skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect you've not known many rich people. Most that I've encountered are spectacularly dull, isolated, and self-centered.

Also, if they've hired a chauffeur, it's because they've decided that the time they'd otherwise spend driving is better spent doing something else... And that something is almost certainly not talking to "the help". Unfortunately.
I am intrested discussion. Just not with you any further because I don't think that you're engaging in good faith.

Have a nice day.
A lot of advertising is not meant to increase discretionary spending, but to make you pick product A over product B when the moment comes to choose over alternatives.

At the very basic level of it, advertising is giving out the information that your product exists, because otherwise, nobody would even know its existence.

Your example for Apple is very good, it's very highly probable that some persons only switch to newer iPhones when they hear the news it exists and see the keynotes/articles about it, even though there is nothing wrong with their phone, and they may not be thinking about changing it.
They had a century of built-in slack they had to work their way out of. It can’t be maintained indefinitely especially with an aging pop., but this deceleration came quicker than expected.
Do you not think people have tried to get RMS to stop talking about how injust statory rape is, or that he should probably stop talking about how child porn is ok?

This isn't a one off and he's one of the least likely people to mend his ways.
It all goes to the conclusion "you don't need free speech, you have nothing to say, google will talk on your behalf".
I suspect part of the reason others are downvoting you is:

1. It's too much suspension of disbelief for them to think that he really could not have been expected to figure this stuff out on his own.
2. Your comments are also lacking any clear acknowledgement of the real harm here, which makes it read like you're just trying to use that link I posted as a defense for him, without engaging with the details of the situation.

I'm not sure how fair I think that reading is, and I think your own explanation for the downvotes is also part of the picture -- but not the whole picture by any means.

Specifically re: this bit:

> is equivalent to supporting toxic patriarchy rape culture or whatever. Really we just don't want to be dragged into their monkeysphere games

What I think this misses is that, regardless of intent, outcomes matter, and by making excuses you do make it easier for the injustices to continue, whether you mean to or not. A lot of guys have a really knee-jerk reaction to the term "rape culture" but the idea it exists to articulate is actually really important, whatever you think of the choice of expression: There are lots of behaviors far short of committing any heinous crimes yourself that add up to contribute to a society where these crimes are allowed to happen. Ironically, this quote commits the same lack of willingness to look past an gripes with the way an idea is presented and actually engage with the idea that lots of folks are pointing to in the reaction to RMS's statements.

I can't prentend to be able to see perfectly into RMS's mind and say what was really going on. It's certainly the case that management (of both MIT and the FSF) enabled him, but I don't think that totally absolves him. But I'm also not really interested in judging him one way another. I wish it hadn't had to come to this, and I hope he learns something from it and makes good use of the rest of his years. But ultimately I'd like to just move forward and keep trying to make things better -- ideally we build an environment where the next guy gets it into his head early on, doesn't make folks miserable for decades on end, and gets to keep his job; everybody wins. But to do that we need to be willing to acknowledge that there was harm here, and not just push the one side of the argument.
So is this a tool or an exploit? Or both? Is this something likely to get patched by the major software/hardware vendors? Would this be a tool that would be safe to use at home if I wanted to connect to a private network on AWS or GCP and did not want to poke a hole through my nat gateway at home?
It's my understanding that a protest against Minsky was being advertised on the same mailing list. Was that an inappropriate medium for the protest to be advertised as well?
Because people listening to the speech also have the right to react to it. Or are you saying regardless of what you say I cannot take action because of it?
Yep, just a normal, level headed 17 year old girl looking to make a quick buck by sleeping with old, rich men. What 17 year old wouldn't love such a life?

I'm with you on prostitution in general, but Epstein was a sleazebag and we know exactly what sort of girls he was grooming. There is no moral avenue that leads to sex with a 17 year old prostitute.
It is a pretty common tactic on general topic websites lately. It is easier to dismiss comments without actual reasoning if you assume they are from people that don't align with your political views.
I do not understand your comment and - frankly speaking - it looks like this is a canned response made by a bot.

Please highlight why and how GitLab support team is better than X with some examples. I really want to learn about real cases.
The overarching problem with expecting companies to pay for open-source is that they don’t have to.

It’s often as vital to them as the publicly-provided infrastructure used by their employees to get to work, but because they never see the costs, they assume there isn’t any.

In an ideal world business-critical FOSS projects would be funded by the government the same way that other public infrastructure is.

