skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the problems with extreme gentrification (e.g. in SF or London) is that people of modest means who are required for functioning of the city, like janitors, or street vendors, or even teachers or train operators can't live close enough to their work places.
(The solution is, of course, just paying them more.)
Yeah, this is one of those spots where RMS is stubbornly and stupidly standing up for principle in a context where the rest of us just clearly see that it shouldn't matter and he's just being a jerk.

But... damn if he's not right about this. The joke has meaning. It still means what he meant when he wrote it. The issue is an important one (to RMS, at least). And no one else has a real argument here other than "it's unprofessional and embarassing and we want it gone".

Same old, same old. The crusty bearded guy is a jerk, but he's right.
Well, I am headed back to school for an Economics degree. Not quite what you are asking for but I do hope to teach afterwards as well as launch a startup based upon some economic concepts I have been thinking about.

I have held a few academic jobs then went to corporate, then back to academia. It wasn't a hard adjustment to go back. It was harder for me to go back to corporate jobs after.
The title is terrible, and was probably changed by a clueless editor at BBC.

If you read the actual article though, 2 paragraphs in:

”Inscribed on it were lyrics, and underneath them is what researchers believe is the earliest example of musical notation anywhere in the world.”
The linked article says this about Alicia Tondreau-Leve:

When Dattadeen and Tondreau-Leve were still close, Tondreau-Leve
often spoke to her of her anger at losing the home she and her
husband had owned in Massachusetts — a stately four-bedroom
Colonial on an acre of land. Visiting from Florida, while Alan was
still living there, she found it so upsetting to be in the house,
which she knew by then that they would lose, that she sometimes
preferred to spend time in a rented R.V. Formula Mom became a means
of redemption and reinvention.

I found the following comment by Florida attorney general Pam Bondi disconcerting
(Alicia Tondreau-Leve was sentenced to 20 years in prison):

The Leves’ sentences struck me as severe, and I asked Pam Bondi,
the Florida attorney general, if she agreed. “I wish she’d been
locked up for as long as humanly possible for what she did,” she
said of Tondreau-Leve. “Had she used her wits to start a legit
business, she could have been incredibly successful — a true
entrepreneur.”

But if that were Pam Bondi's wish, wonder why she offered a plea deal before the
case went to trial:

Before trial, the prosecutors presented a deal that would have meant much less
prison time for Alicia and mere probation for Alan.

Also, this is the same Pam Bondi who in 2013 [1]:

Bondi has been criticized for election fundraising activities,
including questions raised about contributions from Donald Trump
and his associates. The Florida Attorney General's office received
at least 22 fraud complaints about Trump University. In 2013 a
spokesperson for Bondi announced her office was considering joining
a lawsuit initiated by New York's Attorney General against Trump
regarding tax fraud. Four days later 'And Justice for All', a PAC
that supported Bondi's re-election campaign received a $25,000
donation from the Donald J. Trump Foundation, after which Bondi
declined to join the lawsuit against Trump University.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Bondi#Controversies
Sadly, I very much agree. I think RMS has done an incredible amount to protect software freedom, and virtually every single person in the world benefits in some way or another. However, this is an authoritarian response and assertion of control where one need not be. We have plenty of power-hungry dicks out there, we don't need them to have a famous example to emulate.

Note: I am not convinced yet that RMS was serious. I'm waiting for him to come out and say, "lol jk wuz troll." My opinion stated here assumes he was being serious.
Oh, I'm sorry, I don't knew.
how I can delete this?
Though I can’t stand Ulrich Drepper, what he said in the glibc 2.2.4 release notes is true:

“The morale of this is that people will hopefully realize what a
control freak and raging manic Stallman is. Don't trust him. As soon as something isn't in line with his view he'll stab you in the back. NEVER voluntarily put a project you work on under the GNU umbrella since this means in Stallman's opinion that he has the right to make decisions for the project.”

https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-announce/2001/msg00000.html
In the southern parts of the country (Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu), I have seen even the poorer class, auto-drivers, and cab-drivers too speak English fluently. :-)
Wow great share! I was unaware of these courses! Great work @jph00
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Move one fret flat and pull very sharp? (no, this is not practical, but the inexperienced should give it a try...)
Your book is awesome.
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Hmm. Sub domain discovery through certificate transparency?

Cool!
This topic often seems to lead to one of those left-right paradoxes. Like how the right hates government, but loves cops and military... while many of the left hold the inverse position.

Right-leaning people I know generally sympathize with those living in the rural blight, and their desires to stay in their hometowns and avoid displacement. Left-leaning people tend to say the rural folk need to suck it up and move to the city like everyone else, if they want better opportunities.

