skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(First, a small aside. This is petty, but... the words "equivocate" and "psychotic" don't mean what you think they mean and you should probably look them up.)

Atrocities have been committed by those who believed they were being "compassionate on a large scale" but somehow didn't want to get into the messy details of what people affected by their policies thought and felt on an individual level.

> All the accoutrements of interspersed personal narrative and details about rando other people she met along the way feel gratingly boring and indiosyncratic to me.

You chose to reject her lived personal experience accumulated over decades as having any weight or relevance to policy because it bored you and you apparently prefer dry statistics. Or, as you put it, declarative sentences read by a robot voice.

You sound like you've had a sheltered life and you lack the life experience to have an informed opinion on policy around sex work. (That's perfectly fine, by the way. It can be quite liberating to accept the fact that you don't have to have an opinion about everything.)

What's unfortunate is that you think you're the enlightened one with your insistence on solid statistical aggregate data only, when in reality you're exactly what she's describing -- blindly locked in your own narrative, sure that you know what's best for other people while refusing to listen to those same people when they tell you you're wrong.

Now honestly you probably don't need to have an opinion on this topic, and you'd probably be a lot better off if you just admitted that you don't know and don't need to know what's up. But if for some reason you do, and you're worried that just one "idiosyncratic emotional story" is going to bias you, then you always have the option of doing some research or even going out and talking to the people affected by these policies and buying them a coffee in exchange for a piece of their mind on these topics. I'm guessing you wouldn't, and the very idea probably terrifies you, but feel free to prove me wrong.

Now I don't suppose you're going to take advice from a "sanctimonious" asshole like me, but in case some of this is getting through to you, consider that rather than being unwilling to consider your ideas, I might just know a few things you don't. People who look at measurable metrics but refuse to listen to individual people never get the outcomes they really want, and have done incalculable damage along the way in human history, much of it in the name of "science".
Do they though?

If they really do, only then it makes sense to remove him from a position of power.
Exactly. We could actually be more inclusive if we simply focused on people's actions within their domain, and ignored any flippant, tactless, or awkward _statement_ they may make when talking of other things.
The conversations in America are shifting for the better
> Unfortunately I don’t think the DX7 is hard to program just because of the user interface.

That was my first thought. And actually, I kept trying to understand (from the article) how exactly this UI makes FM programming easier. Does it? Or is that not the point?

Because one of my "sound designer dreams" is being able to get the sound in my head coming out of the machine using FM. I can do that with regular subtractive synthesis (more or less) but with FM, I feel like I'm twiddling knobs until I like the way it sounds. And that's with a really good interface!
regardless of how i might feel about stallman's actions, the dishonest reporting and twitter mob-baiting leading up to his removal leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

while there are those who believe 'stallman did nothing wrong,' i suspect many in the community who object to his forced resignation feel the same way - that it was done in bad faith.
> He is entitled to be the head of the GNU project because it's his fucking project.

Sure, but others are entitled to tell him he should step down, and he's entitled to do so if he feels like it.
perhaps he meant this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21100971
I guess the headline here isn't that these plucky scientists managed to stick a bunch of cameras together, but rather the Chinese state can stick one of these in a crowded area and instantly identify everybody within it.
The article makes repeated mentions of the lack of persistence (rebooting the phone removes the exploit), suggesting this makes it very little of a security threat.

However, most people reboot their phone very rarely: the occasional software update a couple times a year; if the battery runs out (which people usually go to pains to avoid); or for some people, to try to fix a misbehaving phone.

The exploit does require physical access to the phone for a few minutes. But in situations where that can happen, and the owner doesn't have the suspicion or knowledge to reboot, I think an exploit could easily run for one or several months.

Paired with enough clever software modifications made possible by the jailbreak (like a lock screen that collects passcode input), a malicious instance of this could do plenty of damage.
I think it's only available in Netherlands. I checked it out now and I get the same, even though I'm in another country.
>However, as a counterpoint, do you really want to live in a world where the leadership is not determined by how skilled you are at your craft, but how well you conform to a conventional morality?

We already live in that world. Within the boundaries of the law, any behavior which interferes with an organization's business, creates an intolerable work environment, or might invite a lawsuit or negative publicity can be grounds for dismissal regardless of a person's competence. Morality, politics and optics have always mattered, and matter more for leaders than others, because leaders are expected to embody an organization.

Stallman is an example of someone being given far more leeway than others when it comes to the effects of his his "unconventional morality."
No, it's like saying I don't own a lock because Apple keeps the key and I have to call them and ask them to unlock it for me every time.
"A penalty of '-5' for 'urinating in pants during class' has been added to your permanent record."
Rather, it was contributed to by government inaction.
Gears provide mechanical advantage -- i.e. gear ratio.
There are many ways to implement "devops", this is one of them.
What seems like it would make sense is to have landfills for specific materials. All the plastic in one place, all the food waste in another, etc.

