skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The spirit of GPL is the free software movement. Not raw compliance.

People who choose to attach GPL licenses to their code are certainly not lawyers and bureaucrats; they intend for a certain level of sharing to occur, else they'd have chosen BSD or MIT license.
> Are people known to be good at fact-checking?

Would you like me to fact-check that fact for you?
> I hear "language evolves over time!" quite a lot, as if it's a law of nature, but I've never heard anyone question the statement to determine whether it's true or why it would be true.

Have you heard of linguistics? Language changes all the time. Languages changes constantly. The word silly once meant "blessed by God".

Like, this is so obvious and so well known that I just have to assume you're trolling here.
The user base is exactly what's not easily replicable.

And trying to "migrate" a user base from Instagram seems like a shot in the foot in this context, even if the whole mechanic of the platform is pretty much the same as twitter, the user base is already completely different
In-case anyone needs it, the following uBlock blocks some of the changes Microsoft made to github, like the cursor and symbol viewer.

github.com##.code-navigation-cursor
github.com###symbols-pane:upward(1)

Unfortunately searching is still broken. This greasemonkey script blocks the capture of keyboard shortcuts like / ctrl space:

keycodes = [191, 17, 32]
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> You don't have to measure outcomes at all.

I think I compete agree with this.

> Harvard has had discriminatory admissions criteria in the past. Many axes of discrimination are inherited. Ergo preferring children of Harvard alumni causes that same discrimination, but with a new name ("legacy admission").

But are you saying legacy admission are unfair or illegal? “Discriminatory” admissions practices are not necessarily illegal (by gender) nor even bad (by grades).
Probably in combination with mechanical turks.
I’ve used it before and during Musk. Twitter has always been outrage by default (at least since ~2014 or so) with some crude controls that allow you to opt out (like blocking/muting people, using curated lists instead of the main feed, and for the love of all that is holy never ever visiting the “for you” or “trending” links). Most of the people I’ve heard claim (as you are) that you have to opt-in to outrage on Twitter are using third party apps that don’t show the same timeline or recommendations as the official app/site (or they otherwise don’t steer users toward the outrage content the same way as the official UIs did).

Agreed that Twitter has improved a bit post-Musk, but it has a decade of ossified outrage culture baked in and that doesn’t change easily. Some notable improvements though include: “for you” and “trending” pages are no longer exclusively showing the worst representations of viewpoints I disagree with (still plenty of disagreement and idiocy, but no longer exclusively the most idiotic representations of the views I disagree with), Community Notes seems genuinely helpful at identifying mis/disinformation that pre-Musk Twitter would have happily boosted (even endorsed via Blue Check), and honestly even the “Blue Check no longer means endorsement but rather access to paid features” seems like a marked improvement. Twitter seems quite a lot more content-neutral without going full anarchy.
A lot of so-called "conspiracy theories," including this one, are quite rational once you replace the conspirators with the profit motive under capitalism.
The thing is that up to around the early 2000's, UX decisions were backed by actual research, not the aesthetic whims of an egocentric designer.
It woyld be funny to me if it turned out the secret was urine instead of seawater. One of the bits of received wisdom i got from my grandfather was peeing on your hands toughened them up. He claimed it as a bit of advice he was given on his first day chopping hardwood for a steam engine at a tin mine. I figured it as a first day prank like being sent to find headlight fluid in modern times but he said it was true.

Before major industrialisation, people used what was at hand. I think the peeing on your hands thing has been long debunked but in roman concrete it may have worked.
Why not just let everyone use their preferred method for authentication and not forcing a particular doing-it-the-right-way on people?

Also, how many accounts and passwords people tend to have which are pets rather than cattle? Bank and email can cause major headaches and probably everyone has 1-2 more accounts which they value and would cause significant setbacks if compromised. Passwords are plenty fine.
HN needs a limited set of vote types:

- this comment adds value to the discussion (the original intended meaning) for upvote/downvote

- humor is the lubricant that keeps society and discussion flowing smoothly, +1 for funny (though of limited value)

- queue popcorn for the ensuing debate (I have no value to add to the following discussion and don't actually have any sides to throw chips to, but I vote this up as a hot--if not somewhat redundant--debate)
I'm not sure what the demand frenzy is for an unproven $3500 VR headset with no killer app during an economic slowdown.
> This has nothing to do with literacy tests

I mentioned literacy tests as the restrictions put on them by the civil rights act are an illustrative example of the act calling out indirect discrimination. I understand they aren't directly related to college admissions.

