skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now is the time to call me Doctor!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_A8Xe9M0NY

Call me doctor (Call me doctor)
No need to look
He's not in the book
The doctor's not an M.D.
What he does this time he does for free

https://genius.com/Devo-theme-from-doctor-detroit-lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2VaMIFEQDg

>Mom, I am going to rip off your head and shit down your neck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeOBZWQEJE4

>For whatever intimidation and injustice vie with decency and honor, let the Doctors arise, and arise they must, for within every one of us, there is a Doctor, a dormant Doctor, a supreme arbitrator, who can be summoned to intervene, when crises threaten the stabilities and well-beings of our heartlands. Now let's party!
Copernicus and Galileo being harangued by the Church of their time, and stifling progress of the obvious, is more popular myth than historical fact. It has been debunked many, many times. Ironically, the fervor and persistence with which this story gets propagated ad nauseam feels almost ... religious.

I wish people would stop dropping it as the de facto example of interference with science when there are so many better ones (and also current ones). It's a bad analogy, evokes emotion, and ultimately it typically does a disservice to the argument intended.
> red for… power delivery, maybe?

I'd go with yellow, like how we draw lightning.
maybe this helps https://youtube.com/channel/UCQRc3PMlCsoodxbR4IsglKQ
Been using it for ~5 years full time and the UI is one if the main reasons to use Datadog vs hand rolling it based in Grafana. The productivity of developers creating datadog dashboards vs in other tools was way better.

Have you ever timed how long it takes a normal user to do certain things easily, say during an incident, or you're just crapping on the CSS?
At the same time that Europe was conquering America, the Mughals were conquering India. But the Arabic script did not supplant Devanagari in India. Had the Islamic empires adopted the printing press as strongly as the Europeans did, one could very well imagine proto-Urdu texts flooding India, literacy in the Arabic script being a requirement for social advancement, and Devanagari being relegated to religious use.
Are you sure? I used to manage a department with over 100 Apple devices. Too many issues with sync on iCloud, iCal, keynote(etc). Sure works fine for 1-4 users (family). Even in hn people use fastmail, google maps in iPhone. There are so few suggestion to people move to apple email offering. People with Apple devices primarily use Google products.
> Being constantly - and intimately - integrated with the information network will raise a number of sociological and ethical questions. Do we really want our brains to be interconnected in a giant data mesh? Don’t we aspire to some level of complete privacy, fully off the grid?

We could argue that at some point (temporary) disconnection will become a privilege for the happy few. As we’ve seen in recent crises such as the aftermath of 9-11 or the COVID-19 pandemic, most people are ready to give up some of their privacy in exchange for security or health benefits.

Moreover, if everyone around you gets gradually enhanced, you’ll probably prefer to join the microchip movement instead of losing out to the cyborgs. The gregarious sense of belonging is usually stronger than the urge for freedom and self-expression.

Solving all the fundamental ethical problems of giving up your individual self in less than three paragraphs. I love it!
I am but a collection of matter channeling energy that I do not understand or comprehend, but feel and know. I suppose it’s the reverberated universe I can call my soul. It’s my connection, which is different than others. Sometimes I think it’s stronger.

Like the horses running from Mt St Helen’s before the eruption, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to open up for different signals. So far so good actually!
While true you can use HN just fine with JS disabled.
On your point about talking about Free Software projects as 'dictatorships', the analogy looks especially silly if you bring it back the other way, which would mean that anyone living in a real world dictatorship could simply 'fork' the country they are living in, recreating/replicating all its lands, forests, cities & towns and install themselves as the new ruling class and attract a new population to people their newly created land. Without any bloodshed; the old 'dictatorship' and its physical lands still exist in a parallel reality and they can carry on along their own original path. Also, people living in these two lands can 'teleport' to the other reality, if they decide they like it better. Doesn't sound very oppressive now, with the analogy properly extended.
RMS is clearly on the spectrum, yet his reputation precedes him so most people never actually apply rigour to his positions.
I would like to thank white christian men for bringing writing to Africa and America. /s
(i'm white).
I'm pretty sure that Gengis Han was able to conquer Europe only doing calculations with his brain. /s
What I don't understand. Why didn't they push stadia on mobile more? Why didn't they make a switch like controller for phones and sold it? And when you installed the stadia app, the first you see is a popup that forces you to buy the premium subscription.
Thanks for the questions!

I bought the ninth edition so I could have copy in my own bedroom; I was possessive about books as a child.

I bought the thirteenth edition after reading an article in the New Yorker magazine about the eleventh. I’ve added a screenshot of the first page of that article to my website above.

As explained in that New Yorker article as well as in the parent Spectator article, those old Britannicas made particularly good reading for people who like reading deeply about miscellaneous topics. Later editions aimed for more objectivity and, because of all that happened in the twentieth century, had to cover more topics on the same amount of (or even less) paper. That made them less suitable for expository writing and for recreational reading.

