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Free software is a matter of freedom, not price. But your comment contradicts itself.

Your posited opposition between "what is best for the students" and "what is best to support some ideology" is without foundation — different ideologies differ precisely in that they make different claims about what is best for people, such as students. Whatever set of claims you endorse about "what is best for the students" constitutes an ideology.

Now, it may be that there is no objectively correct ideology — that, for example, it's just as valid to celebrate the mass human sacrifice of the Khmer Rouge killing fields as an inspiring example of class struggle, as Pol Pot did, as to deplore it as a violation of fundamental human rights. I do not believe this, but some people do.

But you do not seem to be taking such a purely moral-relativist position — instead, you are arguing that MIT "should make sure that students get their software and materials free of charge" and "should use what is best for the students". That is, you are attempting to promote your own ideology about how MIT should teach its classes, arguing that MIT should prefer your ideology to Gerald Jay Sussman's ideology and, implicitly, that MIT's administration should order him to choose different software with which to teach his classes. You are attempting to camouflage your attempted imposition of your own ideology on MIT under a dishonest implicit claim that your own point of view is free of any ideology.

As it happens, MIT does not adhere to your ideology; instead it adheres to an ideology known as "academic freedom", which holds, among other things, that professors and other instructors have fairly wide latitude to choose their manner of teaching, the material they will teach, and the points of view they will express, which easily extends to the choices in question. When the modern ideology of academic freedom was forged in, mostly, the German universities of the 18th and 19th century, it brought them to the frontier of human knowledge and made them the leaders in advancing it; nowadays many of the universities most faithful to this ideology are in the United States, but the principles are the same.

Your call for MIT to abandon its principles and suppress academic freedom, mendaciously cloaked behind a spurious claim of ideological neutrality, is deplorable.

You should not have posted it.

(To preempt some comments, not only do I not teach at MIT or any other university, I've never attended MIT and I didn't even graduate from college; and MIT, roughly speaking, bullied a friend of mine to suicide. This is not about group loyalty.)
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For clarity's sake, yes, I am saying that historical definition for master branch is not valid. Click on the "Electronics" button. That is the valid one. You can see in the comments section here where this is explicitly called out.

Why is the historical one not valid? Because context matters. We are not talking about the word master itself, we are talking about it in a context. Master branch was not defined using the historical definition. In our case here, it refers to the electronics definition.

The English language is completely full of words where meanings have changed and are different depending on the context. Using your logic, we would not only be renaming master branch, but also removing all other contexts, like 'mastery' of a discipline, or the record industry's 'master copy', or even terms like 'maestro' in music.

If you take something out of context, it can be offensive to someone--no doubt, but that is why context matters. Going thru the English language to find every word that used to mean one thing we don't like and then removing all modern usages which don't even mean the same thing in a different context is mindbogglingly silly, costly, and frankly, puritanical.
Indeed I "correctively upvote" things that I otherwise wouldn't, but whenever I do so I'm frustrated by the rudimentary nature of pretty much all the moderation systems I've come across to date.
Yep, that’s the one
Why do people use cases on a Pi? I’ve never ever used a case.

My Pis are always out of the way and in a shelf somewhere, untouched until I make modifications to the setup, in which case the case is often coming off anyway.
Kertész is even an example of an author more popular in translation – namely those German editions – than in his own country. When he won the Nobel Prize, the response even among many Hungarian intellectuals was “Who?”, followed in some cases by anti-Semitic remarks, which just goes to show how little a prophet (for nearly all Kertész’s works grapple with the Holocaust and its impact on Hungarian Jewry) is honored in his own homeland.
Actually, you can "fall home" in the ocean. I have no idea what procedures exist in missions that go to extreme depths like these, but if you are a recreational diver (who is not allowed to go below 30m) and you have an emergency down there, the last resort is to get rid of all your additional weights* as fast as possible so that you get pushed to the surface with zero effort.

Of course, you need to deal with fast changes in pressure during the short journey towards the surface (protect your eardrums, lungs etc) and you may get decompression sickness depending on the dive time and avg depth at the moment of emergency, but hey, at least you're alive to deal with all those problems!

*: Generally, a scuba diver takes additional weights to counter the positive buoyancy effect of wetsuits, fat etc. These are mounted on belts or similar accessories that are designed to be very easy to get rid of in case of emergency.
Then try typinng in "Internet Explorer" .. it stays on Microsoft Edge with a "Recommended" label underneath. I know it's recommended, but I need IE for a specific site... So make a shortcut and put it on the desktop. Slowly the start menu is loosing it's role as it's getting obnoxious.
A large part here is the "sales". Commercial software, almost by definition, has a sales team that ensures their software is bought by universities, companies, governments etc.

