skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a weird converse of the "proprietary is trying to cancel RMS" argument - arguing that proprietary won because RMS has been cancelled? Or something like that?

The idea that Free is evil because it has no warranty is... kind of confusing. The author had an argument regarding support contracts and Object-Only models, and yes that's entirely true. Free can be a two tiered system: you get the code on it's own with no warranty and figure it out yourself, or you can buy a support contract from someone who has already figured everything out and is willing to guide you along. This is a perfectly fine system.

The author is flirting with an actual argument about, say, the quality of `npm`; but it's wrapped around all sorts of weird alternative definitions of "freedom from source code". I call it weird because Free won in a lot of contexts where, at least according to this particular argument, it shouldn't have.

The story about custom versions of Windows is utterly horrifying.

The entire point about code signing is a strawman. The FSF isn't against code signing, they're against technical lockouts that prevent knowledgeable users from installing alternate software versions. Most Linux distros not only have code signing support, but are also signed with Microsoft UEFI keys so they'll boot without special configuration on most PCs.

I entirely agree with the author's contention about software patents and have been thoroughly downvoted in various forums for suggesting that software patents would have been a fairer bargain than copyright. I also think they have a point with the FSF being terribly ineffective at lobbying. Actually, I'd go one further - before Right to Repair became a buzzword the entire movement as a whole hasn't had a consistent thing to rally around.

And then they go straight for a "why don't we have public libraries but for proprietary software" argument. This is so out of left field I don't even. Copyright owners have been very effective at shutting public libraries out of digital distribution. It's even to the point where the Author's Guild is yelling at Amazon to let libraries rent out digital copies. Publishers hate libraries because they're less-lucrative competitors to streaming services that they can sell exclusives to. Nobody in publishing wants easily-negotiated licensing terms for distributors; they want to sell entire works as exclusives to specific platforms at the expense of other platforms.

There's an argument in here somewhere - one about how the FSF has manifestly failed at protecting users more than similarly-aligned organizations (e.g. EFF, Mozilla Foundation). I don't think they got that across very well.

also

>When the GPL was written, when software failed, it meant I didn’t get notifications about printer jams. Today, when software fails, it means I get a lethal dose of radiation.

Therac-25 happened years before the GPL was written. You even cited the Wikipedia article.
TCL?

https://www.tcl.tk/about/language.html
Ball lightning, Navy gambit to get more budget, foreign UAVs, or ET UFOs. The latter two possibilities are less likely but would represent major security threats.

Perhaps USN ships need better sensors that extend to scientific observation purposes?
Preliminary board statement on FSF governance
If you look at the report time, this has been a known issue since 2004. This suggests the Devs have been ignoring or kicking the can down the road for over 15 years.
In addition to Russian, there are many other Indo-European languages that retain the neuter. E.g.: Icelandic, German, modern Greek. And some others besides Latin have lost it: Old Persian had it but modern Persian doesn't; same for Sanskrit vs. modern Hindi.
They get replenished as often as they are stolen. How long they last we'll never know!
I've found Ubuntu Desktop to be by far the least problematic desktop Linux distro. I was a big Fedora fan for a while but the hit in stability just wasn't worth it for me, and I liked the positivity of the Ubuntu hobbyist community, containing many people who are not primarily software engineers.
It's in the water supply.

It's essentially impossible to stay away from contaminants now.
> Not if they're programmers and prefer Unix. My experience with Linux users is different than yours. Yes, many of them end up caring about free software. Quite a few also have the "why pay for anything" attitude and pirate all their media, even when they could afford it. Sometimes these groups overlap. I don't think there's one single reason people come to Linux.

If every one of those programmers paid $150 for their copy of Linux Desktop - do you think it would enough to fund a Company that could build/maintain a rock-solid-stable-base Linux Desktop? The problem is that developing/supporting an OS requires enormous engineering resources and you magically don't require less resources just because your install base is small.

Currently libinput is maintained by one man mostly and I have a suspicion that Mirosoft has a small team for input devices. Take X11 vs Wayland for example. What would this new distro target? If it targets wayland - users will complain about nvidia GPU support, if it targets X11 - users will complain about fractional scaling/tearing. These are hard engineering problems which require working with partner drivers and long term commitment. I personally think that - many companies have realized there is no money to be made in supporting desktop Linux(i.e desktop itself, not a cross-platform application running on top of it), even if every one of those users paid the one time fee.
It says

>When the time comes, you and all other bidders can attend the show

Which I think implies anyone in the bid gets a ticket? I have no idea how you would get multiple ticket's though.
"... instead of having render functions that fully replace a component..."