Until that happens I think lone developers of those popular projects should start to adopt licenses that allow them to charge businesses. It’s the only way to avoid creating martyrs of them.
Zombie (2004)
It could be useful to have a way to distinguish between the biological and social aspects of sex/gender, though. Because those are different things, so it kinda makes sense to have different words for it.
Definitely Squarespace and Skillshare. I still can feel the moment where I can exactly predict the Youtuber or Podcaster is about to launch into their canned sales pitch for how life got so much better and easier when they learned how to do xyz on zyx platform.

I'm surprised Youtube made the "tap here to move forward 30 seconds" feature because it always takes me right to the end of the "native ad"
I suggest the title, How to Make a Zombie
Read the actual email chain
Good point about empowerment.

I hope they are investing in an army of shrinks /psychologists/sociologists to study,improve and supervise these centers, cause this stuff is not going away by just deleting content.
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The very fact that Facebook outsources its censorship to contractors underlines the precarity of a workforce that is considered both disposable in the short term and irrelevant in the long term.

Ultimately Facebook wishes to replace this workforce with AI automation where possible, and then heteromate the remaining human work by enticing users of the platform to inform on each other with posts that don't abide by the platforms implicit social norms or opaque moderation rules.
I was trying to run a similar arbitrage operation when the Tesla powerwall was first released but the breakeven was ridiculously long. Mine was to charge the powerwall when electricity was cheap on the grid and sell during peak. I found that a lot of the grids don't really support this kind of arbitrage at all and with the ones that do, the profit margin is so thin that it's basically not worth it.

As you say, Tesla is reframing the argument from renting your roof --> you selling clean electricity to the grid to make it more palatable but I don't see a problem with that.
Yes, but they say a lot of "bad things" and yet don't seem to be subject to the politically correct rules that the rest of us have to abide by. Hell, Jay Z said worse things than anything stallman said. Yet he was CEO of tommy boy records and there was no controversy.
Doesn't Walmart own most of their real estate though? If so, they wouldn't be in the running for largest commercial lessee. Although it wouldn't surprise me if Walmart does have the largest square footage of commercial real estate, if you count parking lots & distribution centers it would be huge.

Another odd thought--would you count an oil company like halliburton's well leases? I know that square footage is normally used for buildings as to account for multiple stories, but if we count commercial land leases then either an oil/gas company or a large agribusiness would almost certainly come out on top.
NIMBYs, that's why.
In my experience with moderators on Reddit, is that they are power driven adults who still act like teens.
So you are blaming them for your own fault?
But there are markets where they are expected. In Germany, your resume has a good chance of being discarded if it doesn't display a photo. That has to be kept in mind when making tools like this. They seem to have templates both with and without photos.
i see your point, but it also brings about something like where certain people see quality degrading, and go off to make their own subreddit/community like /r/truereddit or /r/truetruereddit, etc.

it's an interesting phenomenon and am curious as to whether its better this way, or actually making things worse.
I think you overestimate the amount that some people think their decisions through.
I bet libertarians could get leftists on board with protecting speech with from corporate interests as long as protections also cover unionization.
In which case you'll need to invent a new word, not tell people they're wrong to use a word the way it's long been used.
So, do you think, for instance, FSF donors and contributors should be compelled to keep working with the FSF even if they find the statements of the president of the FSF to be repugnant?

A key reason behind him stepping down is because the GNOME folks wanted to part ways with the FSF over these issues.
> The overarching problem with expecting companies to pay for open-source is that they don’t have to.

It might also be because, even when they have to, they refuse to. As in this case described in the article, for example:

"Last year, a company overseas contacted him in a panic after they paused a firmware upgrade rollout to several million devices due to a cURL problem.

"When Stenberg asked the company that needed him to fly to a different country to troubleshoot their problem to pay for [a support contract], they refused."
> Good employees are hard to find

Is that true though? I feel like I've worked with some outstanding people over the years how hard can they be to find?
Yeah, it’s still a step backward from Cyberian Outpost. (Though Prime Now / same-day is a step up when available.)
What have I missed about Apple abusing the poor?

(I assume you're not just claiming that selling expensive products = hating poor people.)
Honestly, and I say this with no judgment, I think you are treading a dangerous path. It isn’t like you’re a bad person for keeping some opioids around in case you feel some pain later. But opioids are really dangerous drugs. A lot more dangerous than anyone realized a couple decades ago.

If I were you, I would throw away my extra opioids and in the future, when you need pain relief, consider avoiding the opioids, even if the doctor says it’s okay. The opioid epidemic is real and even if we don’t know how to stop it, we can at least prevent it from hitting ourselves, by avoiding opioids.
Just a suggestion: I think it would be a good idea to showcase the variety of your available designs up-front, without requiring a signup. I imagine that a big reservation people will have is that they won't want their resume to be recognizable as "one of the three templates offered by that resume generator." You don't have to show a full PDF sample, but just a gallery showing that there is a large crowd of designs one can blend into would go a long way.
> 1) Read more than you write

It's important since most of your work related to code will be reading code rather than writing it.
It's insanely expensive though: "from €899". Also quite a bit bigger than SE, although not as much as some I guess.

