skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iOS development is not really compatible with the GPL; both the FSF and Apple agree on that.

But there was nothing in macOS that was incompatible with the GPL, and yet the FSF for a decade prohibited its maintainers from accepting macOS specific patches (So much for “freedom”).

To Stallman, Apple’s “Look & Feel” lawsuit was an unforgivable transgression, but Microsoft’s various tactics to muscle out competitors were never a cause for concern.
We use Jira Cloud, it's a proper service, not a tutorial instance. I thought quite a lot of companies use the cloud version. Have tried to setting up Jira server in house but it's not worth the cost or effort.

Edit: We are a small team of <10 so its cloud license cost is quite good for us.
The "fucked up looking Microsoft ad" is an example of the malware being sent by the botnet according to the paragraph below it. It's a screenshot of a Word macro virus, it won't do anyone any harm.
>RMS's defences of unacceptable behaviour are also a contribution.

I've seen the accusations against RMS. I've seen the RMS emails in the thread[1].

RMS' emails bemoan wishy-washy reporting, and are centered around calls for clarity and precision. With some insensitive words.

In response we got even more wishy-washy reporting - weasel words were used, misleading summaries instead of quotations[2], and focus was placed on how people felt outraged. People who weren't part of the discussion.

This isn't the way to build great software. This is tribes warring on social media.

>They're a negative contribution, and they contribute to driving away other contributors

Riddle me this: which drives away contributors - private email threads, or social media wars of attrition?

Is my judgement right? Maybe I am missing something big, that happens. Nonetheless I decide to side with somebody I've seen reliably exhibit the same character over decades, rather than with out-of-character accusations. I decide to side with somebody who delivered great projects[3] over decades - rather than with a social media conflict.

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[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6405929-091320191420...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/d5a4dz/richard_stall...

[3] notably RMS delivered not only software projects, but also organizational/legal projects, and social/cultural projects
I'd like to point out that the mathematical/formal statements are the result of loooong researches. That is, the one who stated them most probably had a real life problem first. Then multiple other ones. Then he built up an understanding of those problem and some kind of intuitions. Then he gathered all of that in a nice formula.

When we learn that formula (sometimes) we go the other way around : we see the formula, the maths, the forma stuff and then we try to understand its consequences and see how it fits reality.

To me that's a much harder process...

Basically : when I see a bridge, I can't figure out how it was built, or why.
He donated to a charity that worked to take away my "god given" (I didn't choose to be born gay, I just was) rights. He absolutely should have been forced to resign and I'm glad he did. You're also a real asshole if you think that donating to an anti-gay charity is right.
On the Gross which is kind of the point
You are 29 with greater than $1M. Assuming you didn't inherit that then you don't need a mentor. Get back to work! :)
I get benefits from my Equifax score and have made zero changes to my credit behavior, am aware of items on my credit report and am just as vulnerable to identity theft as all of you.

Its an objective acceptance of reality.

Typically I like to know which lenders check which score, so that I can strategically drop a hard inquiry on a particular reporting agency’s score, I use the multiple scores as a currency for maximum amounts of hard inquiries, as a hard inquiry temporarily lowers the score decreasing chances of approval or favorable lending terms. Once I hit two or three on Equifax, I will only apply with lenders that hit Transunion scores, etc. When the approvals go through my unutilized credit has increased so much that it has raised my scores more than the inquiries dropped them. When I actually go to apply for a mortgage I would be considered the most credit worthy borrower and save hundreds of thousands in interest payments.

I really don’t care about this crusade.
Nowadays in Erlang you can set a memory limit per process[1], ensuring they get killed if they try to allocate more. Of course you still have to estimate how much is reasonable which isn’t always obvious...

[1] See max_heap_size under http://erlang.org/documentation/doc-9.0/erts-9.0/doc/html/er...
>How on earth did you manager to fit Microsoft into this

Good point. I intended it merely as emphasis to the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish point, but apparently it ended up being more of a red herring...? I'll take extra care the next time.

>Also, this outrage culture is exactly what everyone here including you

Don't worry, this forum isn't entirely a single-minded and single-channel tribe. Albeit let's not detract further with risky subjects, shall we? :-)
"It's your own fault if you didn't foresee a trillion dollar company exploiting the product you made free and open source to help researcher and now are incurring 15K$ bills per month"

And then people wonder why people don't want to make their stuff free/open source. Even when it's free people still think you're somehow entitled and overcharging.
They would do better if they spent 100M on ads to promote Firefox downloads.

Privacy is a lost cause. Sure, you'll probably get anonymity ie. your PII are gonna be scrambled, but all our activities are gonna be streamed to AI engines for commercial and entertainment purpose.

And people are generally okay with that because said engines are producing a lot of value in terms of targeted ads, better suggestions etc.

