skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're associated with the Free Speech Union which is happy to fight for the left.

Please restrain your misinformation. You agree you should now have your bank accounts closed?
Guru99 – From data science to ERP – It's all there
It happened to me once when I was moving to a new home. I was spending a few nights in the old one and a few nights in the new one. I woke up one night believing I was in the new one but the sources of the street noise outside didn't match the ones in the new house. It was very disconcerting. It took me a while to realize where I was.
Epistemic Status: Just musing out loud, I'm not sure I even believe this but it's one approach to the problem.

Open source software has some pretty severe networks effects. There's only so many people who are going to maintain a package for MacOs, in affect different package managers are going to be competing for those volunteer maintainers, and there's a pretty big first mover advantage. (there's only one wikipedia, despite it being pretty easy to make a new wiki, volunteers are the resource projects compete over)

If you're an open source maintainer who's part of a project driven largely by volunteer labor like this, well you've got to consider the fact that your project existing means that other project will have a lot harder time getting started. It's not as simple as "we're all volunteers so be thankful for what you get" because just by existing your project is consuming a finite resource, volunteers, sponsorships, awareness, etc. Your project existing might be taking up space that a much better project could fill. Of course if it's that much better it probably will eventually anyway, but still.

So I don't know, try to make sure your project is the best it could be, and try to build something that will last rather than chasing new features? I hear a lot about entitlement in open source, but with some projects I do wonder if we'd be better off if they just collapsed, and the sponsorships and volunteers moved to a different project. Not homebrew, I don't use homebrew but from what I hear it's all around decent, but there are a few open source projects that have become de-facto standards that I do wish just go phased out.

When X11 stopped being maintained in favour of wayland that forced a bunch of your fellow open source developers to make a bunch of changes to their code, foisted a maintenance burden on them. That's fine, things do change, but try to make it easy on them ( https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/217#note_3552... for example).

In a sense, isn't any kind of expectation you could have for open-source software entitlement? If your FOSS doesn't come loaded up with malware, crypto-miners, and a servo motor to punch you in the genitals, should you be thankful since it was free? What if it just comes with the malware?

I'd like to see some kind of social contract "maintainer responsibilities" that lists out what users are allowed to expect before they start getting called entitled. There's some basic stuff, like it being free from active malware and viruses. There's some more questionable stuff, like CVEs or some other method to subscribe to security warnings. There's probably some miscellaneous stuff, like being able to get old versions of the software (not having the author go out of their way to remove old versions like what happened with the infamous NPM left-pad story) and all kinds of other stuff I'm not thinking of.
It's an absolutely asinine thing to assert. That the entire C-suite of Paypal disagrees with him, and implying that they're shutting his account because of that. Not only is there no evidence of that, it's a laughable claim. The entire C-suite of Paypal don't know anything about his views, let alone have an opinion about banning him.
> Backups are mentioned almost casually and there is this: "but no process was implemented for ElasticSearch databases".

From TFA, next sentence after the one you quoted:

Also, that database was a read model and by definition, it wasn’t the source of truth for anything. In theory, read models shouldn’t have backups, they should be rebuilt fast enough that won’t cause any or minimal impact in case of a major incident. Since read models usually have information inferred from somewhere else, It is debatable if they compensate for the associated monetary cost of maintaining regular backups

The article discusses how they executed an actual recovery process from the other data sources, but it took longer than it should have (6 days), so...

We ended up with a mix of the two. We refactored the process to a point it went from 6 days to a few hours. However, due to the criticality of the component, a few hours of unavailability still had significant impacts, especially during specific timeframes (e.g. sales seasons). We had a few options to further reduce that time but it started to feel like overengineering and incurred a substantial additional infrastructure cost. So we decided to also include backups when there was a higher risk, like during sales seasons or other business-critical periods.
Innovation can't break the laws of thermodynamics.

If a resource is finite, you are basically betting the future of the specie on its ability to find a substitute before we run out, in the context of an exponentially growing chance of failure.

Right now we are betting we can find a substitute to fossil fuel before we run out of it, while exponentially consumming more energy. We haven't so far, since nothing comes close to the logistic practically, chemical flexibility and energy density of fossil fuel.

But even if we fail at that, we can recover. We have less performant alternatives that are enough so sustain humanity, albeit not at the current level of productivity (after all, we currently build nuclear plants and wind turbines using fossil fuel).

It's less true for soil we can live and growth food on, water we can drink, air we can breath, since those are complex systems.

It's very easy to bring out that it's not a zero sum game when you can type on a computer and order delivery food. But somebody in the desert will have a very different idea of the practicality of the claim.

There are many possible configurations where we end up with the equivalent of the desert of some sort for some very important resources given our population size.

