skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has to do with anti collusion laws. Companies are not allowed to all agree to raise prices together, for example. And tougher pollution standards is more expensive to manufacture. So if any one company decided on their own to raise their own standards, they would be at a competitive disadvantage if everyone else was selling cheaper cars. So the only way to do this is to get everyone else to agree to the same thing. But that type of agreement is illegal, which is why companies will often lobby for tougher legal standards because everyone else would have to comply also.
I would agree (and do agree that "States rights" has been abused in the past and present) but the US is intensely undemocratic right now, there is even talk of repealing the direct election of senators which is crazy, while we're dependent on the federal government nothing will be done because... filibustering and skewed representation.
US government sues Edward Snowden over his new memoir 'Permanent Record'
> I'm totally unsure how that's relevant -- we're discussing employee handbooks for private institutions. I'm very in favor of freedom of speech at the governmental level.

Because if i can lose my job over a statement and a mob reaction, the mob makes me unemployable since they scare other employers, i lose my livelihood, and thus my life. If I have no protection from that (enshrined in a law, like california actually has), in what way is speech free? It becomes more of: "speech only as authorized by the mob-du-jour".
It’s the market solving the problem without government intervention. Isn’t that the whole premise of the Republican Party? “Let the free market solve itself”?
Yes. All of that said, if you're an insider with equity you'll have access to a 409A valuation, which does take all of that into account when coming up with the number. It's closer to what the market will pay for common stock in a theoretical IPO at the time of valuation. It's definitely not in any way what the market will actually pay in a real IPO.
It's a bit wordy, but the relevant argument is here:

> everything still gets owned by someone. So, clearly the group without such qualms, call them the sinners, have to own more than they otherwise would of the sin stocks. How does a market get anyone, perhaps particularly a sinner, to own more of something? Well it pays them! In this case through a higher expected return on the segment in question.
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"States rights" was always phony idealogical veil.
Indeed, anyone who believes race is a valid category is racist.
I came to this realization myself recently while reading Joshua Spodek's book "Initiative". He points out that making something more efficient will lead to more of that thing.

Cars ("vehicles") are part of our larger economic system, and that system does little to limit commutes. Only peoples own dislike of commuting keeps commute times down. Self-driving cars will make long commutes more tolerable, and thus raise the limiting factor on commutes.

I predict that if level-5 self-driving cars become a reality, we'll see a new type of dystopian hell, where it's common to spend 6+ hours a day commuting. It will be especially burdensome for those who are poor and have to drive their car manually.

Suddenly I'm less excited about self-driving cars.
This specific point was discussed to death in several threads yesterday. And why does the title call out "the media" instead of VICE? Or even just Edward Ongweso Jr.? It's trying to frame this as two sides in a fight where one side is lying. It dismisses the decades of Stallman's abuse of his positions at FSF and MIT which are the real reason he should have been removed.
These guys are a fucking hoot.

Their first point of unity.

We are working class and poor people dedicated to educating our class in the safe use of firearms for personal and community self-defense as well as recreation and subsistence hunting.

Quote from article on their site:

Gun Myths: Australia

School shooters are particularly interesting. Wealthy suburbanites living in gated communities are alienated from the struggle of the working-class and inevitably raise children who lack empathy for poor people.

It is easy to gun down other people if their humanity has been reduced to labor value.

Absent class consciousness, the working class are dehumanized and transformed into commodities valued only by their production.

So the ludicrous idea that school mass shooters are mostly rich kids with no empathy.

Jesus Christmas, even the N-R-"it's the video games!"-A wouldn't float something that stupid.
That is assimilation I think by definition, without the value judgment. The question is whether or not Puerto Rico wanted it and if it was forced.

Puerto Rico is a poor example, especially since they seem to want to be inducted into the U.S. officially as a state! Hong Kong does not seem to share the same sentiment with Beijing.
oops, dupe of those:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20999537

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20999387
I'm as much a RMS booster as you'll find, but he dug his own grave here. At a point in history when we're finally realizing that the kind of deeply sexist culture among our elites (i.e. one where male billionaire sex peddlers drive opinions among exclusively male elites by trading their harem of more-or-less-plausibly-consenting-maybe nubile girls) is toxic, Stallman walked right in with a "well, you know, this wasn't technically sexual assault".

I mean, he's not wrong. But he's missing the point, ethically. And given that his whole schtick is an ethical position... I dunno. It's time to step aside. Free Software can find better evangelists.
Young people did start voting. In 2018 there was a 16 point jump from 2014. Much higher than the 11 point overall increase.
Note: not a GL employee, but EE subscriber

IIRC seats are calculated based on monthly active users, and are a soft cap: we've outgrown our license, so we will have to retroactively buy the missing seats on our next license renewal.