I could have used a contrived example. Like how height requirements could discriminate against women. But that's not mentioned in the act, while literacy tests are...so it's a better and more relevant example.

It was in reply to this:

"But you can favor people for other reasons, which may result in more people of a certain race. That doesnt violate the Civil Rights Act."

Again, an example where that's not true. In that case "literacy tests" for voting were restricted, even through it's "other reasons" and indirect. The literacy tests have, as you say, "unequal outcomes". I'm not 100% convinced that legacy admissions would fall into the same category. But, I imagine many people are.

In other words, I brought up the literacy tests as an example of something that contradicts your assertion, which I read as something like "only clear and direct discrimination is in scope for the civil rights act".
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You're totally right.

I've been in consulting (now consulting-adjacent) roles for the last six years. I've learned a lot from this experience, but the one definite takeaway I've gotten is that alcohol is an absolute must if you're going to hang out with most people (at least here in the US).

Every single after-work event that I've done at the several firms I've worked for has had alcohol involved (and usually lots of it). Every. single. one.

Now, I like drinking. I still drink one or two pints of beer every other day. But it's very difficult to avoid if you want to have a social life here, and seeing your peers get slightly dumber over time is not fun when you're sober! That's annoying as hell!

(I used to drink beer daily until I got acid reflux, despite working out every day in some way or another; I drink an NA beer or two on the off days. I definitely don't get drunk anymore. Been there; done that. I hate losing control over myself like that.)
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> you can't drive your tooling

Can you suggest what tooling actually can help to implement algorithms and data structures libraries with generic types in a clean way?
> demonstrate that you can't drive your tooling

Apparently few can. How many image libraries came before `stb_image`? KISS is a feature.

Also, tooling changes between platforms and build systems.
I see this as only one more vote for the thesis that OpenAI is in this not for all its lofty goals but purely to make a "Netflix, but for AI". It's no secret they're in this for the money -- but they're doing so in a particularly lazy & outright commercial way that is rewarding highly capable early adopters massively (their intentions going both ways) and punishing everyone else.

I'm really hoping we see the other side of capitalism emerge here and present some strong competition that demonstrates that there is a better (as in humane), more responsible as well as profitable way of doing this.
People don’t seem to understand how much comparatively early adopters have paid for Apple hardware.

My Apple //e setup cost around $3500 in 1986.

My Mac LCII setup was $4K in 1992.

There are enough people in the world who will drop $3500 on the Vision Pro without blinking for Apple to sell all it can make.
But there are infinite numbers of salts. Please explain how this could be brute-forced as long as the salt is used correctly? What am I missing?
A personal example for me is that on the iphone, the default view shows me 24 icons, which is way too many to be useful. Its so useless, in fact, that most tech savvy users simply swipe up and use the search feature. But there's no way to know that you can swipe up to get to the search feature, leaving most non-tech-savvy users to visually inspect pages of icons, one at a time, until they find the app they are looking for.
It is useless trying to use either logic or reason here.

It is just legalistic rambling and I've found it better to not engage this line of (non) reasoning.
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There’s no proof that making everyone make such statements waters them down. It might also just make everyone actually think about ways their labs and mentorship style might exclude people and adjust accordingly. I think an autistic professor who writes about making a genuine commitment into supporting other autistic students and actually following through with that is just as competitive as other professors who may lie about it, because autistic people are just as capable of success as neurotypical. In fact I’m willing to be that autistic professor will be even more so, because they are going to foster amazing students that other ableist professors overlook.
> who might have been less rich and more able.

but why would someone being less rich also imply they're more able? And why would someone richer not be capable just as much?

