skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is a difference between this and VK (owned by Mail.ru) basically having a web interface for police or anyone with money to read your messages.

The only difference is that while US law enforcement can read Facebook messages, it has no interest in Ivan from Samara. But have no illusion: every government wants as much access to data as it can, and will use it against you.

> Yet I have dozens of anecdotal cases

Still anecdotal.
I only count 9 years with a negative change in emissions (6 of which are probably due to the oil crisis?). The number that matters for warming is the total CO2 concentration. Emissions are the first derivative, change in emissions is the second derivative.
>Their actual proposed changes really are just to make the legislation clearer and more enforceable.

Any source for that.
Totally agree. Outside DC, Skyline Drive is a crowded mess in leaf season, but the rest of the year, it's not bad. The most popular day hikes are overcrowded on weekends (White Oak Canyon) as described in the article, but there are less popular hikes that are almost as dramatic and far less crowded.

Also, the Mt Rogers Wilderness is only a few hours drive south, on the TN/NC/VA border area. It's absolutely STUNNING how remote it is, despite being spitting distance off I-81. We spent a week visiting late last summer and it rivaled many of the other places we've visited over the years (Outer Hebrides/Scottish Highlands, Iceland, and others).
The article seems to stop pretty early, as if something is missing.

It’s an anecdote about a government incentive to have doctors see patients within 48 hours causing doctors to refuse scheduling patients later than 48 hours in order to get the incentive bonus.

This is not an example of limits of data, but an example of perverse incentives.
When I made the jul over to full time Linux last February,this is something iran into and was confused about. Wayland was the default on Ubuntu, and it worked great! Except for a lot of applications that just wouldn't load... After some reading, I moved to X, but I can't wait for the day Wayland is ready to go.

Will there ever be a good way to run things like dmenu on Wayland? I'm still a novice, but will all X programs need to be converted?
One recurring theme: people grateful to wake up for another day.

Definitely something I take for granted. It’s good to be reminded each day is a gift.
It's really disappointing to me that Mozilla VPN didn't support Linux from the get-go, and even now, from their FAQ [1], apparently only supports Ubuntu. The code for the client is open source, and can be built on other distributions, but the more pressing question to me is why their own client is necessary at all. Mullvad (which this VPN is based on) allows you to just download WireGuard/OpenVPN config files, which you can use with your own, more widely used/trusted client. The only reason I can see for Mozilla to require the use of their own client is to enforce their device limit, which really leaves a sour taste in my mouth. I don't think their desire to impose the device-limit should outweigh the security implications of disallowing me from using the standard WireGuard client.

I want to give Mozilla my money for this, but it's really annoying how unfriendly its implementation is.

1: https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/products/vpn/#faq-compatibilit...
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> About the DNS service, I remember a bug where the fallback behavior was not what people wanted (it was something that seemed to be a good idea to systemd developers but didn't work well in completely reasonable real-world configurations), and the developers rejected the idea that systemd's behavior was wrong.

It was a fallback DNS used when the user has configured nothing.

Not only that, it was a default fallback that can be changed by both the distribution package and the user (including disabling completely).

It was a tempest in the teapot, by people who have to find some drama.
I basically use Sublime in place of notepad on Windows at this point. If I need anything beyond advanced text editing; I'm using an IDE.
I think it's far closer to what happened with Rod Vagg and the Node TSC drama.
Killswitch and split tunneling are the only things that are keeping me from using it, I want to give Mozilla my money...come on man.
In the current bull run, stocks feel more and more like NFTs for the underlying companies... I'm not sure I'd be buying anything now.
"Censorship is just fine as long as it's not the government doing it!"
I was not, by any means, suggesting nobody who supports RMS is from any given country, merely that internationalization efforts on the support letter may have given it a larger reach, or possibly reflect cultural views not reflected by the open letter.
Pfizer/BioNTech finds Covid vaccine safe and effective for children 12 to 15
"On penalty of perjury" basically always means nothing. Since being wrong isn't a crime, they have to demonstrate that you knew you were lying, which is either going to be impossible, or a long drawn out investigation.

It is ironic that if you're wrong about content being infringing and get it taken down, there's no punishment unless you intentionally lie. If you're infringing, but thought your use was fair use, you've still committed a crime.

