jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't think this argument makes sense. In fact if we follow it to its conclusion, it's an additional reason for RMS to be removed from his job.

1. RMS is not being punished by the FSF.

He does not have any right to a particular job, even as the founder of an organization. Many people, including FSF board members, believed he was not competent to serve the organization in a leadership role.

One could argue about whether getting excoriated on social media is a "non-judicial punishment". Perens seems to be decrying a rush to judgment, contrasting it with jury duty. But the most damning criticism is coming from people who worked with RMS closely, and who for years even shielded him from the consequences of his own actions. These people have thought long and hard about their experiences.

2. RMS is not obviously asking for any understanding nor promising to be better.

RMS has publicly described himself as having autistic characteristics. He seems to be saying he's sub-clinical. But, if he believes that this is the source of his difficulties, this is a private matter between him and his employer. So, our ability to judge here is limited.

However, at least from public statements, he does not seem to be invoking that defense, or asking for understanding. In fact, he doesn't seem to be even interested in any harms he has caused. Surely this would be step one?

Perens may well believe that RMS' problem is autism. But it matters what RMS believes and does. If he really has a disability but is denying it has any impact, this is even more of a reason to remove him.

3. Frankly this entire argument does such a disservice to the many men and women who live with autism/Asperger's Syndrome. A lot of them do struggle with norms. But they also feel bad when they inadvertently cause others pain. And most of them find a modus vivendi with others. This seems very unlike how RMS' interactions have been described, including to me by people who've worked with him, and what I've also personally seen at public events.

4. Personally it makes me very sad that we're having this argument. I don't take any pleasure in seeing RMS removed from a position of honor. I think he's one of the greatest thinkers of his time, and documents like "The Right to Read" ought to be in textbooks. There ought to be a place for RMS in our discourse. Just not this one.
The author points to Arduino not being a priority target for Gcc, but it took only a few months (10?) to raise enough money to fund updating its back end to compatibility with Gcc 11.

Anyway, this is nice and welcome work. I wonder what are its prospects for being adopted upstream.
I don't doubt that RMS can contribute to the free software foundation without putting him in a position where his handicaps will injure others. In a professional setting I helped manage an individual with similar challenges and focus. Our solution was to buffer them with a couple of "handler" individuals who would not trigger the individual's quirks, and who could pass their contributions on to the organization in a reliable way.

My feelings on RMS is that he should not be on the board, and he should directly participate on any "official" communications channel, be it email or code reviewing. Rather, a channel should be provided for him to respond, and within that channel should be a process to capture the essence of the response that is important without the offensive bits.
i hope Manjunath reads this. he would be very proud
Amphetamines cause the release of norepinephrine as a major component of their effect.
As I remember it, it was Joel who launched the wave of having people actually write code during interviews.

I never saw or heard about that before.
The music was fantastic, as were the visuals. Damn
You have to pass a visual exam for the AME to certify you as a pilot; once you get the certification, however, going blind later won't necessarily revoke it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9258031/Government-...

Another article covering the same topic, if the paywall for the telegraph gets in your way.
School brings its own traumas. School can be a bit prison lite both in structure and social dynamics between children. But for some children school is still a more plesant experience than whatever is happening at home and so it is an important and life saving escape.

High school gave me severe social anxiety and I was “popular.” I know many others had it much worse than me. College was a good change of pace for me and I got over it, but then a few years into my career I worked at a place that was very high school like and all of the trauma and anxiety returned and then some. Took years to recover my confidence.
I read years ago the third archive was thought to be I'm the grounds of the Chinese embassy
I certainly have nothing against this, but even at the pace they are going it will take a long time before this is anything but just another unnecessary "rewrite it in Rust" project to me. I think Godot engine is a lot more promising for general purpose use.
Distance driven is probably the broadest metric one can use to compare here.
Look (or we’ll listen) to Larry King’s early years interviews vs later in his career, so I would say probably a life time.

Also keep in mind Lex isn’t a professional journalist he isn’t even what one would call a science communicator.

His podcast is still mainly two people having a conversation than a structured interview but he has gotten better at it overall. His early podcasts had quite a few wired moments where you can see that Lex was somewhere else thinking about something these are rarer now.
Yeah, i think so too. In Vice City the most surprising thing to me was that they actually modelled tire temperature. it's probably a bit crude but i found it interesting.
As for the physics code, there's a big ProcessControl function all sorts of physical entities that does everything that has to happen to that entity each frame. some of it is physics, some not.
My theory as to why varying timestep produces different results is that the physics calculations form some sort of differential equations whose solution depends on the timestep. That may be wrong but it makes sense to me at least.
My approach to fixing it would be to log all sorts of forces applied to the physical objects each frame and log them so they can be compared. this is quite a bit of stuff to implement though so nobody has done it yet. if you or somebody is interested in that, we'd appreciate that a lot.
That was Naomi "SexyCyborg" Wu, and it was Vice, not the NYT: https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3100274...
The remote tech workers and manufacturing labourers compared in the article are both still subject to the same market forces.

