skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These researchers are more self-serving than any philanthropist I've met could be. This is an old argument, mainly by people who have an interest in having government, or worse, their own institutions direct funding to their own affinity groups.

But I'm going to be provocative because there is an elephant sized naked emperor in the room. Professional academics and their administrators generally live in an archipelago of planned economies that require exogenous revenue sources for "funding," the same way the oppressive bureaucracies of the 20th century depended on resource extraction to fund their systems. Where instead of mineral resource wealth, they live on "funding" that is extracted from elsewhere and then struggled for politically within the bureaucracy. Nobody has the advantage of making anything anyone wants, it's just a raw struggle for power as its own end.

Charities give, whereas bureaucracies fund in their own interests. We tolerate this academic luxury communism in the west because a free society means letting people live as they choose, and in return, they run a cash for honours racket that occasionally produces some strategic technologies. The trouble starts when they get bored (like in this article) and won't stay in their lane.

It's ironic that the last 30 years of critical theory has been about telling every other discipline that people can't be sincere or objective because of bias from their own power and interests, and yet we don't see these researchers attacking charity as utterly compromised by their role as launderers for political policy objectives that consolidate control by a captured state.

On this basis, I reject the argument that bureaucrats or their flatterers and apologists are better able to distribute wealth than the philanthropists and their families who made it.
> Myth No. 3: America's poor can rise from rags to riches with hard work.

It's very hard to convince people otherwise. Stories of people finding the "American dream" are constantly peddled by the bourgeoisie and it seems people prefer anecdotal evidence to statistics. It's a damn shame too. The sooner we start questioning our fundamental system the sooner we can change it.
Is that sufficient reason to coerce others to participate? Why should people who want to collectively bargain have a veto over the people who don’t want that?
I would have thought that the Gates foundation was an excellent example of how to spent money well: after an enormous amount of research on determining what problems are priorities, and the most efficient (in terms of bang per buck) ways to fix them. I think it is probably best to not look at it through a capitalist or libertarian lens, and actually look at where the money is going, what it is doing, and how effectively it is doing it.
Depends on your views. I personally think it's more effective to take on the majority of the work. However, a significant chunk of the US has a "government is the problem" ideology, and thinks the correct way to approach problems is via non-government actors.

I think often that's not really sincere; it's just a way of trying to limit government reaction. But for those who really mean it, employers are the ones who should be playing a big role here as participants in and conveners of communities.

And even if government is generally best suited to solve these problems, there's still a lot for everybody to do here. I hope everybody has been taking action: individuals, companies, NGOs, and all levels of government can contribute to getting us through this.
Introduction to Data Binding with Proxy in JavaScript
>The best frequently don’t rise to the top

True, but in life, there are people who do things because they have to do things, and then there are people who do things because they want to do things...

Highly spiritually advanced people (and I don't claim to be one of them -- far from!) -- no longer do things for a reward -- that's because to them,

the act of doing and the reward for the doing -- are one in the same...

That is, because they live life at such a high level of self-expression -- they have unified action and reward.

For them, there is no time delay between the action and the reward...

To use a analogy borrowed from psychology, think of this as having attained "Self-Actualization" in Maslow's "hierarchy of needs"...

People at that level -- no longer worry too much about rewards...

If they compete with anyone for any prize, for any reward -- then they only compete with themselves, their past selves, that is, with their past achievements, to see what more can be accomplished -- to see what more can be learned or experienced next...

They truly exemplify Bruce Lee's time honored quote:

“If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”

-Bruce Lee
Great article! I use socat all the time to test multicast subscriptions in Linux.
You're only mentioning facts, but not all of the facts.

The way you emphasised your comment as merely mentioning facts is making it obvious that you are selectively picking facts in favour of some narrative.

Care to mention how coordinated the "support XinJiang cotton" statements are? Like all the "support Hong Kong Police" posts before? I can also say I'm only commenting on the facts surrounding the situation.

It's interesting you mentioned Dilraba. If China can threaten Uighurs overseas, I wonder how one inside the country can wilfully oppose any propaganda.
You’ve kinda conveniently skipped over her 21 year stint at CBS. Maybe she did just go off the deep end, I can’t vouch for her credibility myself, but I think you’ve gotta consider the possibility that she’s speaking about problems she saw from personal experience.
When will these be available as NFT?
Thanks, that was the missing piece of the puzzle!
Original thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26539495
don't hate the player, hate the game.

this is the result of parasitic capitalism. i have no doubts that a dev who contributed so strongly to the opensource ecosystem for such a long time specifically wants to be in this situation. you wouldn't, i don't, they probably don't.

how else are we supposed to support our families and the community? there's no other source of revenue or support for a freelance programmer in caretaker mode for a mature and stable codebase. donations don't cut it, obviously.
I wonder how (or if) they account for self-cencorship, which has become quite common along with the spread of cancel culture.
> Nobody raised anybody out of poverty. The only ones they have to thank for raising them out of poverty are themselves. It was that party in the first place which plunged China into the abyss.