I do wonder how some of these satisfy the "good faith" clause, though. This isn't one of those cases (I think Sega is wrong, but I can see how they meet good faith here). Some of the other cases have involved filing DMCA complaints against Wikipedia for completely unrelated articles. Once or twice I've seen companies files DMCA complaints against themselves. I can't see how that could possibly be in good faith; they clearly haven't even looked at the content, which should preclude any claim of "good faith". You can't make a good faith argument if you have no idea what you're even arguing.
No, I mean someone offering you to give them some cash to ignore some rules (or not report what they should), or to actually change recorded data in a way that benefits you. A clear case: insurance brokers who offer you to change some records so that you can get a private insurance in cases where you shouldn't.
The initial push that led to his resignation from the FSF board came down to some comments supporting Marvin Minsky, who was an associate of Jeffery Epstein. This, combined with anecdata about RMS having a history of crude and insensitive comments was too much for a lot of people.

Note that I'm not taking a side here, I'm mostly summarizing the below article:

https://itsfoss.com/richard-stallman-controversy/
Even your clarification is not use, it’s redistribution.

You may think that’s an arbitrary line, that’s up to you, but a line it is.
Not impossible, but how plausible is that a farmer sells his animals in a single location in a big city more than 1000 km away? More likely the animals would be sold closer to his farm or sold in multiple big cities igniting separate outbreaks with distinct lineages.
> The Wikimedia Foundation relies on public contributions and grants to fund its mission.

The wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation) tagline suggests the underlying truth. Wikipedia gets ~half of its revenue from the investment-based endowment managed by the Tides Foundation. The leveraged capital is largely at the charity of large organizations (like google, amazon, etc) who have donated to that endowment over time, plus the remnants of their initial investment portfolio afaict.

Wikipedia would inevitably scale back in size without the continued charity of individuals and organizations around the world.
And unlike say the copies of Facebook that Samsung has preinstalled, you can delete these afterward if you change your mind and decide you don’t want it. They’re not unremovably baked into the system.
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That's a fair point, but where is the line? Do sysadmins worry about debugging Linux? Should it be written in Bash so that they can (obviously the kernel can't be written in Bash, but for the sake of argument)?

As a non-sysadmin, I just feel like it's totally fair to have PID 1 be about as trusted and uniform as the kernel. If there's a bug in systemd, that's bad. If there's a bug in Linux, that's bad. But can't we at least aim for an init that is not just a bunch of Bash scripts running as root?
Can you see how this feature might be useful for those with hearing problems? everything is not malicious..:
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, is the problem.

Animal to human transmission is a thing that exists and is known. Much less extraordinary, much more mundane, but much more plausible.

Until there is extraordinary proof of your claim, and not just 'I feel it' type of arguments, I will steadfastly believe it started from a bat, as originally claimed.

If you have proof of your claim, and I have missed it, please provide it. I would appreciate it.
Same here, I ditched my Ubiquiti and went with Ruckus and I could not be happier. I'm just so sorry that I ever bought into Ubiquiti's marketing when I purchased their AP. The Ruckus performs so much better and the mgmt software is light years better than Ubiquiti. I also run a Protectli but on OpenBSD (from pfsense originally).
"It's hardly an arbitrary purity test"

I never said it was, I said it was one which seems to have been created on the spot as a convenient way to demonize "others" given that the moral movement has never been morally bankrupt enough for the last few decades to exclude individuals based on their participation in proprietary projects.

And no, I'm very explicitly talking about the free software movement, not open source. There is nothing in my statements to suggest that I was talking about open source other than that I'm yet another that didn't meet your ahistorical and anti-freedom purity test.
I mean, accepting a bribe or offering one is a way to fuck someone over.

But it's not "you have to pay more". More like "just so you know, I have access to this internal tool, you pay me now and this thing that isn't supposed to be possible due to your situation is now done".
All of Europe at present.
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In that example company A isn’t the one who sees it or gets money. It’s the third party sleep blog who you just clicked a link on for “top 5 memory foam pillows”. Now they see which one people buy most and can give that the favorable rating
Given enough time, every secret becomes public. You really shouldn't expect your keys to be secure forever; because of that you definitely should have a form of key rotation in place.
It's my speculation in this specific case, but that's how such "companies" usually work, they are highly professional in every aspect except for being an actually registered company - because then they could be "legally dealt with", depending on the country they operate from of course (I've been on the other side for the last 10 years working on an MMO, and having to deal with professional-quality commercial bots is unfortunately a constant "background distraction" for us).
really i ordered cisco ones do those work?
You sure you don’t mean SWE? SREs care about reliability
I graduated with a computer gaming and simulation degree and went to work in a factory doing tech support. I'm sure I was much happier doing that than I would have been doing game development.
Rossmann's transformation is kind of amazing.

It took me much longer to figure out that real change comes from policy work, legislation.

Activists don't have many case studies, role models, mentors. Rossmann just sort of bootstrapped himself.

$6m is a big lift. And I'm bearish about the initiative process, for this issue, at this time. It may prove a good move for the PR and awareness. And there's no shortage of consultants who will happily slurp up campaign dollars for no real benefit. (Noob groups and candidates are bread & butter for consultants.)

