skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facial recognition is a software function which can be performed on image data coming from any camera with sufficient resolution, most likely that includes the majority of surveillance cameras deployed in China. China might suffer under an antiquated and corrupt political system but the country does not lack modern technology.
I don't think it's strong-rules-"all."

I appreciate RMS for all that he has done. But unless he committed a crime, which he didn't, I don't think we should police his thoughts and opinions. The thresholds for decency may be different for you and me. And RMS is not a politician whose opinions could potentially affect all of us. If you don't link what he says, you can just ignore him.
So, if the prime minister of your country delegates all of their power to a private company (or group of non-elected people) then you'd still consider that to be a representative democracy? Especially when the only one that is allowed to propose laws and propose amendments would be that same company?

I think it's a question of how many steps removed the decision makers are from elected officials.
I was a sex worker - a stripper and I highly recommend it to everyone.
This seems extraordinarily unlikely if you know the French.
CVS will email you a receipt.
He is welcome to his thoughts and opinions, and everyone else is entitled to their freedom not to associate with him as a result.
Very sad. I hope he is able to take some loyalists with him.

Stallman forever.
So the right thing to do is to let him stay homeless?! Those people are stupid...
> why not use CSound for everything?

And it's actually quite boring to grind through compared to the modern alternatives. SuperCollider is incredible in its powers of brute synthesis. So much fun.
And now China isn't even taking it anymore [1]

Most recycling programs in the U.S. are little more than a social experiment at this point.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/china...
Overweight? That's OK. You Can Too Lose Weight Running
It depends on the place. I know a couple of small, independent cafe/takeouts that don't print it and don't even ask you if you want one. They'll give you one if you ask. (One doesn't even give you a paper bill, it's displayed on a tablet at the cashier.)

Come to think of it, 7-Eleven is the same way, you have to ask for one.
Adding fire retardant to plastic is straight forward [1,2]. One of the things about the NIST presentation [2] that is also relevant is that it discusses the additives that are added to plastics for one reason or another. Those additives add additional difficulty in processing post consumer plastic into precursors for new things.

[1] https://sciencing.com/burn-potassium-nitrate-7708552.html

[2] https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/documents/el/fire_r...
I can implant a tiny microchip into your phone that will intercept every disc read/write and transmit it. Is that something it makes sense to check for, though?
Some items cannot be landfilled resourcefully, like metals. They need to be recycled now or they rust.
You're forgetting the context, being the selection of a device to run Linux (or anything else) on. Also, more memory is more memory, no qualification needed. It doesn't matter why the device has more memory, just as long as it does.
I must admit... I chuckled when I went looking for clarity and a wild Stallman appeared.
Fair enough, I've edited the comment so it's no longer personal.

I stand behind the statement, though.
>his thoughts and opinions beyond FLOSS do not matter to me

Why? That's an impressive amount of benefit of the doubt to give anybody, but so much more so if you're also willing to personally host that person. It's almost unbelievable. Do you in fact mean to say not that you don't care about his opinions, but that you simply have read about them and don't find them particularly condemnable?
It's amazing that a professional journalist can't even spell "fond" right.
The new enemy of an ordered, happy society – the crying baby
People aren't always rational or benevolent in their association choices.
It is particularly infuriating to me that he signed every email he sent to MIT's CSAIL mailing list that way. MIT doesn't issue honorary doctorates, on principle.

(And of course the result was everyone called him "famed MIT computer scientist" and was asking about him being a professor when he had no paid affiliation with MIT for decades.)
Yes but the cases when taking such short flights instead of trains make sense is when you commute form a small city airport to an international hub for a layover to an international flight and that saves you lots of time as you've already been through security once and you're already inside the airport fairly close to your departure gate so you can arrive pretty close time wise to your next flight as opposed to having to commute from the train station to the airport and be there ~2 hours before the flight to clear security and all.

Nobody takes the plane for 30 min to get from city center to city center, we do it because we have to catch another flight from that city's airport and it's quicker by plane.
That's not the definition of subjective. When GP says "That’s not subjective; you just made it up." it means that talking about airplane safety (which can obviously be objectively measured with things like crashes per landing/takeoff, crashes per mile, etc.) with the moniker "it's subjectively the safest" doesn't make any sense.

It would be like saying "That plane is subjectively the heaviest" or "Today is subjectively the hottest day on record" - no, it's not subjective, you just made it up.
This is a pretty silly debate. Plenty of people have done far less far-reaching CS work to obtain "actual" PhD's; it's not like computer science doctorates are medical degrees. Let him have his "Dr." title.
Just FYI,

I saw an old interview where RMS goes bananas when the interviewer calls him a communist.
This looks to be either 36 or 40, can't quite count the discrete units correctly from the photo.

