skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Still confused whether I should be thrilled or disheartened or just 'meh'.

Most remakes and remasters I'm usually just "meh". But every once in a while a truly special one comes along that thrills me.

I'm not sure if WC3 is one of the special ones; but I am fairly certain that the new Zelda: Link's Awakening for Switch is! Another special one that thrilled me was AM2R (Metroid 2 remake).
You don't understand how Stallman thinks. You should view his statement from the eyes of a researcher. He said he is skeptical, not that something is true or false. Obviously his formulation is pretty bad from a PR perspective, but it should be pretty clear by now that rms doesn't care much about that.
He is technically correct though.
[edit/ downvote this all you like, pretending like warfare requires guns and armies when 2 different government elections have been attacked using social media, namely Facebook.]

https://www.thegreathack.com/

> Data has surpassed oil as the world’s most valuable asset. It’s being weaponized to wage cultural and political warfare. People everywhere are in a battle for control of our most intimate personal details. From award-winning filmmakers Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim, THE GREAT HACK uncovers the dark world of data exploitation with astounding access to the personal journeys of key players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data scandal.
It's just one more case where there is a mismatch between offense and defense realities.

I'd much rather try to design an anti-carrier missile than design a carrier that was missile proof.
Maybe we'd be able to focus on our work better if we had a union protecting is from this kind of corporate behaviour.
"I feel torn". This is the power of exploitation. Why create anything new when you can just remaster your old products? Blizzards latest business venture has been reselling memories.
I'm very glad to see Stallman can learn to appreciate the nuance of these questions and acknowledge that he had previously thought incorrectly, but the subject of this thread, and the subject of The Fine Article remain cases where he just shouldn't have opened his mouth in the first place.

I am eternally grateful to rms for the contributions he's made, and many of the often unpopular, but amazingly principled stances he holds. For some of the things I think he's right about, I think he's one of the only voices out there saying that thing.

But for fuck's sake, Richard, the notion of staying in your lane sometimes has merit. Like with your awful jab about Jobs' death, keep that shit to yourself. Sometimes, remaining silent is the right move. Sometimes, attempting to defend your position just weakens it further. Sometimes, it turns out, "technically correct" is actually the worst kind of correct.
The obvious response is going to be boycotts of those companies.
A fine point and two significant examples that illustrate the dangers of unfettered corporations.
When people get married around the world
I'm sorry to have offended you, but I actually used to be under 18.

I think under 18s are inexperienced human beings who are undergoing some of the hardest years of anybody's life, their hormones are changing and their culture is often quite dangerous. I'm also frustrated that I couldn't have just left it at morons and for you to have got that.
Respect and trust are also important, and kinda relate back to the "non judgmental" part. If you ask somebody a question that pre-supposes that they made a mistake, or are stupid, or don't know their own industry, etc., then that person is probably going to react in a very defensive fashion and put up walls to avoid talking to you. You have to show people that you respect them, and that they can trust you to treat them with respect and dignity, and not belittle or demean them.

There's an idea that pickup artists talk about, called "enter her world". The notion goes something like this: if you're out at a bar, and you're a guy, and you see an attractive woman you want to talk to, you approach her and start a conversation, at which point you're just "another sleazy guy in a bar". But if you quickly demonstrate, using your questions, statements, stories, etc., that you have some understanding of the woman's world, the issues she has to deal with, etc., then you can "enter her world" and now you're not just "a sleazy guy at a bar". Now the barriers go down a little bit and the conversation becomes more personal, and more meaningful. OK, it's not a perfect analogy, but you can probably see the connection. The point is basically that you have to earn admission into someone's world if you want them to talk about things beyond a superficial level.
Industries, not times. Gamedev works in a different pay scale.
I'm Italian, and not surprised at all to see Italy at the #1 spot (getting married at the oldest age).
Here you go:
https://github.com/agtbaskara/dsmac-drone
“Ok, now let’s go find each of the protesters that work here and tell them they no longer have a job!”
Money and Transmission of Bacteria (2013)
I don't know much about Stallman, but he does seem to be fond of saying "well, technically..." in discussions where it's pretty tone deaf and easy to misconstrue, in a similar way to some discussions on HN itself. As someone says in the email thread, "If we're debating the definitions of 'rape' and 'sexual assault', perhaps it's better to accept that this conversation isn't productive. When this email chain inevitably finds its way into the press, the seeming insensitivity of some will reflect poorly on the entire CSAIL community."

