skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your society failed him on so many levels

Society doesn't owe people anything besides freedom, which that guy had, and used it to commit a crime, and paid for it.

> America - I won't ever understand you. I wouldn't want to be a part of a society of such robdachshunds ever, there's not enough money on the whole planet to convince me otherwise.

Guess what, I wouldn't want to be part of a society of self righteous people like you either.
Don't know if this is just digital stuff, but I started building acoustically sealed sound/phone booths for open concept offices... they are coming along. We will see. (https://reverearchitecture.com/#/798817030644/)
Speaking of good faith opinions, are you arguing in good faith that the witch hunt is just because his opinion is not the same? Can we refuse to do business with people when their opinions are legitimately abhorrent? Can we distinguish between differences of opinion and abhorrent opinions?
And tuna, or bacon
Google doesn't scrape anything that the site owner objects to.
Memorizing is root of all evil. Understanding is more important.
Yeah when the blastocyst is a few days old they can extract a few cells and cryogenically freeze the remaining blastocyst with minimal chance of having ruined it. Those cells are sent to a lab and screened for many chromosome and genetic defects.

In fact, ahead of time the IVF clinic will get blood from mom and dad as well as saliva swabs from their parents to build a model on genetic compatibility. For example, the mom and dad may both be carriers for a rare genetic disorder and this can be explicitly tested against each blastocyst to ensure a baby won’t be created expressing that gene which would lead to defect.

And of course the cells will be tested to ensure each chromosome is normal and blastocysts that are defective are discarded.

This isn’t a perfect science as they are slim chances the cells being tested somehow don’t have the right genetic information (this is called mosaicism) but that’s rare. So overall it gives mom and dad the assurance they are having a normal baby from a biological genetic and chromosome perspective. Because IVF is such a long process fraught with danger it’s something many IVF consumers opt for. Of course, there are ethical and moral concerns regarding this for some people so it’s their choice to not do it or do it and request the blastocysts be preserved and potentially implanted anyways. Now THATS an interesting debate.
It should be pretty easy for someone to differentiate between the Chinese people and the Chinese government.

Meanwhile, can you prove that this "innate xenophobia" is present in every human to an extent that it's actually relevant, and that this particular instance of suggesting that the malware is Chinese in origin meaningfully exacerbates it?

Moreover, China is a geopolitical rival to the United States, India, and other countries that constitute a majority of HN readers. Information like this is interesting from that viewpoint.
That's what I mean, European chickens don't have salmonella because they're vaccinated.

Not washing the eggs has the additional advantage that they don't need to be refrigerated.
Isn't this obvious? Just think about the converse: "employees are less happy when led by people who don't know anything about the matter at hand." Doesn't strike me as very insightful.
Japan is at about the same latitude as California, and completely surrounded by water. The need for thick insulation is much less.
Many people are far too quick to label RMS as an X, Y and Z. He's just a person who has political views. Everyone get over yourselves.
They seemed to have some preferences, but it's cool nonetheless. I still have the polyester jacket they chewed holes in and others reported similar issues with their tents.
You can, it's just very convoluted.

You can set up billing alarms and use alarms as triggers for actions.
We should change the whole software paradigm that has served us so well for so long because of 1 guy. I want the minutes I spent reading that tedious, stupid article back.
Maybe RMS should stay away, if only to save us all from this unseemly moralizing that has infected what used to be a software movement.
I have not looked at the accusations claims in depth but anyway RMS has factually brought more utility to mankind (through network effects) than almost anyone else I can think of.
Hence attacking him and the FSF seems quite hypocrite and ungrateful compared to what he gave to us.
Critizing him is fine, witch hunting is not.
So here's three things I believe very strongly:

- Everyone should be allowed to find work, regardless of their personal beliefs and past conduct.

- Red Hat is free to spend their money however they want.

- One still should look down on Red Hat for their misguided decision.

Edit: user geofft pointed out that

> membership on the board of the FSF is not a compensated role. He wasn't hired for anything.

