skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are that cheap... e.g. Microcenter has models in the $15-$25 range. They're pretty much at the too cheap to not work level as they can't afford to develop complex, bloated features at that price point.
Its a binary choice.

You either stand against tyranny, or support it.

There is no middle ground, and this needs to be made clear to every company that is faced with this decision.
> offends a portion or group of the public

This is extremely vague. I'm pretty sure any non-trivial amount of words is virtually guaranteed to offend someone somehow.
Works very well for me:

https://www.amazon.com/Linksys-AC1900-Source-Wireless-WRT190...
I never said I thought the rules were fair, I meant the banning.

Their product, their rules, you break the rules, then you accept the consequences.
Replace China with Nazi Germany and re-read your comment. The Chinese are putting Uighurs in concentration camps to destroy their culture (genocide) and harvest their organs.
How banking technologists can get great performance reviews
i hope an intensive care unit doesn't really on a bottom of the barrel consumer device for their network reliability.
One way is to define a set of bullet points that are representative of the team’s culture. This isn’t always easy, but is a worthwhile exercise even outside the context of hiring. Think: a localized version of the Joel Test. These values can be objective (“we strive for 100% test coverage”) and subjective (“we value communication over process”). Every candidate can be ranked relative to these values. The most important factor here is to rank every single candidate against every single value. This will most likely lead to additional questions for some candidates, such as, “tell us about a time when you found communication or process more helpful than the other, and how it made you feel”.
You aren't missing another option. The 655 is based on an exotic architecture (Ubicom32) that never had the specs released for it to develop 3rd party firmware. Its why I trashed my 655 years ago.
Well, they have five demands and the most "radical" of them is being able to vote for your own representatives. Being represented in your own government is a far cry from being a separatist.

Most separatists are probably protestors, but that does not imply most protestors are separatists.
cool stuff, I wish it was available on PC
Operation Mount Hope III
I may have exaggerated with the values, but if we can't both agree that people who work well with each other are more productive than those who don't, I don't know what to tell you.

While it may be used poorly, it does still have value, and that's why it exists at all. If judging someone's personality and attitude wasn't important, there'd be no need for in-person interviews at all.
Under Proposition 13, you are not taxed on the land value or the property value. Instead, you're taxed on the land+property value at the time you bought the property.

If you make a "substantial change" to the property, the tax is reassessed. That's what generates the "empty lots, parking lots, single-family homes in the middle of downtown, etc." -- if you replace your empty lot with a useful building, your property taxes immediately spike.

Extending Prop 13 to cover property redevelopment would do as much to solve the undeveloped-land problem as repealing Prop 13 would. (Obviously, those two policies would differ in other ways.)

I think it's a mistake to focus too heavily on "should we tax land value" vs "should we tax property value". You're correct that taxing property value disincentivizes development, and that is bad. But we're talking here about cases like someone's small personal residence in the middle of downtown San Jose with $4,000,000 of land value and $200,000 of property value. (Numbers completely invented.) If they were taxed on assessed value, land+property, which is the default in most places, that immense land value would quickly make it prohibitive not to redevelop. The tiny property value is a rounding error.
Hi Yev - sorry to jump in here; I've been a customer for a long time and would like to understand the best way to move some particular directory structure from an internal disc to an external disc (both of which are backed up by Backblaze) without causing that entire directory structure to be fully uploaded again. This has happened more than once and it's not pleasant.
No one giving Trump a little credit for pro actively working on putting an end to Chinese theft?
One-sided complaints? When we point out millions of people which were murdered by US, we are downvoted and suppressed because we are a minority on this US-dominated website. I am seriously fed-up with the bullshit spread on this site. You can remove some of us and continue to discuss rubbish pro-US drivel. If there is a way to report users, please do me a favour by reporting my account. I want to get out of this rubbish website today.
Counterpoint: I've been employed to work on liberally licensed software for many years. In my experience, the idea of "open source" exists on a spectrum.

Open source is important to different people for different reasons. For some it's about code quality or security. For others it's an escape hatch from vendor lock-in. For others it's a moral issue. To each their own, but I think the term is heavily overloaded. That genie is simply out of the bottle, for better or worse.

I think the author goes through great lengths to clarify their position. They use "open source" to communicate something that is accurate for the vast majority of people who would be interested in this software, which I would guess is mostly people interested in avoiding vendor lock-in. For those who have a reason to be concerned about the details, it's made very obvious what the restrictions are.

Also, you're assuming a ton about the author's intent here.

