skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The FSF and GNU project have always been a weird mix of things:

- (Especially FSF) A political organization to advance the ideals of free software, or more generally present a more equitable vision of how software can fit into society. Here RMS is effective, but for years now as a writer and thinker and not as an organizer or administrator. Here lots of others are qualified for those roles, but RMS has spent decades driving many of them off.

- (Especially GNU) A particular technical vision - probably best summarized as "a free user-programmable Unix". Here, RMS is fairly effective, but it's not clear this technical vision is good anymore. Qualitative advancement often happened via long-term, sometimes acrimonious forks (GCC, Emacs) or in parallel (Linux). A small steering committee would likely be a better approach to avoid RMS's personal technical biases and blindspots. And here again, RMS's approach has made a lot of people who could significantly contribute here uninterested in returning to try to fix this.

- A particular style of project/team management. This should have been dead, or at least not so dominant, as soon as Linux took off. But RMS has a style of working which is wildly out of sync with even his own contemporaries, let alone the current generation of programmers. And the development and administration end up bound to that, discouraging and occasionally completely forbidding anyone else.

- RMS's attempt to rebuild a social environment he had and lost at MIT. Especially for "core projects" - Emacs, GCC, Hurd - you had to be RMS's friend, or at least RMS would come to think you were his friend. This means technical disagreements would tend to get interpreted as personal betrayals, which is unproductive at best.

As long as RMS demands the organizations fulfill all of these (and especially the last) role, the good parts will never succeed dragging the bad parts along.
Ibram X Kendi does.
I'm not surprised, but continually amazed that people actually and truly think this way; that there's only one insidious group that are the problem, and only they will be the cause of disaster. Take the blinders off, there's more at work here that petty tribalism.
For the most part, DEI is groupthink but there are some that are so passionate you might describe that passion as religious fervor.

Ironically, DEI damages what are ostensibly its objectives.
Fundamental attribution error. There are no reprehensible people, there are only reprehensible deeds.
> the Modernist Bread set. It’s pricey...

$625 is not "pricey", it's ridiculuously expensive.
After you root out these reprehensible people, what do you suggest doing with them?
I'm thinking that whenever an undiscovered market gets discovered, this unlocks new undiscovered markets.

And back at the time, before Google Search, many many related markets didn't, couldn't, yet exist. And, back then, I'd think PageRank could count as one of the few and difficult thing to discover.

I think "low hanging fruit" makes it sound too easy :- )
We could discuss reproduction as a vibe, but it's easier and more falsifiable to discuss it as taking a photograph of a work, separating its colors, using those color separations to create plates (whether physical or digital), and using those plates to direct the application of dyes to a surface.

We can't deny that Warhol both intended to do and did that to the photograph.
OK, fair enough.

I suspect that the answer is "it depends on the culture". China seems to have a lot more control over the spread of anti-CCP ideas than Iran has over the spread of anti-regime ideas, and it isn't because of Iranian censors trying less or having worse tools. But the Iranian population seems to be much less conforming and more ready to rebel.
This could also be framed as a failure of the educational system.
Many of the extensions found their way into Turbo Pascal, albeit slightly shifted.

The DISCARD procedure is an interesting twist

The UNIV keyword to suppress parameter type checking was replaced with the ability to use untyped parameters.

VOLATILE declarations were clearly leading edge.
Could you expand a bit on data visualization and medical research? Did you develop libraries in these fields? Thanks!
Haidt gave a lecture on the topic at Duke in 2016. It's titled, "Two incompatible sacred values in American universities." It's on the YouTube channel of Duke's political science department.

It's been a while since I've watched the lecture, but what I remember is that Haidt sees the academy seeking truth as (potentially?) incompatible with the academy seeking social justice. As such, he anticipates a day when universities will have to choose individually which path they will follow.

I suspect that's the context in which Haidt is making this decision.
As a kernel developer, I mostly disagree. Panicking hard is nice unless you are the user whose system rebooted without explanation or the developer trying to handle the bug report saying “my system rebooted and I have nothing more to say”.

Getting logs out is critical.
When dealing with celebrity artists like Warhol, who made the art is always 99% of the story, 99.9% of the value at auction. You'll never get the art fanboys to admit this, because part of the game is pretending to see something special which puts them above the mere plebeians who can only perceive the mundane (who call a spade a spade.)
It would also mean that people could use this to say "All East Arbitaria people are less productive than all other ethnicities, therefore I shall ban them from my workplace. I am not anti-Arbitrian, I am just using the latest science". And of course these things are always statistical and so high performing East Arbitarians are going to be shut out of work because of this study.