I anticipate the Repair Preservation Group Action Fund will step back, come up with another strategy. Maybe a 501c3. Run the ALEC playbook. Model legislation. Find state level allies, like farmers. Pick some low hanging fruit. Get friendly legislators to file their legislation. Do the stump speechifying and speaker tour circuit.
quick editing : Notepad++

coding : vscode , jetbrains

pim : emacs org-mode

I think sublime text is somewhere between quick editing and coding, but there are better options for both
What deplatforming and anti free speech measures is this talking about?
> If you think they took the wrong approach and yours is the right one, show them by doing.

If Roger Ebert said a movie was awful, did people expect him to write, produce, direct, and/or act in one?

If Doug DeMuro said a car handles badly, are people expecting him to get a mechanical engineering degree and build a better one?
What if there are 5 unsigned consecutive commits somewhere in the middle of the chain? Or is the idea that you still can't alter anything in that unsigned section without altering the signed commits at the ends?
Then ask yourself: When did this happen? Told by who? Any reliable evidence?
>This misleading opening really just makes me want to avoid reading the rest of the article. I hope there wasn't any real information hiding behind that facade. :x

I think you've missed the whole point of the article (which is that this is font-specific as opposed as universal), and you've made a conspiracy theory to boot!

"This is one of the strongest cases of manipulating data" - lol.
> I never said it was, I said it was one which seems to have been created on the spot as a convenient way to demonize "others" given that the moral movement has never been morally bankrupt enough for the last few decades to exclude individuals based on their participation in proprietary projects.

Free software has always been a moral movement; it's those who promote proprietary software that are morally bankrupt.

> And no, I'm very explicitly talking about the free software movement, not open source. There is nothing in my statements to suggest that I was talking about open source other than that I'm yet another that didn't meet your ahistorical and anti-freedom purity test.

Being against proprietary software is pro-freedom, and nothing I'm saying is ahistorical. You're pretty clearly conflating the open source movement (based around profiteering and not caring about freedom) with the free software movement (has always been about morality).
Punishment vs rehabilitation. In this case you can have a chat with Stallman about the consequences of the pen and how people felt when they read his words and have him make a public statement afterwards.
Please release BSD binaries..
If you want to buy, there are a number of stories you can tell yourself:

1. Deliveroo ought to be mad profitable, because (other than customer acquisition costs) they've offloaded all variable costs to drivers and restaurants. Taking one more order means the restaurant needs more ingredients and the driver needs more fuel. But Deliveroo just need one more row in a database. How can they possibly lose money?

2. The company has a moat, in the form of drivers/restaurants/brand recognition/customers/app installs. They could raise their prices and become profitable immediately if they wanted to, they're just investing all the money in growing the business.

3. Even if they're inherently unprofitable now, if they can buy enough market share eventually economies of scale, like drivers making more deliveries per route, will make them profitable.

4. If investors continue to subsidise their growth, one day so much order volume will go through them that they can shake down restaurants for an even larger cut of each order.

5. Even if the company never becomes profitable in its current form, the future is robot kitchens/drone deliveries/driverless cars, and their moat will let them dominate that market.

6. Even if the company never becomes profitable in its current form, in the future nobody will cook or even have a kitchen. Their moat will let them dominate that market.

Of course, it's possible none of the stories above are true:

1. If they have a moat, how is it Just Eat, Deliveroo, Uber Eats, DoorDash and half a dozen smaller competitors are all in the same market?

2. If they'll be profitable through economies of scale, why hasn't the last 12 months done that? Delivery has been absolutely dominating the prepared food landscape. In-person dining is closed. Lots of people are looking for work - while people who've been lucky enough to work from home have saved loads of cash they would have been spending in the hospitality industry. If this unprecedented advantage hasn't been enough for them to make a profit, will anything be?

3. Is it really likely that a company smart enough to develop self-driving cars or workable delivery drones will be unable to launch a competing app? Even though they'll be able to offer much lower prices? Oh, some delivery companies might claim they're developing drones themselves, but everyone knows 99% of drone delivery PR have no tech behind them, and a manual pilot hiding behind the camera.

Personally, I won't be rushing out to invest.
a desktop app would be way more convenient.

where are those "stations" on reddit?
Mathematical truths about abstract notions of string theory fit in a line.
> fundamentally makes contributors less safe

Please explain the actual link between contributing to free software and sex with minors.
I think in such professions the average will be brought down significantly by occupational deaths.

