skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
essential for it to gain users but by no means a technical requirement.

Besides getting actual privacy with cryptocurrency requires jumping through a lot of hoops, covering a lot of tracks, and trusting a lot of people. I think privacy is the killer feature that we will never actually have.

edit: you are of course right and I am splitting hairs, but I do think real privacy is impossible.
Who is John Galt?

Honestly though, I go somewhere where I can contribute and my efforts and time in exchange for money. Work is work, it's not who I am. That being said I get the point of the Bill Ayres crowd with this zinger "How will you live your life so that it doesn't make a mockery of your values?"

Like, yeah- If I was a die hard Catholic I may have issues working writing software to make abortions easier. On the flipside if I were an Environmentalist I am sure I would have issues working at BP drilling in Alaska or something.

Dont work for BP and then complain that they are expanding drilling operations. Dont work at Planned Parenthood and then complain about free birth control. Opinions are like bootyholes, we all got em'. Better question is can you sit across from someone you disagree with and accomplish a common goal. That is professionalism. Rise above the differences you may learn that everyone's viewpoint has some shimmer of value- and you are not always right.
Yep and this could be enhanced further by provide a code retrieval service by email, plus facilities to change the code.
While I generally agree, I don't think Epic is an accurate comparison.

They obviously knew that Fortnight would get banned from the Appstore, and it was a business decision for them to make.

However, it would have been reasonable for them to assume that they would maintain their ability to still develop UnrealEngine, so they can publish source code for other developers to publish games from their own accounts. That overreach was Apple's doing.

It appears that the courts agreed as well, requiring Apple to allow Epic to continue UE4 development, while maintaining the Fortnight ban.
I would argue that the situation is quite different.

Open source is quite good in two domains: large collaborative efforts where the collaborators may have diverging or competing interests, as well as addressing the needs of the open source community.

This has nothing to do with CLI verses GUI. There are many excellent GUI based applications. The lack of game development has little to do with the vision of an auteur. Game development simply depends upon a rapid development cycle and hasn't fared well with the more iterative approach of open source software. Open source software is often more radical than boring given the freedom to experiment with ideas. There are also plenty of people packaging it up nicely to provide the best possible user experience. Quite frankly, the user experience from a competently managed Linux distribution is better in most respects than its biggest competitor.

The lack of adoption of open source likely has two sources: first is that it doesn't have the marketing muscle of the commercial alternatives. Heck, most people are blissfully unaware that they are using open source software or software with major open source components. The second is that the open source world is more accessible to people with a deep interest in technology. It doesn't matter how friendly the software is when you actually have to discover what is available then decide upon what reflects your needs.
"Open as windows" is the feature what I love. It seems that the feature was gone in the past but now it revived.

https://superuser.com/questions/101395/is-it-possible-to-hav...

https://www.howtogeek.com/403399/how-to-make-chrome-open-as-...
Foxconnfidence Game
Foxconned, duh.
Its a fairly logical anti spam method. If its a private discord server for your friends there is no need but if the invite link is public then the anti spam protection becomes pretty important.
I would say that documentation-driven development is not really documentation-first: when I do it there's a close feedback between implementation and documentation. What will often happen is I'll start writing down the documentation for a prototype and it'll be so full of awkward preconditions or poor ergonomics that I will realise where I need to make improvements.

Regarding this particular example, the API specification is not what I would call documentation since it leaves the reader to guess most of what is going on. A todo service is trivial, but maybe if it had more explanation the author would have spotted the stray 'priority' in the first version of the schema...
Giving Week: Preprint server ArXiv seeks donations
General comment ... I'm hesitant to fiddle with IFS; if the function exits early it can make the rest of the script nonsensical.

Same goes for other 'globals' or externals such as globbing and using tput. You have to be careful to trap errors and return things to sanity.
More importantly, it's unlikely they would match Uber and Lyft in price, since the rides wouldn't be subsidized as such.
It depends on which Free Software. The paper doesn't really makes an apples-to-apples comparison sadly. GNU has always been the open source flagship. Comparing GNU to SGI is like comparing Google to Yahoo. It'd be more apt to compare the reliability of GNU tooling to the AT&T PSTN.
So you're going to send kids to 7 or so hours of being pressured into paying attention to stuff they're generally not that interested in learning, then some amount of time doing mostly make-work activities, and you expect them to be interested in exploring learning opportunities in the minimal remaining bits of time? (And for older grades, they're also getting up well before their bodies want to.)

Would you be able to sustain enough interest to really delve into something when you're that tired out?

Structured activities still work, because the motivation is largely external. I reserve judgement as to how good that is for the kids doing them, but I will agree that it's a workable setup.