I expect this is no different from a OS license, except that that OS project doesn't pay for the license.
I've been in both situations of missing the 12 month boat, and rushing to get something in before the boat leaves port, and it's terrible.

that said I think 4 weeks is a real short release cycle.
3 months, so 4 releases a year -- one for each season. Would seem to strike a better balance.
China has no freedom of speech, the press, religion, or assembly. There is no real comparison of the indoctrination of the people of China to the US to be made. The systems are completely different as to be unrecognizable from one another.

In addition, the Chinese court system is simply a tool of the government to keep themselves in power. Reference the 99.9% conviction rate:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/121932...
The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 only provides protection for government employees which Snowden was not and it also doesn't apply to intelligence agency at least when classified material is involved. The Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act (ICWPA) of 1998 is the applicable law here and applies to government employees and contractors. It specifies the process of reporting waste,fraud or abuse when classified material is involved and provides protection if the process is followed. Snowden choose not to follow the provided process and therefore is protected under the law.
Famously, the creator of Homebrew wasn't able to get hired at Google: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15981338

Not exactly fitting your question, but an interesting point.
> Does this lead to a constitutional crisis

I severely doubt it. Wickard v. Filburn is a solid bedrock of totally ignoring the intent of the commerce clause.
I look forward to this - as a bonus could they enforce steep costs and fees on inspecting high fuel usage vehicles entering through port of LA/SD/wherever? Or would that violate various anti-interstate commerce regulation statutes?
Why not ? Amazon has launched an offer where you can pay to access all kind of otherwise paywall gated media content (Amazon video and music and twitch prime etc) while also having 2 day delivery on a set of retail products not necessarily including your prefered brand. And people subscribe to Amazon, which finances the said media content, all the while changing their laundry detergent of choice.

I don't say this must be a direct rational choice, but it's already kind of happening in some places.
A lot of the FAANG and tech companies contribute to open source projects.
Yay, on that "its spot on" although I do not understand on 16.6% Mobile App developer. Not sure what AI looked in there.

btw, you may need to look into https://notyce.me/resources/sometimes-its-not-you.html
tells on the font types you should consider.
So freedom of association doesn't matter?
This is already kind of the case. The biggest selling vehicles in the US -- pickup trucks -- cannot be exported outside of North America. Due to both regulatory and practicality reasons. Even if you could buy an F150 in Asia, it's impossible to actually drive and fuel one unless you're wealthy.

Ford and Chevy (and Honda, Toyota, VW, etc) already divide their product lines between USDM and global markets. There is some overlap, but the USDM does receive a lot of unique vehicles.
I support a theory that cases such as this are one of the main reason Trump got elected - some voters were just fed up. I also think that he'll get elected again, cause Dems are concentrating on impeachment instead of trying to understand & connect with his deplorable voters.
TBH most people should be using turbotax or similar. It's easy to screw up on taxes beyond not adding stuff up properly.

We really should be making income taxes automatic for the default W2 case, like new zealand, but there is another story behind that.
If you look at the trading desk logs, most recent operations have been reverse repos rather than repo operations. In other words, this week the Fed lent cash & borrowed treasuries to inject cash into the market, while in the recent past it's mostly borrowed cash & lent treasuries to remove cash from the market.

That's consistent with the recent shift from a tightening (rising rates) environment to a softening environment. I agree it's not particularly newsworthy.

https://apps.newyorkfed.org/markets/autorates/tomo-results-d...
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
[...]" found 64% of surveyed researchers reported they had at least once failed to report results because they were not statistically significant (cherry picking); 42% had collected more data after inspecting whether results were statistically significant (a form of p hacking) and 51% had reported an unexpected finding as though it had been hypothesised from the start (HARKing)."

https://www.env-econ.net/2017/07/cherry-picking-results.html

https://ori.hhs.gov/videos/case-study-list/3037

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2018/03/08/171075511...
China's economic slowdown has been a long time coming, the relevance of this slowdown to the trade war is not necessarily as a consequence of it but more of a fortuitous opportunity for the US to negotiate freer trade in China. The trade war has an economic impact on China but there is a lot more behind their problems.
Is this intended for support? We use single channel guests at the moment to collaborate on projects with external companies without any issue. This seems to be geared towards that.
Congrats on making something people love - that is a great start and a huge deal.

I agree that finding someone to join you is important. This decision should not be taken lightly. Michael Seibel has great advice here on how to find a cofounder here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7tDaFr5EYA
Good, I just paid $4.75 a gallon. California should not have higher gas prices than Hawaii, period.
The US constitution says:

"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the Supreme law of the land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."

