skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Richard Stallman talks a lot about freedom, but what he means by this is not what's typically meant by freedom. When we say freedom, we usually mean freedom of choice. But his version is the communist version, which is freedom from choice.

His primary reasons for wanting to avoid services are not because of traditional ethical concerns. His ethics are not traditional, and he clearly states this on his personal website when he talks about pedophilia not actually being immoral.

Rather, they're because these services or companies do not give our their source code under a communistic license that Stallman approves of, one that specifically restricts a user's freedom to do what he wishes with that software, and the developer's freedom to choose how people can use the software. And all of this so that consumers have totalitarian freedom over their software.

This isn't how freedom works with anything else. You are allowed to buy the parts needed to make a flamethrower, but you're generally not allowed to assemble them into one. Your freedom over your property is restricted by the rights of others, which in this case includes the right to a safe environment.

We should not have absolute freedom over the source code that produced the software we possess just because they are digital. We received 1s and 0s that our computer knows how to execute. This doesn't mean we have an absolute right to know how it's made. In the same way, we don't have an absolute right to know how fast food chains combine their ingredients into the perfect dish. We have some right to know what ingredients they contain for the sake of safety, but they have a right to keep the recipe secret.

Communist principles are against true individual freedom, which must take into account the society that we live in and the rights of those we live with, because we don't live in a vacuum. And the GNU has fully bought into communist principles, trying to enforce limitations of freedom on individuals in the name of ultimate greater freedom for all.
What does that have to do with anything?

Yes, those same game programmers avoid STL.

No one is advocating replacing C++ with C on capable hardware, troll.
Did anyone else know of Richard Feynman's as a giant name in physics, so many contributions and insights, and then find themselves surprised when first hearing him speak?

One day I was watching this guy on YouTube whose job is walking around selling peanuts at a baseball stadium in Chicago, blue collar local accent in full tow. He starts to chatter about in a casual, simple, mundane way about how his day was going.

Except, it wasn't a baseball peanut barker, it was a Nobel prize winning particle physicist, it was Feynman. If he would have sold peanuts part time at a baseball stadium for five years maybe no one would have noticed anything out of place.

It's not a criticism, it only raised his rank on my list of admired scientists. I found the humility, his passion for making hard things as easy to understand as possible, his ability to just be a regular guy around people, really a beautiful thing.

(relevance: he's cited in the paper)
The vast majority of users have no strong opinions on the matter of software package distribution. They take what's given to them.

The vast majority of users are perfectly fine with the Windows experience of dodging fake download button ads, unticking bundled McAfee installs, having no automatic update mechanism, etc (which is still more or less the default even on Win10).

They only start caring when they can't do something they want to do. They rarely think about the "how".
Eye roll on this take.

If you have a better business model for content producers on the internet feel free to build it.
But that's the rub. Biological systems are not just random interactions. The entire system is meticulously orchestrated by DNA, RNA, etc. We don't even fully understand yet how it all works together, but it's very clear that these processes have evolved to work together to achieve something that none of them could have ever achieved alone.
Online reviews are never fraudulent and people actually re disassemble the phone to know whether the parts are quality.

People who came before us fought hard and we have established a precedent for repair in many many industries

It’s a phone where you might save $20. It’s not like it’s the right to vote....

so that companies like Apple are not able to rip us off by denying right to repair, and denying legitimate repair shops the ability to purchase legitimate parts.

And when Apple doesn’t approve a repair shop there will be another uproar about Apple “gatekeeping” repair shops....
Pizza Dough Calculator (Yeast and Sourdough)
An Atomic Rant (2010)
Just an additional data point, wanted to add that barbershops have also started to appear in considerable numbers in Bucharest, we definitely didn’t have them in the past.
JMAP Specification
Doesn't that sort of reasoning make non-crypto QR resources a good target?

They could behave correctly until they see a wallet address, etc., so creating and verifying using separate means is essential.
Thanks for chiming in.

So from the FAQ :
https://brave.com/faq/#all-ads-blocked

> Each ad request is anonymous, and exposes only a small subset of the user’s preferences and intent signals to prevent “fingerprinting” the user by a possibly unique set of tags.

It means that advertisers still get some feedback on the "intent signals" of the users that have seen their ads ? So it is private in the sense you cannot be uniquely identified but some of your intents are somewhat leaky ?
I'm curious if this move is impacted by the tariff situation at all. Could Apple be thinking that selling authorized components for repair could be a decent backstop for declining iPhone sales to their most price-sensitive customers?

I could see how someone with reduced means would pay to have their iPhone repaired instead of buying a new one, if tariffs spiked the new iPhone prices up by, I dunno, say 20% for the sake of discussion.