EDIT: Also, I think the term "source available" in this context would cause far more people confusion/lead them to a false idea of how this project is licensed than saying "open source" does.
There is nothing much to know except that Prop 13 also applies to commercial property, not just the American homeowner with a mortgage and truck. I'm not quite sure why, but asking the people who voted in the 70s to give themselves a massive tax cut is probably not going to yield anything useful (ask your parents some time!).
You should meet my father. Hungarian patriot. Our many Nobel prizes make him so proud! With the only minor stain to the story that most of them were Jews.
If that's now official American policy then Israel is going bust by Christmas, and Saudi Arabia is invaded by Iran by then.
Whether the fees are a term of their sentence seems to be the most pertinent point.
Then only click on links that say "Free Software". OSI redefined "Open Source" post-facto, and it has always been somewhat ambiguous. Free Software has always been unambiguously "Free as in Freedom Software".
> D-Link last week told Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs, which first discovered the issue in September, that all four of them are end-of-life and no longer sold or supported by the vendor (however, the models are still available as new via third-party sellers).

OK, let's say I am someone who actually knows "end-of-lifed" is a thing, and a thing you don't want...

How would I check to see if a certain router was end-of-lifed before buying it?

If I can figure that out, and I know it's not end-of-lifed, is there any way for me to see how much time is left in it's life before it's end-of-lifed, how would I check to make sure a router I was buying woudln't become end-of-lifed tomorrow, or next week, but has, say, a year or two of supported life left at least.

Obviously, what D-Link is counting on is that most customers won't know that this is even a thing, wont' know what questions to ask, won't realize their router is end-of-lifed, won't realize their router is vulnerable, won't realize it if their router gets hacked, and it wont' effect their likelyhood of buying another D-link router or telling others to. It's not that they think this kind of support is going to be considered acceptable to their customers -- it's that they think their customers won't even be able to figure out what kind of support or security they are getting, mostly won't even realize this is even a question to ask.

And they're probably right.
I used a c and it got autocorrected to that
Instead of us being frightened away from the benefits of nuclear because of the detriment demonstrated by the disaster, we should view Chernobyl as a necessary mistake meant to permanently lock in standards for even the most careless of governments. Even Fukushima comes to mind, even though a larger-than-expected natural disaster was the cause. After parsing the Wiki:

"... the switching stations that sent power from these backup generators to the reactors' cooling systems for Units 1 through 5 were still in the poorly protected turbine buildings..."

Sounds like there was still human engineering negligence. Perhaps that can teach us to restrict new reactors inland.

As some have pointed out in this thread, oil sand waste dumps could ultimately be more harmful than nuclear waste...
Because Teslas emit a ton of PM 2.5. They're heavy compared to ICE cars, and thus wear out brakes, tires, etc. faster.

"PM2.5 emissions were only 1-3% lower for EVs compared to modern ICEVs. ... Non-exhaust emissions already account for over 90% of PM10 and 85% of PM2.5 emissions from traffic. ... Future policy should consequently focus on setting standards for non-exhaust emissions and encouraging weight reduction of all vehicles to significantly reduce PM emissions from traffic."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/297889793_Non-exhau...
Actually I'm kind of taking back the "semi relevant stock photos" part. On second look I think the illustrations are fine and relevant. The problem is not with the illustrations and not even with the text which is fine too but the mismatch between the title and the content. A bit clickbait-y.
Even if everyone drove an EV, a fossil fueled charging source would continue to add to the problem. Solar/wind charging will likely be the case for transportation batteries, but replacing the fossil with nuclear for heavy industry could still grant us our healthy 401(k) payouts.
I'll never understand how articles like this always talk about Uber and never about public transportation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain_JFK#Ridership

>The AirTrain's ridership has risen each year since then. In 2017, there were 7,655,901 passengers who paid to travel between JFK Airport and either Howard Beach or Jamaica. This represents a 292% increase over 2004, the first full year of operation, when 2,623,791 riders paid.

>An additional 12.6 million people are estimated to have ridden the AirTrain for free in 2017.

When such an answer already exists, there is no reason to even ruminate on self driving cars.
As an introduction, there are some good documentaries on the Antikythera mechanism that can be currently found on the web.
Sure, it's a vague line. And it's hard already for juniors to have the confidence to make their own decisions or code in general. To have them also fear failure is even worse with everybody fixated on not making any mistakes. But as a constant failurer myself, I don't view falling on your ass all the time as that great of a thing that you should be so careless to let it continuously happen. You have to try your best and be focused, otherwise you'll always half-ass things without learning the right mindset so to speak.
For parking lots it's a catch-22 of the car centric city design, they're required for businesses to function but you can't charge them the true value of the land because making enough money to cover those property taxes would make parking prohibitively expensive. The real solution is proper public transit of course but that's hard and expensive so we get bandaids instead.
really amazing piece of writing. bravo. well written.
Oh, yes, they're usually still serviced- the systems are babied and locked down and generally taken care of, and if Microsoft releases an emergency XP patch I expect it would be applied. Still, there's a lot of old stuff floating around since medical hardware can last a lot longer than an OS support lifetime.
The US jails something like 5 times as many people as China. That's today, not 60 years ago.
>From Apple's historically more oppressive stance against freedom of expression in their own wallet garden, and the recent actions against the HK protest movement

I would love to see how you justify Apple's actions as "historically oppressive" when it comes to App Store rejections. Even the case that you specify in Hong Kong wasn't Apple's actions "against the HK protest movement". The App was rejected initially because it was thought to violate specific terms and it was appealed and approved within days. To try and frame that as Apple being morally or ethically deficient is really, really disingenuous.