That means that when the federal government has jurisdiction, laws passed at the federal level preempt state laws that contradict them.

I don't know where the EPA rules gain their constitutional authority, my guess is the commerce clause of the constitution. But fundamentally, what this means is that when the federal government passes a law, state laws that contradict it, are, according to the Supreme Court, "without effect".

I'd imagine that occurs in a positive sense and negative sense - when something like a car that gets 40 miles to a gallon or a THC-filled vape becomes legal at the federal level, states aren't allowed to decide otherwise, without delegation from the government.

NCLB is different because while the federal government can make laws, it can't force the states to implement those laws. While there could be a federal agency - like the classroom police - to enforce NCLB, it's easier to just bribe the states until they agree to comply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_preemption
But why not include the timestamp? How many image uploads can Twitter have within whatever resolution time you'd use? I wouldn't have thought it was that many.
I think you might've misunderstood. Hong Kong failed to hire any PR firms; they approached a number of firms, and they all declined (actually, two simply didn't respond at all).
Wells Fargo tests cryptocurrency for internal transactions
This is a better publicly available recount of events:

https://www.ft.com/content/345da16e-d967-11e9-8f9b-77216ebe1...

This is a pretty technical subject with a lot of moving parts so it's hard to really have a full understanding of things. This is not a one-off event and can easily happen in the future under similar or different circumstances unless the Fed makes some changes (that they've been seen behind the curve on). This is easily dismissed right now but this happened under relatively calm market conditions. When stuff like this happens under more volatile markets stuff breaks really quickly.
I believe we have to start using the term “crimes against humanity” when we talk about these things. They need to understand that they will be held personally responsible for their actions in a near future.
FOSS has always been a give and take. You use FOSS every day in your daily life from software on your phone, your computer, maybe even your microwave is using FOSS!

No one has to do FOSS! It's a give and take, you take, so there's no harm in wanting to contribute back. It's about freedom, passion, getting your work out there for the benefit of humanity. Can you be sponsored / paid? Sure! Are you obligated to work for anyone or do what they want? No!

It's is just impossible for big companies to pay every FOSS developer everywhere. When I install create-react-app, it downloads thousands upon thousands of libraries, from thousands of developers. Do each of them get a fraction of a cent from the profits of my company? No.

Does a developer at a job cloning a repo mean they have a moral obligation to pay the developer? No.

Right now, the top companies do primarily mobile / web development, and use code probably written by thousands if not millions of developers. Splitting payment to all of them is impossible.

The big projects like Blender, Krita, GNU projects... are all sponsored, and receive donations. The devs work on them for the passion, recognition, and "fun".

FOSS has always been a give and take. If money is a driving force for you, getting a traditional developer job (as they're very in demand) is the best choice for that goal.
Yeah, you are missing something. I'll help you though and explain. =)

So, let's say a feature takes 7 weeks to properly build and test. You start on week 1.

Now, after 6 weeks, a release goes out. A week later, your feature is done. You now have to wait 5 weeks before your release goes out. So, you merge your feature and move on to your next feature. 5 weeks later, your features is released.

So, to release a feature that takes 7 weeks, you had to wait 12 weeks.

Now, with a 4 week release schedule, you only have to wait 1 week.

This is a bit simple, but it really works this way. Now, here is the other end of the spectrum.

Let's say the release schedule is once every 12 weeks. (Under the idea that quicker is worse and slower is better). Now, let's say at week 6, you start your 7 week feature. It will get done on week 13, and have to wait 11 weeks to get released. That's a long time! So what happens? Well, what tends to happen is people push to get it done in 6 weeks rather than 7. That means skipping steps, working longer hours, and cutting corners. Why? Because they don't want to finish with something and have to wait 11 weeks for it to get released. They want to get it out there.

However, if you know that the longest you have to wait is 4 weeks, that's a lot more palatable.

> And features requires time to think, design, bake, tested in real world and refine,

Having more frequent releases doesn't change that.

> having a few more releases in between those process doesn't make the features come out any quicker.

tl;dr: They don't make finishing the feature faster. But they do allow finished features to get released faster. =)
You can politely ask these nice people to contribute funds towards your project that is so important to them. Since they are so nice, they will probably nicely send some money towards the oss developer.
Note-on/offs are 3 bytes exactly [1] and take 320μs to send [2], but I'm not sure what kind of overhead Bluetooth adds.

