skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously the generalization is wrong, but I bet it's not too far off the mark.

All* developers google things. Google often places at the top StackOverflow hits for programming related questions. I bet that's how most "non-nerd" programmers arrive at SO.

*again a generalization, but even less off the mark.
I use it every day.

I feel bad now...
> belligerent assumption of bad faith

He does go on to explain his rationale. "Sexual assault" can apply to anything on a continuum from creepy hug to BTK. And so using the term obscures the specific accusation and escalates its severity.
Product Manager vs. Product Owner (2017)
> I don't think it's possible to enumerate all opinions that are unacceptable in a reasonable way.

The beauty of REAL freedom of speech (like we had in 1977 [1]) is that the answer to that is: none

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_Am...
Snowden exposed bulk metadata collection that was greenlit by the FISA court. They were granted explicit legal authority before doing it, so there's zero chance of anyone being criminally liable.

The more egregious spying program during the Bush administration (Stellar Wind) was exposed years earlier by the NY Times.
To me, it seems like they just want to undo anything the last president did. If the last president touched it then its toxic, get rid of it - seems to be the mentality.
> You don't think teaching Chinese in Mandarin (5% first language) rather than Cantonese (90% first language) or trying to introduce national education into the curriculum is assimilation?

No I do not. That's just what you teach to your citizens. When the US took over Puerto Rico, kids there damn well learned English, the American history, the national anthem, and the star spangled banner in school. Do you call that assimilation? Or is that OK because it's the US that did it?
I don't disagree, but for young tathougies, having access to the source code was vital. It's like the difference between reading about scientific success via articles in Nature and doing the research yourself. The former is not a substitute for the latter, when it comes to learning.
Did the tools stabilize though?

I am wondering if in a few years you can pull a project from Github, run npm, gulp (or whatever the REAMDE says) and it will just work.
I listened to the Selfish Gene on Audible recently and was blown away by it.

All through school I never had much of an interest in biology or genetics. I think if I’d read this earlier it may have changed my mind.

Planning on reading the Blind Watchmaker at some point.

Spurred on by reading the former I thought I’d listen to A Brief History of Time. Wow that is a whole different kettle of fish. I had to stop because I realized it wasn’t the right format (Audiobook), for me at least.
Something I've always wondered about overnight lending. All the money is basically repayable at one point in time, the start of business in the morning. What happens if theres a problem? What happens if a banks systems crash and that money can't be repaid, presumably having knock on impacts on the next days overnight lending.

I'm not suggesting it would be an end of days scenario, just curious.
Your understanding of the second-hand car market is incorrect. Promulgation of standards for initial sale of new vehicles has no impact whatsoever on the resale of cars.
No it doesn’t. An agreement to make new cars with better emissions does not affect the used car market. Now, a regulation about enforcing those emission standards... that would affect the market.
> If you could literally sell meaning to people for less friction than those alternatives they'd eat it up.

"If you want to get rich, start a religion" - L. Ron Hubbard

prediction: 2020's will be a decade of hyperactive cult growth, accelerated by proliferation of private alternative currencies, loneliness and the decline in traditional religious affiliations. Patronage of the ambitiously famous will be direct and recurring, without need of branded material maguffins to mediate the transaction loop.
Then use a stronger copyleft license like the AGPLv3 that companies like Amazon are totally allergic to. Alternatively, use a license that offends the HR department of the corporation, like WTFPL.
I'm pretty unclear on how anyone even thinks divestment works, actually.

When a company sells stock in an IPO, buying stock from them allows them to raise capital, so it seems clear to me that you shouldn't buy stock from a fossil fuel company.

But that's non-investment, not divestment. Divestment is about selling existing stock.

It's true that divestment drives down the stock price. This could mean that if a company has retained stock, it would limit their ability to sell that stock to raise capital in the future. However, if you drive down the stock price, it's just as likely that you'd be allowing the company to buy back its own stock at a bargain price, which could help the company by allowing them to retain greater control. It's not guaranteed that you're hurting the company by driving down the price of their stock--in fact, you may be helping them.

It might be possible to look at the needs of individual companies and divest from those companies to drive down the stock price if and only if you think they will be attempting to sell stock in order to raise capital in the future. But this strategy has risks, and I've also never heard anyone talk about this strategy when talking about divestment.
Young people do grow up.

Younger liberals and conservatives are fairly solid on this category of issues. This isn't a case where people are going to grow up and lean Republican. People are going to remember who wasn't there for them when climate whiplash destroys their home.
US Files Lawsuit Against Edward Snowden for Violation of CIA and NSA NDAs
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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.
Hard Disk Hacking (2015)
> Make a car that will be noncompliant with expected regulations in 'x' years and you now have a guaranteed revenue cycle.

