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Please don't reply to flamebait with more flamebait. That makes this place even worse, and is against the site guidelines too.

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Apart from rap just, really, really not at all being anywhere in the same ballpark, there are examples where rap music has undergone social scrutiny and changed as a result: Cop killing lyrics. I'm not saying they don't occur at all any more, but they're considered much less acceptable than in the 90's.
Samsung Galaxy M30s to launch in India on Sept and will be available on Amazon
'Obfuscation' - feeding fake data to privacy-violating apps - is a promising solution for everyone who does not want to miss out on apps like whatsapp, or become the digital equivalent of a prepper with only self-compiled OSS or hobbyist software.

On Android, XPrivacy and the newer version XPrivacyLua use this approach, but they require the Xposed framework to run. I wish this approach would be more common: https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacyLua/blob/master/README.md
The Failure of 3D Touch (2018)
For a start just leaving a paper trail of formal complaints at MIT would help ascertain this has been happenning for a long time. I just find it shocking that there is no formal complaint. Instead, what we have is just random people claiming that other people got harassed. None of this is verifiable and honestly if internet has thought us anything it is that everybody lies in social media just to get a few likes.
Perpetuating flamewars like this will get you banned on HN, regardless of what you're fighting for. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site more to heart, we'd appreciate it. The core idea is curiosity, and in discussion—respectful and kind co-exploration.
Skąd wziąć pieniądze na własny biznes?
Hopefully the laws don't allow apple-esque DRM on third party components.
Newly made Ingestible pills could monitor your stomach for 30 days
Don't worry, hub motors are so completely bad in highway-capable vehicles that even the most oblivious person would notice while on a test drive. They won't get a chance to sell.
One of my favorite bands from the 80s was named "The The".
Build your tools without code
Bull fucking shit.

What got RMS in trouble was not questioning the status quo. It was exploiting the status quo.
If there's one place in our society that should welcome discussion of ugly issues it should be our universities, particularly the few as storied as MIT.
They need to be designed to be easier to repair too. To replace a thermal fuse in my dryer requires that I take apart half my dryer. They could have left it behind some panel in the back.
Another regrettable decision by the idiots in charge. Keep banning people left and right for ludicrous reasons and then act all surprised when they radicalize/implode. Marginalized persons need access to the mainstream, not further banishment.
Soft sciences are characterized by an inability to conduct controlled experiments. It's impossible to quantify all the independent variables so researchers guess or make assumptions.
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If I am sending 100 bytes, then spectral efficiency is not my biggest problem.

NB-IoT is fine, I will have to use it. The cost of 4G/5G chips is a lot higher than older generations, to say nothing of what would happen if anyone can make chips.

Everyone just wants to sell me something new, because that's how they make money. When 3G came out all the telecoms were excited to sell video, as it would give higher average revenue per user. Turns out people don't want to pay more.

We get faster networks but keep the same price per GB, so with 5G I will be able to blow through my monthly bandwidth in 60 seconds. And that assumes that the carriers have the backbone capacity.
100% agreed. This is one of the worst examples: https://www.stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#05%20Jun...

I'm all for freedom of speech, but I don't see how people can defend these kind of opinions he's advocating.
If they're right that it's much lighter than an equivalent motor, maybe in-hub motors wouldn't be all that bad.

Watching the video that was linked in another thread, it made me think that maybe the hub could be stationary, and the tire just spins around the outside. That could cut down a lot on wind resistance.
“Setting things right” would, in this case, potentially set Square afoul of federal law. Worse, not doing so may violate Canadian law.

International law is wildly complicated and full of landmines. I suspect Square would strongly prefer to just disburse $14,000 and set things right. Unfortunately the cost of doing so potentially involves prison time for anyone who made that happen.

Even something as innocuous-sounding as explaining to the merchant why they can’t release their funds is potentially grounds for an arrest. Whenever you see an article or blog post about Square, Stripe, Venmo, PayPal, or any other financial company having a pissed-off customer who’s owed money and can’t even get a support person to explain what’s wrong, the answer is virtually inevitably OFAC, and there is often literally no legal path forward to make the affected party whole at that point.
This is your weekly reminder that anything you want to be reasonably “HA” should span multiple vendors in multiple DCs.
Would have flagged, but didn't realize it was possible (not at the karma threshold). Will keep in mind for future reference.
I don't think this is true. If my low cost attack drones just fly in, aiming to explode on your infrastructure or personnel, your defensive drones will have to be able to catch and kill small moving targets that may or may not have evasive or defensive weapons. I think swarms of cheap, possibly disposable, attack drones will be a real future threat.
Their block storage is such a failure. I’m back and forth with support to automatically delete files with lifecycles for over 2 months now and it’s still not resolved.
Yes. This is exactly what I meant. Didn't mean to come off as obscure, sorry, I'm a little out of it and English isn't my best language on a good day. I meant to tack a “distributed” onto that “panopticon”. A bunch of perverts scattered around tech companies might make for a convincing “actor” to bring up to ordinary people who think talking about government agencies is too crazy-sounding. As for the intelligence bit, I mean to say, “engineers are typically high-IQ, high-IQ people get away with crimes, imagine how many creeps have gotten away with this sort of thing and we'll never know”.
It's a rare person who throws away millions of dollars of income just for the lulz.
Heat dissipation.
> if there was a group of mostly autistic/aspie men and they felt unsafe around one neurotypical woman, she should be the one to lose her position at a university