Do you honestly think that in 1970s rural china without investments into infrastructure you'd still be able to pull yourself out of poverty? These things require huge organized effort.

Not sure where you got the idea that the average chinese should be grateful to the party. I've said nothing about that, just pointing out the advantages of the average Chinese person.
It is not the journalists that are dying, but the system that supported their work.

Journalism takes a lot of resources. If you starve it of it, you kill it's integrity and end up with a least effort / highest impact product. Firing the fact checkers, because in "digital" you can fix stuff after publishing; reduce correspondents networks because you can now just copy stuff from some random person on Twitter that is supposedly there; offer people money to send in pictures of events so you don't have to pay a photographer/agency; maximizing reuse of content; hire journalists based on their klout score to increase reach; racing which outlet is the first to send the push notification and follow up story after an event, etc.

Independent journalists on blogs or Youtube, no matter how well their intentions, can not easily replace it. You don't have a legal department backing you up for critical stories; extensive network of sources and experts; you can't work extended periods of time on a single story because the algorithm overlords demand high frequency short form content. So they often end up doing not much more than summarizing what others have written. Which is valuable, but it is not where the heavy lifting is done.

I do hope, new, better forms of journalism evolve from it, but I'm a bit skeptical, given that so far it seems, that to be successful monetarily, the key ingredients are being loud, controversial and highly opinionated.
This is a simplistic analysis of the "duty to the shareholder" principle.

The wellbeing and happiness of the operations staff directly impacts competency, efficiency, and retention. And those all directly affect, among other things, the cost of operations. One doesn't need to resort to investor altruism to make the case that paying better leads to better economic outcomes.

This is no different than when Nike charges $300+ for shoes that have the same BOM and applied labor as a cheaper shoe. In neither case do you see investors pushing for a race to the bottom, simply because of the existence of lower cost competitors.
Oh, I'm not suggesting throwing away the Standard Model (although it has its known quirks and I am assuming you are referring to the Standard Model), but you don't need to do that to say that hydrogen palladium fusion is a net loss of energy. That just takes your basic addition and subtraction and keeping hold of a little thing called conservation of mass-energy. That ... I am not throwing out the window.

I am only saying that we retire to the most basic definition of fusion: a bunch of atoms of lighter elements become, through some process, fewer atoms that have some heavier elements in the mix. I am in no way suggesting that binding energy doesn't exist, etc.
So it's okay for a business to treat employees so badly they find they have to piss in bottles?

And it's okay for their official PR twitter account to lie and say it doesn't happen?

But it's not okay that a politician says they're going to do something about it?
I make sure I leave the work well documented for the one who follows, but I do not put in more effort and time than contractually obliged. I also push back on everything new, and give the reason above. This leaves me without stress, and since I'm leaving, they cannot really do shit about me declining new tasks. If questioned by someone, I ask whether they want to inherit two half-done projects when I'm gone or just one. That puts an end to requests. If at any time some manager's manager tries to strongman me around while on notice period, I delete their emails, block their IM and pretend I haven't seen what they sent me.
Ludovic Lunetier – bespoke glasses, Brussels
That was a lot to read to figure out that you did mean you think energy consumption will increase 100x in 30 years.

That's crazy. You do realize electricity consumption has actually declined in the US in 7/10 years over the last decade, despite a growing population and economy [1]. Worldwide as standard of living catches up with the US, electricity consumption will increase - but it would take a massive unforeseen demand to make your prediction come true. I don't see it happening.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/use-of-elect...
Interesting -- what part of this infrastructure would you like to change? The wizards would probably want to get rid of YAML, probably even of Kubernetes and just run their scripts on bare metal. The DevOps would probably want to get rid of the bash scripts in favour of some "sane" tool written in a language which allows for testing, extension, etc.

This is one of these "it works for me" problems, the main issue is probably actually the lack of documentation. I wonder why quickly rushing wizards don't adopt the dictation technique used by (alway rushing) medicals/physicians. They outsource the transcription to lower paid assistants.
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Hey guys, I'm doing a bit of research on emergent learning systems. I remember about a year ago reading of new ways Emergency Room professionals were using to share information as the pandemic progressed. I'm drawing a blank as to whether it was an app, Discord room, etc.