Remuneration is the equilibrium of what a company is willing to buy at and what the worker is willing to sell at. A worker will want a higher price and a company will want a lower price. If they agree at an equilibrium then an employment contract is signed.

Manufacturers have leverage to lowball the salaries of workers because if a worker declines to sell their labour at a low price, then the company can likely find other sellers because there is a large supply of unskilled labour.

But if the supply of a specialised labourer is limited and the company really needs it, then the company has to consider more carefully if they want to pass on the deal or if they want to buy the labour at a higher price.

If Facebook now chooses to pay lower salaries based on the cost of living of a worker's location, then that is their risk to take as they'll open themselves up to more competition. It's up to the remote worker to decide if they want to sell their labour to Facebook at that price or if they're comfortable to decline and look at their other options, which depends on the demand for remote workers of their particular skill set.
And ruby has a nice solution for this. It allows methods ending in = to act as setters clean overrides and provides methods (attr_accessor and friends) to generate vanilla getters and setters for you. You can access instance variables via instance_variable_get but that's not recommended.
Is he saying a feature of the camera is tha t you can attach a shot of the photographer into each photo eg using both cameras at once?

If so that's awesome.
What's the use case, though? If you want config file syntax, use a config file. If you want a program, use code.

Building up an object system like this for simple configuration seems excessive to me.

I would do something like this:

c = YAML.load_file 'config.yml'
allowed, disallowed = c['allowed'], c['disallowed']
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A good read and very timely from my perspective. We created a crawler in Python a couple of years ago for RSS feeds, but we ran into a number of issues with it, so put it on hold as we concentrated on work that made money :) We started to look at the project last week and we've been looking at rolling our own versus looking at frameworks like Scrapy. The main thing for us is being able to scale. Anyone who has knowledge of creating a distributed crawler in Python I'd welcome some advice.

Thanks again. Really good post
I'm not sure the article itself is likely to be properly understood (or even read) by a lot of the USA. I like the idea of "evil education" though.
Yes, that may be true but that's some foundries and some fonts. How these things normally work is that the branding and typography for a brand is done by a separate agency who specify the typefaces, then a separate digital agency have to implement it. If the chosen typeface isn't available with an online license then you have to fall back to replacement.

Maybe in another year or so things will have improved to the state where more typefaces are available for online use than not.
You're right -- fixed.

(It was 17 Startup Blogs To Make You a Better Entrepreneur)
How is it possible that you get requirements and code at the same time? Like I literally start writing code, while at the same time have a meeting with the customer to figure out if they want an accounting system or a CMS?
I don't agree with Eil's comment at all, but that is no reason to vote his comment down. Comment voting is to make interesting comments more prominent and to remove noise, not to banish unpopular opinions. I don't interpret Eil's comment as a trolling attempt that warrents down-voting either.
> because she's a vegetarian.

There's a difference between a vegan and a vegetarian: a vegetarian doesn't consume meat, but does consume diary products and eggs (egg-but-not-meat eaters like me are sometimes also known as eggetarians).

A vegan, on the other hand, doesn't consume any animal products at all.

I have been vegetarian (or rather eggetarian) all my life, and I have had no such problems. Also, I know many vegetarians (lots of them here in India), who face none of these problems. I believe being a vegetarian is a fairly healthy lifestyle. Being a vegan, maybe not.
i can relate to that .. not only did my professor use command line only, he required the finals (more like a paper) and the project reports typed up in LaTex + the presentations in .PS/PDF format .. No Word or Powerpoint
Dupe of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1424299 which links to SparkleShare's homepage instead of the readme file.
I'm sick of this. Really. (Because of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1423903)
Full version: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22familiar+with+the+matter.+...
The Obama administration agrees with you.

http://www.mnn.com/eco-biz/money-green-jobs/blogs/american-c...
...or mobile start-up. Really, just about any software driven start-up would be a fit.
This sounds like a variant of Poe's law.
"... Anyone know what his 16 categories are? ..."

Try reading through, "Who am I?: the 16 basic desires that motivate our behavior and define our personalities" ~ http://books.google.com/books?id=EbOjA5oAsEUC&printsec=f...
The Jew-loving Nazis of Scenario 1 seem like a pretty big departure from the Nazis we know and love, but yes, if the Germans had got the bomb things would have worked out differently.