The point is, there is a history of race-based discrimination in the world and researchers can't just pretend that it doesn't still exist when constructing these kinds of studies and how their outcomes could be used negatively by both benevolent and malevolent actors. It isn't just 'truth or not truth', also because lots of sociological studies aren't repeatable and many others suffer all sorts of issues with methods, populations, etc. Measuring people is crazy hard to do reliably. Anyway, my hot take is that its not a simple question and does not have a simple answer.
At the end since you are a hn user you very well know the way accounts get banned - 2FA or not. Blaming faang does not work.
Another example of something that feels pretty awesome that is also good for you. I strongly believe that, in the US in particular, we somehow developed this warped Puritanical idea that things that are "good for you" need to be painful or taste bad. We've also managed to often replace things that are both exquisitely wonderful for the senses and good for you with "cheap knock off" versions that are worse for you in all areas, both health-wise and experience-wise. Think a delicious dark chocolate (consensus seems to be lots of antioxidant benefits) vs a Hershey bar that is loaded with more sugar and tastes slightly of vomit.

Some more things that feel wonderful and are good for you that many Americans seem to have trouble appreciating for some reason:

1. sleep

2. a delicious meal with lots of fresh vegetables, fruits, nuts, etc.

3. a massage

4. exercise with friends (e.g. a jog or walk through the park, or a game of tennis).

5. a bike ride
While C/C++ has been made much safer by sanitizers, fuzzing and lints, they are:

- Only useful when actually being used, which is never the case. (Seriously, can we make at least ASAN the default?)

- Often costly to always turn them on (e.g. MSAN).

- Often requires restructuring or redesign to get the most out of them (especially fuzzing).

Rust's memory safety guarantee does not suffer from first two points, and the third point is largely amortized into the language learning cost.
>I'm not saying that censorship is just or desirable. Just that it works.

Does it though? Ideas are hard to kill. Just because you stop people from saying something in public, does not mean they aren't talking about it in private. In fact, oftentimes people even assume the thing you can't talk about must be really important or else they'd let you talk about it. And in turn, it holds more powerful and spreads further. I don't think censorship is really effective at stopping ideas

You say ideas are like viruses. Since when has trying to stop viruses worked?
I think there's a limit to what can be achieved with drugs, still a lot awaits to be discovered out there. Did you ever read Shulgin's PIKHAL and TIKHAL?

LSD doesn't so much give you those kind of hallucinations (seeing people that aren't there etc), in fact it's effects are pretty hard to nail down, all kinds of things can happen on a trip.

But the closest analogy is still a "model psychosis", in other words you will experience what people have when they have psychosis, for about 8-10 hours.
Toyota has phevs (plug-in hybrids) that can run fully off of the battery. They have gotten a lot of shit over the past year for arguing that these should be incentivized by the government in addition to full electric vehicles, but I think there is some merit to their position.

Right now a lot of people who buy electric cars are wealthier people who also own other cars. This is not inherently bad and, for example, if a household that is going to own multiple cars either way chooses to make one of those electric it may be a win for the environment, but if people are buying extra cars because they are excited about electric cars but also need a conventional car when they go longer distances, that may not actually be that great.

Until there are sufficient charger networks everywhere, it might actually be better to incentives phevs to build up the infrastructure and ensure that people who can only afford to own one car but need to travel longer distances can still use electricity for shorter trips in the form of phevs rather than continuing to use conventional cars. It's not completely clear if EV adoption will continue to accelerate or if it's going to hit limits when we run out of people who can easily switch. Toyota may have a point in that the current timetable for full adoption of evs may be unrealistic, and if it is, it might be better to compromise slightly more if it makes it easier to build up the infrastructure on a more realistic timetable rather than risk hitting a wall

If we set the goal as 100% of vehicles being EVs in a relatively short amount of time, we're going to run into problems who are currently unable to use EVs because of the lack of a fast charger network. (In reality, battery swapping would probably make sense for longer trips once everyone is using evs, but there is zero infrastructure for that right now.)

That said, another issue with electric cars in general is that for the type of short trip where they make the most sense, it might arguably be better for the environment to focus on electric public transportation when possible anyway (especially non-battery-powered street cars and light rail which aren't affected by supply of some of the elements required for batteries).

Also, if we can't hit the targets for EV adoption we may have difficulty hitting environmental goals in general.
Ibram X Kendi is explicitly advocating for racial discrimination here. Just racial discrimination in favor of his race. That is pretty obviously racist.
Flagging a gentle and reasonable statement like "that isn't what I meant" isn't a practical way to handle disagreement, and doesn't follow HN's rules

The punishment culture for not being part of the crowd has gotten too much here.
If it comes down to a subjective debate about aesthetics in a courtroom, we've veered into a bad direction.
I suspect people misinterpret me pointing out that a group has been historically discriminated against and denied education, or at least not being provided accommodations that allow them to participate, as being bigoted.