Which changes my position to being pretty neutral on the matter. The FSF can do whatever they want and so can Red Hat, I suppose both know what's best for them better than I do.
There's a list on SaaSHub tracking all the recommended/mentioned products here https://www.saashub.com/alternatives/post-news-ycombinator-2... however, I'm wondering why https://www.netlify.com/ isn't listed...

Please don't upvote or downvote this one. It's more like a "debugging" comment.
He is supposed to be a symbol, as far as I'm concerned it' fine for symbols to be exaggerated and not balanced.

Better than modern water-"leaders" anyway.
mac and cheese is made witha cheese sauce- it's not just grated cheese. You have to make a flour/butter emulsion and make a cheese sauce from that.

I grew up eating mac & cheese and didn't even realize it was just elbow noodles and cheese sauce.
>He wants to keep blogging about how harmless it is to have sex with teenage girls, he can keep doing that. He doesn't have to be in the board of the FSF to do it.

He hasn't done this since 2006 and has since published that he no longer stands behind the statement. Do we want to live in a world where a single incorrect thought made decades ago will forever tarnish your ability to participate in society?
It’s interesting seeing all these comments. I grew up poor in Chicago. My mom left when I was one and my dad raised me by himself - truck and forklift driver. Not once have I ever had fast food. We never ate highly processed foods, ever. You think that Europeans don’t also have lots of kids and are poor? They still make fresh food. I find processed food disgusting and it’s incredibly unhealthy. People don’t cook because it’s obviously not a priority. But if you look at the impacts of eating crappy food, one might change their mind.
The Power of RNA Therapies
I heavily recommend for everyone who wants to make correct decisions about Wi-Fi hardware to read this page: https://www.duckware.com/tech/wifi-in-the-us.html

The author visibly knows their stuff and goes into channels, ac, ax, 2x2, 4x4, MU-MIMO, beamforming, etc in great detail.

But the summary of what I took from that is the times when consumer routers were bad are mostly over.

Modern high performance Wi-Fi has a lot of radio magic, so your two-antenna laptop can talk to two antennas of router via two multipath-propagated spatial streams while the router uses its two more antennas to form directed beams and get more signal so more range and speed.

All of that needs a lot of signal processing magic, and is heavily proprietary and patented, so at the moment it won't work well on non-blob firmware and drivers. And even small manufacturers have trouble here - in pure Wi-Fi performance, Mikrotik would be behind Asus or Netgear or something, even if it has more features and more professional interface.

Of course, you only need to care about that if you need local-network performance or you internet connection speed approaches Wi-Fi speeds, otherwise it doesn't really matter.
> And I don't think Google will realize what the problem is until they start accidentally killing off large swaths of the actual sources of this content by taking the audience away.

What makes you think they care? Killing off the sources of content might even be there goal. If they kill off sources of content, they'd be more than happy to create an easier-to-datamine replacement.

Hypothetically, if they killed off wikipedia, they are best placed to use the actual wikipedia content[1] in a replacement, which they can use for more intrusive data-mining.

Google sells eyeballs to advertisers; being the source of all content makes them more money from advertisers while making it cheaper to acquire each eyeball.

[1] AFAIK, wikipedia content is free to reuse.
The number of homeless people I see in the streets has visibility doubled, but I'm sure the marginal availability of board games is a sign they aren't feeling any hungrier than usual.
Hotel or b2b travel agencies also have PII that can be very useful to intelligence agencies.
Climate Change Risks Surge in Companies’ Annual Reports to SEC
Yes! Same thing for me. I’m a bit dyslexic so reading things never goes well. But I could always remember where on the page the equations were in the textbooks. So during a test, I’d picture the equations and where they were and the write them down so that I could use them.
"The average 30-year mortgage rate in 2020 was 3.11%. The same $2500/month payment with 20% down buys a $730,892 house."

