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>In case my point isn't obvious here, an explicit CoC has a number of advantages over a document like this one when it comes to actually resolving conflict, instead of trying to prevent it. It makes value judgements, but only because at some point in the conflict resolution process, leadership will be forced to make value judgements.

I disagree. Sociopaths weaponise hard and fast rules. It's better to not make rules that aren't required and stick to communicating as people rather than attempting to rule like computers. Don't choose to be a bureaucrat, choose to be a leader.

Put another way, there's no substitute for not being a horrible human being. Projects that have good people on them have no need for CoC's. Horrible people will not stop being horrible because there is a CoC there, nor will a CoC drive them away.

I don't really feel like getting into a roleplay with you about your specific Angry Project Lead scenario on hacker news, it's a bad forum for that since such discussions tend to be long and nuanced, but you should remember that when you have to tell someone their behavior is a net loss for their organization, it's never going to be a fun conversation. Obviously the person will protest, and depending on their personality that might range from pleading to outright physical aggression.

Everyone coming away from such discussions feeling unhappy is normal, what matters is that there is some form of resolution in the process. Yeah, the outcome might be a forked project, or it might be someone being asked to leave. Those are not comfortable outcomes but they are hopefully necessary, otherwise why bother to have the conversation? As long as you can bring the project to a state where you've moved past the obstacle and it's no longer at the forefront of peoples minds, you've succeeded. If people are still discussing your ruling and what it means for contributors months or years later, you've failed.

If resolution can be achieved without verbal, societal, technological or physical violence, that's the best that can be asked.
Like other commenters, I think this thought experiment goes much too far. On the other hand, many companies worked with the Nazis, work with the Saudis, Russians, and many others today, and sell all sorts of things to oppressive governments including the tools of oppression (such as those selling censorship and hacking tools to various dictatorships[0]). If the U.S. became an authoritarian dictatorship, I don't doubt that many companies would do business with the dictator too.

But I'd like to examine it with more nuance: Does it vary across time or across place? Is it different than the culture of the people from which the company emerged (e.g., how do private American citizens behave differently than large American companies)? Most importantly, on what factors does good and bad corporate behavior depend? My guess is that some of this research has been done - I'd love some pointers to it.

[0] A recent headline: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-israel...
That's actually why I'm pretty bullish on WASM. It could become everything Java/JVM has ever wanted to be.

Almost inevitably JS will have the best interop, with the great trend for javascriptization of everything WASM could find it's way into all sorts of environments (like the native apps you mentioned).

People are already looking into WASM VMs for blockchains https://www.parity.io/wasm-smart-contract-development/
Spot on.

It's very simple. Farming is a business with very high capital requirements and very thin margins. If you can move the needle on margins, it is a huge win, and farmers will be all over it. All you have to do is prove that you move the needle on margins. Any person managing such a business is going to ask for very solid proof that your new technology pencils out.
The installation steps seem to require Homebrew. Is this macOS-only?
I've noticed that sellers have been gaming this metric as well. I was recently shopping for a phone case and other phone accessories. What I found is that sellers are re-purposing SKUs from other highly rated products. I found a ~4.5+ star product with thousands of reviews but saw that most of the reviews were for a completely different item that is no longer being sold. So they'll take a highly rated product, put a different item in its place.
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I'm merely pointing out the hypocrisy of the title. My citizenship has little to do with history.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here, and especially not on controversial topics. That combo amounts to trolling, whether you meant it that way or not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is a great point. I wonder what studies, if any, has been done on age/tech experience vs susceptibility to believing fake news.
If you have > 1 billion dollars anything that you were going to do with the company is likely trivial. Whatsapp was making 1 million in revenue when it was bought by Facebook. The founders became billionaires. If they want they can redo their company (without the users) and still have a billion left. No risk.
I don't think there is any shortage of dreamers. It's the funders that are in shortage. The U.S. government wasn't willing to spend on STS since its price tag was so high and not much appetite from the general public. Frankly I'm not surprised.

It seems to me that the dreamers are going to come from the private sector a la Musk, Bezos, and gangs. This can allow deep pockets like governments to spend frugally on projects that the general public can get behind.
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Cancellation of the "Rift 2" seems like a pretty big deal, is this confirmed anywhere else?
Appears that two-way comms was required for Beidou-1, not BeiDou-2. See https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/30839/is-two-way-c...
> Can anyone point me to one ore more projects where CoCs have actually improved open source/free software projects or communities

For the record, the purpose of a project adopting a CoC isn't always to improve something, but can be to codify existing (but unwritten) community guidelines.

