skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stallman was cancelled. If the repercussions he faced were just, he was nonetheless cancelled. If the repercussions have turned out to be only temporary, he was nonetheless cancelled.

In general, you seem to think that because these people deserved the punishment they faced, that they were not really cancelled. This is a wrongheaded way to think about the matter. A person is cancelled when he faces certain punishments for having done (of being thought to have done) certain actions. Whether these punishments were just does not play into whether they constitute cancellation. Justified or unjustified, it's cancellation the same.

Now, it is true that people who are the most vocal about cancellation tend to be against it as a rule. Or, to be against it when it is seen as going against freedom of speech - Justin Roiland and others who are seen as having been credibly accused of having committed a crime may be seen as fair game.

P.S. I never said Finkelstein was cancelled for being woke (you likely misread the word "work"), in fact he is very much against woke culture - see his latest book, "I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get To It!"
One day I got a call from RMS’s assistant asking if I could help sell books for FSF at a conference. Not even bothering to ask what kind of conference it was, I said “For Richard Stallman, anything!”

Two days later I found myself selling books alongside a self-described nomad and was approached by the leader of the communist party of Great Britain who shook my hand and said “I’m a big fan of your work.”

Was one of those surreal moments.
This will be true right up until the point it is not. The US dollar dominance is not a feature of the universe, it's a social agreement that, like any such agreement, will eventually come undone.
I bet if you broke down what they were specifically repulsed by, you'd get a response that aligned more with "we were affected by western sanctions and embargos that crippled our economies and made trade impossible" than "we didn't like communism." The US specifically hated communism because it's harder to extract resources from communists than it is to get it from oligarchs and kleptocrats. Hell, we spent a good part of the 20th century overthrowing democratically elected governments to put those people in charge while our leaders proclaimed how much they loved "freedom" back home.
It's not exactly a replacement. Your own hired staff can still mess things up in the cloud and leave a door open. The cloud doesn't magically apply all the best practices on its own. See all the people caught with open access to S3.
> It's not that remarkable.

it's actually quite remarkable that apple's phone _can_ be made with the level of component quality, at this price point. Similar feature phones from other manufacturers are just not quite on the same level of quality, even at a higher price point. You might even consider it as "cheap" (for what you get).

This is actually why i think apple has such a hold on their marketshare. It's not just lockin on the ecosystem.
How did HN "bury" mastodon?
It is interesting you mention the log function being what tripped up the broken node. On the CM1 and CM2, log was implemented via Feynman's algorithm for logarithms, which finds factors via a shift and subtract and then adds precomputed logarithms of them via a hit to a table that is shared by all the processors. If one of the nodes had a bad route to that lookup table (however that was actually done), it would result in just that node failing to return a result for a log instruction.
Is there a top list of the most reposted articles?
As I understand it, the prime underlying issue is that the VCV Rack project is licensed, developed & community managed in a way that leaves at least some contributors feeling (at a minimum) unappreciated, unwelcome and/or exploited.

The VCV "development team" is a single individual and it seems there are no project governance structures in place to manage risks around accountability. Dissent appears to be suppressed/hidden which leads people to enter the ecosystem/community unaware of pre-existing issues.

The VCV project does not accept outside contributions--presumably because this approach enables the developer to use both a GPL3 license (for source releases) and a commercial fee-based license (along with additional proprietary code).

The argument with regard to "exploitation" of third party developers is that it is presumed that some non-zero portion of the value which justifies the price of commercially licensed product(s) is due to the wide ecosystem of (mostly uncompensated/volunteer) third party developers who develop modules.

Then there are specific problematic actions/events which are described in this section onward: https://aria.dog/barks/why-i-will-never-create-modules-for-v...

With regard to modules/hosting: https://vcvrack.com/manual/PluginLicensing

As far as I can tell the Cardinal project was not publicly released at the time this post was written thus its existence is not mentioned.

Editorializing: My perspective is that it seems the project is intentionally using the GPL license as a tool to create a power imbalance between the main developer & other developers which leads to the usual issues around power dynamics that occur in such situations. (As opposed to using the GPL license to protect the [combined] work produced by a community of developers who work together.)

Obviously it is the main developer's "prerogative" to act in this manner but it's reasonable for current or former community members to want to advise prospective community members of the reality of the situation so they're able to decide whether to participate in the VCV Rack community from a position of informed consent.

The introductory and concluding sections serve as context & examples of the harm that can occur to talented, passionate & creative individuals who aren't able/permitted to see the power dynamics in play until after they have already invested/participated in the community.
If any lawyers or FAA employees are reading this I’m genuinely interested in what, if any, legal implications there would be for running nmap mid flight on an airline. Surely once you have spoofed the MAC address and IP of another passenger to gain unauthorized access to the planes LAN you have committed a crime but what about passively scanning?
> These links never work anymore for me and many others because of an infinite captcha loop.

