skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That would be topbars that disappear when scrolling down and then reappear if you scroll up

This is close to my biggest pet peeve on the internet. Fortunately, the "kill sticky" bookmarklet[0] gets rid of those as well as other fixed elements on the page. Works on iOS too.

[0]https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
Am I Building Sustainably?
Big corporations sponsor FSF then this is an understandable stance as what I am proposing would hurt their bottom line. Current situation saves them huge amounts of money from spending on R&D because developers all over the world will develop something for free (believing the PR around open source) and then if something catches on, big corporation can use it of appropriate it if you will. Sometimes developers from within those companies feel bad and then ask the corporation if they could contribute something. This is then again is turned into PR piece saying that you see we give back! Best outcome for the original authors is getting hired on mediocre salary at one of those corporations or having a cool entry in CV.
I think you are missing the point and my idea does not contradict user freedom as users will continue to use it for free.
I’m naïve... why is it great news? It seems he’s a legitimately controversial figure.
>Only 50% of school funding comes from property taxes.
>If everyone can acknowledge that there isn’t a funding gap

pick one?
The Arizona play is most certainly a concession demanded by the US gov’t. The US has a major problem with dependence on chips made elsewhere - if China started shelling Taiwan and put an embargo in place for electronics, the US would have major major issues in very short order. It isn’t JUST Chinese chips of course, but that is a pretty visible one for sure.
I doubt it was a fabrication. It was likely a software error You could have been linked to the same underlying database file, that could be the ‘default’ output from the bioinformatics pipeline when the quality was low, or some other mixup. They did in fact process your poop.
You know what? Fuck it. I’ve been putting it off too long. I’m installing https://templeos.org/ tonight.
It’s a shame the article doesn’t offer any hints as to why. I’m sure that we can point the finger at lobbyists and grift, but a big spike in 2020 probably is COVID related?
>The event that got him kicked out was him trying to clarify that someone he worked with may not of known all the details of the situation and that people shouldn't witch hunt this person who was not around to defend themselfs.

No, it went much further than that:

https://www.wired.com/story/richard-stallman-and-the-fall-of...
It's only strange if you thought "think about the children" had anything to do with the children. It's always just about the control.
Most computer/software makers do, probably.
> So now instead of simply backporting a patch to the distibution's openssl library, every single app maintainer of each app that uses it has to do this and provide an update.

That’s false. OpenSSL is part of the runtime[1] and only needs to be updated there.

[1]: https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/-/blob/ma...
I’ve had decent luck using Squadcast: https://squadcast.fm/
Society is spending a lot of money (far too much money) to keep dangerous people outside of society. That New York can't do this competently or cost-effectively does not mean that society would be better off if these people were put back on the street.

A larger question is whether anyone can warehouse prisoners cost effectively. That's when you start thinking about exile, banishment to a remote island, or other mechanisms of expelling dangerous/undesirable people without actually locking them up in a small room for years. This latter point is indeed not necessary to protect society and seems to be unnecessarily costly. The problem is that no other society is likely to accept New York's criminal classes -- we have run out of Australias. In a world without Australias, another option might be to pay some other country to take them, revoking their US citizenship and preventing re-entry for a certain number of years equal to the time of their sentence (or permanently in the case of murder). That would be much cheaper than keeping them in prison, and I'm sure you could find a number of countries willing to take them for 10% of what New York spends per year, as many nations have a GDP per capita far less than 50K/year, and would even be able to furnish a decent quality of life for half that and keep the rest for themselves.
Geocaching! Finding my first geocache was the defining moment of the past year for me. It's the perfect quarantine activity, and what's more is that there are geocaches everywhere. Anytime I go somewhere new (or places I've been but haven't geocached) I check the geocache app. It's the perfect way to rediscover your city/town.