But the initial coverage, particularly the Daily Beast article, does seem like a real hatchet job. There's a big difference between what the Daily Beast headline implied he said:

"Victims were 'entirely willing'"

and what he actually said, when discussing how much fault attaches to Minsky:

"The most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates."

Edit: link to a PDF of the email thread from Vice is https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6405929/091320191...
LoL is a moba.
Useful for a high velocity laser-sail or say, an ice rocket?
I am not sure if context switches between different threads aren't going to dominate the cost here. It does sound like a little bit of assembly code that performs a binary search has a much smaller cost than all the stack manipulations associated with a thread preemption.
My point is that the attack has little to do with Yemen, but has everything to do with Iranian designs. So talking about 'escalation in Yemen war' is meaningless (also, if Iran is the one escalating, maybe they're the ones that should undo it?).
Richard is specifically a public figure who influences a lot of people, and some of that influence comes from platforms like his MIT professorship that imply endorsement from other groups.

I agree it's distasteful for people to focus on personal judgements about Stallman's communications when we haven't walked in his shoes, mentally. But public discourse is necessary to determine what to do with the platform given to comments like this - including if they come from "non-neurotypical" individuals.

Separately, because Stallman's area of focus extends into community formation and protection of individual rights, I don't agree that his statements about sexual coercion are separate from the rest of his work.
Sounds like at the surface like ray bundles that are used in ray tracing acceleration.
Yea the trigger actions need to be wrapped in a pcall too.

Because of that I made a function for trigger creation which wraps the provided action in a pcall.
Because no one operates in a vacuum. A person's work is never just one person. You're part of a context working on other people's work and your work are in turn used by others.

These people not only normalize abusive behavior, they push people away by poisoning the context making it impossible to interact unless you "tolerate" their behavior.
I can't personally vouch for the game, but it looks worth a try and describes itself as:

> Rusted Warfare is an fully featured RTS inspired by classic real-time strategy games such as Total Annihilation and Command and Conquer.

> A pure RTS with no microtransactions and no DRM, Online and offline multiplayer over wifi and mobile networks

and is rated 4.8 in the android store. As someone who has trouble finding games that aren't shitware in app stores, this looks genuinely worth looking into and on topic.
There is zero evidence that any activity conducted on Facebook has ever actually swung a single election. As far as I can tell, that is hyperbole as well.
This... every meetup I attend has people looking for help
I disagree with RMS on many topics, but I don't get the outrage at him. He explained how Minsky was likely not guilty of sexual assault. To use an analogy: If I have a sanctioned boxing match with someone, and it is later discovered that Don King coerced my opponent into taking the match against his will, am I guilty of battery? I don't think so.

RMS is also correct that Epstein was many things, but not a pedophile. He's discussing facts and people are treating it as if he's discussing morality.
Seems like something a Californian would invent. Looks like it would fair poorly if wiper-well fills up with snow. Can it be left lifted clear of the windshield before a hard ice?
Neither engineers not execs really make decisions to be good or evil. They implement the will of major shareholders who actually run the company. Satya Nadella has maybe 100s of millions, while the capitalization of MS is 1 trillion. This means that Satya isn't the decision maker. Only in small companies CEO and the owner is the same person.
It is weird how often that seems to happen. When subjects like this come up, people suddenly get very pedantic about the definition of pedophilia versus ephebophilia, and the threads here have been dominated by sprawling, legalistic arguments about the precise definition of "sexual assault" and "rape" and the relevance of ages of consent and whether words even mean anything, really.

And this ... as if the distinction between prepubescent child rape and postpubescent child rape is at all relevant enough to mention.
T. Boone Pickens, Texas oil tycoon, has died at age 91
The consortium is like a rogue's gallery of companies I distrust though, so I'm not sure decentralizing my deep distrust is going to help the Libra project.
Sure, but then a lot of developed technology would remain secret forever.
But RMS does things about his political views. He founded the FSF, gives talks, tries to change policy. As a public figure, he should open to criticism.
stupid mistake, sorry

> I install Windows on every PC

Linux of course
Are you trying to suggest that Stallman does not intend to be political, and does not intend to use the FSF as a political organisation to further his political goals? The FSF is a non-profit with implicitly political aims, primarily related to the use of free software, but the GNU project is used to campaign on other issues. Don’t take my word for that; trust Stallman himself https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-05/msg00001.html https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-05/msg00115.html

Given that the FSF asks for donations for technical projects, and explicitly defines itself as a political organisation; the political opinions of its President would seem very relevant, valuable, and useful to discuss.