What's going on at the moment is that governments are feeling left out because they wouldn't mind running their own AI engines to shape public discourse and opinions.

But the trouble is - they don't have data. The big tech has data so I believe fight for data access is underlying reason for anti big tech momentum building up over the past few years.
GraalVM/SubstrateVM will compile to native ONLY the code which is being used. So the native executable is MUCH LESS bloated than the JAR running on regular JVM.
You're ignoring the cultural impact. People growing to love national parks may influence them to vote for pro-environment politicians and initiatives.
How Jeff Bezos almost bought Netflix for about $15M
I kind of get the impression that there is a glut of developers who know/are learning React and a glut of companies that are having trouble finding someone willing or able to use React (at least where I'm located).
You’re forced to trust the maker of your CPU, mainboard, etc. if you can’t trust your hardware you’re toast. There’s nothing special about RNGs in this regard.
Wasn't a problem? What do you think is more likely:

1) They didn't follow company procedure of which big banks insist employees follow otherwise the employees risk 'liability for not picking the 3 credit agencies'. Or

2) They lied and followed company procedure, and not tell you the outcome from them.

3) Your lender probably passed the request and got 1) or 2) later in the chain.
Not trying to defend them for not doing journlism and being unable to understand a simple sentence but these 'news' outlet just copied what had been written in the medium publication calling for the removal of Stallman[1]:

"…and then he says that an enslaved child could, somehow, be “entirely willing”. Let’s also note that he called a group of child sex trafficking victims a ‘harem’, a terrible word choice."

[1]: https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21...
> completely willing paid escort

...applies to a tiny minority of people involved in prostitution sex work.

When we're talking about recklessness and naivety it's not a persuasive argument to say "he thought this child was a willing prostitute".
I started working on this exactly 2 weeks ago, so was pretty surprised to see this post by mozilla just now!

Essentially a very simple browser extension to tip websites, where you load some credit and it gets distributed as you browse (with more nuances obviously, but that is the main idea)

Even if it never amounts to anything it might at least inspire others to start similar projects until something better than ads appears!
Marketing makes people buy plenty of things they don't really need nor want. If people choose not to be exposed to tailored ads so much, they would have this money to spend for other things, like paying directly to support what thes want and not the long route indirectly and ineffectivly via ads.
I haven't seen any problems. I get my notifications just fine. I think APNS (and the related OS services) operate separately from Background App Refresh? Maybe WhatsApp can use it for some sort of good purpose, but it's not core to my experience so no need to take the risk :D
I'm pleased to see Heiner Goebbels listed, I know him from his excellent collaboration with Alfred Harth on Frankfurt-Peking (1984), which is a jazzy sound collage album. I didn't know he also made classical music.
These extreme authoritarians are also driving away contributors as well. Currently I refuse to participate, donate, or contribute to any project that supports these authoritarians

Linus bent the knee to identitarian extremism. RMS did not and the FSF forced him out so they could bend the knee to identitarian extremism. If Linus had not bent the knee then the Linux Foundation would have forced him out.

Open Source and Free Software is being attacked on 2 fronts

Corporatism that is taking over and promoting "Open Source" Libraries and Licenses that are very restrictive to User Freedom

The Authoritarian / identitarian left that want to cancel any programmer, dev, or person in software development that does non conform to identitarian Political agenda

I came in to Free Software because it was a libertarian movement, now everyone is trying to drive out all the libertarians and it will kill the movement. Free Software and authoritarianism are not compatible
GP's comment is nonsense in a number of ways, most notably that British police are generally regarded among the least oppressive in the world.
And Irish history?
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> And regarding sex trafficking/rape - sex with a 17 year old is almost never seen as rape legally

This is untrue.

Sex with a coerced child is rape in everyday English(although it may have a different more specific legal term), and sex with a 17 year old prostitute is also rape (again, it may have a more specific legal term).

For all those places that have legal prostitution can you show me one that allows prostitution in under 18s?
Look has a correlation to perceived taste. People perceive things to be tastier when they look good.
Making the one hypothetical you express the most favourable for the accused is not a neutral action.
1999 seems pretty late into the evolution of the web for a creator to be so concerned with scattered instances of their work being shared online. 1995-96 I'd believe--the web was mostly still new, norms hadn't adjusted to its presence. But by 1999, the web was well underway, and it would've been weird for random scans of comic strips not to be found freely in all corners of the internet. Did he really email hundreds of site owners?

(Unless the places he was sending his form letter to were hosting most of his back catalog, which would amount to full-scale piracy.)
I live in Utah, and comments like this give me mixed feelings of "I love living here" and "Stop telling everyone else about the quiet places." Not that I really want to keep people away - the only way to fall in love with the outdoors is to spend time there.

