skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It fits as a "total war" mentality essentially. Delivering food to a city is supporting a siege. So is paying protection money supporting an armed group of criminals. Technically right but a matter of nuance. It may be effective in some cases but like nearly anything assuming automatic morality is a way to leap off the slippery slope.

Even the advocates don't take it literally usually because of how barking mad that would be in a "strangle infants for not supporting the cause" way. But that isn't special because any philsophy can be twisted into something horrific.

I suspect its popularity is more for the memetic effectiveness than a deep philosophy - regardless if it is right.
The in-universe answer from Star Trek is that there's no more capitalism in their post-scarcity society.
With the added weight that Scotland voted in 2014 to remain in the UK.

The 2014 referendum question was "Should Scotland be an independent country?"
"No" had 55.3% of the votes (with a very high turnout of 84.6%)
How many would you have guessed they were? The number does not stand out for me.
Tips to validate your business idea before launching a startup
He didn't, though. He advocated improving healthcare, but not to the extent that Warren does. And he castigated the banking industry but never proposed anything at the level Warren is proposing.

Besides, this isn't even the question. The OP said that Warren is a middle of the road Democrat. Compared to the positions held by the average Democrat Senator/Congressperson she isn't at all. Whether she'd follow through on those promises when elected is a valid question (though much like Obama, it wouldn't be under her sole control), but that doesn't mean she isn't left-leaning.
There are some supported sub-100$ ones.
For non-technical people, this is not surprising, as Google shoves it down your throat when you go to their website(s).

For technical folks, I really don't understand it - I'm not a web developer, so my use case might be different, but I really don't see what exactly people are missing. I've never had issues with browser performance (I use FF on mac, Windows, Linux, and (slow out of the box) development Linux VMs).

People here usually complain about performance, but how does one even objectively measure that? Do people's browsers freeze up? Do websites load noticeably slower?

This is a genuine question - not just a rant.

As a side node, syncing to your own server is a huge feature for me - as far as I'm aware, Chrome can't do that. That + DDG as default search engine is an open alternative to Google's/Chrome's monopoly, which in my opinion should take precedence over pure convenience for the audience of HN.
Loophole: it's true that he said it.
Maybe I’m overly cynical, but creating tax returns for everyone for free would prevent the IRS from allowing you to incriminate yourself by mis-filing (intentionally or not) and then levying huge penalties and interest on you 10 years later.

Everyone is hating on TurboTax for making money, but they’re pretending the government tax machine has no such motivation, which simply is not true.
They're not my parents, why do I want them meddling in my life?
Turns, out, it's actually very reliable in practice. I'm trying to work out at the moment just how far I can go with more powerful servos: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/104662/42583. There are limits, but they seem to be greater than I expected, especially when the only power to the Raspberry Pi is provided by a MacBook.
There are similar techniques used to self-correct 3D printing. You can actually license a system from NASA.[0]

[0]https://technology.nasa.gov/patent/MFS-TOPS-70
There is a strong presence of his cultists on HN. By "cultists" I mean the people having "he can do nothing wrong" mentality. Double standards were going strong recently.
He's responding to material accusations; "they claim that his social behavior has prevented more people from joining."

And if you're evaluating a spokesman, which is a role Stallman has to fill, being unusually awkward is a strong disqualifier.

So he's not bringing this up from nowhere.

> I don't know if it's true and already public, but how can you write that publicy about someone, you must be a profesional to diagnose someone and still that's very personal information.

I don't like charges of mental problems. I think when people go for a cheap shot it's usually one of the holy trinity of stupid, crazy or mean. And people like to dress a cheap shot up with some Latin or Greek; worse still is when a pro does exactly what you're complaining about.

In this case, though, he's sticking to what I can condone. I've already pointed out how it's relevant, and that he's bringing it up to respond to charges others have already made.

The other factor is he's not trying to pretend he has any medical qualification or that they even matter:

> He is socially inept, whether incapable because of his Asperger brain or poorly socialized because nobody taught him manners is a moot point.

It's okay to observe someone is socially inept as that's something most adults can intuit. And he also tries to humanize Stallman:

> He has mental issues and nobody cared enough about them to help him.

That's indicting people around Stallman more than Stallman himself. Because of that, I think this is acceptable discourse.
I guess now we know why Apple didn't roll this out on iPhones.
>Local businesses use Facebook relentlessly because, lots of times, it actually works to get people in the door or calling your number. Small businesses almost have to use its ad platform (in my opinion). I don't think local businesses can afford to look away from a top performer like this.

