skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We, as a society, have established due process in the government and courts because we believe it's the right thing - the moral thing - to do. If it's the right thing to do for the most powerful entity in our land, what makes it not the right thing to do in all venues?
You have movies where the country of the 'bad guys' was changed in post-production to North Korea to appease China:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dawn_(2012_film)
The present piece of news goes against that argument though, as Apple devices are simultaneously the more expensive and less ethical option. These aspects don't seem correlated.
Perhaps, but we do not know how much better it could be today if potential contributors were not dissuaded by the politics and behavior of the existing participants.

Popularity is only one gauge of success. There are other metrics, such as personal satisfaction, missing features, or other things that the project may have failed or scored less well on.
Food halls are typically in large urban areas with a thriving tourist industry that can support them outside of typical lunch hours. I have seen them in Portland, San Francisco, etc.
This statement makes clear to me that I can no longer trust (parts of) the GNU project to prioritize software freedom and making good software over catering to hateful lynchmobs and virtue signalling.

There's no meaningful way for me to act on this current, since "boycotting" GNU does nothing to harm these bad elements and I do not contribute back to GNU. I can merely convey my profound disapproval.

This is a disgrace. This is no way to treat someone. It's nothing short of utterly disrespectful and self-serving. RMS is, in my view, a completely innocent man; even in the most negative sensible reading of the situation, he is guilty of a minor transgression at most. Even in the most negative sensible reading of supposed transgressions spread over decades, he does not deserve this.

RMS has done more to empower all computer users than all of these signees combined. I'm very saddened by this torrent of hate, short-sightedness and obedience to the mob. To me, GNU represents fighting for freedom even if nobody else believes in it; this is the opposite of that.
I can tell you for a fact that Chris Webber, one of the signers on that list, does indeed give a fuck about personal freedom as much as stallman does. Indeed it is precisely because these people believe in such freedom that they are standing up for the women who no one has chosen to listen to and its beyond gross the reaction of every fool who's never so much as filed a bug report or attended a meeting spewing out hate for them.
PG's essays contain a good amount of quote-unquote "real talk". His SJW-isms espoused on Twitter and the like are obviously only superficial, a defense mechanism widely recognized as a necessity among semi-known, substantially-wealthy persons.

This is pretty common amongst business leaders; comparing their statements against their serious work quickly shows that it's not all so warm-and-fuzzy.

Virtue signaling may be its own reward to the masses, but it serves a real function for the well-to-do in preventing or at least confusing a Marie Antoinette effect. If there's any "let them eat cake" to be found, they can point to an abundance of more recent "truth to power" statements that will create enough ambiguity to tamp down the fervor of the mob, if and/or when it comes to that.
Related to the original discussion, I wonder if there's a story behind how Taiwan got a emoji flag in the first place. Unicode Consortium referenced ISO 3166 for eligibility. Taiwan and a few other disputed regions didn't the cut until 3166-2 revision. The maintenance agency consists of representative from only western agencies. Interesting politics.
I'm not. When you're a high school student releasing your first computer game on a well-tested engine, that's a perfectly valid level of quality assurance.

Not everyone can afford to keep around a lab full of macs running multiple versions of macOS.
Cap Hill is 30 minutes walk from downtown.
The article reads like a brute force approach to secure design, sprinkling randomization everywhere. Performance results are promising, though.
This source is from another comment in this thread:
https://www.idfa.org/news-views/headline-news/article/2014/1...

>The FLSA establishes minimum wage and overtime compensation for the time that employees work over 40 hours in one work week. Congress constructed the Act so that employers are not required to compensate employees for activities that occur before and after shifts unless those activities are integral and indispensable to the work an employee is employed to perform.

The employer will fire you for not doing it. That makes it essential.

Any interpretation of such a law that uses the job description, eg packing and moving boxes, as the be-all-end-all of what is "integral and essential" instead of what the employer will fire or refuse to employ you for not doing is either bought and paid for or anti-labor.
disagree with both the points (inflation indexing & double taxation). when vast majority of the other income is for regular people is not 'corrected' for inflation then there no reason to do it just for investments. this produces a systematic tilting towards 'invested money' & over long periods that gives them huge advantage (e.g.. last 40 years). inflation is an emergent property of the monetary system we have, giving one group of people protection from it just puts thumb on the scale for them.

Double taxation is a standard BS argument too, the whole point of taxation is that govt 'deserves' a cut of the transaction for providing a safe stable environment for economic activity. this whole notion that the moment you got yours, no-one is allowed to touch it anymore is BS, its true for other activities we engage in like sales tax & getting help then why should value gained in stock market be absolved from it?

any activity that we choose to tax less is essentially being promoted so its no wonder that after financial crisis (& even now) most of the 'new money' went back in stock market instead of the real economy. this needs to end. if anything cr*p like HFT should be taxed more to ensure there is less incentive for that kind of skimming over the top.
Of course it's very different. Taiwan was a right wing dictatorship which ruled by terror, they don't have much of my sympathy.
In the end the real tax rate is simply government spending as a percentage of GDP. Everything else is just shifting around who pays what and when not what the average ends up as. In the US that’s 41.6 percent GDP which is in line with Canada at 42%: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending#As_a_per...