Anybody remember anything like that? Seems like there was some chatter that doctors were posting anonymously because their hospitals wouldn't allow them to share data (and they wanted other docs to learn as fast as possible, even if it was just learning anecdotal data), but I might have misremembered it.
> At the second appointment, Ludovic has six options to present to the customer. These have been sketched by hand, scanned into a CAD machine, and then printed onto cardboard.

> Once one is selected, a rough cut is made of the frame, and the customer comes in for a third appointment - downstairs in the basement workshop.
people just don't understand what free speech really means. If you make terroristic threats, you're going to get in trouble.

It's analogous to incognito mode. People completely misunderstand its purpose.

They think it means they are sneaking around the internet protected with no consequences for their actions. In reality, "the internet" logs everything you're doing, only your personal browser doesnt. lol
This is the fundamental tradeoff of the American way of life. Freedom to versus freedom from.
>(which we know from this post was based on false accusations)

How do we know that?

Nothing in the article makes any such claim, much less provides evidence to substantiate it, and neither does the Wall Street Journal article it links to[0]. If anything, quotes from Parler users referring to being "ratted out" as well as reactions to this very article from sites elsewhere (which can be found with a simple Google search,) suggest the accusations were accurate.

[0]https://www.wsj.com/articles/parler-says-it-informed-fbi-of-...
> Is it possible that cooking and making-videos-about-cooking are two entirely different skill sets?

Absolutely. I teach programming and one thing I have learned is my presentations must be heavily scripted to be effective.

It is not that mistakes cannot happen during a presentation, but they should only be included with purpose (“I’m going to show you how this breaks...”). But mistakes that appear when unscripted, unless quickly caught and spun as being introduced on purpose can lead to a lot of confusion.

Even the end result (to me) is scripted and won’t account for all the different scenarios that might occur in a real-world setting (i.e. spec changes, different environments).

It’s entirely possible cooking videos may result in good-looking dishes, but since we never get a taste of the final result... :)
There are many different reasons that all contribute. But Linux clearly can keep some form of stability, given their dedication to never breaking userspace, if they really want to.
There are limits to free speech. In particular, threatening to do illegal things is often borderline, and can itself be a crime.
Chinese apps join celebs in backlash against Western fashion brands over Xinjian
Visualizing Spending via the Calendar
Malcolm Gladwell has an episode of his podcast, Revisionist Histories, where he talks about how he considers museums are like Smaug’s horde. [1]

I wonder if digitising collections like this might go some way towards resolving this sort of problem?

1. http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/42-dragon-psychology-...
Some of the software the adware installer requires an opt out to not install can be harmful or hard to remove, like the "Search Offer powered by Bing" in the article linked elsewhere in this site. Even the free AVs will often start you as a trial for the paid version or have incredibly easy ways to convert your install to such a trial and nag the user to pay up once the trial expires, arguably reducing their computer security.

I know HN has a strong libertarian bent, and uou could argue this is a free market, buyer beware situation, but in that case, wouldn't the criticism posted be part of that and how buyers know that they should beware?
He’s only the near-richest man in theory. If he tried to convert all of his company ownership into cash, the company value would crash so fast that he would probably be lucky to actually recover one fifth of his theoretical wealth.
WinSCP also has epic automation interface which include PowerShell cmdlets, unlike mentioned competitors.
Drivers don't need to be open source to interact with GPLed code.
Next step: contextual ads. “Looks like you are trying to calculate your taxes. Click here for $10 off of Turbo Tax!”
Agreed, but FZ has built in support for backblaze b2. Anyone have an alternative? Other than cyberduck, the performance was too low to be useful to me.
That's an extraordinary take on the matter.

Governments have the ability to tax in order to fund spending.

Businesses have to fund their spending out of either their revenues or their debt/equity funding. Is it any wonder that businesses fail more often than governments?

If the measure of government efficiency is return on the tax dollar, then by the same yardstick the benefits generated by most businesses are infinitely efficient.
> but it seems to have anti copy/paste

Copying text from the "view-source" version of the page works well enough. eg:

Between 2013 and 2015, governments of developed nations
provided $462 billion in overseas aid while philanthropists
contributed $24 billion, according to data from the
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Alternatively, you might be able to copy/paste from one of the archiving sites (eg http://web.archive.org), or using Reader mode in your browser.
Did not realize that CyberDuck has a Windows version; thanks!
85% in 1940, according to the article.
Just to clarify, the OP is a follow up to the thread you posted. I know you know that but clarifying for others
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China accused of forcing 570k people to pick cotton in Xinjiang
This really illustrates the difference between stealing and reproducing. I wouldn't steal a car, but sure I'd download and 3d print it.
Then again, for every project you have to then setup vcpkg and cmake. I thoroughly enjoy that Rust comes with a build system, package manager and test framework out-of-the-box. But it is good that the situation with C++ is getting better.
I think it’s fair to wonder who is monetarily behind her stating as such when the entire problem is that moneyed interests are creating slanted pieces. It could entirely be that this itself is a moneyed interest creating a slanted piece.