From 1986 until 2005, I worked at home as a freelance Japanese-to-English translator. I translated a wide variety of texts about many topics, many of which I was not familiar with (currency sorting machines, oil refinery equipment, Korean ceramics, automobile racing, French film, ...). Since going to a library to look up a few words or facts would take a lot of time, I gradually acquired a large collection of paper dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference books. I also bought quite a few CD-ROM references, though most of those had the same content as the paper versions.

Beginning in the late 1990s, first with search engines (AltaVista, Google) and then with Wikipedia, it became quick and easy to look up facts online, and I gradually stopped using paper references.

As others have noted here, Wikipedia is not as entertaining a reading experience as the old Britannicas, which could be opinionated, even witty, while also reflecting the prejudices and biases of the authors and their age. Wikipedia’s great strength is its breadth. The topics covered in Britannica have always been slanted toward matters that mainstream academics and educators consider important and legitimate. It was nearly useless for pop culture and subculture topics, and it didn’t have enough space for all of the obscure stuff that Wikipedia covers in often obsessive detail.

Of course Wikipedia has problems with errors, vandalism, and sometimes sloppy writing, but overall it is a magnificent achievement. I am very grateful to be able to use it.
you were in the CGI industry ? I remember how advanced nichimen mirai (lisp based) was compared to most 3d animation packages, and seeing how easy it is to manipulate complex data and infer new ideas i'm not surprised it led to nicer software compared to c/cpp based ones.
I'm curious about this and someone here might know. Why do they bind to the 5HT2a receptor yet not cause trips?

I always assumed the difference in strength between, say, DMT and psilocybin was because DMT was "more agonist" (pardon the layman terms).

Do these molecules intrinsically not cause trips, or is this more akin to microdosing? Would a higher dose of these molecules cause a trip?
original answer:

Ok. I got it. Literally speaking there are two (maybe more?) known bugs. Do we know how many are there for Windows and macOS? I get freezes every now and then under macOS, so there _might_ be memory management issues there as well.

My point stills stands because I believe that the bugs you posted are largely inconsequential. Bugs could be very well been patched by now (or not). My guess the fix won't uptick the % of linux in desktop or server market.

IMHO "the truth is in the pudding": if the largest share of mobile OS's is based on linux (android) and largest % in servers in again based on linux, memory management is overall good enough - otherwise the market share would have dropped considerably.

UPDATE: Revisiting the thread question... I'm barking at the wrong tree. The question wasn't about relevance and market %. Your comment is to the point.
Faster renders favour people in socioeconomically deprived areas who lack higher-end resources and thus face a barrier to entry in the field.

Boom. Submit.
That doesn't quite explain why it's specifically anti-Asian though?
Taking a Creative Sabbatical as a Software Engineer
These days, many of the people who pretend to act professionally are paid and do very little.

Periodically, they usurp huge contributions from outsiders and market the success to their employers as a project success without mentioning the actual author. Then they boss around the author until he/she rage-quits.

And while they were young, they were entirely rude and unprofessional. CoCs are a political tool to protect the inner circle.

At least RMS is not a hypocrite. Neither is Torvalds.
Bruce Willis denies selling rights to his face
Yes, completely agree, same here. I don't touch Google products any more, and it's mostly because I don't trust they will remain available.

I only use the products that are very unlikely to go away quickly. Search, Gmail and Android. I'd like to get off Gmail for other reasons, but it's a pain. And I mostly use DuckDuckGo for search these days.
> You, as a contributor, can advocate a certain decision, which means you present arguments why I should approve it. I don't need to advocate a decision in that sense.

A long long time ago I was a moderator at a (mostly) teenagers' forum. And back then my personality morphed into a state that may talk like that. I'm not proud of it. It lasted for a half a year or so, before I recognized that I became a jerk. I still feel the shame. I hope though that it was a good for me to see how power corrupts. I hope I'm immune to it now. But it is sad to see it in RMS.
A professional is by definition someone who receives money for their work.

Are you paying RMS for work rendered? If not, you have no standing to demand RMS act professionally.

Not to mention, FOSS by its own definition excludes all facets of money and is in practice primarily driven by volunteers. You can't and shouldn't demand professional behaviour from people who are not professionals.
I had once a rather long e-mail discussion with RMS, regarding some points that I believe to be logical contradictions and inconsistencies in GPL, concerning the meaning of the concept of "linking", in opposition with LGPL, which I consider as a fine license.

While I have presented a series of arguments, which in my opinion could not be refuted logically, it was not possible to change RMS's mind about anything, so the discussion has ended with everybody keeping their original opinions, unchanged.

Nevertheless, I am immensely grateful to RMS for his past work. I am a very good programmer and i could have been able to write all the programs that I use daily, including an operating system, device drivers, compilers or a text editor.

