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I'm back after taking a few hours off and a long walk outside, and I am relieved to see your comment.

I thought you may appreciate knowing that my outburst is entirely unrelated to you, and instead stems from professional problems, which I have taken steps to correct. In particular, I have fired a certain client, and resolved to do so more proactively in the future. Again, I am truly taken aback by my own behavior -- it's like someone else was at the wheel.

In addition to sweeping in front of my own door, I will bear this episode in mind the next time I encounter someone irate on the internet, and strive to handle it as you did.

Thank you for being so gracious, and sorry for dumping my bad day on you.
Your opinion isn't contrarian at all - plenty of people around here believe as you do that Richard Stallman has earned the right to harass as many women and offend as many people as he likes because his advocacy for free software is more important than human morality. Hell, if it came out tomorrow that Richard Stallman had a private suite on Epstein's island, half of this forum would just wind up thinking the better of Epstein for it. Or that the children were actors planted by Microsoft.

It's just refreshing to see the sociopaths come out to display plumage from time to time, without the usual pretense or prevarication.
Is there something special about "the institutions" or does it have more to do with the people themselves? Both what citizens will tolerate and what politicians will try to get away with?
1985: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_v._Garner
Eh, I don’t think this is true. People want to discredit Shockley because he was a big racist, but he was a legitimate scientist. PBS does this kind of smear to a lot of people who were morally questionable, like Henry Ford.
> Google lets the data dictate which markets to enter and on one hand they can jack up advertising fees on customers/competitors and unfairly build their own service into search above both ads and organic results.

Just like Amazon with Amazon Basics.
That's so disingenuous there should be a new term for it.
A quick Google proves you wrong, Georgian period began in 1714 with King George I and lasted until the death of King George IV in 1830. There are certainly many Georgian properties in London right now, for example my brother rents one...
Jobs. During the separation crisis of the 70’s a lot of companies left. It’s kept Montreal quite affordable as population growth has be 1%/yr or less for the past few decades.
Not just ineptitude and lack of planning. A bunch of judges wouldn't go along, even ones that Trump appointed. In the end, Pence wouldn't go along, and neither would a number of Senators and Representatives. Neither would the governor of Georgia, nor several other officials of various states.

Now, you could say "lack of planning" includes not getting the right people in place, and that's kind of tautologically true. But getting the kind of people who will go along with this, in all the necessary places, may be harder than you think.

In the end, the system held because the people who believed in the system did what the system said they were supposed to do.
Considering the amount of downvotes under my comment I don't want to pile in too much, but I expected more. The email talks about racism and I just don't see how that ties in with Minsky.
Health insurance is awful, but dental insurance isn't much better.

Employer-provided dental insurance is fine. Don't buy it yourself, however. If you have few dental problems, it will just be a way to pay an extra percentage over standard exams and cleanings. If you need a lot of work, however, a standard private plan will pay for a portion of the work done on one tooth in any particular year. Private paid dental insurance is basically never a good investment.

It is better to borrow when you need dental work you can't immediately afford than to waste money on dental insurance.
Nobody needs 1 full day of storage.
> Colley shows, shrewdly enough, how rulers desperate for cannon-fodder devised a connection between soldiering and the new idea of citizenship. Join the army, and you will be entitled to a vote and to the protection of new-fangled constitutional rights, all set down in writing.

This sounds like Starship Troopers. Can you quote a constitution where being a soldier gives you rights to vote, and where the chance of being killed (and generally brutalised) was taken up widespreadly by the general public? It's my impression that for several hundred years when even the idea of voting became widespread, most people were not going to put their lives on the line for it.
And the same concept as pumped hydro can by applied in other ways that don't require a waterway or quite as much physical infrastructure, https://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11524958/energy-storage-rail is an example.
Yeah, obvious for some time now. His wife looks ematiated and his kid is named with hieroglyphic symbols or some shit. This on top of the weird tweets and eccentric displays. He reminds me of a high functioning addict. Met quite a few business owner addicts in my time.
We would occasionally have customer try doing that. AWS has lots of IP addresses :-).
Bringing Keats Back to Life
Neural Networks and Analog Computation Beyond the Turing Limit [Book Site]
This is not about his poor hygiene or his rudeness. This is about his misogyny, him not recognizing other people's work, him making women uncomfortable in person, his earlier normalization of paedophilia, his half-hearted apologies and whatever shady maneuvers made in the FSF for him to be reelected. It's clear he's not willing to acknowledge his errors and, at this point, he actively damages the reputation of the FSF and the Free Software movement he helped found.

He should know better.

