skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes, but the main benefit of more zones is that you can make the display thinner (it is hard to design very thin light pipes for zonal displays). You also get some power saving benefits, and less 'halo-ing' when displaying very bright and very dark things next to eachother.
Have you read stallman’s posts to the emacs and gcc mailing lists over the years? As I have the almost opposite view — he often expresses strong, and wrong, opinions, which have damaged both emacs and gcc over the years.
I can't think of a lot of em that moderated their views towards a middleground vis a vis the status quo or were not on some fronts called dogmatic so I find this a bit of a lacking comparison.

For example:

"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."

Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
> But his fiercest detractors are much worse.

Agreed. He has done cringe-worthy things (and worse), but his detractors take malicious glee in trashing him. That is low and dishonest behavior.
This has all the hallmarks of typical soulless, extra juicy hyper stimulating arcade games that are so common and commoditized. The name of course is just randomly chosen words thrown together that aren’t too offensive and implies some kind of vague theme. Don’t know who Toto is, why there’s a temple and what makes this so deluxe from the original Toto Temple, but also seems like it doesn’t matter.

And this is what I tell most indie devs: you’re probably going to be a failure. So don’t go down making some bland cookie cutter game trying to make a few bucks. Make something truly unique, shocking, strange, something that no producer would touch, because you’re independent and can do whatever you want. You might not make money, but you might win some real fans. And in the end, what matters on this journey is the friends you make along the way and touching people’s lives with your game.
According to this article, there are more former employees of Twitter suing Twitter, than there are current employees at Twitter. Seems noteworthy!
I get your point, but it should be noted that there is little evidence subliminal messages have any significant effect outside extremely specific circumstances, so this hardly seems like a real threat.

More broadly, the problems you are discussing would rarely be accurately addressed by open source firmware, since so few people have the required expertise or time to actually audit that. What would be far more useful would be state authorities maintaining code review boards, and asking for auditable firmware, not necessarily open source. If a state board received access to these sources and reviewed them, that would actually fix all the problems of confidence that you mention.
Humans may have some minimum preoccupation with things that could be better. What makes it harder for those at the bottom is they have so few options or ways to resolve those things, and the challenges they face of often objectively much more serious. So a rich person can consider poorer perspectives and be thankful or even motivated to help others. A poor person looking up often cannot help even if they could sympathize.
GCC Lands AVX-512 Fully-Masked Vectorization
It's a common tactic by lawyers to bury opposing counsel with mounds of paperwork that is used to overwhelm or bury a smoking gun. Seeing the Twitter legal team overwhelmed from the reverse of a thousand paper cuts type of situation is pretty funny from my chair. The popcorn is quite tasty.
The issue is not the veracity of the statistics. The statistic is correct (I have never implied otherwise by the way - no idea why I'm downvoted so much as what I wrote is perfectly true, the proportion of people who don't want kids is higher once you remove people who already had kids).

The issue is in the interpretation. Your sampling is biased so the immediate conclusion is false. If you want kids and are over 30, your chances are better than 50%.
It isn't trying to be a platform, its trying to be a community in the same sense that a church or a softball league is a community. That takes handling things differently and they can afford doing that because its a federated network where someone who doesn't want to be OPPRESSED can just go to a different instance.

> Our goal is to create a platform in which nice people will want to stick around so that the experience is less toxic than other websites and because of such it needs to resemble an offline community - the rules must be more open to interpretation and the way the rules are interpreted needs to be a community effort.

> We want this to be a community - this means that discussions about behavior should organically arise. When someone violates a rule they aren’t banned immediately, but rather reminded that they need to behave appropriately. In the offline world, this might resemble a friend asking you about how you treated their friend, a pastor pulling you aside and talking to you about how you’ve seemed on edge lately, or security asking you not to vape inside their establishment.

Beehaw is a Community: https://beehaw.org/post/140733
It's not necessarily a problem to use a service, (Signal?), which is funded by an intelligence agency. It can serve their purposes while serving yours too. If the service gets wide enough adoption, then the huge volume of traffic becomes a perfect place to hide their own intelligence activity.
I think every one stands for thinks like diversity and inclusivity until they have to put some thing very personal on the line to lose.

At some point in time you just have to be ok with the best people to the job, doing their jobs. This doesn't even have to be controversial. If you can't do open heart surgery, you can't do it. You shouldn't be allowed to do it. People shouldn't be asked to be ok with not wanting to be treated by sub-standard doctors. I wouldn't be happy with boarding an airplane built by bad engineers, or drive on a bridge built by bad engineers.