I wasn't exaggerating when I said I have 9 apps installed: Couchsurfing, Fastmail, Telegram, Tinder, Revolut, Viewranger, WhatsApp, Google Maps, Firefox. That'll be €100/app!
> You would think universities would be a little more lax

They were. A casual look at Stallman's history will show you that his views (and behaviors), as well as his discussion of them in a public forum, are not by any means new or unknown within the community. They _have_ been ignored for a very long time by the university, the FSF, etc, right until he chose to take this particular moment in time to repeat his views, specifically in connection with a recent scandal.

I think that this _is_ sad in the sense that had folks been stricter with him earlier on, perhaps he would have understood why it was not a good idea to continue doing that, and avoided making these specific public comments at this specific time. It's really hard for me to believe that no one has ever _tried_ to tell him to (essentially) "take the discussion elsewhere" about this stuff, so I have to assume that people did, but he did not think that he had to follow their advice: he relied on being able to say what he liked, wherever he liked, with no real consequences.

And until now, he was correct. But today, people no longer believe that it's ok to be heralded as a pillar of the community (which as both the president of the FSF and the holder of an honorary position at MIT, he is) and be able to say whatever you'd like in a public forum. And enough people believe this today to make these institutions be unable to just ignore his behavior indefinitely.
That’s your prerogative I guess. I definitely don’t subscribe to the same ideology.

In fact I find it worrying that you do. To each their own I guess.

Thank you for being civil. :)
I'd like to see the courts force Equifax to pay $X to everyone whose information they leaked, whether they request it or not. But this settlement doesn't seem to be about actually punishing Equifax at all or fairly recompensing those affected.
Source or STFU? When did he say "paedophilia is harmless"? You can't even have a conversation about paedophilia in reference to a 17 year old without seriously going off topic.
That’s a fairly glib response to a phenomenon which is magnified and made more damaging by recent changes in social media technology.

It’s an old saying that a lie will travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on. Now it’s more like, 10 times around the world, and nobody even gives a damn what the truth ever was.

Or to put it another way, wrong-think statements can be weaponized against the speaker more effectively than ever.
Firstly, I'm not sure how to parse your grammar,

secondly, it's hilarious that it seems you are now assuming that I am claiming that "she wanted it". This just goes to show you are here for blood and not justice.

thirdly, what stallman said:
The word ‘assaulting’ presumes that he applied force or violence, in some unspecified way,” Stallman wrote in the email, “but the article itself says no such thing. Only that they had sex.” and to paraphrase "It seems probable that she presented herself as entirely willing and that minsky did not know she was underage"

lastly, as far as I can tell, in the deposition it's not clear that they did have sex, only that she went to the island for the purpose of having sex with minsky under orders from epstein, presumably as part of his blackmail/entrapment scheme
We all have second-hand stories of how, when Stallman came to our cities (in my case Paris) for a conference, he acted like the worst fucking person on earth towards his volunteering hosts.

He was a terrible human being, and surely not very aware of how to treat other humans. He had no place in a research institution, or getting paid to pretend to be relevant on free software.

Good riddance, whatever reason we can find in his statements (yeah sure, I was 18 when my wife was 17, it wasn't rape, surely... but is that really the point people were making about his nice friend of Epstein ?).

People aren't for free speech, at all and anywhere: they are for people having the same opinion as them or follow an official line. He didn't do either, now he pays. For a genius like him, it should have been easy to understand you have to adapt if you want to lead, or you shut up if you see you can't lead.
Except the repos, once you log in everything is editable by hand. You lose the speed boost, but you have the option yes :)
Would the Earth end still be in geostationary orbit even with a variation of the Moon's orbit by 43,000 km?

And if the Moon end snapped would that mean the entire 380,000km cable would crash to Earth? How much weight and what velocity would it be? Crazy!
A particular narrative? Isn't it common sense that watching extreme graphic violence all day every day will lead to a lot of psychological issues for a significant percentage of people? This article about FB moderators in the U.S. paints a more detailed picture: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/19/18681845/facebook-moderat...
There is a standard creepiness rule of thumb of half the older parties age plus 7 being the minimum:

https://xkcd.com/314/
I was actually wondering if there's licensing that has a notification clause or what an attribution clause would look like.
"Such a world will bring many benefits. Consumers will get convenience, and products that can do things non-computerised versions cannot. Amazon’s Ring smart doorbells, for instance, come equipped with motion sensors and video cameras. Working together, they can also form what is, in effect, a private CCTV network, allowing the firm to offer its customers a “digital neighbourhood-watch” scheme and pass any interesting video along to the police."

