skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. we don't know how a piece of research will be used because we don't even know what the outcome will be.

2. rarely is a piece of research only used for 1 thing, and even if someone uses it wrongly, maybe someone else uses it for good purpose or builds on it for an important discovery.

3. the correct answer is to address the person attempting to abuse the data when that person does it not to attempt to suppress that information by preventing the research or limiting how it's done.

4. are you saying we shouldn't do research on e.g. whether certain groups are better at lifting because it could be abused?
EFI is read, but not frequently written.
the user dropped the FILES into a temporary user profile.

Windows tells you when it logs you into a temporary user profile. it doesn't do that silently.
My sense is that the design goal of Zettelkasten is basically this. Why note cards? Why only a few sentences per card? So you can insert text in a fine-grained manner -- and so you can insert cross-links in a fine-grained manner.
I've been a hardware engineer for the past few years and I do think a lot of it seems greener on the other side. I use FPGAs and microcontrollers for a whole host of things, along with traditional electronic elements.

The tools more often than not want me to pull my hair out (coded mostly in Tcl...), the technical forums and support are often non-existent, and the technologies quite often haven't been update with QoL changes in 20+ years.
What is comfy for you?
> No weird side-band edge cases effects, like if the IP stack could affect DC balance by changing the mix of 1s and 0s it sends out.

As someone who started in chemistry and moved into computers, this made me laugh out loud hard. It's an absurd and absolutely perfect analogy for the weird shit biology does all the time.

I think it is intrinsically hard to make clean abstractions out of chemistry. Biochemistry even more so. Chemical synthesis in the lab is all about the loop of: react under ideal conditions, work up, extract, purify, repeat. Biochemistry is just...fancy soup.

You get some barrier, especially for really nasty stuff, like peroxisomes, but there is just tons of diffusion. Especially with neurochem, where usually drugs have to be the right lipophilicity to cross the BBB but also specific to targets.
yea i completely agree. "he's a asshole" is a perfectly good reason to not make somebody the public face of something. as i said i feel like he's one of a fairly small number of people i'd genuinely dislike spending time with
Yeah, I failed to make the pattern case insensitive.

Here's a fixed version that also handles S/5:

sed -E -e '/^[A-FIOSa-fios]{6}$/!d; y/abcdefiosIOS/ABCDEF105105/; s/^/#/' /usr/share/dict/words
> does Apple still allow apps to use a different web view that the filters do not apply to

The web views the filters don't apply to have different use-cases such as customizing/hiding the browser UI elements, injecting Javascript, etc. There are legitimate reasons to use it in some cases (in case you need to display server-side-rendered content as if it was native).

Of course, Apple could decide on a case-by-case basis and reject usages of the legacy web view when the new implementation is appropriate, but they won't just like they don't do anything for apps that lie on the "privacy nutrition labels" about the data they collect or various other breaches of the App Store guidelines.
A link can also be a link to a mountable fuse fs share, like webdav/sshfs/9P etc and the other side can simply browse content not with a specific UI but with it's own favorite UI.

If we rediscover the classic Plan 9 idea of anything is a stream on a network we can create our OWN web on our desktop, choosing what to cache locally, what to sync etc, in a far more powerful, simple, resilient and flexible way.

A small example: we have since decades OFX feeds for financial operations. Why instead of spending gazillion of resources to build and keep up web-banking porcals (portals are another kind of beasts) when we can just give customers credentials and relevant links and the customer operate on a simple XML stream with his/shes favorite tool, with anything in a single place, it's style, automation, ... Perhaps because of surveillance capitalism?
After a layoff, a lot of the best people among the remaining staff end up leaving as well. In addition to the extra work, the workplace acquires a bunch of mental tombstones of a time that would never repeat itself. If you are any good, that lowers the threshold of reasons not to quit, and the upside of quitting remains untouched (higher salary, new experiences, better title elsewhere, more learning). The reasons to stay have to increase to compensate - equity, vesting, higher title, etc. The people who stay have to be the ones you actually want to work with as well.
Yeah, agreed. Using eye tracking as input actually removes the ability to look and interact with different things. I really do not like it.