Nevertheless that is a huge amount of work, which would have taken many years of my life. Due to the open-source movement, I was able to benefit of the work shared by countless others, thus saving an enormous amount of time.

I usually take advantage of the open-source nature of the programs to make customizations that would have been impossible when using proprietary programs. However, making various modifications to an open-source program is orders of magnitude less work than writing the program from scratch.

While the great quantity of open-source programs existing now is the work of a very large number of developers, RMS has played a critical role in catalyzing this evolution, which must not be forgotten.

I also agree with the author of the article that in general all the targets set by RMS about free software and hardware remain as valuable and important as ever, but the strategy and tactics advocated by him are no longer effective and by now it cannot be expected that he will ever change in the future.
What on good earth are you talking about ? Google results upon launch were miles ahead of anything else at the time. I personally Googled once and never went back.
Not really a fair comparison. How can you compare weight gain to a mental illness?
This is very culturally dependent, you would be surprised at the # of openly proclaimed Drs in Central Europe - the academic culture inherited from the ancient German-speaking empires loves all sorts of titles.

But this is not relevant here, as Dr. Stahlmann doesn't work in Tübingen.
Huh, okay, so, to clarify my understanding, because of the quotas, assuming a fixed amount of available spots, less Asians get in than they would without the quotas.

But a) wouldn't that apply to other demographics too? and b) All Asians? Are Hmong, for example, over-represented in college enrollments?

I'm just trying to understand why it's specifically anti-Asian.
I could have said chat clients, games, maps or other things that absolutely require JavaScript. I said upvote on HN to illustrate that even the most basic site still needs some JS to create a sane experience. Having the page reload every time you upvote a comment is not a good alternative.
set and setting. 2C-E showed me how I was a tiny spec, on a tiny speck of a planet, in an infinitely large universe, cold and unfeeling and uncaring, loved only in a tiny way by only a couple of other tiny specs, all of whom would die in a brief instant, cosmically speaking. it was like Carl Sagan showed up to tell me how meaningless my existence was.

also, unbearable sensory overload as the panic attack worsened, seconds took minutes to pass, and my kidneys felt like they were failing (they were fine though.)

the ego death was more or less permanent. my "self" never recovered, I had to build a new one. uncanny experiences of feeling like I wasn't my parents' real daughter, that my phone was a dead person's. I wasn't the same person. but this person is better than she was.

so.. worth it in the (years-)long run, but hardly sunshine and roses! bad trips are scary. 2C-E is known for being cold and analytical, but I'm sure you can have similar experiences on acid.
> Want native apps? LiveView Native is a thing https://native.live/. One app to do it all.

I have been here before – and still confused. There is no actual... code repo? Is it hidden in the Slack channel or does it simply not exist yet?

EDIT: Okay, I guess it's just still very early into the Native stuff.
Probably because the author isn't a... ummm... "system programming folk"?
I was not using the word "professionally" that way, it's a different definition that is not contingent on getting paid.

“The skill, good judgment, and polite behavior that is expected from a person who is trained to do a job well” Merriam-Webster
Google is refunding everything, not just hardware.

Contrast this to Amazon for instance, where movies/tv shows you have bought just disappear from your account when Amazon loses the license to serve them.
What dosage did you take? I've heard low doses can actually be a deeply frustrating experience.
> [...] is a real problem that people really experience, with a lot of people agreeing that it is a problem and suggesting various mitigations [...]

tl;dr: I believe you are overblowing the importance of the bugs. In the bigger scheme of things they're more likely inconsequential.

(see my other reply for more)
IIRC, no money changed hands - it was just cross-promotion (like TV cross-over episodes).

I thought it was pretty harmless fun, YMMV.
Best plan to do it soon. The view will soon be littered with satellites.

https://earthsky.org/space/satellites-versus-stars-night-sky...
What is a “cognitive hallucination”? LSD can absolutely change your thought patterns
Ask HN: How to Get into Stocks and Finance in 2022?
Hello. I have my internship coming up and I’ll have my own money for the first time!

I want to get into stocks and other financial things like forex, etc. What do you recommend to learn this stuff?

I’m also interested in seeing how the financial world really works. I think it would help me in making more money. Are there any resources for that?
You seem to be suggesting that the only way to right past wrongs is to commit further wrongs. Is there really no positive way forward?
What's your use case with New Relic? New Relic has been deemed inferior to DataDog across the comments here, wondering how much value you are getting from New Relic nowadays.
> All about type theory and functional programming

That’s quite an exaggeration. There’s a lot on here that is not related to type theory or functional programming.
Can you tell me what the difference is between your DEV and SANDBOX environemnts is? Curious to know.
> that's evil!