Some of the geocaches are incredibly clever too. Just yesterday I found a geocache on a hike. The hike was in the high desert (sagebrush mostly) where there was a lot of debris (ancient rusted cars, shotgun shells, wood pallets, etc). I was having trouble finding the cache which was GPS-ed next to a felled tree, when I noticed two shotgun shells, one yellow, one red, pushed inside each other, on the ground near the log. I thought to myself that's weird, someone was sitting on this tree log futzing with empty shotgun shells, then I continued my search. I would have overlooked it if it weren't for the hint: "blends in". Sure enough, the cache was inside the two shells! I was the 3rd person to ever find it. Very satisfying!
Often these platform ask what grade you’d like the work performed to. You can pay for Bs if you’re worried about being caught.
Typical ungracious, taking things to extremes toxic judgement from a hater. Maybe you shouldn't comment if you don't have anything constructive to say. Good luck to you.
Just last week, dropped latency of a serial logger interface of an MCU by several milliseconds, by using DMA instead of traditional interrupt/polling mechanism. That also had an added benefit of making the log queue almost always empty, consequently never missing a logging entry.
Agree. Now save that reply for the next time the democrats/republicans/sjw/faang employees/the media say the world is going to be over every time a group of people do something kinda shitty.
This is probably a reference to https://stallman.org/archives/2006-mar-jun.html:

"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing."
Obviously if you redefine the term, you can make it whatever you want. ...but in legal-reality it has a specific meaning that doesn't cover what you're referring to.

Also, the notion that Congress found out about COVID-19 before everyone else is ludicrous. People who took the time to read the reports out of China sold WELL BEFORE even congress sold. I know - I was one of them.

The problem is that MSM did NOT cover the outbreak in China. Many accused those who did of racism and posts on social media were squashed from brigades more concerned with "fear-mongering".
> unintended consequence is that it also facilitates exploitation of software developers by big corporations who from the perspective of FSF are just users as regular people.

Sure, but rms has nothing but pure comtempt for every big corporation and their approach to software. The only difference is the FSF doesn't have influence over big tech the way it does over hobbyists. This isn't a condemnation of the FSF, but of its marginal position. An alternative perspective is that the principles of the FSF are good, and should be enshrined in law and regulation, much like other freedoms are. We shouldn't make FOSS software less free, we should make big tech software more free.
Covid-19 vaccine patent spat raises key intellectual property questions (2020)
The states and feds pour money into the "bad" districts. But they never get better for a lot of the same reasons real mechanics don't work at jiffy lube and real chiropractors don't work for borderline insurance billing scams.

Good teachers are and administrators are only in for a few years before they're up and out and there's all sorts of perverse incentives to just do the minimum while punching the clock.
Probably just poor word choice. Links from 2018 and maybe younger are referenced.
It's unfortunate and frustrating that enough of a name brand around you, and you become basically immune to repercussions for your actions. This isn't a good day for the FOSS community.
The death rate in April was high because we didn’t understand how to treat Covid. The primary issue is that almost every hospitalized person was being put on a ventilator. But since then, we’ve learned that ventilators were actually iatrogenic and leading to much higher death rates.
HIV anyone? Neither died out, neither endemic. How about ebola?

Define significant change. The UK strain B 1.1.7 is 40% more infectious and 60% deadlier.
The South African strain renders the AstraZeneca vaccine nearly useless.
Source code for the browser part is here: https://github.com/i5ik/ViewFinderJS

The demos also use fleet control software to handle multiple clients on one machine, manage resources, do cleanup, etc which is not open source.
Doesn’t look like it did. Looks like another case of cancel culture and nobody reading what he actually said.
Thought that was strange too, but if you read further it talks about having to use NSArray which isn’t always contiguous for class types to have free bridging with obj-c.
Taiwan won’t necessarily care, but intelligence agencies of every other country undoubtably would. And putting proactive mines in a facility like that would be noticed.
Is ClosedAI some counterpart to OpenAI with a clever name?
It's sad that the media outlets and "Woke Twitter", etc, were misquoting him saying he was defending Jeffrey Epstein and doing everything they could to get him fired from the FSF, etc.

What's even worse was none of these "WOKE" were even concerned with "the victims of sexual assault" or any other noble cause. This was organized for ideological reasons and their goal was and is to replace everyone in a relevant position with ideologically aligned people. They are the kind of people that believe that any speech or freedoms that run counter to their agenda should be regulated to fit their definition of a common good.

He did nothing wrong. He is a brilliant person.
There's a term for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year

And the fact that the majority of COVID-19 deaths are people with very few quality-adjusted life years remaining is almost entirely missed by the media coverage.
I think people should try to integrate into the community where they're at rather than invade it, change it, use it up, and treat it like a disposable holiday. "When in Rome..."
It sucks that this couldn't have been addressed earlier. Accounts generally indicate that people were aware.

