skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Egress is free as long as you use it for individual backup, or for other data you want to keep just in case and mostly discard, like old logs.
Dictators, in general, don't come to power unless some fairly large fraction of people actually want them to.
> Is being fired from any position an act of cancellation?

My own suspicion is that "cancellation" doesn't describe the act itself, so much as the person it happens to. The general trend seems to be that, if it's someone from relatively higher on the social power scale losing a position or status due to poor behavior, it's cancellation. If it's someone from relatively lower on the social power scale, it's just the same old, run-of-the-mill social consequences that have existed since time immemorial.
Have been using Kitemaker for a few months now, and it is really lovely.

I don't use it as I would a regular issue tracker. I tend to make bigger work items and then let the item evolve as a kind of document.

I start by articulating what needs doing. Then it evolves into a problem statement and a plan. And finally I document choices and write a bit about how something was done.

This way I end up with something that is actually useful later.

(When I Get A Lot Of Spare Time (hah!) I would really like to make something that'll use the API to extract work-items by certain criteria and autogenerate a sort of "hacker's handbook" for projects so you can share key documentation that both describes how something works, but also the journey there)
Why does government need to be efficient? The entire point of a government service is that it helps everyone in society, which is necessarily inefficient. Private companies can afford to be efficient because they can refuse service or refuse to enter certain markets.
But plot that path out for me. Explain to me how you make a world where the average consumer has access to a spyware free phone and TV because of free software. What societal or legislative or cultural levers do you plan to pull to bring about that utopia? Is the FSF pulling them?
Check out Neat URL - it's more basic, uses a comma-separated list of rules, and comes with some hard-coded presets you can override. I maintain my list in a text file and just update that and copy/paste in when I want to create one.

Of the defaults, I only override "cid, mbid" as blocking those on every site has ended up breaking some.

https://github.com/Smile4ever/Neat-URL
"deadly lies"

I agree with a fair bit of what you are saying here but their behaviour in most cases does not comport with the definition of "lie".
I agree with you on these points. But they don't affect this letter's main point.
What’s the take for coordinating this Fund API? If I donate $1, what percent gets to projects and what percent is overhead?

I want more open source software and more great open source software. But I think the best projects (Apache, Linux, etc) aren’t in need of funds and function more as common goods with multiple companies paying for work and contributing back.

So I think their heart is in the right place, but the implementation won’t lead to better software.
Certainly. I dont think any government has been forward thinking enough to build some slack resiliency into the supply chain.

You see some of this at the federal level with food (US) or temporary safeguards by states , to make healthcare delivery during covid simpler (several states abolishing certain licensing rules etc) but I'm not aware of anything meaningfully impacting resilience of supply chain by any actor.

You could argue that spot and forward pricea help, but when you pay x and your stuff ia sitting at port idle with no prospect of moving, then you wonder whats the point of prices anyway.

When i pay for an uber, i know im being picked up when the time estimate tells me, especially if im paying surge pricing. That relationship was broken for shipping, for a big part of 2020 ,well into golden week
I forget if this effect has a name, but I believe that the inclusion of incorrect grammar and spelling is exactly what convinces a certain subset of the population that the message is genuine. They don't completely trust messages that are super polished, preferring to give more weight to things that they perceive as "written by a human somewhere."

In some cases, these are people with a strong distrust of "mainstream" communications, possibly assuming that anything written well or from certain sources carries an agenda that they don't want to be part of. In other cases, people may just be naive enough to believe that a company with a professional writer on staff wouldn't need their money and that therefore a company without a professional writer (which then writes with occasionally poor grammar and spelling) is more in need of support. In yet other situations, people may have become over-zealous in their support for social sensitivity and feel a strong urge to "help that poor boy in Nigeria."

There are probably a lot more reasons this works on certain people, and a lot more types of people that this works on.
EVs have must less brake dust because they rarely use the brakes. But EVs don’t fully solve tire dust yet. HOWEVER, they make it a problem worth solving. When you’re comparing to diesel particulates (which are actually an enormous problem...) and fossil fuel smog to tire dust, solving tire dust doesn’t seem very pressing. But it would if we switched to EVs.

And there are possible solutions to tire dust. Changes to tire formulation, better road maintenance and mitigations, possibly relying more on tunnels (which we should do anyway in cities, even if it’s more expensive... and EVs make it much easier). Once fossil fuels are solved, it makes tire dust the next problem we can tackle.

So don’t use tire dust as an excuse to not transition to electric vehicles. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the much better. (And public transport can also generate particulates... tire dust, dust from rails, brake dust, and especially diesel particulates from buses.... we need to electrify everything.)

