skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two different things you are conflating, the quick answer thing to the right of the search results is different from the snippet shown below the item in search and news.

The quick answer area has a different set of issues and I think there is a stronger argument to be made for it reducing click through rates (though I always click through when the quick answers my question to verify there isn't additional relevant context that is not included.)

Publishers already had the ability to block Google's indexing, image indexing, news indexing and snippet creation and even snippet length using meta headers.

It is unclear to me how this actually gives publishers any more control over how Google uses their content. It seems to have much larger impacts on smaller aggregators. It does put legal weight behind that control, but it seems to me that a much better law would have standardized these meta-headers and put the force of law behind them, perhaps creating a header that notifies crawlers that they must have a license to display snippets of text over a certain length from a site. As it is, is there any way for a publisher to automatically grant all agregators rights to display snippets of their content or does the law forcibly opt all publishers into content restrictions?
I don't get what the big deal about putting plastic in the ground is.

It's literally oil. It belongs in the ground.

Or we can burn it for energy, and then do carbon sequestration, in which case it'll need to end up back in the ground.
He's also seeking interim housing:
https://stallman.org/seeking-housing.html
Most people I know are unfamiliar with school-level math. They had it one or two decades ago and forget most of it. It's not a skill that is used day-to-day.
Not sure how that matters? iOS has great SDKs for device access and acceleration. Plenty of Unix software compiles on iOS too.

Which packages would I want but could not compile for iOS?
Maybe the definition of politician should change to:

“One who is elected by the common populace to facilitate business at the cost of logical reasoning, human rights and the natural world.”?

While I’m sure one or two exist, I can’t actually think of a politician in the US, UK or Australia who doesn’t fit into the definition somehow. Again, there would be a few good ones, just not enough.
I had a dx7. I will vouch for it being difficult to program decent sounds for. Despite having a map of how the 6 oscillators interacted on top of the
Keyboard. See photo:
https://mn2s.com/news/features/brief-history-yamaha-dx7/

It didn’t help that in the 90s when I had that keyboard they’re weren’t many online sources of info about it..

The dx7 was neat but couldn’t make very realistic instrument sounds.
Very popular though.
With South West I took a 737 (definitely not the MAX, probably the NG) a few times from ISP (Long Island, NY) to BWI (Baltimore / Washington). It's not 30 minutes but close enough at 40-45 minutes. These flights were within the last 2 years.
Feels like the perfect time to read the "Anatomy of the State" by Murray Rothbard. It is only 62 pages long.

You can find the book here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Anatomy_...
My son hated ClassDojo. Everything was about points, and he saw through the charade enough to see that it didn't really matter, and it was way overused in his classroom.

I won't do it, but I was tempted to make a TeacherDojo spoof where students in a class could award their teacher points for teaching well, and take away points when their teacher fell into bad teaching habits.
https://stallman.org/seeking-housing.html
GM strike is a surprising modern test of the power of workers vs. corporations
Well, for a lot of us the interface (and all the limitations or possibilites attached to it) --is-- what makes an instrument.

I mean, I can put stuff into WordPress with SQL directly, but it's much nicer to do it with an interface.

Similarly, I can program a snare sound using a noise generation, an envelope, and a filter, but it's sometimes nice to grap a box and it a button even if I'm constrained by whatever filter and parameters are already in the box... because the interface will dictate a lot of how I use the tool, and that is a feature not a bug :D
Why is this a key paragraph? What the cop told him was bullshit, but that's not illegal.

All I see here is that Mr. Fennell was briefly questioned by police, and gave a statement that appears to have been largely or entirely accurate. It seems he hasn't significantly recanted any of it to this day, except possibly to add some uncertainty to his recollection of a murder weapon.

When he laments that "They took advantage of my ignorance, of my family’s ignorance of the legal system", is he saying that if only he'd lawyered up then maybe he could have beaten the felony murder rap? Even though he plainly admits to assaulting the man and watching while someone else possibly stabbed him to death? We're supposed to be sympathetic to that?
Who is his most likely successor? Will GNU strategy change(the kernel coming to the front of my mind) or will things basically be the same?
Great, so basically you are a criminal for using a VPN to protect your privacy, since criminals also use VPNs :facepalm:
The author even writes "As a left publication," which makes their stance incredibly clear. It's not hidden by them at all.
Indeed. The actual definition says: "The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0)."
I simplified too much.

To GP:

> There are degrees to freedom, and while FOSS activists would like to paint issues black and white, they really are not

There are software that are free software, and software that are not free software. This is the whole point of a good definition. Actually assessing whether a program is free software might be hard, but at the end no software is between free software and non-free software.

Now we can argue on a level of freedom but we are not talking about this definition anymore.
>That’s not subjective; you just made it up.