Except what's happening I live is that now the $423,870 house costs $730,829. As well, for someone who doesn't already have a house, the down payment isn't something you can just handwave away.
Anyone can refuse to do business at any time. I'm suggesting that this move from redhat is a disappointment but not that it should be illegal.
Interest rates can be negative.
"profoundly mentally ill [...] he should be institutionalized"

I don't think it is a good idea to call for the institutionalization of someone based on some ad-hoc diagnosis you just made because he is a disagreeable annoying activist. Politicization of psychiatry has a very nasty history. Seriously, please reconsider this kind of talk. If you want him locked up you can sue him.
To piggy back: "timber framing" uses 6x6 or larger posts and beams for the structural members of the house and then is cladded over with brick, mud, or other materials to keep out water and air. Although we use still use wood (timber) studs in the form of 2x4s/2x6s, this is usually referred to as "stick framing" because the boards are much smaller. These smaller framing members require more fasteners to hold on claddings ie siding, vapor barriers, etc which means each nail/screw penetrations allows water and air to potentially ruin the house. Stucco and other masonry cladding like brick are naturally porous and water permeable.

Another interesting tid-bit is that while older houses are much draftier and usually less energy efficient, this "airiness" of the house allows them to dry out and avoid rotting. There have been countless class action lawsuits in the US because builders in the 80s and 90s created situations where exterior wall assemblies trapped water against the studs and didn't allow them to dry out in an effort to make the "air tight" and energy efficient.

The brick cladding on old New England style homes either have an air barrier between the brick and wood framing or weeps holes in the mortar to allow water out from behind the brick. This allows them to last much longer.
If your application is not negatively affected by such jitter why not use a garbage collected language?
> Quick; if you just came home from a long day at work, you're not likely to have the energy to prepare some elaborate home-cooked meal every night, so the trusty 'ol blue box it is

Mac&cheese is quick. Even from raw ingredients.

Maybe this is cultural, but growing up in Europe with a single-mom who worked 2 jobs ... we had homecooked meals only. Store-bought pre-packaged stuff was too expensive and unhealthy.

Takes about 20min to cook a nice weekday meal based on whatever's in the fridge. You pack the fridge on weekends.
So the AI became self aware it seems.
The FSF would not exists without him so he quite deserve to be a board member (but yes maybe that he should no longer be on the top of the board)
“Pure Green Energy” Aussie billionaire commits to 1000GW clean energy capacity
Sorry, I meant better than wheat-based macaroni and cheese in general.
I believe this will be the option they take. Not sure how else they plan to clear the canal of obstacles if the Ever Given ends up capsizing and spilling its cargo.

At that point, you may as well have begun digging a new canal anyways.
I would rather count pollution twice than zero, but in the example of abusive labor, we definitively do count it twice. Companies should be called out if they buy products produced by forced labor camps, child labor, and conflict diamonds, and sweatshops. At the same time, the companies that actually do the forced labor or employ people under abusive conditions are very much also guilty.
Also, GitLab allows business websites in GitLab pages in free tier, as opposed to Netlify and Github.

"With GitLab Pages, you can publish static websites directly from a repository in GitLab. Use for any personal or business website."
Any idea what's up with the two peaks in the price of 10 cylinder cars?
Single subject notebooks got me through college.
We'll do that. Sometimes also ham, if we have leftover ham from something & need to make use of it somehow before it rots.
Immigration thing aside (I don't think personal-income-maximizing necessarily equals logical), I feel like this point is often missed. Most people who lobby for strict zoning don't do it with the intention of restricting supply to increase the value of their home. They usually do it for much simpler, more human, and often kind of stupid reasons (traffic, construction noise, fear of new and different people in their neighborhood, etc).
I mean, no one is using it because working with Israel has been a political third rail for decades in most countries that might otherwise be interested.

From the article it sounds like the thaw with the UAE might result in them sending their oil through it.
All of these things are expensive to build, but achievable when you operate in many cities or countries.

