skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the maintainers should be legally required to maintain the software, for free, forever, just because you depend on it? That is an insane level of entitlement.

So long as it's their software they can change the license of new versions as they desire. If they decide to change the license and you depend on the software, you can maintain a fork of the project. I'm sure you don't like that answer, but this is exactly why open source licenses offer no warranty or promise of support, and you willingly decided to rely on some software with such a license. You can't just pretend like this aspect of the license doesn't exist because it's inconvenient for you.

If you want guaranteed support for any software, hire someone, or do it yourself!

I think a lot of the controversy surrounding these situations is that people aren't educated about what open/free software really is, or the ideals behind it, or don't care and just want free stuff from other people.

The idea is that you can use source code, modify it and create derived works from it if you desire (normally with attribution or whatever), and with the GPL there is an additional restriction that derived works must also be GPL'd. Free software does not imply that people want to work for you for free and doesn't imply that they intend on supporting the project at all.
Your viewpoint is that because peoples experience don't match your own + the studies results, it must be a lie?

I hope my interpretation's wrong here, that's a very closed-minded and sad way to live.
Wow that was a heartbreaking read, especially 1 month into being a parent.
> You've missed the step where the higher socioeconomic classes opt-out of the shit K-12 education by moving to better school districts, sending their kids to private schools, or homeschooling them.

No, I did not.

I stated that our schools are garbage.

If we fixed that, it really won't matter what anyone else does with their kids, public schools would be great.

Put a different way: There is no justification whatsoever for our public schools should be crap. The only reason this happens is because we do not exercise the kind of control and set the kinds of standards needed to provide every child in the country with the education they deserve. Teaching should be a profession where the standards and performance we demand from teachers are of the highest levels. That implies (and requires) that bad teachers are expunged from the system like a bad infection. Curriculum and teaching standards have to be optimized for top-of-the-world results.

This, BTW, also has to include kids who, for whatever reason, are not college-bound. Not everyone needs to or has to go to university. The problem is our schools are so bad that the average high school graduate is good for nothing other than maybe, again, maybe, going to college. The average high school graduate in the US is good for stacking boxes and, with training, making coffee. That is a tragedy and a massive failure of the system.

What people with money would not matter at all of our public schools were driven by a merit, performance and results-based system that floated the best teachers, teaching methods, technology and curriculum to the top.

This would require up-ending our entire system of education. Which means it is likely just-about impossible.
As a rule of thumb, I never assume a Hacker News article was recently published. XD

Lots of old gems being posted after years.
His answer is that he uses Vim
I'd be willing to pay for news from organizations like the AP or Reuters. Trad newspapers like NYT/WSJ seem to just cater to their bases. Cable companies are more entertainment and are beholden to their advertisers.

I felt things like PBS are a public good. Growing up I got educational programming from there and that should be available to the public as a last resort.
Noone has to make a plea deal… not sure what you are on about
You are a mensch! Didn’t even think to just go straight for the CDN, I’ve nearly forgotten this is a way scripts get distributed.
We use it as an all in one but even at that price it doesn’t make sense. The problem with being all in one is that you at least have to execute at everything. I really feel they’ve lost their way in implementing the meaningful things. It’s CI is the only thing that’s keeps us going.
The AK-47 Gun
Oakland police say they won't pursue use of 'dystopian' armed robots
You're arguing for literal slavery here.

"I came to rely on the free thing you gave me, now you need to keep supporting it forever, for free, or else you're a criminal."

No. You have the right to keep using the software provided for free forever. You don't have a right to have the work product of a person or group for free forever.
Moon ice is definitely the lowest rung of ice IMO.

Countertop pellet ice makers are available, and I’d absolutely love to get one but my wife has vetoed it - she jokes she’d have to leave me because of all the crunching.
what a classic, haha
The issue with that analogy is that even with em and en spaces, the "correct" way of using them is based on where you learned their function. For example, the American use of em vs en dash and the British use is different. The guidelines are based on style rules, they aren't even grammar rules.
It's the least expensive CH32V307VCT6 development board I could find on aliexpress (no relation). Unfortunately, it looks like the WCH chip IP itself & its dev env (mounriver - eclipse based) used for debugging is closed with proprietary usb adapter & windows only.
> I've used the Apple Magic Keyboard wirelessly for years with no latency issues.

I think the logic here is subtly wrong. I think it’s pretty likely that Apple thoroughly test their keyboards to make sure Bluetooth works well and that they have low end to end latency. I think most other keyboard makers don’t test these things, even if they claim to be fast. Though Apple also have an advantage from the small travel decreasing time between touching a key and the switch closing, which may be part of the measured latency depending on the methodology
It is indeed a strange drug. I take it on occasions like nights before stressful events such as travelling, to make sure I am well rested the next day. Normally I'm quite an anxious person and suffer from insomnia, so this works wonders to calm my brain down and make me go to bed.

