skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In less that two years, this will be common over here as well.
Stadia didn't see a market for single-player games anymore
The webpage calls it remote function. Close enough.

Also the author: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33054242

> Author of Telefunc here. I'm glad folks are finally taking RPC seriously.
> implement it yourself. It’s not very difficult

But that's not where others failed. Instead, it's coming up with the idea, realizing that it's a truly good idea, that was the important thing. (Remember, Yahoo and other(s) didn't want to buy Google and the algorithm, when they had the chance.)

Maybe if you replace "totally low hanging fruit", with "It was undiscovered winner-takes-it-all markets" I'd agree.

In hindsight, everything is obvious.
But initially, discovering that opportunity — looking at how many people (how few, just 2) did, it wasn't easy.
Stupid thing is, I'm pretty sure he could have licensed the picture for what would have been a trivial sum for Warhol
I don't know about Seattle, but here in Europe, when speaking of "e-bikes" people speak of a specific category that only goes up to 25 kmph (16 mph). Basically, it only goes faster than a normal bike if it's either very loaded or up a hill.

E-bikes that go faster than that are, as you suggest, treated like light motorcycles, and require all the same things: license, insurance, registration, and equipment (motorcycle helmet and gloves in the EU) and are explicitly forbidden from riding on bike lanes.
Palantir is a contracting company. What do you mean by an "EU version of Palantir"? It doesn't make sense.
I assumed they meant older in terms of heritage. But it’s still an unfair comment given how nice ale is.
I think it's clear RMS has some good principles, and an absolutely awful personality that doesn't make for a good leader.

There's a solution to that: shove him off somewhere to the side, enshrined as a "spiritual leader" people consult with for nuggets of wisdom, and then 99% of the actual functioning of the organization is done by other people.
At CMU I worked on the problem of human/robot cooperation to change a car tire.

I wish I had such a robot for such an experiment.
The whole GPL/LGPL dichotomy requires that GPL programs not be usable as part of commercial software. They can discourage linking through copyleft, but they also need to not let their code have any other API, such as an LSP for editors to get type info. Gcc has been hampered by not having import/export between passes for decades. The LLVM ecosystem shows how useful that is.
> prohibit a psychologist studying something like memory retention

wat? how? why?

real social justice doesn't work that way. (contrary, it needs to know deficiencies so it can help those who are in need, so people have equal opportunities for self-actualization.)
Can anyone tell me the standard for determining if a mouse is depressed? Or anxious? Just curious
Just as RRGGBB has a three colour shorthand, you can use for characters too: RGBA as a shorthand for RRGGBBAA.
I think "kou" has more than 30 meanings, which is maddening even while speaking.

But the in person context is not the same as written context. There are several elements of context, such place, people, situation, which are obvious to parse in a spoken conversation, but would have to be introduced when writing.
What is HTTP COOK request method in my logs?
Generally speaking, if you are a citizen of country X and you are in country X accused of violating the laws of country X then any citizenship of country Y that you might have is irrelevant.
> I’m bewildered by the prevalent anti-RMS sentiment I see so frequently on “hacker” news.

Why would it bewildering? The guy created a great thing, but is now one of the main impediments in the way of its success. I'd rather have his principles outlive him. His creation is more important than he is.
I never had much trouble with input lag or dropouts. Perhaps region-specific?

I still didn't see any value in Stadia though. The cloud-only full-price approach was the main issue (GeForce Now had them beat there), but also their investment in hardware has been pitiful, so you're effectively playing at low graphics settings. Rather than addressing that, they chased the 4K buzzword. The kind of gamers who insist on 4K aren't the kind who want to use cloud gaming services. GeForce Now understood this, Stadia didn't.

Incidentally Google were sued for supposedly misleading promotion of their 4K support:
https://www.pcgamer.com/stadias-4k-gaming-claims-come-back-t...
I don't know either, but it's definitely a common case. They have around 200 issues devoted to startup performance.

Meanwhile, NeoVim is consistently starting under 500ms for me, even being heavy loaded with plugins and offering all the same functionality (NeoVim is pretty awesome as an IDE these days).
I read that more as someone duct taping the safety valve closed, or hammering a steel bar a little out of place so that the valve can never fully open.
Basically if your research is considered bad for the dominant DEI narratives you're going to be in for a bad time.

E.g. if your research gets the "wrong" results regarding police shootings then anyone who defends your research will have to resign: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2020/06/resignation.html?m=1

And anything regarding differences in crime numbers or IQ? Forget it.
I would 100% agree with this list.

Linux as a desktop has come so far, KDE is great for people who prefer the windows-like workflow, and Gnome for people who prefer a mac-like workflow.

