skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not so sure it's okay

I'm not sure its okay for China to be maiming and killing protestors while trying to subjugate a city under tyranny,

The reality is that there are not okay things out there, and people often feel helpless against them, and will do things others will feel is not okay to try to get their message across when they feel the okay way isn't working.

And as a global people we should support those that feel, out of desperation, they need to destroy their careers or risk their own safety to try to help others. Its the inverse side of the coin school shooters and terrorism occur on - both are driven to extreme action, but one is sacrificing oneself to try to help others while the other seeks only to destroy for selfish egotism. Both are indicative of systemic issues that need addressed.
That's why I'm making the quote "illegal aliens". The majority of people who are in ICE custody are, as far as I understand, legal asylum seekers. However, they're depicted as illegal.
I can't understand why anyone even expects better PR management from Blizzard after that "you all have mobile phones, right?" fiasco
Technological advances in agriculture would presumably explain it, many of which are probably computer driven (precision agriculture, data-driven agriculture being two examples).
A post I made a while back that seems relevant:

> The proteins in a cell form complex organelles, each with a specific role to play in the functioning of the cell. The cells in your body each specialize to constitute a complex, conscious organism. Likewise, you are part of a complicated social and technological network.[1] And just as the cell doesn’t ask the proteins what they think of their functions, our human ecosystem doesn’t care much what we think about it’s operation. As technology creates more and more refined models of the human body and mind we will find ourselves slotted more and more tightly into roles so the whole machine can operate more efficiently.

[1] https://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/USAconscious.ht...
As you confirm, the facts are straight: "The editor who published the opinion piece would have lost their job, heads would have rolled, etc"

The public pressure to adopt a particular line was comparable. The consequences for a company or personality not adopting a similar line were, and often still are "tied 100% to the approval or disapproval" which sees someone step down after a foolish quote.

Hundreds were imprisoned during the McCarthy era, so that's not an unreachable stretch either. It's not unthinkable.

To your edit: The equivalence is the equal pressure to conform (to the views of China / the prevailing views of the US), with similar consequences. The main difference is that a US corporation is conforming to an international view - because of that market, along with the speed that pressure can build via the internet.
What you wrote and what 'SnarkAsh wrote are to each other like poke in the nose is to murder.
Imagining Best Case Scenarios
> And without grid, solar panels shut themselves off.

By legislation, not by technical necessity.

> A lot of bay area residents generate their own power, but we all rely on pg&e for interconnect.

I am aware. This is a legal thing that the legislature refuses to correct. They've granted PG&E a monopoly and won't stand up to them properly. When I was a California resident, I contacted my congressman about it almost monthly, and got the same response: sorry can't do anything
Contrast that with Ellen Degeneres responding to people dismayed that she sat next to George W. Bush during a game (warning, video in the tweet):

https://twitter.com/TheEllenShow/status/1181395164499070976

Basically, it's okay to be friends with people we disagree with (and really, we ought to).
Uhhh, that was a joke, bro. Yes I am aware of the etiology of diabetes.

But ultimately: my point is factual and stands -the main result of using biotech to treat diabetes is to allow more fat people to make themselves sick without killing more pigs and horses. Which is how diabetics were treated in the old days; with pig and horse insulin.
China did not do this, Blizzard and the NBA did it. These are US companies/associations that supposedly support human and civil rights.

China can do whatever they want, Blizzard, the NBA, and others are voluntarily appeasing China (or act like they are trying to do so) and tossing their carefully developed facade of supporting human and civil rights out the window.

In contrast, Adobe is following a US law.
I do not see how one could not characterize undocumented immigrants as being the scapegoat of the woes of the currently empowered right-wing political movement. The conditions have been bad and are ratcheting up. Don't be blind to the atrocities that are already happening just because they aren't performing mass executions yet.

The immigration police are filled with racists, killers, and white nationalists. This CBP agent was literally a serial killer:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/15/us/us-border-patrol-agent-arr...
Yes, everyone should upgrade. An exploit would use the tmux integration control sequence without your consent.
I am of two minds about, if it helps security, it sounds somewhat reasonable,but I used questionable passwords in the past partly because they were easy to memorize along the lines of missslippyfist and some numbers/chars. I was forced to stop once company I used to work for started filtering for curses.

And running to HR over perceived creepyness sounds like a dick move.
I'll quote the page since maybe you had trouble reading it:
https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-pr...

> Yet, we must also acknowledge that Stallman’s behavior over the years has undermined a core value of the GNU project: the empowerment of all computer users. GNU is not fulfilling its mission when the behavior of its leader alienates a large part of those we want to reach out to.