One of the weird side effects is that if I don't go to sleep and force my self to be awake, I get these quirky weak hallucinations, like the letters on my screen are 'wobbly' individually. Static images shift in dream like manners, like they're animated. It looks completely real but I know it isn't, and doesn't particularly impair me, just gives a slight mellow chill.

I can see the recreational potential in this drug, but for insomniacs it can be a godsend to have a small "you will fall asleep in 15 minutes" kill-switch on demand when you need it.
“Someone is gonna enslave those children. It might as well be us.”
Well of course they do. The "mission" doesn't pay squat in the current environment. Fabricated outrage and tribal politics is far more lucrative and all the integrity in the world wont save you from operation expenses. People mostly just use news articles as justification for their existing political biases and the news organizations are happy to accommodate.
I heard that one too. “Don’t die until you’re dead”
If an IQ test were required for admission to university or anything else I wanted to do, you're damn right I would study. Why would I care if that is fair or if I corrupt the measurement by studying if increasing my score benefits me? The validity of the measurement is the school's problem, not mine.
That’s pretty awesome. I have a similar setup on the Raspberry Pi 4 that doubles as a magic mirror in our bedroom. And I use NoIP as dynamic DNS.
> Well that's cause his _actual_ point is that they shouldn't have to

Precisely correct. Our public schools should be the example the entire world tries to emulate rather than the substandard mess they use as something to avoid.

As a kid I had the experience of attending school in other countries due to my parents moving around for work. The best example I have of just how bad things are in K-12 education in the US is that coming back to US schools felt like a vacation, a joke. My level of preparation when compared to US students of the same age almost didn't compare. I could read, write and do math better than anyone in my class. And that's after attending school at a third world country. That says a lot.
I think the more recent advantage IIs have proper switches for the function keys.
That’s a password you want to remember
The people who are most deeply involved in the roguelike community have moved past that ontological debate as it's proved exceptionally useless at providing value.
Huh. TIL. I always figured it was just a good place to dump ice when it was done being used to cool things off.
This is hardly surprising. More people are able to see things for themselves and coming to sharply divergent opinions than those of media outlets. So for example you'll watch actual trial coverage-all of it, not just any one day-and get to see clips like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hw0QSbDQNo

And then you'll read stories like this which are only about one single part of the trial:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/10/20/darrel...

The funny thing is that I don't think there's a single statement in the second article that's actually factually inaccurate with what USA Today said. They're just repeating what was said in court in that one part of the trial and just not mentioning that some of those statements are completely and utterly bogus for myriad reasons that anyone who watched the trial could tell you.

But damn if it doesn't give you a different impression of how things are going in court than actually watching the thing itself with context.
Yeah, not sure why they don't advertise the dev releases more.

To get a feel of what's in then (in short: tons of stuff, including hardware acceleration with Metal) check here:

https://iterm2.com/downloads.html

under Test Releases, and click "Show Changelog" to see the changelog for the latest 3.5beta7, and "Show Older Versions"to see the changelogs for all 3.5 betas and several 3.4.5 and 3.4.4 betas (all of those released after 2020).

I've used the latest beta as it lands every time (you can enable the "dev release train" somewhere), and didn't have any problems!
PBS is the best thing I get from the antenna on my roof.
It is hard not to feel that way. I guess most of the staff at those organizations would say that the mission comes first, but they have to stay in business to do the mission.
The AP is made up of CNN, USA Today, NBC, Washington Post, etc writers be them local or national branch. Reuters is slightly better but this isn’t a problem that can be solved with just throwing more money at someone.

It’s a lack of integrity.
Yes they take significantly longer to boot.
Many of these are actually not warning shots. They are demands to settle or we file suit.

There is no chance to cure.
Hacker News has moderators who can place things at the top of the page regardless of votes. Personally I think they've been do a great job, but YMMV.
Integrity is what people complain about when they aren’t willing to pay up for aligned incentives.

You need aligned incentives.
Disclosure: I work in public media. It's a pretty broad ecosystem of NPR and PBS affiliates and independent news sources like Pro Publica, The Guardian or niche sources like The Markup or Grist. If you follow a few big ones and few local ones, you'll get almost everything you'd need. That being said, I think it's impossible to live without the top tier papers of records like Axios, NY Times and WaPo. They definitely push profitability, but they also unmatched resources to dig up hard news and get it to a huge audience. I even love CNN (cnn.com, not the TV network) just because their coverage is so broad and exhaustive even if so much of it is fluff. There's stuff that sucks about all of them, but we'd be much worse off if they didn't exist.
As a two time irl attendee, I hope you get a chance some day. The excitement everyone brings has a palpable electricity to it.
> current admission inequity is primarily driven by socio-economic status

Maybe I didn't make my point clearly enough?