The LLVM project talked a lot about this when discussing adopting a CoC. They weren't necessarily doing it to change anything – but they wanted to have a written set of the community guidelines that they were already following.

There is a benefit in having such policies available in a form where people can reference it, and not have that institutional knowledge of community policies exist only in lots of people's heads.
> another important reason is how productive modern JS is

Some people will argue on this, but I'm actually in agreement.

That said, it is important to realize WHY the JS productivity is so important: We're iterating a LOT. Web is so young, web interfaces are so young, the problems we are trying to solve on web are ever changing, and the devices we use to interface with web are changing almost as fast. We have to iterate again and again to be decent at the problem we're trying to solve only to toss it aside in favor of the new problem.

Some of this is wasteful, some of this is just part of being part of a big technological change. (I'm sure TV, radio, fax, printers, copiers, etc all had similar iterations, albeit at not quite the same speeds). But regardless of the "if we should" aspect, it's important to note that the current JS needs are both (1) currently real - trying to adopt some philosophically "pure" tenet in the defiance of these needs will fail and (2) not necessarily permanent - We can extrapolate into the near future from this, but I'm hard pressed to say much about more than 2 years in the future.

> Add stuff like graphql

Funny, I thought about graphql when the article mentioned HTTP caches, since graphQL _can't_ make use of that (most graphQL implementations use non-GET for everything, so you have to rely on server-side or client-app caching, since you can't rely on the network or browser) and took it as a hit on graphQL, not wasm.

That said, I'm interested to see where wasm goes - short term, we're in agreement that anyone expecting it to be the "Js-killer" is missing the mark, but long term I don't expect it to be dead-on-arrival, just used for not-what-was-expected.
It seems to be tracked under/after GC, since that would be a prerequisite.

See https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/master/proposals/gc/O.... Things like DOM access are specifically mentioned.
Thanos would be way better. Thanos did nothing wrong!
AFAIK, Figma only uses WebGL/Canvas for non-UI elements.
frees up those who would have worked farm jobs to do higher-valued labor

But what if they don't want to? Yay for consumers but throwing people into economic limbo is a Bad Thing. That's like looking for the next record-breaking swimmer by randomly throwing kids into swimming pools.
We are creating a really nice world. At work you have to wear headsets to be able to focus. And in the public you have to wear some variation of a tinfoil hat to avoid being tracked everywhere. Soon the idea of doing anything without the knowledge of dozens of companies and governments will be a quaint memory.
By form I don't mean physical form of objects in the universe, but the form of physical law which describes all observable events which compose the universe. That that form is the simplest it can be is exactly what Occam's Razor suggests. It is that form that must be grasped in order to assess the difficulty of replicating the universe in digital form, which is the topic of the linked article.

Neither I nor Occam assert that the universe is in its simplest possible form, Occam suggests that is the likeliest assumption, and so far he's been on the money. Reasoning from other assumptions would require extraordinary evidence.

People do use Occam's Razor to reason about the nature of the universe. Here is a reference to an argument that the Bohm-DeBroglie interpretation of quantum physics is incorrect because Occam's Razor: [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory...
+1

People forget that the "invisible hand of the market" assumes perfect or at least reasonably accurate understanding of the risks, benefits, and outcomes. Take that info away and you inevitably have snake-oil salesmen and the Housing Bubble (a product of modern financial products)

See also: "Externalities in Economies with Imperfect Information and Incomplete Markets" by Stiglitz
Sounds like the upper management circle in Facebook is running off aquired executives, not nesseaarily zuck. Kind of hints at a toxic culture.
The generic term is Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). GPS is one type of GNSS.
For me, it seems to be stuck at 'Connecting'. If I mash buttons I can get a glimpse of the command line, even see flashes of messages if I enter two-letter commands quick enough. Is this a bug or part of the test?
I am highly skeptical of this claim, it's either for higher accuracy of military stuff, or an internet connexion to get a key or the ephemerides or something. But nobody is sending signal to a satellite 21000km from the surface straight from a watch-sized device.
I've had very similar experiences and find it really frustrating. People inherently don't like being wrong, don't like being proven to be gullible and are less likely to believe information that doesn't reaffirm their beliefs. It's a scary issue that's only likely to get worse.
> Though just not going outside is not a solution, we definitely need legislation for this.

