skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Work environment makes a huge difference. My current job is pretty harmonious among the coworkers, the bosses and team-leaders are all engineers themselves or at least tech-literate. They are also very preoccupied with the welfare of employees and even kept a completely unproductive (bad fit) employee on for half a year to help him score a new job first.

The customers are almost always happy with what we produce, and while it is certainly not fast growing, the company is steadily progressing in a good direction.

This environment is worth a lot of money to me.
Friend, the only reason things seemed simple in the 80s is because the people on the receiving end of the "absolute freedom" stick, regardless of whether or not the people swinging it were aware of their swings, didn't have means to be heard by hundreds of thousands of people easily.

For computing specifically, you can add in that you basically had to be an economically privileged person who was likely on the spectrum to get really into it -- in an era where ASD and related disorders were not as well understood or diagnosed. You can also add it just being a smaller community.

Both RMS and linus had years and years of people expressing that they were acting in a problematic ways. Linus owned up to it eventually, even though there are arguments to be made for the utility of brashness.

RMS is mostly getting stuck in hyperfocused linguistic semantics, and probably doesn't really get how to not do that. Whether or not people making such a screech about this particular instance is appropriate is it's own question, but to me it is very much a "throwing up of hands" for a lot of people involved with the FSF.
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That's correct. LLVM was started at UIUC, Apple later hired Lattner with the intention of making LLVM production-ready (in part as a replacement for the GNU toolchain), and ultimately to replace the GCC frontend by a custom / dedicated one.

The Clang project is part of the LLVM ecosystem, but is a major effort in its own right, so I think it is right to give credit where credit is due, in the same way e.g. the Rust compiler uses Rust as a backend, but credit for it doesn't to to the LLVM project.
>But RMS is de facto leader and public figure in movement that is also political

What does this mean ? He is a leader of an organisation related to software freedom (or more pedantically, the choice of licences used for software). How is it relevant ? All you are saying is, "Famous people can't talk like that".
Clearly it does not have a tech company valuation, hence they pulled the IPO.

You can't put a horn on a dog and call it a unicorn.
Ah sorry I read over that lol
he downplayed the severity of it with his wording, which is tacitly arguing in favour of it
Perhaps test teams could include a security sub-team as well..

So, for example, if a tester is working on whether the file upload feature is done right, another tester could start uploading known malicious files to see how they get handled.
This is a travesty.
I didn't read RMS's "take" as in any way excusing what happened to Giuffre, but rather disputing whether it was accurate to accuse Marvin Minsky of "sexual assault", if from Minsky's perspective at the time nothing seemed wrong. (Sensationalist reporting and selective paraphrasing, like you've done here, has conflated the two issues.)

Suppose there's a boxer, "Joe", and he has a scheduled fight against a named opponent. It's set in a legitimate venue, is freely advertised as if the promoters have nothing to hide, includes a normal ref & audience, and then proceeds like any other boxing match, including the traditional cordialities between opponents before and after. To "Joe", nothing's wrong. But then, years later, it's discovered that the opposing boxer was coerced into fighting, perhaps with threats of violence or blackmail.

Is "Joe" now guilty of physical assault, for repeatedly punching the other boxer, even if to "Joe" at the time it seemed like a normal voluntary encounter, no seedier than any other boxing match?

Maybe RMS's take was dumb. Maybe my analogy is dumb! But it's not "shameful" to try to work out the reasonable characterizations, given Minksy's possible mental state, the law, or common-sense. It might even be possible, under formal legal definitions, for Giuffre to have been "assaulted" while at the same time Minsky's actions don't rise to the level of "assault".
>Stallman's post to the MIT mailing list argued, in a spectacularly INSENSITIVE fashion, that Minsky may not have been aware Giuffre had been coerced to have sex.

How is this particular statement by Stallman insensitive?
That’s a hell of a travel rider.
Some seriously over-engineered solutions being offered in this thread, which I guess is understandable considering the cohort. And I'm glad that people smarter than me are looking at this from every angle. But here are the things that I know/feel to be true:

1) Back when advertising subsidised content was a straight up proposition nobody really minded about ads outside of finding them mildly annoying. It's how the most popular pre-internet content (privately owned free to air TV and newspapers/magazines) survived and flourished.

2) What most irks people about the current ad-tech based business model isn't the advertising, it's the data mining behind it.

3) Lots of people don't even care about data mining as long as they get what they need instantly, easily and for free.

4) The big ad-tech players' emergence and dominance after the bursting of the early 2000s dotcom bubble is widely attributed to their mastery of ad-tech whereas it seems to be that consolidation and concentration were much larger factors.

5) Ad-tech enabled targeted advertising isn't that much more effective than traditional- or content-based advertising (I wish I had the source for this but it seemed legit when I read it... Surveillance Capitalism, maybe?)

