has been normalized. I didn't realize how absolutely bizarre some of the things in it were until I was an undergraduate teaching assistant for a C programming class for Math and Engineering majors.

To give another PoV: I've taught javascript to absolute beginners (graphics design students coming from humanities studies with pretty-much zero programming or general "scientific" ability) and the syntax, fairly close from C, was very much not an issue for them, unlike the maths required ; I had to spend much more time explaining how transformations in a 2D plane, vectors, etc... do work, than correcting syntax mistakes.

In ~20 hours of class they were pretty much all able to write small programs with for-loops, conditions, etc. which did nice visual effects in p5.js so I'd say that teaching the basics of programming is an entirely solved problem in 2021 ; whatever the topic, you cannot expect to teach stuff faster to a whole classroom.
Thing is I would be delighted the the opposite. I'd love to only pay for ESPN and the other sports channels only for $15/mo. Maybe add in CNN/FOX/MSNBC/Etc. for the wife to have on in the background, but plenty of ways to get that otherwise cheaply. OTA works fine for local news, even if the apps are a bit buggy if you want anything DVR or digitally distributed.

As would likely most I believe. Thus sports propping up this ancient model and myself being part of the problem.

I'm surprised Disney/ESPN is only $15/mo of the bill to be honest, I think Youtube is taking a hit there as I'd bet it's more than half the total base subscription fee.
Honest answer: of course it is, and no serious developer is arguing otherwise.

I just finished shipping an industrial lighting unit for “smart farms.” I worked extensively on embedded hardware. The most advanced processor I used was armv6, with the majority of hardware being IC or FPGA.

I used C for one thing only: reading the bitstream from microcontrollers into memory. After which point, I used c++ (17) with exclusively standard libraries (one exception: boost’s ASIO for http) to implement any and all other features.

I would have happily used c++ to read those bitstreams, but the code was so unsafe that it refused to compile. Turns out that reading raw bytes from an irregular file descriptor is so arcane and bizarre that no sane modern compiler felt good enough about itself to allow me to compile it.

All that said, I would only ever allow myself to write in C in that isolated case and for that isolated purpose. Every other nanosecond of my codebase runs on modern c++.

Honest answer, there is no legitimate reason to use C. If in some edge case you must, there is no legitimate reason to use it for anything other than that.
There’s value to decriminalizing many things and some things should have zero tolerance. Decriminalize more things, clamp down hard on junkies looting things.
It's not planned obsolescence, it's value engineering. Last century a refrigerator costs so much that people would take out loans to buy one. Today you can get a quality refrigerator for $400. Seriously the cost of the refrigerator is a central theme of the play Death of a Salesman. Today, probably, nobody is killing themselves in despair over the prices of refrigerators.
I'm saying that doing something like compiling a flagship OSS application into your core product doesn't happen accidentally due to a "misunderstanding" when you're a huge corporation.

P.s. thanks for the typo - fixed!
As far as I understand current physics, the solution seems simple: Just through some more "dark" matter in there, and the standard model is save again.