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Sam Altman money turned off, but hanging on looking for funders, as of Sep. 18th article.[1]

You can donate here.[2] Expected donation $5000 and up.

[1] https://tashian.com/articles/dynamicland/
[2] https://dynamicland.org/donate/
Sorry but I'm going to have to ask for the basis of your claim here. It is wellknown that autistic people's lack of selfawareness is varying and inconsistent and how much they can overcome this depends heavily on how much help they received. Normal people misread the intentions of each other on a regular basis yet are somehow experts on the autistic mind?
And furthermore, of course you can justify 'they're just people' but by virtue of their position, they are to be held apart and to a higher standard than ordinary people -- they are in a position of authority and leadership! As such, constantly over optimizing for 'how approachable' they are has to come at a cost? And the cost is the ability to actually execute!
> I find the desire for fine-grained gender-expression customization in tension with the desire to de-emphasize gender.

I think a problem is the failure to distinguish between gender identity and externally imposed gender and gender stereotypes. Increasing range of expression and social recognition of gender identity is aligned with reducing and eliminating socially-imposed gender and gender stereotypes.
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Presumably, this person is airing frustration with common responses to privacy oriented discussions he or she has experienced as participant and/or vicariously. He or she has characterized them ending in ad homenims, whereby the privacy minded individual is construed as politically or intellectually unmoored, similar to Alex Jones.

Spedru posits the covert and exposed deviants within companies, that we've exchanged our data with, are another style of entity (besides state actors) that we ought to strive to deprive of access to that data.

At least, that's as charitably as I can characterize the comment.
SFO would be much easier to get into since helicopters are typically cleared direct to the helipad without sequencing for a runway. The smaller airports would be no problem though.
Note that in the meantime, C# has gotten this pretty right, with IEnumerable (a read-only list) and support for co- and contra-variance at type declaration time.

Hopefully, some day, Go will also get this 'obscure' feature, though I'm not holding my breath. I would be extremely surprised if their initial version of generics will support anything like this.
But this hasn't "turned out to be false". It's unconfirmed and thus very suspicious.

This is an article about an attack so advanced it's generally considered impossible, using the most valuable attack vector in the most important battlefield (see DNI Maguire's hearing answer to the biggest threat facing America) between the world's two superpowers. Would it really be that shocking if, after an initial leak, the US government was able to shut down leaks?

You make good points, particularly around the public denials, and I don't want to debate this any further (I was mostly railing against that ridiculous quote), but I think people are being pretty quick to claim this report is false rather than probably false.

130,000 people worked on the atomic bomb for 6 years in secret - when it comes to matters the government considers crucial to national security (and cutting edge breakthroughs in cyber warfare would certainly qualify), silence can be kept.
As someone who did Ada at university I genuinely have no idea what this would be used for on the web?
This is never going to happen because it doesn’t work very well for consumers, and works even less well for businesses.

For consumers, owning the encryption keys means account recovery is impossible when they inevitably lose their keys. IM services can get away with it, because losing your IM history is not nearly as serious as losing your inbox.

For businesses, you’re not going to be able to sell a service that makes filtering impossible. This is bad for consumers too, but an absolute deal breaker for most businesses.
Pragmatic answer: because it crosses some threshold where it's deemed I'm dressed appropriately at work and a normal shirt wouldn't.

> The collar is in place to hold the tie, you don't need a tie, you don't need a collar, so don't wear one

A collar can also be popped to provide extra shade to the neck, it has it's own functionality independent of the tie. I'm not sure if these execs are getting enough sun that it matters, but I certainly do.
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And here [0] is someone else who (by his own accord) worked with both RMS and Bushnell and is saying Bushnell is bullshitting and grinding an axe:

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/thomas_lord/status/11744336549420...

> Bushnell and I overlapped in our employment at FSF. ... The general culture of inclusiveness and tolerance that RMS fostered meant that, at least when I was there alongside Bushnell, that social circle in and around the organization was feminized and all the stronger for it. This does not mean, of course, that RMS (or any of us) never gave offense or acted stupidly. But Bushnell's portrait showing a depraved sexist coddled by this or that MIT prof. is simply bullshit, and Bushnell probably knows or should know that in his heart.
> He takes everything literally and doesn’t necessarily take feelings and the reactions of others into account when making statements that are outside the bounds of his expertise in free software.