Then if someone comes up with a more effective method to recycle plastic, there it all is in one place, not mixed in with banana peels and old furniture.
China has a very large number of cameras on their roads that essentially constantly surveil all of the drivers on the main roads. I imagine that a sizable chunk of those quoted CCTV cameras are those.
Homeowner Forecloses on Bank of America (2011)
Yes, they are people too. :-)
Exactly, this is just a definition problem
The case against Stallman, from the sources I've read, seems to be that he has a reputation for harassing women, so much so that there was a longstanding joke about placing ferns in offices to ward him off (he apparently finds them powerfully aversive), and that his defense of Minsky dovetailed in a particularly unfortunate way with some very stupid things he's said in the past about pedophilia (for instance, that consensual pedophilia should be legal).

If you put it to Twitter or a message board whether he's a "decent human being", you're going to get answers like "he's among the very best human beings because free software" and "he's among the very worst human beings because pedophilia".

I think it's worth interrogating whether "is Stallman a decent human being" is a question worth asking. The operative question is "is Stallman the right person to be leading the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project".
I have attended his talks, listened to podcasts and read some of his conversations on mailing lists. I can see why people may not like him, or the way he talks. But we disagree with people all the time.

I would be willing to host him just for the conversations, and because I feel like it's the least I can do for a man who shaped much of the software that I use everyday.
I don’t see how that helps your argument. Gun control and leniency on criminal issues are a 20th century reform in Europe. England imposed the death penalty for pickpocketing until 1808. And prior to 1920, you could buy guns at the store with cash in the UK. Gun control didn’t exist in France until 1938. Yet the homicide rate of the UK was lower than it is today, and 1/7 of what it was in the US at the time. By 1800, it was basically at modern levels, at a time when 220 different crimes carried the death penalty, including theft or forgery. How can leniency on criminal issues be responsible for low homicide rates that were low before they were implemented?
Ask HN: How do you define a toxic workplace?
I've seen a lot of people talking about how non-toxic/worker friendly workplaces can be a strategic advantage, and I tend to believe it - but I'd be curious as to what you folks define as 'toxic'.

Is it diverse demographic representation? If so, what's the right mix?

Is it just high retention?

Is it a good Glassdoor rating?
That's an incredibly minor thing to find infuriating.

You might want to seriously examine the mechanisms which inform that emotion.
"withholding something (e.g. peanuts) from an infant could reduce the likelihood of a serious allergic reaction later"

This seems to be the opposite of the "too clean" hypothesis. I'm not sure what that paragraph is trying to say. Did you mean increase rather than reduce?
Yeah, I guess achieving arbitrarily huge images is just a matter of increasing the resolution/number of sensors and then applying the correct optics. The bottleneck (and technical achievement) of a system like this would be the processing power required for stitching and analyzing these massive images in anything close to real time.
While I thought RMS's technical knowledge wasn't updated properly since he pivoted his activities to be an evangelist of freedom rather than being a programmer.

I believe he was directly responsible of the development stall of GCC, Emacs and various other projects. It's also his fault for not abandoning the Hurd sometime around the early 1990s.

His forced resignation should better be happened earlier for the lack of skill, not by his opinion on the definition of pedophile and the correct understanding of intention in criminal law system.
It was a concession of defeat; the Free Software Foundation does not belong to Richard Stallman.
not even close:)) he is a fundamentalist statist.
Show HN: I love being more effective in my life, so I made my own Habit app!
So do two wheels of different sizes.
Are you really trying to claim a 17 year old doesn’t know murder and robbery are illegal, much less wrong?

I’m not saying anyone should necessarily go to prison forever, but any 17 year old of normal to somewhat below normal intelligence knows murder and robbery are both wrong and illegal.
Did you read the whole article? They _are_ pulling their campaign, after KS doubled down.
Yeah, this is completely unnecessary. All programming is algebra as algebra is the math logic and instructions.

I tell people who do analysis and planning for work they are doing calculus all day without realizing it as calculus is the math of continuous change. As a result an analyst who has never programmed before may find the concept of lambda calculus far easier to understand in practice without being a math scholar.
A libertarian who says Americans should vote for Bernie Sanders and Australians should vote for the Greens?
I've always wanted to make my life more effective by building good habits, but I never found the motivation I needed from the Habit apps out there in the App Store. So I made my own, with milestones to reach in every habit created in the App.

I am still working to improve it, and bring useful statistics, and make it more enjoyable. Any feedback is appreciated!
In mob justice scenarios, it helps to have associates who are willing to defend you and stand by you. But it seems that Stallman has a history of wearing out his welcomes, so that rather than supporting him, his associates instead were saying "we'll quit if you don't push him out."