Non-commercial software does not have this in that sense. It may have advocates who, out of sheer enthousiasm, bring software into such universities, companies and governments, but hardly ever an actual sales.

And since non-commercial software is largely FLOSS, whereas commercial software if most often proprietary, we see that, simply through sales, the proprietary alternatives are used far more often.

Regardless of any technical merits. Technical superiority hardly "sells" software, sales teams do that. Unfortunately, I might add.
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I didn't know it was scaled. That's better than nothing. Thanks for clarification.
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I get Spotify, Candy crush and Office buttons in my start menu that I didn't install. It's not the same, but pretty close in terms of the OS doing things I didn't ask it to.
> I especially find it concerning that one can't point out how ridiculous it is to ban virtual hugs without people trying to lump you in with the creeps

That's a strawman, the CoC does not ban virtual hugs.

It merely gives an example of behaviours that happen without consent or after a request to stop. The example is good IMO because it is the kind of little things that might look harmless to the person doing it but might be annoying to the one receiving it.
It hasn't remained the same for all that time.
Are you going to rename hanselMAN?

I've done a quick search on your blog and find many "Master" related articles. e.g.,
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/CompleteHanselminutesMasterFe...

BTW, calling main feed as master feed is unusual. Adding your own name inside is unusual also.
I always have at least 4 windows open in a project workspace, those being a text editor, a file browser, a terminal, and a web browser.

Currently I use i3 with packages pulled in from XFCE to handle sessions and power management, plus xfce4-appfinder and xfce4-panel (started and killed with MOD keys of course) because I wanted something beyond d-menu / b-menu.

It all works very well and was easy to configure.
I still don't see the relevance.

How does this relate in any way to "proprietary vs free/libre" software used in classes?
I think it is no sheer coincidence that the following three things are simultaneously true:

A. MIT is as renowned as it is

B. MIT does this

C. MIT has people like Gerald Sussman as Professors
In the meantime, the disruptor for driving jobs has been the race to the bottom; services like Uber, Lyft, etc popping up, decimating the taxi industry by having their not-employees compete with each other for work, driving the prices down while they laugh all the way to the bank - they get their cut anyway.

While those jobs haven't been automated away as such, they are being priced away.
For me, I'd like an OS that Just Works with what I do with it; Linux has never been it. Linux desktop has always been a compromise - it KINDA works.

Professionally, I've used all three major operating system branches. Windows was a hack when it came to things like terminal support. Linux needed me to hack into config files pretty quickly just to make it work, and it's lacking the UI polish that the other operating systems have. Mac combines the best of both worlds.

Privately I've always used Windows, simply because all games work on there at the intended performance. It's not in the way.
Now if only they could shadowban actually bad content, like the countless cryptocurrency scams in reply to Elon Musk's tweets.
Would love to buy one of these if there was a meat free variant, my dog is alergic to meat and does not take it well - would love to see a vegetarian option!
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This is the kind of attitude that leads to bad hiring outcomes.

It is guaranteed to be screening out classes of people, like single parents, candidates who may have a full time job as they are finishing their school work, people who care for elderly parents, people with families, etc. Heck, anyone who's going through a crunch time at their work would also probably be unable to do this.

You might as well say that your company has a terrible work-life balance and we only hire people willing to destroy their health for us. Maybe that's what some companies want, but I don't think a company can grow only hiring like that.

Even the article said that by changing their test they wound up getting stronger candidates. It is clear that this kind of process does not produce the best candidates.
> I would argue that is because the conception of morality you are using happens to be compatible with the resulting morals that I believe arise from determinism here.

Indeed, we are coincidentally in agreement from a values perspective since my argument with respect to determinism could remain unchanged even if I e.g. favored a retributive system of justice.

> Given their lack of responsibility and control of their being, how do you design a society that treats them fairly

Any possible conception of fairness exists entirely with respect to the material circumstances of reality in the moment, the ethereal weight of determinism is not detectable on the scales of justice.

To put it another way, if we lived in a universe capable of libertarian free will, it would not follow logically that we should then amplify the needless suffering of criminals.

Imagine two criminals living in such a universe, both having committed identical crimes under identical circumstances, but only one is capable of libertarian free will... what changes? The deterministic criminal didn't choose to want to commit the crime, but he still wanted to commit the crime by following the same reasoning that the free criminal willed himself into, in every observable aspect of reality their motivations are equally damning. This is further compounded by the fact that both victims are equally harmed regardless of which criminal committed the crime. From the victim's perspective, two equally harmful acts should merit the same consequences, one victim does not suffer less because the crime was committed deterministiclly.