I am bad with social cues. I put myself in awkward situations. But I know better. And, more important, if someone tells me I need to change, I'll work on that.
Seems like the mob will not be happy until this man is drummed out of society.
Careful about operator precedence. low>>1 + high>>1 + (1&low&high) is the same as low>>(1 + high>>(1 + (1&low&high)))
Haha that is literally the only part of any Ramona book which I still remember all these years later. “Who’s Mr. King?” I remember her dad asking.
Yes, both. You need institutions strong enough to, for example, stop a president that exceeds his authority. But you need people who make the institutions do what they're supposed to do.
Yeah, it's not gonna happen at ant scale soon. Quite simply the bureaucracy is trained to buy things from big businesses. They're the last people to know anything about how technology works, and can't be convinced by anything other than the authority of brand names.

I'd love it if we lived in a society where everyone could contribute to everything. You see a bug, you report it on the board, someone says "hey I don't have time but you can look at it, it's gonna be in myscript.py". You fix it, they check your fix, and we're all better off.

Having an army of kids doing it would help everyone. I think working on a real thing instead of a contrived project is huge in the development of coders.

And as you say, they can add their owm imprint. Society has got to renew itself somehow, and it's not by being corporate.
The main impediment is that with a 'proper' Mac'n'Cheese you need to make a roux before adding the cheese in. Roux are somewhat above the skill level of the average cook. It's not super complex (just equal weights of flour and butter), but the timing and the heat are. Undercooked roux are a bit sour,raw, and yeasty, while over cooked roux are burnt. The time between over and undercooked can be down to only a few seconds. It takes a fair few failed roux to get right, hence it is just above the experience levels of most home cooks.

Aside: A roux is the basis of many 'creamy' sauces. Learning the skill of roux making is very much worth your time as a home cook.

If you still can't manage to get it down, try xantham gum instead. Mix it in with some oil first, then add your liquids. Again, you'll need to experiment with hydration ratios, but it's a much easier and faster method that will also work for cold dishes. It's powerful stuff, maybe a teaspoon per liter of water will thicken quite a bit.
Unfortunately, it's a fictionalized story by the inspirational writer Elbert Hubbard, and almost none of the details are true. Wikipedia says:

[S]omeone said to the president there was 'a fellow by the name of Rowan will find Garcia for you if anybody can.' Rowan was sent for and given a letter to be delivered to Garcia. How the 'fellow by the name of Rowan' took the letter, sealed it up in an oilskin pouch, strapped it over his heart, in four days landed by night off the coast of Cuba from an open boat, disappeared into the jungle, and in three weeks came out on the other side of the Island, having traversed a hostile country on foot, and delivered his letter to Garcia – are things I have no special desire now to tell in detail.

"In fact, the only true statement Hubbard wrote was that Rowan "landed ... off the coast of Cuba from an open boat". All the rest, including McKinley's need to communicate with Garcia and Rowan's delivery of a letter to the general, was false."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Message_to_Garcia
I'm confused about rocketbook, why would you want to reuse notebooks? Paper notebooks are cheap enough to be disposable
People see "free range chickens" and "caged chickens" in the same shop and don't seem to care...
Just because they eat it, doesn't mean they digest it and get it out of the ecosystem.

That's the problem with plastic, breaking it down without consuming a ton of other resources, or getting even worse by-products in the process. Plastic in its current form should have been made illegal at least 30 years ago in favor of far more biodegradable options.
They are very expensive and have pretty heavy effects. Not sustainable. I couldn't really do that many because of the impact. Hard to imagine what his knock on effects were. Well...
I've been to Wal-mart, Trader Joes, Whole Foods, Kroger, Meijer, Safeway, and many others many, many times, as I was born and raised in the USA and didn't even visit anywhere else until I was nearly 30.

I don't think that you and I are talking about the same things when we say "unprocessed cheese" or "non-shitty bread". Wal-mart has, in the scheme of cheese and bread available on earth, an absolutely abysmal selection - this remains so even when compared against the US more widely.

Part of this is Wal-mart's focus on a very limited number of suppliers that have many different brands/logos.

Even the mozzarella balls in brine sold in the "fancy" grocery stores are full of adulterants and other things you'd never find in quality cheese. The "fresh" bread from the bakery is lower in preservatives than the bagged stuff, but is nowhere near "good". The worst bakery in any major city in Europe has bread an order of magnitude better than any chain grocery store's "fresh bread" bakery section. (That's not nationalism: you can pick any of a dozen countries to compare.)

...and in many places in the US, that's the only/best available within a 20-30 minute drive. Food deserts (another growing problem) are even worse.