But that's not actually how it works? You can continue driving a car legal for sale under 2019 emissions regs, effectively forever. Yes, every so often they 'have to' redesign the cars to meet newer regs, but nobody's forced to buy them. They buy them because they have cool new features that people want, or a new body style, or whatever.
Citations needed. This is just a pessimistic speculation based on your experience, but my experience is the exact opposite. So who's right? We should leave this kind of stuff at the door.

Is there research comparing the current situation with a hypothetical world where OSS doesn't exist? How many less developers would have a job? How much less would the remaining be paid? I'm imagining it and that's not a world I want to be in.

To add a bit more to the "factualness" of the conversation, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Software Engineers in the U.S. took home $144 billion, which for comparison is more than the revenue of Alphabet or Microsoft. How much of that do you think can be attributed to OSS?
That's how it's sold. It's really payback-politics. Obama admin did this? Don't care what it is, revoke it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
Why so much? I would guess that you should be able to build this from scratch for something like 1% of that valuation.
"States are the laboratories of Democracy" was the line we've been sold to defend three week abortion bans, voter ID laws and other local BS. As soon as it's a left leaning law that justification apparently goes out the window.
> If you are a corporate officer, directing and / or approving policies that are illegal, tell me why you should -not- go to prison?

You should and the law allows for this. Certain crimes will get corporate executives locked up. It's a matter of making stricter liabilities and sentences for these white collar crimes, which really should have happened yesterday.
Hmm, yes voters hate hiking fees, but a lot of Californians also hate Trump with a passion - I have a feeling that many will support a hike on vehicles they will themselves never drive, if it's sold as "protecting the environment against Trump."
I would definitely agree for "How much do job applicants get paid to apply for jobs?", not just with this, also with LinkedIn Job Seeker, and other automated tools "to build kickass resume". Expect tips not subscription.
The PATRIOT Act is a big one[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act
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It would harm consumer choice to buy a cheaper car that has lower emissions standards.
“States Rights” historically haven’t been good for minorities in the south....

I really don’t want southern politicians to have more power.
Under a 6-8 week release cycle, it takes 12 to 16 weeks for code to go from Nightly to Release assuming it rides the train and is not uplifted to Beta. That is not fast.

Furthermore, the audiences for each of these channels are different, with Nightly being much more tech centric early adopters. While you do some testing in the prerelease channels, you main experimentation is going to have to wait until the code hits release.
Right but to fully understand what's going on you need to also visualize the physics in a 3D world - just dots and lines and squares wouldn't fully show what's going on. This may be close to the simplest visualization that made sense
Consulting rates have nothing to do with annual salaries unless you're strictly doing commoditized staff augmentation type of work.

From what I've experienced, the difference in rates is more dependent on soft skills and positioning than tech chops. There are exceptions (FAANG engineers, popular open source authors), but generally it's folks with sales and marketing skills coupled with coding capabilities that rake it in.

When you charge a straight up hourly rate it's very difficult to get lawyer rates ($200+ p/h). If you do project or retainer pricing, your effective hourly rate can be quite high if you're experienced and efficient.

The other thing is company type, and whether you're close to revenue-generating activities. Large companies will shell out for tools that help with sales, lead gen, marketing automation, etc. Much more so than saving them money behind the scenes with HR systems or whatever.

I've been consulting a long time and have learned a lot of this the hard way. :)
Divestment also means asking banks and institutions to commit to not investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure, not just selling stock in existing oil and gas companies. Making it more difficult for new fossil fuel infrastructure projects to access capital absolutely has an impact.
Wow, what a perfect way to say "This product is almost completely useless. Don't waste your time with it."
Because investors will be able to own a piece of that company for less. The company hasn't changed, its ability to offer dividends hasn't changed, its longer term prospects haven't changed (due to divestment.)

Really, the only impact this might have is a slight reduction in the ability to those companies to raise capital by selling stock (and I don't think that is incredibly common in the oil industry).
I can guess why this maybe isn't a thing, but why are there no electronic guides for this? The plane should be able to figure out via GPS and its compass orientation which runway it's on. If you enter in 01 but end up on 10, the plane should be able to figure out it's pointing the wrong way and is in the wrong place.
Young people voting probably didn't enter Trumps mind. To me this feels like signaling pro-fossil, anti-regulation in one swoop. It probably will have a minuscule effect in actuality, its just Trump loving manly oil and powerful industry. Keep in mind this man is likely mentally unfit, looking for rationality is a fools errand.
Why should any current politician care if they remember? They will likely be out of office when the shit really hits the fan, especially if President.