I don't buy Scenario 2. The loss of Britain would have made bombing Germany difficult, not impossible. Worst-case scenario is that they have to develop a long-range bomber. More likely they'd have invaded some part of Europe or North Africa (most likely Britain itself) as a first order of business upon entering the war -- I doubt they would have made it to 1945 without a well-defended slice of Europe. Of course this scenario probably also has a non-negligible Luftwaffe defending German cities in 1945 but, heck, the nukes have gotta get through eventually.
I don't mean to discredit Apple's contributions, but your comments seem to suggest to me that WebKit remains open source for benevolent reasons.

They built the project on KHTML so they wouldn't have to start from scratch. And because KHTML is under the LGPL, WebKit will have to remain open source unless they removed all KHTML-related code, which I'm sure is not worth the investment.
A lot of smart people go into finance and make a lot of money, so I think there's a general curiosity about their methods and techniques. Unfortunately the better you understand it the more cynical you'll get. :-p
Well, Rargaok was an early avatar of Vinz Clortho, and Bkmewe is Mesopotamian for "Cash or Check Only"...
Personally, I used to work in finance, so I had to know it - but I think it's essential knowledge for both employees and entrepreneurs.

Employees - well, if you're planning to make a career in some big company, you might as well invest in 401K, especially if they're offer matching. And then you usually get a choice between various funds. And obviously, you need to get educated about finance, because if you make wrong choices, you could get really fucked.

Entrepreneurs - obviously you need to be good at that when money valuations come into play for your startup. And here - same situation, if you're not educated about how that works, you're gonna get fucked.

And those are just some of the examples of situations you're going to run into where that knowledge is required.
This news is almost certainly false.
I second this concern. We haven't had much inflation for years in the US, and I wonder if this crisis will turn it up?
I agree. There is substantial economic damage being done and it won't just undo itself. Lots of businesses are going to fail, those people will not find work so easily as they would have before the crisis. Also, I think this is going to last longer than most people realize. Countries that use this time to get their act together so that they can use South Korea style controls maybe will get their economies restarted sooner. Places where the only strategy is to shelter-in-place until there is a vaccine will see economic disruption for 9-12 months. The damage from that will be staggering.
My high school went from drawing flow charts to C and I find it very accessible to beginners to be honest.
The crisis is tied to an ongoing pandemic whose scope and consequences are global, but not predictable. No one can credibly claim to know the extent of the disruption, other than the simple observation that large parts of the economy have stopped and might not come back for a while. Anyone who claims to know more is guessing.
This is a poor comparison. The contrast of a cars to the background of Earth is low, ofcourse we can not see any. Remove Earth and let these cars fly on orbits 500km below ISS and, oh boy, would you suddenly see car roofs and windows glinting in the dark everywhere.

Amazing for satellite watchers and annoying for astronomers were e.g. Iridium flares. See [0][1]. Worst case for Iridium flares was them being about 50x as bright as planet Venus. Starlink satellites have the advantage of orbiting far lower which puts them into Earth's shadow on part of their orbits. Around midsummer, though, satellites in an orbit at 550km, like Starlink's lowest shells, will be lit by sunlight as soon as they cross northwards over ~ 45° latitude (their orbits have an inclination of 53°, so they definitely do this). I'm going out on a limb here but they might interfere with infrared observations because of emitted heat (being exposed to bright sunlight every half orbit heats them up).

Parent poster was most likely also referring to the Kessler Syndrome [2] when talking about safety.

[0] https://youtu.be/MTGVuPr9Epg?t=100

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_flare#Iridium_flares

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
There was also WW1 at the same time.
During the Great Recession my employer at the time laid off a large percentage of our staff that they had wanted to layoff for a long time. Due to the nature of their industry, the appearance of stability was very important so they never did layoffs before. Any accumulated excess workforce had to be reduced through attrition or gross misconduct excessive enough for warrant being fired for cause. During the recession though, banks were failing left and right, unemployment was going up, mass layoffs were happening every day, and total economic collapse didn't seem out of the question. While the layoff did make the newspaper that day, it was considered a minor story with no follow up. During good times it would have been the top news story of the week and scared many of our clients. I wonder if this current crisis will allow for similar workforce reductions by companies seeing it as a good opportunity to reduce labor expenses without eroding public confidence in their company.
But half the US is obese, that's one of the biggest health issues in the ones dying from SARS 2.

Technically, half the US is already dying from obesity, but I don't think that means they should be all killed off at once.
It may depend on the time frame. The markets were inflated, with a lot of voices telling how unsustainable things would be soon enough, and then this black swan happened.