A lot of people don't realize that the dominant language of a country is usually a deaf person's second or third language. Thus, they may be more comfortable speaking in their first language, sign language (which is regional and not one global language*).
The Christian right could make identical arguments, and a few decades ago had the political power to deplatform” those who disagreed with them. Why is your argument different?
Those things can often work, but the depressed mind is often 100% convinced that there is no way out. Nothing you do can make a difference.

Intellectually you can agree that all those things are worth doing.

But some deep calculating part of your mind will see that between hard work that will not help, and doing nothing which will also not help, the latter is the rational choice.
Did you mean ironic?
DocArray: a data structure for unstructured data
Most people would have to buy the cable too, and either run it through their walls, under doors, or restrict their play to whatever room their router is in.
> Toyota does have the most fun to drive hybrid motors though, that is subjective of course.

I can buy that; My Ford Hybrid (drivetrain AFAIR is/was cross licensed from Toyota) has been way more enjoyable to drive than I expected.
ETA on the cancellation date?
> And yes, a lot of the time when people are setting up a router they have the router at hand.

While I have no doubt that this is true for home-grade firewall/NAT/wifi combo boxes in general, with very few exceptions OpenWRT is not a thing you get out of the box nor a thing "normal people" install.

The Venn diagram of "people who have chosen to install an alternate firmware on their home network appliance" and "people who don't have an ethernet capable device around at basically all times" can't have a lot of overlap.
For me, Stadia was by far the best gaming experience I've had in recent history. I'm a very casual gamer so I don't really want to invest a lot in hardware or buying games. Stadia made it very cheap for me to easily jump into a game session whenever I wanted with minimal upfront investment. I'm most disappointed to see Ubisoft+ on Stadia gone since several franchises I like were Ubisoft and now I have no easy way to play.

I'll probably check out GeForce NOW at some point, but I currently don't have a way to use my only controller (Stadia) with my TV.
> popular among the administrative class

There you have it. And will remain popular as long as it's a ticket to career advancement. Or, in plainer terms, to power.

From the mid-20th century, a satire in allegorical form:

https://mathematicalcrap.com/2022/08/14/the-great-loyalty-oa...
This has nothing to do with the common definition of "safety".Terms change their meaning based upon their use and context. The author has a clear use in mind - memory safety.

The rules of arugment existed long before the linux kernel. You don't get to change terms introduced within a arugment with a clear meaning because it helps you create a strawman. If you want to change the definition of a term mid arugment, you telegraph it. Once again, this is called conflation.
>But this is supposed to be a retail business not wholesale, I am trying very hard to get the professors' point in this debate but I just can't.

You are correct. His point would be along the lines of "There is obviously value surplus left over in the current pricing or else the ticket-reseller would not be able to have a profitable business".

The ethics of competing directly with retail consumers by denying them access to the tickets was not a consideration. Clearly their WTP was higher than the venue's/event's pricing, so they see no problem with this.

At least that was my interpretation of the situation. From a business-person's perspective it all seems reasonable enough. From a consumer's perspective it stinks to high heaven and seems like something that should be illegal.
Influencer Marketing: How are you leveraging it?
hey hackers,

i am curious to how you all are leveraging influencer marketing as I am working on a platform to help startups connect with influencers and run campaigns. would some of you be available to answer my questions (sort of customer interviews / consultant questions)?
this is such a blatantly untrue statement, made in good, faith steelmanning it, curiously
That's great, because my comment never assumed the existence of neutral review.

It merely pointed out that some kinds of DEI input to review are almost certainly helpful to advancing science (e.g. ensuring we get reasonable samples in social research); some are controversial (e.g. favoring diverse researcher groups); and some are almost certainly harmful (e.g. determining whether the research can be published based on whether it makes a pro-DEI finding).
Autolyse probably is not the best example. I have several bread-making books and I don't think a single one advocates for autolyse. Not Tartine, not Forkish's, not Reinhart's. Lots of youtubers and bloggers love it though, no idea why.
Where is "marketing" coming from here?

If you read more of her stuff, I think it's clear that it's presented as sort of a personal space. When written for an audience that isn't The General Hacker News Audience, things like that... work differently. It might be her and like two friends in a group chat that were bouncing this around and maybe talked about how it's relevant and she wrote this up to sketch out the idea more.

When the opening says "there's still software out here that makes me feel happy to use" and the concluding paragraph says "Obviously, not all software needs to fit into this" I just don't think you can judge this by the standards of A Manifesto Seeking New Adherents.
Funny that after 8 years of a supposed healthy rad diet, you still have to take daily acid Reflux medication.

My own experience is that i had to take for almost 10 years pills against acid reflux at huge dose (after each meals) when i was obese and on Standard Western Diet.