I am not seeing how a handful of drivers in NYC could fund the infrastructure and talent required to deliver these types of features that passengers have grown accustomed to.
Yes agreed; I'm guessing by meta object that is the module pattern from fp with syntax sugar? I use the module pattern with typescript interfaces plus namespaces and it's pretty great.

100% on the actor model. My visual programming platform is basically based on actors, but the core data model is cybernetic (persistence is done via self referentiality). Alan Kay got shafted by the creation of C++, OO in the original conception was very based.
That's a pretty big statement to live down.

edit: I seem to lost the ability to reply to your other statements.

Is he actually trying to make himself a better person? Other people have listed where he has made several statements over the years since 2006 that show that he hasn't changed what he thinks. Just because he was a pioneer in programming and created the idea of free software does not give him free pass the rest of his life.
Fun fact: Vice was founded by Gavin McInnes, former contributor to right-wing Canadian outlet Rebel Media and nowadays best known as a founder of the Proud Boys.

Supposedly curreny Vice employees are forbidden from mentioning his name.
There is worse. Take a solitary cell meant for one. Then put two people in it. This is normal in many US facilities. Same 24/7 lockdown but at least it isn't "solitary". In truth, it is worse.
More than Fleming, Gutenberg, Bell, the Wright brothers, Einstein, Torvalds? No.
I haven't had to clean the pressure cooker the way you describe (the seal and valve) until my wife used the cooker and didn't know that you can't fill it up too much or it will spew hot liquid through the vent when you turn it from "sealed" to "vent". I had used the cooker for over a year with only popping the pot in the washer (and because it doesn't have handles, it fits in the washer).

My oven and range do not have a timer. It's beautifully simple. Also, I buy grated cheese to avoid cleanup. That's one of my extragavances.
> He hasn't done this since 2006

https://web.archive.org/web/20161107050933/https://www.stall...

https://web.archive.org/web/20170202025227/https://www.stall...

https://web.archive.org/web/20170224174306/https://www.stall...

https://web.archive.org/web/20170612074722/http://stallman.o...

https://web.archive.org/web/20170616044924/https://www.stall...

https://web.archive.org/web/20171020041022/http://stallman.o...

https://web.archive.org/web/20180131020215/https://stallman....

https://web.archive.org/web/20180104112431/https://www.stall...

https://web.archive.org/web/20180509120046/https://stallman....

https://web.archive.org/web/20180911075211/https://www.stall...

https://web.archive.org/web/20180911075211/https://www.stall...

https://web.archive.org/web/20180924231708/https://stallman....

https://web.archive.org/web/20180919100154/https://stallman....

https://web.archive.org/web/20181113161736/https://www.stall...

https://web.archive.org/web/20190325024048/https://stallman....

https://www.stallman.org/archives/2019-may-aug.html#11_June_...

https://web.archive.org/web/20190801201704/https://stallman....

https://web.archive.org/web/20190801201704/https://stallman....

https://web.archive.org/web/20190903050208/https://stallman....

https://web.archive.org/web/20191011023557/https://stallman....

https://web.archive.org/web/20180924231708/https://stallman....

> has since published that he no longer stands behind the statement

This is true, but he's got plenty of other statements he still stands behind. I'm not sure he's said anything about how we shouldn't have sex with animals either.
Buddy, I don't know what you are trying to argue for.

Worker-owned coops exist, thousands of them. Some of them have investors. Some of them fail, some of them have been in business for decades. Yes, raising capital can be challenging for worker-owned coops, my first post on the topic literally said that. But there are ways it can be done, that have actually been done.

I gather you think worker-owned coops are a terrible idea, that's fine you're entitled to your opinion.
What's a firmware scan? I believe that most router OS images and driver blobs are encrypted these days.
> a single incorrect thought

Emphasis on "single".

If this was true I would agree with you. He has since apologized for that. However, it was not only one stance and that's what prompted his "resignation"

He was trying to split hairs in what constitutes assault just because he wanted to defend a colleague.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/17/20870050/richard-stallman...
I think the person you're responding to is referring to RMS's comments in 2019, not 2006[1].