What feeds the ad-tech industry really is advertisers' FOMO on the algorithms touted by the ad-tech vendors. "Why buy a traditional mass-spray ad when you can have one delivered with surgical precision?" goes the sales pitch. And considering the old saw about 50% of advertising being useless but nobody knows which 50% it is, having numbers and measurable insights dangled in front of you must be compelling.

My suggestion is that we try to steer things back to content-based advertising. Of course the web needs to make money. Money is a great incentive for innovation, etc. Of course users aren't going to pay for it except in exceptional circumstances. We've been spoiled with too much free content to turn that ship around now. But if I'm on a site about skiing for example and I see an ad for a ski store that has a sale, that's a good and useful piece of advertising. I'm happy to see that, as long as it doesn't follow me around the web for the next 6 months.

And how do we steer companies to do the right thing? The only way that has proven to be effective over the years - by naming and shaming, boycotting the bad actors and supporting the good ones. Basically making the costs of behaving badly outweigh the benefits.

How do we get there? I haven't figured that bit out yet. The big problem is that it's kind of axiomatic that the likelihood of change is inversely proportional to the amount of money being generated by the status quo, and hundreds of billions of dollars is a lot of weight to throw behind keeping the current system humming along as is.
That's some really good advice. Your highschool is worth more than an mba
Another victim of a twitter lynching mob.
Statistically and predominantly that is my experience too, but in risk management you don't count your wins - you count your losses.

It's not the 99 times when your parachute opens that you stress about. It's the other 1%.

(Mis)interpretation reduces to choice, as does the principle of charity. With a large enough audience fallout is a statistical certainty.
I was only disputing the "evil" term, but I dont want to do that anymore. See other reply for more thoughts.
> If any politician or public figure said this statement in the past 70 years, they would have ended their career.

I mean, given everything in the news these days, this is blatantly untrue. I suspect it wasn't ever quite that true before either. Maybe it should be but I don't think it's quite that easy.

> The wrong opinion? Stallman questions whether the victim, who he admits was coerced into sex, was actually sexually assaulted. This is an incredibly shameful take on the situation. [...] There are people trying to downplay sexual assault.

I'm hesitating to respond to this (self-censorship and all) but I'm not a public figure so I can risk being wrong, right? Right?!?

This isn't exactly what RMS was getting it and you're kinda missing the point in the same way RMS kinda missed the point. He didn't get why we use the term "sexual assault" as broadly (and reasonably so) as we do, and it doesn't sound like you get why he decided to argue the semantics of it.

His point was that he felt calling what Misnky had done "sexual assault" seemed to imply that Misky hadviolently attacked and raped her in a physically restraining sorta way instead of, to his best knowledge, in a "she was coerced by a third party without his knowledge" sort of way.

He missed the point that regardless of those details she was sexual assaulted. Further, he seems oblivious to the fact that splitting hairs defending his friend distracts from the real issue: that this isn't about any of them, it's about what happened to the victims. I think that take is fair enough but I agree making that case is bone headed. Not because he shouldn't speak his mind, but that it's just besides the point.

I think you're missing the fact that at all RMS was about was just clearing up the record of what Minsky did and didn't do. Not even that he was fully innocent. I agree it was in poor taste but I think if he was any less a public figure it would have been read more charitably with an awkward sigh instead.
If an enterprise user cares about privacy and non-disclosure they'd have a contract with the guy providing the service surely? If they don't... then they really don't care about privacy and non-disclosure that much.

Apple obviously didn't.
I tried this when signing up for a Chase credit card and they said that it was their policy to use Equifax. (I had a credit freeze in place with Equifax at the time.)
It is true, I am tired of Stallman defenders repeating the same lie.

"The most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing," Stallman wrote in his post last Wednesday. "Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates. I’ve concluded from various examples of accusation inflation that it is absolutely wrong to use the term 'sexual assault' in an accusation."

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/17/richard_stallman_in...
If you buy weed from a guy who robbed it from some other people, are you guilty of just buying the weed, or are you guilty of armed robbery?

That is the distinction being made here, especially since in other parts of the world it's even legal to buy weed.
Good thing someone make a user-friendly version of it on Windows

https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9PM3VVLB6NDQ
Ansible, AWS, SES, React and Cloudflare? Gusto, Notion and 10th of different services and integrations? That's boring now?

I was expecting something more along the lines of PHP + a single MySQL machine, plus all the accounting is done on a tablet made of actual stone.

This is not that.
Much of the "disruption" that came over the past decade can be attributed to someone wanting to be [something] while being treated like [something else], trying to write their own rules, fill their pockets, with little regard to what anyone else thinks or does.