EDIT: And I don’t want to use this an excuse to NOT do public transport, only to argue it actually has much the same problem, but in case you don’t believe me on the rail dust thing: https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standardinterpretations/1996-...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896971...
I don't disagree in general. What I'm saying is that if what's dangerous is a head injury with a [purely fictional/illustrative] severity of 5 on a scale of 1-10, but this test detects only a diagnosable concussion at 8+, it would be a double-edged sword:

- Individuals with severe injuries (8+) would be detected and could not deny it. You'd rid sports of the trainer who asks how many fingers he's holding up, and the answer is always "two." This is a good thing.

- Individuals with significant injuries (5+) would not be detected and would continue playing, causing perhaps worse outcomes. These injuries are more common, and sports would build up to accept and embrace them, since evidence may take decades to gather that reducing diagnosable concussions is not enough.

The latter case could affect thousands/millions more people, and may in fact be the real metric we should be targeting, rather than the as-currently-defined diagnosable concussion.
Galactic internet made possible by star gravitational lensing
Top left above the price in black on white text is the non discounted price. The text he is quoting is the first entry in the "faq" below.
I've never really understood "Individualism." There don't seem to be any circumstances in which "Individualism" is superior to "Cooperation" or "Collectivism" (and that in of itself I believe is a false dichotomy to begin with as there are situations in which individualism is necessary to maintain overall collectivism) unless you ignore the fact that the individual is benefiting from past "Collectivist" actions.

Rand's Objectivism is not mutually exclusive with Collectivist, nor is it always necessarily Individualist.

Personally I believe individuals are becoming more and more far removed from the benefits of "Collectivism" and therefore are wrongly believing their (in)abilities are a result of their actions solely. Your own actions, of course, have an effect on your life, but we don't live in a vacuum.

If we collectively pollute the planet and it turns out that pollution makes it harder for children to learn, is it the child's fault for not learning properly or our fault for creating such conditions? Of course, the answer is it's a little of both.
So they explicitly laid out their plan for further destruction. Not that is unknown, they did it since 5.8 days, since perl6.

No plans for explicit improvements as detailed planned in 2002, for perl6. 90% of those goals should be perl5 goals, just not breaking syntax, because it is cool. So their new plan is to follow the perl6 route, breaking syntax, cpan and backwards compatibility, whilst still having not a single clue how to implement those features.

OO? They are still completely clueless. Jit? Not even mentioned. Native types, ffi? Not even mentioned. Abstract the parser for macros and grammars? Not even mentioned. Proper signatures? Only on cpan, not in core. And many such features which I already have implemented for perl5/cperl.

There is no future, they killed it. Long time ago. Everybody with a little bit of competence already left at around 2005. Just leave it alone, until you can promise something and those plans are believable. The more you do, the more destruction.
I took a bus to a train to a bus to a tiny village in the countryside in England. Nothing in view for miles except the pub at the bus stop and a farm.

You could absolutely go visit your friend on his farm if we had a decent public transit system.

Also how is your specific case a refutation of the GPs argument anyway? Everybody always loves to argue against public transit with some weird special case that's somehow "possible". It's quite tiresome.

How about some imagination instead. Is it such a stretch to image a rural bus route that goes by your friends farm? How about a few mile bicycle ride from the nearest town's train station? How about renting a car ala Zipcar? I am sure there are many other ways to solve this non-problem.
Odessa's most dangerous market – Ukraine
> The bot's APM is now significantly less than the best humans' typical APM, which makes it roughly fair since the bot never misclicks.

This isn't really true, it still has a heavy mechanical advantage.

I'd ballpark it at low or mid masters for overall strategy and tactics, top tier for 'reading' an incoming fight and deciding whether or not it should take the fight, and superhuman on mechanics/control.
The thing mentioned in this bit?

> We think its better buried in the settings. And you'll have to set it back later.
I don't understand why the backlash should be inevitable, or why it should be stronger than a retort.
This is an, albeit somewhat comical, bug. I've got the same thing. A lot of other things in the site are broken too, most of the links at the top default to the /# link.

My guess is something is broken in their back-end, or this got found and posted before the creators were ready for it to get publicity. The sample code also links out to /#todo, so I think my "not quite ready" idea may be what's up.

Shame, this looks like it'd be a cool project.
I think you are tilting at imaginary dragons considering that the plutocrats and largest corporations in America pay basically nothing in taxes. I don't disagree that government should try to be efficient, but government by its very nature takes on inefficiencies in society... regulations exist because of edge cases, welfare exists because some people are dealt a bad hand, et cetera. Government is not, and should not try to be, a business.
Do You See Your Custom Software as a Product or Just a Project?
Son and I saw a bald eagle 5 days ago (WC FL).
> Excess death outside of 75+ people who had a few more years left is zero.

The data in this post seems to contradict that so you would need to specifically address that.