IMHO, you can't go halfway. Either you fill up their time with supposedly educational/socializing opportunities, or you give them enough time and space to explore based on intrinsic motivation. With your "unafterschooling", your kids will naturally use it for playtime or zombie screen time. One, or possibly both, of those is likely to be the best possible use of that time, so that's ok; just don't expect them to pick up new skills when you've stacked the odds against it.

(Yes, I'm biased. I'm homeschooling -- not unschooling -- my kids, and there was a major readjustment period to get free of the "school attitude" before things started to click. We couldn't have done that when school was still in their headspace.)
I'm not sure what your argument is. Any self-driving system should strive to be much better than human drivers. It makes complete sense to have reaction time much better than human.
> Well, the specification says you can't.

If every implementation of a spec allows something that the spec doesn't, does it really matter what the spec says?

I always understood the various web standards as descriptive, rather than prescriptive. They tell you what browsers will/won't accept. If all browsers accept something, it should (in RFC terminology) become a part of the standard.

> places <style> tags in body

Entirely separate note: given the semantics of the CSS cascade, shouldn't stylesheets in the body only apply to the DOM nodes succeeding them, not to DOM nodes preceding them? (I have a feeling that that complexity is why <style> isn't allowed in the body...)
and the FOSSjobs wiki lists similar vendors for coreboot, Debian, LVFS and Samba:

https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources#freelanc...
I agree with your point about the mischaracterization of Westervelt's tweet, after reading some longer explanations from her on Twitter.

However, I do think it's notable that she'd had repeated, recurring problems with Roost in the past but didn't actually do anything firm about it until there was a big public brouhaha that could make her look bad if she didn't do anything. That doesn't absolve Roost from any blame here, but I think it does suggest that Westervelt's motivation for cutting Roost loose was at least partly informed by a desire to not suffer backlash herself.

I don't think there's anything wrong with that, per se, but let's not pretend that everyone here is doing things solely for the right reasons.
Prefacing this with the disclaimer that I work for Uber.

This talking point completely ignores the fact that California Props are, BY DEFAULT, not amendable by the legislature unless otherwise specified. If anything this 7/8ths clause gives the legislature more flexibility than the vast majority of propositions which the legislature cannot touch without putting another prop up for vote.
You can enable phone number verification which makes it massively harder to avoid bans. Its way easier to cycle IP addresses than phone numbers.
I suspect these lunch counters would've had some very pointed questions about why the law was artificially constraining their potential customer base.
It's certainly hard to find one person in a group of players who can be a _good_ GM.

Regardless, I think the key difference here isn't just connecting D&D players, it's more that the GMs are professionals. It's the difference between a professional "murder mystery" dinner, and one that a friend organizes. Sure, the format is largely similar, but the experience is wildly different.
Are you sure you weren't just trying to join a server that required extra verification? My first experiences with Discord, years ago, were exactly the same as the new user experience now, except they seem to be running out of unique digits for some common names.
This is 100% correct. It's disappointing that this is needed, but in an age where many people are out of touch with principles of social collaboration, sometimes the obvious needs to be spelled out.
What anticheat would work for occasionally double checking a move in a different tab? Most cheating software can be caught because it interacts with the game directly, I think if you made the perfect move everytime you could be caught but say one out of every 5 or 6 moves? Even if you locked their computer down and made them lose the game if they changed tabs they could use a phone
Well, environmental components (such as the style of upbringing e.g. 'mix of freedom and strictness', and simply socioeconomic status, which affects quite a lot) are also quite heritable and shared between siblings, so we'd expect their intelligence to be even more correlated. However, intelligence is hereditary for the most part compared to that shared environment - for example, adoption studies show that the IQ scores of adopted children show higher correlations with the IQ scores of their biological parents than with those of their adopted parents.
Snowden found that these agencies were violating their mission, which is defined by the Constitution.
Could you point me to where and how AB5 would require Uber become responsible for their drivers time? It seems to not be the case to me.
You could use Gurlic, although it's still being worked on, and I don't promise the polish or feature set of ghost/wordpress/medium.

Here's an example.

https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i

Themed:
https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=pudding
https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=minimal
https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=naked

Gurlic supports custom domains too, by the way:
https://classics.wtf/the-iliad-book-ii
Nabokov? Just a shot in the dark... I would never read either, but likely Nabokov before Lawrence, because I have enjoyed other Russian writers... Chekov, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, I expect having completely unrelated subject and content. I'm simply not interested in reading stories about love, do not appreciate that every movie has a gratuitous love scene and thin subplot dedicated to it, though I have read all of Rilke's love letters, and I read Gibran's chapters on love, marriage, children and friendship many many times, and will continue to do so.