Funny that sounds like every SJW activist in tech these days. If you're a white cis male, if you're religious, if you're conservative then it's "FUCK YOU, YOU'RE A BIGOTED PIECE OF SHIT AND YOU SHOULD BE PUBLICLY SHAMED". Someone like Coraline Ada comes to mind who has used these tactics to force a "Code of Conduct" on open source projects and publicly shamed maintainers on Twitter who don't give in. But that's okay to you people because it's a liberal trans person so they can do no wrong. Fucking clowns.
The result is obvious, spare parts will be available for ten years, but at crazy prices.
You might be defining interfaces on the wrong end. Interfaces should be defined where they are used, so searching for implementations becomes a non-issue anyway.

https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments#interfa...
Why isn't the harassing behavior being brought up through the right channels? Is internet rage the right way to do this?
The ability to overcome the effect of a disability is partly how severe it is, partly how much and what kind of support one gets and partly time and effort. It's a constant effort and during times of stress it's hard or impossible to maintain.

An awful lot of so-called "normal" men manage to offend women right and left. There are raft loads of women very up in arms about "normal" male behavior.

The world generally has a very long way to go to resolve that question.
So pornography is bad, but shit ads trying to manipulate us to buy shit we don’t even need is okay?

If lewd content is a problem maybe we should start by looking at the elephant in the room - all the ads (aka cancer) trying to manipulate people into acting against their best interests and wasting their time & attention. Pornography doesn’t actually seem so bad in comparison.
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Tracking any aircraft, stealth or not, isn't the issue. The issue is whether you can get a weapons grade track.
Stallman did not defend Epstein in any way, shape, or form.
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Anyone have a review of using DO k8s or DO managed DB in production?
Well it's a spectrum, right? Some can, some can't - or refuse, for reasons related to them being on the spectrum.
That, or the budgets will just grow in otherways to swallow up any savings and then some.
It's not "just about rules". Having the flexibility to spend slightly more or less based on fluctuations in your workforce, or customer demand, is highly preferable to making n-year bets on your needs, even if you end up paying a 10% premium on average for that stability.
I am very interested in what you replied to the email 4 years ago.
Social progress involves making-acceptable things that were previously offensive and outrageous to the majority. Things that were considered harmful to society. Things like equal rights for women, minorities, different sexualities.

For progress to be possible, people must be able to say offensive things that others find unpleasant.

You might say, but it’s not those kinds of “harmful” views we want to stop, only the genuinely harmful ones. But who gets to decide which views are harmful?

On a different note, I think that, for creativity, it’s important to be able to think and express yourself without always needing to second guess yourself. And I think we’re creating a society where everyone has to always second guess everything they think and say in case they accidentally say something that may bring in the outrage mob, either now or at some point anywhere potentially years later.
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Surely copy & paste played a major role in this.
I similarly have a 127GB tar.xz of about 2TB of code/files from the top GitHub repositories (filtered by highest starred repositories per primary language) as of around August 2017 if anyone wants it or wants to host it.
The PR blitz about this is super misleading.

The way its being communicated makes it seem that the ACT is powered by 100% solar, wind or hydro renewable energy. The reality is that about 20% of its power is still coming via coal and gas power plants, its just buying credits in renewable energy elsewhere in the country.
If he was a trans woman it would be fine. Trans women engineers at the biggest tech companies post nudes and tweets about "girl dick" all day, and generally act like disgusting oversexualized perverts but THEY GET TO KEEP THEIR JOBS. WHY IS THERE THIS DOUBLE STANDARD? WHY DO TRANS "WOMEN" GET TO ACT LIKE FUCKING FREAKS PUBLICLY AND DON'T GET FUCKING CALLED OUT?!
> Otherwise it has perverse incentives, or at least misincentivizes certain kinds of policing.

Can you give specific examples? Because I can't think of any except "enforcing traffic rules". And that's not a misincentive, it's a good incentive. And the reality I see is that enforcement of traffic rules is extremely lenient despite the profit cities could make, because it's unpopular with the car driving population.

In my impression the vast comments of the form that fines are abuse come down to: "I don't want to follow traffic safety rules, because I think they don't apply to me."
At what point is your work no longer your own? FSF wouldn't exist without Stallman's vision and subsequent decades of tireless effort. Who gets to decide that Stallman no longer deserves stewardship over his own life's work because of a poster and some tired anecdote about plants?
Yes, you could call it an ad, but it reads as much more down-to-earth and straightforward than what most people think of when they think of advertising. They're simply describing what they built, why it was difficult, and why they think it's important, with a minimum of marketing fluff.
> "The general culture of inclusiveness and tolerance"

That was not the Stallman I saw at CSAIL. There are many good things to be said about Stallman, but in multiple years there I never saw either tolerance or inclusivity.
Meaning he actually has a diagnosis? Or he just kind of behaves like you think an autistic person probably behaves?
End-to-end encryption is the only foolproof was of preventing this. But if that is not possible, training and audit/alerts is the next best thing.