The fact you said "zero" rather than some small amount gives me some doubt you are debating in good faith.
Of course they do. Logic as in reasoning isn't the same as a formal logical system. Law isn't a formal logical system. That's why computation law has been so difficult. Human beings aren't automatons.
Possibly https://codeprints.dev/
It doesn't systematically free people of spywares but allows to do so. Projects already get forked for that purpose like vscode, chromium.
It also allows to audit and at least see what a software does.
...and Europe uses LOTS of cars, still. As does Japan. I don’t understand why people argue for public transport as a reason not to electrify cars. Like, we HAVE to electrify cars. Is this just more excuses to justify buying a nice new combustion vehicle?
I am no Rand fan and I think she is an awful writer, technically speaking. Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead could both be about 1/10 as long.

...and yet, there is something inspiring (?) about the characters in her work. I don't know how to describe the feeling. Perhaps someone here knows what I'm talking about. They are brief glimpses of people with true character that don't sacrifice their values for anything. Roark in particular is (mostly) a very sympathetic character.

Ultimately, I think her mistake was in transporting her philosophy from art (Roark) to business (Galt). The rebel artist that never gives in to the market and the mob is inspiring. But the businessman and financier? Not so much.

That all aside, the sheer amount of angst and hatred thrown toward Rand is interesting in itself. As MLK said, the opposite of love isn't hate, it is indifference, and boy do people love to hate Rand.
From playing with it a bit, the differences I see...

Ragel compiles its source into a separate file in the target language (C, Ruby, ASM, etc). FSL instead has a library that parses and runs the FSL source at run time.

Ragel supports (or plans to support) C, C++, ASM, Objective C, D, Go, Ruby, and Java. FSL supports (or plans to support) Javascript, C and Erlang.

The live editor does seem to be somewhat unique to FSL. It's at https://stonecypher.github.io/jssm-viz-demo/graph_explorer.h... Try, for example, changing "flow: down" to "flow: right".
http://archive.is/iwkUi
I had some correspondence with rms while he was being hunted, and all he asked is to help the FSF by becoming a member. He was still defending the same organization that was removing him. So if we want to show support now is the time to become members, to show the FSF our support for rms and what he stands for.
Just as a note - I'm someone who advocates that government should absolutely be run at a complete loss.

But inefficient and providing service to everyone are not necessarily the same thing. Planned inefficiencies is what are important.

For example - the college I work at knows that we're going to lose our shirts on every nursing student, something to the tune of 25k loss for every student, every year in that program.

And because that is what the area needs, that is what we do. It's massively inefficient. It would, at a for-profit, be the first program to get cut.

But we can plan for that loss, and make up for it in other areas.

That's an efficient and effective inefficiency.
I had Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on a Dell Inspiron 3137. I ran apt-get update and it crashed and would not boot. I was preparing to lend the laptop out to family so I had to put Windows back on it. It happens. Your personal experience is not everyone's experience.
These weekly death stats are not useful because if no one dies in week 1, but everyone dies instead in week 2 (plus those who would have died anyway in week 2), it will show week 2 as being catastrophic, and everyone will just ignore week 1.

We need the raw annual data which basically removes this noise.
What is your opinion about https://min.io/ (It also has S3 compatibility AFAIK)
That sounds very confusing and requires invasive license auditing to enforce.

You can also do this by just paying into a commercial stack. The beauty of OSS is that it’s easy to use and reuse.

I’d rather just pay Microsoft than use a scheme where I pay by the number of dependencies.

Also, not that I release a ton of packages, but I do contribute some here and there. I would not contribute to commercial packages where my labor benefits some org.

And I would still release packages under a permissive license that allows for reuse without any compensation to me.
I am that anomaly. I change my shirt twice a week, not because it smells but because it gets dirty from the environment (spills, rubbing against something etc).

It takes about 7 days of no showers to have a noticeable smell. However I prefer showering daily or every other day because I enjoy taking a shower at the end of the day.

I also don't need deodorant. I used it once as a teen and saw no purpose for it.
> A prominent evolutionary biologist slays the beast of Individualism.

I didn't see anything in the article about slaying the beast of individualism.

Just some thoughts of person who misunderstood another author.
Why AI Will Not Take Over Radiology
> So, open source projects want to be supported, and companies who rely on open source want to invest in them but there’s a massive pain point:

> In the open source world, formal contracts and partnership agreements don't happen the way they do in the business world.

In a way what OpenCollective offers here is much needed. The OSS world has a really hard time to get funded, while at the same time big tech is thriving upon their works.

Another pain point not mentioned in the article is that big tech corporate world also doesn't like FOSS (copyleft) licenses. They favor permissive licenses, as this is what their empires are built upon.