For better or for worse (for worse, IMO) there was a big shift sometime around the late 80s early 90s where politicians in the US by and large stopped caring about "legacy". As long as they get elected in the next cycle, its all good (for them).
It's worth mentioning that Minsky died in 2016, so this is not an attempt to influence a forthcoming trial, but to defend a friend's memory.
Can we please attack this problem in some manner that doesn't involve letting the world burn to a crisp just so we can say "I told you so"?

I agree, if climate change goes unchecked there will be ample opportunity for "I told you so"s but I'd rather check climate change - and it's important enough to do that I'm willing to give up gloating rights and say "Hey look, we all came together and solved this issue."
Yeah, but Commodore did ~US$1B in sales per year in the early 80s. So, sure, there's some residual value in a well known brand, €22 million is a tiny pittance compared to the pre-fall valuation of the brand. Will C= become another multi-billion dollar company under Yeahronimo? Maybe, but given other resurrected nostalgia brands (see: Bell+Howell shilling crap flashlights on late night TV) I wouldn't bet on it.
This has almost always been the case. The government is a huge part of the economy and risk-free debt is a huge part of liquidity. It is boring but stuff like the timing of payments matters. Paying taxes is a big, lumpy issue...and the reason the Fed came into existence was because of big, lump payments relating to the crop cycle (i.e. money becoming tight every year as banks lent to farmers...iirc). And before the 1980s (maybe the 70s), liquidity was the primary concern of policy-makers (you can go through FED minutes in the 1960s from ALFRED, the main policy tool was free funds).

What happened is nothing to do with the level of rates. It is to do with the volume (and often the location) of liquidity (location because tax payments just go on deposit somewhere else, but it still causes a dislocation).
fwiw, cars made for the US market are generally only sold in the US market and it has been this way for quite some time
Firefox ESR still receives updates on the same schedule as regular Firefox. The ESR updates are just limited to security fixes, so ESR will still download minor updates but you'll only see big changes once a year for major updates (like Firefox ESR 60.8 -> 68.0).
Sadly, you bring up a very good point. I'm 50 myself, but I work in the software industry where I interact with a lot of young programmers, and more than once I've heard "nah, I don't vote. No reason". The argument of "hey, if you don't vote, other people will make decisions that will affect your life anyways" doesn't seem to resonate, and I really don't know how to get through.
> considerably less sensationalized

To be clear, a GC repo at 7% to 9% is outrageously high. Lack of short term financing can have severe repercussions that ripple throughout the financial system.
Show HN: Picture-in-picture (PIP) for Windows 10
I dont understand their UI at all. Whenever some project is hosted on gitlab I just stare at the page for a while and give up.
Perhaps, and who would get picked because they look the most “professional”, “relatable” or “likable”?

It doesn’t have to be an active decision to be racial bias. Could just be your gut, “looks like a good person to me” instinct
I think that might not be approaching it form the best angle? Perhaps the best question is: how to motivate students to excel academically, and give them opportunity to study to match their motivation? (instead of having poorly performing students be punished)

If you look at it that way, I think the solutions are much more akin to better motivating students, creating better environments (if they don't have them at home).

Motivation is both from showing better job opportunities to be had (higher salaries, employability), the practical value of intellectual and scientific education (to daily life decisions, participating well in democracy -- which cannot work without well educated citizens), and finally an intrinsic value of education -- showing how beautiful intellectual fields are, from a fun approach to mathematics education, to literature, etc.

Environments is making sure the school and classmate interactions are positive, possibly making available study spaces outside regular class time, elective extracurricular activities (programming classes, etc), etc.

Both of those probably go through investing heavily in teacher salaries and adequate teacher education. It's a societal commitment, really.
The false classification is the foundation of the nefarious ideology. So yes, the issue is the classification.

Humans are very diverse. The extent to which people are different or similar is not accurately captured by the race category. It is dangerously inaccurate.
Surely the "consumer choice" argument doesn't apply to the used market? Besides, since LA is the city that practically invented smog why don't they have the right to regulate their air quality as they see fit? An emissions standard that works well in the great plains may not work so well in the great cities.
How about duel-licensing your work AGPL and commercial? You can give back to the open-source community, but profit-motivated entities can pay for a license.

There is one significant barrier stopping me from doing that on my own (meager) projects, and it's that a scheme like that would require contributors to sign a CLA, a whole kettle of fish I'm not really prepared to deal with on my own.
My original comment was apparently unclear in this, but in regards to the 4th amendment protections, there isn't a distinction between "things" being sent via mail and "speech" being sent by mail. Some letters of "speech" are not covered by the 4th amendment, just as some bulk shipments of "things" are covered by the 4th amendment.
If you can’t see the problem with making such arguments, you don’t belong in a leadership position, period.
There was a lot of JS the language progress but nothing that adds this kind of features. Browsers need to fix those bare bone widgets like the select, the scrollbar, add GridViews etc otherwise developers will use some random, low quality ones .