It's just another form of discrimination - except that it feels justified, because it came from the axiom that legacy admissions must be worse for merit.
Is there a developer program that gets you early access to a head set ?
Its even easier when you only get to see a few tweets a day.
In order to do this, you must assiduously avoid mainstream news as well. I think that’s the point where the two sides of this debate are talking past each other. There is the Twitter you see on Twitter (your customized feed) but there’s also the That that is reported on in the news, screencapped on Reddit, shared on WhatsApp and iMessage, etc. If the sense memory of those non-platform Twitter interactions is stronger than the on-platform ones, especially when it comes to negative senses like hate, it tarnishes the users’ experience with it.
> Unidirectional federation sounds like a nightmare on the UX side

What do you mean by this? If you're a Mastodon user, you'd just see Threads users on your feed, and be able to reply/boost/etc their posts normally.
The issue here is people too lazy to tell their compiler where to find a header file so instead they cook up a bespoke system that is specific to every library using this approach.
Anti-ageing protein injection boosts monkeys’ memories
No, Bildungswissenschaft. But yes, I found out some way along my studies that I'm actually really interested in parts of psychology. Henry Roediger's research, for example.
I find it sad how many websites, or even programs have atrociously low information density. In our quest to flat and minimalistic design™, we have managed to lower information density so much that very simple websites require lots of scrolling and menu-opening just to get simple information.
At this point surely LaTeX makes more sense for this kind of work...
> You cannot argue on principle that diversity is a good thing while simultaneously arguing that it can be a bad thing. This is an obvious contradiction.

Moderation (in the sense of temperance) as a meta-ethical principle has an exceedingly long pedigree, starting with Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics. Every virtue he describes is a mean between two extremes; courage lies between cowardice and recklessness, for example.

TL;DR: Every virtue has a “oops you went too far” failure mode, this doesn’t make it “self-contradictory”.
Yeah it doesn't require that everything is actual bots but people behaving like bots. To amend to that I've found that the bigger forums are full of actual people that are just regurgitating the most common talking points on issues and trying to discuss them deeper or developing them is pointless, because the people doing it are just there to root for their "team" not convincing anyone of their point of view. Discussions might disprove their arguments so it is avoided at all cost, with that all discussions become vapid bullshit which does nothing in the world.
Someone might find this useful, so sharing here, since it's relevant.

I wrote a small PHP library that gives you a key-value storage interface to SQlite files: https://github.com/aaviator42/StorX

I've been dogfooding for a while by using it in my side projects, and it holds up very well (mostly thanks SQLite's robustness!).

And there's a basic API too, to use it over a network: https://github.com/aaviator42/StorX-API
As a counterpoint: I don’t use Twitter. I don’t tweet, but I care about reading other people’s tweets. But I never made an account on Twitter, because I would have to curate feeds and create an account, and it’s friction for something that’s ultimately not worth that much to me.

But: I’ve already curated Instagram. My alderman posts things there, the sports teams I care about announce things there, local businesses have accounts there. If they suddenly gain the ability to tweet, great! I’m a new customer that Twitter couldn’t convert before. I’ll check it, and they can serve me ads.

When journalists realize that a broader audience of people are reading stuff there, they will follow the eyeballs. The fact that they are on Twitter will cease to matter.
I think this right here is what makes me curious about Bluesky in the first place, the meta discussion on HN about it is weird and I want to see it for myself.
In Java-land it's usually up to the application/libraries to manage this. I see Hikari used a lot.
Nearly every sim I've seen don't have one set by default, and I can't imagine the average smartphone user digging through their smartphone settings to add one.
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And people (including my parents) paid close to $3000 for a full Apple // setup back then - in 1986 dollars…
I may be reading too much into this, but I think the suggestion here is that the "tele" prefix means "at a distance" (tele-phone = distant voice, tele-graph, tele-port, tele-vision, tele-pathy, tele-kenisis, etc.)
It won't last -- if it even launches with this feature -- pretty sure.

As others have pointed out, most hosts will simply de-federate them pretty quickly anyways, and then it will become a useless feature that they turn off.

I suspect it will be one-way anyways, to capitalize on the existing content produced by Mastodon users out there already while they bootstrap. There's no way they'd offer their own content up into the fediverse without the ability to tie it to ads and engagement.

Given the cold reception they've gotten, it will be interesting to see if this feature even makes launch.
The business lesson is if you are entirely dependent on somebody else you are not in a good position. Especially if your interests aren't aligned.