I did enjoy the article, like how Wilson writes, and am satisfied to learn I am in complete disagreement with Lawrence as Wilson has revealed him (e.g. Plato's dialogues are neither queer nor little.)
This is a great article around why "corporate welfare" rarely works out. Also, semes like a textbook example of "eminent domain" abuse?

We call this "expropriation" in Canada and it is rarely abused like this.

Taking peoples property to give it to a private corporation? I can understand the need to take property for public use (roads, infra) but the US needs to end eminent domain abuse. If Foxconn needed the property, go to the landowners and buy it, dont go to the gvt and claim 'road widening' to kick them off.
> Would it really be “a massive undertaking to go GNU Octave” when its syntax is a superset of MATLAB’s?

Does anyone actually use MATLAB just for the "MATLAB" part of it? Where I work, it's the Simulink part that's locked us in... I'm still not sure how MATRIXx withered away and gave Mathworks free reign in the control systems design space...
I appreciate your response but respectfully disagree. (1) you posted above completely miss-states the facts. From the voter pamphlet text itself;

"A YES vote on this measure means: App-based rideshare and delivery companies could hire drivers as independent contractors. Drivers could decide when, where, and how much to work but would not get standard benefits and protections that businesses must provide employees."

If you drive full time you deserve full time benefits. That means more than a 50% payment of ACA (which is downright offensive to suggest someone can live off of while making minimum wage).
https://www.dw.com/en/protesters-rally-against-coronavirus-m...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/world/europe/reichstag-ge...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53959552

https://www.france24.com/en/20201009-french-anti-maskers-who...

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/uknews/12953943/anti-mask-prot...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-54043103

https://www.sopaimages.com/galleries/20976/anti-covid-demons...

Almost all organized directly or connected to national Nazi movements. Imo one of the best works of GRU to date.
I suspect you have more leverage, choice, and likely a higher pay when working as a consultant or freelancer.

Having said that, maybe you deserve benefits too?
Going back to the original response: you don't actually need to be a moral realist to observe (as in, witness with the globs of goo in your eyesockets) intersubjective ethics.

You don't have to agree with them, but it's a real phenomenon. It's up to you to decide how you handle it.
Amazon Scholars Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth on the Ethics of Machine Learning
Another org doing research in this area is https://landinstitute.org/

They’ve made great strides domesticating a perennial cousin of wheat which allow use of existing equipment for harvest and doesn’t require replanting each season. It’s Actually a real product called “kerenza” and I have half a pint of kerenza flour sitting on my counter right now (tastes like regular flour)

They have a number of other projects with a lot of potential too!

They’re on Amazon smile also, without even doing anything different than I otherwise would have, (for better or worse) we gave $200 to them via Smile.

They could use your support any way you are able to contribute!
it seems to pick random broadcasts from YouTube; attempting to mimic the weirdness of the Rick and Morty ep.
Taxes, presumably.

> Part of the deal for Uber, Lyft, etc is to push off expenses into others. Auto maintenance and repairs is another example.

It's kind of arbitrary to consider auto maintenance as being rightfully Uber's expense that's being pushed onto the car owner.
Why would you work for a lunch counter with a racist mission? Boycotting is the correct way to combat it. If there's a law forcing lunch counters to segregate, then the problem is in the government, and the correct way to counter that is political activism.
>Lots of people don't want a stable job

yeah, don't you just know tons of people who love to have no job security, don't know how much they'll make on any given day or whether they'll be unemployed in a month?

Of course people love stable jobs, some people however are dependent on gig work because of institutional failure on several fronts within California in particular. The solution to this is, as Russ Ackoff put it, not to do the wrong thing right, which will only will have you end up in a situation that is even wronger, and not to solve problems, but to dissolve them by changing the environment in a way such that the problem does not exist any more.

In pratictal terms this means for California, reform zoning laws and actually build housing, build mass transit, create good jobs. Don't build the UBI white collar welfare dystopia that the 10% of the state love who happen to own Uber stock.
There are if you assume there are legitimate uses for Bitcoin.

Without mixers, your entire transaction history and balance is public. It would be like broadcasting your bank account to the world. If I was paying my friend some Bitcoin I would want to mix it first otherwise they would know exactly how much I own.
Care to point out where in TFA Nvidia has been putting the blame on Linux?
Really glad you said this. At this point this is my natural gut reaction to this type of discourse.
I don’t think it’s ever been shown that Apple did this at all, let alone maliciously.

If anyone has a source to the contrary, we need it here please. And I mean a documented source, not hearsay.

Edit: there’s discussion below.
I don't know the details, but doesn't California have requirements on for public reporting of spending on political advertising above a certain amount? Uber/Lyft are already on the record as having paid for a bunch of advertising around 22 through more typical channels, but I wonder -- how would/should Uber price ads through notifications within its own app?
This paper is funny if you actually understand game theory because you can see how the author either chose to withhold key applicable information for applied game theory or inadequately researched famous game theory principles and developments.