Yes, if her behaviour was not workplace appropriate.
Why Finding the Real Meaning of Agile Is Hard
He did not minimize Epstein's behavior. The original interpretation of his words in that way is not reasonable and may well have been an outright lie instead of an honest misinterpretation.
I actually do think there is too much focus on pronouns and gender, though for some people it is something that preoccupies a lot of their life for various reasons. I'd imagine a trans person is confronted with these issues frequently because they see their identity being questioned so frequently. I do think there is something to be said about how western society may inform the ways in which people that don't conform to traditional gender identities behave, but that's not particularly relevant to pronouns, I don't think.

With that being said, I think English is a language ill-suited for 'gender agency' because the gendered pronouns are third person and innately require other people to acknowledge your preferences. You're placing a burden on someone else to not only remember your preference in name, but also in your pronouns. To me this is what I find so troublesome about the whole affair since I typically prefer to avoid placing burdens on other people to accommodate me. I also think that third person pronouns exist to be convenient and that treating them as a second name makes it as inconvenient to use as a proper noun. If someone prefers singular they, I'm much more likely to just always refer to them properly because it requires less effort to think about the sentences I am saying/typing, albeit awkward to my ears.

In Japanese, there are gendered first person pronouns that allow a person to easily communicate this part of their identity. Those who identify with the male gender might say "boku" or "ore," while someone who identifies as a female might use "atashi." Those that don't identify with either could use "watashi," since it is gender neutral.

It doesn't place any unnecessary burden on other people. You get to communicate it yourself. You don't have to rely on other people to acknowledge your gender in their language, you can do it yourself.

As for the 'they' pronoun, Stallman is at least correct in that it does present itself with challenges that other pronouns don't face. Since it has a duality of meaning it can create a lot of confusion, particularly when it's in print since there are far less context clues usually. In fact I implicitly pointed this out in my original comment.
The problem of finding implementations of an interface is harder if they live in separate packages, isn't it? Why would it be a non-issue?

I'm not saying that we should define them together, the article makes sense in its recommendation. I'm just saying that the GP also seems correct to me, there is a problem in finding interface implementations in Go that would be lessened by explicit implementation (though I hope go pls will fix this on the tooling side).
How do you know it was an inside job?
A muscle doesn't grow stronger with atrophy... likewise, the mind doesn't grow stronger without challenge.
You removed some of the most important parts.

The word "engineer" is critical to the first sentence, and your version has no translation of "banal, lascivious panopticon".

The roundabout structure of the sentences is much more relevant than the use of a big word or two.
Wait, what? I knew the part where he wormed Facebook and eventually got hired, but I didn't know that. Do you have a source? I only was able to find the part I already know about.
sure, you can find am exception if you look hard enough.

But my point being is that the outrage crowd simply doesn't apply the same level of outrage to thugs as they do everyone else in any by-and-large way.
It may be simply a matter of data volume so large such that there isn't a practical way to leak it. Security by obesity in a sense
No, it's the fantasy of a religion that invents an all powerful god, but still needs a way to blame people for their actions.
The post just asks a question. I'm sure plenty of men were also made uncomfortable by his behavior and stubborness with regards to free software. I'm just asking why exclude those?

I don't think doing uncomfortable things necessarily means harmful abuse, so your metaphor doesn't help me much.
Masquerading as a tech company is deception.
Pumping up valuation is deception.
If I started referring to the men at my work place with "she and her" I would be dropped at the human resources office for harassment. I do not believe it is unreasonable for a public forum such as Stack Exchange to enforce such a policy. If this change forces transphobic people to leave the platform then it is for the better.
1. You apparently didn't read the article. Otherwise you would have read that he didn't make that sign.

2. It's very peculiar that you would equate admiring/objectifying women with violence against homosexuals.
“Ludicrous reasons”

These words are doing a lot of work here considering the change is:

“anything that works to shut someone out of the conversation through intimidation or abuse, online or off.”

Maybe having to stop and think how their actions affect others is a step in the right direction.
Sure, this is disputed, but I do wonder if it explains why my unfinished projects make me hate myself so much while my finished ones don't give me any real sense of pride.
The Autumn of the Multitaskers (2007)
> At least, that's as charitably as I can characterize the comment.

