skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> Another source tells us Boeing quickly reported the issue with the single plane to the FAA last week, and now more planes with similar cracking have been found.
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>> Another source tells us Boeing quickly reported the issue with the single plane to the FAA last week, and now more planes with similar cracking have been found.

Looks to be more than just one plane.
> China currently has an estimated 200 million CCTV cameras watching over its citizens

I wish reporters would stop mixing up cctv cameras with facial recognition cameras. 200 million cctv cameras is a meaningless number in the context of facial recognition. How many of those cameras are capable of facial recognition? No wait, that’s way to “sciencey” and detailed for this clickbait article.
Recycling was a way to get people to feel better about their consumption, and for certain politicians to tout they “did” something.

It’s never made sense since day 1. As a kid, I couldn’t figure out how the hell recycling was working because everywhere I saw, all the recycling “policies” were being violated, and unless there was a massive team at the recycling center re-sorting it all, it made no sense why we had to sort it in the first place.

Turns out, it was just getting dumped in China. Reducing consumption is the only solution.
Is that where the rubber meets the road?
stallman.org has employees?
People like you are a perfect example of why the cult of Stallman is bad for Free Software.
The comments in here are pretty solid. I would just add a couple of points:

1) Spoofing both localizer and glideslope signals will not be easy. The glideslope transmits from an antenna beside the runway abeam the touchdown aim point, while the localizer antenna is at the far end of the runway. It would be difficult to overpower both at the aircraft without being detected by integrity sensors at the airport (possibly even "near the airport" in countries concerned with spoofing). You can't just light up a plane with signals of similar strength; the spoofer must be many many dB stronger.

2) Crews are trained to watch the plane and overall situation closely. Not only do they want to see the needles centered, but there are checks of altitude versus distance along the approach. That's DME distance versus altitude, VNAV profile, and "reasonable" radar altimeter data.

3) Any instability caused by the spoofing is likely to trip the on-board integrity sensing and cause an INOP alert on modern aircraft. Also, a hinky-jinky ride on an ILS that's been crudely spoofed may induce the crew to execute a missed aporoach.

3) With (augmented) GNSS and integrated, multi-mode navigation on modern aircraft, the crew will see a deviation from the correct path.

4) The (enhanced) ground proximity warning system would detect a movement trend toward "terrain other than the runway."

Of course, if the target is not a well equipped, modern aircraft, spoofing the ILS may work.

Alright, that's my 2 cents as a radio and cypherpunk with multiple Boeing type ratings...
:-) glad that part was helpful!

Regarding the digital technology part, for me it's basically saying that we have this messy, organic, chemical mix of things happening within our bodies, and then we condense all of that into one word, e.g., "happy."

What fascinates me about language, and frustrates me, and does many other things to me, is the fact that when I use the word "happy" it may be describing a different internal messiness than your word "happy," and yet, the more we have in common, the more I will often assume our definitions are the same. I can't tell you how many conflicts in which I've found myself from definitions that I assumed to be shared but were in fact different, e.g., "I'm ready to leave," lol.
My Twitter account has been suspended for suspicious activity. Someone with whom I disagreed probably tried logging into my account a few times that triggered it, and now I cannot regain access to my account unless I provide my phone number. When you sign up, phone number is optional, but when someone fucks around with you, it becomes mandatory. The fact that the system is designed this way is absurd. This is not limited to Twitter, by the way.
It’s not appropriate to call yourself Dr. with an honorary degree so I’m not sure why you are being down voted.
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I’m not sure... I'm not even American, but RMS came to my city once to give a talk, lived for a few days at a student's house (who volunteered ofc) and apparently it was such a bad experience that rumours of it spread through the whole university - mainly hygiene issues. The host mentioned that he threw away the blankets rather than cleaning them. I didn't experience it personally, but rumours on the internet make me believe it's a relatively common experience...
I wonder if the same would work for homosexuals in repressive countries - perhaps they could convince themselves they were not homosexual because 97% of their fellow citizens think being gay is bad?
Let's see how "weak-cancels-all" works out in the end, when all you morons already sold your souls to nice men who promised not to violate your privacy.