This is the best they could come up with as an example for the "many benefits"? Tilt your head only slightly privacy-leaning and this looks like a terrifying dystopia. Of course the Orwellian nightmare won't come to "law abiding" middle and upper-class citizens, who will most be tracked as unwitting lab rats by mega tech firms intent on understanding every aspect of human life in order to monetize it, usually through ads and Chinese-style digital karma, but the marginalized groups--ethnic minorities, political dissidents, and the "mentally unstable" will be persecuted and hounded endlessly by digital means. With mass shootings all over the US, it's only a matter of time until they weaponize the already-built surveillance network to red-flag people. As usual, our own fear of each other is way out ahead, on the leading edge of technology.
libcurl is widely used and, along with the curl cli, is bundled with most linux/unix installations; it's installed on nearly every consumer device in the wild, including things like cars on the road. https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/09/17/

The article's point is that the reason curl is so widely used by almost everything is because it's free and has a open source license. If it requires some small amount of money per commercial install, or even if it had some license terms that weren't appealing to legal teams at these companies, it would likely not have the widespread adoption is currently has. If every piece of curl-like software in the space were pay-per-install, these companies probably would go and use one of them, but if just one of the offerings is free for all use it's going to top the paid offerings most of the time.
A company considering its users its product can't get much lower IMO. Remember that time they experimented on users' emotional states without any consent or informing? [1]
This is when they started to show their true cards. To me FB is on its own level far below even oil companies and big banks, probably around the same ranking as PMCs. You'd be far pushed to find me something worse.

Apple is no saint but FB's total disregard to its responsibility and position in the world is so much worse.

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook...
Their loyalty lies mostly with campaign financers. If campaign financers want a different outcome than voters, they get it.
A comment further up this chain explains that SFC and GNOME were tired of Stallman’s tendency to speak first and worry about bigger picture later.

Basically, looks like this situation was a long time coming.
Moreover, as a person who participated in hiring a lot, a unique design for every CV isn't something I'd be happy with. The more it unified, the easier to scan the paper for the things I'm looking for.
humans are not "rational actors"
>Rural America has very little to offer anyone except cheap housing, and cheap food.

Those are pretty important to a lot of people.
Is that really so widespread though? All of my open source contributions were done on the job, fixing a bug or adding a feature to an open source project I use at work. There is a strong incentive to improve the project rather than fork it to fix, as you don't have to keep maintaining it yourself. It also appears that many maintainers are doing so as part of their duties at work.

Just as Google maintains their search engine for "free" to show you ads, they maintain Kubernetes so that you use it on their cloud platform. You fix bugs in Kubernetes so you can have the fix you need, at work, when you need it.
My family was poor but thankfully we lived more rural than anything, which is a little different than city-poor. My biggest problem growing up was the psychological abuse my mom would dish out to pretty much anyone who looked at her. When I was young I thought it was cool, in a rebellious way. It took me a while to realize she was actually the black sheep of the family. She had worked herself a serious alcohol addiction, diabetes, lung disease, and burned just about every bridge she's made. Seeing her in a helpless state and realizing that I wasn't really headed for anything better, I glued my eyes to my first CS textbook until the ideas made sense.
A combination of wood fibres and spider silk could rival plastic
Society IS political by its very definition. When you live and act in a society, you're taking a political part, because politics is just how society decides its rules.
Does this mean we can stop saying, “GNU/Linux”?
You can reallocate. Only top tier brands use ads, and the price of the advertising is part of the premium you pay for the brand name. For a lot of products, there's no functional difference with their cheaper alternatives.

So, this brand premium is in fact discretionary spending that you could reallocate.
Firefox moving to 4 week releases
Remote Life Priorities
I've recently gone remote with a company I had been working for in-office for about a year.

This is my first time doing a remote gig full time. (Roughly 4 months now) To be honest I had quite a hard time transitioning to working out of a co-working space and not having a team around.

However as time has gone by this opportunity has put in perspective for me that work, and life inside of an office, is not all there has to be in life.

Has anyone else gone through similar revelation going remote? How was your transition?
A Man Behind Mr. Robot Is Rebooting Battlestar Galactica
"[...] people working for free." OSS is "free" in the sense that anyone can consume the content. It's not free labor though. Most of the time, the people building OSS are gaining clout and career progression as a result of their "free work." Companies end up paying for it.
I think he's trying to say that coercion is involved.