That implies there's an uncharitable characterization. What would that be?
Oh, it's definitely an ad. But it's the good kind of ad, the one that informs you about the existence and advantages of a product that you hadn't heard about. Contrast this throwback style of ad with the modern style of ad, which emotionally engineers you into subconsciously wanting a product that you don't actually need. I would love it if more ads looked like Magnax's.
The problem is that people start making/enforcing traffic safety rules not to improve safety but to increase revenue. Things like setting up speed traps where you're almost guaranteed to be going over a certain speed limit.

You also have messes like people getting tickets way over their ability to pay, leading to lots of issues for the driver. It's not that the driver didn't break a rule, but the best thing for society would be to _not_ throw someone in jail for the crime of not having $200 for a ticket.

Stuff like ticketing quotas also add perverse incentives for police to try and generate arrests or ticketable situations. Combined with unfortunate "benefit of the doubt" issues, you get things like police planting drugs on people to arrest them.

Think about it! Police giving themselves stuff to do by planting drugs on people during traffic stops. What sort of incentive structure leads to this?

Full disclosure: I do think lots of people complain about traffic rules for pretty selfish "I'm the only safe driver" reasons. But I do think there's also lots of real issues in this system. Both sides can be wrong!
They said someone at Google, not everyone at Google.
Singular "they" has been widely used for over 600 years.
Both points of view are “wrong.” As always a balance taking context into account is best.
The fact that they’re “working on it” should be a strong hint that it is not as simple as writing the merchant a check and wiping their hands of the situation. As a US financial entity, Square is subject to the same laws and regulations as JP Morgan, the bank holding on to the frozen funds.
Which Java only got by starting out just like Go, being a simple language against the establishment, catering for easy to hire resources, ignoring the likes of Delphi, Modula-3, Sather and Eiffel, while building up on C++'s familiarity.

And adding half baked features to keep relevant while avoiding a Python 3, which any language that wants to survive in the market has to do, as not everyone can afford to alienate their user base.

If anything, Java complexity is the Ghost of Christmas yet to come of Go's future.
Ahhh! I misread it. It’s Square Canada’s US bank account. Customer has a Canadian bank account.

Square screwed up!
Saying Stallman did hurt others in the context of all the work he did isn't just naive in my opinion. Try to weed out people from your society if that is your calling, but don't be surprised if people want to weed out you.

Frankly, I think this is ridiculous.
Off the top of my head:

(1) Red light cameras which cause perverse incentives for the city to set the yellow light rotation to be shorter than the federal standard[1].

(2) Civil Asset Forfeiture[2] is used by police and prosecutors theoretically to seize funds that are "more likely than not to have been gained from the commission of a crime", but is in practice too low of a burden on the prosecution and too high of a burden on honest taxpaying citizens to defend their property (the property is guilty until proven innocent). There was a long piece in the New Yorker on the topic a few years ago.

As I remember it, 60% of the annual budget of the Sheriff's Office in one Arizona county was from seized property. Can you imagine what a Deputy in a rural county will do if they are told that there will be 60% department layoffs unless seizures rise to previous levels?

(3) I'm trying to find the thread, but someone posted on Reddit everything that is wrong with Ferguson, Missouri (and all of the other tiny cities in St Louis county). Basically the cities are revenue-starved so they end up creating speed traps and the jurisdictions are so small it's not clear when the speed limit changes. Also, the court hours are onerous and it's basically impossible to pay a fine without missing a day of work (especially difficult in blue collar areas where most work is hourly and low-skilled).

I can't find the thread, but Curbed did an article[3] that largely overlaps with the content. Basically cities end up revenue-starved (usually because they are in a race to the bottom to give away tax incentives to woo / keep large employers) so they end up nickle-and-diming their residents and frequent commuters so much that it destroys any semblance of a quality of life. They purposefully streamline the infraction side and add friction to the challenge/defense side such that it becomes a poor tax (the wealthy can afford to pay the fine and move outside the city).

[1] https://padailypost.com/2019/07/23/opinion-the-ugly-truth-ab...

[2] https://www.acluaz.org/en/legislation/reining-civil-asset-fo...

[3] https://www.curbed.com/2018/5/24/17382120/tickets-fees-fines...
That's tautological. Showing work is what a proof is.
Honor, too, is something not extended equally.
> Another philosophy would be to just add whatever functions I can think of and see what users do with it.l

Well, the middle ground could be allowing the basic PEMDAS mathematic functions and their inverses, just to allow common manipulations
When consumers get cheap products because environmental regulations are being ignored, they certainly benefit.
The article presumes that the point of mathematics class is to produce numbers that match the ones in the back of the book or an instructors answer key. This is incorrect. The point of mathematics class is to build skills for deduction - drawing valid conclusions from data (often numerical).

