skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It feels dodgy because they give a false sense of security, i wrote about it in another reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30220373

> Do you really condone the trendy dumbing down to an user-hostile walled garden?

The complete opposite in fact, i dislike the increasing usability nightmare that modern desktop OSes creep in in the name of protecting users who are going to do their thing regardless unless the relevant functionality is completely removed - at which point someone should stop, take a few steps back and think why people use computers in the first place.
P.S. I enjoyed this disagreement; it has helped me assemble my thoughts :-)
> The entire world saw that one coming. Oh well.

I visited Stadia sub on Reddit couple times. The people there were always in denial.
I remember that every time I bought a new Android phone, there was a new chat app that was - obviously - not backwards-compatible with the previous one. Some of the contacts were usually there, some random ones from my Gmail account appeared too. All chat history was gone.

Some of my friends used Hangouts a few times - it was working reasonably well, and Gmail integration didn't hurt either. Granted after a few "iterations" of Google messaging apps, no one I know uses them, ever.
> I've never seen one video of that, but I've seen a hell of a lot of videos of hysterical idiotic Trump supporters screaming their heads off about their "Freedum" to not wear a mask.

> So prove it: link to some.

Does a relatively young woman cussing, yelling, spitting on, and finally physically attacking an 80-year old man for not wearing a mask in between sips count?

https://sports.yahoo.com/karen-filmed-hitting-spitting-80-21...
It's like asking someone to leave your house - there doesn't have to be a good reason, an ethical reason, or any reason at all. Generally if someone asks you to leave their property, then you get up and leave. If this creates a breach of contract or other civil dispute, that's exactly what civil courts are for, go use them.
Spotify taking Rogan's stuff down is not an example of censorship, since they are a private enterprise and retain the right to decide what content they publish.

It would be censorship if the FCC (or similar Swedish org) told Spotify they had to take it down.

Rogan is free to go publish his bullshit elsewhere.
I wonder if it's podcasts that need to be more decentralized, or if any platform that distributes and monetizes free content (like FTA TV in the good ol'days) needs some dedicated code of conduct they must abide by - because at the moment it looks like it's a cluster fuck.

Like if they're not up to standard, then they must have a paywall.

I'm not blaming JRE here, Joe Rogan has an entertainment show and people are free to watch it - or not.

I'm blaming Spotify, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, etc, that try to paddle their own view of the world by removing content at will. So if they want to have that approach, go for it, but they must be pay walled.

Idk, was just a random thought I had because I'm bored of the whole decentralization subject simply because some corporations abuse their power position built on free distribution of content.
This is the one market where I would be happy for the cryptobros to move in and start hoarding. I’d almost forgive them for NFTs if IPv4-hodling turned out to be the thing that finally catalyzes the move to IPv6.
Being able to sit on a sofa and play a game in 5 seconds, with no obtuse “wait 40 mins for patches” is a huge value add.

PC is better but chains you to the desk
>Eating fat is not unhealthy.

True, let's correct it...sugar.
Are you looking for a textual UML tool (https://modeling-languages.com/text-uml-tools-complete-list/) to "write" your UML models and then easily render them in your browser?

Or for a graphical online UML editor (https://modeling-languages.com/web-based-modeling-tools-uml-...)?

If the former, then plantUML is my favourite. If the latter, there quite a few options but one that's easy and fast is http://www.umletino.com/
"Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE) has always been the plan.
I wonder what it would take to bring Linux to this state, where while running a program, you can decide to look at the source code, check in the debugger what is going on, apply a change and run the program as if you used the precompiled version of it with very little effort. So you could make changes to programs with similar manual effort as if you changed a config file. And when updating the programs, the package manager would check for your manual changes, if they can be applied without merge conflicts. Upstreaming the changes would also be a simple standardized command. But you wouldn't have to, just to be able to run the changed software without friction.
I can see one useful case for this type of software: you want to apply a lint rule that says "all functions must have docstrings".

With this tool, you can programmatically add a dumb docstring to everything to make the linter shut up about old code, and still have it complain about new code.

Of course, some sort of ratcheting in your build pipeline would be better.
As somebody who has children and is not single I will take an order of magnitude less pay to live away from the valley. It seems from many other people I have spoken to offline that once lived in the valley I am not alone in this thinking.

The valley has amazing job opportunities for software developers and incredible weather. Transportation there, thinking BART, sounds incredible too.

Houses there used to be 8-12x more than where I live but are now more like 6-7x more and everything costs more there such as food, fuel, taxes, utilities, and so forth. The valley also has a subculture that many other Americans find a bit politically extreme with strange local politics practiced by elected authorities.
For comparison's sake...