This is where it gets controversial. In some places the best person to do the job might not necessarily have the same religious, political, social, racial, economical or whatever view you associate with.

OTOH, you need some of these heroes to run things for you. Don't get me wrong, if everybody could be writing a emacs or gcc, they would already be writing it. Pretty much anything that anyone would need to do something awesome with a computer today is free. The barrier is you.
While that's a cute anecdote, that just means the bid wasn't high enough. QOL for rich people in the USA is at least equal to vastly higher than in the EU.
there is no average US citizen, it makes no sense to assert based on that. Demographics are fundamentally groups of groups, that are different. People here on YNews would recognize quickly "overfitting" or other statistical errors, but this demographic human quality somehow eludes public conversation.
With anime people are wayyy picker about release groups because they come part and parcel with fanmade translated subtitles, preference for which track is the default for dual-language releases, are all the honorifics written out, etc.

You either have to commit those preferences to a tag that you try to remember to put on everything (fiddly), or you just commit to them being on everything you download regardless of whether or not it is anime, which can cause weird selections when sonarr is sourcing western media.
This is terrible advice BTW. I got it in 2007, also HN and FT forums convinced me. So I put significant savings in a couple of index funds. I lost 40% within months. Left it there and recovered only after 8 years (and that's not even adjusting for inflation or MM rate). Please be a bit more self-aware. I spent many years in finance and the more I learned, the more I realized how much I don't know.
Without any further info, I would file that under unfounded rumors.

You have to understand that there was corporate influence that tried to topple him multiple times. So in that regard, yes, sadly his critics must be vetted closely. If that hits valid criticism, I am very sorry for that.
That's great to hear -- thank you for the update!
> Rimworld [...] came out years ago though;

Rimworld was released in 2018, two years after the article was written (2016)
Every working application got to where it is by making technical decisions. So from one perspective, those decisions are in the past and there's nothing to talk about. You might need to accept that you can't re-litigate those decisions without a time machine.

It helps to be very honest about the current state of the application and take specific note of why things were done that way; ie "Chesterton's Fence". Even if the reason is "because I felt like it", the decisions should be retrospectively documented.

Next you want to present an informal vision of the way it COULD be. In your case, you'd want to paint a picture of daily life in a monolith, and contrast that to your current system. Do not push strongly for your solution at this point; keep it conversational, "what ifs".

Now comes the hard part, getting from here to there. Burning it down and starting from scratch is rarely an option. You need to propose a series of refactors (linear, since you're 1 developer) that will eventually get you to the final place. But the trick is, the changes can't break the existing app and changes need to be incremental and self-contained such that you can stop and work on features, bugs, etc. Focus on the high-priority stuff first, realizing that you may never fully get there.

Finally, there's a real chance that the boss will say "No thanks, this doesn't add value". Then it's your job to start documenting technical debt interest payments. In your case, this should be pretty easy - any time you have to deal with a data inconsistency or a race condition, it's 100% interest since there are known solutions - your boss chooses not to use them but he should at least be made aware of the cost and drag this puts on velocity.
This was linked in the comments, worth a read: https://twitter.com/AkivaMCohen/status/1598487532764798983
Can you be specific about what improved? After peeking at the repo, the biggest improvement seems to have been reindenting it.
> All of the inclusivity movements that have happened in my workplace have involved hiring people unfit to do their job.

...As opposed to what happened before, where every single person hired was amazing and never the nephew of some boardmember.
> Have your speakers given a talk that's considered radical at your conferences?

Echoing what the other commenter said, as long as the talk doesn't involve politics (also, religion and race/ethnic group), the government doesn't care.

There are special visas for people in the above groups [1].

[1] https://www.mom.gov.sg/passes-and-permits/miscellaneous-work...
This impacts all file systems on Windows, not just NTFS. This is what DevDisk on Windows 11 is attempting to solve for, by disabling iFilters (or reducing their impact, such as async antivirus scans of open files).
From the outside this looks like a pretty clear-cut breach of contrast on Elon's part. Would be interesting to see what the counter-argument from Twitter's legal team will be and what kind of decision arbitrators will make.