> We believe that Richard Stallman cannot represent all of GNU. We think it is now time for GNU maintainers to collectively decide about the organization of the project. The GNU Project we want to build is one that everyone can trust to defend their freedom.

These are not supporters and the page isn't made in support of RMS.
One is standard international politics, with one government imposing sanctions on another. The other is a violation of Westphalian sovereignty.

Though it should be noted that the US has not been shy of such violations itself, and with them earned itself quite a bit of ill will - Venezuela is just not such a case.
A far more interesting book on the subject of the way Sweden-the-country and many Swedes handled in the years before and during the second world war is Aron Flam's Det här är en Svensk Tiger! which is the written-down version of his netcast essay series under the same name [2]. In it the author lays out the way the Swedish social democratic party together with the farmer's union (Bondeförbundet, the predecessor to the current 'Centerpartiet') set the country on a course of racial purification which ended up being a source of inspiration to the German national socialist party. The country denied the Norwegian royal family passage when they tried to flee the invading Germans while allowing those same Germans to use the Swedish railway network to transport troops to Norway. How Swedish iron but also Swedish technology in the form of SKF ball bearings were instrumental in building the German invasion forces. The allies tried to buy up the whole supply of SKF bearings to keep them out of the hands of Germany but SKF found a way around that as well through a German subsidiary.

Sweden has never really made up with this part of its past like Germany has. It is very likely that this hidden past is one of the driving factors behind the way the country tries to portray itself as a 'humanitarian superpower' with a self-assigned responsibility to spread its particular brand of morality to those considered to be in need and an often reckless obliviousness in the way these policies do harm both at home and abroad.

The book is thus far only available in Swedish, as is the netcast series. It will be translated eventually for those who do not read Swedish but since many of the subjects it touches were already known outside of Sweden it is less of an eye-opener outside of the country.

[1] https://www.aronflam.com/merchandise/det-hr-r-en-svensk-tige...

[2] https://soundcloud.com/aronflam/ (search for 'svensk tiger')
A difference is that all of these private roots are subject to market acceptance, and the owners have strong incentives to keep the keys secure.

If Microsoft or Apple leak their keys, they at least will spend a lot of effort on cycling keys to their huge number of deployed products and on the PR fallout. If it's managed poorly, they may lose customers.

If the US leaks their key, tough noogies, it's mandated to use that one. Companies, much less people, will find it hard to move to another country with better key management procedures.
Is that the same company that recently was in the news due to brutal workloads and work hours?
No, that's what reproducible builds are all about: https://reproducible-builds.org/

Debian is currently sitting at around 93% of packages being reproducibly built. NixOS is close to 99% of the minimal install image set (https://r13y.com/).
Hi there, I actually found most of the projects either here on HN or on GitHub explore, and a few of them I thought of because I used the projects myself (e.g. Brian of node-postgres). Quite a lot of developers put their email address on their GitHub profiles, or otherwise their personal website, so contact info was easy to find. Maybe that's more difficult for students than maintainers though?

For the email, I was just straightforward in saying what I was working on, what I hoped to get out of interviewing them and what I hoped they would get out of it. And I did the interview over email which made it easy for them.

Your content is good, although if I could give a small criticism it would be on your typography - the pink headings in all caps with big letter spacing just makes it much harder to read, and I would make the body text a little larger too. (this site is great for reference: https://practicaltypography.com)

Best of luck and happy to answer any more questions.
It's Gordon G. Chang who has been calling for Chinese collapse via all sorts of deceptive narratives in the last 20 years. No one who studies China takes him seriously.
Please don't turn this political discussion into a political discussion.

Edit: Please remember that only negative comments regarding President Trump are allowed in this political discussion about free speech.
That's the point of a tl;dr!
A few terminals support special escape sequences for "shell integration", which allows nicer display and features for shells and other REPLs. I've written up a proposed specification, as an extension of the sequences used by iTerm2 and FinalTerm - see https://gitlab.com/PerBothner/terminal-specifications/blob/m.... I've also implemented this (the current draft) in DomTerm (https://domterm.org). I welcome feedback both on the proposed specification, the DomTerm implementation, the feature set, and the blog article.
I’m trying to wrap my head around this. While shielding the focus from receiving any thermal radiation via surrounding objects ( ground, etc) you also provide a 360 degree thermal radiation heat sink, making it as easy as possible for whatever is at the focus to shed heat?
Aren't quotients non-constructive? Univalence is probably also relevant to this issue, given that it generalizes the treatment of 'equality' in a broadly similar direction to the one needed for quotients. Groupoids are after all a fairly natural generalization of setoids.
So the word 'attack' has a new meaning now?
Quote from the page:

> Yet, we must also acknowledge that Stallman’s behavior over the years has undermined a core value of the GNU project: the empowerment of all computer users. GNU is not fulfilling its mission when the behavior of its leader alienates a large part of those we want to reach out to.