When you run a public organization, personal skills do matter.
But by your very comment, it only makes sense to hate the politicians! If all they care about is that they keep their jobs, then isn't trying to get the politicians fired for threatening our privacy the best way to get them to care about our privacy?
Leaked paper Gives Game away: Proof quantum computer outperforms classical one
I completely disagree with this.
I subjectively make my statement based on that data I have available to ME*

Objective would be I have failure data in front of me.

Now, I personally have heard of far fewer B-52 accidents in my lifetime, and the plane is almost double mine, and as such, I deem it safe as heck.

Also, guess what - B-52s carry nukes not passengers.

How many nukes have gone off for a B-52 crash vs how many lives have been lost via commercial crashes?

Also, I come from a nuke family, and an air force family. My grandfather was one of the designers of Hanford and my brother was head of the tenth medical wing and flight surgeon to the joint chiefs, and my dad best friend was sec of energy... in charge of nukes...

So, I stand by my words.
Heh, when your org’s image is a hostage of few short-minded haters, it is not particularly strong definition of freedom. Those haters could unassociate with him by simply not associating. “Remove <humanname>” is completely different.
How did you learn about recycling policies and their violations as a kid? Given the article, none of this is easy to obtain knowledge.
If it applies, this would likely be better as a Show HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
That's a literal definition of the word "inclusive" that is at odds with its idiomatic meaning.
How is Google sucking up adrev.? Publishers get revenue from Google, or they can manage ad sales however they want.

They times have changed, and it seems going back is not an option. Before Google big publishers were the default for many people, either on paper or online. Now publishers are in the headline business. Also if they write good things, people will read it still.

They lost some/much of their network effect. And sure, we can say G is sucking up revenue, but they also make it possible to advertise for whatever keyword you want, much more effectively, than publishers did. In this sense G is just a better paper, truck, road, printing press and ad-sales-house in one. Pretty hard to beat it.
US Citizens don't need to worry. All of your private information will be turned over to the NSA / US Gov. If the US wants a US citizens private info, they just request it of the UK's intel services. The UK Intel services get it from Facebook, and they then hand it to the US Gov. For your convenience.
> However, several of the PhDs had forgotten they had one, particularly those that had not subsequently remained in the ivory tower.

Hah, yeah, sometimes PhD's don't stress their "Dr." title to avoid being mistaken for a medical doctor in miscellaneous medical emergencies.

For example, I'd heard one professor say that after checking the "Dr." title on an airline ticket, he was called upon in-flight to deal with a medical emergency, only to have to explain that he wasn't that kind of "Dr.". Thereafter, he reverted to "Mr." in such informal situations.

Then in professional environments, we often go by first names anyway.
> as the rest of the company if the entire company is 200 people

It's easy to confuse income with capital and earning potential. There are no shortage of well-off restaurant owners or other small-business owners with < 200 employees - I run into no shortage of them in Los Angeles. Thomas Keller, Gordon Ramsey, and their less-known partners make a lot more than their staff. It may not manifest in 1000x annual pay, but it definitely manifests as 1000x quality of life thanks to the magic of compound interest and financial leverage.

Being a capitalist puts you in an entirely different game - salaried or hourly employees are not capitalist, they're labor. This makes a big difference to banks and other money lenders, further giving leverage for future earnings potential.
Didn't Stallman live in his MIT office for awhile?
Will you pull out of UK and US? Seems very unrealistic. You have no choice but to obey the law,even if the law is ridiculous.

Have you considered architectural changes that will allow for the app to be compiled and deployed by an affiliate corp outside of these jurisdictions?
(The lede is a bit buried—I think the UI problems with the DX7 run deeper than the front panel. Skip below.)

There were monstrosities like the PG-1000. Basically, 56 sliders in a separate box which you could plug in to the D-50 (or D-550) to program all of the parameters at once with a physical interface. I think it sucks. I still have my D-550 and I’ve seen the PG-1000s go past at the stores for good prices.

In a short time, synths went from having a handful of parameters to being complete monsters and it took a while for the UI to catch up. The Korg Poly6 from 1981 has 22 knobs, Oberheims aren’t far off, but the DX7 has something on the order of 100 parameters. I think it has 7 envelope generators and each EG is about twice as complicated as an ADSR.

There’s basically two viewpoints on the DX7 on forums, from what I can tell. One viewpoint is that you would do your programming for the DX7 on a computer over MIDI, and with such a setup you could unlock the true potential of the device—or at least tap into the thousands of presets available online. The other viewpoint is that most of the presets online are garbage or duplicates, and you only want a DX7 for the handful of classic presets it had like Full Tines.