I'm guessing that since this is arbitration and not a trial we won't get to know many of these details.
Yes! I thought the Safari example above had just dimmed the rest of the screen as a trick, but then I closed the window and it was all still grey and dull. I have been spoiled now I have glimpsed 'true white'.
Most colours are relative to their surroundings anyway; there's a few cool optical illusions that illustrate that like https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/27/12-fa...
I'm not GP but I'm in a similar situation, and yeah, this is how I do it.

My Product Manager is competent both in technical and product/design matters and is also able to call BS on complexity for complexity sake. I ensure that the development part is focused.

New developers have to prove with technical and business arguments any new paradigm or random refactoring they want to do. If there is no immediate need, we just skip it.
Kind of the other way round. If you have code that has a function named `dispose`, it will keep on working just fine, nothing needs to be renamed (not now, and not in the future when you want to start using `using`).

The symbol `Symbol.dispose` is special, unlike any normal string or identifier, because it didn't exist until the new standard, so existing code can't have been using it. This guarantees a level of backwards compatibility that wouldn't exist otherwise.
Diversity, but only the kind I'm comfortable with.
https://www.pcgamer.com/doom-co-creator-john-carmack-is-head...
> Many software developers work for places where selling the software is not how they make money.

But many software developers do work for places where selling the software, or selling products that include the software, is how they make money.

The question isn't whether some companies can make money from software without selling it. Yes, of course. The question is whether outlawing the selling of software would put a lot of companies out of business, and again, the answer is yes, of course.

> If the code you write to solve those problems is open source (and you use other open source code to help solve them too) it doesn't really conflict with the ability of the organization to pay your salary.

I'm not sure it doesn't conflict. Either the software is specific to the organization, in which case it's mostly pointless to open source it, or the software can be used by multiple organizations, and if so, then you may end up losing many or most of your potential customers if you give your software away for free to organizations who aren't already employing you.

The larger issue is, you're still assuming capitalist businesses exist. Why are we singling out software as having to be free in a capitalist economy? This is why I asked about a Free Houses Foundation and a Free Furniture Foundation. If the author wants an alternative to capitalism, it doesn't make sense to talk specifically about software and only software. Software is only one small part of the overall economy. I don't see why software developers have to "unilaterally disarm", as if were.
The common consensus is that arbitration is biased toward the company.

I am not sure this is actually true, but if the arbiter is not company favorable they'd probably find a new arbiter. However, it is probably biased toward saving the company money, which may actually involve giving small settlements relatively often.

What has been discovered is that you can basically DDoS the arbitration system because they cannot move to make it a class action lawsuit (a class action suit is almost always better for the defendant - assuming they did actually do the bad thing - because it is one and done, and once done nobody else can bring the same lawsuit unless they explicitly opted out of the class).
I read “Industrial Society and Its Future” a few years ago, and I was pretty surprised by how much of it I agreed with.

His ideas and observations about various issues facing modern capitalist society are interesting, but like you say, the whole murdering people thing didn’t seem to be the answer.
>if true, it suggests there's very little public Rust outside of packages that can be downloaded from crates.io and a smallish list of alternatives.

You seem to be suggesting that it's a good thing that the public code is spread across so many different places that it cannot all be found. I don't see how that's an inherently good thing. It says less about the total amount of code than it does about the lack of any central resource that can be consulted.
It's a lot like building houses. Lots of manual processing and making the standard formula fit the specific application.
I was just thinking this morning, would it be possible to train an LLM for deep integration with some type of proof system, so that it would write a declarative logical description of a solution would could be automatically verified. Then it could have training on iterating if the verification failed.

Or maybe if the LLM output is pretty fast, it could be packaged with some programming language and evaluation environment so, given a problem in this domain, it could code a solution, check and fix/improve it automatically.
That's probably your OS gradually adjusting instead of just jumping to the desired brightness as encoded in the video.
How would you feel if Google started building its websites to function significantly better in Chrome than in any other browser? (I guess is already happening to some extent... but not as egregiously as it could.) Because that's the same idea. We have Web standards, which all websites should use, just like we have wireless standards which all wireless hardware should use. Efficient implementation of the standard should be all that's required.

Why do we do this? Because it's better for individual large companies? No, it's not. We do it because following interoperable standards is better for everyone. Having tightly-integrated Apple products is nice, but having tightly-integrated everything is better for consumers, innovators, and small new companies.