No longer the case. Vue 3 was written to have a "compiler-informed Virtual DOM"; there are a bunch of videos about it on YouTube if you're interested.
I mean, you're technically correct in the sense that "liberal" and "leftist" have been erroneously conflated in American politics for some time. So yes, a "liberal" not voting for Clinton would be out of character.

A leftist not voting for Clinton, however, seems perfectly reasonable, considering that she is not even remotely leftist. She's a neoliberal, who ran on a neoliberal platform - one that would've made no meaningful effort to advance actual leftism in this country. It would've been, at best, appeasement.
Awesome concept, I’d love to be able to look up a zip code or location to see what performers are being requested where. You then kind of have a backdoor discovery function for both potential fans and artists.

I’d also suggest showcasing a few artists on the homepage so you naturally start diving into the site.

I agree with the top comment mentioning the big challenge will be getting to critical mass as a platform to be really interesting. NGL it’ll probably take a lot of capital. That said it’s a cool project and I wish you success!
Thanks to you and the parent comment both for this rundown on the pros and cons, I found it helpful; and also, using a throwaway account to defend nodejs is, if intentional, a fantastically subtle joke.
Welcome to living for a 40+ hour work week?

This is a byproduct of capitalism. Get rid of it and this stops too.
Why the internet has not freed China
You're conflating minimum standards of living (a room to sleep in, food to eat, clothes to wear) with an end to all scarcity with maximum consumption. We actually don't need that much. The USA absolutely produces enough to feed, clothe, and house everybody -- we've simply decided that the market is more important than doing so. It's nonsense. Make sure everybody is fed, clothed and housed first to a minimum standard, then if you want to have wealth accumulation, fine, if you must.
Icelandic also retains a complex system of noun declensions.
I'd say it's a type of selection bias, but yeah seems very closely related to survivorship bias.

Also "survival" taken literally is kinda interesting to think about in this framework. Like say there was some disaster so that the vast majority of people surviving would be either athletic or smart. This subset would likely have a negative correlation between athleticism and intelligence, even if they correlated positively in the general population. Except in this scenario the subset IS your new population.

So I wonder if there are real life traits that correlate negatively across all modern humans, but had no such correlation among our ancestors. Or is there too much regression to the mean with reproduction? Particularly if "opposites attract" is true.
A primary requirement I've had over the past few years when purchasing a phone is whether it is supported by Lineageos. Less data is collected hopefully, without gapps installed.
I'm addicted to coffee, but I am never gonna stop drinking coffee.

Coffee is just too delicious, especially a well-made cappuccino. I think coffee as a guilty pleasure is not that bad to be honest. There are worse things to be addicted to.

The best way to enjoy a good cup of coffee, for me, is staying at a nice sea view condo.

And then early in the morning sit outside on the balcony, slowly sipping, enjoying the taste of coffee in my mouth, listening to the waves crashing on the beach, feeling the sun on my skin all while looking at the sea.

For me, there's no better way to start a day.
Rare daytime fireball creates sonic boom over UK
Well, considering that I can hear a difference between lossless and ~80k Opus (stereo) with a decent headphone amp and 16 EUR Sony in-ear's, I can't share your sentiment.
Granted, this is fairly pathological synth sound (the intro/first 30s of Night Club's "Magnetic"), but I would hardly call that listening equipment audiophile.
Funny you should mention coffee... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26571129
I'd still call the original bogus. Its not unexpected that H.265 is smaller than H.264, just that the article made an unfair comparision.

As your comparision found, the majority of the size reduction relative to the original was related to encoding parameters, only 13% was related to codec choice. Of course if you start from the better encoded H.264 file things look better for H.265, but not 94% better.
It’s fun (kidding lol)
I guess? But Linux provides those things. Break it apart, what this is saying is, "you don't want X, you want something that doesn't exist that theoretically provides all of the advantages of X."

Which, sure. I could (and do) use LineageOS right now. It's not as good. I still need to go through the Android app development process, I'm still fighting the system every step of the way. It's still a pain to de-Google things, I still have to deal with an architecture that if fundamentally designed to work best with Google services. I still have to deal with what I see as design flaws in Android itself.