You're all idiots.
I should have said volunteer, but it could as well be a FSF employee. And yes, he does not manage the site himself.
I built an online RSS reader with Rust and WebAssembly
I think the two recent resignations are specifically over the mailing lists posts where he quibbled on using the term rape in the case of statutory rape, and specifically the departments that had continued to take funding from Epstein after his original convictions.
Coming next year: pre-rooted devices specifically for security research, though likely with well established groups. https://thenextweb.com/apple/2019/08/08/apple-announces-deve...
While Google does have Facebook as a real competitor, that competition is not on the ad networks side. Google controls the vast majority of ad networks sales (i.e. ads placed on publisher's sites)

Google makes a significant portion of the value for each ad.

> For displaying ads with AdSense for content, publishers receive 68% of the revenue recognized by Google in connection with the service. For AdSense for search, publishers receive 51% of the revenue recognized by Google. [
0]

[0] https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/180195?hl=en
I meant his career and reputation, though.
Yeah and it needs "more memory" because it runs Java. Modern iPhones have way more than enough memory to run one app at a time and a few in the background.
Low expectations and humility do not appear to be how he furthered free software as a movement in defiance of the world.
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This is a teacher defined penalty, not a ClassDojo defined penalty.

ClassDojo's main use case is to reward behavior that's usually difficult to reward, like "Sally played well with others today!" It encourages the small things.

This is an interesting use case of the platform by the teacher, and I suspect the outcome will simply be the teacher won't use this penalty anymore.
Be aware of Australian's Assistance and Access Bill 2018.
The problem with the EU is that the most important institution in it is an extra step removed compared to most representational democracies. The heads of state select the Commission, not the people nor the EU Parliament. And the Commission is the only one that can propose laws.

There are two other important problems with the system as well: voter turnout and voting in blocs (country or EU party). The reason this is a problem is that the candidates campaign as individuals, but act according to what their group tells them. Sometimes they vote along what their country votes, other times they vote along the lines off what their parliamentary group tells them. But where are the interests of the actual constituents here?
Ken White has covered this at length: you can't be sued for libel for quoting someone else's story. You have to be relating the veracity of the false facts yourself, based on your supposed knowledge of what happened. "I believe this story I read elsewhere" doesn't count.
Everyone bitched at me for not voting the last election. To every person who asked me, I asked who they voted for our states railroad commissioner. They all said “oh I don’t know I just voted all blue”. I asked them if they knew what our railroad commissioner did, they did not know. So I proceeded to enlighten them on how the RR commissioner controls everything around our state’s oil fund and that they all just voted for the equivalent of donald trump to manage our oil rich state.

Of course he did not win because the other candidate was much better qualified and rural voters knew him en masse (he’s the one that signs checks for all the citizen stewards of oil fields), but I found it hilarious that people would flame me for not voting for a figurehead (president) but be a-ok to vote in some no name hack to manage our schools because of big money advertising in elections
A line from a passage I remember reading as a medical student, has stuck with me after a decade and a half. It described anticancer therapies as having the effect of "... poisoning patients to the edge of their existence..." It is not my belief that the side effect profile of anti tumor drugs has improved much.

So, yeah. Treatments for cancer can suck just as badly as the disease itself.
Great comment in general but I certainly wouldn't call a piece of glass "tactile". I've been waiting, ever since the first iphone, for a tactile smartphone (one with buttons).

Obviously your meaning was toward "customisable UI", which tablets are. I use one as a daw.
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Eh, I don't really agree with "you can't hire devops."

You can hire somebody with extensive experience in jenkins, and building and integrating tests, deploying, logging, diagnosing production issues, systems/performance-experience, DBA skills, secret management, etc.