Anecdotally, based on my experience working with over 250 local businesses across the business spectrum, this doesn't reflect reality. A very small percentage of my clients "actively" use "organic" Facebook, an even smaller percentage use their ad platform (much higher usage of Google Ads). The ones that do (buy FB ads), typically do so through local "media company" who tack on their own fees, which in turn makes it a poor investment. I can count on one hand (out of hundreds) the number of our clients who effectively use Facebook. In fact, in the last couple of years, the number of businesses forgoing a "real website" and choosing Facebook (a common theme just a few years ago) has basically disappeared.
You know, there’s a paper form you can fill out and send in for free if you’re that angry about it.
> "Dan Hewitt, Vice President of Media Relations for the Entertainment Software Association, has argued that “loot boxes are not gambling because they provide something to use in the game. They offer an alternate experience and players are not required to buy them . . . .”"

This is like the Tobacco companies hiring a media company saying smoking is good for you.

I've yet to hear a good argument from a truly independent party that says "no, it's not gambling". Because really, loot boxes are gambling.
Datomic shards naturally though – Datomic queries are functions that take database values as input. You can pass multiple database values as input and join across them. This is a first-class construct. I don't remember if this works in Cloud but it definitely works in onprem.
A lot of people just don't care.
Perhaps championing Adoption is one such strategy?

Today, young women who find themselves pregnant face a similar stark choice, as mothers of preemies did back then: they're given the choice of either Abortion, or Abandonment in state institutions, both of which dehumanize the lost children.

Adoption of children faces the same cultural ambivalence that preemies and slaves faced historically, even though there are millions of adoptive parents who wait years for a child!

In my province of Canada, the number of adopted infants is in the single digits, while thousands of families wait for years without a child, and thousands of babies are aborted -- and the mother is never given the choice to allow the child to grow up in a loving family...

Perhaps we can make the loss and abandonment of children as unthinkable as slavery and discarding preemies to die was!
This isn’t about races or sexes deserving it, this is about fixing an existing imbalance that happened via cultural discrimination. The idea is to get closer to balance and then as soon as we’re closer, stop discriminating in either direction. When you call people trying to fix this deplorable, let’s just be clear, you’re judging negatively the people hoping to end cultural discrimination. If your proposed solution is to not do anything, we already know what will happen, because it already did: more cultural discrimination.
I'm with you. The instructions on how to fill out every form come with the form.
Facebook reminds me a lot of AOL in this regard that it is the internet for most people: in the early internet AOL was the internet for the casual user: someone who wanted to maybe check some messages, check the news on a few sites, and check in on a few groups. The same type of user now prefers Facebook to be their portal to the internet because in their view why not have it all in one place? The rest of the internet is confusing. There's viruses and all these scary things out there! And I won't know how to find anything! All my friends are here already, why would I go anywhere else? I know most of the younger generation doesn't think like this, but then again Facebook isn't a young person's platform anymore. I would almost certainly prefer that those small businesses had their own website that I could visit, but I know most people don't think like that, and the business itself doesn't want to pay some random dev shop whatever fee to develop and run it when they can just post it on facebook and get 80% of the benefit.
> (e.g. stepper motors instead of servos)

Servos are more accurate than steppers.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servomotor#Servomotors_vs._ste...
I am stil amazed at whan my late 2013 Mac Book Pro can do. Recently I've bought one of the cheapest 4k monitor (27" Philips 276E). Connected to Mac Book via some cheap DP-miniDP cord and it works perfectly - sharp image, no problems of any sort. I doubt if most of the other laptops from that era, or even slighlty newer would allow me to do that.
It can depend on the business, I think. I've been working on starting a business in the beauty & wellness industry, and every single wellness spa owner I've talked to has told me that social media advertising is basically a joke and that, while it will bring in some people, it doesn't compare to old school word-of-mouth, visibility, coupons, local magazine ads, etc.

On the other hand, my family's bookshop relies a lot on social media to get the word out. I suspect social media is more important for businesses that aren't viewed as necessities or are competing with convenience. (people tend to view wellness, beauty, anti-aging, facials, etc., as necessities if they depend on them regularly even though they aren't true necessities, which is why such industries tend to fare well even during recessions)

This probably isn't all Facebook's doing, but just the changing nature of how people get their information. Before Facebook, it was TV ads and ads in the newspaper, but nobody viewed those platforms as being nefarious. Now people are on the internet and watching cable less and less, so something's got to take the place of TV ads.
I guess this isn't that dissimilar from Git, except that when you snapshot your environment, you get everything (code, IDE settings, issue tracking, and persistent data) all in the same dump.

There's definitely something to this. I'm not sure that building the IDE on top of it is practical (partly because web IDEs are still pretty limited and partly because the scope is just enormous).

But if we had a way to version code that combines source, data, and issues, I'm super interested. It just needs to pipe into existing tools rather than recreating existing tools.
Citizenship is also based on ancestry in the USA (natural born citizen).