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/richard-stallman...
Not being a criminal is about the bare minimum requirement a decent person should pass.

The trouble with Stallman is that as far as I can tell he's just barely tolerated by pretty much everybody who had to interact with him in person. Yes, he did a very good thing, and that contribution should be recognized. And he's got some great ideas that I can agree with on the subject of software.

But unfortunately he's just not a good leader, whether in the area of the FSF's agenda or even software development and at this point is an active detriment to his own cause.

Yes, I'll grant that he's been unfairly criticized for some things, but even ignoring all that doesn't make him a good choice for the position.
Jared Diamond's Upheaval is a bit off-topic I think but I still recommend it. It starts talking about personal crisis to extrapolate into nation crisis, which are both extremes compared to company or team crisis.

Even if tangentially related, it's an interesting read if only for the historical content.
Uswds: A design system for the federal government
> I don't think block mode terminals are necessarily inferior. I see some big problems with 5250 though. The biggest is EBCDIC.

Oh yeah I agree, the actual implementation details in this case are icky.

> Another big problem is character-at-a-time interfaces let you build things like text editors (vim and emacs), spreadsheets (like Lotus 123)

That's true, but at the same time block mode allows for highly standardized and always latency free data entry and manipulation. I wonder if this is just a case for different technologies for different use cases.

> Sometimes I think that block mode terminals could have exposed some kind of byte code to enable running some interactivity in the client.

Hmm, it helps to preserve the zero latency aspect (if done correctly), but at the same time opens up the door for shoddy implementation and non-standard UX.

And then I'm sure people would come up with all sorts of "UI libraries" for terminals that they think are very clever, but just make everything fragmented and clumsy again, just like I often wish that a web site was just a plain old HTML page with maybe a standard web form, instead of whatever crazy js-backed UI the web framework du jour came up with...
I'd love to use this while teaching my kid how to program. That goes better if we both have access to the same screen. We tried repl.it but it's too wonky (cursor doesn't quite stay synchronized etc) - I think repl.it tries to do too much and ends up not so great. I could use coscreen with vs code. We're a linux household though - we'll be waiting.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26596627.
Aren't you (magicbell) gaining the persistent ability to impersonate any HN user who installs this extension? That seems like a much more serious problem than someone being able to impersonate your magicbell hn notifications. It sounds like you're saying that because HN has no fine-grained oauth delegation, it's ok to silently hijack users' HN accounts. That can't be right.
This reminds me of a Wraith Hive Ship from Stargate: https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Hive_ship
This is not the point, my comment is not a contest for which human has given the biggest utilitarian impact, the point is that he is among those men.
HN and many online sites often go on about how unfair it is that previous criminals are locked out of work and have no path back to normal. RMS in this case is not even a criminal, simply someone who said he was skeptical of the effectiveness and need of the current laws 15 years ago.

Does this not go against the desire to help people come back from previous mistakes?
That’s funny. French have the same thing with people naming their kid kevin as well.
>Compare that to the PC processor space, how much does AMD/Intel provide? 10 years? More?

They don't "provide" anything. It's the software (eg. linux/windows) that's providing backwards compatible support. Vendor support for pc hardware lasts a few years at most.
No, you're not. You're not accounting for inflation. You're not accounting for capability. You're not accounting for length of service times number of planes. You're not accounting for sales. You're not accounting for a host of relevant factors.

You're simply taking two numbers, looing at the nominal values, and doing a simply multiply, then concluding these are equivalent waste. You ignored so many relevant factors that it makes this simplistic "comparison" irrelevant.
H1Bs are one example, but isn't living in a high-rent area another? In either case, you can't maintain your physical position for long without continuous employment.
I have very little visual imagination and have experienced the audiobook/running thing a lot, but only in one direction. Running by the same place will often make me think of something I heard there, but thinking about something I heard doesn't bring back the place.
Vercel free tier is awesome!!