> We believe that Richard Stallman cannot represent all of GNU. We think it is now time for GNU maintainers to collectively decide about the organization of the project. The GNU Project we want to build is one that everyone can trust to defend their freedom.

This is not a list of people in support of RMS, they are against RMS.
Excellent. This entire incident has been re-enforcing of how willing the media is to lie and how little people care when the lies support a narrative they believe in.

Here is what reporter Edward Ongweso Jr. wrote for Vice [1]:

> Early in the thread, Stallman insists that the “most plausible scenario” is that Epstein’s underage victims were “entirely willing” while being trafficked.

Here is what Stallman actually wrote:

> We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates.

There is literally no way to read the previous sentence as Stallman arguing that Epstein's victims were entirely willing.

People like Edward Ongweso should be the ones losing their jobs, not Richard Stallman.

[1]: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne8b47/two-researchers-re...
Good luck producing iPhones without the chips, which are not made in China and have at most a few weeks worth of stock, I'd guess.
AFAIK uranium is not a renewable energy source since it is finite and does not replenish itself.

Am I missing something?
It depends on whether the statement is public or private.

Otherwise we're getting dangerously close to thoughtcrimes.
I disagree with almost everything in this article.

1. The facial recognition on students case. This has been done in physical schools for decades. Teachers had been telling kids to pay attention forever. Now, after moving to virtual, a similar solution has been developed. Personally, I would be happy if I could use something like this for my own learning. Identifying the moments when I didn't focus, so that I could re-learn just what I need, is certainly useful and helps a lot.

2. People don't understand that privacy has a price. If Facebook weren't serving us targeted ads, it would be asking us money. I prefer seeing ads over paying money. 99% of people also do. This is evident by Facebook's success. Some things cannot even be done a different way. We can live without smart speakers. They're not really an essential thing in your lives yet. Still, people buy them. They prefer the loss of privacy, that carries almost no real consequences, over the inability to use a technology that helps them.

3. Regulation around drugs means drugs are expensive and development is slowed down. It's very hard to make new, revolutionary drugs, unless you're a big company. If you're a big company, sometimes you don't want to pursue a certain direction, as not to disturb the status quo and not to kill your golden goose. You're also extremely profit-driven, much more so than small inventors. This will be true about technology. When it gets regulated, any new developments that might benefit humanity will be slowed down or not pursued at all. we will also end up with way more monopollies than we have now.

4. You know, people who never went to america make progress too? Europe has their fair share of startups too. Sure, America was and is the center of technology, mostly for geopolitical/legal/historical reasons, but that doesn't mean anything. I completely don't get this argument.

This article is a perfect example of the anti-big-tech crusade the mainstream media are pursuing recently, which is very alarming. I'm not saying there are no issues with the way current technology works. In my opinion, most of them stem from the fact that law, especially tax law, favors big companies with big armies of lawyers over small companies or even collectives. Those companies usually have shareholders and investors breathing on their necks, so they need to pursue every direction, no matter how unethical, that can bring them more profit. Corporate lock-in and the "move fast and break things" movement are also major issues. Privacy isn't one, though. People think of that surveillance done by machines is equivalent to surveillance done by people. I disagree. If I don't really get any negative consequences from Facebook having my data (and I see none), while getting a lot of positive consequences, I'm all for it.
If I had a key logger on your system, I'd just try;

9A4jc@23

Bam. Access granted.
I'm excited for your coming adventures, in which our intrepid hero breaks into people's diaries and then tells their friends about the naughty things they wrote.

Brave!
Well, AGPL was the answer to that issue, but it hasn't really done much. I think part of the impact was things like GitHub recommending the MIT license.
Handheld devices cannot be reasonably expected to last 10 years.

However consumer goods must be fit for purpose for a reasonable time. The case of the insecure router after 5-10 years was probably not brought to court, but I hope the court would agree that it isn't fit for purpose if insecure..

If you are really interested, you can read on the law here (my jurisdiction is Quebec, Canada) : https://www.opc.gouv.qc.ca/en/consumer/good-service/goods/sm...

Fortunately, we don't have to care what manufacturers think is absurd or not; it's been decided for them.
Or maybe we should start standing up to an authoritarian regime.

oh wait, capitalism. Nevermind. Let's pander to them instead.
https://www.ice.gov/detention-management#tab2 appears to be a canonical statistics data source, although I admit it will take me more than a cursory glance to have an understanding of the data, and I don't want to make a statement that isn't accurate due to not having a full understanding of said data.
There's a decent book on the history of steam engines called "The Most Powerful Idea in the World" which answers the question fairly convincingly.
It's not their fault. It really doesnt make sense. Three bars mean nothing except the greek letter Ξ. At least an arrow would indicate that there is something below.
I think the GNU response is more subtle than "boycott it". In particular, I do not get the impression that GNU opposes someone using software that runs on someone else's server machine in general. One obvious example would be an HTTP server with PHP scripts, or whatever.