If admission is based on testing and our schools are top-of-the-line, kids would not any problem at all passing the test.

We need better education before university. Make that happen and admission isn't an issue.

Beyond that, the world is wide open now. There are tons of universities anyone can attend remotely and get a degree. Some have very permissive admission policies.
I mean, is that truly not the case?
They need to include graduate school in this list as well.
I am only on mobile right now and travelling so can’t actually test this. But boy is it exciting to see a potential OSS alternative to max4live.

I think Max and m4l are well worth the price if it’s something you do all the time, but as a more casual user something with a lower cost of entry would be highly welcomed.
Nor does one spacing increase legibility. I will continue to two space, because I think it looks better (and alas for those tools that ignore what I want because they thing they know better).
35 entire minutes of flying time!
Well sure, but I mean all of those ppl mentioned have an underlying motive.

I don't see even them going "oh, today I'll try to incriminate a random person" lol.

Their actions bring them notoriety.
The mistake the programmer has made is copy-pasting a line that wasn't meant to be copy-pasted. The error is gobbledegook about implementation details of the deps file, saying a map is malformed in a file that has 5x maps and not much more to bring in 2 dependencies. The error message itself isn't the problem as much as the spartan design of the deps file that leads rookies into screwing up in a way that isn't obvious what went wrong. There are a lot of easy syntax errors here that give no useful error message explaining what went wrong. There isn't even a hint how many maps are needed to bring in those 2 dependencies (turns out, 4). It'll bleed newbies if they try to figure out this file.

I think their should be a "lein-for-deps-template" that subtly guides people in the right direction by starting the project up with 2+ dependencies. Lein dodges this by using a list-of-list data structure where this mistake is harder to make (copy and pasting stuff in brackets is the right strategy in lein) and there is much more boilerplate in a project.clj to hint what our aspiring Clojure programmer needs to fill in.

My problem here is that the entire way through that story, at no point is there a simple prompt in the official reference documentation telling people what a deps file with multiple dependencies should look like. Even finding the examples of 1 dependency is quite deep in and seems to be an advanced topic (you'll note the sibling comment that considers dependencies an advanced topic for people who already know the language well enough to reflexively get maps right, and it says a lot about the actual complexity of deps that the official guide to installing dependencies thinks 2x dependencies is out of its scope).
> Why not 3 spaces?

The main point is that it’s useful for the token that separates words to be different from the one that separates sentences. So three spaces would have no advantage over two.
Yep, last time I janitored NFS at scale anything stuck in D required an entire system reboot.
Sometimes what isn’t reported can be as interesting as how what is reported is.
The cost is on par (and sometimes under) frozen pizzas from the grocery store. The quality is okay, if you have a fairly low standard for what you want out of your pizza. The thin crust is utterly terrible. Honestly, I'd rather get a frozen pizza and cook it myself given the option, or going literally anywhere else for pizza (except maybe Little Caesar's).
Isn’t the AP the organization that insists Black be capitalized while insisting that White not be capitalized? They are just as biased and steeped in the culture war as anyone else. For the record I don’t care if both are capitalized or both are not but taking the divisive approach of choosing one and disallowing the other causes me to lose all trust in them.
The word "those" is masking your logical fallacy here.
Two space is alive and well. At least it is for me.
I doubt photographing the inside of a bar from the street is illegal.
On finally learning to program at the age of 40 (2020)
We're not talking about Covid itself, but the virologists in the article building a new form of covid.
Harvard admits 4% of it's applicants. How is it going to allow 25X as many students?
For those who don't know, Pure Data or PD is a visual audio programming language that can be used to develop software synthesizers. It's open source, the commercial version by the same creator is called MAX-MSP.
Laying out my clothes and everything I need for the day in the evening.
After waking up my brain takes hours to boot properly. Selecting the correct clothes can take long and it is way to difficult to even figure out what work requires that day.
I zombie walk into the bathroom first thing and start the basic hygiene routine, then I put on the clothes for the day.

Before I know it I'm at work and ready.

I figured that out embarrassingly late and it saves so much time.
sRGB and its transfer function are inseparable, by definition. IEC 61966-2-1:1999 defines sRGB as a color space with its particular non-linear transfer function.

When you linearize sRGB you create a new not-sRGB-anymore color space that happens to have a compatible white point and RGB primaries.
I agree. Sure, holding a part time job in high school cut into study time, but a lot of that was balanced out by not being to afford a bunch of time consuming extracurricular activities.
This idea sounds similar to Glean. I haven’t looked too much into it yet but tagged it for later.

https://glean.software/
Because you need 30 pizzas with cheese, pepperoni and mushroom delivered in 55 minutes after the lunch plans got shifted to deal with a crisis.

