skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you bring up an interesting point, freedom of association is also important, and it seems like those two are potentially in conflict over speech. I'd love to continue this debate, but HN's increased throttling of replies-to-replies makes it complicated. Can we continue over email? (mine is in my profile)
You are missing the point here. It was a targeted attack on Stallman through mass media, social media.
> “Let the free market solve itself”?

This specific situation violates anti trust law.

It is illegal for a bunch of companies to come together and say "we all agree to not sell below this price", or "we all agree to not sell this cheap thing".

Anti trust law is something that both parties support. It is not controversial to say that price fixing should be illegal. And this applies to both Republicans and democrats.
Ask HN: How do you approach enterprise sales in an unfamiliar industry?
Or for that matter, any industry. I feel like the default response is "if you're not familiar with an industry, you shouldn't necessarily be working in it" - but I'd love to hear what y'all think about it.
Idiotic Trumps chickens are coming home to roast
Failing a rescue from a central bank, you could have a bank run.

I still don’t know why the ordinary payments system has to be coupled with hedge funds and derivatives and whatnot. It should be completely separate. It’s like having your car explode because a cup holder got a crack.
Lol all the accidents that never happened blow my mind :D
They just introduce the new JavaScript engine just for react-native (hermes.js).
Yeah this is definitely a multi-leveled and rich situation, no question. And you're right that my suggestion isn't like, universally applicable. Sometimes an ideal is just that, an ideal (which is just an idea).
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How about don't defend child rape or we'll remove you from any position of power over another human?
The Republican party has become petty, they have no philosophy and stand for nothing. All they want to do is roll back Obama-era regulations and stand for backwards thinking ideas - even when market economics and fiscal policy indicates otherwise.
Prices are set by supply and demand. Divestment reduces demand. Probably, the falling prices also increase demand, but fundamentally, if fewer people want something the price should drop.
Thanks for responding! It's one of those things for me that is positive in individual cases, ie your response here, but negative in aggregate. So, no worries!
Yes, that’s the message I get too.
Note: Greenhouse emissions in USA, transportation is largest at 29%, followed by electricity 28% and industry 22%

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
The main problem is that according to my understanding you can publish an ad with a link without actually proving ownership of that link’s domain, allowing you to “frame” the innocent domain owner for seemingly saying certain things (at least according to your ad).

I guess the solution here is twofold - either have the advertiser prove they own the domain via a DNS challenge, or teach users that anything inside an ad is not to be trusted and can be fake/malicious. The latter is of course detrimental to Shitbook’s business model but would do so much good to society.
> and I wouldn’t have even remembered it.

that's the point.
QE4?
Unless I’m mistaken, Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns went under because they were facing that exact scenario.
This comment explains a bit: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/09/how-a-basement-hacker...
Having lots of debt at a young age “is the new normal.”
Because it's the absolute laziness of other media companies that see articles posted on other journalism sites and blindly copy-paste it instead of doing their own investigation. It ends up most of the time causing witchhunts and it turns out we're making mountains out of mole hills.
British words and expressions that have got popular in the U.S.
The fact that he thought it smart to step forward illustrates that he is not so smart when it comes to these types of social issues. Someone as high profile as him commenting on a friend's situation only brings more attention to his friend. It's likely that without the comments of RMS his friend would have received far less publicity.
One of the problems is intraday liquidity. Long story short, financial regulations and Treasury supply have forced banks into holding securities that are unable to provide intraday liquidity. It's very hard to have a repo spike like this when excess reserves are actually plentiful.
I get `RuntimeError: "unreachable executed"` on firefox nightly (two core2duo machines, linux and win10)

is wasm unsupported ?
Hello from HK as well! I stand corrected as far as the date of signing the document goes.
I think the article is based on a misconception. Just because software (including source code) can be obtained by anyone at no cost does not mean the developer was not paid to create it.

The important question here is "why was this software written in the first place?" If you think that the purpose of software is to make money through licensing fees, open source doesn't make any sense at all. However, if you take a contrary view that the primary purpose of software is to solve problems (with revenue generation as an optional secondary goal), then it does make sense that a developer could get paid quite well to create something they give away for free.
Anyone know why the iphone can't handle the network switching aspect?
I imagine it's intended for any use case in which you want to communicate with people outside your company via slack, but don't want to invite them into your org. I was responding to these comments:

>You customers are feeling like they can ask any question and get an answer in 1 minute, and if you dont answer them straight away then they are unhappy. Definitively not something I recommend

>Don’t blame the tool for mismanaged expectations.
> If after a while the university had said, "Enough is enough, Richard, you need to shape up or get out." I would have understood that.