US grocery stores are very bright and shiny and have many different brands available, but the hidden structure is that almost all of those widely available come from a vanishingly small number of conglomerated suppliers, oftentimes using processes or ingredients that are banned in other countries on safety and health concerns. Even the "quality" (aka fancily packaged, more expensive) stuff comes from the same conglomerates and suffers the same problems.
> I’m surprised they didn’t go with $365 so they could say it is $1/day.

You mean $365.25, as there are 365.25 days in a year. ;)
Yup. I grew up on Kraft Dinner, but this is what I make for my kids now. It’s an easy, fast, cheap pantry meal, up there with curry lentils on rice and spinach quiche.
If you were getting blocked on an initial load, you were either hit with rate limiting or an unrecognized user agent
There's a phenomenon (which must have a name) where large companies are held to a different standard. We see this with: Amazon (there are doubtless jobs with worse conditions). Tesla (quality problems sure, but there's also some real nit-picking). Apple (class-action lawsuits around the most minor defects). Google (unbelievably clean compared to other companies and ad networks that handle personal data)
The sound of writing with a wood-cased pencil is very soothing. Currently I'm using a MITSU-BISHI 9800 with my absolute favorite being the CARAN D'ACHE Swiss Wood red tip.
Yeah, 100%. People underestimate what "kids" can do - especially when we're talking about 14+ year olds who have been using technology their whole lives. Giving them the opportunity to work on Something Real might be more appealing than a bullshit project that goes nowhere.

> I'd love it if we lived in a society where everyone could contribute to everything.

That's still the dream, but SaaS kills open source in many ways - by monetizing what has already been done for people other than the authors, and by locking all applications behind paywalls. A return to running our own decentralized software, a return to protocols instead of platforms, is what we need to get over this.
Something I've learned is that if you're a disorganized person, you're going to have a disorganized computer, and disorganized notes. But with physical notes, I can put them in a physical pile, and they'll pretty much stay there until I need them, sometimes for years.

Once in a while I can go through them and throw away the ones that I really don't care about, and I can transfer really vital stuff to the computer. Scanning is easy. My cell phone is a good enough scanner.

Where paper shines is equations and drawings. I'm building an elaborate electronic circuit as a hobby project right now. The ease of drawing the schematics by hand outpaces any drawing program, and it's effortless to carry paper into my workshop. Of all places, Target sells a lovely quad ruled notebook where one side of each sheet is 4 grids per inch, and the other side 5.

Now I've read a lot of comments and articles about pens. Uggh. Pens are just not my friend. I've struck a blow for freedom and bought pencils. There, I said it. Lots of them. I know all the cool kids write with pens, but my handwriting is so horrible, I usually have to erase my worst scribbles and start over quite frequently.
Thank you for your work. I absolutely love the book.
You might add links to buy digital copy at the very top of the page. Currently, I've found the link on 3rd attempt)
Also, why not sell on Gumroad (https://gumroad.com)? It is convenient.
Good luck!
I am part of that party and no such thing occurred. It does seem to be happening now, though.
You're probably right. Aim fixed panels for the brightest part of the day and use batteries and that will probably solve most problems.

What I think is interesting abouts trees is that they can take in energy even when the sun is low on the horizon, they have good ventilation so they don't overheat, and they work no matter what angle the sun is facing.

The giant sequoias get a lot of their moisture directly from the air.

Maybe we could add functions to our "tree-shaped solar panels" like fresh water gathering and climate control heat exchange.
He went there after Epstein's first conviction. If you're flying to a billionaire sex-offender's private island and get offered a young girl, I'm pretty sure it would raise some red flags.

I don't think the part about giving him the benefit of the doubt is stupid, especially because it's never been clarified whether he did have sex with her, or if Epstein just suggested it to her. I just find his explanation unconvincing.
My old (90s) GE fridge didn't keep vegetables very long, but my new GE does. The model I got doesn't have a fancy dual coil either.
That letter is just racist and discriminatory. In fact, the basis is; because someone is white, use that to fire someone you don't like? That's illegal. No point trying to attach political content to such drivel.

So yeah, that "positive move towards more inclusivity and diversity, is not in a court of law, but could be if implemented due to that letter.
SFMTA to replace parking permit stickers with license plate recognition
Even worse: the combination of the two.
When compared with Go it certainly is, across all axes.

Then there are a couple of McLaren, Lotus and F1, but then it is another level altogether.
> I fear that by removing him we would lose one of the uncompromising figures of software freedom.

No. If he wants to continue to defend Free Software, that's his decision. What this is about is how the FSF reinstated him in secret and how that, ignoring his past behavior and his half-hearted apologies, damages the reputation of the Foundation and the movement.
In my war-torn country, we play this to pass time
One could imagine a series of cloudy windless days in the northern latitudes during the winter. Perhaps a large enough gird solves that problem? I have no clue.
I don't think there is a consensus, other than that the purposes stated in the guidelines are sensible. I expect many are willing to argue either side and embrace hypothetical positions for the sake of discussion, without any intent to advocate political, moral, religious, etc views.