Eh... should I remind you about NSA, CIA, FBI? Do you seriously trust the government with this tech? And even if you did, how do you think you'll regulate something anyone can download for free and run on their $50 computer?
Ferengi Rules of Acquisition [Complete List*]
Then Christopher Columbus was the biggest escape artist ever. Thank goodness for dreamers.
Yeah, I have some friends working on this for WalMart. They get all the social media info for every customer, and they track across their stores. Of course, there are NSA databases available too, and they are probably using those (many NSA databases are run by private companies so that the NSA can deny any knowledge and skirt any privacy laws.) And WalMart is known for firing people who are trying to Unionize and finding reasons to fire all the people they have been talking to (wonder how Walmart knows who the pro-union people have been talking to?). This is not good. Essentially, any activity which is not approved can be stopped with sufficient monitoring. Getting very frightening.
Time to start wearing these:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BE_3z2XPMac

https://www.instagram.com/p/BRO4R_9DlUW

https://www.instagram.com/p/BV2SmYnDXSy
My, and most photographers I knew, reason for choosing Velvia was that you could develop it yourself. Kodachrome could only be developed by Kodak, but from what I've read about it, it was far superior in every other technical aspect. But not being able to control the push/pull of the development process really limited creative control over the whole process and was a more severe limitation than the higher resolution and color depth that Kodachrome provided.

The way I saw it, Kodachrome was more for consumers who just wanted to press a button and have it done. And Fujichrome was for people who took the process much more serious. Because they could do more with the "inferior" product than relying on the one-size-fits-all commercial process.
I came very close to ordering this, as I still use an x61s for most of my hacking due to the ideal physical form factor and classic compact keyboard w/trackpoint.

One major problem I have is the rather old SXGA+ screen used in the mod has a CCFL edgelight, and the last time I did an LED conversion on a modded SXGA+ x61s the visual results were not great - certainly nothing close to what is had on modern LED backlit displays.

The other issue is getting quality replacement batteries for these old thinkpads. Aftermarket ones tend to suck and OEM ones are either counterfeit or very old stock in my experience.

Furthermore, while this particular laptop strikes an exceptional balance of size/weight and usability with a great keyboard, there are some singificant flaws in the chassis design. Every single x61s I've had (there have been many now) has cracked in two places through normal usage:

1. The left edge of the palm rest immediately adjacent to the near keyboard edge above the pccard slot. There is a stress riser there due to the unsupported palm rest flexing above the card slot cavity. It's just a matter of time before it cracks from fatigue.

2. The top edge of the last CPU fan vent grill. The screen hinge is nearby and the cyclic strain of opening and closing the display eventually breaks the chassis at this thin spot - another stress riser caused by the CPU fan exhaust vent. Once the crack is formed, the area visibly deforms whenever moving the screen.

For the most part those chassis flaws seem to be largely cosmetic, but the crack near the hinge does seem to be allowing new and probably increasing levels of flex causing strain on other components which may fail later.
You'd have a make a VR as cheap as a used cell phone.
I live off grid, 2+ hours from any store that would carry such arrows, and I used to buy them just fine from Amazon. My comment was about the decline of Amazon, not a request to solve my arrow buying problem :)
Definitely on the roadmap. We're working on making it easy to add languages by creating common abstractions. As a start we just open-sourced Prybar: "a universal interpreter front-end" https://github.com/replit/prybar
I don't understand your comment. Suppose the robot is the size of a person or smaller. Does a person damage the ground by walking across a field?
I daresay that a difference in opinion like that would probably not trigger most people back in that age in the same manner it seems to do so now (on both sides - I'm not picking on one side here).
>... even precision missiles.

So if GPS were to be jammed, or disabled by a hack into the ground control systems -- PLA missiles would still work just fine. Hmm.
So China has the technology to destroy satellites [1], and is developing alternatives to US satellites.

Does this make anyone else nervous?

Maybe Trump has a point when he says we should stop letting China steal our technology.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_mi...
Everybody is looking for something different. I like Awodey's book.

See also:
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/370/good-books-and-...
https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1ht4mf/books_on_ca...
I don't believe so. Here's the Apache project's position on the subject:

"Apache 2 software can therefore be included in GPLv3 projects. . . However, GPLv3 software cannot be included in Apache projects. The licenses are incompatible in one direction only"

(https://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html)

(edit: Forgot to mention GPLv2 - that one is even less compatible: "Despite our best efforts, the FSF has never considered the Apache License to be compatible with GPL version 2")
I may not have made myself clear, I'm already convinced that either vision of Shame-Driven Development was a bad idea. That being said, thanks for your thoughtful reply!
He actually seems to have something of a point:

https://seekingalpha.com/article/92689-over-the-past-100-yea...

