skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I generally agree with what you're saying, but I don't know if that makes enough of a difference, the US has more checks and balances than China but China does have checks and balances[1] and the US's isn't perfect - is the Rule of Law something that switches from off to on somewhere between those two points?

I really don't disagree that China's government is crap, but things aren't black and white, all peoples everywhere are struggling for a good balanced government and pushing back against oppressive governments - that said in China, while people are disappeared, there is a general rule of law for the general populace... Normal folks can get by with a decent orderly life, it's constrained and they do lack a lot of freedoms Americans enjoy, but I would draw a stark contrast between living there and Cambodia, Pakistan, Venezuela or Russia - those are countries where law doesn't rule and personal safety is no guarantee.

As an aside - oh look at this neat thingy[2] a rule of law ranking - I had no idea it existed.

1. In theory, at least, the communist party appoints the chairman - a number of seats within this representative board are freely elected, though some are essentially super delegates that get a guaranteed seat. More on that here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_the_Communist_...

2. https://worldjusticeproject.org/sites/default/files/document...
I feel switching two words around in the article title brings things into better focus:

Why Should You Have A Side Project?

Ask yourself:

- What do you want out of this side project? Money? Fame? Learning?

- How would you define success for this side project?

- What will you do if it succeeds? (unlikely)

- What will you do if it fails? (likely)

You need to chart a rough path. Creating something open source and aiming for popularity and notoriety is much different than hoping to make enough money to quit your day job from your side project. You end up in two vastly different places if you succeed. If you fail, you end up in the same place. Plan and be ok with both end results.
Electron is just poorly engineered software.
After having watched "Dissecting the CD Player: How to Turn Shiny Plastic into Music" by Technology Connections https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yJqlD9RxD4 I went on a CDROM research binge. Found this on my way https://debugmo.de/2007/07/read-your-dvds-the-raw-way/ Its about DVDs (has data dump plus code), but you can use same mechanism to easily modify CDROM drive using $4 piece of hardware (ebay "EZ-USB fx2lp cy7c68013a board").
> America passed the Civil Rights Act

It's important to note that America didn't pass the Civil Rights Act, it was forced to pass it by an unjustly subjugated population that had revolutionary potential. As a white settler state, America would have been fine to keep on going with an internal colony as far as it could have--this is literally the major precursor of the civil war.
I mean, those are all good things to do. But the software engineering community is largely isolated from those issues, so it’s natural that our conversation shifts to things like pronouns instead.
What about the people who enlisted in the continental armies to gain freedom from British tyranny.

They had dependents, they had parents, they had the least amount of power as individuals. Yet they were able to defeat a world super power and usher in an era of personal freedom that swept the world.

A couple of employees having a difficult conversation and maybe writing a memo that starts a conversation in a tech company is not the same sacrifice as the ones made by the people who shaped the world we live in now.
Thanks @goblin89, you are right

Sorry @mieseratte, what you say is true. I exaggerated. Looking at the videos now though the boy was armed with a swimming float as a shield and a relatively thin white (plastic??) pole. It's true that that could still cause a lot of damage

But I wasn't there, and if someone is facing a baseball bat (and others in the crowd had hammers) to the head then you are right, that is a different ball game to what I was hoping for
Close, but not quite. In a state of nature (natural state) you absolutely have the right to free speech, among many other natural rights which are innate to you. You simply lack the guarantee of the ability to exercise that right when in a state of nature.
I see you haven't spent any time in the 'rationalist' community.

"people are saying insert group shouldn't exist" is a good-faith and sober characterization of much of that group. Human Bio-Diversity (HBD, i.e. 'scientific' racism) is a very popular topic in the community.

Scott doesn't go there, obviously, but somehow the rhetoric wends it's way there over and over and over and over and over again in the 'community'.
Decompile the old kernel? Yeah, definitely above my modest pay grade, and OpenStep was created to be more portable (but probably not open in the OSS sense). Hm, there is GNUStep

You are correct that one can't snap their fingers and create the community that even FreeBSD has. The last big corporate sponsor opportunity for this was the infant smartphones like the Palm Pre era (they owned Beos IP at that point I think) and early Android.

Sigh, that reminds me that Beos should have been the foundation of OSX, if not for the exhorbitant buyout cost they were insisting on.
Like any invention, not everything that can be invented has been invented. The current culture war has only been going for around 5 years. Things can change and new divides erupt all the time.
> So if the lady in China went down to the police station, called a lawyer, and got released 6 hours later, everything's ok?

If China elected Xi in a free and fair election, if they developed faster than light travel and clean fusion power then everything would definitely be ok!