The opposite side is that Apple is the only company that's not actively selling user data and/or using it against users. Android may be more permissive from a general standpoint but even that comes at the huge, huge cost of a lack of privacy and a completely lack of concern for personal freedom. Even from a security standpoint, I would argue that Google is less ethical simply because they don't act on nefarious actors that they know about. Being permissive isn't the same thing as being ethical.
Until consumers are willing to spend on subscription services to keep devices up-to-date, new hardware is the de facto method of paying for software development work.

Of course, in reality, this CVE seems almost un-exploitable in the wild, anyway. How will an exploiter get to the login page in the first place? They'd have to know your network password and be in your physical vicinity, or your ISP would have to send traffic to your router's login page from the Internet.

So they'd have to physically drive around looking for these three specific D-Link routers.

And then what would they get out of a successful exploit? Access to your network's traffic and unprotected file shares (most people don't even have any file shares), and even that level of access will be rather useless for getting important information like bank credentials (protected by HTTPS).

Am I wrong about any of this?

A lot of non-technical people use old Android phones, old printers, etc, and never experience any serious security breach. Some of them do experience a security breach, but it's far more likely to happen in a social exploit (phishing, whaling, etc) or institutional breach (your reused password being breached from a database hack of a popular website). In a lot of ways, ignorance is bliss.
Yes, it was migrated from CVS in 2005[1]. Between then and 1998, it used CVS. Before 1998, It looks like only releases were tracked[2]. I'm not sure what system was used, if any. But yes, it's all migrated into Git, including even the dates.

[1] https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/shortlog/ec34a66612d0...

[2] https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/shortlog/ebfc0fee51aa...
Is your self-driving car going to take up less space or something?
Literally this was me this morning after I upgraded last night and went to bed.

I get Apple wants to make people feel their in control of their privacy, but literally every app I use for work prompts me for every permission imaginable.

“Oh the command you’re running in Terminal, it wants permissions to your Downloads folder, is that ok?” ::click yes:: “Guess what? That same command you’re running in Terminal now wants to access you Library folder. Is That cool?” ::click yes:: “hey it’s me again, that Terminal command. It now wants to access your Documents folder. Is that cool?”

I’m a Sys admin prepping all the hoops to make my clients avoid this fiasco. It’s somewhat documented what we should expect, but it’s a lot of prep work and real world testing we need to go through to ensure our users don’t ask, “why am I always being prompted with these pop up questions?”

Also, TV, Podcasts, and FindMy are being disabled in Catalina. Disabling FindMy and logging everyone out of iCloud turns off the risk of the new Tile like features Apple is about to release on the world. I don’t want my users turning their work machines turn into Bluetooth beacons for Apple.
Nothing has happened to Stallman's 35 years of work. Last I checked, nobody's deleting the emacs repo today.

... but he increasingly doesn't represent the future of computing, let alone GNU and FSF. There's a reason so much of Ars Technica's reporting on rms gets headed with that "Old Man Yells At Cloud" meme image. Sometimes, leaders are changed out. Stallman's continued work is up to Stallman, but he doesn't necessarily get the privilege of continuing to lead GNU (and he doesn't have the privilege of continuing to lead the FSF).

Besides, this is open source we're talking about, not a VC company. If people rally behind rms and fork the projects, the projects get forked.

But I anticipate that won't happen, because he increasingly doesn't represent where software is going. I don't think he actually wields the thought-leadership cachet he used to. We shall see.
> “We are strongly dissatisfied and we oppose Silver’s claim to support Morey’s right of free expression. We believe that any speech that challenges national sovereignty and social stability is not within the scope of freedom of speech,” CCTV said in its statement in Chinese, which was translated by CNBC.

I normally find the "hate speech is free speech" argument to be pretty tiring, but it's also true that once you start carving exemptions to free speech you can easily carve one out that says "criticizing the government is like hate speech", and then you can justify anything.
They were lemons at time of sale, though, we just didn't know it yet. Between that and the ecosystem/society argument, I think it's a no-brainer.

> However, how would you feel about legislation that required five years of dealer service to be included with every automobile sale? Or other products in a similar vein?