It may change how people choose to support free and open source software in future.
Pre print from arXiv:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05357
Instagram versus Reality at Failed Interior-Design Startup Homepolish
The most useless kind of correct.

edit: to the downvoters -- is a discussion on whether a man who trafficked and raped dozens of underage girls is "technically not a pedophile" really a worthwhile conversation to have?
Throwing stuff against the wall and seeing what sticks can be a legitimate strategy. We'll see if it pays.
I would agree with your statement that most western governments are not explicitly motivated by cost cutting and profit seeking. It would seem evident when we look at the trajectory of the US national debt in the past 40 or so years. However, I do not know if this is a good or bad thing. Will the national debt ever be paid off? And if not, what will the consequences be?
Most of Iran's violent actions were done by proxies, exactly as happened in this case. I provided multiple Wikipedia links with sources showing how these proxies are armed and directed by Iran.

Here's another article about their military activity in Iraq: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_intervention_in_Iraq_(...

Besides that, they have been involved recently in multiple actions to seize oil tankers, culminating in the seizure of a British-flagged tanker:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/20/world/middleeast/iran-tan...

They seized other tankers as well, for instance:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-49225916
Tesla's way of opening up patents is interesting. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable on the topic can chime in, but my understanding is that Tesla's just saying they won't initiate a lawsuit if they believe you're using their patent in "good faith". Tesla's lawyer's clarification made their "good faith" restriction much more restrictive:

A party is “acting in good faith” for so long as such party and its related or affiliated companies have not:

- asserted, helped others assert, or had a financial stake in any assertion of
(i) any patent or other intellectual property right against Tesla or
(ii) any patent right against a third party for its use of technologies
relating to electric vehicles or related equipment;
- challenged, helped others challenge,
or had a financial stake in any challenge to any Tesla patent; or
- marketed or sold any knock-off product (e.g., a product created by imitating
or copying the design or appearance of a Tesla product or which suggests an
association with or endorsement by Tesla)
or provided any material assistance to another party doing so.

So it makes sense that no one major would take up Tesla's offer, because they're not going to waive the right to sue Tesla.

That's a little bit different than, say, Toyota, which offered to licenses out their patents royalty free with no strings attached and even offer consulting on how to use them for a fee. There's some guarantees there (or can be negotiated) that the tech/goodwill won't disappear on a whim.
Hey. In the poster's defense, they stated specifically the downside of hormones was you had to treat every breeding location, which consists of every puddle or stagnant body of water, which includes the necessity of synthesizing and delivering the hormone to every candidate breeding ground.

The idea behind the gene manipulation circumvented that logistical challenge since the males would do that job anyway.

My major issue was the lack of equivalently extensive testing w.r.t the gene therapy and whether the first crossing offspring were guaranteed to be unviable in the lab that the hormones did.

He did address your argument. I'm not one of the ones downvoting you, and I understand your irritation/frustration. Mucking around with the genome, without any proven capacity to calculate some reasonable simulation of potential ecological side effects seems fraught with danger to me as well. Whether people are dying or not doesn't detract from the fact we are trying to do something. Reality is just a real wench when she won't play ball with (elegant solution of the week).

Chin up. We learned something. We regroup, reconsider the route forward, and try again.

And have yet another problem created by our own hand to keep a finger on...
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Are you comparing to competitors of your size?

I ran an enterprise-backed startup. We built way faster than our enterprise backers when it was our own name. If something carried an association or backing of the enterprise, it took at least 10 times longer. They had a reputation to uphold and needed to ensure everything reflected that.
>Separately, because Stallman's area of focus extends into community formation and protection of individual rights, I don't agree that his statements about sexual coercion are separate from the rest of his work.

That's a fair point. If someone is going to claim a position of moral leadership over community formation, then being judged on their strange political opinions seems reasonable.