Let's say it's 40 x ~14MP cameras fixed in to a housing.

What's stopping anyone from using higher resolution subunits and more of them.

Or, if you bolt ten of these things together do you get a 5000MP camera?
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I'd say he's more communist, since he seems to believe that private property just shouldn't exist. Libertarians by contrast would tend more on the scale of "you should be able to do whatever you want with your private property."
I want to minimise the number of times that a single person "being careful" is the difference between a smooth experience and an extended service outage.

I also favour responding to mistakes quickly over preventing them completely.

I've seen a lot of teams where there was the one keeper of the systems who knew how to do all the deployments and migrations. In every situation they became a bottleneck for the team, and prevented any real improvements being made.
I used that phrase because his work did not get a lot of practical support (especially at first). It was quite a hard path to take. People were hardly throwing money at him and saying "You go!" or something.

I generally agree with what little I understand of the principles behind his work. But "selling out" for money (and locking up code to facilitate that) was the trend he was defying and it's a vastly easier path than the one he chose.
I thought the evidence is what you’re seeking as a deterrent isn’t that effective.
Why not hire "devops" skill into each team instead of creating a silo?

Massive reason behind devops is to get Dev teams to take more ownership of ops so they improve their Dev practises, I don't see a dedicated team being able to improve the code base in the same way.
Who cares why the device 'needs more memory' (which it doesn't by the way, the excessive amounts of memory in recent Android devices is more of a marketing ploy than a necessity) when the goal is to select a device to run an alternative operating system on? That is, after all, the context of my reply.
The free market never has, nor never will exist. The kind of unfair distribution of scarce items to people with the most money, the creating of a competitive rather than cooperative substrate for social interaction. These things tear society apart and have always needed to be moderated whenever a market is present.
That's true, I agree. But then everyone loses what he has to offer as well ...
It's a white lie. It's not really the garbage seller's business whether it is recycled into fire or buried. They aren't harmed.

It's a violation of HN etiquette to accuse people not not reading the articles.
The Inevitable Death of VMs: A Progress Report [pdf]
I agree. Would like to hear more confirmation before believing this.
Facebook give the government this and the government in acts regulations to “protect” Facebook. I’m sure Facebook is salivating at the thought at getting even more access to your sensitive data. Once the backdoor is installed who knows who’ll have access.
It's essentially impossible for that kind of a vote to succeed though. Requiring a two thirds majority among MEPs against the Commission is going to be very difficult, because those MEPs still have to deal with their national governments and parties at home. The Council is the one that put the Commission in place and the Council is the national governments.
Is there any efficient alternative to big newspapers with decades long editorial reputation?

I'm not pitying the useless money grab ad-infested publications, but they were the ones that actually spent on good journalism.

Though it would be good to see a lot more numbers/data about this. Also probably with globalisation the market simply consolidates. There's no need for more than a handful big "trust anchors" for news. The local news problem is tougher to crack though :/
I agree with brundolf, these are tools and most people can get a handle on how they work in an afternoon or two. We aren't talking about expecting new hires set this infrastructure up from scratch, just use the tools that are already in place.
At least part of the reason d'etre for FP is to make people who took a lot of math courses at university feel like they didn't waste their education.
"are not aware of discussions that would force us to change our product."

It reads like your product is already compatible with govt ease dropping
It works great for the Screen Actor’s Guild and the rest of the film industry. They set minimum wages and use their market power to radically restrict entry so that there’s less competition from outsiders, by not working with firms that employ non-members and expelling members that do.

Any Software Professionals Guild could do the same, reduce the supply of competitors and punish people who employed any entry level workers who didn’t have the connections to get in.

One benefit, for current members, is that you can increase the cost of membership for new members. So you start off letting boot camp graduates work, then restrict it to Bachelor’s holders, (who must be taught by members of course), then to a Master’s.

You see the ever increasing credentialism in physiotherapy in the US, where you’re now required to have a “professional doctorate”. Pure waste given that it’s an apprenticeship in Germany and a Bachelor’s everywhere else.
No, not by their actions of course. It happens because of the lack of appropriate actions by them. Governments should anticipate on future events pointed out by science. And that is what they did not. All I see is business as usual.
> “That's a much stronger effect on the reader than just reading person A asserts fact B without them showing the work.”

Exactly. That stronger effect is a very bad thing. In this article maybe it was used for morally good purposes to help you understand the differences in treatment of consent in rape cases or prostitution cases.

But then tomorrow someone uses the same rhetorical trick to have an emotionally “stronger effect” on the reader because of some one-off harrowing tale about a consensual prostitution story that turned out very badly, and now suddenly readers’ emotional judgments have swung back the other way and they feel like so-and-so’s gripping op-ed justifies a belief that prostitution cannot contain consent.