(Keyword there is like, for everyone who is about to nitpick)

The dumbest thing is as you said the infighting over the same things.. that and the "This is better because it's harder, and thus I'm better than you because I'm using the harder option". Those need to go away. Like Arch could offer the user a choice at the start.. do a manual install or use arch-install (the guided option).. that would go a long way.. also put the AUR helpers in the main repo... Why i have to manually install Yay every new install... It's beyond me.

Flatpak is amazing, Gnome is amazing, Linux app support now is amazing. Proton is amazing.

Seriously it's just remove the two barriers of entry
1. The "Linux is hard" rhetoric which turns users away
2. The easier install of applications (this is happening with flatpak and other things)
autonomy of "private" institutions partially died with the mechanism of tying title ix compliance to any federal dollars. i think there are 2 colleges in America that take 0 federal aid (pell grants etc.) so don't have to comply.

tbh i always found it contradictory we don't use those federal $ to require compliance with all constitutional rights, e.g. 1 and 2a.
Yom Kippur War
They can (and do in most of Europe) take public transport.
Studies that show the genetic diversity of the continent of Africa are in fact "anti-racist".

They truthfully reveal that the psuedoscientific 19th century ideas we refer to as race had no scientific basis. Some people really haven't taken this "truth" well though.

They still try to fit every new fact into their old model.

Like "West African Scorpios" are much more open to emotion, while "East African Scorpios" are open to new experience. So should we stop all research into Astrology?

Yes, because it's psuedoscientific nonsense that only distracts from the actual truth.

This current controversy includes the attempts to stop exactly this, with rules saying if you do medical research, and classify people by "race" then you need to explain who made this classification and why. Because a Brazilian looking a photos might put people into different races than an American or Japanese researcher, which might differ from the subjects chosen race, which definately differs from their genetic race, because genetic races don't exist.
It's actually even worse. It is enough for research to not actively promote "social justice" (which is of course anything but social or just) to get the boot.

So everything must be politicised. "How does your new caching algorithm promote social justice?". (If the same criteria were applied in CS).
Having worked with devs from Asia, Europe and the US, I can relate to this. And yes, devs from Eastern European countries are really hard to work with due this attitude.
Exactly.

Telefunc is about replacing generic endpoints (RESTful/GraphQL APIs) with tailored endpoints (RPC).

That's why the trade-off is simpler architecture (generic endpoints are often an unnecessary abstraction) VS decoupling (tailored endpoints require the frontend and backend to be deployed in-sync).

In the long term I foresee RPC to be also used for very large teams. I've ideas around this, stay tuned. I can even see companies like Netflix ditching GraphQL for RPC, although this won't happen any time soon.

In the meantime, RPC is a natural fit for small/medium sized teams that want to ship today instead of spending weeks setting up GraphQL.
The very peculiar capitalisations in that page just seem very... Twitter. It's like a passive form of rebelling against the actual rules selectively, and capitalising random words they deem important. Fair enough Twitter doesn't have much in the form of text formatting (that I've seen), but on a personal website I'd hope you're writing MD or something where all of that is front and center.

As to your actual point, I really don't know. One question would be, do we need to say anything? I'd rather be silent than hurtful, though I fail at that semi-consistently. Even for someone within the first quarter of a century in age, I feel the goalposts for what is (considered) hurtful moving though, so I am terrified of aging away from the currently acceptable norms.
It is good to go to the sources - but the obvious source I found appears to be [0] a recursive link so that isn't too helpful. Throwing babies out with the bathwater is bad and doing studies with diverse participants seems like a good idea. The statement can say "this research doesn't further the SPSP's goals" So I don't see why the statement itself would be objectionable.

The objection would be if the statement is used as a tool to discriminate against good research. So this resignation should probably be treated as a vote of no confidence in the people and goals of the specific institution. I can see why the sort of people who would demand this statement would be a problem as ironically the DIE crowd seems to sometimes attract a weird sort of modern racist. Something that is always a risk when developing a race-obsessed ideology.

[0] https://spsp.org/events/demonstrating-our-commitment-anti-ra... - the "We requested the submitters to please explain whether and how this submission advances the equity, inclusion, and anti-racism goals of SPSP" link leads to the same page for me.
Criteria for inclusion on the list is bad.

There are many better criteria to evaluate the impact of a research paper.
Did you know that forcing schools to hire teachers and principals that better reflect the demographics of the school worsens the outcomes of black students in those schools?
> the de facto the purpose of a university is the furtherance of the intellectuals

Yes, and unavoidably so. That is why it is society's task to structure the universities in such a fashion that those goals align with society's goals.
1. "anti-racism" is a specific ideological doctrine with nefarious branding because it falsely implies anyone who does not support present and future discrimination (c.f. kendi's def) is a racist. i am "anti racist" but not "Anti-Racist (TM)".