So I don't technically need this to be Linux. I recently bought a smartwatch that runs on an ESP32 chip and is programmed using Arduino code/C++. It's not running Linux, but it fits a lot of my needs and it will communicate well with my Linux computer. And you're right, I didn't have serious qualms about that because of the kernel. In fact, the simpler dev process was what made it attractive.

However, there isn't that kind of thing for phones. If you want an Open Source phone that is easy to modify and develop on, Linux is the option that's pushing in that direction.

> but they don't necessarily want to open a PR against the camera app if they want it to more closely match the polish of iOS.

It's deeper than that: I want the ability to fix my own problems. I don't want to open a pull request, I want software that is understandable enough and an ecosystem that is open enough and broad enough that it is reasonable for me to fix my own problems. I (personally) can do that on Linux, but I can't (currently) do it on Android devices, they're a pain to work with and I hate them.

I am used to Linux on my computers, including the fragmentation of software. Sometimes the fragmentation is an advantage because it means there's a diversity of software that is hyper-specialized rather than one or two solutions that are built to kind-of satisfy "most" people's needs. More than Linux itself, what I am used to is the idea that if something goes wrong or if I want my computer to do something, I can make it happen without asking anybody else's permission, without building a giant project that I need to invest serious time into, that I can pull things apart and build pipelines with Unixy tools.

I want that on my phone. It doesn't have to be Linux, but nothing else is providing it, so it does have to be Linux unless someone else is going to build a better OS. I'm not holding my breath for that.
Arizona Senate skips vote on bill that would regulate app stores
"Mensa is associated with mental and physical disorders"

FTFY

Postscript: I am merely clarifying the title: whether the title is true or false is not my concern.

PPS: Lots of dissing Mensa here! But Mensa members score higher on IQ tests and, on average, are significantly brighter than non-members.
Some talks by r0ml:

https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/194/
https://lwn.net/Articles/712376/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3nJR7PNgI4
They kind of suck because of the reasons you mention but you can absolutely use them with a VPN and I do think they've gotten better over the past six years or so that I've used them.
The combination of an instruction that does two actions at the same time like branch and set an output kind of reminds me of the raspberry pi Pico subsystem.

Especially the pio sideset functionality.
wow i forgot about this song. bringing back memories.
Modern stoves do have a particulate removal system, either via a catalyst (just like the catalytic converted in your car), or via a secondary air system that causes the particulates to burn up before they exit the stove. You can't buy a new stove without one of these two systems due to emission standards.
How about the FBI builds a time machine, goes to the future to find out who solved it, then hires those people? I call it self-fulfilling cryptography.
My definition of "preppers" is a lot more specific than "people who stockpile some essential goods to see themselves through basic disasters or disruptions".
When facing such ordeal and if you can accept to impact availability just VACUUM FREEZE the most impacted tables (or, if in doubt, the whole database).

If transaction activity is somewhat predictable adjust your autovacuum parameters per-table, using "ALTER TABLE ((tablename)) SET", to have it kick not too early (constantly fiddling) and not too late (at worse leading to an automatic emergency DB locking preventing a wrapping).
See https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-altertable.html
Pertinent parameters:
autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor
autovacuum_analyze_threshold
autovacuum_enabled = true
autovacuum_vacuum_insert_scale_factor
autovacuum_vacuum_insert_threshold
autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor
autovacuum_vacuum_threshold
autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay
autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit

If multiple clients simultaneously hammer INSERT or UPDATE a table you can modify their sourcecode in order to have them cooperate by using PG's advisory locking, see https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/explicit-locking.html#ADV...
I was a fan of MobX+React until I to a look a Vue when version 3 came out. Now I'm a Vue fan and what I was doing before feels like overkill.
What a hugely misinformed, but well coordinated, direct attack. Just look at the timing and how many of them came after RMS was reappointed to the FSF board of directors.
The message behind this guy's article has nothing to do with his views about Free Software; it's rather "Ditch RMS for good or we'll submerge the FSF under a pile of mud".
So why do they bother adding new features to Windows?

I'll answer my question: Companies make decisions on the margin. They don't care that they have 85% of the market. They want that next percentage point.

The users who might switch to or from competitors are precisely the "swing voters" they have to consider.
I read something where this is causing something like 18 million dollars of debt a minute. So roughly 750 billion a month? Let's round it to a trillion dollars a month with interest.