Unfortunately, when someone is in a position of power, often the only recourse is the sword of Damocles. This is especially difficult for people who become relevant by leading a movement rather than rising through the ranks. But that means that there is a natural tension between social mobility and a culture of accountability, which is likely the source of a lot of dissatisfaction in society.
In theory, if you make a website work with one screen reader, it should work with all of them. Of course, in practice, just as with browsers, there are corner cases where screen readers differ in their support or interpretation of the standards.

My guess is that if you make the site work with either Orca or NVDA (an open-source Windows screen reader), it will work with the other, and with JAWS. So if I were you I wouldn't bother to set up JAWS and test with it.
Any scenario where China invades Taiwan, global sanctions and embargoes are already happening. Blowing up the wests high end chip fab capacity for a minimum of 2-3 years at that point is a bonus.
@drooby yes we've all had to learn about it in class.
"Single responsibility" has a definition but I've never seen a person have a good time defining the "single responsibility" part that well IRL when it comes to making/changing a class. Ironically, I think bob's later clarifications that the single responsibility refers to where a person/department would want change is much more usable https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2014/05/08/SingleRepon....

The want for change part is hard thing to define. Personally, I much prefer "separation of concerns" when deciding what to place where. I guess you could argue in some sense its around the same thing shrug.
>were not illegal or intentionally offensive.

I'm not sure how you can claim to know his intent 18 months after the fact. Do you have an interview or personal relationship to back that claim up? A whole lot of people he directly worked with definitely don't agree with your assessment of his intent.

I don't believe in the time since that he has acknowledged the comments or suggested he didn't mean to offend or that he understands why it was probably a pretty horrible thing to say in light of all the things we know about Epstein.

Accepting someone for their differences: sure. But to imply Stallman is incapable of acknowledging wrongdoing because of autism while simultaneously being qualified to represent the FSF feels like a reach to me.
For what would this person be apologizing?

I'm not sure I understand your logic. It seems to me that we should be wary of our impulse to be protective of people whose principles we support. We often don't want to hear about the problematic things those people do.
Usually pictures remain visible in reader mode
In response to your #1, is there an alternative structure that doesn't promote short term thinking? I think this is generally human nature.

For #2, I think this problem exists globally. Money moves around, a lot. You can see it at the national level via trade surpluses or deficits. I'm not sure anything will really change that (other types of political structures have the issue, and many tariffs don't produce the intended results.

Regarding #3, everything has externalities. I don't actually see much being truly done for these issues - it shifts from one thing to another. The main way to reduce externalities is to reduce consumption, but I don't really see that happening. For example, EVs release less CO2, but still use rubber, the electric can come from coal, the lithium causes environmental issues in places like Chile. Is it a step in the right direction? I think so. Is the benefit really as good as its hyped up to be? I think not.
I get a 404 page. This seems to be the article https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-21/eu-set-to...
I asked an accessibility expert in Australia this question and he said orca rated very lowly. Better than browser extensions, but nowhere near as good / frequently used as Jaws/NVDA.
Forget that. You'll be better off selling paleo-inspired meat-bots.
Was he being an actual child-predator, was he sharing child porn?

Suppose some guy (Stallman or not) argues that the age of consent should be lowered to 14. Now you are in your right to oppose to that proposal or even be disgusted by it. What you dont have the right to is to silence and ostracize the guy or even suggest that opinion must have any type of consequence , be it legal or moral.
IMO, Stallman is a good philosophical leader, but a terrible organizational leader. "On the board" is a decent compromise.

But he has been a huge contributor to GNU's decent into irrelevance in recent years. As an organization, they're perpetually stuck in the 1990s.
Wait a minute .... "getting a good education is easier than it used to be?" No, not that.

"Not getting a good education, but saying you did." is easier.

What is the point? Why not spend the best years of your life struggling to understand things? Why just bug out and waste your time?

It's not like rich kids hiring people to be drafted in their place, and sent to the Battle of Gettysburg to be praised by Abraham Lincoln in their graves.

Going to university is good. If it's isn't good, why do it?

Why fake it? So the patients you treat die because you're incompetent? "Anatomy? I hired somebody to take that exam for me. My bad."
<RMS dancing with GNU>
This lines up with my experience working on product features for customers that have accessibility requirements. From what I’ve seen, most larger companies that care about accessibility (usually for fear of lawsuits) have internal folks testing with NVDA specifically. This is another great reason to use it for your testing because you can be confident the odds of someone checking your work with NVDA are good.
He did not remove the post, it's here: https://www.stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#05%20Jun...