In (what I claim) is an ideal world, the fixed cost to this type of collective action against a person like Stallman, would be high enough that only those who participate in his communities would care about this stuff. I still worry that the fixed cost towards sharing/shaming is so low, that people who have no vested interest in Stallman's locus of influence can still join in for fun. This goes for all internet mob justice.
Given that I am a researcher, I reckon I have been. I'm also not a parent, so I don't have any sexy babies growing up. But given that the 'consensual child sex' argument has been used historically in courts against children as young as 6, statements like that in 2006 are distressing.
> If I were a company I would be terrified that such inefficiencies are protected by a union.

You can't 'be' a company. You can run one, at best.

And if unionized employees terrify you in a country where unionization is legal then maybe simply do not start a company?

> can someone more knowledgeable in this area explain how a unionized workforce benefits both employees and the business hiring them

In theory - not always in practice - unions create a more level playing field in the asymmetrical relationship between employer and employee, it restores some of the balance of power. Collective bargaining means that employers can no longer reduce negotiations by serially negotiating with one employee at the time, but have the negotiate with all employees at once. This has had a remarkable effect on the division of the value created by those employees over the years that we have had unions.

Now, in practice, of course not everything is quite that simple and unions can be co-opted by the company, and there are plenty of examples of unions that ended up being self serving power structures in their own right but we - collectively, the voters - still believe in most countries that unions are such a big net effect that retaliation against employees for wanting to unionize is illegal under the law.
Context switches are extremely expensive, no way would it make sense to do it every memory access.

Edit: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/measuring-context-switchi... cites a couple microseconds, whereas memory latency is measured in tens of nanoseconds. So several dozen times more expensive to context switch.
While that's true, the idea that there is some magical line at 18 that divides the moral from the immoral is absurd, and Stallman is simply pointing that out. We do have to have a line of some kind for legal purposes, but we shouldn't confuse that statutory line with the nuanced reality when discussing the abstract morality of behavior.
And it's not just tech. See Starbucks paying sweet fanny adams in tax, etc.
I owned a MBP back around 2007.

I later purchased (in-person, in-store) an ipad pro using a credit card, maybe around 2015. The receipt they gave me had my email address printed on it. That really creeped me out.
> Well the decentralised nature of most crypto currencies prevent this sort of ban...

Just because Bitcoin is decentralized doesn't mean that a country can't ban it within its own borders. To do that, all a country would need to do is pass a law making it a crime to own or use Bitcoin, while also prosecuting people who didn't report profits from illicit Bitcoin transactions with tax evasion. At that point, no legitimate business in the country would be able to accept Bitcoin or convert it to cash, and the vast majority of citizens wouldn't risk fines or imprisonment to use it.

Since, at this time, a very small fraction of the population uses crytocurrencies (or even knows what they are), enacting such a law probably wouldn't face a lot of resistance, especially if it were presented as a measure to fight crime or terrorism.
Full size cars do often have a single blade, smaller cars like a Honda Fit/Jazz have one huge blade and a mini clean up blade on passenger side
> An unusual (and worrying) part about this incident is how drones are being used, not with an explicit military goal in mind, but rather for the purpose of economic strangulation.

Economic strangulation is a military goal. In fact, most other military goals are merely methods of positioning better for economic strangulation, which is pretty nearly the ultimate military goal.
You need to back up your claim with evidence. In order to establish a union, you'll need at least 30% of the workers signing a petition. Would you sign such a petition if your incompetent colleague put it forward to you in the hope of protecting their job? Honestly, your scenario is far-fetched.
Some people can't seem to differentiate between calling people the r-word out of the left field and the medical use (out-dated use or not).

It's silly to get outraged about that, yet 'imbecile', 'idiot' and 'moron' are somewhat acceptable.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/moron-idiot-im...
TBH 18+1day aren't any better off, yet that'd be a get out of jail card.

For what I remember Italy has a law governing sex between individuals across legal age (18)... anything involving < 13yo is pedo and statutory rape (fair enough) while anything else where the delta is no more than 4 years is not illegal (might be cause to deploy social workers but that's not the point.)

That's fair enough IMHO, but I'm a savage Italian... not a woke puritan
I think there's a meaningful distinction between a pedophile who is primarily (exclusively?) attracted to children, and someone who keeps child sex slaves because they're easier to manage than adults.

It's not that one is worse than the other, it's just that they're quite different situations. I don't know exactly in which category Epstein falls because I haven't been following this whole ordeal too closely, so I'm not making any claims about that.
How many employees does Kickstarter even have that they need a union?