Killed by Mozilla: https://killedbymozilla.com/

Killed by Microsoft: https://killedbymicrosoft.info/ (curiously DuckDuckGo which apparently takes search results from Bing didn't show me this)

Killed by Apple: https://killedbyapple.nl/

There's also one for Facebook, but it doesn't seem to be filled out: https://killedbyfacebook.nl/

Actually, why don't we have something like https://awesomeopensource.com/ but for projects that have been retired, to remember them more easily or view which company has created what? Maybe even just a GitHub repo, like https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted ? Anyone know of other good links like that, perhaps?
I wouldn't say dishonest, but may lead to wrong conclusions. I think most professionals who know what AngularJS is will know about Angular.
No but I'm just about to order the HORI mini-stick. I have the Pro controller and it's definitely an improvement over the joycons but the arcade stick is something else entirely when playing games that don't require the right mini-stick on the controller.
Collaborator-scientists rush to defend study that challenges government policy
Your mistake here is wrongly assuming "censorship" means it must be government doing it. Censorship does not mean that, and your definition is deeply flawed. [1]

Words are important, and you can't just redefine them to suit your argument for politically motivated silencing.

[1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/censorsh...
I live in Huddinge, Sweden, a suburban part of Stockholm some 15 km away from the city center.

I have many busses and a commuter train line as options to move around, I can bike as well given the many bike lanes connecting all the way from the city to even further away suburban areas.

It's not noisy at all, I hear the deers eating grass in my garden while the train station is some 800 meters away. Busses pass by the avenue a block away from the house and I never hear them.

Not sure what you'd consider noisy but I don't really experience that and have plenty of ways to go around without a car.
> Rogan is free to go publish his bullshit elsewhere.

I'm pretty sure his exclusivity contract precludes this option.
Most NFT don't save the content of the image/audio/text whatever in the blockchain. Most don't even save a hash of the content to ensure what they are pointing too. They only save an URL that will show you the content, or whatever the owner of the URL wants to show you.

It is possible to store the content of the audio files in the blockchain, but it will be very expensive. Storing the transcript would be expensive, but not so expensive.

I'm not sure how a NFT would be useful here. If you split the talk, perhaps someone can buy the NFT that point to the fist minute, and then only listen to it???
> According to U.S. atomic veteran Cecil R. Coale, some hotels in Hawaii offered "rainbow bomb" parties on their roofs for Starfish Prime, contradicting some reports that the artificial aurora was unexpected.

This reads a little like something from a Culture novel.
I fully believe the EEE problem still exists at Microsoft but fail to see how this feature is a part of that. This has been something OSS maintainers have asked for for ages.

Do you have specific arguments against it?
>> Perhaps they couldn’t find any straws?

guffaw! guffaw!

The physical demo might have been more true to the concept, perhaps. I noticed the same issue as you did. I just came to say that the mild shaming you applied in your comment is unkind and unnecessary. A good point need not be made with ridicule.
Same here. Still appreciate mine. I have no need for a portable console, so for me Wii U was end of the line.
YAGNI is difficult to get right because we can't see into the future. There's certainly been plenty of times where it would have been great if something was designed from the start with the new functionality in mind instead of having to hack it in. But there's also many times where thinking that we would need something that we didn't created maintenance and performance overhead.
Holy mother of god are you my coworker? I swear to god I went through this not two weeks ago.

Please report your time sheet was downright triggering
Maybe it was not included, because John Conway suspected that it would be Turing complete from the start. Because he suspected this he contacted Martin Gardner and asked the public for searching for an ever growing pattern, resulting in the discovery of the glider gun. He realized that finding something like a glider gun would be the first step in establishing Turing Completeness. It took some time for it to be proven completely, but from the start the intuition of Conway was that Game of Life would probably be Turing Complete.
Programming is a one-person task. Looping people in gives the rest of
us something to schedule meetings around. So it really depends on what
you want, getting the job done, or creating more jobs.
Are you on Linux 5.16? You might've hit the infinite defrag bug.
Samsung overtook Intel as top chip seller in 2021
Quickwit co-founder here :)

I pretty much agree with you qdequelen, Quickwit and Meilisearch are targeting 2 very different markets: user facing search for Meilisearch and what I would call "search analytics on large (almost) immutable datasets" for Quickwit. We want to handle deletes in 2022 in the form of "delete by query" but it will be quite a heavy operation and you won't be able to do that too often (few times per day typically). So yes, log market is one of our target, plugging Quickwit search to ClickHouse was also pretty fun.

And as concerning the "best possible developer experience", Meilisearch is very inspiring and we want to follow the same path :)
I wonder how many socioeconomic problems have been caused by the middle class learning to economize and inadvertently destroying the market for mid-tier goods & service levels as a result.
Denying to publish a work is not the same thing as preventing the public from accessing it.