And he didn't change his mind for over a decade, until he got in trouble for defending Marvin Minsky. I'm still not convinced his "updated opinion" would have happened without the scrutiny brought by the Epstein case.
I'm sorry to hear that it was a lengthy process for your team. What do you think took more time: learning to use the screen reader, or fixing your site?
Shoot, much of the Go lang team came from Plan 9. And they brought a lot of code and ideas with them.

Currently on my mind os `os.FileMode`; here's a comment I wrote in some Go code that interfaces with Python:

// A StatMode represents a file's mode and permission bits, as represented in Python
// (i.e. `os.stat()`'s `st_mode` member). Similar to how Go's `os.FileMode` assigns bits to have
// the same definition on all systems for portability, Python's `stat` assigns bits to have the same
// definition on all systems for portability. And it just so happens that Go's bits match those of
// Plan 9, and Python's bits match those of the Linux kernel.
type StatMode uint16

PS: If you weren't aware, Renée French's connection to Plan 9 and Go is largely that she's married to Rob Pike.
> for instance the cursor is a hardware sprite which is updated and rendered indepedently from the rest of the "rendering pipeline" otherwise the cursor movement would feel laggy all the time.

While investigating cursor lag issues on my computer (which were caused by an errant Intel Optane card, of all things...) I read through Windows’ video driver documentation and I learned that while Windows does direct the mouse pointer completely independently of the DWM, there is no requirement that the cursor be rendered during scanout (like a hardware sprite) and it is permissible for a GPU to render the pointer to the framebuffer. In fact, there’s a lot that’s undefined by the specs - for example, I used to believe there was a hard limit of 127x127 on cursor sizes (based on the ICO file format) but it turns out there is no upper-limit on cursor sizes at all. If you set a huge cursor image (say, 1500x1500px) some GPUs do render it to the framebuffer but others do not (in my testing, newer Radeon cards behaved differently if the image was above ~600px, whereas with my Nvidia cards anything over 255x255 had a different mouse-acceleration curve, that was weird)
Wouldn't some kind of "syscall proxy" or a wrapper possible? There is gVisor [1] which if I understand correctly re-implements Linux kernel in userspace for security, pretty interesting. Such layer would have to re-implement missing pieces in Mach kernel though so maybe it would not be as easy.

[1] https://github.com/google/gvisor
I’m sure they are already duplicating (or attempting to) everything in China. They’d need to stop new research and development though to not always be a few (or more) steps behind. Blowing up the fab and putting all the engineers in a prison camp would do quite well at accomplishing that, no?
> Even official image on Docker Hub receive almost zero security updates

Are you talking about the Official Images program? Because if so, this is not true.
Intention matters when the charge consists of someone imparting intent and meaning beyond that which was said.

It’s not the case that all people need to be aware of and sensitive to every possible person’s misinterpretation of their message. The inverse is closer to true, and the only viable option.

How do you expect someone to know what they don’t know?
It’s just because he’s a big target. You’d never see this kind of outage over the Oberon or Erlang Committee Chair.

That’s how it goes these days. Attack people you don’t like in power by proclaiming your moral system to be objectively true, regardless of its actual veracity.

Sooner or later, we’ll all realize that there is no truly objective morality and that we all must argue on a level playing field.
> I am no expert but I would hope that satellites are now used for defence based communication.

If a war gets to the point where nation states are cutting each other’s undersea cables, I think satellites are coming down too
> The CDC gives an approximate IFR of 0.7% in the US

The IFR isn't a static figure. If the actual incidence goes up to the point hospitals are overwhelmed, so does the IFR, by an enormous amount (so does the fatality rate of unrelated conditions, because resource exhaustion hits all conditions for which the same resources are used, not just COVID.)
Uhh... Use common sense. You have them in special, sealed, floating containers. And I would have an automatic ejection system (salt plugs perhaps) for them should the craft sink.
Intend? Who cares. It wasn't one incident but many over many many years.

It is not his intentions at question, it is his longstanding pattern of certain behaviors and not learning from them.

A standard defense of abusers is that they didn't mean it (intend to) and they're really sorry and ... you get the picture.

People are allowed to make mistakes, failure is a part of life, but there's a point when failure becomes a pattern and you aren't right for a job as a leader.