2. haidt is clearly protesting the requirement to describe how any research further's the associations "anti-racism goals". there's plenty of knowledge to be uncovered that has nothing to do with it and targeting all your work to uphold a specific viewpoint offends the general idea of "academia" as a tool for broadly and impartially adcancing knowledge.
> There are also unashamed communists promoting war in Montreal, just today there was a dude flying the soviet flag on a bike while I was getting coffee, and nothing can be done it about otherwise --> Jail.

Out of curiosity, what would you like to do to the bike-rider that would land you in jail?
Question: Is it licensed under MIT? The license reads as it could be MIT but there is no reference to it.
You're sorta wrong. Most papers help it, but most papers are pretty shoddy...

The good ones do often hurt the DEI cause though.
> most people never actually apply rigour to his positions.

What do you mean?
"I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already." -- Nick Jenkins
I was thinking more along the lines of every second street in one direction having a separated bike lane with full right of way at conflict points and infrastructure to manage the cars (like raised crossings and/or lights) so noone would have to cross a road at an undesignated spot more than once to get to it. You can even arrange it such that there is no through traffic on some cross roads (bike lane in the middle and all entering cars must turn right in RHD countries) to reduce the number of conflict points (with cars only crossing the bike lane every km or 2).

But the alley way type arrangement you're thinking of has existed in the past as well (and probably still exists in some places) with a narrow alley enterable through the back yard that cars only enter if they live on that block.

Additionally it's not really a burden for the cyclist to walk for the first/last km or use the sidewalk at jogging pace where that is legal (so long as the sidewalk road crossings are built with similar levels of safety and pedestrian priority).
Basically kill -9
Most free radicals are products of reactions inside the body and the body does have mechanisms to deal with them, even if not 100% sometimes.
These sections would be sequential making the search space very small.
I'll probably give this a shot. The only settings changes I can remember are allowing things, but I could be wrong. No other content-blocker extensions, I believe.
It is more a matter of paying for licenses than anything else.
There's such a thing as respecting other peoples' preferences or quirks, even if you don't agree with them. I have friends who smoke, and no matter how much I think that smoking is outrageously dumb, I just accept that this is what they do - and the same applies to a whole range of other behaviours, too, such as religious or dietary preferences etc.

You don't have to have a particular stance on trans issues to have the common decency to use the correct pronoun. Mind you, I'm talking about reasonable things here: I am not necessarily sympathetic to wholly invented pronouns (because that doesn't come very naturally), although I think "they" is fine, and of course, it would be ridiculous if (hypothetically) a person switched pronouns every day, but in the cases I have experienced, someone communicates that they now identify as the other gender, and that's fine. Usually it's also accompanied by enough outwards changes that it's also not too hard to do; I've met trans men that I didn't know were not biological men at first.

So, idk, to me "please refer to me as man/woman in the future" sounds like a simple, easily satisfied request and getting worked up over it to me signals that one prefers emphasising their political opinion over just being decent and accomodating.
It's not that simple. If, like this image, the framing (or in this case, pose), disembodied or not, were identical, the answer is 'yes' the photographer was 'ripped-off'.

To counter your thought experiment and your assertion that "...there are no similarities other than the likeness", try super-imposing the images. The framing is identical. See https://ibb.co/wyMdvvd, posted elsewhere in this thread.
> This is a dangerous precedent.

Agreed. And the whole style, wording, method is dumb.

> intellectual diversity of discourse

The goal is clearly to reduce a certain part of the "thought space" (intellectual diversity), in particular the goal is to weed out anti-racist thoughts.

I guess they think of this as public health thinks of pathogens. Diversity of species is great but we still want less of pathogens.

What these people seemingly have no idea about, is that populist xenophobic movements can start, spread and become popular at no time. And obviously (?) the way to contain them is not with preemptive firebombing of academia, but by strengthening the ideals of equity, and the institutions themselves that implement those ideals. Make them shining beacons of good. The first criterion for that is efficiency, transparency, etc.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Kind of like those Takata airbag recalls, I suppose.
> The marketing rhetoric of telefunc activates my skepticism

Why? (Author of Telefunc here.)
I agree with both those takes.
https://www.reviewgeek.com/131649/spotify-is-installing-itse...
I’m going back to firewire.
I can just ghost you. The only obligatory relationship possible between us is either of blood or money. As a private individual, I don’t really owe you anything. You have the previlege of not having to use my work, or fork it and make it your own.
It's fascinating how Nature effortlessly creates these leaky abstractions, completely opposite to how we design systems, and makes good use of the constant layering violations where we would see unmaintainable code that we can't wrap our heads around.