>The questions of what we optimize for are also highly impacted by free will/determinism.

How so?
Only so far as developers abuse their audience with massive tracking and advertising code.

withoutjs.org could be a really useful directory of:

- sites that work without JS

- sites that work partially without JS (and what features are broken/missing)

- sites that use JS to abuse their audience, and that should only be viewed with JS disabled

- advocacy and resources to make sites work better without JS

- advocacy and resources for developers to reduce their page weight
> "You seem to fail to grasp the difference between "free as in beer" (gratis) and "free as in freedom" (libre)."

Why are we going back-and-forth about this again?

I previously asked whether there were concrete examples of software used during the course that were "free as in freedom" but NOT "free as in beer", and the response to my question was that no such examples were available.

It's the actions that matter here, and the bottom line is that they weren't intending to pay for anything to begin with. And by that, they were abdicating the "it's not about the money" argument, in my honest opinion.
You’re simultaneously aggrandizing a degenerate autocrat while needlessly diluting the achievements of the people who actually did the work... I’m sure Kim Jong-un has his daily difficulties as well, and no peasant was ever credited for feeding Einstein.

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Yeah.. I’d love to see that on macOS.

Shortcuts to switch tabs of different applications. And then a per-workspace arrangement for different projects/personal stuff.

BeOS was awesome.
Haha this annoys me too but I cannot see why you posted it on this thread.
Yes that is why I also wrote in another reply [1] it doesn't make much sense financially. And I dont quite see how it make any sense technically either. Even if Apple refuse to use AMD CPU for whatever reason Intel's investor roadmap ( Which tends to be more accurate then what they shared to consumers ) shows they are finally back on track. ( It will still take a year or two to catch up though )

Software is expensive, writing, testing , QA.

On the hand, they are spending billions on stupid Apple TV Dramas, I guess they might as well make their own CPU for high end Mac.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23465728
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> The idea that a CS graduate from MIT would struggle to figure out Zoom or Teams at their first job is laughable

What is worse, is that if this was the case, the University failed spectacularly in their goal. I would mean they trained a monkey to do one trick.

I sincerely hope a university like MIT is better than simply training monkeys some tricks which they then repeat ad-infinitum at "their jobs".
The Five Deeps Expedition technology [1] includes a two-man submersible, three unmanned sea floor landers, and the support vessel.

The EYOS Expeditions blog post [2] is the press release from which the NPR piece is based.

The technical challenges are due to the pressure at depth and communication through water. The manned submersible seems to be a requirement until better autonomous vehicles are programmed. I keep thinking that these machines should be liquid filled, like the gamer PCs immersed in mineral oil for cooling, to avoid the pressure issues.

I’m not sure that we need men or women 11 km down except for media coverage. I’d rather see thousands of small/cheap fully autonomous sea floor landers taking benthic core samples worldwide than one giant expedition doing gimmicks to get media coverage.

[1] https://fivedeeps.com/home/technology/

[2] https://www.eyos-expeditions.com/kathy-sullivan-becomes-firs...
This might not be suitable for someone from Europe or USA but for some one living in a 3rd workd country, I think it is more than okay to get paid around $30 per hour.
I got the same message and there doesn't seem to be any additional information available. It's really a pity they decided to stop this offering. I could even pay an increased membership fee to keep this included, however now I'm instead considering to not renew my ACM membership.
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I'm still using gevent mostly - I find this whole thing in python pretty ugly.
In a similar vein, NandGame (http://nandgame.com/) is an online game where the challenge is to progressively build a microprocessor, starting from simple logic gates.

Show HN thread from a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17508151
Its reasonable to be cynic about any for profit corporation. On the other hand facial recognition is not yet dominated by any single organization and IBM can enter if they really wanted to, so i guess there is some good faith involved.
I have very interesting process when taking vacation. Automation does not mean robots from movie “I Robot”, some software can do the job too.

To take time off I must open shitty software, enter my vacation days, then print the sheet and sign it. My manager signs it too. Then I bring it to secretary, she signs too, confirms the date in shitty software. Secretary sends paper form to the HR lady, she checks, if it’s ok and forwards my sheet to accounting lady. I see here a huge potential for automation, throwing at least 1st secretary and HR lady out of the process. This ancient process is happening in Germany, but automation will come sooner or later even here.

Edit: typos
We should be glad in this instance it was merely bits down a pipe, then. The written word has been a powerful tool for spreading adoption of new ideas since the printing press; the mere sense of prevalence of an idea throughout the world should inform the reader of something about the world they are living in, if not something fundamental about humanity.
Very good article in that it taught me something I didn't know existed, and explained it very well.