This is a much easier and more realistic introduction to game theory principles:

https://ncase.me/trust/

Game theory is often explained as a math problem involving humans and a specific scenario that requires a choice, from humans.

The scenarios are fun thought experiments and about as useful as the famous trolley problem [1][2]

In reality humans have many more variables affecting decisions than the pure rational equations can clearly define. Often the undefined variables are within the context of communication theory and reputation or auditing systems.

In the case of the famous prisoners dilemma, the real solution is establishing a secret out of band communication channel prior to the dilemma, alongside a known reputation and retaliation penalty for abusing the mutual trust.[3] [4]

The famous "tragedy of the commons" rational resource optimization game is often cited as justification for machiavellian exploitation, yet humans being social creatures are subject to reputations, and have sophisticated communication, cooperation, and retaliation abilities.
[4]

Elinor Ostrom's "Rules, games, and common-pool resources" and Robert Axelrod's work "The Evolution of Cooperation" both explain game theory in the context of human scale realities. Of particular interest to the hacker community would be Ostrom's Common Pool Resource principles, which are applicable to adhoc decentralized communities. :)

At the core of game theory, and human civilization is communication and trust. The abuse of mass media to manipulate populations knows the power of communication and cultural narratives, and we're witnessing what's often described in terms such as "hypernormalization" or "accelerationism" [6][7][8][9]

For a better applicable human scale game theory primer, check out Bruce Schneier's (yes, the same legendary cryptographer Bruce), "Liars and Outliers"

https://www.schneier.com/books/liars-and-outliers

[1] https://medium.com/@sarabizarro/the-trolley-problem-now-903a...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/trolleyproblem/top/?sort=top&t=all

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0qjK3TWZE8

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom#Design_principle...

[5] https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/blog/amusing-ourselves-to-dea... Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death"

[6] on Cybernetics and the 20th century "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" by Adam Curtis https://thoughtmaybe.com/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-lov...

[7] on propaganda and 20th century culture "The Century of the Self" by Adam Curtis https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-century-of-the-self/

[8] on the hyperreal news and the use of crisis to manipulate populations "Hypernormalization" by Adam Curtis https://thoughtmaybe.com/hypernormalisation/

[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism
Not sure if it helps, but in Hindi, the punctuation, roughly, translates like this:

| => ,
|| => .

Could this be the reason?
Would you mind revealing your brother's nom de plume (assuming he writes under one)?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-25/this-star...
> complete lack of Tandy documentation that motivated the author to write the article in the first place

It looks like Radio Shack published this in 1979:
http://www.trs-80.org/trs-80-assembly-language-programming/

It also appears that they supplied a machine language monitor/debugger, T-BUG. So armed with a Z-80 manual and a memory map of the system you could probably do basically anything.

Since the system used block character graphics (like ANSI block graphics), and a memory-mapped display, accessing them from assembly language (or any language) seems like it would be trivial unless they somehow kept the video RAM address and character set a secret.

However, it doesn't look like Radio Shack provided official source listings for their firmware the way IBM (and perhaps other companies) did. I expect that greatly helped with the development of software and tools for the IBM PC, as well as the development of compatible machines.

As much as I like modern computers and smartphones (and systems like the Raspberry Pi) which have absurdly higher speed and greater storage than vintage machines, it's always amazing to consider the explosion of creativity and fun that people managed to have with these pioneering "personal computers."
Metaethics has been in discourse on this for some time. I think most the prevalent systems do reduce down to a small set of axioms (foundationalist propose a strong form of this), or a least a set of internal consistent, self-reinforcing propositions (coherentism, which doesn't necessary presume a prepositional hierarchy).

Some of the more interesting (to me) arguments of the realists/naturalists (the justification question rather than the ontological question above), consider there to be emergent properties from the nature of interaction between agents. Basically game-theory. Presume we all were psychopaths, but intelligent self-maximizing agents and not the irrational kind. What behaviors would maximize achieving our ends? What behaviors would we need to hold others accountable to support our ends? You can take this thought experiment pretty far to get an "emergent" moral system with first-order properties similar to those we see in real societies. I find this insufficient though, you still need some base value system. Even the psychopath example presumes a set of ends for individuals like "continued survival" and so boils down to something like a form "utilitarianism."
Given enough pebbles and a large enough beach, you could make a drawing--and so a design--of just about anything. But this is arguably both a design and a concrete implementation of a kind of machine.
"Commercial" versus "Free Software"? Really?

RedHat has been providing commercial Free Software for a long time now. And an excellent job they make of it too.