1.1.1.1 does not work with archive.ph and the related family of archive sites, due to choices on the archive.* end of things. See ex. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36970702
Looks quite nice, thanks for sharing and the overview of the approach taken.

As remark on the spaghetti coding, most visual programming languages do offer modules, and the ability to add some structure similar to digital circuit design, if anything they make it easier to visualize bad code when proper coding isn't followed upon.
Spanish justice ends McAfee case: `no indication of anything other than suicide’
Segments of HN have been predicting the imminent collapse of the US dollar for at least the last decade. One thing 10-years-ago HN had but today doesn’t is the constant predictions of the imminent collapse of the VC startup model in general, or maybe I’m just looking in the wrong threads these days.

That said, you may be correct in that the voices have gotten louder. Also, the Covid conspiracy stuff drives me up the wall, and I didn’t remember older HN being like that.
They already made the money, they don’t get paid for shilling by you watching.
Lots of firms do use a “results oriented” model, I work for such a firm and really try to work only at firms with those values.

But we’re very much out of the broader societal norm here. Amazon checking that employees show up to work is very much a societal norm, and probably a global one for those working at a business.

Harping on standards and practices like this too hard risks making one appear out of touch with the average worker, bit of an “let them eat cake” type of statement. The average, non-HN type would see that headline and think “so what, my boss expects to physically see me daily” and has done so my entire life.
> i mean you can explain)) i explained why i cannot reach that and my points are there)) so please explain

Sure, I get it can be confusing from your point of view. But what you are saying is ideological and your reactions. You are not countering any point in article with facts or sources. That's it. Does that make sense to you?
Apparently this usage goes at least as far back as the 18th century!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement#%22Pira...
I think its https://www.screen.studio
> Does it matter? His message isn't for non-programmers.

His message is pretty much user-centered.

(and programmers deserve good message delivery too)
I can see that Reddit really hurt you. On behalf of the community, I'm sorry.

> It just means they need a different type of marketing.

That's correct. And Step #1 is to have a product which will make it past the collective bullshit detector. Step #2 is to provide real and actual value. To have a legitimately good product.

So much of marketing is built on deception. If you try to deceive Redditors, you're going to get told to fk urself.

People who can't complete step 1 or 2 and want to employ deception-based marketing often tell a tail like yours. It's our fault for not just taking what you tell us at face value and handing over our money.

However all of the people appending 'Reddit' to their search queries instead of reading the deception-based marketing pages that fill up Google results, may understand where I'm coming from.
Wine has worked surprisingly well for a long time, well before Valve got involved, although compatibility was never perfect of course (and still isn't!) I don't think they had to "fix 1000s of tiny little bugs that break games". Codeweavers has been selling commercial Wine-based solutions for a long time.

It's easy to offer a better experience if you also own the actual storefront; that was kind of my point.

And as I said, I'm sure Valve contributes; but describing wine as some sort of semi-usable half-working project before their involvement is rather inaccurate.
Discord desktop client is having an outage due to cloudflare. You are not blocked from discord, this is an error and will resolve itself with time.

In the meantime you can go to discord.com and use the web application or the mobile version. They both are not affected.

@dang can we block comments on this or delete or something?
HSM’s are super inconvenient obviously, and as Mr. Robot showed not perfect. So why bother? /s
At places I’ve worked, they were logged, but only ever audited in cases of suspected time fraud or other legal infractions. Anonymized statistics were also sometimes used for covid tracking. There was never somebody actively sifting through the data and taking attendance.
> US defense sector and the likes of Lockheed-Martin, Northrop and Raytheon. And thisballowsbthe US to corner the NATO market

German companies hesitance to work on Pan-EU (in reality only French) defense projects is because of a headache the Eurofigher has become, as both France and Germany have different export exemptions plus plenty of French companies are still manufacturing weapons systems to directly compete with French-German projects (eg. Dassault vs Eurofighter, Thales vs Airbus, etc).

Also, the American defense manufacturers don't care to target the EU market as much anymore excluding the F-35 project because indigenous capabilities have caught up and North American procurement still dwarfs what individual European countries could buy and maintain.
That is probably your card issuer loosing money because US cards used in Europe is a small enough segment to not demand any policy changes.

In particular the articles talks about exemptions:

> provides for a limited number of exemptions, such as business cards used only for business expenses being charged directly to the account of the company;
Watching old videos is always amusing when the sponsor part about a company that since died comes up.
Thanks!

The library of congress version is currently unavailable, perhaps it's gotten too much traffic from HN!

the umaryland version, @sheepshear do you personally find this feature useful, you use this feature? Or you were just giving it as an example for others who might want it?