I hear the Right to Repair end run argument, but that doesn't seem like it's necessarily the whole explanation to me.
BAT token is tradable on exchanges, and price floats and is unstable. Donation receivers need to worry about exchange rates risk - https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/basic-attention-token

How about USD or USD stable currencies for this?
The important part is to verify your QR code is correct.

Even if a site isn't branded for cryptography they just have to sit and wait for input that looks like a bitcoin address. They can be old a reputable too - but if somebody buys that website (as has been done with other websites/browser extensions, also another user in this thread reports receiving such offers) there would be no way to know.
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Does brave still suck up money from people even when the site owner hasn't set up brave payments?
Most of the computing tech we have now is based on fundamental ideas from before 1980. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/432922/significant-new-i... I don't think the pace of new ideas in computing is accelerating right now. If that ability to capture the behavior of a human brain isn't already on the horizon, I wouldn't expect it to be doable in the next 300-400 years. We don't have the mental framework to structure a project like that.

On top of that, the engineering to even capture data from a brain to begin with is pretty far off.
downvotes notwithstanding, this is an important function for a desktop mail client, and it got taken out early in its life. During the XUL era addons could effect minimizing to tray, but with the switch to web extensions, there is no way to achieve this anymore, and it's been a bane to all desktop users because you can't just run Thunderbird in a background mode that pops up desktop notifications anymore. You either have Thunderbird running, in the foreground, or it's not running, and then obviously it's not picking up your mail.
Probably a deceptive ad (likely violating Google Ads rules) was shown via Google Ads during Google testing, automated or otherwise.
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TIOBE is not a relevant barometer, it's just the number of searches and hence a noisy metric. Look at https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/. It indicates that the popularity of C and Java halved between 2016 and 2018 and then made a dramatic recovery, doubling in less than a year. It would be absurd to suggest that there was a real world change to the usage/popularity of these two languages corresponding to this.

A better metric is the activity on stackoverflow and github, which is what RedMonk use. That's much more stable. Java and C have both been #2 and #9 since 2015. https://redmonk.com/rstephens/files/2019/03/toptwenty-2019-0...
I see plenty of factors:

- fashion cycles, there was a need for a new one..

- vintage revival, fancy trimmed beards were a big thing in the previous 20s

- young people wanting to make their own shop, so they jump on the bandwagon
The tldr on that one is banking laws and a whole lotta users that aren't US citizens.
Getting enough traffic in 7 days so that we don't have to shut down
You should also check out the relatively new setting that lets you visually track your mode.

bind 'set show-mode-in-prompt on'
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Could you do the work in a plug-in to allow easy creation of scripts as a solution? Or is there an execution sandbox preventing that?

Also I never really thought of writing scripts for editing in emacs thanks for the brain shift that clicked for me.
How is the parent trying to impose anything on you? By what mechanism would they be able to do so?
Yes, I think the keyboard needs the typist to adapt to it more than is appropriate for a mass market keyboard. I had the 2014 also and had to unlearn how I rested my hands on it and touched it. Not everyone will equally succeed at that, as evidenced by my coworkers who are still hitting the 2017-2019 keys way too hard.
I threw together a quick ProductHunt profile which you should be able to update by logging in with your Twitter profile.

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/crowdsourcer
Brave isn't a theme to Chromium. We've made numerous changes to the underlying bits to strip out (or modify) anything that is not aligned with our principles of user-first, private and secure by default, and "Can't be evil."

Before Brave, users were already installing ad and tracker blockers in large numbers. By 2015 over 600 million devices were blocking. This is the result of an entire set of technologies evolving into surveillance capitalism, and users have little-to-no say in the matter.

Brave identified the problem, and focused on a complete solution. Simply blocking trackers (and the ads that rely on them) doesn't help the Web. In fact, it hurts the Web as it drives content we love behind pay walls, or offline entirely.

Brave created the Rewards program to better facilitate consumer-to-creator support. With Brave Ads, users can opt-in to seeing safe, private advertisements (matched locally on their device by adaptive machine-learning), receive 70% of the ad revenue into an in-situ wallet, and thus use those tokens to support their favorite creators in a private, anonymous manner.

Wikipedia is a stellar example of the type of site producing phenomenal content, that many of us would love to see continue on the Web. I've been supporting them with contributions over the last couple of days, and look forward to continuing to do so on into the future. How do you support the content you enjoy?
I'm loving such educational feedback - full stop.
Well it was the Ratners group that lost 99% of its listed value, so not just the Ratner's brand that felt the damage. It definitely affected Gerald more than it did the company though, but there was definitely a touch and go moment there where the group nearly went under entirely. They've managed to recover really well and after it rode it out properly (they fired Gerald a couple of years later then rebranded) they returned to the original stratospheric trajectory.
Without the involvement of who we think are the top researchers. If I were smarter and had more time, I would look for bright young researchers who published early and then stopped, but are still alive.
I'm kind of torn. I think he's interesting and has interesting views, but they don't really align with my own (generally). He's way more absolutist than I am though: I'm fine with Apple/Microsoft/etc. from a cost vs value perspective. He trends more towards the "the software isn't free so the software isn't good to use" line.