Since there are African Americans and people with very little “indian blood” on the citizenship rolls for some tribes, that’s the argument it’s not a race based classification.
That's wrong in multiple ways. Fortnightly is 14, and bi is ambiguous because English has weak grammatical structure inside words.
You’re thinking of the separation between devs and ops at the same company. I think the text you’re quoting is talking about the separation between third-party vendors’ devs, and first-party downstream ops people.

And it’s never been a goal, to disintermediate ops people from other companies’ devs. We’ve been doing just the opposite for ages, with things like VM “appliances” and Docker images, created so that the interface between “the devs at the company that created this” and “the ops people deploying it” can be more formally defined by some kind of deployment-time configuration API. This is another case of that.
I suspect Germany and France are much more concerned about privacy
yeah, I believe the hardware mute button does mute the mic.

That was more of a joke, are you sure they are off?

I'm sure someone has or is testing that the hardware mute button works.

I'm not against Nest/Google. I was always sporting Google T-Shirts and hats back in the day, telling everyone to use it and recommending their products.

I'm just not sure on this product.
Additionally, the cameras would usually record on their equipment only, it wouldn't be sent for further analysis to on of the largest data collection entities worldwide.
federal gun laws still apply on native land -- most federal law applies in fact.
With the advent of RSS going by the wayside, email has become the sole reliable method of doing non-invasive push notifications.

I wish it weren’t so, but collecting emails was the personal advice of someone highly regarded by both myself and HN so it’s what I do—with an apology in the modal itself.
Well, just glancing at that source code: I do not know Postgres like I thought.
Amazon is the only one of the GAFAMs that it's not practical to boycott : boycotting Amazon Web Services breaks a large part of the Web.
o Added regular expression support for the format search, match andsubstitute modifiers in tmux(1).
o Added a -v flag to source-file in tmux(1) to show the commands and line numbers.
o Added simple menus usable with mouse or keyboard in tmux(1).
o Introduced the command "display-menu" to show a menu bound to the mouse on status line by default, and added menus in tree, client and buffer modes.
o Changed the behavior of swap-window -d in tmux(1) to match swap-pane.
o Allow panes to be empty in tmux(1), and enabling output to be piped to them with split-window or display-message -I.
o Adjusted tmux(1) to automatically scroll when dragging to create a selection with the mouse when the cursor reaches the top or bottom line.
o Fixed a tmux(1) crash when killing the current window, and other bugfixes.

Would love to see a demo of these cool now tmux features. (sorry, I don't really know how to format that email text for HN)
> Pixel 3/3XL had best camera in phones until 11/11 Pro were released (yeah even better than XS).

This was definitely true for low light pictures, but for all other cases I don't think it can be said objectively that the Pixel was better.

> Lot of people actually don't think Pixel 3 looks like a cheaply made toy. Look for reviews.

"Cheaply made toy" is strong wording but in my reading of reviews, it's very common for people to say it feels cheaper than an iPhone.
letter cases were a mistake in language itself.

cool way to bloat your glyph set to double the size and introduce aesthetic and string matching problems.
You're right. But you have to recognize it is because corporations recognized they can commodify tons of their code to reduce costs and improve code quality and security. The linux foundation has dozens of multi-million-dollar partner corporations, whereas the FSF has maybe 5000 contributing members globally. But those corporations have no reason to guarantee that your computer will do what you want it to do, and many reasons to guarantee that it will do what they want it to do. This is a pervasive norm now, especially on hackernews where the demographic is primarily entrepreneurial web-only devs.

Before deriding free software, ask yourself, who benefits from being able to read the source code of a program that restricts what ebooks you can read?
In English, the word "skat" is used to refer to animal droppings.
And now we do make it clearer. Hope you like it. Thanks for the feedback!
What about youtube app asking every time to suscribe to youtube premium? I say no, then after a while I'm asked again.

Seriously, I already said no 100s of times, why keep asking?
Can’t vouch for the quality but just searching for [diy plotter] yields plenty of results that look interesting.
Traffic has only gone up.

/b/ is dead and /v/,/vg/,/pol/ are all faster now.

http://4stats.io
How are they different from the Amish on this sense?
I think you may have let some anti Semitism slip in there.
Amish communities have their own problems, like running puppy mills.

BTW, why did you say "child abuse" and not "child rape"?
You can load keys into yubikeys if you like (and thus load the same key into multiple devices), but I choose to generate unique keys on-device, so each one has its own (which would make the answer to your question “yes”).