I fear this funding initiative will favor OSS to the detriment of FOSS. I also feel that OpenCollective - which I found aligned with FOSS principles at the start, hence really attractive - is moving towards raking in the big money now.
Hmm, OK. Might be that my knowledge was not really up-to-date there. I'd really appreciate if network protocols designed for common benefit (such as ICMP) are not discouraged due to security for a change. In this case, sorry for spreading FUD, that wasn't my intention.
I've personally never seen this with any "in-app" oAuth page. I don't think it changes my fundamental point.
In the modern world it is much less costly to stockpile a moderate amount of excess cash flow.

There have been no real serious shortfalls of goods in a once in a century pandemic and the cash would have served anyone well!
My relationship with ayn rand is frustrating.

As young man, I thought her ideas were provocative, but something feels wrong with Atlas Shrugged.

I later come to realize that rand is a bad novelist:

She is a little too self indulgent with her character’s speeches.

She has contempt for the antagonists in her books. She hates them. She cannot relate to them, so they are not relatable. Her antagonists seem to be over the top in their abandonment of logic and common sense. Her worldview is flawed. No one would behave this way. I come to feel like she has some good ideas, but her cynicism about moochers is not supported by the real world.

Then 2019 happened and I realize she is right and I can’t decide if I should be more annoyed with her, Americans or myself. SJWs are as bad as the moochers she presents. American politicians and almost everyone in the dc community are craven, awful, dangerous and petty.

Instead of recognizing that everything we are experiencing is a symptom of the ethical decline of the country, we are tallying the score of republicans and democrats. We are homogenized and too stupid to save ourselves.

Our finishing move is electing a man presenting symptoms of dementia. He seems determined to accidentally start combat between nuclear armed nations through unforced insults, if “nance” thinks it’s ok to do so.

I was wrong. Ayn is right. These people will present self destruction as the moral choice. They will rage when you point out why it won’t work. The worst of them default to violence and suppression. It does seem to accelerate. You don’t have to like her to respect her.
This might be the least thought-provoking article I’ve ever read on Nautilus. The author seems to have misunderstood and caricatured every single idea he argues against.
Amazonia-1 was put in orbit by PSLV launch from SHAR this year (2021). The annotation (2020) is wrong.

https://www.space.com/india-launches-amazonia-1-satellite-18...
> it was common knowledge that he was afraid of spider plants

"p.s.: In the closet-sized "office" Bushnell, McGrath, and I shared for a time we did have some spider plants as part of a running silly joke. They did not actually scare RMS away OF COURSE"

-- Thomas Lord.

Please note the capitalised "OF COURSE" and reflect on the veracity of your "common knowledge".
When I log in to my bank I recognize the little icon I chose but I’m not sure I’d notice its absence. I suspect I wouldn’t.
Ah ok, I could imagine "self-employed day-trader" or "self-employed trader" to be more catchy/on point. But this is of course your decision what you see fits better.

Yeah but still, in many places, Berlin for instance it's quite normal for people to not have a car and exception to have one. I guess the modeling part proves that you are really good at that. So far I met 10 people (including myself) who at some point planned to do (day) trading for a living. Most never left the conceptual/preparation phase, a friend of mine started, lost some money and halted it. Of them I know 2 people who did this for a longer time (years).
Show HN: Task automation tool with Deno runtime for developers written in Rust
Right, the whole thing is running max JIT which means any hiccups ripple quite far.
But we don’t live in that world yet. We live in a world where, on the contrary, companies are able to make products that distribute their spyware and do so by actively exploiting the contributions of free software developers! The Linux devs whose contributions are in android are having their software used to build TVs that spy on people! Is free software advocacy alone actually helping advance a spyware-free world, then?
> I don't see anyone here trying to erase RMS from history

Define "here". Is it this thread, or the current attack on RMS and the FSF at large? If the latter, Sarah Mei and the author of this article, to name some examples, are definitely trying to erase RMS and his achievements. This particular article is mostly garbage (I think you'll agree) but the people trying to reframe RMS' entire life history in terms of alleged harassment and various moral infractions are definitely trying to get him erased.
They don’t stop harder. If they accelerate faster it’s because people buy them as sports cars because Tesla took the strategy of making electric cars more than glorified golf carts so that people would actually want them.
> unless you ignore the fact that the individual is benefiting from past "Collectivist" actions.

This. Modern individual can use something built by a group of collectivists and advance alone.
Yeah, right. So this is not what I had in mind -- a way for the society to invest into projects that might not have an obvious immediate business value. Like society invests in raising and educating kids, for example, hoping that some of these kids will bring positive value to the world when they grow up.
It doesn't take a Dota expert to realize that removing most of the heroes is going to have a huge impact on strategy.