Then folk on either side tend to do an about-face when it comes to urban gentrification. Right-leaners tend to support gentrification and all it entails, and the left-leaners suddenly want rework local/national laws to allow the would-be displaced to remain in their homes.
Android Auto is essentially a remote terminal over USB. It upgrades with your phone.
Their GitHub page is also worth looking at: https://github.com/walmartlabs

How many nice things have Amazon open sourced?
Another take on this. If the market is going up at 10-12% and you get your money up front ASAP. You can stand to make more than ~$180. 10% of 18000 is $1800.
I always find these discussions weird, as a Christian who believes in the literal reality of hell. (I hope it will be empty, but I have no reason to believe that other than hope, and I must realistically admit that plenty of people appear to die in a state of mortal sin.)

Being respectful of others, even in a codified way, is in no way an affront to my non-PC beliefs. I'm not going to start having opinions about whether my co-maintainers are going to hell, and if you want to make a policy about that, I'm not harmed in the least. If you want to ask me about my beliefs you're always welcome to do so privately, but I have enough faith in the internet to believe that nobody I'm working on an open source project with is in dire need of hearing the Good News as if they haven't thought about it before. I'm not excluded by someone saying that proselytization is off-topic.

And if you think that my beliefs nonetheless make me a poor representative for some group of people who don't share those beliefs, well, I will be sad privately, but I don't think I am losing anything I deserved if you kick me out of a position of leadership or responsibility over it.

I will admit that there are people who share my beliefs who also have a belief in excluding a group of people in an arbitrary category or in being disrespectful of others as a matter of policy. I disagree (theologically!) with them, and I also very much have no interest in working closely with them on anything. If you craft a set of rules that excludes those people on the grounds of their exclusionary behavior, you'll likely find that I'm the most empathetic towards them when others want me to cut them off, but you'll also find that I have no fundamental objection towards those rules, implemented as a defense mechanism.
We used Drone [1] from a while. It's almost exactly what I want in a CI/CD system, and it runs pretty well on Kubernetes.

On the minus side, the development has been slow, with major breaking changes happening along the way. And in the latest version, the open-source version has been a bit hobbled. In particular, it doesn't support global secrets, so every project to be built has to be created and managed separately. This is not just if it needs build secrets (such as to access private Go packages, NPM modules, Ruby gems, etc.), but it's obviously also required to authenticate with a container registry. We decided to skip that since it means duplicating the same secrets for every single application. We actually reached out to the Drone guys to ask about enterprise pricing, but they didn't respond (!).

(At the moment we're back to building with Semaphore, which is a hosted solution similar to Travis. It's an old-hat CI system that spins up VMs, so it's slow and awkward to work with when it comes to Docker. But it's working okay at the moment.)

I've heard good things about GoCD [2], though. It's next on my list to investigate.

[1] https://drone.io

[2] https://www.gocd.org
Well, that and the infernal JIS heads.
This, absolutely this. It's always bothered me why pedestrians seem to be universally given the right of way, when the irrefutable laws of physics dictate otherwise: a human, although having a lower speed, has a far wider view of its surroundings, and can change direction much quicker than a car whose driver is relatively slow to react and has a much more restricted view. In a collision, the bare human is always going to lose.

To take another example, it's pretty well accepted that it's entirely your fault if you drive into the path of an oncoming train and get killed. Then why does it seem so controversial that the driver should not be at fault if you get hit because you didn't look and just stepped into the road expecting the oncoming car to avoid you?
It isn't misleading or condescending. In fact as a parent of an autist I find your comment to be the condescending one. The person you're responding to didn't say autism was the same as handicapped general intelligence, but that extreme precociousness is often correlated with atypical development in other contexts.
I'm taking a discrete math class right now.

How is this read: \lambda x.\, x - 3 and what is a simple example?

In a discrete math perhaps it is the same as "All x, x is an integer such that...."?
And being overruled by the people actually maintaining the project. In other words, you have the people actually writing the code saying something doesn't belong, and someone who isn't really involved in the project saying "no, we must keep this offensive thing".

It's literally an outsider trying to force the actual maintainers to do something they disgaree with. But you appear to support the outsider.
We assumed they read a bunch of our lower tier codes, and the Germans (specifically Deutsche Afrika Korps) completely dominated in radio direction finding and traffic analysis, which was in many ways more important than decrypts (and largely considered more sensitive from an ongoing security perspective after the war, so not as publicized.)