TBH I wouldn't expect that if they did for it to be public knowledge. In fact I'd assume that has happened.
The justification I've heard is that if you want to sell vehicles in the US, then you need to defacto comply with the California emissions standards, which basically makes the Federal emissions standards pointless.

If Federal emissions standards are to matter, California needs to lose its special status.
It was targeted at the man who did and said a lot of bad things...
At one point in the video, it looked like a hider moving a object past a frozen seeker jostled the seeker with it. I wonder if it's possible to use the objects to push seekers together, then "jail" them.
> It's frustrating and hard to find real information regarding what he did say and what he did not say

I got your back: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9ke3ke/famed-computer-sci...

It's the PDF of the email thread (sigh) at the end of the article.

(Not gonna make any comments because of the mob roaming around.)
Some context in a comment, as not to sound too spammy, and I'm more interested in answers to the general question than to my specific situation:

I read a lot of news. It's most of what I click on on Facebook. I have a custom multireddit with all my favorite news-oriented subreddits. And every day, I hit paywalls. So, I'm currently trying to build a "Netflix for News" or "Apple News for the Web" (the implementation is pretty simple - just set up an OAuth2 Provider). The market is definitely niche (news junkies who prefer the browser experience) but I think the value prop is high (newspapers keep readers on their platform + receive monthly payout based on customer time spent on their site, readers don't have to worry about looking up news in one place).

The problem is that I've never worked in the newspaper industry. I think I only know one person who does. How do I go from that, to convincing a brand as huge as The New York Times (or whatever) to put a "Sign in with NetflixForNews" button on their paywall? The idea feels good, and the technical solution is simple, but the sales problem just feels insurmountable.
By that logic there is a local fish shop in my area that would qualify as a tech company/startup which they are certainly not
Oh yeah, totally agree that you have way more control in C/C++/Rust, and that's non-negotiable in many important cases. I just don't think that's the same as "you don't have any meaningful control over allocations in Go"; you still have a lot of control. It's a spectrum, and if you don't do enough research you might find you need more control (you used Go) or you might also find you signed up to deal with more low-level memory management than you needed to (C/C++/Rust).
Yeah the big cargo planes are bigger, but since they are painted dark colors they hide their dimensions so they don't look as big. Also I'm not usually driving under the landing path. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moffett_Federal_Airfield

I guess technically it's not a base but an airfield.
Okay, the X-15 was pretty great, but speed alone doesn't make it "the baddest airplane the world has ever known". When I read the title, I immediately, unhesitatingly assumed it would be this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gee_Bee_Model_R.
It would be helpful if you could cite specifically where it says the NSA can do this. I don't see it anywhere on the wikipedia page.
Gah. No. Keeping communications compartmented and secret is how creeps keep on creeping. If you write an email to an email list you don't have an expectation of privacy.
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, who doesn't comply with GPL but spends $50k trying to dig up dirt on a person he accused of being a pedophile to avoid lawsuits? That guy?

Who cares what he says.
Yeah but the rate is what matters. The US kills more people in days than some other countries do in years. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/09/the-counted-...
> kudos for not just picking a day a month and doing monthly updates like most, that tends to seem more arbitrary unlike 4 weeks

Planning feature development and rollout is more difficult if you always have to refer to a calendar to find future release dates. I would prefer to be able to say a feature can land in Firefox Nightly in January, ship to Firefox Beta on February 1, and Release channel users on March 1.

Mozilla has a long wiki page of past and future release dates:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar
Has his late friend actually received increased publicity from this? Most of the stories and social media commentary I've seen don't mention Minksy at all, instead claiming that Stallman defended Epstein.
This is not an issue of "staying woke". Arguing that statutory rape is "absurd" is not "staying woke". Stallman said some things that were deeply troubling to a lot of people, myself included. That aside...

His judgement in making these statements, in a public way, was extremely poor. As a representative of FSF and MIT, he stepped far out of the boundary of what's considered reasonable. Leadership means knowing how to lead, and that includes not demoralizing your organization with controversy.

He didn't step down. He was fired with the option of keeping his dignity.
He's being "attacked" by FSF board members and employees, other free software foundations, and FLOSS advocates.
> I mean how else the current 2.00-2.25% rate is forced onto the financial system?

Traditionally, Fed used open market operations to target the fed funds rate. This entailed either buying/selling treasuries or conducting repo operations (as was done here). This was a corridor system, as banks could earn no less than 0% interest keeping reserves on the Fed's balance sheet (no negative interest) and could finance at a cost no higher than the discount rate in which banks borrowed directly from the Fed's discount window (this, however, sent a very negative signal to the market).

For the past decade, the Fed has relied on interest on excess reserves (IOER) to target the fed funds rate, a policy known as a floor system. Here, banks earn a given interest rate on reserves kept on the fed's balance sheet. The floor system theoretically ensures short term rates do not drop below the IOER rate (although it is not always the case). This does not entail engaging in open market operations.