Its pretty good for things like AI characters making eye contact or adding eye movement to avatars though.
https://spsp.org/events/demonstrating-our-commitment-anti-ra...

"Evaluate the extent to which the submission advances SPSP's goal of promoting equity, inclusion and anti-racism. To do so, please consider the equity statement as well as the submission as a whole. Submissions advancing equity, inclusion, and anti-racist goals may include (but are not limited to):

* Diverse research participants (e.g., understudied or underserved populations)

* Diverse research methods (e.g., methodology that promotes equity or engages underserved communities or scholars).

* Diverse members of the research team (e.g., those from underrepresented sociodemographic backgrounds, from an array of career stages, from outside the United States, or with professional affiliations that are not typical at SPSP such as predominately undergraduate serving institutions, minority-serving institutions, or outside academia)

* Presentation content (e.g., prejudice and discrimination, critical theories, cross-cultural research). "

Note none of these things are required but will be considered.

The text from the paper submission document has a large blank labelled:

"Please explain whether and how this submission advances the equity, inclusion, and anti-racism goals of SPSP. This may include, but is not limited to: The research participants in the sample; the methods used in the research; the members of the research team(s) involved in the work (e.g., background, diversity, career stage, affiliation type); the content of the presentation (e.g., critical theories, prejudice, equity, cross-cultural research). "
That’s a good point, but EFI isn’t frequently written I believe, so that I would expect that to be a rare circumstance, and even rarer for user data to be affected as a consequence.
maybe his point is that the technical meaning should use a more acurate word in his opinion?
It’s crazy to think that advocating for reasonable, non-toxic people to work with receives this kind response.

Inclusivity and non-hostile work environments should not be considered “perfect” and “all-inclusive”. They should be basic. The default. The lowest bar possible.
tr predates GNU by about a decade.
RCS is (was?) designed so telcos can charge per message, requires (and is tied to) a phone number, and end-to-end encryption is an afterthought.

Is there even an RCS client for iOS? There is for signal…
Bold move explaining the joke in French
The ee/ folder is under proprietary license. Rest of the code is under MIT license
Safety doesn't mean panic. I don't feel that was the point the person Linus responded to was making.
Neither Pokemon nor Animal Crossing strike me as casual. I think of Candy Crush and all the games like that. Not games with a story that start off with a tutorial.
Paragraph five.
so "restricting freedom of speech in any way" really means it can be restricted in some cases. This was your definition, not mine.

Again interesting that you consider discrimination based on race in all cases as an acceptable position equal to no discrimination based on race.

The unequal enforcement bit would mean that white neighborhoods should be given the same level of enforcement as minority ones. Is that really what you want? Where literally everyone is treated by the police exactly how they treat minorities?
The submitted URL is returning this:

> Our CDN was unable to reach our servers

> Please check www.redditstatus.com if you consistently get this error.

The quoted page claims everything is OK.
>And the reality is that there are no absolute guarantees. Ever. The "Rust is safe" is not some kind of absolute guarantee of code safety. Never has been. Anybody who believes that should probably re-take their kindergarten year, and stop believing in the Easter bunny and Santa Claus.

I thought that he had apologised and regretted being hostile in comments. Apparently not. Not that I have much of an issue with ranty colorful language, but you need to also be right and have a legitimate cause to pull it off...

The point he makes is BS. "the reality is that there are no absolute guarantees. Ever" Yeah, DUH! The compiler could have bugs and soundness issues for example.