But here in the real world I'd like to hear the story of this hypothetical Chinese lady who got a phone call, let alone a lawyer. Was she rich and a well connected communist party official? Or more likely this is just a made up happy fantasy, like warp drives?
Wow, I always love when a git/shell elder comes along and shows me something like this. I didn't know about `git -c` before, I'm assuming it's setting per-command config values? I've also not used/seen `!_()` before... I'm assuming it's introducing something like an anonymous function and calling it at the end... but why not just break out the body of the function and execute it directly in the alias? Does it help with error propagation?

Thank you!
Some more information on how Automattic hires:

- https://automattic.com/work-with-us/how-we-hire-developers/

- https://www.andyserong.com/2019/07/25/switching-jobs-and-app...

- https://danq.me/2019/08/30/automattic-00/
Yes, and importantly the new players rules are only the old players rules of the past. The 'American System' of economic development is essentially what's playing out on the Chinese side now.

The US of course doesn't need to like it, but it seems a tad silly to expect that a country that is very much still developing to act like a free-trading developed nation.
I'm generally happy with my RB3011 but you are very much correct that it isn't meant for a typical end user.

Many QoL things that a consumer level router + TomatoUSB firmware does for you are either difficult to set properly set up (NAT reflection) or are not available at all (per-IP traffic accounting).
> - a chat app with windows: why is it exactly that every Telegram and Twitter and whatnot has me clicking back and forth and back and there and back and here, why? also why can't I open a chatroom with these three WhatsApp peeps and this one Twitter dude and my mom on Skype? this is backwards

Is this directed towards Apple? Cause they only make one chat app, called Messages, which lets you open conversations in separate windows.
"Self-made" is almost always a misnomer because there's a point very early in the process of accruing wealth where you use it to bootstrap its own operations, i.e., you start paying other people for their output to collect a net profit. At that point, "self-made" no longer applies because now other people are involved. At what point that transition happens determines how "self-made" they are, but no one is ever 100% that, and if we go by "percentage of current wealth needed to bootstrap" it's certainly well below 1%.

The global nature of today's economy, the complexity of navigating commerce and industry, and the sheer magnitude of output required to be profitable, makes it hard to do anything all by yourself. If we consider each person their own island with cash in- and outflow, then everyone is self-made. If we consider the global network of money changing hands, no one is self-made.
There is a rule that you can't award a prize to more than 3 people.

I remember when the Higgs was confirmed at CERN, there was a lot of discussion over who (if anyone) should get the prize for that. CERN has something like 2500 permanent, scientific employees, plus 12000 users. So is it appropriate to give the prize to someone who is ultimately a project manager or administrator?

It's an interesting question as science moves from a few great thinkers to huge projects with 100+ contributors...
North Carolina didn't have 4 billion dollars and a 1.3 billion person potential market to dangle in front of the NBA is why.
The post is profiling large payloads? Maybe ujson is optimized for smaller payloads?
The damage from an unpatched router can be pretty far-reaching, especially in cases where it can be exploited over Internet (not sure about this one, but some other D-Link vulnerabilities reportedly could).

I find it regrettable that the architecture commonly in use does not make a clear distinction between devices for convenience and for security.

It’d be crazy if in our homes the main entrance lock always came as an afterthought in the package of all the inside doors, and we didn’t have an obvious way to replace it separately on our own.
I think it's the opposite if you actually want to make a difference. Pressure works best when it's concentrated. Protesting every, or most, or many companies will be extremely difficult and likely make no difference. Targeting a single egregious offender and punishing them until they change will motivate other companies not to be the nail sticking out lest they face the hammer of public opinion.

Sadly, I think there's not enough public will to punish entities like the NBA or Blizzard for their servile behavior.
"You're an asshole." That's protected as free speech and is recognizably known as an opinion.

"Your carrots gives people AIDS." Is slander/libel and not protected by free speech. That can be taken as fact and can have consequences to the grower, if the accuser lacks evidence. For fuck's sake, we have anti-vaxxers and measles is coming back due to people making stupid ass claims. If there is evidence and the courts say the accuser was acting in good faith with information they truly thought was true, they may pass on penalties, depending on the situation. Otherwise, if it's bullshit evidence, free speech won't protect you and yo' ass shall burn.

Now freedom of religion and freedom of speech do spar with each other. But it depends on the situation. Mormons say that alcohol is a ticket to hell... a sin... or some shit. If they keep that crap to their own little group, generally no one cares. That also plays into the right to assemble. If they parade around in bars yelling at people that alcohol is a sin/whatever... well, A. trespassing, B. potential harassment, C. I think potential slander or some other form of loss of revenue for the bar. D. Don't live in a fucking mormon town, you idiot.

You can tell a politician that they're an asshole or their policy is stupid and they should feel bad about that. The gov cannot do dick all to you. An opinion on policy or the gov in general is protected. But you can't say a politician is a child murderer without ACTUAL proof. Youtube "research" into the lizard people taking over the planet doesn't count.