Real life problems do not come with an answer key, and real life problems tend to be hotly contested.

My stock one-off conversation on this issue with my own students is to consider (particular example varies based on background of the student) the manager of an engineering firm who has tasked two teams for an calculated minimum thickness of the main supporting cable on a suspension bridge. Team A returns after a while and says 3 inches. Team B says 4 inches. Do we go with the 3 inches, which one team believes is unsafe? Do we go with a bid based on the 4 inches where we may be beat on cost?

Numbers are just numbers. They are orthogonal to answers, orthogonal to arguments.
That's both a cause and an effect. Getting a brand off the ground is hard, and presumably CNSA is not too bothered by representing its host country.
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Isn't the most red meat consumed also processed? Don't know. Just asking. If so it would make sense to use it in research.
no, that's not how he "was" viewed by those on the outside, at least; that's incredibly unfair and ignores the mountains of progress he fought and sacrificed for for many decades.

i cannot think of a more principled and consistent individual in the realm of technology than RMS, nor someone who's actually completely trustworthy in this day and age. in the tech sphere his logic was talmudic as far as i can tell: not only that, but his principles probably cost him millions of dollars or more - whatever some BigCorp could pay him to shut the hell up, or buy/relicense GCC, or whatever.

honestly, it's a miracle that everything isn't completely proprietary already. that RMS and others were able to hold that line, to the extent that they did, against the money their enemies had, was nothing short of heroic.

who is next in line? who else can you trust in a world of selling every morsel of data, invading every possible private nook of our lives still remaining? i really can't think of anyone off the top of my head. unfortunately, that means we'll probably even faster acceleration of proprietary crapware added in to various devices.

that he's insufferable or whatever in person is regrettable, but one cannot merely ignore the insanely principled views he espoused, contributions he made, and rights he defended for the sake of anyone consuming technology today.
It was Square Canada’s choice to route her money through a US bank. If her merchant account agreement has no mention of this possibility, then she is totally in the clear.

Some other commenters have already linked the relevant Canadian law that is broken by the stopped payment: https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-92-584/p... .
Given that it's a brand new account you can take it with a grain of salt.
The attempts have been made, but for some reason it hasn't taken off.

https://github.com/google/end-to-end

https://github.com/YahooArchive/end-to-end
Guess and try is completely valid way to show your work, as long as the question is "find a solution", not find all solutions. If you want to discourage that, draw problems from a larger solution space.
I am genuinely curious to see what types of "compute-intensive" applications fit the bill here. Outside of storage workloads (syncing data, etc.), why would you need a 100x improvement in data transfer rates between the machines? (We have TPUs and their specialized network architecture for ML-like workloads ...)

Physical distance between the machines in a DC prevents RAM style "shared-memory" architectures, at least ones that aim to have 30~60ns access times (10-20 meters). Unless there are new paradigms for computation in a distributed setting, I don't see the benefit for this ...

Also, what are the fundamental limitations/research problems of todays hardware that prevent us from building a 400G NIC? I cannot think of anything outside of PCI-e bus getting saturated. We already have 400G ports on switches ...
From my perspective, it did not seem wise to make a reductionist analogy to how Israelis feel about Palestinians, and vice versa.
I've been wondering that myself. I've yet to see anything from him that says so.
reduced the number of new infections from 3.5 million per year in 1986 to just 28 in 2018

Jesus! They need to stop being so hard on themselves. That remarkable progress!
By operating in Canada, Square Canada is subject to Canadian federal law: https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-92-584/p... .
"Some rando engineer stealing private images elicits a real disgust response that might be moving, as opposed to talk of the NSA"

Such a simple point, and look over how many heads it went.
There lies the issue. Let's take the extremes:

No two people share the same experience, therefore discussion is not possible, because one cannot share exactly the viewpoint of the other. That's the extreme on one end.

On the other end, we can only take "rational facts" into account. In order to do this, we must discard completely all personal experience, which is first of all actually impossible between two human beings sharing a discussion, and second of all, will transform both participants into what amounts to deterministic computers who will arrive at precisely the same outcome given the same input.

Now clearly if we are arriving at a shared conclusion between two people discussing a shared input, either extreme is impossible.

Some nuance is required.
It makes me sad that this advice has to be written down.
I'm not sure that interpretation accurately represents the abilities of someone on the spectrum that is able to do productive work in society. But regardless, not everyone with all disabilities are qualified for all jobs. In this case, whatever the cause of Stallman's unwillingness &/or inability to behave in a way that doesn't make people feel uncomfortable or bullied, it also makes him unsuitable for these leadership roles. While some of GNU & FSF can be laid at his feet, in many ways they became successful despite him, not because of him.