The point is you don't need "absolute guarantees" just "way safer and which dozens more classes of issues discovered automatically" is already enough. The other guy didn't write about "absolute guarantees". He said "WE'RE TRYING to guarantee the absence of undefined behaviour". That's an aim, not a claim they've either achieved it, or they can achieve it 100%

>Even "safe" rust code in user space will do things like panic when things go wrong (overflows, allocation failures, etc). If you don't realize that that is NOT some kind of true safely, I don't know what to say.

Well, if Linus doesn't realize this is irrelevant to the argument the parent made and the intention he talked about, I don't know what to say...
> in cases like this the judgment relies on a subjective analysis by the person(s) doing the judging and that everyone's subjective judgement is different, moreover, to further complicate matters, such differences are likely to alter over time.

I agree with you 100%. My judgement of lack of resemblance is based more on whether I imagine that the same person would want to use both in the same context, not on anything that I think anyone should respect. I just don't think you can draw a line. We need to move to a model where we are openly, explicitly granting and enforcing monopolies on the production of certain works in return for some societal benefit. Not just assuming that society always benefits when monopolies on reproduction are granted.

If we don't want whales to rush in and capture all of the profits when somebody produces a creative work, we can target that situation explicitly, rather than pretending that qualifications for being worth protecting are inherent in the work, rather than a legal construct. A pretension that creates a situation where a defense of the series of disposable Warhols can be to denigrate the photograph that they chose to base the series on. Judges and juries as art critics, trying to figure out how much of Blurred Lines is Marvin Gaye.
I'm not sure why that's relevant.

It will be written to on every kernel update and every initramfs update at least, which is what.. once a week on average?

A reply like yours is not so subtly indicating that "it's fine to panic all the time because ultimately you might be fine if you get a panic", which I fundamentally disagree with, other concerns aside.

Also you're suggesting that journaling filesystems are perfect and never lose data, which is also very untrue, in the default case they only protect metadata but there are still circumstances where they can lose data anyway; they're more resilient, not immune.
The link was in the article… https://spsp.org/events/demonstrating-our-commitment-anti-ra...
What's the proper way to submit a down report?
I submitted a story to say that Reddit appears to be down, it had a small text and a link to Reddit.

The submission was immediately flagged. What is the proper way to report a service like Reddit being down?
>exceptional people
Why would you only provide free/subsidized schooling to exceptional people. Why not all people? If you truly believe in meritocracy, wouldn't you want everyone to have a fair opportunity to prove themselves?
Or Honda, they already made one of these, and did it well. Then they canned the project because there is no commercial value. There is no need for a humanoid robot, a regular wheeled one will do and is 10% of the cost.
Any interesting extensions? You tend to find a lot of those in Pascal implementations of that age to fix the shortcomings of the language.
Another blog with handwritten posts is [1]... This person also is an Emacs contributor, and writes the blog with a Supernote ([2]), not a Remarkable.

[1]: https://sachachua.com/blog/2022/09/monthly-review-august-202...
[2]: https://supernote.com/
I would like to hear why this person is being downvoted
Those who insist on using percentages greater than 100% hyperbolically when wishing to indicate "even more" would disagree with Norvig's Law.

Maybe if they gave it 150%, they could see Norvig's reasoning. It may take more than that, though -- maybe exponentially more.
Interestingly enough: old.reddit.com is now working, the main site - www.reddit.com - is still in Ow! state.
I think it works this way, every GP or medical specialty has their own computer and record system and these need to be unified into a universal record. In the USA you basically have Epic and Cerner. If you stay in the affiliated hospital system you are basically OK. If you go outside that or to a different system, expect FAXes etc... I think for complex as well as emergency care this can be problematic since you may not patient history.
The problem, legally speaking, is that this is almost the exact same fact pattern as Rogers v. Koons, in that the photograph itself was not being commented on, so parodic fair use isn’t a valid defense.
But Boston dynamics didn't show it to the public until a few years ago when it was good. It's not like we were all seeing Boston dynamics videos of their robots sucking 30 years ago, as Musk is doing.
A Random Walk Down Wall Street was one of the original books that laid out the case for index funds over picking stocks to build a portfolio. It's been in print for decades.