There have been some take downs he's done that were either spot on at the time or later showed themselves to have been almost prophetic, so I think credit must be given there.
great!
so main difference is more accuracy on average or more the fact the maximum
error possible is bounded?
I think you'd need to show some evidence that public transport apps (or apps competing with Google's, in general) are particularly targeted.
I would assume that once a lot of advertisers are on the platform the ad catalogue can quickly grow to the size of GBs, which would be unfeasible to hold on smartphones.
What is that thing called that shows the "distro"? design, I see it all the the time in /r/unixporn

Also I'm looking forward to when phones get cheaper that have more ram so can run dex or something similar, not quite "dual boot" but something where you have a full os working somehow(maybe virtualized though maybe poor performance)
Once upon a time, C++ was a new language. (Bear with me here.) A lot of small companies popped up with libraries. Then C++ became popular and those companies went out of business because they couldn't afford to provide customer support to their new customers.

Many current tech companies are in the same position. They physically cannot afford to pay for actual support. Instead, they rely on algorithms and things like this article; if it becomes popular enough, it will get handled. The alternative is covert support via Bezos' personal address, for example.
That's not what they're doing though.

Apple is in deep trouble sales wise. They're not moving nearly as many phones and their margins are shrinking due to the Chinese/American political climate. Almost every day I hear ads on the radio for "brand new Iphone 7's" from mobile carriers. That's 3 generations behind and they're still moving new-old stock.

People are losing faith in Apple. The iteration of their progress has slowed and people aren't willing or able to spend $1,000 on a phone anymore. Especially one that doesn't offer significant improvements over the one they currently have.

On top of it all, the Right to Repair movement is growing beyond a point where they can fight it. RTR is snowballing people from all over the country from farmers to techies to mechanics to factories. People don't want to spend absurd amounts of money just to be held hostage by some ineffectual customer support team anymore, and the organization and consolidation of RTR movement is finally taking a toll on the lobbyists.

Don't laud them for this. They wouldn't be doing it if their old business model of telling broken phone owners to fuck off if was still turning a profit.
Only because we made it so much.
No one can turn a three minute video into an hour long rant quite like Louis can.
I've never seen any motorcycle helmet with exposed styrofoam though.
But that's the point: current evolution theories have no predictive value and are based on circular logic.

We assume species have a common ancestor because they have similar DNA, and similar DNA is supposed to be proof of a common ancestry.
iPhone 7+ is a pretty capable phone.

- Sent from my iPhone SE
Suicide Is an Epidemic – and Therapy Apps Can’t Help
Startups don't pay tax!??!!!! TIL
What about an alternate universe where the OS takes on the role of strongly isolating and protecting you from stray apps? I don't know, something like Qubes... Then you don't need the protection that the stores charges you a 30% premium for... (...)
It's like if someone watches "2001: A Space Odyssey" and takes HAL as the model for AI, so they work really hard and create a computer capable of playing chess like in the movie. "Well, that's not really the essence of HAL, it's just that HAL happened to play chess in one scene." So then they work really hard some more, and extend the computer to be able to recognize human-drawn sketches. "Well, that's still not really the essence of HAL, it's just that HAL did that in one particular scene." So they work still harder and create Siri with HAL's voice, and improve its conversation skills until it can duplicate the conversations from the film (but it still breaks down in simple edge cases that aren't in the film). "Well, that's still not the essence of HAL..."

The Greeks observed these limitations thousands of years ago. Below is an excerpt from Plato's "Theaetetus":

Socrates: That is certainly a frank and indeed a generous answer, my dear lad. I asked you for one thing [a definition of "knowledge"] and you have given me many; I wanted something simple, and I have got a variety.

Theaetetus: And what does that mean, Socrates?

Socrates: Nothing, I dare say. But I'll tell you what I think. When you talk about cobbling, you mean just knowledge of the making of shoes?

Theaetetus: Yes, that's all I mean by it.

Socrates: And when you talk about carpentering, you mean simply the knowledge of the making of wooden furniture?

Theaetetus: Yes, that's all I mean, again.

Socrates: And in both cases you are putting into your definition what the knowledge is of?

Theaetetus: Yes.