And then there's a lot of honest religious arguments about programming tools and such, so hail Eris and enjoy learning from the chaos.
There is the reason why Taleb in his brilliant piece Intellectual yet idiot chose to rip the New Yorker reading crowd and not FT.

The closer you are to the action the more skin in the game you have and the better intel you need.
I've been using a Boox and pretty happy with it.

The only thing that bothers me is the time it takes to flip between pages and find something you know you wrote somewhere but forgot exactly where you wrote it. Somehow manual searching is still faster with real paper.
> Who is going to maintain that app over time?

This is not a "current proprietary system" vs "open system maintained by volunteers". They can basically adopt the open system which is better and pay whoever they want the same account of money to maintain it. They just need to shift which system is being maintained. (And may even save money that way)
The only real power is in the "or any later version" part of the GPL, which IMO is a mistake. I'd delete it like Linus when using the GPL.

Yes, I think foundation members' influence is overrated. The Kuhn story looks like any plain vanilla internal power struggle. Why hasn't he spoken up 10 years ago? It is hypocritical to do so when everyone else is piling on.

The same applies to old guard RedHat and SuSE people. They have known RMS for decades and suddenly he needs to be removed.

Foundations in OSS in general attract the wrong kind of people. RMS, for all his flaws, did pretty well overall compared to others.
meta: Apologies for editorializing the title, but it was hard to shorten "SFMTA to permanently replace residential parking stickers with virtual permits & license plate recognition technology" and keep all the key points.

This felt like an HN-worthy story from a privacy point of view, RE: "Only SFMTA employees and authorized vendor support staff will have access to the images for the purpose of citation processing, payment, and review."
There is also his position on paedophilia and on "censorship" of child porn.
It takes like 30 seconds to point a Cloudfront distribution at an S3 bucket. Maybe a couple minutes more to set up the domain.
Not a direct answer to your question, but the very existence of LLVM as a serious competitor to GCC is evidence of RMS's leadership failure, and even if you ignore everything in this letter, the GCC Steering Committee should be looking at whether he's helping to steer in the right direction.

There was a fascinating thread here the other day about how LLVM was offered to the FSF, copyright assignment and all, and that it was rejected: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535789

LLVM differs from GCC in two major ways. First, nontechnically, it's under a weak copyleft instead of a strong one. Second, technically, it has a modular architecture. There's a libLLVM that you can use to parse programs and do all sorts of transformations on them.

RMS refused to create an equivalent libGCC and even to structure GCC in such a way where maintaining a private fork with a libGCC would be easy, because he feared that proprietary software developers would use GCC's code to handle the hard part of compilation and not free their proprietary extensions. He thought he scored an early victory on this front when he got NeXT to release their Objective-C frontend for GCC publicly and contribute it back. But it was, of all companies, Apple themselves (the effective successor of NeXT) that invested into LLVM.

It turned out that not only is developing a compiler within reach for a proprietary software company, developing a better compiler was easily within reach when freed from the artificial constraint of making it non-modular. LLVM was able to compete with GCC because it had a technically better design that GCC rejected for political reasons. And, ultimately, that technical excellence is now threatening GCC's dominance.

It also turns out that many software projects are willing to license their code freely anyway, without the requirement of strong copyleft. Rust probably would not have been anywhere near as successful if it didn't have libLLVM to build on top of and had to start from scratch. And Rust is under no license obligation from LLVM to be free software, but it is nonetheless free software. Apple continues to contribute many things (though not everything) to LLVM not because they have to, as they did with GCC, but because it's technically better for them to work with the public project.

So RMS's political constraints on GCC were ultimately ineffective for the free software movement, because the very proprietary developers he was worried about found an alternative, and they're releasing code anyway.

RMS being "uncompromising" would be a virtue if he were effective and talented in his choices of where he's uncompromising. But he's not.

(There are other examples of this: the lack of free software strategy for the web because he has an uncompromising refusal to use the web and therefore to learn anything about it; the failure of Ogg Vorbis as a format because of the strong copyleft of its reference implementation, which the GNU website now mentions as a lesson to learn from and avoid; the relative lack of uptake of the AGPL, and the users who would have wanted it like MongoDB and Elastic instead choosing a non-free license; etc.)
That 2.5TWh is probably an hour of active daytime usage though, no?
Not really matching HN guidelines but I enjoyed your rant :D
> YOLO rename label

Love the most recent commit
LLC in the US?