By your logic any academic paper or book that a publisher turns down is being "censored"
As a counterpoint my unvaxxed housemate got covid a couple of weeks ago, I(boosted two weeks to the day at the time he showed symptoms) took no precautions and never developed symptoms. I also had close contact with someone who got omicron(PCR verified) the day after we hung out(asymptomatic then) and have yet to develop symptoms, that was this past Sunday so I'm pretty sure I'm good now. Vaccines work to prevent spread even now.
A better analogy of letting people eat and drink on a flight, so not wearing a mask at all time, would be to completely disable filtering on the firewall for a few minutes every hour.

Some people do dry fast, neither drink nor eat, for 24 hours straight with no negative effect. Can people who care so much about COVID they are ready to ban people from flying for the rest of their life, BUT they cannot not bear the inconvenience of not eat nor drink for a few hours?
Oh yeah, sure looks like it indeed.
Does the program halt when the power cuts out?

I think our disagreement is specious because it’s trying to import terms like “infinite loop”, “halt”, “program” from a formal theory into the material world.

I think I can only ask, how do you define infinite loop and forever?
FOSDEM 2022 is going on now
> I guess the only long-term solution is having a large majority of the population with enough "mental defenses", being able to think for themselves.

Fully agree.

I think we miss over and over this element in the “free speech debate”. We tend to consider “free speech” merely as “allowing an individual to express him/herself” and I think is more complex than that. From my perspective, “freedom of speech” should be a stack formed always by three elements:

1. Freedom of speech itself

2. Intellectual humbleness from the speaker.

3. Critical thinking from the listeners.

Without those elements, I think we will not progress on the big scale on this matter and will fall over and over again in the same “back and forth” empty fight of “should/shouldn’t we allow this guy to podcast those things?”.
It's a mistake to try to make analogies of quantum interactions with everyday objects like cats. It's not as useful as one might hope, and your intuition gets in the way.

Protons don't behave like cats.
I also prefer to number just the important equations. One of the advantages of numbering all equations is that the reader can binary search an equation by number. I try to mitigate that loss by providing page numbers or section numbers.

Providing “contrast” is something I appreciate as a reader. It is much easier to provide in person, on a whiteboard. Maybe we need papers to have references to YouTube derivations :)
In this case it’s censorship either way. A few artists are self-censoring at great expense to distance themselves from the Rogan podcasts. I suspect Spotify is concerned with the bad press and the potential for increased self-censorship, which will drive users to other platforms.
Electric tanks will only appear once the battery tech advances and some kind of mobile modular nuclear generators (well, reactors) become widely available for military use.
I never understood how they could make money on that deal. Those headphones were not built to last. I went through at least one pair a year back when I used them.

Maybe it was the sort of loss leader that's financed by the marketing department.
And how do you know when is the right time? No room for growth? Boring tasks? Bad management?

When in doubt, I tend to favor change, but it's just gut feeling. Is there a more objective metric or it's just experience?
See, they're really bad at naming...
=> Sensible places ban people who say being gay or LGBTQ is mental health issue.

I don't agree. Perhaps the person who says being gay is a mental health issue has a deep knowledge of a technical subject that is of interest to the community, and 80% of their posts are about that subject, and very informative, while only 5% of their comments are about being gay as a mental health issue. Banning such an account outright would deprive the community of the 80% of comments from that account that are informative and useful. If they're not banned, the 5% of the comments that the community finds problematic will be downvoted most of the time. This is a more measured and better targeted reaction than an outright ban.

If someone is on a crusade to convince everyone that gay people are sick, on the other hand, and all their posts are about that, then that's a different matter. Such an account is not really contributing anything useful to a community like HN. So ban away, I guess.

There's another reason. As an LGBT person myself, I want to hear opinions that are hostile towards me, even against my very existence. I want to hear them because if I don't, I won't be aware of all the awful things that people make up in their minds about people like me and I won't know how to protect myself against them. Of course I already know many of the awful things that people think and say and do, but having those opinions out in the open where everybody can see them also acts as a barometer for popular opinion. If everybody starts agreeing with the person who says gay people are mentally ill, then I know things are turning bad. If everyone challenges such opinions, and I can see that they are downvoted to [dead], then I know that at least this community is not uniformly hostile.