One upside though is that all your keys can go as individual lines in authorized_keys, so there is still only one file to install on remote machines.
Can you give us an example of a performance improvement which was rejected which didn't break the rules? There were performance improvements merged just days ago with input from Jose Valim.
They said "from a game design perspective," not from a regulatory/legal perspective.
I get where you are coming from. How do you feel about things like Ring doorbells, where you are on camera approaching a home. Audio is being captured of at least some conversation inside the home, assuming there will be some proximity to the front door.
But there are elements, molecules and chemical reactions that may not have existed or occurred until chemistry determined it was possible.
> However, in cultural anthropology, its methods are purely qualitative. You can't make a hypothesis, breed 100 people and have them interact for a lifetime with your variable (with another 100 for control) to prove a hypothesis.

You can't evaluate any hypothesis, but you can evaluate a lot of using natural experiments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_experiment.
I agree with that very much. It's hard not to think this is a byproduct of global corporate capitalism and all these other problems stem from that.
An incognito window doesn't quite count as "if you use a normal browser". Unless your not using incognito is the unusual case for you, which it isn't for most users.

Given a choice between changing my browsing behaviour to see his content or just blocking it so it (the testicle redirect or the other content) will never both my vision again, I go for the latter option.
I'd argue that the corporate income tax being complex and the individual income tax being complex have little to do with each other
There is certainly a conservative definition for speciation, though: the point where something has zero reproductive compatibility—where there is no known example of viable offspring. At that point, inclination and opportunity cease to matter.

Why not just define “species” by that clear formal boundary, and then call everything that doesn’t manage to reach that line “subspecies”?
No. It is a biometric identifier. That is what it is. A username is a human language convenient symbolic pointer that is meant to be public and used socially. I am still confused about why this particular incorrect meme is so persistent. "Something you know, something you have, something you are" all are simply different classes of authentication factor, and all are distinct from names, or UIDs, or any other bit of meta-information that isn't for authentication.

Just like "something you know" can have different strengths, "something you are" can too and changes in technology and threats will enable new options alongside new attacks as we go along. It's a process.
In my opinion advertising browser on facebook is absolutely useless. How many users do you think see an advert and install browser when they current one is for all their intents and purposes same. Mozilla needs to aim at technical people, who will install Firefox not only on their own devices, but also on devices of their relatives (or in case of administrators on devices of their users).

And only few technical people care about minuscule difference in performance anymore, so they need to advertise what Google, their main competitor, doesn't offer - privacy. Best way to advertise would be either tech news on articles related to privacy issues and possibly tech influencers who can properly explain privacy benefits.

Another way to strike favour with tech crowd would be eliminating bloat from Firefox (e.g. Pocket, still no idea why they bought them, as an extension it worked fine).
They only know what they sent you. So an audit wouldn't turn up new information just force you to prove existing information.
I completely agree. Several members of my family are NVC practitioners, but I usually hear their comments as passive aggressive. As a result, NVC sometimes seems more confrontational to me due to the effort put into disguising what is said.
Of course there is the wonderful hygiene of the buffet, the sneezing, the coughing, the tasting off the serving spoon, dropping the serving spoon on the floor and putting it back into the food. Let's not forget all the wasted food, and the encouraged gluttony.
An edge case might involve anyone who bought a Nest device with a hidden microphone that was removed from specs/documentation, only to later be enabled by a software update.
In Spain it used to be a Java desktop app as well, the last incarnation of a software that started as a DOS program distributed in diskettes back in 1988. Now it's no longer a standalone program, but a website (not sure which technology, but it runs in current browsers without requiring Java installed, AFAIR).

The government makes a draft declaration for you, if it's OK you just have to digitally sign your agreement and provide a bank account to pay or receive your return (if you haven't already done that in the past). Otherwise you need to edit it adding whatever they've missed, but this is only needed if you do complex stock trading, operate with money abroad, etc. For most people it's just skimming through it in case there is an obvious error, and confirming the draft.

Once you confirm the draft, it takes only around 2-4 days for the tax return money to appear in your bank account.

The website's UI is good. Spanish e-administration webapps are a bit hit-and-miss, some are dreadful (digital certificate request, I'm looking at you), but that particular one is fine and has always worked well for me.
I really don't understand why I have to file my taxes to begin with.

I have a W2 job, and my employer presumably has sent my paystubs and tax information to the government already. I then have to copy down the information from my W2 into some kind of tax filing software, and then they have to check to make sure that what I typed matches what they have, presumably paying someone to do that if I make any kind of serious mistake. Why do I have to do anything?

I'd understand if I have a lot of complex deductions or if I were running my own business, but as it stands I do the basic standard deduction (or whatever the default options on TurboTax are).

I'm genuinely asking this...is there some utility that I'm missing here to me doing the taxes myself?
Something like the "Shaper Origin" ? but it's still not cheap