> Why else would anyone even care about what the FED rate is?

All dollar interest rates are impacted in one way or another by the fed funds rate. The strength of the dollar is also impacted by the fed funds rate, as it may become more or less attractive to keep balances in the US. The floor system currently employed makes it less attractive for banks to use excess reserves to make loans, as the risk free rate (on the fed balance sheet) is greater. This diminishes the money multiplier effect that banks have.

Additionally, some foreign institutions are able to keep money on the fed's balance sheet, helping them avoid negative interest rates. Again, this disincentivizes them from making loans and also undermines monetary policy implemented by their local central banks. Finally, some currencies have a USD peg (e.g. HKD). These pegs effectively import Federal Reserve monetary policy (to help mitigate the risk of currency crises) which affects the local economies.
Basically: if you think the Commerce Clause applies to firearms or practically anything else, it almost certainly applies to cars.
Sticking to your principles works on an individual level, you can't generalize to what the effect of that would be on the whole population. There were plenty of 'good' Germans who refused to become part of the madness. Plenty of them ended up just as dead as the victims on the other side of the conflict.

And in the end it did not matter much. But one thing is for sure: they kept their conscience clean and that counts for something as well.
I typed:

this is a story all about how my life got flipped

then tab-completed the rest:
over in a natural way and how i was born with two opposites, a father and a mother. i am just a child. You can also make use of the web -based API to create your own sentences, and it has many features such as multi-document syncing, automatic tagging, and automatic deletion .

gave up when it turned back into an ad
> For me it looks like corporate hijack of open source projects.

Adjust your tinfoil hat, please. Jesus christ.
Well maybe they will either backport or accept community implementation of merge request approval functionality now [1]. With all kudos to the GitLab team, absence of this feature while all other major players free tiers have it is quite a nonsense.
Anyway, GitLab is really solid platform with pleasant OOBE. Always recommend it to anyone.

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/20696
I am starting to notice a correlation between useless hype technologies and flashy, distracting CSS like that hover effect on the info boxes.
The upside is their competitors sees what happens to that guy and never make the same mistake.

A company the size of Equifax going bust due to negligence would show Experian, Lexis-Nexis, and Transunion that these records aren't assets but large liabilities to be handled with extreme diligence.
Ah, gotcha. Thanks for the timeline!
With you on this. Can't wait to get home and read the book tonight.
Multi-Agent Hide and Seek (OpenAI)
First one I tried with GPT2

In: This is a thing I hope to Jesus

Out: I am a whore\n\nI am an
I'm in awe of the balls that those guys had in that era--to strap one of those beasts to their ass. How surreal that.
Really? Because I make a point of remembering that electronic communication has infinite distributibility and infinite duration. Do you not?
How can the federal government limit the states ability to add stricter regulations? Is there a law explicitly saying that cars can pollute at a certain level?

My understanding was that states can add stricter restrictions to any federal laws as long as there was no other law limiting how strict they can get
People have been harping on "staying woke" and "cancel culture" as a way of criticizing changing values about sexual abuse and positions of power.

When you dig into every case where you see this, there's almost always reasonable context.
Having gone through both without (high school) and with (college) calculus physics, yeah, it's actually easier with. I think I agree with a sibling comment though, building the two together but taking up the time of two classes (learning the physics by learning the calculus to do it) makes more sense IMO.
It's unconstitutional on its face, but the Supreme Court will uphold it. Sad times. Kid voting turnout could swing the election, and it's a major success for forces of evil that they've convince so many people of the "pox on both their houses" idea. I feel bad for young people, I'm glad I'll probably die before things get really bad.
It's in fact morally absurd to have it be statutory rape in one jurisdiction and not in another, depending on age. That's a fact, if you don't like it you can kindly go bury you head in the woke sand.
Regus offices are soulless.

Well...they're (in my experience using them in the SE US) generic, quiet, generally well run. So, about as soulless as any office. Which was pretty much what I want.

WeWork's product is better.

Excepting Regus being profitable, having a better financial structure and management that's not a liability. But I understand that's not the only measure of 'better'.

The one I know in SF is an OK place to hang out in the evening.

I can't imagine anything I'd less like to do after work than hanging out drinking beer with a couple of dudebros with nowhere else to go after work than...work.

If WeWork is the only fun office space, they'll be hugely profitable someday.

I'm certain there's a market for work-space-as-life-substitute, but my own equally unsubstantiated feeling is that when people look for "workplace" they have one thing in mind, and when they think "fun", they're looking for something very, very different. At least for me, I don't want to try and work someplace where other people think it's for fun; fun is distracting.
Hi yes! Someone who gets paid to do this here :P just wanted to give some background on my team (not that you asked for it OP, I just like to talk about myself apparently).