Freedom of speech is not freedom to be a cunt to society because you're some childish edge lord. If you really don't know the difference, you probably shouldn't vote either.
An Os for the Apocalypse
For D-Link this is the normal, normal and has been for years. Check out VU#924307 which they never fixed. It could be triggered either by an attacker or just in the normal course of using the router:

https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/924307/
I don’t know how many times I see devs put database checks in their liveness checks. The database blips and and the containers restart. Awesome!
Isn't planned obsolesce illegal in some places? Ending security updates is the very definition of planned obsolesce for an internet-connected device.
"Many" is a fuzzy term. The vast majority of wealthy people started with substantial means. The only self-made billionaire in tech that comes to mind is the creator of WhatsApp, and even he had a great network and connections available to only a miniscule fraction of individuals by the time that took off. I'm sure there are a few more, but it's simply misleading to say "many" when you mean "some, an almost unmeasurably small percentage, in fact."
Most companies don't have them at all. Not by that name or anything like it, and if they have anyone kinda doing a similar-ish job you'd probably find their role and practices dissimilar enough that you'd not call them that, either.
This sounds too much like you moving the goal post along, and I've had those conversations before; I did not find them fruitful. Next up "can you provide a case number where 'kill all $foo' was classified as hate speech by a federal judge who's first name starts with an E".

You can google that sentence, you can read defenses of it and make up your mind. I'm not that passionate about changing a single opinion that I'm going to waste time chasing after your ever expanding requirements.
>> Women can wear whatever they and they've had the vote for over 100 years

Women have had the vote for ALMOST 100 years.

August 18, 1920
Money is what you capture, value is what you create.

A lot of people are willing to take a pay cut to create more value for the world. It's too bad that things are so out of whack, but in tech right now, those 2 things are very uncorrelated (the prime reason from the data I've seen is unjust intellectual monopoly laws).

If you are a YOUNG developer, I would say go take the money! Good times won't last. If you are instead more concerned about what value you are creating for the world, there are a some well known great places to work (WordPress, Wikipedia, Mozilla come to mind but there are many many more often in research, government, or academia).
I generally dislike this solution but could this be countered with a lawsuit? Meaning, could Morey sue the NBA? I know the 1st Amendment doesn't really apply to corporations so it probably doesn't come into play.
I wouldn't pay much attention to such statement knowing the historical background. Stallman was and is a proponent of his own terminology, i.e. "free software", and the related definition which actually isn't that different (hence the catch-all "FLOSS").

Anyway, it's stupid to argue over this. The FAQ on the Commons Clause site itself, reflecting the intention and thinking of the drafter and the initiatiors, specifically states the license is "source-available", not "open source". When talking about open source as a form of licensing as opposed to e.g. software development culture/methodology, the distinction here is quite widely accepted and non-contentious.
The system wasn't built for ruggedness. The chip had to be, because the system provided that ropey power supply previously mentioned and very few ancillary chips. It was a relatively inexpensive chip that one could build an even less expensive home computer around.
I think "open source" has a very broad definition. Being an OSI-approved license has some extra meaning beyond just being open source.
Just having all the targeting options under one dashboard is already a very significant improvement in the strategy step that any PPC manager must think about.

All the stress and energy spent going back and forth between ad platforms really only favors the installed players.
You are claiming that morality is irrelevant if there is a rule involved, and your action is substantially worse if you break a rule for a moral reason deliberately instead of accidentally?
Why are both the same thing? If it doesn't cost me anything to fight injustice and I don't do it, that is strictly worse than if it doesn't cost me to fight injustice and I do.

Suppose the NBA gave the middle finger to Saudi Arabia but cozied up to China, would that be worse than if they cozied up to both? Your stance is wildly illogical.
In an hospital, someone could die from a hacked device.
It's not a one way street, the employee benefits from this as well. You have a 3 month trial to test them out just as much as they're testing you out. You may or may not be happy with this job in terms of cultural or work so it's better than quitting your current job to take another job that you end up not liking.
$24B USA is for 10 years?

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/basketball/nba/nba-tv-deal-how-the...

Annually it says the revenue is 2.6B. Not sure how much revenue they are making from China on a yearly basis (Tencent's contract is 5 years).
there's also big protests in Haiti and Ecuador that are getting even less attention
Yes, I was wrong due to lack of research. I knew someone who had worked a lot on them at Chevron when i was a kid and just presumed.
I don't think using poll on /dev/random is a good idea, here's why:

1. /proc/sys/kernel/random/read_wakeup_threshold is 64 by default [1,2],
but the kernel only considers the pool initialized with >128 bits
[3]. So in an early userspace you're likely to be reading from an uninitialized
/dev/urandom after waking up from poll if you're not also checking
the entropy count to be >128.