And many companies do. If you don't think hiring a specialist in those things should be called "hiring devops" what realistically should we call it?
That's how the mainstream thinks all around the world; it's the rare position that believes principles rule society when consensus on any kind of vision for the human condition is so far out of reach.
Stick a pickle fork in Boeing; it is cooked.
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Searching for a technical/or non-technical co-founder to help build a company that services the programatic advertising space.

Current founder has had multiple exits.
Today, Sarah Mei called for RMS to resign as GNU project leader as well, and started putting pressure on the FSF as nominal funders of the GNU project.

Again, first they go to you, and if you will not comply they go to your boss.
I'll sometimes include a "Thank you" or "I enjoyed working with everyone," if it's true. But even with that, none of mine since I graduated University have ever been more than two to three sentences tops. Resignations should always be short and to the point.

Nixon's was one sentence: https://watergate.info/1974/08/09/nixons-resignation-letter....
Glad you have the packs of the people when the Government doesn't.
https://fo.am/activities/midimutant/

An Aphex Twin collaboration, naturally
Yeah, I would not even go as far as AES in your CPU. Just... any part of your CPU, or your motherboard, or your GPU. RISC-V is still not suitable for desktop, or at least not commercially available AFAIK, and POWER9 is too expensive. I want open software and open hardware!
I haven't seen so much hostility from the world so much as 25 years of people becoming wealthy by working on free software, but then, I've only been paying attention since the mid-1990s.
Then you should say that, and not "his life's work", which is obviously something different. People are going to keep using and extending Emacs.
There's a subtle, complex space between publicly talking shit for petty reasons about somebody who has just made mistakes, and sharing stories about somebody who is truly immoral for the purpose of helping others avoid suffering the same consequences.

I don't claim that this is near either extreme of the spectrum, but it seems closer to the latter end, in my brief interpretation.
Maya Angelou did, her Twitter handle was DrMayaAngelou.

Most obviously don't, otherwise we'd be talking about Dr. Kylie Minogue, Dr. Kanye West, Dr. Bill Gates, Dr. Oprah, etc., etc. It would be insane.
My last two resignations:

- "As discussed, this is my notice of resignation effective February 28."

- "Further to our conversation, this email confirms my resignation from <X> effective today."

The interesting conversations about resignation happen in private. The paper trail for administrative reasons doesn't have to have the gory details.
I built this as an experiment with Cloudflare's Worker Script.

Here's a bit behind this app.

- Frontend: Just few lines of code using Svelte

- Backend: a Worker Script using Rust, here's how I do the RSS to JSON stuff:

#[wasm_bindgen]
pub fn parse(content: &str) -> String {
let feed: Option<rss::Channel> = match content.parse::<Feed>().unwrap() {
Feed::RSS(rss_feed) => Some(rss_feed),
_ => None
};
if feed.is_some() {
let rss_feed = feed.unwrap();
let items: Vec<serde_json::Value> = rss_feed.items.iter().map(|item: &rss::Item| {
return json!({
"title": item.title.as_ref(),
"link": item.link.as_ref(),
"date": item.pub_date.as_ref(),
});
}).collect();
return json!({ "feed": items }).to_string();
}
return "".to_string();
}

The only overhead, I think, is the part that I have to actually write the code to fetch RSS content in JavaScript (worker.js), as fool as you can imagine:

const url = request.url.match(/url=(.*)/);
if (url && url.length > 1) {
const feeds = url[1].split(',');
let promises = feeds.map(async url => {
const res = await fetch(url);
const text = await res.text();
const json = JSON.parse(parse(text));
return json && json.feed || [];
});
let result = await Promise.all(promises);
let combined = result.reduce((arr, feed) => {
arr = arr.concat(feed);
return arr;
}, []);
return new Response(JSON.stringify({ "items": combined }), {status: 200, headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}});
}

If network libraries such as `reqwest`, and some date parser libraries like `chrono` already supported WASM, I'd be able to skip this JS step for good.