Either way, this is a good example of the kind of "browse shelf" feature you were speaking of, looking more or less like this?
Quora being a good option is incredibly surprising to me. I never click on Quora links as 90% of the time the "answers" are just ads or people who want to pretend they are a bigger deal than they are and know more than they do.

I'm a little surprised podcast ads weren't tried, mostly because I'd love to know how well those do/don't work out for a tool like this.
I have seen chainsaws that are huge, used in industrial logging. This section of comments is daft -- look at the size of the tree .. not "50 cm" trunk at all .. much larger. Secondly a boy of 16 can be anything between a helpless sheep to an olympian. Hard labor is not for all of them.
Australian Federal Court grants injunctions against tens of piracy domains
Yeah interestingly, woke up this morning, said I was blocked on computer. Phone still worked. Visiting the discord page in firefox works.

Being lazy, but might try reinstalling discord sometime later.
> The snag is that Steam OS 3 uses Btrfs

No it doesn't? There are converter that inject some services that handle even the update process, but by default steamos uses ext4.
You mean it's 250MBps in each direction?
GSuite tends to work ok for email. There might be others.
Arrogance (trying to hide low self-esteem) has many faces.
People are still rooting Android and adding thousands of modifications to it.
Then that means we need to do a better job of informing the public about how wasteful our industry is being of their computers and, indirectly, their money. To do otherwise, to keep them in the dark, is disrespectful. My hypothesis is that once non-developers are informed, they'll care. They probably already feel that something is wrong but can't articulate it, and have perhaps resigned themselves to a crappy experience.
Search for phone signal caused oil spill, say Japanese investigators
why would you want to delete valid concerns?
Does the pi 4 even have official UEFI? I thought it was a third-party thing.

I think jeff did this testing on a pre-release firmware, so that and other features may be coming.
Look, far from being morally offended by that, I can relate. In '92 - like 6th grade for me - a friend got one of those hand-held scanners for a Mac LE that let you drag it very slowly across the page and get a 300 DPI image into Photoshop v1. And we completely proceeded - as 12 year olds - to paste the faces of girls from our yearbook onto GIF files of porn actresses. That we downloaded at 2400 baud from BBS's.

That's what was going on in 1992.

I'm a little alarmed at the general laziness / lack of initiative of these kids today, TBH. but whatever.
ActionScript 3.0 also had types way back when Flash was a thing.

(ActionScript was based on ECMAScript like JavaScript.)
Basically means: “in the most essential respects; fundamentally.” So in this case, no, omitting the word basically makes no meaningful change to the meaning of your sentence.
* A developer who produces faster code is more expensive to hire.
* Any developer - good or bad - will deliver the same feature faster if they implement it naively, rather than digging deep and optimizing it.
* A slow implementation might cost less to maintain later.
* The vendor doesn't pay the cost of their code being slow. It's the customer that has to pay for the hardware upgrade.

Each company just edges the line between most profit (by cheaply producing slow software) and complete death (by producing software so slow your customers leave instantly a competitor shows up, e.g. Discord killing Skype)

I can't wait for CPUs to stop developing. Companies will have to return to efficiency in order to actually support more features.
> The fact is that with Pis or PCs, _if_ you're still running after a week, you're highly, highly, likely to survive past the point of usefulness.

I might be hopelessly biased since you would regard me as someone who keeps using computers when they are "past the point of uselessness," which is not a phrase I'd actually use.

A lot of the stuff I do to keep computers running after a long period of ownership does not even apply to the Pi, which is nice. I won't ever have to replace the fans on one of my Pis (the case design of the prototype Pi 5s we've seen notwithstanding), but that's a standard thing on PCs. There's maybe one capacitor on a Pi's board? I've never needed to think about it. I've guiltily thrown away and replaced soft power supplies on PCs, even though I had a friend once who knew how to fix them and I should really learn to do the same, but there's considerably less guilt when it's a USB wall wart. I've pitched a few SD cards belonging to Pis over the years (never the proper SSDs, though) but that has never been nearly as painful as a drive failure in a PC.

So I guess I'm saying I would factor in the maintenance burden.

> The bias at play is that people see "old" and equate it with "bad performance".

I see "used electronics" and "eBay" and think of "wasted time," "frustration," "incompetence," "shamelessness," and "fraud."

The other thing I would factor in is that my time is worth something and eBay's main goal, when it comes to used electronics, is to waste it.

> In short, if you just need something to run Home Assistant or Plex on ProxMox or similar, you would find more reward in a mini PC than a Pi, particularly in performance.

I'd split the difference here and say I'd be happy to run Home Assistant on a Pi and Plex, quite possibly, on a PC (but I'd want to at least test on a Pi). I'd be happy to buy a new PC for the purpose from a trusted retailer, or build it myself.
> or if you could employ some kind of machine learning

I'm not sure machine learning is appropriate for graph layout. What a good graph looks like is already well known: no overlapping nodes, minimum line crosses, not too much 'white space'. But doing this layout automatically is very hard (NP complete?).
Every time someone tries to standardize UI, we end up with XML again. There's gotta be something else.
Does presenting evidence count as manipulating a jury?
Cryptocurrencies are inherently bad currencies because of price volatility (except stable coins).