2. /dev/random could be a symlink to /dev/urandom, so the call to poll
would return as soon as possible.

3. The system could only be providing /dev/urandom.

So if you're going to have to check the entropy count anyway, a less
convoluted approach would be to repeatedly retrieve it via the
RNDGETENTCNT ioctl [1] on a /dev/urandom file descriptor and sleeping
while it hasn't reached >128 bits yet.

Don't take my word for the feasibility of this fallback method as I'm
not a cryptographer or implementer of cryptographic interfaces. Instead,
consider BoringSSL (Adam Langley et al.) that does almost the same in
its /dev/urandom fallback. [4]

[1]: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man4/random.4.html

[2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

[3]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

[4]: https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/+/refs/heads/ma...
The currency of science should be experimental validations. That probably reached a peak 50-100 years ago.

Unfortunately now many experiments & studies are so complicated that they cannot be reproduced, and instead we use peer review, which is basically an "appeal to authority".
I should really, really hope hospitals are not using routers like these.
Do the toxins get carried on along with distillation as well?

That's ridiculously energy-intensive and you'd probably have to re-mineralise it before storage or consumption to be on the safe side. Cooking might actually be the worst issue here, low-mineralisation cooking water would leech minerals out, leading to lower nutrient intake (unless yo keep the cooking water for drinking).
Powell Sees Fed Resuming Balance-Sheet Growth, but It's Not QE
A video game and its publisher both got completely shut down in China over a small reference to the meme hidden in some art:

https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/2187566/hit-taiwane...

https://www.polygon.com/2019/7/3/20681075/devotion-china-cen...

An entire company permanently shut down! The CN government takes it seriously.
"can afford to" doesn't overlap much with "is likely to".

hell, the rockets ownership allegedly discussed removing "one of the best GMs in the league": https://www.theringer.com/nba/2019/10/6/20901828/daryl-morey...

and give me a break about the giving pledge. when people are dead, access to their money doesn't matter. if they want to earn some sort of altruistic "cred", they can donate 90% of their net worth, today, and still be in the 100 millionaire club.

go ahead and let me know when any one of these people does that.
At least they're not backwards with regards to climate change
...

Realistically climate change is a more pressing issue than censorship.
Woah, that's quite a pleasant surprise. Not what I expected.
No.

Hell no.

Fuck no.

And if anybody at my day job suggests using this because it's "open source" I will take them aside after the meeting and introduce them to Cluebringer.
Social media gives you access to a person's daily life. It makes you feel like since you know everyone so well they must be your friend. In actuality, they are farther away and not "reachable" Social media also makes you feel like since you do not have the same experiences as others that you are less than in some way. All these contribute to the feeling of loneliness. Try giving those in your life that you actually do know a nice treat for their birthday or other special occassion. https://www.signelect.com/party_banners.htm
>Note the distinction between accessibility and mobile--mobile was market-driven

Yes, the incentives differ. Its just that if I imagne a more accessible web and try to reverse engineer the way how it come to be I end up with ranking algorithm adjustments. Availability bias, I know :-P

There is a lot of money in SEO. Even a rumor about Google adjusting its algorithm towards accessibility could trigger improvements.
I'd suggest to avoid dealing with wifi routers as much as possible, they are not worth the time, and instead separate wifi and routing. Doing all the dhcp, dns/pi-holing, nat, firewalling on a PC-based router and using a wifi router behind it only for wifi.
Excel and COBOL will both still be around in 50 years. The entire global financial system depends on them, and will probably continue to do so at least until the Cyborg Uprising.
> As for pronouns, in most languages, you can know the [grammatically] correct gender automatically from the name.

But what if you can’t? Or there aren’t enough context clues to determine this? For example, my username contains my name in it; do you have any idea what my gender is? Or what I’d I had a “gendered” name but actually had a different identity personally?

But really the problem is that gender comes up in conversation a lot more than orientation. You can get a lot further in a conversation without the latter than the former, so some people see it fit to frontload that information.
Without agreeing with this point it's a perfectly reasonable one to make. Why is it dead? Seems to be quite a bit of this sort of thing of late, new ML tools?
Jeremy Lin is American.
Then I think we have a different interpretation of mrep's point. (Where my interpretation has going for it that mrep themselves isn't even doing what you're saying they want.)
This got me to watch some South Park. I was at least few seasons behind. The show is still interesting and has some strong episodes.

Episode "Dead Kids" for example (about school shootings) is amazing, and its ending is absolutely brutal. I know it will stay with me for years.

https://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s22e01-dead-kids
Suit says feds using immigration marriage interviews as trap
Its because advertising agencies tell them to.
Jeremy Lin is not Chinese.
Blizzard bans pro esports player after he voices support for HK protesters