PS: Either lower taxes on capital gains or allowing people to deduct losses is reasonable in the name of risk, but we do both.
i believe fair use only applies to software that you legally acquired.

if microsoft copies an application from my computer without asking, then it did not legally acquire it.

malware is a different case. malware entered my computer with the permission of the malware creator. i didn't steal it from them, but it came to me willingly. hence i am allowed to analyze it, and i am allowed to delegate that task to someone else.
There is nothing factual on how RMS actually did damage to GNU and how exactly this guys will by magic fix that damage.

Seems mostly a PR move and it will probably fracture GNU
I wouldn't be too sure of that.

> Five individual logic cells were functionally disconnected from the rest— with no pathways that would allow them to influence the output— yet when the researcher disabled any one of them the chip lost its ability to discriminate the tones. Furthermore, the final program did not work reliably when it was loaded onto other FPGAs of the same type.

https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/
As far as I know, visa support is only provided in exceptional circumstances (e.g. PhD in an area directly related to FPGAs / exact fit for a specific, hard-to-fill open position). This is for the Toronto office, our other offices may have different policies.
Not that weird. Seeking profitability too early can kill a company. Amazon barely turned a profit for almost a decade specifically to shovel money back into the operation.

Now you'll say that Amazon __could__ have turned a profit earlier than that. Which is true. For Tesla it is not, turning a profit isn't an option. The difference being that selling books and other things on the internet is relatively easy compared with manufacturing cars using an entirely new set of unproven technologies and techniques.

So if we use that model to think about Amazon overwriting retail, then Tesla would be looking to overwrite transportation. Given the difficulties of doing the latter I would expect Tesla to flounder around for another 10 years before it really starts to get going.

After that, if they get there (big if), the sky is the limit and the market is Teslas market. That's the point behind the "being profitable is irrational and stupid" comment. Penny wise, dollar stupid.

But as it has been pointed out ad infinitum, it's a big gamble. So far Tesla has delivered on product, they'll need to prove that they can deliver on operations for this thing to take off all the way.

Juries out, but I'm willing (and do) bet that they'll make it. Too many people (including banks and governments) want this to work.
I've used Rockbox since I was pretty much a child. It had pretty good accessibility support, and a sansa Clip + was an order of magnitude cheaper than all the players made specially for the blind. I remember being so proud of that purchase and my tech knowledge to actually install Rockbox onto the player. A lot of my friends were impressed that I could achieve something like that for such a low price. I remember using Balabolka[1] to convert text ebooks to mp3, with a speech synthesizer, and then reading those books on the Sansa, for the lack of a build-in TTS. I switched to streaming and reading on my phone in like 2014. I never looked back, though I still have the Sansa lying around on my desk.

[1] http://cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm
On the other hand, three cities cost three times as much as one city. Or have I missed something?
Please read the paper carefully.
They compared plasma without platelets (PPP, platelet poor plasma) combined with their crafted liposomes to platelet rich plasma (PRP). Therefore some donored plasma was needed, to have only a difference in the platelet concentraton. Their artificialy synthesized liposomes could then replace the platelets in the study.
R is a joy if you treat it like Awk
I realized many of my comments are relevant, recent New Yorker articles. So, to stay consistent:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/30/how-tiktok-hol...
And the wealthy have moved their income address to a tax free state, saving them an additional 6-12%.
Still running Rockbox on an iPod Video for tunes in a car that doesn't speak Bluetooth but has an aux jack. Considering an upgrade, having recently discovered there are new devices that can run Rockbox, including this one: https://fiio.com/m3k

Hats off to the Rockbox developers. This project has been so solid for so long, I kinda take it for granted.
How the Flu Vaccine Gets Made
Mostly because we have enough evidence now to know how those private opinions aggregate to real damage to the people they're arrayed against, systemically.
> anglophones can take a stab at pronouncing things

How is this supposed to help anyone? That anglophone guess isn't going to be close to correct -- in the general case, it's unlikely to even be recognizable.
Neither did Stallman. What he said was that it likely appeared that she was engaging consensually. And he was certainly no fan of Epstein, whom he called a serial rapist.

Lest you think this is a niggling distinction, Sage Sharp pronounced Linus guilty of inciting violence by making a humorous comment about his friend Greg Kroah-Hartman's height. (Something like: "Greg is a giant; watch out or he might squish you.")