The software running on the remote server could even be proprietary software! For the sake of the person running the server, they should not use proprietary software, but if it is running on their machine and not yours, then it is not your responsibility, and (as I understand the GNU position) not wrong for you to access that software.

Now, if the software is actually a combination of server-side software and client-side software, such as servers that deliver Javascript code to be run locally, then that Javascript software should be Free Software.

But moreover, the GNU concern about running software on remote servers (i.e., "in the cloud"), is not just about the software itself, but about what the server maintainers can and do do with user data. Who owns the data? Can you get a copy of it? Can you get a copy of _all_ of it? How about the implications of the data? For example, you could tell Facebook ten things about yourself, and they could extrapolate a hundred more. Is "your data" the ten things only, and not the additional hundred extrapolations? And, if you ask them to delete "your data", will they? If they do, what exactly do they delete?

So it's really more of a privacy issue, I think, than a pure "free software" issue, but important nevertheless.
Yeah, but it's a gimmick. There's no way to make it useful because even at perfect efficiency, it's not possible to generate a useful amount of power given the required surface area.
French people are outraged too.
That setup is simply not suitable for using Backblaze, or actually any kind of off-site backup.

What would be an interesting solution, is to run a simple gigabit ethernet line to a neighbor or even the backyard shed. And set up a backup endpoint there. It's not totally off-site but sure beats the alternative.
It's basically a rudimentary forum system based on email communication that relies on a software most people have and that is widely available in either closed-source or open-source, an email client.
A better pattern is something long that will exceed the bounds of a rainbow table.

I love JavaScript but I really wish it didn't have the ASI feature*

The example is 67 characters long written in a statement that is easy to remember with two non-alpha characters aside from the spaces. Imagine the size of rainbow table it would take to crack that.
Which works out to 2.2 years at the rate that the actual password was cracked (1GH/s).
It's an uninteresting commentary on the state of the Hacker News guidelines. Please read and follow them when posting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> most Apple products are essentially bricked without software activation

In the near-term, expropriation would stave off job losses. (In the cities, amidst highly-skilled workers no less.) In the medium term, production lines could be adapted to make non-bricked products.

Long story short, the threat of massive job losses to China is minimal--Apple has limited leverage over Beijing.
Electric winning in 1910s would have been worse. Batteries were made of lead acid, and electricity was generated from coal plants located inside of cities, without even any scrubbers. Coal burning releases heavy metals.

Pollution deaths would've been sky high if electric cars "won" in 1910.
If ICE were rounding up Democrats now (or Republicans under Obama) that would be "political enemies". ICE is doing no such thing. Part of its mission is enforcing US immigration laws, and it's doing that in a manner that's largely consistent with what our democratically enacted laws say it can and should do. You don't have to like it (I certainly don't) but it's not in any way analogous to the Gestapo.
>Wild yeast is in the air everywhere

But not the same yeast everywhere. Plus bacteria are also a factor, and also vary place to place. Some may cause worse allergies than others, depending on the person.

As far as I know, French bakers didn't bring the yeast (or starter) responsible for sourdough. They just brought french bread. The sourdough part happened naturally, at least initially. Now it's actively encouraged.

But even with the right starter, the further east you go, the harder good sourdough is to make.
British privacy regulator breaches privacy
More like Extraordinary!!!
Cool, false equivalence seems to be the norm on HN nowadays
You're entitled to your opinion, and free to state it, and that's exactly one of the values our constitution enshrines.

The others can be found here:

https://constitutionus.com/

for the philosophical underpinnings read this:

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/

If you live in the US and don't like what's going on right now, I suggest you register to vote and help others do the same. For all the evident problems laid bare by the current administration, it's completely within the people's power to build a more perfect union.
It's not surprising that two different organizations would have two different headlines. That's common sense, not a conspiracy.
I agree with you 100%. I would bet that Blizzard's radio silence had been planned from the start. People will forget but the more they apologize the more they dig themselves into a hole that's tough to get out of. Personally, I hope that I can withstand the desire to re-subscribe in two weeks.
I signed it. I'm not against RMS, I just don't think he should lead GNU. I think the GNU Advisory Committee is better suited to lead things. I believe both the FSF board and the GAC need term limits and I hope they implement them.