However I still think it’s quite useful, just that I’d want a second opinion that might also be being paid to be slanted in another way. Somewhere in between is truth maybe.
We do love our dangerous freedom. I mean that unironically.
How many poor people were harmed because of NFTs? In fact, it seemed to transfer a great deal of wealth to an artist who was formerly of modest means.
>Definitely they question loyalty.

It's ridiculous to expect loyalty to a company.
The Egyptian tourist industry took about $13bn in 2019, more than the canal, though it's not organised into a single company.
Indeed. The boring Truth has been drowned in favor of outrage and sensationalism. Sometimes I think there should be a World Press Abuse of Freedom Index.
Oops, thanks for the correction.

I'm not claiming the goal is to produce the best compiler. In fact, I do believe it's a danger that LLVM is not copyleft, because there's no guarantee of people contributing back improvements. But I'm worried that because of GCC's design choices, people won't contribute improvements to it either, the way Apple stopped contributing to GCC. And I'm concerned that the free software philosophy has no explanation for why Apple is contributing to LLVM despite LLVM making all the "wrong" choices. I do still believe in the philosophy, but it is making me wonder if I should, because we have 30+ years of data that seemingly don't line up with its predictions.

LLVM is still free software, despite not being copyleft, and if at all one can define the "best" free software compiler, there's a serious argument that LLVM is already there. And it works: it's already being used to compile the Linux kernel on a bunch of Android phones, and http://clang.debian.net can compile 96% of the dostro. It's entirely possible that a major GNU distribution will switch to LLVM in the next few years, because there's no reason not to (it's still free software) and some advantages from it.

Copyleft is a means to an end - gaining contributions and preserving user freedom - not an end in and of itself. The GNU Operating System would be of no value if it did not work, for instance, which is why the project set out to build a coherent system instead of just a bunch of interesting code. I agree with you that, in principle, the lack of copyleft on LLVM means we have no guarantee that it will remain a world-class compiler into the future.

But GCC has the copyleft, and it has the non-modular architecture, and we also have no guarantee, empirically, that it will remain a world-class compiler. Its lead is slipping. There are already plenty of things LLVM can do that GCC can't. New languages are being built on top of LLVM, not GCC. The pressure that existed on NeXT to build an Objective-C compiler on top of GCC and release it is gone - and Mozilla built a Rust compiler on top of LLVM and released it without that pressure. So what is the copyleft actually accomplishing?

And if it is accomplishing something important, does GCC have a plan to overtake LLVM and become the compiler of choice for new projects?
You speak out, you get slandered. Thanks for helping prove the original point.
Open source is not a business model (2018)
Depends on the investors and the company, really. Moral choices can have financial consequences later on. E.g., I used to be a big Amazon fan. But over the years they've worn me down with their anti-worker behavior and now I only use them as a last resort. And we now see them getting pushback not just from individuals, but from government all around the world.

We see a similar story for the social media tech companies. The initial line was that FB, Twitter, YouTube, etc weren't responsible for content; they were just a neutral way for users to connect. That was always a dubious argument, but it did let them save a lot of money and time they instead devoted to growth. Now they are being dragged kicking and screaming into mitigating some of the negative externalities of their very lucrative business models. Negative externalities like enabling hate groups, pogroms, and an attempted overthrow of a major democracy. It's not clear what happens next, but I'm guessing having congress beat up your CEO on national television is not going to help their earnings per share.
cheeky comment considering the premise was long-term updates.

while there are android phones that are supported by custom rom's up to ~5 years (exceptions even longer), the majority isn't.

meanwhile a 5year old iphone se is seamlessly supported by the manufacturer and probably will be for a few years to come.
They probably didn't care because they assumed they would all be pardoned after Trump took over.
Personally, I'd love to see all non violent offenders skip jail.

That doesn't necessarily mean skip judgement but home arrest and community service should be the modes to serve penance where due.

This way people still pay their own way and the system is less bogged down and even low level criminals may find opportunity to become better through education etc...
B2 has an S3-compatible API, so WinSCP should work.
The Suez Canal was completed about a year before the first automobile was created. That, along with the underground metro systems built in various European countries at the time, are amazing feats of engineering. (The London underground was operational in 1863 between Paddington and Farringdon "using gas-lit wooden carriages hauled by steam locomotives").