This analogy doesn't work for me; software bugs are defects, they aren't something getting old and falling apart. I think that a defect in an automobile should be repaired at manufacturer expense whether it's a year old or twenty.
No idea. But free speech also accounts for the chilling effect of legislation on the populace.
They didn't have to - the Chinese government did it all by themselves.
Thank you so much for your return Kimtai ! Unfortunately a windows app is not on the roadmap yet but I want to see what’s going on with the launch, I already feel that a lot of people interested in IoT are not on the apple ecosystem! So it's definitely something I'll consider :)
The Big List of VPNs
US puts visa restrictions on Chinese officials over abuses of Muslims in Xinjian
But how else are US CEOs supposed to get Merit Cross of the German Eagle with Star?

https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=26634
try non-PC speeches in US, race, LGBT or gun related speeches you'll see
"But how will we differentiate from the market without our \"value added\" non-standard software?"
I like this billboard from the good old days https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Ev....

It says: "Everybody works but the vacant lot. I paid $3,600 for this lot and will hold till I get $6000. The profit is unearned increment made possible by the presence of this community and enterprise of its people. I take the profit without earning it."

These lots produce negative externalities to society and should be taxed accordingly.
Ordinary people boycotting offensive speech would manifest as people choosing to not watch NBA games because of this - which would be entirely within their rights if that's how they choose. However, if NBA is simply removed from the market, that's not a boycott by ordinary people, that's government sanctions.
Linksys routers still ship with Samba 1.0 which has literally been deprecated for like 20 years now. These companies literally don't give a crap what they ship, I can only imagine that the firmware is made by someone who stood next to a building where a talk about internet security was held....a month earlier.
If it was just Microsoft... it also goes for Intel and Ryzen era AMD processors. Maybe IBM's new PowerPCs are safe ?
Absolutely not. This idiot simply used open source to get eyeballs. Great way to use other peoples' code, yet keep all the profit for yourself.
Twitter, Facebook, and any other entity that deplatformed Alex Jones are private companies and can deplatform whoever they want. In fact that is part of their freedom of speech. This is different from government-enforced silencing of speech, which is what is happening in China right now.

I feel no cognitive dissonance, but maybe you can explain more why I should.
No problem, and I'm happy that this came up so that I can try my best to make things better for users like you :).
Art: Gardner's "Art Through the Ages" as an overview in terms of art history. If you are looking for technique I couldn't recommend just one.

Political Science is tough, because there are plenty of decent primers, but there are enough sub-specialties that they each have their own pillars. Conversely, you can go for a lot of the 'classics' (e.g. Plato's "Republic", Hobbe's "Leviathan", Locke's "Two Treatises" etc)
On the flipside, is there anything in there that's actually true and isn't part of the modern common knowledge compendium?

Can't wait for computers to start actually understand text because reading 10 volumes where both the language and the way to think about things is - let's say - different is bloody hard.
I'm pretty sure that this is going to get you sued into oblivion:

1. I work for private company X.

2. X tells me to vote for Y, says that Y is awesome, supports Y, donates to Y. (pick any of these)

3. I campaign for and vote for Z.

4. I am fired because i voted for Z.

Any outcome in which X is not crushed into little pieces is so incredibly far off the deep end from what the values of who we are as a country are that it's frankly inconceivable to me. If the free expression of political speech is so crabbed and constrained that the above is ok, or legal, or both, then we're fucked.
No. Not even close. Did you bother to actually read the Common Clause FAQ? Here are the first 2 FAQ entries:

"What is Commons Clause?
The Commons Clause is a license condition drafted by Heather Meeker that applies a narrow, minimal-form commercial restriction on top of an existing open source license to transition the project to a source-availability licensing scheme. The combined text replaces the existing license, allowing all permissions of the original license to remain except the ability to "Sell" the software as defined in the text.

This Clause is not intended to replace licenses of existing open source projects in general, but to be used by specific projects to satisfy urgent business or legal requirements without resorting to fully "closing source".

Is this “Open Source”?
No.

“Open source”, has a specific definition that was written years ago and is stewarded by the Open Source Initiative, which approves Open Source licenses. Applying the Commons Clause to an open source project will mean the source code is available, and meets many of the elements of the Open Source Definition, such as free access to source code, freedom to modify, and freedom to re-distribute, but not all of them. So to avoid confusion, it is best not to call Commons Clause software “open source.” "
The part-owner of the Lakers tried to sell his major entertainment empire of American icons to the government of Qatar. He canceled the deal because the offer was too low.

This is the same guy who has two former employees, one is a newer Supreme Court Justice that he allegedly spent $10 million in dark money helping and the other is a US Senator whose running for President. He also happens to own Coachella despite fighting legal weed and donating to anti-gay groups in the past.