Note in figure 3 the gains since 1950 have been a lot less than from 1920 to 1950. 1950s and afterwards the gains have been a lot less.
Hmm, weird. What browser/OS? Also any errors in the JS console?
There is something odd about the complacency implied by the line of thinking this game seems to represent. Why is it more Jeff Bezos' problem to solve homelessness than it is each of ours? Does he have a greater moral directive to do so than us because he has accumulated a great fortune? At what point do we as a society hold this theoretical Bezos accountable for the choices he makes?

My point is not that he shouldn't give charitably, but there is something that seems deeply pessimistic to me about turning to the rich to solve our societal ills. If the implication is that we should have a more 'fair' tax system, I can get on board with some version of that straw man, but would rather we as a society fix our own problems rather than hoping for help from the plutocrats.

Why should we assume that Bezos or any other billionaire would solve these problems in a way that is actually in society's best interest? Would we wish that Bezos spend his money differently than the Koch brothers?

We have government to help create solutions for this space, and in my opinion we should reject the passive acceptance of mediocrity there and instead hold them accountable for delivering these things. I may not be holding my breath for this, but that is part of the problem.
I get the feeling the AmigaOS people still think they can sell it or they have a bunch of code that they know will be problematic to open source.
Entertaining, but I could think of spending sprees with much higher and long-term impact.
What is the meaningful difference between WASM/JS interop and WASM/Web-API interop? Implicit importing of them all? There are host bindings coming [0]. If Web APIs are expressed in terms of JS and you want interop with them, you use what they are expressed in. Or are you saying Web APIs should be available in WASM terms (which is harder due to lack of structural, array, string, null, etc types)?

0 - https://github.com/WebAssembly/host-bindings/blob/master/pro...
The article mentions that Food Link and Giant (both part of Ahold Delhaize USA) are two supermarkets that responded to the ACLU survey saying that they do not use face recognition. I searched around and found the more complete list of companies' responses: https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-te... (near the bottom). The tl;dr though is that most companies refused to answer.
> I am not an Anti-vax person, but I am leery of the Flu Vaccine. Could you help me understand why it is better to be immunized against last year's flu instead of surviving this year's flu? If this isn't the place and/or you aren't the person, I'd appreciate a gentle nudge in the right direction. Thanks!

It is not that you're immunized against "last year's flu"; the flu virus mutates, and in designing a vaccine for what we predict is going to be this year's flu, taking into account what ended up being the dominant strain last year is a good input.

The NYTimes has a good piece explaining why it's better to get the flu shot than to get the flu: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/health/lets-talk-a-millen...

One thing they don't mention, though, is that, while the flu shot doesn't ensure that you won't get the flu, it does decrease the severity of your illness and symptoms if you do end up getting the flu. Which, if your alternative scenario is "surviving this year's flu" is still a win.
GM’s data mining is just the beginning of the in-car advertising blitz
Yeah, caring about life until after gestation is just pro-birth; thanks for confirming that.

Infants don't have personal responsibility, so cutting programs that benefits children hurts them more than the parents.
There are no punitive 'teeth' in GNU licences. If you don't like the terms, don't use the thing under that license.

Stallman is his own man and can boycott what he likes and explain why to others.

"Punitive" "teeth" as found in proprietary EULAs and various unreasonable copyright laws looks like jailtime and financial ruin.
Or maybe the guy that "knows how to solve the problem" is solving some other problem, not the actual problem.

I count three wine makers among my friends. None of them machine harvest their own grapes, nor will source machine harvested grapes from other growers. It would be very bad for their respective brand images.
"There are strings on me"
The Dell Inspiron 13 7000 2-in-1 review
I'd prefer the law require opt-in consent for facial recognition, but would take a sign over nothing.
We have exactly that... in our DR plan, there is a section for how to cope with the 3rd party source control provider being unavailable/compromised/etc. Update DNS for the equivalent of "upstream-git.foo.com" to an internal address, and continue business as usual.

It's like you said, smaller shops probably think it's over-planning and overkill, but we do indeed have 100's of projects that are "mission critical", that might not have been touched in 1+ years.
Thanks for your support, we're growing the community slowly, just like we grew our languages on Repl.it. Support for more and more languages is on our roadmap and we are building the technology for it.
I'm not sure Christians are unusual amongst engineers - graduates of engineering degrees (other than chemical engineering) are more likely to hold creationist beliefs than graduates of any other degree programme. Engineers and priests both like a well-designed system after all.
Over the years I've heard a number of times where a CoC has been used to make a lot of trouble in projects that where originally more or less healthy.

Examples?
Building an rpi-based education platform might be a good candidate. Though I'm not sure what the killer feature there would be, and there's already the pi-top in that space.
I understand the value of relative times, but I wish websites that use these would show the original timestamps as well. That includes you, Hacker News!