I recently dived in a bit deeper. For the JS13K demo competition last month, I wrote an audio synthesis engine in JavaScript that let me write audio programs in Lisp, and this engine could replicate some of the DX7 sounds. I also own a Yamaha TX-802 (basically rack-mount DX7mkII), so the techniques were familiar. I went through the TX-802 library and various presets I found online and dissected them to try and build my own sounds for my JS13K game.

(Skip to here if you only care about UI.)

My conclusion is that the DX7 UI is only part of the problem. FM synth programming is not remotely user-friendly and it won’t be. The problem I found was that it was often very narrow ranges of parameters that would sound good or meet your needs in a particular patch. I spent hours tweaking modulation levels. I would mute one operator chain, tweak modulation and envelopes on the other one, then switch and continue. Changing frequency ratios had an even bigger effect.

This is in contrast to subtractive synthesis, where it’s fairly easy to dial in a frequency cutoff for your filter.

I think the problem here is that once the modulation level gets too high, the level of the fundamental starts dropping, and it happens very quickly. FM modulation levels have a very narrow range from “enough modulation that it sounds interesting” to “too much modulation and it sounds like garbage”.

So my personal opinion is that the DX7 is still gonna be a pain to program even with more knobs. YMMV. I happen to own a TX-802 and programmed my own FM softsynth.
other things will probably limit visibility, like earth curvature, buildings, etc... probably better to have multiple of those arrays? I would be really curious to get details on the lens setups for this array though.
Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows
It is somewhat one-sided, but not completely:

Citizens for example have been able to track the classified X-37 missions due to advances in optics and technology.

Electronic files have made it easier for whistleblowers to exfiltrate large amounts of data. That would likely be much more difficult with physical files.

It is much harder for governments to hide their behavior now that every citizen has a high-res camera in their pocket capable of real-time streaming to a wide audience.

It is much easier for citizens to communicate and organize. Even if the government backdoors popular communication apps, mesh networking and endpoint encryption are still possible (I.E. Firechat).
> I haven't seen so much hostility from the world so much as 25 years ...

yeah, that’s a no from me, dog.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2612037
That's why we rely on regulation and oversight for safety, and profit motive and competition to provide value.
> Sure for a small individual team or org. But getting this to scale isn't feasible.

Based on...what?

> As companies grow they tend to hire based on specific skill sets

By which you probably mean they tend to prefer hiring more narrowly specialized individuals. That may be a common trend, but to the extent it stops you from hiring or training for devops across your technical organization, it's incompatible with any meaningful devops implementation. DevOps doesn't work as a silo, any more than (as an enterprise I know pretends to do) can you do kaizen by way of an isolated “Kaizen team” reporting to a senior executive. Some things are definitionally not siloes and “doing” them in a silo is a failure to do (or even understand) them at all.
The US government gave up the Clipper chip laws before even trying to take it to the Supreme Court as it was such an obvious loser.
You could use an AI to identify and monitor skin cancer from photos/videos.
I'm 100% in favor of your view of DevOps, and its devolution from movement to dubious agglomeration of vendors and consultants is something I've seen before.

Like DevOps, the Agile movement started out as a bunch of smart, dedicated people seeking a new way to work. But once the excitement spread out of that passionate early-adopter group, it changed radically for the worse. I think that's because once you get to mainstream adopters, they're not interested in deep change. They want to keep doing what they're doing, but 10% better. Vendors and consultants retool to serve that market, inevitably watering things down and frequently missing the point entirely.

This really frustrated me when it happened in the Agile movement. [1] But I've come to accept that as long as our industry is structured the way it is, it's going to keep happening. It's honestly kind of depressing, but the good news is that anybody willing to build a culture of excellence and put in marginally more work can get much, much better results than their competitors.

[1] I wrote more about that here: http://williampietri.com/writing/2011/agiles-second-chasm-an...
Did Miguel ask him to leave? Or did he just sit around passive-aggressively for 3 whole months? Also, rms called Miguel "a traitor to the Free Software community" at some point, and now with the whole MIT business, he gets in with the twitter defamation league spouting off his grievances. That's pretty much beyond cowardly and into despicable territory.
Wow, this site is the best Twitter interface I’ve ever seen. Loads fast, no stupid replies, written with free software.
I meant watching people throw the wrong type of recyclables in the wrong bins, and ignoring all the numbers.
Keep in mind that it's pretty likely this is just vandalism. That said: if a critical mass of the people you need to work with at your project refuse to do so, it doesn't so much matter how you're "handling" the project; you won't be able to lead it effectively. If Stallman hasn't stepped down from GNU now, he may yet do so in the near future, as it dawns on him that his resignation is in the best interests of the project itself.
I find it interesting that it's always called "infrastructure as code" but then everything is basically "infrastructure as config files" where any control flow is application-specific constructs for a language not built for the task.

Why not just read python, like how webpack uses javascript as its "config".