Nachrichten-Fern-Aufkl-Kp 621 and Hauptmann Alfred Seebohm were pivotal for DAK actions. There were some similar units on other fronts, but this one was particularly well documented.
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This is my first encounter with Townhall. I am embarrassed to cite a publication with a blatant political agenda without specifically commenting on it's agenda. This is specifically true because I provided a summary which talks about race and intelligence, which is a socially taboo subject.
It’s certainly poor leadership. If you aren’t taking an active hand in shaping culture or driving norms in a team, you’re going to end up surprised when they don’t make the same choices you would. Once surprised, don’t try to right the ship with a mandate.

For the maintainers, this may be a proxy for how decisions are made. For RMS, this may be about realizing the world has changed around him.
In other words, despite the traffic lights not having an official "left turn only" phase, the traffic has naturally created one. I've seen this in China too.
> Second of all, what are the odds that a human who just killed a woman would admit even to themselves that they were the one to blame in such an accident? Practically zero.

As a paramedic who sees fatality accidents? Hardly. "Oh my god, I've killed someone!" is a fairly common statement, or paraphrasing.
Oh indeed, I haven't researched the subject, just know many quacks seem obsessed with "gut" and "microbiome" these days and wasn't sure if there was real science behind it. Glad you are doing better, that sounds like a nightmare!
They took it down for essentially advocating killing people, which is more than them just not liking the site. Also, I'm sure they still have plenty of sites that they personally disagree and to my knowledge they have tens of millions of domains and they've only taken down a few (I'm only aware of two domains they've taken down like this)
This is a very old debate (I mean, the 'If we are intolerant of intolerance, is does that make us intolerant ourselves?' thing) - and I'm not saying I have the answers, (and my perception is that at least before Trump, Republicans were totally acceptable) but it's really not very relevant to my point.

My point is just that Texas and California are not exactly substitutable goods, as it were. just like how there are people who would be much happier in Texas than California for non-monitary reasons, there are people who would be much happier in California than in Texas for non-monetary reasons.

My argument is just that saying that lining up Texas with California as competitors for talent is... probably not as correct as, say, lining up California and NYC.
Nice!

Suggestion: allow larger line widths to be specified (for fewer, longer lines in large paragraphs).
All my upvotes for you.
God forbid there be any politics in GNU software. Oh, wait, GNU software is inherently political.
I've found that Seattle drivers are unusually respectful of amber lights - probably because getting pulled over for abusing it is more common than never.
Whether you do it after the light goes red (illegal) or immediately on green (also illegal), it's the same underlying problem: the intersection needs a protected left turn in the signal sequence.
On a good one 20hrs.

I sleep as less as possible on Fri & Sat, get about 6 hrs.
2 hrs additional on Fri, 6 hrs on Sat & Sun. Then get plenty of sleep on Sunday. I do house work, yard stuff, the usual run arounds and I've an infant. Where there is a will, there's a way.

On a bad one maybe 6 hrs.
Spot on. At the end of the day, nobody really cares about the joke, and nobody in the conversation indicated they actually were offended or upset by it, as far as I can tell. The joke will not be the downfall of glibc whether it stays or goes.

But RMS' order may be. He just reminded everyone working on that project that their authority ends on any given issue wherever RMS' whims begin.
> you shouldn't really need a dedicate script to do that

It isn't because the terminal is mis-configured and/or mis-interpreting those characters, it's because these characters have historically been used in a special way by troff's ascii output driver, as used by the man command.

Bold characters are "emulated" by outputting the character itself, followed by ^H, then by repeating the character, and underline is emulated by outputting _ (the underscore character) followed by ^H, followed by the character to be underlined. This is the same way that bold/underline was achieved on a manual typewriter or by old teletype terminals with paper output.

Pagers like "more" & "less" have in-built behaviour that knows how to interpret these sequences and render bold or underline appropriately, and if you "cat" the file your terminal would probably ignore them, but if you open a file with those sequences in a text editor, you're going to see a bunch of unnecessary ^H characters. The OP's script uses the "col" command to remove the unnecessary ^Bs (and the preceding character) that troff has output.

By default, GNU groff doesn't actually output those sequences anymore and uses ANSI escape codes instead. AFAIK many (most?) distributions actually compile out the ANSI behaviour in favour of the old way though (because "more" and "less" don't actually behave correctly with the ANSI characters by default), but some don't, which breaks the script (it's broken in Cygwin, for instance).

FWIW, if you need a fool-proof way to convert a man page to plain old ASCII with no escapes at all, it's easiest just to redirect the output of "man" to a file:

man ls > ls.txt

The long-winded way (with groff) is something like:

zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz | groff -man -Tascii -P -cbdu > ls.txt
"Technical documentation isn't the place for a joke full stop"

This is a bad take. When wading through dry technical documentation a little humor can make it much less laborious.

As long as the humor doesn't result in ambiguity, there's no problem.