When we design signaling mechanism, they deal with the layer below while presenting a simpler digital interface to the layer above. Your Ethernet PHY has to care about electrical details, but to the IP stack it's just a stream and sink of bytes. 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.

But those G protein-coupled receptors — or whatever it is — it seems like if you don't want to miss important side-band edge case signals, you really have to model them as this 3D structure that threads through the membrane 7 times, that you can jiggle on one side to change the shape it has on the other side.

The receptor-agonist abstraction makes total sense from a human perspective (and it's a good and useful model), but at the end of the day the Wikipedia lists nine different types (partial, super-, inverse, co-, irreversible, biased, ..) of agonists, multiple of which can apparently apply to a single ligand ("can concurrently behave as agonist _and_ antagonists at the same receptor, depending on effector pathways or tissue type").

Nature seems to have absolutely no preference for clean abstractions, and I don't know how to feel about that, but it's fascinating to me. Maybe my horrible code is actually universally optimal under a non-human optimizer =)

Or maybe it's just intrinsically hard to make clean abstraction out of chemistry? I wonder if it _would_ be beneficial for a large system like the body to be built out of cleaner (less powerful) abstractions that don't expose all their internal details, but maybe stochastic DNA mutations with natural selection isn't a good enough optimizer to find that place in humanity genomespace?

Death is so out of style compared to Adam and SGD.
We have a hand-rolled solution that does this and it's easily my favourite part of our codebase. Ours is with a Java backend so a bit more complicated but not much.

If you have a tightly coupled frontend and backend and no need for third party consumers of your API, I highly recommend it. Makes moving between frontend and backend such a pleasant experience with a well typed and defined interface.
On a slight tangent just to add another speculative datapoint to the language and embodiment discussion.

It's quite possible the right hemisphere of the brain is subservient to the left hemisphere because the language center of the brain resides in the left hemisphere. There's some evidence that the left and right hemispheres are independent actors merely coordinating with each other via the corpus callosum [1]. In such a dynamic, it's likely that the left and right hemispheres start off as equals and play a tug of war of sorts, but eventually the right lets the left lead since the left is better able able to influence the "real physical world" because of language. Language gets you help, food (energy), sex etc. So the language center may not be constrained by embodiment but it might be optimized towards getting the most out of physical reality first?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain

P.S. the language center is not guaranteed to be in the left hemisphere. Just a high probability as far as I'm aware.
Macbook Pro 14 M1 16GB/512GB

Used for around 3 weeks for light development, browsing, etc

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Yes, very easy to sabotage.

My expertise is UK road steam and there were cases here of safety values being replaced with a bolt or metal shims being added so they never lifted and vented excess steam.

A few more PSI could make life easier but with disastrous consequences.
This isn't it (I do remember the SOAP days), the reasons I believe RPC is making a comeback: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33054029
how is publicly acquiring a company, then entering a competitive bid priced against competition, "sneaking in"? nobody's sneaking here.
Helsing https://helsing.ai/ is gearing up to be the Palantir of Europe - at least in the military AI field. One of its cofounders was a software architect at Palantir.
Seems like one can submit their works, advancing diversity goals, simply by claiming one's membership of one or more minority groups
Looking at these pictures, the phrase "spilling its guts" comes to mind.
> The basic problem is that machine learning systems don't really understand what they're doing. So most of the time, they do the right thing, and when they do a totally wrong thing, they don't notice.

Agreed, but how is the different from humans?
Ironically, the image you linked completely disproves your point. The derivative work is identical to the point that it is an obvious copy. Warhol should absolutely have sought permission, especially since he and his estate have profited handsomely from the copy.
No tune, no words, no dancing: white noise is the music industry’s newest hit
The interesting part seems to be happening around 1:20-1:30 minutes into the video. The main wings and canadards (that's the smaller wings at the front) are oriented fully parallel to the direction of flight. The threads indicating the flow of air over the surfaces are no longer moving around and therefore air is moving smoothly over the wings. The aircraft seems to be relying fully on lift provided by the wings instead of the engines. As far as I know they hadn’t achieved that before.

The thrust required for level flight with lift provided by wings is said to be ~ 10% of what is required for vertical take-off and landing.

https://youtu.be/ywJWka1evH8?t=82
Can't go into much detail, sorry. But yes, we sell our own events as well as events for other organizers.

It's ironic that we only found out about the scale of automated traffic after moving to CF. Before, we were just fire fighting the load during peaks, while thinking our infra is the problem.
Yeah, I found that too, when I was building my Really Social Sites module for Hey Homepage (a DIY website system). I think we have to mostly thank WordPress for all the existing - but unadvertised - feeds!