My grandfather used to be a steel mill worker, he's currently 94 and full of energy, but he also has a few stories to tell of deaths at the workplace.
It already works that way for stuff you add to "your story". (A feature whose purpose I can never understand except to imitate newer social networks.)
Hmm... I may not fully understand what you're looking for. From their website:

"Who owns Mullvad?
The Mullvad VPN service is operated by Mullvad VPN AB which is a subsidiary of Amagicom AB. Both companies are 100% owned by founders Fredrik Strömberg and Daniel Berntsson."

Location, Company name, individual names of founders/owners. What other "identifying information" would satisfy?

I found their FAQ, blog and guides tremendously helpful, transparent and upfront. There's a wealth of info with just a couple of clicks.
I'll only consider using a non-monospaced font for code if elastic tabstops [0] become commonplace.

[0]: https://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/
He argues that the major problem is that the parks are too easy to visit.

This is absolutely true. And not uniquely American. Iceland has the same problem - many of the major sites are right off one of the various major roads (Golden Circle and Route 1/Ring Road). I visited in January and naively thought it would be quiet. Ha! I was so wrong. Reykjavik, Golden Circle, and the southern Ring Road area (out to Vik) were teeming with busloads of tourists. Trash, trampled muddy paths, and idiot tourists ignoring safety signs. We found it best to leave the house well before sunrise to beat the busses to wherever we were going that day.
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> Being a successful contractor isn't about "having no competition"

Yes it is, but to have no competition based on old technology isn't very smart. You can easily out-compete most software contractors by delivering fast & reliable software and having great communication and business skills.
> Asana is useful. That’s why it’s growing.

So is the use of opiods and painkillers, at the right scale.

VCs and the Softbank's of the world willing to spend so much of "other people's money" like they have a never-ending fountain of it make it really hard to find out what is the right scale of things.

Even with Amazon which is often criticized for not paying dividends or running without profits for so long, they knew that the revenue was there and that Bezos could turn a few knobs whenever he wanted to slow down on growth investment and start collecting some profits. Is that true for Asana? How much more market share do they need to get to actually being profitable? What would happen if they slowed down their marketing spending?
I described it completely accurately.
Correct. As the affiliate blog you see nothing involving receipts or personal info for purchasers. It’s just a jumble of all your referral purchases
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There's probably some other bias here as well, because people doing intellectual work in those times probably had more privileges, more wealth, etc.
> What is the reasoning at HN for allowing one side of the story and censuring the other side.

This is a graph showing the counts of signatories both for and against. How is this post possibly coming out on either side of this issue?
1em as used in fonts and browsers has nothing to do with the size of a capital M character (though the name as used historically means it should). A font is drawn using a design size box (typically 1000x1000 units in OTF, 2048x2048 in TTF) and this box is scaled to the 'em' size. How big the glyphs inside the design box are drawn varies from font to font (which is the problem that the article is talking about).

The ex unit is supposed to be the height of the _lower case_ X character (not the upper case) -- but typically is just 1ex = 0.5em
A couple people have brought this up, and I'll admit I don't really get what they mean. The article is pretty clearly critical of non-pixel based rendering.

Three of the four problems the author sees with fonts:

> Unpredictable: you can’t guess what you’ll get. 16 pt means how many pixels, exactly?

> Not practical: you can’t get what you want. Want letters to be 13 px tall? Can’t do it.

> OS-dependent. Get different rendering when opening a document on a different OS. Can’t share editor config between macOS and Windows.

Most of those complaints are relevant to what I'm talking about:

- A pt measurement unit might be different between computers, which the author considers a serious problem to solve, and the web considers to be a fact of life to be embraced.

- There's no way to specify exactly how many pixels a font takes up, which is not necessarily a problem people should be trying to solve.

- Different OSes might display your font at different sizes, which is, again, not a problem that most native apps should be worried about.

The author does have a (somewhat) legitimate complaint that `em` units are somewhat arbitrary. It's a little bit weird because it doesn't acknowledge that in this case "arbitrary" means specifically chosen by the font designer to incorporate the best spacing for their font. But whatever, I can get behind an effort to make it easier to compare fonts to each other, and it doesn't seem like there's a compelling reason to force everyone to follow the font designer's choices.

But the author's solution is to use pixels (or some other unit-based non-relative measurement that will be guaranteed to render at the same size across OSes):

> Specify cap height, not em square size.

> Specify it in pixels.

In short, I share the author's frustration that there's no way to relate different fonts to each other in a reliable way, I share their frustration over working with line-heights, but I don't see how their criticism of pts and need to have font size perfectly synced between Windows and Mac works into that. In a responsive world, it should not be an issue for your app that font size might be a different number of pixels than you set it as.
Most Browser Tracking Protection Doesn't Stop Tracking by Default