[1]: http://www.music-software-development.com/midi-tutorial.html

[2] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/cmsip/readings/davids-midi-spe...
With shorter release cycles, there's also less pressure to ship half-baked features. If you know the next release is just four weeks away, then slipping a feature one release is rarely a huge deal. But if the next release is one quarter or one year away, teams rush to ship now and fix bugs in production later. Overall product quality will take a hit at every release.
1) His leadership is always under threat form opposing factions.
US government files civil lawsuit against Snowden over publication of memoir
The California exemption doesn't even have anything to do with Obama, it's been in place since the EPA was created in 1970.
I don't like the ill-fated extradition treaty either. But even if it did pass, with its narrow scope and all the strings attached, how exactly would that place Hong Kong under the Chinese legal and administrative system again?

The treaty is dead. The people still in the streets have other agendas that have nothing to do with rebelling against "assimilation".
Already discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20997586
> Does holding that viewpoint now make me subject to "cancellation" as well?

No. But I do think you're not really looking at this situation objectively. Here's what you've said:

1. It's clear that an objective board should have fired RMS

2. We shouldn't make these decisions based on mobs

Additionally, we know he was fired. With that information, you can't make any conclusions. How and why are you so certain that some board didn't weigh the evidence and pass objective judgement? The problem with this fear of "cancel culture" (which as others have mentioned is really just "holding powerful people accountable when they do bad things culture"), is that so far I haven't seen any evidence that the bad things people fear have happened. RMS did a bad thing. He faced consequences for a thing that even you agree was a bad thing. Your only concern is that it is possible, not even certain, that the method by which he faced consequences for an action that we both agree was bad and deserved consequences might have not have been up to a standard that few employees anywhere get.

I want to stress that last bit: very few employees are afforded the privilege of an impartial committee to decide whether or not they should be fired in any circumstances. You're arguing that RMS should get a stronger protection than your average employee (either that or that workers should, in general, have much, much stronger protections than we currently give them).

tl;dr:

> I believe their role is to raise awareness of situations like to the point where the above should transpire.

To me, this looks like exactly what happened. Why are you complaining?
If prices are based roughly on economic value, then how would divestment by a portion of the market affect capital access? You'd need virtually all capital to have an impact.

Otherwise amoral investors could swoop in and capture the profits.

I could see divestment in early stage funding being more impactful when things are less liquid.
I really don't know how accurate that is - right now the US is weird about Automobiles (they were highly inflated in importance and as a status symbol by marketing) but it looks like that weirdness is fading as the younger generation is moving closer into city centers and has a much higher preference for public transit... I think that cars, whether there are level 5 self-driving cars to replace them or not, are just on their way out.

City planning in the US is a mess though right now.
Did they really provoke RMS into saying anything? Seems like he put his own foot into his mouth?
Millennials are suffering from burnout at work
> Having better support and being more responsive to users.

Those features may fade as GitLab gets bigger and gets more customers.

Also being responsive to users may bloat product eventually.

So it's not black and white situation.
All those fks in the first chapter really put me off..
More recent examples to check out were Spin (Modula-3), JX (Java), and House (Haskell).
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I'm sorry but what's the difference?

The parent said "do you know?" Implying that as a male I had zero knowledge of what it's like to feel that way. Which implies that I have never felt that way. Which implies that whenever I'm in a situation that makes a woman feel that way, it doesn't make me feel that way.

I'm sorry but it does. So,yes I do know.

Is it worse for women? My assumption is at least 2x ~ 3x. The difference being when I walk past a shadowy figure in the street I mutter to myself "please don't kill me" while they think "OMG, please please please don't kill me".

The vectors point in exactly the same direction. The magnitude is what's different.

The original comment implied the vectors didn't even point in the same direction or had zero magnitude for men.

That's wrong.
"Hey bud, we've got a new airplane for you to fly. Well, it's not really an airplane, its really more like a cockpit strapped to a rocket engine. Actually, it's more like a tiny cabin bolted to a super soaker of chemicals so explosive that we didn't bother to include an igniter.

It has some tiny wings for you to control it but we couldn't include any landing gear so we gave it some flimsy skids instead. We were hoping you would at least find them cute even if they aren't particularly useful.

We included a diaper in your pressure suit that will be helpful if you get scared. You also don't have to worry about taking off, but when you try to land please make sure that you descend at the right angle so that you don't accidentally take a joy ride to Alpha Centauri.

Please be careful with our flying bomb with tiny wings and cute little skids. While it may be just a cockpit strapped to a flamethrower, it still cost $999 million to build, so no dents, please and thank you."

Best regards,

Uncle Sam
`the decades of Stallman's abuse of his positions at FSF and MIT which are the real reason he should have been removed`

Yep. this