Claiming we are sure to be able to innovate ourself out of those possibilities is naive, and frankly, arrogant. I'm sure somebody used that argument on the Easter Island.
This looks like a true lifetime's work, started in 1999 and still developed.

From the description:
It prooves that in other softwares, the signal to noise ratio in the code is very low. Free and closed softwares are no different in this area. Counting typically brings 99% noise. No programmer can believe that, even if he can quite easily verify it through counting lines. This is just a perfect illustration of cognitive dissonance.
I trace the poor signal to noise ratio in classical softwares to four reasons:

* use of poor languages with no decent meta programming capabilities (poor expressivity)
* poor software design (code layering)
* unability to concentrate on ironing out core features instead of adding new not really usefull ones
* and finaly interfacing different pieces of software with quite different logic and conventions instead of building an overall consistent system.

It's always concerned me how we delicately stack fragile software on top of incomplete, bug-ridden platforms full of workarounds and "special cases" rather than building something that's cohesive top-to-bottom. I'll be excited to try this out when I get home!

It's a shame the documentation is a little unclear and the author could do with some help with translation.
I seem to recall the wire covers being on the IBM XT power supply so I think they are the OG.
I like the exercises at https://artofproblemsolving.com/alcumus

It is part of AOPS and it gives step-by-step solutions to problems.

You need to create an account, but it is free.
You can give Gmail your SMTP login details and tell it to send your mail via another server.
Large open source projects are set up as legal entities like corporations or foundations.

But a small open source project doesn’t exist in the eyes of the law. In a way it’s the worst of both worlds if you’re doing non-profit-like things such as receiving large donations, but operating as a private person.
I don't understand your point either. We may have both failed, or you may have failed to communicate the significance of your preferences to us.

Reminding you that it's very simple to donate directly to the EFF seems like a rational response to someone who has the desire to donate to the EFF directly.
As noted in the friendly article, previous informal polls on the topic have come up with strong majorities against Karelia becoming part of Finland, and on both sides of the border to boot.
> This whole "but it is a private company who gets to dictate what speech they want and don't want on their site" needs to go out the window.

But deciding what and what not to publish on your own website is protected by the First Amendment, is it not?
> There's a widespread forum rule: "don't import drama." The idea behind it is when you enter a certain forum, you may know people from elsewhere but you leave that context at the door and enter a new context with different rules. I think that ability to codeswitch into and out of social contexts is an important part of common civility, and overbroad declarations like this undermine it.

That's literally what they are saying: don't import this drama to twitter.
It really varies. Some places have the bare minimum of air conditioning to say they have it, but underbuild the system such that there’s no chance of recovering if you get back during the day while it’s still sunny&hot outside.
You’re correct. There is no changing her. I knew she was racist while I was growing up, but now she has been emboldened by the current political climate.

Looking back at the things she said while I was a child, I feel horrible for all of the minorities that had encounters with her while she spent her career as a law enforcement officer. There is no possible way she treated them fairly.
He cannot bring what Zelenski won't even consider.
The Daily Sceptic has demonstrated greater integrity than the BBC, The Financial Time, The Econcomist.
How much of an improvement over the previous generation would this be for SD?
There is PenPot.app
The general problem with ion engines is that the exhaust velocity is too high. This makes them energy inefficient. Ideally, you want the exhaust velocity of a rocket to start out very low, then increase as the vehicle goes faster. That way, the ejected reaction mass is left stationary in the initial reference frame, with no kinetic energy (or, nearly stationary, with low kinetic energy). All the energy therefore goes into the kinetic energy of the vehicle.

This is also part of why using liquid hydrogen in the first stage of launchers is dumb, vs. using hydrocarbons.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your comment, but it sounds (to me) like you're putting the onus on the maintainers, as if it's their obligation to contribute to OS and their inability to not be upset stands in the way of performing their obligation. Many OS maintainers derive joy (and motivation) from knowing that their work is useful and beneficial to others. Users acting entitled isn't "upsetting" in the same sense as a rude stranger is upsetting - it makes the maintainers feel unappreciated and nullifies their source of joy from working on OS.

I agree that everyone would always benefit from being more emotionally resilient because there will always be negative behavior around us, but strongly disagree that nothing should / can be done from OS users' perspective.
Well done!

I love generating generic cartoons from input. Very useful when creating icons / avatars!
It's funny cause the from email is like: aklsdjflkasdjf@dkaljklsdjfls.com
I found gmail's spam filtering amazing from 2004 until this year, where it's massively gone downhill and I've been getting tons of obvious garbage hitting the inbox and things I want from known senders landing in junk. Moved my business email to fastmail, perhaps personal will soon follow.
I'm not so sure. Payed-for software can get unmaintained just as well. Companies go bust, are sold, or change direction for whatever reason. Paying for a product doesn't give you any guarantee either.
Shareholders file suit against Twitter following whistleblower security warnings
It’s strange you mention export controls, I had a similar question in my mind about whether Rust could be export controlled if it does make systems harder to crack. It’s technically impossible but that wouldn’t prevent a law being passed.
On the flip side, a few of my hobbies include devices where the fans are usually exposed - and I've cut myself a handful of times because of it.