But that is also why your comment of virtual tourism really strikes home. One of the reasons I enjoy getting out so much is that I've had health problems that means it isn't always possible to get out. Sharing the landscapes out here with other people who can't get out has always been an interest of mine. With VR technology moving steadily forward, maybe a Streetview-style experience of all these parks would be a timely project.
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Why is it so hard to stop people dying from snakebite?
Original author here: thanks a lot for that, this is very helpful! I was a bit confused about that myself, will make corrections.
A strange thing, British continue letting its spy agency doing away with domestic espionage of the most extreme form (operation optic nerve,) but complain about "their face being scanned"

I can't think of an explanation for that.
Linus eventually realised that his abuse of contributors was a negative contribution and agreed to change. RMS has .. not got to that point.

Neither of them seems hugely socially savvy. Perhaps someone/something helped Linus get there and RMS hasn't had a similar experience.
That article has nothing to do with the OP. There are plenty of effects which are quantum systems in molecular biology, photo chemistry especially and the quantum tunnelling of electrons and ions. That is not what is being discussed here at all. The original blog especially is completely wrong given both the source assertions which are also flawed in their reasoning.
It's sad when people are blinded by anger and cannot read a sentence properly and understand what is meant.

I'll repost here a comment found under the original source that started this misinterpretation of words:

I want to point out a problem: The article claims that Stallman states

(…)that an enslaved child could, somehow, be “entirely willing”.

I think this is a misinterpretation of what he said; it doesn’t change things for the most part, but what he said is at least understandable, if still fairly awful.

His claim, which I don’t really believe is well-founded (but that’s beside the point at this instant) was:

(…)the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing.

(emphasis mine)

That is, as far as I understand, he’s stating it’s most likely that Epstein coerced her into the situation, but that she led Minsky to believe it was of her own free will — and, while I (and I suspect many other people) don’t see where Stallman gets that idea, and it isn’t necessarily the case here, I would assume we can all agree that in such a case, the individual wouldn’t be guilty of rape (due to a lack of mens rea, that is, not knowing that the person was being coerced). In short: he never states that an enslaved child could be ‘entirely willing’, merely that someone lacking relevant information could believe an enslaved child was entirely willing (requiring them to neither know the individual is enslaved nor that they are a child — which is possible for someone who’s 17 years old)
Has it changed anything? Like the Iraq war protests, the government is capable of ignoring huge protests. Perhaps I should have said "effective" rather than "significant".
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Not to forget that the software (until the mid-late '90's and early 2000):

1) was licensed "for life"

2) did NOT "phone home" your data (actually had no way to phone home at all)
... and bridge designers don't design 'to have fun', but to have structurally sound, cheap and reliable infrastructure tool to cross rivers. Or imagine hiring a construction company for your dream house, realizing only after all is built that they were experimenting and 'having fun' with new unproven materials, construction, wiring etc.

OP's approach is mighty fine for his own endeavors, but if I had such a worker hired, there would be a serious talk about priorities. If no agreement is found even 100x engineer would be let go.
> Adblocking is better done with things like uBlock anyway

While true it has a very restricted use case: only on (some) browsers. Doesn't take into account any other application or device. And even uBlock will take a hit soon, at least on the most popular browser today. [0] So you can bet that the likes of Google will put their full weight behind any solution that prevents or at least severely inconveniences adblocking.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20050173
Eww Richard Stallman is a creep. Good riddance. Epstein is kinda hot.
The same could be said for some of the entropy sources that were nerfed or removed over time due to security concerns. That's the main reason why we even are in this situation today.
You're missing the most important outcome:

4) They insist they have to use Equifax, lose the deal, and note why in their records.
There was an "intervention" where a group of long-time colleagues and senior kernel contributors took Linus off and told him their dissatisfaction in person.
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You are right, but you're nit-picking a bit, I think, given the widespread popular usage of the term as a descriptor for orchestral and chamber musics.

When I was at music school we called it Western Art Music, which I think is a more appropriate term.
That's only true for tech companies, and companies like WeWork that brand themselves as tech companies in order to get investors to value them as such. Aramco aren't IPOing with a promise to someday sell all the oil in the world, they're content with merely a lot.
What is wrong with Amazon (or any vendor) following up on a bad review? If they’re offering incentives to take it down, of course that’s a problem. But engaging with the customer and identifying faults in detail seems like a plainly good, consumer-friendly and win/win behavior that every brand should practice.