The blanket excuse is always "We are a tech company". No, you are a company who brought more tech to the field but still very much in the same field.
I'd presume that they use the same codebase: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
Any chance you could setup that in a Docker contaienr?
Trunk looks useful... my side business is handmade leather goods (https://coastleather.com) and cross posting between my own website, ebay, etsy and amazon is a pain, so I just don't bother. This has meant that channels other than my website became stale and I shut down the stores.

Do you have plans to include syncing for woocommerce stores?
If TLS requests and responses could be intercepted (again, not straight forward with cert-pinning), blackholing MIME-type application/dns-message should work.

Also, requests outgoing to dns.cloudflare.com/dns-query or dns.adguard.com/dns-query are blockable using URL rules.

As the standard for DoH evolves (DoH resolver names might not require URLs, like how DoT doesn't, to eliminate the need for a bootstrap DNS resolver), URL blocking will be ineffective, as well. I guess, it is a cat and mouse game from here on.
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Jail time for executives seems a little excessive for some employee merely failing to apply a security patch...

On the other hand, this settlement shouldn't have been capped at such a ridiculously low amount.
I'm pretty sure there are more birds in the parks, where there are trees and stuff. But in my street I don't see those kind of birds.
Ctrl + Enter doesn't do anything. (Linux)
I'm not disagreeing with you, but the example you're using (the ixy driver) is a pretty poor one to compare garbage-collected languages: Go performs particularly good on this one, because the go implementation doesn't allocate anything on the heap (and then the GC has nothing to collect). Being able to work on the stack only is a feature of the Go language, but it has nothing to do with its garbage collector.
Don't worry TruffleRuby has a strong team that is dedicated to deliver. Besides, Chris is still working on TruffleRuby in his new role.
Yeah, I've been watching the vote-count on this post. It's quite... erratic to say the least. It re-bounded from the negatives.

Many angry down-voters bashing that [-] button only making my point.
This is the sort of thing that millennials should focus our energy on. We may be politically polarized, but I think we can all agree that this is bullshit and needs to be fought.
And just about everything that Blue Apron or any of these other companies package comes with similar invisible packaging, so the delta is still the same per amount of veggies. Or is your point something different that I missed?

Also note that the delta is a big big percentage of the base packaging, and I am willing to bet it's over 100%, if not 500%, just cause there are so many packages made from few large boxes.
On the homepage, on the left of the page it says, "thanks to its error handling model you will never have to worry about unexpected runtime errors" - then, one of the examples on the right says:

# This will produce a runtime error,
# because `Integer + String` is not valid:
dynamic(2, 'oops')

So, we don't have to worry about this runtime error because it's expected?
In that specific instance, Anker also sells directly from their website, so you can shop there if you're concerned about counterfeited merchandise.
Maybe because he didn't self-censor himself?

P.S.: Sorry, but I couldn't help being sarcastic...
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Remember kids: Oracle doesn't have customers, only hostages!
He is alleging that his own company is run like Enron? It isn’t impossible.

Non-profits are a way to buy political influence while getting a tax write-off.
My lender always drops the lowest of the three scores, so I was able to just say "I'm going to keep looking at other lenders if you contact Equifax on my behalf. Can you agree to not use Equifax on this deal if I agree move forward today?" and it wasn't a problem.

Some of the larger lenders may not have this flexibility.
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Nevermind found time to research it myself, this was a good overview https://github.com/WebAssembly/content-security-policy/blob/...
I think the iPhone SE is a special case in that it's still supported to this day, and actually works fine in most if not all regards. Any user happy with it has no reason to be vocal.

Most people won't be making blogpost about how they're not interested in new phones when the one they have is still fine.

As an aside, I think people don't complain about the TouchBar because it's rarely used outside of the sound and brightness widgets. The majority of people aren't using escape or control keys like crazy, which could explain why mostly devs are in cries.
There's no such split for using a phone, so when the iPhone SE is effectively dead and there's no gateway to a similar product, I expect the real wave of complain to rise up.
People who actually read the thread and took it differently have poor reading comprehension its all perfectly clear.
> 90% of mobile apps are actually CRUD apps that can be easily done as mobile Web SPAs

There I agree with you. I'm a fan. But it has zip to do with this thread.
Am I just dim or does this make it sound like libraries are doing so unwittingly?
I hope my post didn't look like a defense of stallman, because it isn't meant to be. Yeah people don't remember right? The stories about him seem troubling.
Some weeks ago I was building an encrypted note taking CLI program https://github.com/Merkoba/Effer
Apple publishes Xcode 11 GM seed 2 for a bug in apps on iOS 11 or earlier
If you use OSC you could be interested in the DAW I develop: https://ossia.io ; a part of its object model is accessible through it, hadn't had the time to expose everything yet.
First, thanks to Paul Biggar and the Dark team, for fighting complexity.