Socrates: But that is not what you were asked, Theaetetus. You were not asked to say what one may have knowledge of, or how many branches of knowledge there are. It was not with any idea of counting these up that the question was asked; we wanted to know what knowledge itself is.--Or am I talking nonsense?
Sponsorships possibly through Patreon? User sponsorships in the $1-5 range get a little "I'm a sponsor" bling, companies (or individuals) can sponsor higher perhaps with levels for on-site only ("listen to my new release!") or off-site ads (software, instruments, mics, etc.)
Pretty cool.

I was able to build the same app with a slicker UX for letting people sign up. It's here if you want to check it out: https://hnnotify-bgon9.transposit.io

You can see the app code here: https://console.transposit.com/t/mooreds/hnnotify/code/op/ge...

You have to sign up to see the code and fork it (so you could change it to send you email or a text instead of posting to slack.) Sorry, we're working on a way to see code without authentication)
What we are building is the perfect society for the rule of individualism. Capitalism is the god, greed is the motivation, and not being liable is how we be careful.

There's no way out. Even TNG predicted WWIII entire global population and for humanity to suffer its most embarrassing chapter to get out of it:

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/World_War_III

There are other modes of life, based on trust of mankind, instead of fear of it. That's the other thing TNG shows - all those people in Starfleet - they aren't being paid to be on that ship. They're trying to show that humanity is capable of post-capitalism. It doesn't have to be this way.

(That's the planet Stallman lives - or at least wants to)
If this theory were true, then beards wouldn't come and go into and out of fashion. Which they do.
Interesting, it's probably spreading large due to internet too, now trends are on instagram .. not only in one geographical place.

Based on the I know and hair dresser in my area, since ww2, it was mostly haircut shops in Paris, almost no barbershops if at all.
The bug description sounds a little bit like a memory leak or connections aren’t closed properly.
That's the default behavior, known as Auto Contribute in Brave. If 10% of your time is spent on Wikipedia, they'll get 10% of your monthly budget.

You can contribute in this manner, or/also via tips (which are one-off contributions). You can also set a fixed percentage for the property, and set it as a recurring contribution each month.
neofetch
That would not help you, since the contents on the disk are encrypted. You need to get the key from RAM while the server is turned on AND mirror the disk. Doing just the mirror will not help you.
It does a lot more than that, especially when actively learning, but let molecules be the 'symbol' and your point still stands ;)
And not just that, they’ve moved/are moving to a model of displaying their own ads instead, which are invariably for some scammy crypto-of-the-day which even FB and Google ban from their ad platforms
neofetch or screenfetch
> Assuming this is naivete and not a deliberate attempt to mislead

I sincerely hope it's neither. I'm well aware that a third party can't direct Mozilla as to how to channel its resources. They can however ensure there are sufficient contributors external to Mozilla to maintain the features they wish to keep.

Even if the end decision is still made by Mozilla internals, the decision to keep functionality is much easier if they don't have to battle for resources to maintain it thanks to external contributors being willing to do so.

At the end of the day, being an open project does not require the maintainers to do work simply because a subset of users wishes it.
Definitely. Youtube is pretty much the only Google service I still use regularly (unless chromecast counts).
Community curated list of companies that use F#
> The vast majority of customers want an app store with tighter controls, and both Google and Apple provide it.

Tell that to the millions of people who installed Fornite mobile outside of any app store.

Most people don't care where their software comes from at all.

The reason there are complaints about the app store is because both Apple and Google are capricious and inconsistent with their application of their rules, and have no problem pretending their strict rules need to be enforced, but then allow apps that break their rules with adware or spyware on their app stores.
I don't see criticism [of bearded hipsters, I suppose you mean] in that last paragraph. But it was disappointing because it hints at something but says nothing.
We signed up for Brave's setup at PortableApps.com after a few users asked about it. They hold your last 90 days in escrow, so you can find out how successful it is once you sign up. We were looking at around 10 cents a day for a bit under a million monthly users for that timeframe over the summer. And we can't even access it since Brave only works with one crypto provider and they aren't licensed in New York. The process was also pretty buggy and the magic link email login was clunky/kinda broken.

https://portableapps.com/node/60580
I prefer to give him the benefit of the doubt.

The balance is radically weighted to the other side. Unfortunately the counter-weight must be equally radical to approach any sort of balance.

He certainly strikes up some valuable discussions
screenfetch or neofetch
BAT is Brave's own token that they did an ICO for so I doubt they would move to something else.
How about the business model the content producers choose for themselves, instead of one that is forced on them by a rent seeking company with good PR?

If I have ads on my site, I have no interest in someone replacing them and taking a cut.
Meh, that's subjective - he's extremely cogent if you watch or read his talks. If you turn your mind to think that the society we are in is not the healthiest one, then he's very healthy.