It's very size/shape/rpm dependent.
It's a joke - and a pretty common/unoriginal one at that. Calm down.
ChromeLoader can overload systems with malware and lead to ransomware attack
Weirdly awed and relieved to know that I'm just a small part of the Dick's Sporting Goods spam epidemic.
By that logic US persons can't use Ethereum at all. If you withdraw ETH from Coinbase it is very likely that those coins will have passed through tornado.cash at some point.

This logic obviously doesn't hold up to even the slightest scrutiny. There's too much American money invested in Ethereum for any government agency to even seriously consider the idea of destroying it like this.
U.S. Shores Up Ukraine Support as Energy Crisis in Europe Looms
>The same architecture?!

Yes, the same architecture. You know what PaulHoule meant, and if you didn't you should have.

It's a fact that

* It is relatively easy to port between computers with the same 8-bit CPU

* It is harder, but still quite possible, to port between the Z80 and 6502

* Very, very little software was ported to the 99/4A, and until the end the lack of software was a major issue for a computer that sold almost 3 million units

The 99/4 architecture by and large baffled developers. Partly because of the unique CPU, but also because of fundamental design differences. I know of no Z80 or 6502-based computer which abstracts things the way 99/4 does. There is no TI equivalent (I'm talking about deviations from the prescribed norm, not the functionality per se) to the Atari 8-bit and TRS-80's multitude of DOSs, the C64's fast loaders, the Atari 8-bit's Happy Drive, Star Raiders and Eastern Front on Atari, Pinball Construction Set and Prince of Persia on Apple II, GEOS on C64. Since you're British, I'll add 3D Monster Maze on ZX81, Elite on BBC Micro, The Lords of Midnight and Knight Lore on Spectrum. Even the Color Computer, benighted by the 6809 CPU almost as unfamiliar to Z80 and 6502 developers as TMS9900, birthed Dungeons of Daggorath.
I can confirm that. Amazon is doing it better than most others, for sure, but the effort and complexity is still there. And I'm not sure if looking up tables directly in some database (the Amazon way) and entering data through some cobbled together web interfaces (again, the Amazon way in some cases) is better UI than whatever SAP is providing. I know both, and at least in SAP everything is one place.
Also you can adjust the “retirement benefits” to things that are easier to provide than money.
Yep. In new code you should use smart pointers for allocation as much as you can.
Doomerism and Optimism
indeed, 5 hours and 2 comments including this one.
In my last fulltime role, we were called “product engineers”, which I actually really liked. It highlighted that our focus was on building a product, and not necessarily on frontend or backend. Because there was so much more involved, we all also helped out with deployments, or looking through log files, or talking to the business about issues.
> C is not “how the computer works.” I don’t think most people mean this phrase literally, so that is sort of irrelevant.
Understanding the context means that learning C for this reason may still be a good idea for you, depending on your objectives.

I think summarizing that article as "no" really undercuts how diplomatic and reasonable Steve Klabnik is in it.
Is there an atomic bond? No. Then, there's no whole apple any more.
> And then everyone can build search engines on top of that.

That bit troubles me. If the index is maintained by a government agency, and every search engine is using the same index, then that's a massive censorship avenue. I wonder how "open" Open Web Index is going to be.
> Not having kids is the entire society's problem

So is tax evasion, CO2 emissions etc. What are the odds of being audited by the IRS ? What are the odds of being punished for illegally burning weeds? What are the odds of being punished for modifying your semi diesel engine so that you can do the "rolling coal" thing?

When you move from the level of the individual up to the level of society at large, solving problems (or in this case situations that certain people deem as problems) becomes harder not easier.

Good luck trying to force people to have kids and police people's penises and vaginas. Besides it's not even necessary...Nigeria and sub-saharan Africa will take care of that "problem" much like China takes care of the iPhone production problem now.

That's why categories exist. The first world can't do the job of the third world and vice versa, each should do their own job.
The biggest mapping mistake of all time – California [video]
Look who's fallen foul of Europe's data retention rules. France and Germany
It seems that's what you're hoping I'd agree to.

It's not the man's job to help with child rearing. It's the exact opposite: it's the woman's job to take care of the house so her man can go out there in the world and build up his business or career (or whatever it is), because that is how he fulfills his role in the family.

That's how it has always been done. This is common to all societies with high fertility.
> Just what Russians are waiting. HIMARS flying over Ukrainian border into Russia and Balarus. Get some other allies involved, declare it a WW3 as pretext to invade Baltics.