It’s naive to think this kind of “dress up the facts with a narrative” approach would only serve “good” purposes, rather than being used to reinforce existing harmful biases or prejudices, fan the flames of nationalism, etc. It’s pretty much equally naive to think you can personally identify when it is “good” emotional rhetoric vs when it is bad. It’s like saying, “advertising doesn’t work on me.”

This is why regardless of the effect in this one idiosyncratic situation it has got to be systematically ignored and boiled down to analytical judgment not significantly affected by emotional or situational window dressing.

This process of boiling down to facts has got to be elevated as a more important social norm in our world.
Metaphors are quite useful tools.
Could you possibly elaborate on why you feel Nathan Robinson is an extremely weird dude? I only know about him from his writing in Current Affairs (and famously his take-downs).
What if those thoughts and opinions undermine the effects of FLOsS?
You're going to have to explain why plastic is "literally oil" in this context, because this is not as obvious as you think it might be. It's a lot harder to convert plastic to something I can put in my car, for example, and there isn't a big oil patch in the Pacific.
The energy cost of recycling aluminum might be high, but it's much lower (and cheaper) than refining new aluminum.
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Let’s not forget that John F Kennedy used his position of power to compel a woman to give his friend a blowjob in front of him, and JFK is still somehow considered a hero for simply having been assassinated.

This is probably a bit of overreaction while MIT is in damage control mode.
Someone on Reddit says that his site might have been vandalized, and that it was previously vandalized yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/dambxx/stallman_step...

It's a bit suspicious because a) he just said two days ago that he has no intention of stepping down from GNU https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2019-09/msg00008... and b) there's another copy of the entry dated yesterday, deeper on the page: https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#27_September...

It 100% wouldn't surprise me if he didn't have adequate security for his personal website. He comes from a culture of leaving doors unlocked and passwords unset, and he also doesn't actually participate in the modern web (he has a daily cronjob that emails him text dumps of web pages he wants to read, he doesn't "browse" the web in any me), and his personal site is probably not actually run by the FSF or anyone else with experience in running websites.
It's not so amazing that a professional journalist might have autocorrect on the device they use to Tweet on their personal account.
Not OP, but because it often slows down development since different teams keep re-implementing similar ideas or have strong requirements to allow using their infrastructure. There are always trade-offs to consider, silo-ing projects can be critical to some core infrastructure projects and security libraries, can be very useful for other control plane projects, but can also actively hinder innovation in other cases.

That's a wordy way of saying it's not always the most efficient use of resources.
Is NixOS a scheme? Anyway, we moved away from Nix because of all its problems (the language being only a medium-sized one). Also, I detest CMake, but by your own standard (longevity, popularity), it is better than Nix or Guix. Frankly those tools haven’t shown themselves to be “superior” in any meaningful way. Yes, they have been around for a while, but having been around for a long time and not enjoying any significant adoption is not very compelling.
I feel like I remember him running Unix servers back in the 1990s that were deliberately insecure, because computer security was itself immoral. I don't know that he actually runs this site, though.
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It was a 5c; 5s and later had the SEP.

You don't 'flash' a fake ios; you can use the bootrom exploit to put your modified version of ios into memory, and once you reboot you would get back straight stock ios. They could even make it reboot as soon as the password was harvested, leaving behind no trace. This is scary stuff. You can keep yourself safe by rebooting as soon as you get your phone back from border patrol, but many people would not know to do that.
The lack of unions in the industry is making me leave. It’s going to leave out many of its current employees to dry: I want something better than the word of an entrepreneur.
I'm especially intrigued by the "Timelike, Spacelike, and Lightlike" diagram on Page 10 of the linked paper where "lightlike" phenomena share an endpoint. Fascinating.
Policing thoughts and opinions is exactly what the socialists want.
Kakeya is another nice needle problem:

https://youtu.be/IM-n9c-ARHU
Surely you mean nation state actors.
The DX7 is directly the reason I'm where I'm at in the world. As a kid, when the DX7 was new, I'd spend hours making sounds and writing music on it. I explicitly went to uni (an Electrical/computer systems Engineering degree) to learn how to make my own synth. I learnt pretty much how in the first 12 months (although I never got around to making my own). I got head hunted from uni and here I am 3 decades later.

If it weren't for the DX7 I would have stayed in the classical instrument stream and done a music degree. I wouldn't be on HN today.