That also makes them good speculative assets fwiw
It is not as much of a failure as just a product released at the wrong time. Most of Steam Deck is basically what lessons Valve has learned with that experiment - Steam Input, Proton, Steam Link (?).

Now that the ecosystem is more mature, there is again some interest towards it. A lot of tech reivew youtubers are now making content on how to get Steam OS to run on X device (X = GPD Win, low profile gaming PC etc..). Honestly, It is good enough to meet most of my "non technical" friends' requirements for their "Home Theater" PC.
Is calling it "sapient" too presumptuous? I feel like that word should be reserved for something more AGI like.

Am I completely off base with that opinion? I've been trying to temper my desire to jump in with any comment however irrelevant. Sorry, weird comment and question.
They've had staging photoshop forever.
the interesting thing for me is that my assumption was that linux gaming would not pick up until the desktop experience of installing and using games would improve, but i somehow missed that creating a separate "game desktop" would do the trick. i didn't consider before that it absolutely makes sense to keep games in their own environment which does make the task a bit easier.

but this also validates another assumption of mine, that it would take funding probably driven by commercial interest (and here i was thinking of companies like redhat) to fix this.
Compile-time safety for enumerations in Go
Yes, the shortened battery life is quite noticeable.
“… was sure Fenwick had to be there under another name.”

Surely any ‘dictionary’ worth its salt would have cross references.
Arguably much of this is caused by governments getting into the zeroday market / blackhat position removing the incentives to fix stuff. IT security got degraded so far that it starts effecting the economy. There was a reason initial cryptocontrol had exceptions for businesses.

Bloated security theater being profitable also doesnt help. One example is smartphones as TAN generators for online banking replacing TAN lists. While you can now charge customers per SMS, the second factor got quite a bit more easy to attack.
Fighting with Python Type Hints
There are several OS level things I wish I could change/override on iPhone: ability to share screen during a video call, ability to control how certain Bluetooth devices pair automatically, ability to throttle apps that I know are abusing the CPU and costing me battery.
Hunger is not a problem, it’s a useful sense.

Poverty also not a problem, just a definition (bottom 10-20% producers).

Climate also not a problem. Just the reality of humans paper clipping finite resources. algae did the same thing when it took co2 from 99% of atmosphere down to less than 1%. Now it’s the algae left arm wrestling the human left.
I don't really understand this. You plan to single handedly replace the entire OS and security teams to maintain the OS on your phone for a decade? How will you update the kernel when the proprietary driver blobs stop being maintained?
Show HN: Config-file-validator – CLI tool to validate all your config files
Why do you think people hated Microsoft? Let's see if you know actually know anything about their deep and wide business sociopathy.

One of the big reasons that monopolies are really bad is that they are also inevitably incompetent. The fact those two things go hand in hand makes the inherent corruption of monopoly / cartels doubly damaging.

....almost all markets are cartels at a minimum these days
Saltwater is pushing its way up the Mississippi River
These are cultures of saving. Saving in fiat is typically worthless.
I "dogsit" a lot of dogs and "teasing" is my primary technique to get a new/shy dog to play.

If I just show them a toy they usually ignore it.

But if start to give it to them, and then take it away their interest starts to build.

Repeat a few times and suddenly the formally shy dog is playing!
Buying songtradr to complement bandcamp might have been a better option, because they could then be making revenue from any other game that licensed via songtradr. ?
I agree that a lot of software engineers use MacOS, though maybe not to the extent of 2007. Linux Desktops seem more viable than ever.

> Even a number of Linux kernel maintainers are on MacBooks

They aren't running MacOS on them though, are they? I'd really like a citation on this if you think they are.
In my experience node-based tools work great:

-If they are restricted to a suitable problem domain (e.g. image/audio/data processing).

-If have the ability to do some scripting in a node, to cover specialzied cases the designer didn't allow for.

(I'm working on a node based data wrangling tool)
> I'm just sad that there's no young people to pass the torch for when the time comes and the founding fathers are no more.

I feel like this is a bit of a misperception. Does this historically happen?
> That seems like a pretty normal thing to track when you pay employees hourly.

We need eye trackers and brain implants to make sure the workers aren't looking at something else or thinking about non work related tasks too. I don't want to pay these parasites a single cent for idle time /s
But it obviously is not?
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/charles-joughin-titanic...

>How a baker survived the Titanic sinking by getting really drunk

Bottoms up!
Have you tried prepending "just a minor note to add to what you said:"?
Fluvio is a high-performance distributed data streaming platform in Rust
I closed a lot of browser tabs (2021)