That's the definition of subjective. You're thinking objective.
I like this plan! I’m going to do exactly this and see what i can come up with.
Yes, but as soon as your awk script becomes complex, you need to switch to a more complete language like perl (or python or ruby). Switch slightly earlier and avoid learning all the subtelities of awk (the same applies to sed). You need to learn well one scripting language and to know most common use cases of sed, awk.
That's not the definition of the word. It means being wounded or capable of being wounded (Latin vulnus = wound):

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vulnerable

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/vulnerable?s=t

Therefore all humans are vulnerable. Where strength vs. weakness enter into it is how one deals with one's vulnerability. That gets complex. Is denial strength or weakness? Maybe both.
Wow... It's really incredible how a bunch of SJWs have ruined one of the greatest forces of good. My heart goes out to him.
Richard Stallman's Talk at Microsoft
The era started in 1987 with a garbage barge floating up and down the eastern seaboard due to lack of allocated space for landfill [1]. Something I just learned researching my other reply :) Dropping it into a well-managed landfill is direct carbon sequestration.

[1] https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a3752/4...
FEC chair publishes FEC digest on Twitter after publication blocked by colleague
It's not more free, less deadly though. Back then there was Mao Zedong Thought now we have Xi Jinping Though.
THIS is exactly what I'm talking about when I created my RadioInstigator tablet.

https://hackaday.com/2019/06/05/mobile-sigint-hacking-on-a-c...

Radio in all its forms has been considered a "safe" way to send and receive digital data. That was only because attacking signals was traditionally only in the hands of nation-states. The hardware and know-how was erudite and tremendously expensive. That quaint idea is no longer true.

Locally, our city is installing IoT water monitors that chirp out consumption every 1/2-1h. A simple replay attack could cause peoples' water bills to go in excess of $30k. Our power meters are similar.

The tornado siren alert structures also sit on 400MHz spectrum, and are trivial to remotely trigger with no way to turn off. The system was built to trust any radio signal that it understands, full stop.

So seeing that planes are also attackable this way is obvious to me. Of course the authentication/authorization/auditing/encryption/signature part of the stack cost money, so was not included.

What do we do? Well, We (royal) fix the grid in all places to do things right. Individually, be wary and very careful in the radios you put in your vicinity.
Atlanta to Nashville on Southwest. That route usually has a flight time of around 35 minutes.
Monads to Machine Code (2016)
I now look back on my 20 years of climate activism as a colossal failure
Yes, this law requires an explicit agreement between each publisher and each aggregator to determine the price (probably 0 for Google) under which the snippets may be used.

A much better law would have standardized a set of headers or meta tags, similar to what Google uses, to allow publishers to specify allowed usage and created penalties for aggregators that don't respect those headers.
lol talk about out of touch. doesn't mention paying either. it's astounds me that people can be so dense that even after clear contradictions (don't be so obnoxious that you lose your job) they persist.
That is super cool, please don't over complicate it with utility features. I have been considering a project to manage a kubernetes cluster via Google spreadsheet. Google docs have great features relating to user authentication and permissions. The project would needs to visualize the JSON state representation for the k8s cluster... your project is ideal.

e.g. calling another google service with the JSON using a token minted BY THE USER CURRENTLY USING THE SHEET
Fair enough. I believe they call that behaviour "rent-seeking" (in the Adam Smith sense) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking#Description Most of the value of the land is from work done not by the property owner, which is just an interesting situation.
"This process works because the immune system undergoes a sort of training period during its early development: Nascent T-cells are presented with all the self molecules in the body, and cells that bind for more than five seconds to anything get weeded out. That way, the T-cells left to make up the body’s immune system are those that bind for a long time only with things they’ve never seen before."

Suggests a mechanism whereby withholding something (e.g. peanuts) from an infant could reduce the likelihood of a serious allergic reaction later. As I recall, in 2000 the American nutritionists society formally recommended not exposing any child to peanuts until they were several years old, and then they had to backtrack in 2010 and revoke that recommendation because of evidence (from cross-cultural studies of genetically similar groups in the U.K. and Israel) that this made peanut allergies more common.

Also suggests why "too clean" in early life could result in a higher incidence of severe allergies.
The GPL was always a virus, but it appears it could mutate and metastasize under new governance. Sort of puts whomever replaces him and their backers under suspicion.

Who benefits?

Edit: to be clear, the GPL was designed to be viral.
I wouldn't want to have suggested that Robinson is unclear about this, and I think even a glance at the front page of Current Affairs makes it clear.
lol you're welcome to take him in then https://stallman.org/seeking-housing.html
From what I know, yes. Your "gender" status basically depended on who you could penetrate, and vice versa.
What, uint64_t(__uerange)?
I once talked to a guy who worked in a landfill for a county in Florida and I asked him his opinion of recycling. He said you can either recycle it now or recycle it later, or in other words, dig up a landfill and figure out what you can reuse. This is already being done in some places with very old landfills.