That's how they operate. They go digging to find the six words that will hang you, and if you don't capitulate they go to your boss (read: corporate sponsors if you have your own project).
> Otherwise malware authors could sue AV companies for infringement, which don’t seem to fit the intention of IP law.

'You may sue the AV company for $1 million; users who suffered from your malware will civilly sue for $100 billion, and the government will charge you with crimes and put you away for a decade. Your move.'
of course they don't. because there isn't any. These people, some of whom, like Andy Wingo and Chris Webber, have been doing this for well over a decade. its asinine.
The donored blood was only needed for the plasma base in their trial.
But that's deceptive; it's cheaper for the consumer because it's a plan subsidized by the partnered video streaming services. But in the long-term, that reduces choices in different areas, e.g. fewer video stream providers because the providers that can't afford to pay off ISPs find it harder to gain an audience. Something already exacerbated by the network effect.

And ISPs that have those plans have an additional guaranteed income stream, whereas smaller ISPs that can't get income from partnered websites have less money to compete with and a higher hill to climb.

Additionally, ISPs aren't falling behind in speeds, available plans, and costs because they don't have money. They're profitable. They have money. What we need is a combination of NN and municipal ISPs that provide actual competition.
Had this back in the Archos days
> No, that's still wrong. There is nothing ethically problematic about "accepting a job", and it's entirely possible to have a hot job market but not leave people homeless.

Much like communism, this is theoretically possible, but is not practically possible in most US cities, in the year 2019. Certainly not in the ones that are actually undergoing tech booms.

Given the constraints and social norms that our society operates under, a hot job market = misery for a lot of people.

Note that a sufficiently cold job market, and the urban decay associated with a shrinking population also leads to misery for a lot of people.
Yeah, part of keeping old computers (and synthesizers, another interest of mine) running is re-capping. Modern caps last longer than the stuff from the 70s and early 80s, but still maybe needs consideration. I don't actually know much about the longevity of modern caps...worth some research.
Codeless service that generates end-to-end UI tests
Well, if you're happy to host all that, why not just set up your own reddit? The software is open source.

I think you might find that dealing with the legal consequences isn't a lot of fun. And I wonder if you'd really be so blasé about enabling that kind of content once you were actually looking at it on a daily basis.
Understanding C++ Modules: Linkage and Fragments
Solving the Loneliness Epidemic via Self-Driving Cars
This type of localization/internationalization is common place. I remember doing locale files that contained timezones for Nokia phones for Hebrew and Arabic. Notable the Hebrew files didn't contain Palestine for example. China didn't have Taiwan etc.
Maybe it tells us something about the "joint" part? So mob-sad..
I don't think just developing a Z80 operating system is enough. The whole ecosystem needs to be preserved.

In agriculture, we have the doomsday seed vault [0] just for this purpose. If we anticipate collapse of the current economic system or society, I think we should build a doomsday computer vault, that keeps everything we need to rebuild the computing industry in a underground bunker. It keeps everything we need in a controlled environment, such as 8080, Z80, m68k, motherboards, logic chips, I/O controllers, ROM/RAM, generic electronic parts, soldering irons, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, schematics, documentation, textbooks, software. We also keep some complete, standalone computer systems such as desktops and laptops, and all the parts that need to service them. We also need to preserve the old semiconductor production lines around the world, although probably not in the same bunker. Even if we fail to build better systems, 8080s are already useful enough!

Meanwhile in peace time, we need to form a team of experts that makes a roadmap to rebootstrap the computing technology for the future using parts from the bunker, with a step-by-step plan, that can be easily followed and executed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault
Why the NBA Apologized to China over Daryl Morey's Tweet About Hong Kong
Do you have any recommendations for people who want to visit it?

One of the reasons I have a curiosity about learning Inuktitut was its different writing system, so the Inuit officially moving away from it saddens me.
Identify crystal structures using graph theory for building materials
Its not really about artificial blood but some platelet replacement based on liposomes. Take a look at the full paper.
What's Going to Happen with Bitcoin?
I see claims of users not being 'empowered' and not being able to 'trust' GNU software.. because of Stallman?

Sorry, but what does the controversy surrounding Stallmman have to do with user empowerment and trust? Has Stallman been preventing people from using GNU software? Does the trustworthiness of this free, open source software diminish because of Stallman's opinion on some social/political issues that are completely unrelated to software?
The Best of Goethe’s Aphorisms
And talk to them like they were human beings, which they are. ;-)
A neat idea!

I think we could also get started now. Not necessarily de-escalating tech, but realizing that the fundamental supply of newer, more powerful chips might not last even with a shift to more plentiful supplies of rare-earth metals due to our need to get off of fossil fuels, fast. I think it might be useful in the more immediate term to be able to lock-in the minimum set of features that make the web and Internet useful then distribute that as widely as possible on low-power, commodity platforms with resilient networks that could survive super-storms knocking out huge swaths of devices in one fell swoop.