Last, if someone really thinks that people like me are sick or shouldn't exist, what's the point of banning them? That won't change their opinion. We can't change peoples' minds forcefully, and even if we could, we shouldn't. Freedom of thought means that some people will think thoughts everyone else finds despiceable. So be it. If we only accept some views in public discussions and ban all the rest what happens when the political winds change and it's my thoughts and opinions that are not kosher anymore?
(Not OP) To me it seems they expanded on it rather than dismissing it:

> Implicit in this argument is that you need to build the right thing and talk to the right people.
There was a discussion about this a few days ago for those interested (588 points, 385 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30074949
a) We don't actually know that.

b) I doubt that it is true, though Omicron is a tough one.

c) The reason I doubt it is that this is a nonlinear effect, i.e. you cannot easily extrapolate from vaccine effectiveness at 65% vaccination rate to vaccine effectiveness at 91%, 99%, or 100%.

d) The more contagious the virus, the higher your vaccination rate needs to be, for reasons that I hope are obvious.

e) So, seemingly paradoxically, the more the vaccine seems to not be working (it actually still is, the virus is just mostly much more contagious), the better the case for vaccine mandates. We really, really need to starve the virus of hosts, particularly so we don't breed ever more variants.

f) Even if it were true that R would still be > 1 with a 100% vaccination rate, as long as the R rate is lower with the vaccines than it is without the vaccines, the vaccines are preventing (some) transmission.
This is quite interesting, that this genetic structure is sufficiently conserved to be useful for inferring relationships so far back in time. The paper being referenced is here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abi5884

The paper says "Unfortunately, the currently available subchromosomal assemblies of ctenophores (17, 52) are too fragmented to apply this logic to infer the relationships among ctenophores, sponges, and other animals; such analysis awaits chromosome-scale genome assemblies." When those are available, this could help nail down the answer to the long running question of what branched off first, sponges or comb jellies (ctenophores).
Big Pandas
I think it'll take a complete revolution to debunk Google. It's unlikely to be another keyword-based search tool. It'll be something entirely different. It might have already showed up, bought and killed by Google, though...
New? D&D will turn your child into a Satanist. 40 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic
Can’t Delta just keep its own no-fly list? They’re a private company. They have the right to refuse service, no?
Ford to suspend or cut output at 8 of its factories due to chip shortage
"sponsor-only repositories, that is, private repositories that only sponsors will get access to" is this open source? Will this help open source? I don't believe so. This fragments the open source community, and creates a paywall for innovation. Further it restricts the ability to enforce open source licensing. Where is the protection for code behind a paywall and which uses copyleft source.
Word. I call them SBO comments (stating the bleeding obvious) and prune them from code.

Pretty much all doc gen tools can generate is SBO comments so they are rarely useful.

Often they are essentially wrong, e.g. a getter with the autogenerated comment "gets the X from Y" without checking the method code to see if actually, it has some horrible side effects that you would not expect to be there.
The comment hides the truth about the method.
> Yeah it's a state of mind, you do something for and with a community and not exclusively for your personal gains.

That's just as common in the U.S. - but you need a strong community of practice with high standards of achievement to really achieve this mindset. (In the real world, this would of course be an actual, physical community bound to a well-defined place, ultimately with similarly strict norms of acceptance, behavior etc.) And that can get in the way of contemporary norms against perceived "gatekeeping". Though it's interesting to see that some communities of practice (e.g. the one which is forming around Rust and Redox OS) are being more successful in navigating this challenge.
Censorship…

Libel, fraud, slander, lying under oath, dissemination of child porn and state secrets, swearing on television, verbal threats, and more are all government-sanctioned censorship. Corporate censorship is routine, with NDAs, employment agreements, policy, and other contractual agreements. Censorship in the home is also normal and routine, as parents dictate what is allowable. Society also applies pressure oneself in particular situation: don’t talk in the movie theatre, don’t be obnoxious at a funeral, don’t interrupt people, etc.

Why is it so hard for people to imagine that a company might not want to be associated with a particular political ideology?
You see the same dynamic in Hollywood with movie actresses. The biggest difference is that the official grant application racket is replaced with an open-air underground system of sexual favors to studio executives.
I side with the airline here.

What no one mentions, is that this guy bought a ticket where the fare rules clearly state your seat is conditional; it was a deeply discounted fare.

If I have something important where I need to be somewhere, I buy a fare that guarantees me a seat. It’s an option you select in nearly every reservation system I’ve used (including the airlines websites).

The airline was well within its rights. If he was a doctor, and it was that important, he should be buying a fare that reflects that and avoid these issues.

He bought the cheapest fare that clearly stated the rules where he would lose his seat under certain conditions, then acted indignant when there were consequences.

The airline asked him to leave, he refused. That’s trespassing, “plane” and simple.

When the police came, he still refused. They arrested him, and he still refused. I’m not really sure how else you remove any trespasser that refuses to comply, without some use of force.

I fly all the time, and I have to buy the more expensive fares because I’m an adult that has appointments. It would make me angry if the airline was prioritizing deeply discounted fares and bumping me instead because of someone’s self-important claims.

Need to be there at a certain time? Buy a real ticket.
For what it's worth: the most recent episode shown in that picture is from 2018, before the pandemic.
Spotify doesn't want to peddle a world view. They are themselves under pressure. Goes to show that if there is a centralized system, then even with the best intentions it leads to repression. They are too dangerous to exist.