Deployed on Cloudflare using Wrangler CLI, I'm still on my free plan, and I hope I won't hit a 100k requests/day limit anytime soon.
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>I don't feel too great about any get-together where the topic at hand is , quite literally, let's speak ill of someone

Oh, I don't know, that thread read more like relatively mild commiseration between people with first-hand experiences hosting RMS - which all sounded rather chagrined/amused more than anything, at least in retrospect.

(Admittedly such talk is better in person over drinks, but it's hardly the "cancel culture" type mob you see nowadays.)
There seems to be something weird going on. Check archive.org's recent version on the site:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190928070003/https://stallman....

"What's bad about" section has a "Richard Stallman" link to the Medium post, and the "donate to the Free Software Foundation" link goes to the "Richard Stallman Eats Something From His Foot" Youtube video. The Youtube link is especially suspicious because Youtube uses proprietary Javascript, which RMS has never supported.
Yep. “I wish $company all the best” etc. Just never a reason.
I'm sorry to hear that.

Though yes, as you noted, brain plasticity would likely compensate, at least somewhat. As I've grown older, I've increasingly noticed that there are many people who do seem to have fundamental deficits in organised thinking and linguistic abilities. More often written, but also spoken. Sometimes as elements of another condition (e.g., Parkinsons), but in many cases apparently either congenital or aquired through early environment.
Please stop accusing people of that which you know nothing about. It is OK to disagree. To go from there to ascribe intent and motive is, well, unfair at best.
If you consider Wikipedia and its citations to be reliable sources, it would generally be considered bad form to expect others to address you as Doctor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorary_degree#Use_of_title_a...
I was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma in Feb 2017. At my fourth treatment (every three weeks) of pembrolizumab, my PET and CAT scans were clear. I continued treatment for 12 months, and still get scanned every four months. Still clear 3 weeks ago. My doctor says he now gets to use the c-word with cancer patients. Minimal side effects for me. I wish for my cohorts that more reliable treatments come soon.
> The 2019 heat was directly implicated in the deaths of at least 15 people. Five died in France,

That is not correct whoever wrote it. just do a google search: heatwave 2019 total deaths

CNN reports already 1500 deaths in France only. This is a link to a news site where they estimate a higher count, although I of course cannot verify the correctness of the source: https://www.vox.com/world/2019/6/26/18744518/heat-wave-2019-...
Sure for a small individual team or org. But getting this to scale isn't feasible. As companies grow they tend to hire based on specific skill sets. Thats when you start seeing the split into either dev or ops, which brings us back to the need for a small high performing with devops mentality...the devops team.
Hate? I hope that's hyperbole.

Some of the most significant human advances have been made by people obsessing over their passionate interests to the neglect of everything else.
My remark certainly wasn't hostile towards RMS, so I'm really not clear what you mean.
What happened to Netscape? The original internet browser of the 90s
https://twitter.com/marypcbuk/status/1174043618459430914?s=2...
Harvard alone has given out 2300. They are not exactly rare.
Or, just, if you're going to lend Stallman a guest bedroom, be aware of what might happen. Everything doesn't have to have a soaring, far-reaching philosophical purpose.
He's not a lefty. He's a fundamentalist libertarian.
An English University gave Roy Hodgson an honorary doctorate [1]. You know, the guy who managed their football (soccer) team for a while.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35382864
Blockchain? (I didn’t click your link)

But in that system, how do you allow leniency for the 40 year old single mother of 5 who accidentally switched lanes without using a turn signal?

Individuals also represent humanity in the government. We are not a nation of robots.
Research find: I came across this video. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I_fUpP-hq3A

It says most plastics end up in incineration.

It also says plastics are separated using infrared technology.

I wonder if it is far from imagination to regulate the types of plastics available for use. What if all plastics for all single use purposes were restricted to a single kind of plastic.
>That is, to say the least, relevant information for anyone else who might consider lending him a guest bedroom.

Sure, but that's not what's going on in that thread.