Low-power p2p protocols, mesh networking, recycling devices, component-platforms that allow scavenging and make-shift repairs, etc.

Until we can solve the green energy problem it might be nice to know that even if your community gets hit with a storm or flood, it's still possible to restore and maintain network services rapidly in the aftermath. Simply being able to send a message to someone would be a big deal.
> The overall tax rate on the richest 400 households last year was only 23 percent, meaning that their combined tax payments equaled less than one quarter of their total income. This overall rate was 70 percent in 1950 and 47 percent in 1980.

No it wasn’t. Is there even one historical example of someone paying 70% of their income as tax in 1950? Or was that simply the maximum theoretical income tax rate? That was just the maximum. Nobody paid that so it’s meaningless to compare these two numbers.

This looks like another confirmation-bias article to me.
100 ppi for a Full HD 22" screen.

386 ppi for a Full HD 5.7" screen (i.e. my phone).
> the QA are as anonymous as each user wants to be

A queer mod that resigned shortly before all of this went off actually elaborated on this in their resignation:

> They [the community managers] draw vocal bigots from the woodwork with prompts to discussion, and then vanish, forcing us to decide between tacit approval through silence or defense of our own against an unchanging torrent of bigotry. I think they hope that the more we share, the better the situation will become. That has never been true.

Note that just because the core QA does not leave much space for harassment doesn't mean the other aspects of the site (comments, chat, mod chat, flags, mod messages etc.) are home free. In particular, there was no shortage of "prompts to discussion" in the context of the recent events.
That's already been publicized ad nauseum by others in the past few weeks. I don't think the authors owe anyone any duty to reiterate it.
For anyone coming to this, I can't speak for all of the people on that list, but the ones that I've met personally, over a decade now in the free software world, are decent caring people actually following the creed of freedom to its rightful conclusion. The idea that this is a "witchhunt" is absurd.
Removing an emoji from a keyboard is as scary as hacking all of someone’s personal data?
I have mainland version of Huawei Maimang 5 and it has Taiwanese flag on the keyboard... thou, only on the last page, tucked along non-nations
I personally think that Richard Stallman is both not getting fair treatment and to some extent brought this on himself.

For me, the GNU project becomes much less interesting without his blog articles, public talks, etc.

I had let my FSF membership lapse, was thinking of renewing, and now probably won’t.

Off topic, but I enjoyed seeing the leaders of the various GNU projects listed in one place as signers of this letter. I don’t agree with them but it is good to see their names and projects listed.
Somewhat breaking the rules of fight club/innovation club in downtown Palo Alto
I'm curious about the range of derivation from blood. For example, if I took a sample of your blood and made a product that was essentially cloning your blood, would that be the same?

Some people's spiritual rejections lie more in the "we're playing God we shouldn't do x" whereas what you are describing is something in regard to the sanctity of the blood.

Actually to further my understand, would you be permitted to receive blood that you yourself had donated and had been stored for your personal use in the advent of a medical emergency? Again, I'm not trying to pry or question the validity of your beliefs, just seeking to understand.
What allegations ?

You came now after years with some people memories on what may have happened? Would you like to be accused of something that you may have said 20 years ago, that is not a crime but may have upset someone? Why not talk about the present, the last year and not dig ancient history because there is nothing recent to complain about.
Is the purpose of taxes to fund the government or punish the rich? Because if it’s the former, then looking at the share of taxes paid by billionaires is highly relevant.

In the US, billionaires make just 1.3% of all income. 80% of income is earned by the bottom 99%. Confiscatory taxes would definitely achieve the second purpose, punishing the rich, but would have little effect on how much taxes ordinary people would have to pay to fund government.
Well he is empirically right about the code of conducts, the public attacks on free software figures, and the denial of free speech. I would call it typical radical leftist behavior instead of a conspiracy, but everything else checks out.

You, for instance, mentioned above that it would be impossible for a minor to engage in consensual sexual behavior without even considering for a moment that there are more liberal (and I'd say more civilized) societies that define "consensual" and especially "minor" quite differently. It is exactly this absolutist enforcement of a particular pov that alienates many observers.
Even jet fuel can melt it
Preach it. I am constantly running into underprivileged minority woman who just want to write code under free licenses, but have instead been Stallmanized. Sometimes I can tell that they would like to cry on my shoulder about it, but they don't because they are too strong, of course, being women and also being minorities.
Do they have a block command on Hacker News??
An ear-handle broke off of a pair of eyeglasses I had a few years ago, and nobody could repair it. I tried 4 shops, including a jewelry shop. Being that progressive-focus prescription lenses are expensive, I didn't want to buy a new set. (Progressive focus is similar to "bifocals".)

Hopefully shops with 3D printers etc. will give consumers more repair options.