Not a Brit, so not directly involved, but, yes, letting private enterprise sneaking their way in into a government-run health system is the beginning of pure evil.
I wonder if there are any historical examples of racial discrimination justified by invoking evolution.

This argument is hilarious but this is not a turn I expected it to take.
Interesting to see this post because the only exposure I have to Transhumanism is from watching "True Life: I'm a Transhumanist" (maybe it was 'I want to be a cyborg' don't remember).
It's a valid pursuit in theory and this article makes me more interested in finding literature on the subject. But I do hope Transhumanists fulfill their pursuit in a safe and "scientific" manner.
Elaborating on this, there is a passage quoted in the article from the most common text on "anti-racism" : "The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination."

The consequences of this are easy to illustrate in orchestras. Orchestras have always been heavily dominated by white and Asian musicians. When it was argued that this was due to discrimination in hiring, the solution was quite simple and tasteful - swap to blind auditions. And that is something few would oppose. So they did.

The problem is that not only did it fail to create more diverse orchestras, in many cases they became even less diverse than they were prior. So now the 'anti-racist' view is that orchestras need to begin being racist against white and Asian applicants, and start biasing selection by race. [1] Groups that disproportionately overperform become acceptable targets for racism.

Incidentally this is not entirely different than the motivation for some of the darkest moments in our history. Alas people never seem to appreciate that the "evil" groups in times past never saw themselves as evil, but simply as people engaging in temporarily distasteful action for a greater future. That greater future never comes, but the distasteful actions certainly do. Of course, "this time it'll be different."

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/music/blind-audition...
You are probably right, I honestly can't remember. I do remember really liking the uncluttered page though!
Sounds like you're saying tax payers should bail out whatever bad decisions SpaceX employees make.

No thanks.
> I wish people would stop dropping it as the de facto example of interference with science when there are so many better ones (and also current ones)

Could you provide some examples of better stories to use instead?
> We can tolerate some flaws in people who are doing good work.

Not trying to be snarky, I'm genuinely curious. I know that RMS has been very active in the emacs-dev mailing-list. Not sure if he's become more active after he was forced to step down from FSF board, and what impact (if any) his return has made.
Aside from turning emacs-dev mailing list into a weird place where one has to be a bit careful even when asking technical questions, what "good work" has RMS done in the past decade?
Again, I'm not trying to downplay his achievements and accomplishments in the past, I'm sincerely interested to know about his work. I know he wrote tons of essays, but he doesn't contribute to Emacs codebase anymore, right?
It's anti-asian and also anti- any race that isn't on the list of beneficiaries. The original argument could have been conveyed better by framing it more broadly, but it isn't wrong.
Preach my friend
No, it died because it was mismanaged as a product. There were technical issues when it launched but more importantly, there never was a good strategy for content. So, the catalogue was a combination of expensive and lacking in titles. I tried it out briefly because on paper it wasn't a bad idea. Except the free games were mostly not worth the money and the paid games were the same price as actually buying the games. But without the option of actually installing and owning them. And the one game I tried disconnected after a few minutes. So, I pulled the plug on the free trial.

Google has had a long history of messing up on the content front. They've made a lot of false starts with Youtube to get into paid content and it just never took off. Netflix is raking in billions from paid subscriptions. Not so much with Youtube. Few people pay for the premium content because there hardly is any worth paying for.

Where Apple TV, Amazon Prime, Netflix and others succeeded, Google failed repeatedly to get a compelling offering of content together. It's a blind spot they have; they seem unable to come up with a coherent plan. They can do the tech but not the content. I'm not sure what it is. On paper the tech is a lot harder and they do have deep pockets. But when it comes to content they are a combination of stupid and frugal and somehow refuse to spend money on good content to lure in customers.

With Stadia, they had the right idea and all they would have had to do was two things: fix the bugs and get some amazing games in there. They dropped the ball on both fronts. So, it failed because they never gave it a proper chance to begin with.
This falls apart when viewed from the perspective of two FOSS collaborators. Neither is getting paid so both can act like privileged pricks?
Just follow the science
Could such dead matter account for any of the missing mass attributed to Dark Matter? Very vaguely, the dead matter distribution looks vaguely like a DM halo around the galaxy.
Laminar Flow Aircraft: The most promising development in Aviation
> Our architecture isn't fully based on serverless because we like to get work done

What do you mean by this?
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia had an English edition. I once came across it in a public library. It was an interesting read. The articles on mathematics were jewels. They'd clearly been written by people who really understood the subject. The articles on economics were interesting, as they went into the nuts and bolts of how planning in the USSR worked. It wasn't optimized for money. It was optimized for criteria such as minimum ton-miles of transportation. The political articles were just weird. They read like too many people had censored them.
Never understood why nobody talks about NewsExplorer https://apps.apple.com/app/id1032668306, the only third party app on my phone that is available on ALL platforms it’s actually insane