It's basically just a pissing contest, with participants across the internet, about 'ridiculous' stories involving RMS.

A link to the famous rms-foot meme is by no means a warning to future hospitable folks.

It's not some neighborhood watch newsletter to warn about a predator, it's just a bunch of people who have been given the social go-ahead to share stories that they wouldn't otherwise have -- while simultaneously vying for social credit from others with regards to how hospitable they say they were.

In other words, i'm not buying the supposed good intentions 'we must warn others' perspective here.

If anything, it seems like group therapy for those that feel scorned by RMS to get together and share war-stories. That's fine -- but let's not paint it like they're adamantly trying to prevent RMS from victimizing someone.

Back in my day it was called 'gossiping', and it was usually poor form.
Over here in the UK it is optional in many places. Most self service checkouts will ask you whether you want a receipt when you're done, and most cashiers will ask the same.

So for the most part it is optional. Only encountered one shop in the last few years that always printed the receipt out.
Yes, I can see your point.
You can pay the golden gate fee online later that day.
I didn't say you were. I'm responding to your remark about the work Stallman did "in defiance of the world". I rather think the opposite happened, that Stallman (like several other people) made a judgement about how the world wanted to operate, and was proved (at least for the time period we're in now) correct.
That, and there is OTR. You can create your own IRC client in a few lines of code in Python, and you can pull OTR on top of it quite easily.

As far as Slack goes... I trust them as much as I trust Discord: I do not.
These witch hunts will be a significant topic in our history of this time.

So, so, sad.
Why use something like CSound when you don't need it's complexity? Sure, it can theoretically do all the same stuff, but if you can buy a software package or hardware box that saves you a few hundred hours of doing stuff yourself, the vast majority of which is re-implementing what's readymade in other tools, it's typically an easy choice.
That post is a dupe of this one; this one was posted first.
All aviation is pretty damned safe.

> With ZERO nuke detonations...

Chalk this up to the design of the weapons themselves, not the B-52s. It's actually quite difficult to have an accidental nuclear detonation.

> And a flight carcass of nearly 70 years old now???

Today's B-52s are largely Ships of Theseus. Not much in them is going to be original any more.
Because Csound is mostly a trashcan of naive cookbook implementations of synthesis and processing algos collected by academic dilettantes who seem to have no clue about commercial production values or professional DSP coding.

Simple example - Chebyshev polynomials. How many Csound users even understand that these will alias if they cross Nyquist?

So Csound does a lot badly. It's not quite unusable in a commercial setting, but the sound quality is a long way behind even basic VSTs - which means the steep learning curve and 1960s-style programming system don't justify the benefits.

Supercollider has similar issues. The control language is more interesting, but the synthesis and processing code are similarly unrefined.
yes, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21090851
Personal attacks aren't welcome here.
Are his expectation really that high? What I get from it is that RMS does not own a car and wants all places he frequents (city center, supermarket) be reachable on foot or by public transport. Plus he has mild paranoia about electronic devices spying on him, but that's one of the reasons we all love him, isn't it? :)
This should absolutely exist. Reaction to the idea of students rating teachers is an extremely useful test for discovering a person's underlying attitudinal biases.
Interesting idea. Might get more interest if you post this as a Show HN.
Of course, Stallman is on that list as one of the people who does so anyways.
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I'm not sure I've seen that be any more prevalent now than it was when we had developers and sysadmins.

To me it's become like 'agile' and interesting set of viewpoints and philosophies totally ruined by the industry that's grown around it.
Thanks, I hadn't heard of him. I'll ammend my top comment.
I'm centering the conversation around sex work from the sex worker perspective. Does everyone who works prefer to be independent? Or do many prefer a boss to deal with the day to day? These are basic sex worker educations I received while working in the community (in Toronto).
I've described literally the first comments in the thread, which are what was actually linked here. It seems a little weird to hold an HN comment accountable for every random thing anyone on Twitter said in response to de Icaza.