Yes, there are better. But quantity and JIT delivery are virtues of their own.
Are dead people poor?
Reading what they offer, you'd think Java runtime didn't exist anymore.
It's no "error" (ha) that you can't exactly represent 5/3 in base 2 number system - it can only represent numbers of the form (-1)^a*2^b*c for integer a,b,c. If you are trying to perform repeated calculations that accumulate some arithmetic error at every step, then ieee754 probably isn't the best data type for the task at hand. Fractional calculators (which allow exact representation of fractions like 5/3 without being limited by base or precision) or "constructive reals" - or simply keeping track of the numerator and comparing if the sum of the numerators is equal to the denominator - would avoid such issues. As another reply to my comment said, it is about using the right data type for the task, and float is a pretty good compromise between many different needs but isn't appropriate for literally everything.
Very insightful. This gets to the root of power and how different moral truths are advocated by different positions with both saying how they are universal. I wish we could admit that as progressives and have a better conversation around the motivations of certain policies.
This is likely why: https://www.cjr.org/analysis/capital-b-black-styleguide.php
You can get close to this VCVRack idea by combining automatonism with PlugData
It's mission before money, but not the mission you think.
Also check out (if you haven’t already), the timely and differential dataflow crates, and what Readyset/Noria are doing with incremental compute. Lots of of super cool stuff happening in the space.
Like I said, I don't think we will see eye to eye.

I basically laid it all out in my first post.

Some people don't see it as wrong to work with bad people if you don't directly hurt anyone.

You obviously disagree.

More evidence that someone is bad doesn't change this.
What's the selling point here?
Here you go: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29691763/

The effect is most pronounced for double spacers like myself, for whom the exact opposite is true of your first argument.
Not exactly the same, but I have been using a technically similar stack (Pi 4b + Love2D GUI) paired with some custom autorun code to make a console which boots media off of whatever drive you insert (potentially a keyboard / mouse / controller optional media device).

I've got the Pi booting basically straight to Love2D (really it's a combo of carefully choreographed splash screen, LXDE wallpaper, then an autostart of the actual Love2D UI which makes it seem like the Love2D UI is in control from boot) and it's all worked very smooth.

I feel like this setup would work well for custom UIs (especially if you're not as obsessive about the polish as I am and can tolerate a few flashes as X boots up). There's nothing specific about Love2D which makes this work other than being a nice way to write code that runs smoothly on a Pi, but I like it :)
How is "aligned incentives" supposed to help integrity? We've seen with partisan news media that not having integrity (ie. being biased and catering to one side) is a viable business strategy.
Yeah. The article quotes the guy who owns sixty dominoes stores in DC. He's going to have much more data at hand than a mom and pop store.

He probably also has accounts set up for various departments, whereas a small shop would probably just tell an office to use a corporate card, and have more difficulty tracking the order volume.
It's Never the Subsidies
Good q! I’m an audio dev who thought the general community might appreciate the project. It’s a cool effort (my primary beef with pd was always the UI)
I keep forgetting, most people are reading from mobile; I have no solution. I'm getting old...
I wonder if D has already done heavy lifting for children.
“Also in case anyone mistakes my phrasing as some sort of pro-life or anti-suicide thing… their body their choise…” - applying a similar logic wouldn’t it fair to say: Their equipment, their choice?
Evangelicalism is now a meaningless term with the nyt even claiming it’s largely an identity that does not practice in any form. It’s just a default conservative term for whose who can’t admit they are atheists.
I am sure that she will, and that she is also his rock already. My mother's story is very similar. When I was young, I was self-centred and didn't appreciate how strong she was, how an amazing job she was doing. And still from her perspective having me was giving her strength and purpose, even though I was like that. But my point is that these things always leave a big footprint, even if at first you don't think much of them -and when you grow up a bit they start clicking.

I'm so grateful that I've never felt the loss of someone very close to me, but at the same time it's my biggest fear in life because I have no idea how badly it would break me and if I would have the strength that these people have.
If it all sounds the same to you it's because it is.
I’ve heard they’ve added “filler” as a category, too. Might have to check it out.
It's vanilla CSS strings. No alternate syntax.
College admissions teams don't accept the GPA from each school as-is. Instead, they look at the difficulty of each course, the school and their knowledge of the students from that school in past years. They actually use their own formulas and recalculate an internal GPA that is specific to that college admissions team. For example, they may only consider core classes and ignore electives. They may or may not count AP courses as part of their formula. In the end, each college makes their own rules about what criteria they will use to compare students.
On the other hand, it sounds like things got here precisely because nobody else was contributing. Of course, it's possible that this will be the wake-up call that changes that and it'll work out. I guess we'll see; unfortunate situation regardless.