So, it's great that people are still applying new tech and gizmos to the DX7. It's got a special place in my heart.
> since he seems to believe that private property just shouldn't exist

Although I'm sympathetic to that idea myself, that just isn't true in Stallman's case. He's a Bernie/Stein voter and he's read something by Emma Goldman, but I think that's the extent of his "lefty" gland.
This is an interesting discussion. It seems that it's possible for i/o to be slow in Rust, and the PHP regex engine may be very good....
In general I agree that it's wrong to say "always" or "never" in any context, and especially with something as complex as human social behavior. However if you'll allow me a bit of anecdote, I've found that places which are outwardly considered "metrosexual" (maybe not the best descriptor, but maybe close enough) kinds of cities or countries actually lend significantly more success to "traditional" male sexual signals than other places.
I disagree that it would take man-years to fish that out from a binary. Black hat and white hat hackers do this all the time.
The latter is what he wants. He is happy for people to charge for software, but he advocates that the owner must have full control.
Legal Considerations for Accepting Donations on Your For Profit Site
Back to the pet store with Crackers then :(
Synthetic networks with molecular recognition: Precision medicine applications
Again, and not to perpetuate an unproductive argument, but the opposite is probably true; it appears in a lot of cases to be easier to make money not locking up your code, which is why open source software dominates so many markets today, and is integral to virtually every commercial product.
It's a paradox because esteemed mathematicians, including authors of classic books, have vociferously argued that their particular arbitrary choice is the sole correct choice.

In probability, one must make many unstated assumptions to get an answer to a problem. Usually one believes those assumptions are "canonical", like uniform independent distributions. Sometimes woldviews contradict each other.
“There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and known the same women.”
Background noise disrupts host–parasitoid interactions
A handy website [1] notes at least a couple of B-52 nuclear incidents. In 1961, a B-52 carrying nuclear weapons broke up in mid-air over North Carolina; the bombs did not detonate [2]. In 1966, a B-52 crashed due to a mid-air collision with a refueling tanker over Spain. In this case, the non-nuclear explosives in two of the nuclear weapons detonated, scattering radioactive material [3].

So I would not say "zero nuke detonations". And your .00001% failure rate (I didn't check your math) is not meaningful unless compared to the failure rate of other aircraft. The B-52 is impressive, but not flawless.

[1] http://www.atomicarchive.com/Almanac/Brokenarrows_static.sht...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash
RMS is more like "meek-and-bullied-rules-something-at-last" as a counterpoint to strong-rules-all culture. This witchhunt just keeps on giving :D I met RMS in person.
And if you don’t want to use a PC to get the DX7 sound you can purchase a Korg Volca FM for really cheap. It’s sound engine is modelled from the DX7 and you can load in DX7 patches.
It has nothing to do with money? How are the values and culture of those constituents determined, if not through vast sums of money spent on propoganda? Protecting the earth - not shitting where you eat - is an inherently sensical idea. The only way that people can align themselves against such an idea is when they are manipulated to believe it is part of a broader conspiracy to ruin their lives. It takes a lot of money.

Also, so what if the bad actors want us to believe that all politicians are the same? What if it were true that they're all the same and evil? Would it still be "incredibly stupid" to accurately assess the state of affairs?
Werner Vogels has a recent blog post [1] entitled "Modern Applications at AWS" where he says "To succeed in using application development to increase agility and innovation speed, organizations must adopt five elements, in any order: microservices; purpose-built databases; automated software release pipelines; a serverless operational model; and automated, continuous security."

I see the devops role at large cos evolving into dev-sec-ops for the "automated, continuous security" tooling and processes. (Besides the usual tooling for delivering and supporting a reliable network service, cloud engineering, system-level issue resolution in dev and test, load and performance and containerized test automation in the pipelines, failover fire-drills, etc.)

[1] https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2019/08/modern-applicat...
Now what's the ugliest, awful story about your behavior? Kindly share it publicly along with proof of your actual identity.

This is relevant information for anyone who might consider giving you a job, having a relationship with you, or renting you a place to stay, so it's totally appropriate to air your dirty laundry in a entirely public forum and associate it to your real identity. Thank you.
Energy has to get super cheap before it makes sense to process landfills just to clean them up, and that probably happens before they are an economically interesting source of materials.
Almost like he is a person that thinks about principles and morals a lot and doesn't have a position that can accurately be summarised with a ready made label...

[edit] if you follow any of RMS's thinking he is generally quite precise and careful in his writing, choosing words carefully, eschewing ready made labels and coining his own with more precise definitions.

So it would not surprise that referring to Stallman as say a "lefty", "communist", "libertarian" or a whatever would annoy him, since there is no good consensus on what those terms actually mean.

I would posit that the use of over-broad popularly contentious labels is generally counter-productive to actual thinking and one of the major problems in modern political discourse - it promotes tribalism over thinking about issues.

Labelling is a poor substitute for reasoning.
G.N.U. is now undeserved.