Training is important because new employees or new college grads might not be aware of truly how egregious it is to view someone's personal data. It really had to be drilled into the culture. By audits and alerts, I mean that if one employee accesses sensitive information, they know that other teammates are getting an alert about it. People do such things when they think nobody will know.
Apparently, my earlier message did not resonate:

To be absolutely clear, this mess we are in is a function of money in politics, voters not seeing a choice they feel good about, and a general trend toward more authoritarian norms.

In any election, voters can and will do one of the following:

Vote Major Party
Vote other
No Vote

In the last election, a large number of Americans did not have a choice they felt worthy of a vote.

Blaming them does all of us ZERO good. Fear, blame and shame politics do not work to GOTV.

We can have a discussion about how we got here, and I think that makes sense to do.

It's too easy to just "blame the stupid people", as if that's all there is to any of this.
Communication between a ProtonMail customer and a non-customer, there is no end-to-end encryption.

Communication between ProtonMail customers, you still have to trust that their UI hasn't been MiTM'd.
The web is encrypted in transit but most data is probably stored in an unencrypted form, much like email.
If those parts are standard there is no reason for them to be too expensive.
Very good point, will look into this.

Thanks for bringing it up!
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In Java, Cat[] can be passed to a function expecting Animal[]. List<Cat> can't be passed to someone expecting List<Animal>.

The first case is allowed by the language, but it is not type-safe - depending on your usage, you may get type errors at runtime (trying to write a Dog to an Animal[] that is actually a Cat[]).

Java does also support a safe way of achieving variance - your function can take a List<? extends Animal>, in which case you can pass a List<Cat> to it. The compiler also makes sure that a function that takes a List<? extends Animal> can't write a Dog to that list, so this is actually type safe.
Without a doubt Stallman has done several magnitudes of more good for society than harm -- from what I can tell the "harm" is mostly him being just a weird, semi-insufferable dude in a field of weird, semi-insufferable people.
"inappropriate and harassing behavior"

What exactly are you claiming he did to harass people?

What exactly did he do that was inappropriate?
The windows build isn't working for me. Still stuck on 0.4 .
Exactly what channels? The police? A lot of what RMS has done isn't illegal and generally there's a very high legal bar for harassment.

So people eventually share their stories through social media and even that doesn't work sometimes (see: Riot). His behavior doesn't have to cross into illegality to be reprehensible.
So it's OK to crap in the street if you pick enough litter that you're now poo-negative? Carbon emissions is not the only major climate impact from the things you mention and it's not about "paying your dues" as an individual.
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Stallman came up with a great idea, got it started but has been a toxic personality in the community.

The open source movement was created because of his involvement, yet flourished in spite of his personality.
This is a false equivalence

If someone upon introduction said "actually, I prefer to be addressed by '$confusing_ambiguous_overloaded_word'" then I just might use the less preferred alternative - no harm intended.

The other individual's preference isn't the only thing that matters. If it bothers me to speak that way, or I find it confusing and it interferes with the flow of my own thought processes while communicating, then I'm going to respectfully fallback to the easier form.

You're not some special princess that gets to interject a cache miss into my thinking every time you're referenced.

You're just being a pain in the ass.

When I introduce myself to people I give a variety of names and monickers of varying degrees of complexity and let them pick whatever they prefer. I have an ethnic first name, it often requires spelling it to clarify its pronunciation. So I usually give my middle initials as an alternative and get the hell on with life.

I'm far more interested in the free exchange of ideas than being treated like royalty requiring that I be addressed by some awkward unnatural contortion, like honorable judge pain in everyone's ass.
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whether or not all the accusations are based in reality, i am glad to see this happening to richard. all he did was bake his own personal political beliefs into popular software. it was totally unnecessary and counter-productive. people like to worship open-source people like richard and sdr. i dont get it. he was also a huge autistic asshole.

the more i think about it the more i dislike him. on his personal website he has pages about why not to use popular services like airbnb. one of his reasons is because they use proprietary code in their app. another it because you have to register with identifying information. hes an annoying zealot who will literally never be satisfied. a person who draws purpose from the act of contradicting and belittling other people. a person who has no sensibility whatsoever when it comes to society, the big picture or the subtle insights of social grace. good fucking riddance.
Yep that and forking. But if you fork a repo and change a small thing, I’d it still a duplicate of the other repo?