Pow!
Enough so that they couldn't raise the price to break even?
My 7 children and their descendants will populate the Earth while your line dies out. Too bad for your clan I guess.
I've learned that there's an element of randomness and momentum, and sometimes you just get a raw deal. What still kills me is when some post gets downvoted and someone replies "you're getting downvoted but actually that's a good post!" and they get upvoted.

It's not as though you can trade the upvotes for prizes anyway.
And mine used to be as well, but in retrospect I think it's clear that I wasn't being fair. Judging any movement by their extreme fringe is gonna make them look silly.
Apple’s M1 chips might just be the beginning of Intel’s nightmare – BGR
It's already costing 18 million dollars a minute
Vanilla PHP or some framework?
Pixel 2+ with GrapheneOS, RattlesnakeOS, or CalyxOS provide pure AOSP experience sans Google and track latest Android releases within days. Depending on your needs you can control your own image build pipelines and still get verifiable boot and automated OTA updates.
There are too many things for a central planning committee to stockpile them all, sure. But if incentives are correct then private actors will spring up and stockpile them for you. What we have today is a supply chain that's been fine-tuned in large part by (de-)regulation for efficient, brittle, globalized JIT inventory but it wasn't always that way. One line of thinking goes, if the lion's share of the gains from the current framework will just go to a couple of globomegacorps anyway, why don't we shake things up.
Slanted Journalism and the 2020 Election [video]
> This global shortage is caused by lockdown.

That's a worrying prospect. Do you have a source linking the two?
Just wait for 4chan to get wind of this. The last time did not go well for Justin Beiber [1]

[1] https://www.wired.com/2010/07/4chan-has-nearly-voted-justin-...
Parallel precompilation!

See also: https://www.oxinabox.net/2021/02/13/Julia-1.6-what-has-chang...
Good job getting the release out the door.
LOL. You think I care about some account on your garbage <table>-based monstrosity? Bye!
>Increasing food prices cause more food to be grown and food to be shipped over longer distances, lessening the impact of a famine. It also causes people to spend less on luxury foods that cost more per calorie.

Yes, this doesn't work with land.
It's not great as other people have mentioned. But I think storybook is a good middle ground for testing (it might be a stretch for others to see it that way) and Svelte has awesome support for storybook.
What kind of pictures are these? https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1374924822199865349
I can’t decide whether to respond with either the (purported) Albert Einstein quote: “I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

Or Robert E Lee: “it is good that war is terrible, otherwise men would grow fond of it.”

Your fondness seems obvious though. I think I will go with a current colloquialism: “Just stop.”
Are the regexes behind the GitHub secret scanning open source? It would be great to check my code that isn't on GitHub.
If perl had use strict; and -w (warnings enabled) by default so that you had to switch them off if you didn't want them I doubt python would have gained such traction as being "easier" and "more readable." The power of perl would have been better tempered by some responsibility.

I liked perl and kinda miss it sometimes but I guess I'm not too unhappy about moving to python. Python is fine. I am pleased to find out how wrong I was about significant whitespace. Having the shape of the code reflecting its content and meaning is actually a great thing. You can think, this shape looks (un)pleasant before understanding the code in detail. Better yet is never, ever having yet another goddamn argument in a team meeting about python bracing style. Python's success makes it impossible to argue that people won't accept a mandatory indenting policy as part of the semantics of the language anymore. It's an open choice for all future languages to adopt if they deem it worthwhile, not refuse to entertain because "the users will revolt."

With Perl's demise we still wait for the lisp of mass appeal for all perl as a lisp lacked uniform syntax.
This would be true even re-encoding to AVC. Recording, even hardware accelerated, is designed to use little compression and have good quality, so it can keep up with the stream without slowing down your PC. The resulting bitrates are necessarily very high. Re-encoding more efficiently, without the realtime requirements, will usually yield good results.
You can do DNS based adblocking on Android as well using the built in "private DNS" support in combination with something like NextDNS. Doesnt need a VPN or special browser.
> Nobody would use the word "in" at that location in the sentence.

Except that was, once upon a time, a very common phrasing. As the writer was coming from the 60/70s, you need to adjust your expectations of English.

"in trying to" is actually incredibly common for what might be called "Oxford English". You'll still find it in heavy use in newspapers.

So rather than suggesting the speaker is making a deliberate mistake, or is not a native speaker, it might simply be suggesting a formal education - something that already matches the profile of the Zodiac killer.
In recent years artists have turned to selling VIP access as a major source of income on tour. In a lot of music scenes, this is normal and fans are really into it.