But yeah my team (of 3 members lol) was spun up primarily because Sid our CEO wants to make sure that everyone in the company is plugged into what users are saying about us, and he cares about hackernews specifically since GitLab was founded here [1]. So my team mainly just triages mentions about us so devs/managers/etc don't miss feedback but can still focus on their jobs. I do see first-hand that everyone in the company really does care about what people are experiencing.

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/company/history/#2012-gitlabcom
There might be some problems when we try to make babies in space
Yes, actively awful. Hostile-working-environment awful. Women cultivating plants in their offices because they know he hates plants and won't creep on them awful.
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That business card is wildly inappropriate I agree and I love the bit about the plants. Is there a story I'm missing here where complaints were filed and nothing was done? That would change my viewpoint 180 degrees here if so. Because that means the guy's behavior was repeatedly and officially pointed out to him and he IDGAFed the advice. It also seems like an even bigger story than Stallman himself on par with GOOG's behavior the past 5 years.

PS The Kelsey Merkley talk is fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y0FuH5FNCo
Bye wirdo incels, long life to FSF!
> It dismisses the decades of Stallman's abuse of his positions at FSF and MIT

Does this extend beyond hearsay and having a "Knight for Justice (also: hot ladies)" sign on his door?

Also, where do these "decades" suddenly come from? His most vociferous accusers on social media wouldn't have been alive, or at least far too young to have attended MIT.

> which are the real reason he should have been removed from power.

Power? Exactly what power can a "visiting scientist"--a made-up quirky title, wield?

Or do you mean his power to travel around the world and talk about Free Software?

Do you even know who he is?
> Indeed. While France and Germany flex their local muscle against Facebook’s Libra currency, this is a step in the opposite direction for the US and its states.

Meanwhile Guy Verhofstadt goes to Britain to brag, unambiguously, about an intent to turn the EU into a unitary empire. The justification? "Everyone else is doing it!".
I think the open source space will benefit tremendously from DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations) that direct funding for projects or new ideas of note.

The most famous example is Moloch DAO which funds things ranging from entire software teams building Ethereum clients to individual positions like a test plan runner for coordination across multiple organizations. These are the types of things that are traditionally hard or impossible to get funding for as the smallest unit of funding typically falls to VCs who fund an entire company for many years.

Anyone can submit a funding proposal which is akin to a business plan that doesn't aim to make money and it is voted on by members of the DAO. A lot of interesting ideas are debated and refined with the best ideas making it to the front and being funded by democratic vote.

We are still within the first few years of the existence of DAOS and there are already a dozen DAOs focused on funding various aspects of tech and design with likely many more coming in the future. Open source has always had a hard time competing with corporations but with DAOs like Moloch and others the future is starting to look bright.
> Washing clothes without a washing machine, scrubbing dusty floors, cooking on charcoal stoves.

Your anglocentric view severely overestimates the similarly between our standards of cleanliness and theirs. I doubt these women are washing loads of clothes daily, if they even have more than a handful of items of clothing, or mopping dirt floors with any frequency.

Cooking on charcoal isn't that much worse than cooking over a modern stovetop.

You also seem to imply that men are just sitting around all day, based on the context of the message this is responding to - but I don't know enough about the culture in these remote African areas to say if that's wrong.

I don't understand this habit of bending over backwards to show that women have it harder everywhere. Aside from hauling water from long distances, the work you describe is hardly grueling - and says nothing of what the men in these areas are experiencing.

If you want to talk about gendered violence and lack of rights as second class citizens, that's one thing, but there seems to be a tendency to exaggerate as a signal of virtue or something.
Suggested slight amendment to the book: a disclosure of the royalties amount per copy and a bitcoin address.
I've always been very incredulous that there would be any possibility of taking something sufficiently complex to be considered an AGI and hard-coding anything like the 3 rules into it.
It's most of what Adam Smith wrote about it.

Somehow, when George Stigler coined "regulatory capture" the world thought he was being novel. He wasn't.
Things like large license fees and mandatory expensive classes will disproportionately impact poor people and minorities. Not everyone gets a week of paid vacation so that they can take a class. Some would argue that this is by design. It actually reminds me a lot of voter ID laws (and imagine if you had to pay $400 and spend 40 hours studying your voter guide to vote in an election!).

Regardless, it's not clear to me that this 40 hour class would be the best way to save lives. Accidental gun deaths have already been rapidly decreasing for decades. Assuming the classes were equally effective, you'd save an order of magnitude more people by requiring someone to take a 40 hour swimming class before setting foot in a pool.