I don’t think the raw number is what’s so impressive, as much as the fact that there’s more code public on GitHub than I could comprehend in a lifetime.
Trans "women" at big tech companies like Google and GitHub can publicly post on their Twitter about "girl dick", post porn, go on about all the fucking degenerate BDSM furry sex they have, harass people on Twitter, talk about killing TERFs etc. and not get fired. I say one word about your precious fucking pronouns and I get my account banned. Fuck you.
>why blackface is offensive and clowns/mimes are not

It's because one of those two things was used for over a century to convey a belittling and dehumanizing view of a group of people.
This is the shit trans people get away with and you think your stupid fucking pronouns matter, get out of your bubble you privileged piece of shit https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/women-only-rape-relie...
No small set of solutions will be enough. We're nowhere close to a "solution" and for the average individual who is not a policy-maker or wealthy investor, "lifestyle" changes and consumer choices is pretty much the only venue through we can impact.
People actually bike shed over .yaml vs .yml? If you thought tabs vs spaces was a useless debate...
This is great. Btw. seeing "jquery" most-common filename 20,015,171 times - it probably skews js LoC (artificial LoC of dependencies).
The original post on r/announcements:

> Changes to Our Policy Against Bullying and Harassment

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/dbf9nj/chang...

A key highlight for Reddit readers, or “TL;DR” as the parlance is:

What should I do if I see content that I think breaks this rule? As always, if you see or experience behavior that you believe is in violation of this rule, please use the report button [“This is abusive or harassing > “It’s targeted harassment”] to let us know. If you believe an entire user account or subreddit is dedicated to harassing or bullying behavior against an individual or group, we want to know that too; report it to us here^.

^ https://www.reddit.com/report
This is a cool project and a great write-up. Some of the complexity numbers struck me as pretty off though. I know he caveats you can only compare files of the same language, but I took a quick look at the code[1] and at least as of now it looks like the complexity statements are just kind of copy/pasted, so keywords not seen in Java/C such as "match" are missing from Rust, OCaml, and Scala, "case" is missing from Haskell and Elixir etc, causing these languages to be much lower in complexity than they should be just based on standard control flow statements.

[1] https://github.com/boyter/scc/blob/master/languages.json
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He minimized it.

What he intended to do doesn't matter. That's not my point. What matters is that his words could be interpreted that way and that he was affiliated with MIT.
Thank you for posting this (and for the author writing it).

It is unbelievable how little attention is paid to the environment cost of lawns in developed nations.

Just the fresh water consumption by these unnatural 'fashion' monsters is scary:

>"...
It gets better. All America’s farmland consumes 88.5 million acre feet of water a year. Lawns, with a fraction of the land, drink an estimated two-thirds as much. Most municipalities use 30-60 percent of drinkable water on lawns.

California is special. If you thought Trump tweets made no sense, LA, prior to the big drought, 70 percent of your water loss came courtesy of lawns. Water use throughout California seems to be rebounding to pre-drought levels. Lawns are soaked once more.
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Please don't post flamebait to HN. This kind of thing never goes anywhere good, and it's totally against the spirit of this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: it looks like you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's not allowed, regardless of which brand you're loyal to, so we've banned the account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
How about when traffic rules are created not for safety, but to maximize revenue? 6 years ago, San Diego finally dropped red light cameras because they were installed as a revenue generation device, not a safety device.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/sdut-san-...
Not abandoned, lost interest. They have no incentives to work on projects after the fun wares off.
> "I propose we use only people's full and legal names when referring to them, because I believe that system works better."

Undoubtedly a weird, outsider view of things but I wouldn't advocate him being punished for doing so. Nor would I advocate for shaming him for choosing to use people's full names in daily conversation.
> "Motors and motor systems account for approximately 53 percent of global electricity consumption. We estimate that improving the efficiency of all the world’s motors by just 1 percent would reduce the motors’ power consumption by 94.5 terawatt-hours and shrink their carbon dioxide footprint by the equivalent of 60 million metric tons."

I find this surprising. Perhaps a big chunk of this is air conditioning, which is technically using a motor to run a compressor?
But when will we see a motor powered by magneto-reluctance and capacitive diractance instead of the relative motions of conductors and fluxes?

Seriously, though, this article is clear and well-written. I love it when I see people solve problems we didn't know we had. I'd figured we'd basically found the global optimum on electrical motors decades ago and were basically stuck there by physics now, with advances happening elsewhere in the powertrain. This development is like CPU vendors figuring out how to write 3x more single-core performance out of the same thermal budget after our own decade of stagnation in this area.
Yikes, what an awful group of self-righteous people. Bullying and slander is perfectly fine when the virtuous do it I see.
Also this doesn't give you the right to repair your own devices. It gives you the right to take it to a "professional" who'll repair it for you.
There is nothing fair about it.
She has reasonably solid feminist credentials, which she presented up front, probably to preempt accusations of sexism.

No True Scotsman would ever support Stallman?
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How about "all the world information" ? :)
Require them to pass it up to the level where destruction of money is possible.
That's a good question, how is it decided? Is there a tribunal?