It's not prescriptive, but the baseline of information it provides still gives really solid grounding for making sense of all that you see in the financial space. There's so much noise out there, and a good book like this helps you cut through so much that's hype and profit-seeking. (Profit for them, not for you as an investor.)
Let's apply this to a material, concrete condition that exists in our world.

We can all hopefully agree that:

A) Redlining existed

B) Redlining was explicitly racist

C) Redlining has impacts that are still felt today

Let's use an antiracist lens to talk about it and compare to a modern, liberal "just don't be racist" lens.

The standard liberal response is, "well, redlining is over, and we know now not to do that. So, problem solved, right?"

The antiracist lens might be, "there are still people suffering from the impact of Redlining. The people who benefited from it should be helping those who suffered from it." In this case, wealthy white folks explicitly benefited from Redlining. Maaaaaybe we should tap on the shoulders of wealthy white folks and say, "hey, there was a major injustice done very recently, we want to fix it, and since you benefitted from it, we're asking you to pay a slightly larger share in fixing it."
And AI art.
> I know next to nothing about kernel programming, but I'm not sure here what Linus' objection to the comment he is responding to here is.

You should read the email thread, as Linhas explains in clear terms.

Take for instance Linus's insightful followup post:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/9/19/1250
Can an academic society in the USA today have an ideology explicitly presented as "the advancement and preservation of the white race"? No? Then your whole argument falls apart.
Making a step aside but the nyxt browser is built on commonlisp and gives an emacs UX for browsing + hackability. It's not an editor but it's a recent user programmable common lisp system. And who knows, maybe they'll embed a live editor in it.
It's because in older days without modern packaging you could expect one egg to break on the way home.
I actually wondered with all the recent "Rust in the kernel" about culture clashes. I mean, most kernel developers aren't Rust programmers (and vice versa).

Now we got a first glimpse at what happens.

Still, I find it strange that it never seemed to come up in preparation to the first Rust merges. Were there any conflict resolution strategies in place (that I don't know about) or just "we flame it out on LKML"?
Unfortunately the site doesn’t support Safari Reader mode.
It’s called abuse of notation as it’s useful in practice but not strictly a percentage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse_of_notation
People have had 10 year careers in tech thinking the world is a permanent bull market. I can imagine how this feels like the world is collapsing around them.

For those of us who have weathered previous recessions, we know the world moves on. Things will be rough, for a while, we will rebound, and hopefully we will thrive again.

I feel the current situation is more representative of the long term job market than the last few exuberant years.
I work at a multi national now and I see upper management do this but I or anyone else I work with never had to do this, also when I worked at a national (only in US and canada) company that employed mostly older folk and has a "mom and pop shop" kind of culture I never had to see this at all.

Only companies that have a lot of HR,legal and management people that were indoctrinated with this stuff in college seem to have this cultural component.
Just as many people have problems with this form of communication, many people find it hard to clearly express themselves in an environment where they're expected to put people's feelings above all else. What some might perceive as "hostile", others would simply call "honest". It's simply a matter of preference.
<map> was introduced in HTML 3.2 in 1997. The other technique I often saw was to cut the image into a grid of separate image files. They would look to the user as if they were a single image, but you could hyperlink some of the images so the effect was that parts of the overall image were hyperlinked and some weren't. Developers came up with all kinds of interesting tricks in those days!
Ask HN: Service for audio background music for videos
I have a site that allows users to upload video. I would like to give them option to select for a list of royalty free background music.

Are their any companies that provide a service like this? I’m currently use Transloadit for handling the video upload/transcoding and converting my videos to HSL for streaming. I know Transloadit has an option for merging separate audio tracks so I could leverage that. I guess what I really need is a nice UI for the user to select background music.