The current situation will last at least a month (and how bad it will be while it lasts is yet to be seen), and after that keeping social distances, and closed borders will remain for many months.

The rules will be just different. It may be very bad for some old industries (travel, tourism, are easy ones), and good for some of the emergent ones.
Still nowhere as egregious as his shady attempt to buy out native land in Hawaii through proxy lawsuits: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/17/mark-zuckerb...
I get using the T2 to encrypt the drives, as I understand it makes for very good hardware security, but what I do not get is why the machine cannot either:
A. Wipe and then 'claim' an SSD, adding it the T2 by itself without another machine, or
B. Give you a big fat warning when reinstalling macOS that your drive will not be encrypted.

Maybe Apple figures it's not a big deal to require another Mac simply because these machines are priced such and targeted at professionals and corporations.. having an old Macbook or something around isn't unlikely.. this is the kind of thing that would be a deal breaker for me but that's moot since I don't think anyone like me would ever buy one.
I don't know which city would be most comparable to New York, but Germany recently announced 120+ a billion dollar investment in upgrading rail infrastructure nationwide[1].

The high-speed rail connnection between Berlin and Munich cost 10 billion Euro. Even then, it was criticized for being over budget. It travels at 200km/h+ and is over 600km long. I think that project is completely infeasible in the US, at any price. It seems like a bargain to me.

Of course, high-speed long-haul lines are a different thing than subways. I lived in Munich for several years and I can say firsthand, subways are magical. As an American, it's embarrassing we cannot dig holes. It's not because money.

[1] https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/infrastructure/...
My dream is to one day create an SSO solution for companies. I've been doing research for a time being, but I am worried that I wouldn't find any clients, because who would trust an SSO created by one guy in his basement?
I think the first step to overcome that would be having a completely Open Source solution, but how to avoid other companies grabbing it and selling as their own?
Or do you think it is better to develop it anyway and then worry about customers later?
I don’t think the idea is to “make it hurt” so much as to make compliance more affordable than non-compliance. If the “right” response to a data breach is also the most cost effective then it’s infinitely more likely that a business will pursue the right response. Unfortunately, the right response is most often the most expensive and so is actively avoided by management because, at the moment at least, sweeping it under the rug and keeping your mouth shut is free and only a tiny bit of a gamble that someone finds out.
In Estonia, the employer's expenses are 1.75x of what the employee actually receives; 43% of the employer's payroll expenses go to taxes and other fees. I assume it's similar in other EU countries.

You can buy health insurance separately, but that doesn't excuse you from paying taxes if you're receiving income. And once you're paying taxes, there's no point to buy health insurance separately, as you will automatically qualify for "free" healthcare. The only time it makes sense to buy health insurance separately is if you have retired at a young age or you're cheating on your taxes.

Of course, all of this varies by country, but I imagine the percentages are relatively similar. Germany is a more expensive country, so I can see how 70EUR/h might be a reasonable number there.
A fleet of Teslas? Not that this isn't a cool idea, but it's still a joke, right?
I don't have the statistics at hand, but I'd say it's likely more. The remarkable safety of airliners doesn't extend to smaller aircraft.
also, copyright year 2014 and "limted to a single use" wants an i
That's great, thanks for the info. I wish most getting started guides would set this up first/early.
It would seem that a helicopter is significantly more dangerous: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...

That would be my intuition as well--especially for that route as traffic will frequently make driving pretty slow (and, indeed, that's sort of the point of the service).
With a lot of the higher end drones, you can do autonomous flying via GPS. Just tell the drone a point on the map to go to and off it goes. You could easily have a partner in crime just waiting at the pre-determined GPS coordinates to pick up the drone and the cargo. The partner could then swap the battery pack and send the drone right back to you.

This can be accomplished right now, with pretty much any of the off-the-shelf, high-end consumer drones.

Setting up a fixed wing drone requires a lot more work. You would have to set up a parachute with the payload and some sort of release system, plus it would have to have enough battery to fly back. The receiving party on the other end wouldn't be able to send anything back with the drone, either, because it would never land. If you wanted it to land, then you have to deal with all sorts of other variables.

Drones that can take off and land vertically are far more flexible for point to point deliveries than fixed wing drones.
Maybe by facilitating the service via an app will make the difference here. A much bigger audience and probably a lot easier to book.
It would be interesting to see this baked into a browser-based text editor. Make it fully client side and you can potentially save the git history in localstorage and use it as an offline web app. I wonder if there are any git servers that support websockets...
I probably couldn't improve the actual code myself, but I do understand what is being talked about conceptually. I enjoyed the article and learned a bit from it, thus I upvoted.
Yeah... I think the new iPads have 720p cameras, as well.