So he was not concerned about recycling at all.
His garbage opinions, and the need to share them, are what sunk him. He arguably had useful contributions but "one of the greatest forces of good" is a joke.
I don't live anywhere even close to where he is looking for housing.
iOS is such a walled garden that security researchers have a very difficult time gaining low level access on the phone. This has incentivized researchers to keep vulnerabilities they find for themselves rather than disclose them to Apple, so that they can use the vulnerabilities to gain the low level access needed for additional exploration. The Checkm8 author posits that by providing people this access via his exploit, researchers will submit their known vulnerabilities to Apple and make iOS safer.
It takes "industrial scale" to build a large building, but not to burn one to the ground. The people involved in disrupting the community are relatively small in number, but they've developed an MO that lets them do great damage. They identify leadership of the targeted community, demand that they submit or be removed, and if neither of those happen they start contacting the sources of the community's funding.

If you decide to speak out against the Church of Scientology, a Scientologist may show up at your door telling you to stop. If you don't stop, your boss at work will start to get anonymous calls about you, exposing what a horrible person you are -- perhaps a sexual harasser, rapist, or child molester. Their story will be backed up -- by other Scientologists (who won't identify as such).

As for where Matthew is coming from, the details of that are not so important as that the Right People are in leadership of the community. If the community is not led by the Right People in service to the Right Ideas, then it is part of the system of White-Supremacist-Capitalist-Patriarchy, does not deserve to exist at all, and should be destroyed. And yes, Matthew "Ted Ts'o is a Rape Apologist" Garrett is one of the Right People (though thankfully, Ts'o seems to have a bit more spine than Stallman, so the smear didn't work nearly as well as was hoped).
Can you name 20 people who have factually done more good then Stallman that are currently alive?
Maybe if you watch more terrifying accidents involving other modes of travel? Car travel is statistically much more dangerous.

Seriously I see the 737 Max debacle as an exception that proves the rule.

But the dehumanizing part can be fixed. We may in the future look on the TSA security theatre as an era of incredible FUD.
The people working to do evil (or things that are merely selfish) will opportunistically veil their actions. I wouldn't call them SJWs though.
It's not about superstition or fear, it's about resource allocation and common sense. Medical services are finite. Screening and continuous monitoring of every potential tumor in everyone would be crazy time consuming and incredibly wasteful. So let's not.

EDIT: Just to be clear, the idea of accurate early detection is of course a good one. But as of today it is just not viable.
> a multi-talented unicorn.

That's not necessary. Natural curiosity and willingness to treat dev/ops (whichever is not your team) as us, not them, is sufficient.
It's basically follow-on from the previous ousting from MIT and the FSF.

A few days ago, for whatever reason, he blogged that his resignation from the FSF didn't mean he was stepping down from head of GNU.

I have to assume this post means someone let him know that he was no longer welcome as head of GNU, either.
South Africa Bans Bulk Data Collection. Will the U.S. Courts Follow Suit?
You mean the departments of government that planned and staged 9/11 didn’t communicate with the departments that would have to believe the cover story?

I mean, that makes sense, why would they?

I mean, why would a government stage an attack against its own people, anyways?

Oh, right. Oil and war profits.
Smaller aggregator companies have a worse position to negotiate from and are less worth the effort from large publishers. This law will have the effect of reducing competion to Google News.

In what way do you envision this helping smaller sites?
If your response to every problem is "we need a process to make this idiot proof," pretty soon you are going to be up to your eyeballs in CYA training webinars and permission requests and committee reviews. Small groups of competent people who can be trusted to wield powerful tools will start to run circles around you.

My employer does a reasonable job with this. Our tools usually make the path of least resistance the right thing. We have guardrails that help prevent accidents. But at the end of the day, our controls presume competence and good faith, and there's always an "I know what I'm doing" button. Actions taken after pressing it incur a bit more personal responsibility.
Technically if you buy Google News from Google, you won’t make any money as-is. So OP is not wrong.
> Will GNU strategy change(the kernel coming to the front of my mind)?

Hurd? Who cares?