Thoughts?
And this is a good thing that we should do more of?
The key thing in the title is "without the trip"
This sounds like the difference between "fault tolerant" and "fail safe".

Fault tolerant - you get a fault, you keep moving.

Fail safe - you fail, and thus all operations are stopped.
I'm just going to accept that if I put your urinal in my art gallery, it becomes my fountain. I'm going to accept that because I enjoy it, and because that is the consensus.
> Well, yes, it'll take you longer if you stop to smell the roses.

And at the same time somehow "because you spent the majority of your game time not engaging with it in any way whatsoever."

> The side quests you must've been doing are there largely to pad game time.

Funny that. Elsewhere in this conversation people claim that "side quests, meanwhile, are almost always tied into the main story or its themes - even if you don't realize it at the time you're doing the quest" and "Every action from the first boss and beyond has meaning, and it gets more dramatic onward"

Or perhaps, just perhaps, and hear me out on this: the game is really shit at presenting this "unique storytelling not seen elsewhere"? Perhaps, just perhaps, twenty hours, three (or more?) bosses, and four locations is more than enough to give the player a sense and a feel for this amazing story beyond the absolute boring and predictable?

It's also immensely funny to me that my repeated questions of "when does the actual story start" are met with absolute silence and people either deferring or questioning my abilities.

So? When does this amazing story start? 40 hours in? 60? Ever?
Typical technobabble from someone who doesn't really understand floating-point.

Floating-point is not associative. Reordering operations yields different results, so no compiler will do so, unless you specifically disable standards conformance.

The use of SIMD, which is just a type of instruction-level parallelism, has no effect on the result of floating-point operations, unless of course you reorder your operations so that they may be parallelized.

What does affect the result of floating-point operations is when rounding happens and at what precision. If we're talking about C, the compiler is allowed to run intermediate operations with higher precision than that mandated by its type. This is merely so that it can use x87 which is 96-bit long by default and only round when it spills to memory and needs to store a 64-bit or 32-bit value. Compilers have flags to disable that behaviour, and it doesn't apply when the SSE unit instead of x87 is used. Using SSE for floating-point doesn't necessarily mean it's using SIMD, most of the instructions have scalar variants.

Another example is FMA, which might be substituted for any multiply+add operations.

In practice if your code breaks with this it just means it was incorrect in the first place.
Last I checked, ECL binaries are around ~10-20 MiB (including the shared file) and the price of having these binary sizes is start-up time which is around 500-1000ms.

BTW, since you program professionally in CL, do you use Emacs? Doom or custom?
For me, it's not necessarily derision, but lack of sympathy is natural.

If someone in my community (say a teacher) is making 45k a year, and they get laid off through no fault of their own, I will feel sympathy. They were contributing to the community as best they could, they were important, and now they are possibly struggling financially.

A developer making $300k? Working for an ad company? Not too much sympathy - they will probably be okay. People here usually brag about how much they make and how easy it is to find a job, anyway.

On top of that, there is this perception (not necessarily reality, but there is a kernel of truth) that California in particular has an outsized influence on the rest of the country, and does not really respect the beliefs of large swaths of our culture. You have corporations making unfathomable amounts of money dictating communications, interactions, etc, all from the silicon tower in California. That is a recipe for derision, whether it's logical or not.
> There are only degrees of safety.

Sure but people use this logic to justify no safety. Find me a marine a that goes into war totally naked.
"most academic work has nothing to do with diversity, so these mandatory statements force many academics to betray their quasi-fiduciary duty to the truth by spinning, twisting, or otherwise inventing some tenuous connection to diversity."
I think people who are downvoting must have misunderstood the joke. The joke is, add more butter. It's like estimating for an engineer, or adding the appropriate amount of salt and spice for a midwestern home cook. You can never ever go high enough. Whatever you were about to do with the butter, just multiply it by 3x and add 50% more on top again after.

(The one weird hack you wish you didn't know about your favorite restaurants' most flavorful dishes!)