Car analogies are not apt here. Cars and engines are physical things. Software is not.
the article goes from talking about nix to talking about issues installing nixos.

anyone new to nix will be thrown off track reading this.
The story you link makes no mention of "insults or threats" and does not back up your claims.
They don't just accept the lowest bid. It's the lowest bid that complies with the requirements. You can tighten up the requirements and conditions.
Police funding should not scale with the number of arrests they make—otherwise they have a direct interest in making more arrests, which leads to the corruption described in TFA. I'm fine with the money being seized by the state in the above scenario, but only after conviction, and never for direct use by the police.
Try signing up on kbin.social. It's not Lemmy but an entirely different piece of software, but fully interoperable with Lemmy thanks to ActivityPub. So you can view and interact with Kbin posts from Lemmy and the other way around.
Not sure why this was downvoted, i really agree with that.

And patched cracks (using bitumen with a lower melting point than asphalt's) are also slippery af in the summer heat.

I keep doing some controlled slips to stay somewhat accustomed to the gut feeling which prevents driving errors when a minor slip happens (like going over man hole cover when leaning, or having a slight/controlled slip on mended cracks in a corner).
Antarctica’s sea ice growth is at record lows
Making the FSF less inclusive seems like it could hamper their efforts to encourage more people and organizations to choose libre licenses, software, and hardware.

In their zeal to defend Stallman from both fabricated and legitimate complaints the FSF seems to be cultivating a smaller but more fanatical audience. This may make it harder for them to achieve their mission.
Geneva Voters Turn Down Wealth Tax Increase for Richest 1%
> Based on your reply, it's clear that lemmy will never be anything other than an afterthought.

What is your personal gripe against Lemmy? Lemmy is a FOSS project developed by volunteers. The instances are run by volunteers for fun. It may become something or may not become anything. But the people developing and maintaining Lemmy will have fun regardless, I'm sure.

And all that hard work and fun is offered as a gift to you and me if we want to join one of their instances. You and I don't have to. But that option is there as a gift. Why are you so angry with this gift? If you don't like it, don't use it!
> have you used google lately? might as well not be indexed with all the seo spam you get as top results

I just googled "how to use openllm" as an example to test your thesis, and the results look very relevant to me.

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=how+to+...
>Yes, because they don't have a product to sell, just their labor. But software IS a product.

I'd argue the end result ofthem connecting tubes, electrical switches, etc can be considered a product in the same sense. Thing is when they leave the owner can transfer their creation to someone else (tho often with the house it was done in), let someone else use it, let someone else look at it and learn from it, let someone else fix it, etc all despite the more restrictive nature of it all.

When it comes to software a lot of this is too often suddenly a problem.
Show HN: Anonymize prompt before sending it to ChatGPT
I don’t think you understand Cloudflare’s capability to build new services. Especially that now Twilio has left this vacuum in the market. If my app needs robust SMS delivery, who can provide it now?
As an autistic, I have serious doubts that RMS is neurotypical.
It's interesting that you think seven-year-old positive comments are vapid, but seven-year-old negativity is not.
Me: Surely it couldn't be that bad

Beehaw: On this platform I attempted to address this emerging problem of rationalism
There's an implicit value judgement that having children means you have "bloomed". You may have indeed, just into someone who has children. There's nothing more to it than that.

Intellectually I understand why society values breeders. I understand the need for fostering the betterment of humanity by having a future generation. I just disagree that it requires or merit biological birth unless we have a population crisis. As far as I am aware, the US does not have that problem, so I won't judge someone for forgoing baby making.

I hate the pretense that baby making for normies is anything other than creating workers for the ruler class. Maybe they're optimistic that somehow their children will become part of that? On average, that's simply not the case.
> It's impossible to criticize RMS now because the cult has fully hardened...you will see the warriors come out with swords and axes ready to commit war against them.

Almost all I read is people criticizing him and repeating the idea that he is somehow unassailable.
That thing refused to make me a 160 bpm chicago acid house loop... what a severe lack of imagination :-P
> What has been discovered is that you can basically DDoS the arbitration system because they cannot move to make it a class action lawsuit

Perhaps in the past, but it looks like the article reaches a different conclusion. (See the "Rule 6" part, at the very bottom of the article.)
Seems reasonable. As a leader he was asking that of his employees for a while.
The samples are outstanding. Even if they are cherry picked (not saying they are but even if) the output seems incredible.

https://ai.honu.io/papers/musicgen/