Whether or not we agree with Dark's approach doesn't invalidate it in any way. It may mean we don't understand it. There are plenty of companies selling non-FOSS tools and making others successful with them. FOSS does not mean a secure future by any means. The fact that they know they have to prioritize making it a sustainable business is a good sign.

Using any tool, and depending on it commercially, is a risk. You weigh that against who is behind it, the path forward if it goes away, etc. It's easier if you can keep building even when the company goes away. If you rely on their servers, there is always more risk. Is there more risk to a project like Dark than FB's Parse? Nobody can say, without inside information.

What you have to look at, when selecting any tool (ignore the fact that there's a language component here, or that we're devs), is the benefit and the risk. If you have a stack that works for you, and you don't think there's a problem with how you're doing things, don't change. It's really that simple. But there is a revival of RAD, called Low Code, that says there are a lot of businesses out there with needs that aren't being properly met with our "modern" dev processes. If you can get a working product out, and it runs for a couple years, that's a win if you couldn't do it any other way. If you only use Dark to prove a concept, rewrite it after that if you're scared it will go away. Once you have a working product, though, good luck convincing the business it should be rewritten without strong justification.

But we can step back even further and ask: Do you think the state of software development is great? Just OK? Don't see any issues? Do you think that complexity is killing us and things we call solutions really aren't? Or are you somewhere in between?

In watching the videos, there are some things that aren't to my taste. But they note that this is not the final product. If you watch Paul's video, can you deny there is some deep thinking behind it, smart people who have already done a lot while being forced to make real-world compromises.

Yes, it's a business, but they're doing it to make our lives easier too. Shouldn't we cheer them on and wish them the best of luck?

That's what I'm doing.
Introspection may be a strong point of lisp, but it has never been a strong point of Stallman's
To add to your argument: Spotify has 206 million users - almost half of which are paid subscribers.[0] This describes exactly the point of contention since free users are financing spotify through ads instead.

I think it is also plausible to assume that among the paid subscribers a higher margin are primary users of spotify for music consumption, while free users have a higher share of secondary users (relying more on vynil, CDs, limewire).

The dark side then again for example are news sites - very few of which seem to be able to finance themselves well via subscription services.

[0]https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/05/apple-music-has-reportedly-p...
As long as only one side of the connection is behind a corporate NAT you could simply try all 65535 ports until you find the one that works. The side behind the NAT would receive the packet and then be able to respond.
I'm definitely going to write a letter objecting to the settlement, and will urge everyone I know to do so as well.
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In the Netherlands an IP address is legally PII. I'm not sure this is true for publicly available IP ranges, especially if they're owned by companies though (not like a person would own a range), but probably not.
I mean, RMS definitely wasn't helping by any means but I think "tacitly arguing in favour of it" is kinda a leap.

I get being mad he wasn't helping but thats a looooong way from supporting the human trafficking.
You have to be willing to walk away if they say no, works best if the company cares about losing the deal - credit card signups might not be lucrative enough for a human to get involved and care.
Essentially Stallman takes issue with accusing Marvin Minsky of sexual assault because:

> The word "assaulting" presumes he applied force or violence, in some unspecified way.

And then Stallman goes on to point out there is no evidence to suggest that Minksy acted violently toward the victim, and may have been unaware that the victim had been coerced by Epstein.

Given that the definition of "assault" is "a physical attack", I can't really disagree with him from a purely semantic perspective. And I would agree that there are other terms terms such as "statutory rape" and "soliciting prostitution" that may better describe what Minsky is accused of.

Is it "shameful" for me to see some merit in his argument?
He should have argued as vociferously for the alternative: he may have been aware. He should have argued for the girls perspective. The insensitivity was to ignore the girl,and her rights, and her status,in discussing Minsky's
Yeah the Internet changed everything. I just hope Linus could stick to his style without being stuck in these things, but if that really becomes the case I would seriously consider retiring from my job on kernel.
From Wikipedia:

So, as of May 2019, in the 34 states that have set a marriage age by statute, the lower minimum marriage age when all exceptions are taken into account, are:

2 states have a minimum age of 14: Alaska and North Carolina.
4 states have a minimum age of 15.
20 states have a minimum age of 16.
8 states have a minimum age of 17.

In Massachusetts the general marriage age is 18, but children may be married with judicial consent with no minimum age limit. In the absence of any statutory minimum age, one opinion is that the minimum common law marriageable age of 12 for girls and 14 for boys may still apply. Unlike many other states, in Massachusetts a child's marriage does not automatically emancipate the minor, or increase his or her legal rights beyond allowing the minor to consent to certain medical treatments.

-- End of quotation --

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

I'm not an American, so I don't understand why you have not fixed this obvious problem.
That makes me sad.
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