When people are banned, it's the platform deciding the reputational risk of association isn't worth the money you bring in. Given reputation impacts can be huge - it's hard to see how you'd ever be the right side of that equation.

Even worse, the platform may decide it's not even economic to make sure each banning is fair....

Ultimately I suspect the only way to rebalance the balance of power is to use collective power.

So having large number of friends on the platform that will campaign on your behalf, taking out insurance ( another pooled method ), or even having formal Unions.

In essence that puts some of the economic cost of getting the decisions right onto the platform users ( as the friends/union does the work, and makes the case ). Pooled insurance has a similar economic basis ( platform users bear the cost of the insurance ).
You mean like how Elon Musk has shadowbanned pro-Ukrainian talk, such as Kyiv Independent? All pro-Ukrainian sources do not trickle up the timelines anymore.

Twitter also puts Ukrainians soldiers petting-puppies and/or showing off their cats behind the age-restriction filters.

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Before, Twitter had a committee and moderators who you could talk to about these shadowbans and other such moderation decisions. Today, all those have been fired, and strangely pro-Russians are being boosted... while pro-Ukrainians are being shadowbanned.
I appreciate that. I can't discern the difference like most people for some reason, unless I am really looking for it.
I would have loved to see an open-source of something like QNX for music production, as it would be very useful for its hard realtime guarantees and low latency.

In my experience Linux has been pretty awful at this.
Yes, but as I moved between countries and bought SIM cards from many carriers all carrier employees offered me to disable the pin "for convenience". Let's say your phone died, and you put it on a charger. A phone would eventually turn itself back on, but if your sim is locked you. wouldn't be able to accept incoming calls until you unlock the phone and unlock the phone. Without a sim pin once your phone turns on you become available again. People like that.

Also, even if you want to keep the pin on many people would set it to something convenient like 1111 or 9999. In fact, one of the carriers I used had 1111 s a default pin code for all their SIM cards.

So, while security is there in theory, in practice it's rarely in place.
I'll be getting one to use for coding. One person does not a demand frenzy make, but having 'infinite' monitor space is a killer app to me.
I think FreeRTOS is monolithic, isn't it?
Some of the best software we have to date was written in C. If you like it or not, it is a magnificent tool.
"Heavenbanning" isn't going to be a thing, because it's no more effective than hellbanning while being drastically more expensive for platforms to implement.
I agree that for most adult learners, aiming for accent-free is likely to disappoint. However, my personal figure of merit is getting to the point where people are happy conversing with you in their L1/your L2, rather than wishing to swap to their L2/your L1, and any reasonably motivated adult ought to find that attainable.

no effort: your L1, their L2
easy mode: your L1, their L1
aim for: your L2, their L1
hard mode: your L2, their L2

(indeed, in my experience —past an acceptable baseline— people judge L2 speech far more by register and rhetoric than by phoneme production)

> children are very motivated

That, and much less afraid that they "might make a mistake"
Stability-wise, it's more like this:
* openSUSE Factory is comparable to Fedora Rawhide (upstream "development" rolling release);
* openSUSE Tumbleweed is comparable to Fedora
* openSUSE Leap is comparable to CentOS Stream
* SLE is equivalent to RHEL (stable conventional point releases)

(ex-SUSE here)
According to industry analysts, Apple sells over 40 million watches per year and is by far the top smartwatch seller, taking over half the revenue of the entire market. Given how Apple protects its margins, that adds up. I'd sure love to have that kind of "moderate success."

Regarding the iPhone, I'm not sure what your point is, but my point is: people mocked the iPhone for having a ridiculously high price at launch despite having fewer features than other high-end phones. It's a direct analog to the Vision Pro reception, because this happens literally every time Apple launches in a new category.
who defines inappropiate? _animal farm_ novel is how old??
LLMZip: Lossless Text Compression Using Large Language Models
> just hope that the public anger gets directed at the people and corporations trying to enforce ideology, as opposed to ideology itself

Why not both?
I like the default view. I don’t find 24 icons overwhelming or confusing. The most frequently used ones, I remember where they are spacially.
This sounds almost like a joke... are you sure GFDL requires that?