Something like "You can tune a filesystem, but you can't tune a fish." at the end of a manpage may elicit a chuckle but doesn't reduce understanding.
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The Alien franchise has some good marketing material that both interested me without knowing what the movies were about:

- The original trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEVY_lonKf4

- David's intro from Weyland Corp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ7E7Qp-s-8

I know it's kind of a lame time to rant on this subject. Obviously trailers are popular despite how I feel. For example, I'm probably the only person in the theater that closes my eyes and plugs my ears for previews that look any good (not just thrillers), so I certainly don't think your project is a bad idea.
Protests sometimes succeed.
I think it's more that it doesn't make use of its input. If you aren't using the input, why is the input in its type signature?
I always drive differently, more cautiously and slowly while near colleges. Especially during the night. It is much more likely for college students to be intoxicated and even if they are paying attention they might not be capable of realizing a car is coming etc... This is also true near elementary schools, but not because they might be intoxicated but because little children are more likely not to pay attention. I really jope self-driving cars are trained for such nuances.
It won't remain unregulated for long if the banks get in on it, or if a large percentage of the public starts using it. After one or two bad examples on the TV news of banks screwing people with crypto or a major exchange hack that affects average Americans, you can be sure regulation will be coming soon.
FourD.js
Same with IP addresses and nameservers. Unrelated sites could share the same nameserver or IP address. But if you have a number of those factors match up then two sites are likely related.
They had oil and diamonds. I don't think lack of foreign currency in those amounts ever really limited what Soviet intelligence could do.

What has always amazed me is how trivially cheaply most treason is paid for; it's almost always ego driven or blackmail driven, not outright "cash for secrets".
Oh I completely agree. It's extremely effective as a reminder and has been extremely effective in my city. I think it's great example of damn near Pareto-efficient govt policy.

But when I _do_ forget my reusable bag for whatever reason and have an unwieldy amount of stuff to carry, it would be beyond idiotic to ride that psychological effect all the way into the absurdity of stuffing my arms full of thing (I gather from the original comment I responded to that he wasn't talking about carrying an item or three).
Meta: I urge you to post this again in a few days. Very sad to see it never “got heat” and its reach was limited. I think this is one of the more valuable posts this year and wish more folks had seen it.
I seriously think you need to retake your drivers ed class. It’s entirely possible to drive at a speed at night that ensures you won’t hit an object immediately in front of you. That’s the textbook definition of not overdriving your headlights. Most nights aren’t pitch black thanks to street lamps, which is why you can drive at a reasonable speed. And in the cases where the night is pitch black, you can use your high beams when there’s no oncoming traffic. If there is oncoming traffic and you can’t stop in the distance illuminated by your headlights then, yes, it’s incumbent on you to slow down. These are basic rules of the road, not some unobtainable standard to strive toward.
I understand the concepts but... how do you actually use it?
From looking at it, it seems like it's active only on a really tiny number of sites.
There isn't an issue with VTA itself (aside from maybe the expectation that it companies would move their offices to locations accessed by VTA rather than vice versa).

The South Bay is just really suburban and car-friendly, and the VTA was a failure as a result because most people in the South Bay are happy travelling by car don't need to use the VTA. In contrast, Caltrain is used to travel to SF, which isn't car friendly, so a lot more professionals use it.
I doubt anyone cares hugely about political messages in commit comments.
In Canada there is a saying: Anyone who doesn't use a Robertson head is just being an asshole.
The DMCA contains 'safe harbor' exemptions from copyright laws for platforms that allow uploading of user generated content without prior approval, so long as the platform complies with 'DMCA takedown requests'.

But that's just the DMCA. Most laws don't contain provisions like that.
Einstein was talking about violations of his theory, namely the velocity limitation imposed, Newton was concerned with a medium. They are utterly different. Maybe they sound similar without any knowledge of the underlying theories, or just take quotes out of context, but it’s a very superficial similarity.
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Nope! Their suggestion (last time I had a tick bite) was to keep the tick for testing, because there are a number of different pathogens, with different approaches to treatment, you can get from ticks.

Naturally, there's a latent period, so you don't retain them for very long, but that's the advice I got from a woman who works with forestry workers in NC on tickborne illness.
You're correct but I think you are addressing a different problem. He was mentioning the issue specifically about differences in tension from turning the peg clockwise versus counter clockwise.

If you tune downard tonaly, so from an F# and you want an F, the string will more easily fall out of tune. I am not sure what causes this, some interplay between the friction of the peg and the final resting position of the string on the nut being different depending on the direction maybe. By tuning down perhaps you end up relying on some of the friction from the nut which goes away quickly as the string settles to an equal tension on either side of the nut.

I have noticed it's not as much of an issue on carbon nuts or well made nylon/bone nuts.