However, I wish the article gave an example on how to actually construct a mapping between e.g. a small finite group and the actual matrices in the representation, to - sort of - get a feel for why that actually works.

I suspect there must be some sort of canonical method/algorithm to get from the "multiplication table" of a finite group to each matrix in a representation, but I haven't been able to find a reference.

Would anyone have pointers?

Also, jumping from the group to the character table (which seem to imply that there is indeed an algorithm to compute all possible representations) without having been told how the mapping is constructed feels like a rather big mental jump (and what makes the trace of the matrices important, btw - rather than, say, the determinant?).
The "mainstream media" encompasses such an enormous breadth of different things that any analysis of it would be unhelpful, and comments here are likely to be just as unproductive. One person will say something while thinking about Fox News while another posts a response refuting it while thinking of The Economist and a third replies with something else while thinking of The Guardian.

Edit: the article is actually quite interesting (yes I did originally comment before reading it!), although I disagree with some bits of it (e.g. maybe they're annoyed you missed a story that they read about elsewhere because it suggests there are other big stories you missed that they never found about). But it's not about "mainstream media" in general but a small particular part of it. Which is fair enough, and I don't think the title needs updating. But most or all of the comments here are generalising about the whole of the mainstream media, not just the particular type discussed in the article, in a way that I still think is unproductive.
Sony confirms PS5 will have exclusive games playable only on next-gen hardware
How does this compare to a full reverse index? I would expect a full index to be much simpler to implement and would compress better.

Still very impressive work, and gives me a new reason to learn Rust.
I gave you an example by quoting how expensive it is to run a "free" jitsi service.
Articles like this enforce that inequality. I'm 100% for equal rights, equal opportunity and equal recognition, unlike you, or the people that write articles like this. The use of the word "woman" implicitly means "this has been done by men before". And in that case people like you find it remarkable simply because it was done by a woman, which is enforcing inequality. If you want equality, change the title to "US woman becomes first person to walk in space and dive to deepest part of the ocean". That's (arguably) notable and doesn't imply that I'm congratulating her because she did it despite being a woman.
There's still a good increase in surface area for convection it's definitely a heatsink. The graph does a poor job showing this but the start and stop idle time is 5 minutes. That's a good amount of time for temperature to settle.
> Brahmins, are known for self-control, patience, begging for alms

When one has self-control why should they beg ? Its contradictory ?
Windows 10 has a bunch of different versions. I'd be interested to know if ads appear in each of them at the same rate. Here's an article talking about where ads appear: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3039827/7-ways-windows-10-pu...
Performance wise I've been very happy with Stadia so far. I also think once FIFA and Madden are released there will be a significant uptick in player numbers.
Where do you live that you can charge rates for your firmware work? In my area, firmware development is only full time employment.
I currently believe the third-person view comes before the first-person view. There's a substantial evolutionary pressure to be able to predict one's predator or prey; even quite limited theories of mind come in handy there. Consciousness, however, isn't required — I'll argue that the first-person view is an accident: once we have a system that is suitable for modelling others, it makes sense that the creature we have the most substantial data stream on is ourselves, so we model that as well.

This way around might explain why our self-awareness sometimes fails to be optimal.

For how little theory of mind it takes to play antagonistic games, see Shannon's 1953 mind reading machine:
https://this1that1whatever.com/miscellany/mind-reader/Shanno...

(or try to play fetch with a dog, mixing two types of throws, and see how quickly it learns your tells)
Unfortunately Briar only handles direct connections, and doesn't work on IOS.
Ask HN: How many hours per day are you working?
If you are tracking your time, how many hours of focused work are you doing per day on average?

What I mean with focused work is only the time that you are working. Not counting the time you take a break, not counting the time you go to the bathroom, not counting the time you get up to drink water, etc. If you don't stop your time-tracker during non-work activities, please mention it.
It seems like it would be either illegal or a really bad idea to use google docs or even gmail as a lawyer. It seems like you could be opening yourself up to a lawsuit for breaching attorney client privilege since google can scan every document and email created or stored on its platform.
Proprietary sw: easy to use/maintain, fun, works most of the time, professional developers behind it, profit.

Open source sw these days: several versions, constant tweaking, works so-so (depends on the software), semi-professional developers working on it (I am not saying they're not good) or amateurs (with amateur designs), not for profit, of course.
EDIT: remove double 'multiple versions'.
The author appears to forcefully prove his theory about reddit in order to sell a website he's an advisor at. I wish the disclaimer was at the top of the text.
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