That said, I’m not sure a third party seller can get my contact info as easily as Amazon can, so that part seems a bit unfair.
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The difference is mainly of scale, would you describe calcium signalling and calcium ionic standing waves using quantum mechanics? You could. But its not relevant or helpful to do so as that bulk effect doesn't act as a quantum system with quantum behaviours. But a single calcium ion going across a potential gradient in a cation channel does quite often require that description. This is the difference here. Physicists quite often wander into Biology and make quite wild claims without even understanding what is already well known and understood via Chemistry, and sure some of that is inherently just fronting quantum mechanics behind the scenes. But its specifically if a system depends on a quantum effect in a quantum system to understand the observed phenomena. Using numerology rather than reaction rates to describe something being a quantum system isn't good science, it's not even good/exciting/interseting speculation.
That's the joke. Walk half a mile from the parking lot and it's only you bears and Germans.
Borek and Goran Bregovic are the only 2 things that whole Balkans can agree on.
Meanwhile, some angry woman publicly calls for Stallman's removal and it seems we've gone with that. And are acting like the outcome here is entirely due to Stallman being an asshole.
> It's also the reason we have an Open Source movement, that being the watered down and more corporately palatable version of Stallman's idealistic vision.

If you ever talked with Stallman, read his texts, listened to his talks, you'd know that in certain ways Stallman's views are much weaker than what most people think they are. He doesn't have any issue with corps taking over the FOSS world as long as it compiles on trisquel and comes with a free license.

That's why I'm glad that he's going away now. Hope we can get someone who actually will stand up against the issues that the FOSS world is facing now in his seat.
the FSF is a Ideological organization, how can you say " they didn't need an ideologue" when that is EXACTLY what they need

FSF entire purpose is to push for the adoption of Free Software licensing (in opposition to Both "Open Source" and Commercial licensing)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_hooliganism_in_the_Un...
Nim compiles to C, C++, Objective C as well.
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Thanks for the tip, I will gladly lie about who I am by saying that I'm a man, so that I can receive respect for doing the same work I do now.
This is all well and good but isn't there a limit on the length of URLs? Or does that simply not apply to blob data links.
In Australia cost of 4G has been the limiting factor, not speed. But now we can get 200gb per month for $40 [0] which makes me wonder weather the NBN was worth it.

[0] https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2019/06/mobile-broadband-vs-ho...
I'm quite certain that in '50s USA there were almost no problem saying racist comments and jokes in front of a public audience, but decades later there were. And I guess people from those same '50s were complaining during this change period that they could not express their opinions freely.
Well, same thing for the geniuses that made IPs 32 bit when even MACs are 48 bit.

Or, if my networking trainer at a Cisco course is to be believed, the geniuses that made IPv6 subnets contains 65k hosts at a minimum, when due to ARP requests all traffic would be dead at that scale.
To anyone who might consider working at Apple: http://worrydream.com/Apple/
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Everyone can have their own definition, and allow me to present my own.

Advertising is any unsolicited communication about a product/service.

That covers ads on webpages, billboards, TV ads, radio ads, youtube ads, someone yelling at you in the street about their product/service.

I didn't look for that info, so I don't want it. You and your product/service can fuck off.

"Advertising" that I do not object to is where the "customer" actually looked for it. Here are some examples of that: Displaying a list of products/services that you provide on your _own_ website that people can look for. Entries in the Yellow pages or something similar. Like for example (unpaid) search results.

If I am looking for a plumber, then I can look in the Yellow pages and see a list. And I won't get pissed off because it's what I wanted. Or I can google plumbers, and get a list of websites in the search results, and then click on the links and view their websites where they describe their products/services. I also won't get pissed off by this, because I was looking for it and no one shoved it down my throat.

I agree with AndrewKemendo that advertising (as I have described above) is insane and needs to go away. It has no place in a civilized society. There is literally no difference between advertising (as per my definition) and spam. I would go so far as to call it harassment.
Ask Hew Raymond Griffiths too. Given to USA on a silver platter by Australia despite not making any profit.
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Raising prices deters anyone but the rich.

I don't buy that argument, mainly because the poor aren't visiting these places in any numbers. They are too busy trying to put the next meal on their table.
You can use anything from that block as well and there are situations where you might want a different loopback address or multiple loopback addresses. /8 of the public address space is massively excessive though.
Not hard to find: https://eugdprcompliant.com/personal-data/ state "The conclusion is, all IP addresses should be treated as personal data, in order to be GDPR compliant."

Obviously different jurisdiction have a different notion of PII.

We agree on the conclusion though: a public range for a company probably doesn't count as PII.
This comes from place of ignorance, so please be kind: why "speed record" is considered Mach 6.2 when ISS ground speed is like Mach 22? There are humans there, they got up to speed and regularly come back. How it is different than going to similar velocities in thin atmospheres over 50km?
This would be so neat but a problem is how do you distribute money in a fair way to creators? Spotify can give X dollars to a song author for each minute a user has listened to his song. You cannot easily do that with web content.