Linux has always been and will continue to be its own thing; it isn't a GNU project.
My point is that laws are only as good as the integrity of the government enforcing them, and can themselves be written in bad faith. The solution is greater participation by the public rather than only technical fixes to the legal code.
Timely, I'll add it to my reading list. I've just (yesterday) finished "The Corporation that Changed the World"[1], that combines history of EIC and current (well, 2006) corporations and globalisation. It jumps about a fair bit (intentionally), as he draws lessons from the now mostly repealed regulations to stop EIC happening again, but well worth a read overall. Not afraid to dig into history of an utterly out of control corporation. A darker rendering than others I have seen with some surprises. Might have been even more interesting had he published a year after the 08 banking crisis.

We've failed to remember Adam Smith's take on the corporation into modernity, just the Wealth of Nations. One for me to dig into further, as his actual views on companies don't seem to match up with what we think he thought. :)

There were calls to wind EIC in, or wind it up going all the way back to the 1610s, and to give India back almost from the moment they arrived. Which continued constantly until it was finally forcibly wound up. All those dodgy stock splits, Theranos and Enron type frauds, countries wondering how to tame the out of control tech titan? EIC got there first. Just as willing to defraud Britain as anywhere else. As the first English joint stock company. As a near independent sovereign corporate with powers of justice, war and currency.

Ain't nothing new then.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/844131.The_Corporation_T...
Surely you don't think it's ok to do this here?
IRC? If that were the case, and open source servers like UnrealIRCd were somehow backdoored in a way the community couldn't detect, you're still free to implement your own backdoor-free server and client if you want. The spec is freely and openly available as RFC1459.
Perhaps you could point out the specific result you're talking about instead of asking me to search for it in 20 pages of unrelated questions.
> you can point DoH elsewhere

That only fixes the "Cloudflare" problem. It still centralize all DNS traffic onto a single service. I cannot configure Firefox to send packets only to the (hypothetically DoH capable) delegated nameserver(s) for each domain.

When you run your own recursive resolver (which is easy), only the lookup of the NS delegations needs to use a centralized service. This is relatively infrequent (NS records rarely use a very short TTL), so regular (TTL-respecting) caching prevents the centralized service from learning your pattern-of-life.

The DNS traffic for the A/AAAA records[1] is very different. Short TTLs are commonly used to force a DNS check every few minutes. In practice, this means a user's aggregate DNS traffic contains a very good pattern-of-life about the services they use and when they use them. When you run your own recursive resolver, nobody can learn the entire pattern-of-life; the traffic is distributed to different servers for each domain delegation.
>If I can compile audited code from source myself

That assumes you can get the code. If it's illegal to distribute non-backdoored software, the code might be hard to get, for example Github might be forced to take it down.
That's not a great counter-argument. I mean, I could pull 20 names out of https://www.google.com/search?q=people+who+have+done+the+mos... that I think have done more good than Stallman, but it's somewhat subjective.

(I'd be hard-pressed to name 20 people you've heard of without Google. Why not ask for 1000 to be really sure the bar is absurd?)

That said, there are 7 billion people on this planet and I suspect rather more than 20 of them have done more good than Stallman.
Command line tools are very terse, heavily optimized (ie fast), interactive, and easily chainable. I would never want to write a python program for quick analysis of a log file when I can grep/sed/awk/sort/uniq my way to a solution.

The other day my boss asked me to find out if there was any second where we processed more than 100 transactions a second on our server in the last 90 days. I needed to go through 100s of GB of data which mawk managed in no time and in a relatively simple one liner. I imagine my idiomatic python script would still be running

Often times, analysis is an evolving thing. As you uncover one answer, new questions arise. It’s far easier imo to tweak my command line pipelines than to modify program flow.

At the end of the day, general purpose programming languages are jacks of all trades and masters of none. They’re inherently held back by their flexibility when compared to DSLs. Text processing is so easy in awk b/c it’s a text processing domain specific language. If you really think that we should use on language for everything, you’re ignoring the value that specialization can provide you, whether in speed, power, or ease of use
Getting your opposition stoned on cheap drugs is not unique to the opium wars, and China shipping fentanyl to US is certainly a case of history rhyming:

> not everyone struck it rich trading in opium. It was a competitive, highly volatile market. But those who worked for Perkins and a few other firms became the city's elite — otherwise known as Boston Brahmins. The Cabots, Cushings, Welds, Delanos (the grandfather of Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Forbes all built fortunes on opium.

> "Opium was really a way that America was able to transfer China’s economic power to America’s industrial revolution."

From an eye opening article on the history of Boston: https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2017/07/31/opium-boston-hi...
I almost asked this a few days ago: with all of the applications that deep learning AI/ML etc. have been put to, how come none of it ever touches the C-suite?

This is to ask: why haven't CFOs been automated?
Have you considered the possibility that he might not be able to pay?

Also, I am sure that there are many people who would offer him somewhere to live, he has quite a few fans.
That’s the problem with an unqualified group moniker, anyone can assume it. This is just another No True Scotsman.
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