How does Russia plan to take the Baltics when they cannot even take a city less them 300km from their border in 6 months?.
Good luck shipping a machine in 2022 that either

(a) doesn't have a Web browser, or

(b) has some way to ensure the code it's running is not from a site where the user wrote all (or even just some) of it
The Fifth Circuit’s Social Media Decision: First Amendment Absolutism
My org should be able to host an event if you want to try and throw something together.

Unicorn start up and all that jazz. Likely they will want someone to give a short spiel.
Hey now you're getting it
Amazon's Roomba acquisition gets caught on FTC's rug
I'm no longer sitting around waiting to get bitten by these rogue companies. My Paypal account will be closed today.
I was a self taught programmer/dev and started getting interested in signal processing, systems of pulse coupled oscillators, and machine learning. So I figured I should "learn the language" so to speak.
Why were they "done"? How did you decide to have them?

Did you enjoy spending time with other toddlers so much, that you thought you would enjoy it more than all your other hobbies (which you may have to give up), that you wanted to be doing it during the majority of your downtime, have sleepless nights etc.?
Lost Prison Interview with Hermann Goering
Whole Europe annexed is surely enough.
I don't know that I've ever seen a road in the USA with a limit as low as 15. The road my house is on has a limit of 25, no sidewalks although children attempt to walk on it since the community swimming pool is at the end, and people regularly drive 35+. The road it connects to has a limit of 45 and no shoulder (although, amazingly I've still seen people attempting to walk on it too!) and I've seen people that must have been going 90 mph.

As you say, the roads in Europe are much different. The speed limits are MUCH lower and the roads are designed such that you really can't go much faster. If we invested in safer roads and public transportation a lot of our problems with cars would solve themselves.
You are missing the point: PayPal does NOT provide any specific reason for the termination, so there is NO protected class as you cannot prove they terminated an account for speech, race or gender.
> In this day and age, the last thing you want is a large chunk of money turning up on your doorstep whose origins you cannot account for.

If it was physical cash turning up on my physical doorstep, I certainly wouldn't mind :)
Not the answer OP was hoping for, but definitely the right one.
I have RedSea aquarium lights that require an app and wifi to operate. I _hate_ it. All devices should be able to basically function solo. I can't find good lights that are not app controlled. The market didn't decide, manufacturers did.
Probably only knowable by actually running it (but probably a bit faster).
I'm curious here and would love to hear thoughts on:

A) Youtube's terms of service clearly state "not for kids under 13"[1]

B) Youtube has produced a product for the younger age market [2]

C) folks in this thread are reasonably complaining that full youtube isn't appropriate for children.

Am I missing something here? (Like maybe your child was using youtubekids and still got the unacceptable content?)

[1] https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/children-youtube/#:~:te.... "While we permit users between the ages of 13 and 17 to register for an account with parental permission, we do not allow children under the age of 13 to create an account"

[2] https://www.youtubekids.com/
They’re not forcing anyone to do anything. The only power they have is to stop allowing him to use their community spaces.
No, you don't. In the curriculum I've taught, assembly was taught before C. As long as you have any programming language experience, you should be fine with assembly--I've explained it in terms of even MATLAB before.
Godwin's law in action.
Read the article, mentally replacing Rust with C++ (or terms like gccrs with g++). Interesting times for the kernel; you have to wonder whether Rust will be a success or if there will be a repeat of the 1992 attempt [1] to include C++.

[1]: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus
Of course learning widely used technologies may be a good idea for some people, depending on their objectives. That’s a truism.

But is it necessary to understand now a computer works? No.

You can also check out "C is how the computer works" is a dangerous mindset for C programmers (https://steveklabnik.com/writing/c-is-how-the-computer-works...)
Interesting that "no grill" is always the most quiet, is there no configuration possible (or has never been explored) where the air flows in such a way that sound waves cancel each other out? I.e., even holes emit noise 1/2 phase changed from the uneven ones? Would be a nice area of research. Perhaps it exists, I'm lazy (some 5 mins of searching gave me nothing).
Yes, but the zero point is arbitrary, so a percentage of dBa is meaningless. You can say it's 14.2 dB louder, or 10^(1.42) more energy, neither of which is very meaningful to the average person.
I like the concept and approach, but is there a way to quickly see how it works without signing up?
Technically, PayPal told them "we don't want your business", and DailySceptic doesn't want to hear about it

(Yeah, freedom goes both ways)
I assume you are referring to this article: https://dailysceptic.org/2022/09/20/the-growing-menace-of-bi...

Can you point out where it says he knew there would be a pandemic?

Do you think the public deserves to know that Bill Gates and his foundation contributed $789 million to the World Health Organization in 2021 (more than the U.S. Government)?
Yeah, the takeaway for most people is just a reiteration of "aerobic exercise is good for your blood pressure".