After loosing 42kg on Keto and being mostly carnivore for more than 2 years now, i never had an acid reflux episode since 4 years.

But at least your b12 level is good...
YouTube-dl has gone slow af ,yt-dlp is fork that solves that ,my guess is some kind of fingerprinting YouTube is employing to throttle YouTube dl
I find that code performance optimization is not worthwhile a lot of the time. But developer performance optimization is almost always worthwhile.

One might argue that cheap overseas development labour makes it a commodity, but I care more for being humane towards humans than CPUs.
Sorry for my earlier knee-jerk reaction but I have a very strong aversion to people with legitimate concerns being told to 'get over it' especially by someone with no authority on the matter. It especially hit home because we have similar discussions going on in my workplace.

Covid showed that working from home works out just fine and health concerns aren't the only reasons to want it. Many younger people have concerns with kids in school and for the environment it's great too.

And no I didn't just start work :)
I want to see figures broken down by regions, especially in Europe and China.
>when it had a clear meaning in its use

Thats not the issue though. It's that "safe" means something is actualy safe. My house isn't safe if its on fire, even if the house is in a safe neighborhood. Linus' claim is that "rust people" sometimes themselves conflate memory saftey with general code saftey, simply because "safe" is in the name. So much so that they will at times sacrifice code quality to achieve this goal despite (a) memory saftey not being real saftey and (b) there is no way to guarantee memory saftey in the kernel anyway. What he is saying is that "rust people" (whatever that means) are at times trading off real saftey or real code maintenance/performance for "rust saftey."

>a compiler - or language infrastructure - that says "my
rules are so ingrained that I cannot do that" is not one that is valid for kernel work.

And

>I think you are missing just how many things are "unsafe" in certain contexts and cannot be validated.

>This is not some kind of "a few special things".

>This is things like absolutely _anything_ that allocates memory, or takes a lock, or does a number of other things.

>Those things are simply not "safe" if you hold a spinlock, or if you are in a RCU read-locked region.

>And there is literally no way to check for it in certain configurations. None.

You can judge wheter he is correct but he never said rust's saftey implies absolute saftey, only that some rust users are treating it that way by sacrificing the code for it. If that's the case then it makes a lot of sense to start using a more sensible word like "guaranteed" instead of safe. I think part of what contibutes to this idea is that "unsafe" code is written with the keyword "unsafe" as if code written not that way is safe, and code written with "unsafe" is bad. That's not to say that "unsafe" actually implies any of that - all it means is that it's not guaranteed to be memory safe - but according to Linus it creates a certain mentality which is incongruent with the nature of kernel development. And the reason for that is that safe and unsafe are general english words with strong connotations such as:

>protected from or not exposed to danger or risk; not likely to be harmed or lost.

>uninjured; with no harm done.

And for unsafe:

>able or likely to cause harm, damage, or loss
There are other serotonin receptors at which psychedelics are active besides 2a
Bakers were under constant suspicion of cheating customers and the regulations. Adulterated flour was a big concern too, not just loafs too small or airy. To manage their reputations, I think bakers would rationally take any edge they can get.
I've always thought of baking as a science and cooking as an art (although both are on a spectrum from art to science).
The people who first do the targeted group violence are the bad guys.
What frustrates me about Stable Diffusion is there doesn't seem to be any documentation as to what artists or vocabulary it understands. Generally people say "look at existing prompts or use various prompt generators" but that doesn't really solve the problem. I don't want to just look at what other people have randomly discovered; I want to know what the program really knows.
Switzerland is generally looked upon as the closest a country can get to democratic these days and, from what I understand, more contentious topics there are resolved by referendums. That's something I'd agree with. Generally politicians should be there to deal with the boring details, not to make decisions about the foundational law like constitution, because the general population doesn't know any better. They're there to make governing scalable to the size of modern countries, not to take decisions away from us (at least in an idealistic view of the world).

In some countries, when inevitably a party, which wouldn't win pair-wise elections with most of other parties, wins the elections nonetheless and forms a government, they proceed to make fundamental changes to the governance structures of the country, which the population does not support. That's not an edge-case of representational democracy, it's its MO.

If I were a Debian Developer, I would like a vote in such fundamental topics, instead of needing to rely on someone somewhere representing me. This change is different than a change of say optimisation flags used when compiling Firefox. Bear in mind that there are distributions which aren't as democratic as Debian. So to use your argument: if a member doesn't like this structure, they may leave for another distro.
> fruits

One that only belongs in careful moderation.

Edit: I'm getting downvoted, so I'll elaborate. The sugar content of fruit is not great for you. The beneficial effects of the fiber and vitamin content do not offset the detrimental effects of the sugar.

Treat fruit as you would a dessert. In moderation.