There is no need that browsers select things that are agreed but 100% of people, it needs to satisfy the needs of a large majority that need to create boring and stabe websited or applications.
Agree, you either grab more market share to grow or when that slows, you raise prices like any good SaaS does. The worst thing is going bankrupt and wholly inconveniencing paying customers because you weren’t making a profit.
As written it’s an ambiguous statement. You’re assuming they used customer incorrectly.

Though, if they said potential customer that would not be a rebuttal of dsfyu404ed.
In that case, I recommend you to read about the story of Douglas Lenat's Eurisco engine and the TCS Traveler game. It's kinda old but fascinating.
Excise taxes on new cars instead of gasoline taxes is what I keep harping on. You can then use the money to pay for buybacks of older cars. And fund things like California's down payment assistance programs for low income drivers. Where the air quality board buys back an older gasoline powered car and provides the owner with money for a down payment on a new or used electric or hybrid vehicle.

You could do the same with natural gas furnaces. Put an excise tax on new ones and a program to help people to replace their old one with a heat pump.

This is better because the impression people would get is the state trying to help them do the right thing vs the beat poor people with a stick like carbon taxes do. (See France's Yellow Vests)
It's also well-known that he would hit on any woman who moves. When conference organizers finally told him to stop coming up to women and asking them out, he started printing out "pleasure cards" with his contact information and an invitation to fuck on them and wordlessly handing them out to women instead.

In order to ward off his advances, women faculty at MIT have taken to taking advantage of his phobia of plants. They decorate their offices with as many plants as they can and have even taken to wearing plants just to keep him from hitting on them.

This is not and should never be acceptable behavior.
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> Given then, that there's very little upside to doing open source, and most/all the benefits go to profit-making corporations

I partially disagree. Yes, the benefit will not be fairly shared. However, the volunteers' works accelerate entreprises' works, which can then provide new services and new products faster.

Imagine some ML algorithms could find the cure to aging. You have two options : either wait that some company develops it, but you might be dead by then, or accerelate the process by open sourcing your code and hopefully get the companies closer to this goal. Now, that doesn't mean you will be able to access that cure if a company finally finds it and decides to sell it, but you increase the odds that something might be discovered.

It's like giving $1000 to charity, but with the scale of software, your coded contribution can have way more impact than $1000 on the world.
>From my POV, charging money for copies of software is regressive and foolish.

Curious if you have any literature expounding on this idea; it's hard for me to wrap my head around.

Is the idea to use software as a tool to provide the product, not as the product itself?
> One little nuance you have to keep in mind there is that many automakers now generally like emission regulations. The reason is because it creates a cycle of obsolescence. Make a car that will be noncompliant with expected regulations in 'x' years and you now have a guaranteed revenue cycle

Not sure about other countries, but in the US, emission regulations don't work like that. Cars only must meet the standard that was in place when they were originally sold.
> Stallman’s second argument, points out the inconsistencies regarding the age of consent, as the victim was 17, many countries and states within the U.S. have an age of consent ranging from 16 to 18. Stallman is merely pointing out how the same act can be legal or illegal in a span of a few miles.

"is merely pointing out"? No. That is completely inaccurate.

He's saying it is "morally absurd" to have such a law:

> I think it is morally absurd to define "rape" in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17.
There's an episode of the West Wing that goes into this, "The Short List". One of the characters, Sam Seaborn is questioning a nominee of the supreme court about his position on privacy. It's classic Aaron Sorkin writing, but it might address your question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaEBXmeaXbI
There is no reasonable justification and I find it nearly impossible not to view this decision as either a petty jab at California and Obama, or some red meat for the base, or both.
Leadership does not mean stay woke or we'll cancel you. Stallman should not have stepped down.
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I was wonder the impression that banks could always borrow reserves from the Fed at e.g. 100 bps above the Fed funds rate target. Guess I was mistaken?
The problem is that people are treating others differently based on a false categorization.
> "When the US took over Puerto Rico, kids there damn well learned English, the American history, the national anthem, and the star spangled banner in school. Do you call that assimilation?"

If that's not assimilation, then I have no clue what the term means.

> "Or is that OK because it's the US that did it? "

If your argument relies on all Americans being hypocritical sycophants of the American government, it's a bad argument. Criticism of America is mainstream in America. One can be American and be critical of the American government, just as one can be Chinese and be critical of the Chinese government. In fact there is ample reason for both to be critical of both.