skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wondering why this got downvoted. It makes sense.
"Clearly, they/them is commonly understood and will cause the least amount of misunderstanding."

While I support this campaign and I support RMS right to free speech, I find it ridiculous that everyone is now expected to use they/them pronouns for non-binaries etc. Am I the only one or has the world gone absolutely batshit insane, driven by purple haired Twitter trans-extremists?
Ditto for HTTPS:

% openssl s_client -quiet -connect google.com:443
depth=2 OU = GlobalSign Root CA - R2, O = GlobalSign, CN = GlobalSign
verify return:1
depth=1 C = US, O = Google Trust Services, CN = GTS CA 1O1
verify return:1
depth=0 C = US, ST = California, L = Mountain View, O = Google LLC, CN = *.google.com
verify return:1
GET / HTTP/1.1
Connection: close

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
I've considered this question a number of ways. The fact that capital holders are gatekeepers to innovation is unequivocally worse for federated innovation, but it has created an interesting class of companies which may never need to turn a profit yet still have a positive (and growing) net present value.

Take Wikipedia for example. They lose money running a high traffic service (edit: see below reply for clarification), but it's plain to see they hold a huge asset in terms of goodwill, usage, knowledge base, and their contribution to research and knowledge growth. Despite its operating losses, its capital value (which may be in the form of social capital) is huge and will likely remain well financed into the foreseeable future.

The fact that the service is free is not relevant: a startup offering an invaluable service that is based on years of user research, development and testing has developed an asset which helps other companies and companies pay what they think it is worth (or at the beginning a subsidized rate to take a risk to try it). Operating losses at most start ups are from continued R&D; but if they were to just declare the product as "done" and have a sufficient moat/network, they could rent seek on the asset for years - yet in many cases that's not what is best for anyone (company, clients or shareholders) - we continue to want them to innovate for the good of the product and there will be stakeholders that would rather finance this research in perpetuity to grow the underlying asset and thus the value of the product and company.

Inductively, that's a company with negative NOL but positive NPV. In the physical world this might be the same as an apartment complex that's expanding (forever). They may currently collect $1M in rent, but they are spending $2M on new construction. The new construction may bring in $5M over its 30 year lifespan but it will never be enough to outpace the immediate outlay of continued construction cost. As long as the time value of money is correctly attributed, this isn't a new idea - just one that's been pulled to an extreme.
systemd-resolved and dnsmasq are the only two clients that can properly route DNS queries via the proper interface to their respective authoritative server based on the resolved hostname itself.

It would be hard to argue, that systemd-resolved is worse/more-limited/more error prone/buggy than dnsmasq.

The socket activation is intended for services, that are not normally needed, but occasionally they might be. It doesn't apply much to servers serving well-defined services, but for desktop, it is a godsend (together with dbus-activation). Just because you don't have use for it for your use cases doesn't mean it is not useful for other people.
Nice arguments you provided. Are you part of the Marxist subversion web that is trying to shove "Code of Conduct" political witch-hunt tools into the software world?
Trying to follow Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch's vision of controlling every aspect of human life?
Don't forget Red Hat, a company that makes it living from FOSS, apparently now also hates FOSS...
Photovoltaics in particular have been growing close to exponentially since 1992 [0]. Extrapolate that to the end of 2030 and all power — industrial and domestic; heating, transport and electrical — would be solar by that point. The only reason I’m even pessimistic enough to say “at least half” by then is that the last half often has surprises that turn an exponential into a sigmoidal.

Calls to go faster may well be getting shouted down, but it’s also the cheapest form of new energy — at current prices, PV beats coal and gasoline for electricity and transport respectively even after adding the cost of batteries — so people are deploying it as fast as they can anyway for selfish reasons, and output is limited more by the rate of construction of factories rather than anything else.

[0] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PV_cume_semi_log_cha...
I think it's simply because you do forward someone on a website.

Also, imagine it's not Amazon but a much smaller website. Just bringing a client (someone who actually paid) is already a good deal.

So, I believe it's a totally fair commission rule.
The same laws of supply and demand also explain the price of employee labour, no? The big question is whether one price beats flexible pricing. It's not obvious that having a single price for all Uber drivers would benefit everybody, presumably it would have deadweight costs by pricing some drivers out of the market.
>those things as less severe than Russia’s oppression/corruption?

These things are vastly less severe than anything going on in Russia (am Russian). In the US there is at least due process, public scrutiny, and the US government doesn't generally torture or murder its citizens(on its soil). Comparing the situations in these two countries is like comparing current protest killings in Myanmar, and police shootings in the US with the words "see, in the US the police also kill citizens", i.e. it's dropping 99% of the context and of the cultural situation/differences/beliefs.
Andrew Ng: Forget about building an AI-first business. Start with a mission
A lot of things seem weird when you don't think them through.

That is quite a sense of entitlement, to ask to be able to use the network with a random car that does not have the proper internal equipment.

Tesla made a better connector, early on. It offered to other car manufacturers the opportunity to join together in funding the network. Other car manufacturers declined, and continue to decline, as is their right.

Why does the manufacturer need to be involved? Well there is equipment required inside the car, which is too big to be simply an adapter.

This equipment costs some money, but as I understand it, it makes the car more energy efficient. This may be part of why other brands have poor relative efficiency, dragging around more battery weight for less range. Tesla has to pay for this better equipment, which gets added on to the price of the car, but then you get the money back in better driving, better energy usage, and a better charging network, as well as the ability to charge at all most other networks. Other manufacturers want their cars to appear cheaper, so they cut costs, and users pay the price in daily use instead of in the initial price tag.

Why would you buy a car that costs $10,000 more? Most people don't go the extra step and think through that there might be some actual reasons to do so, and their investment of that extra money might be wise. The thinking just stops at the number.

I am glad that random people who think like this can't just bring their own super cheap DIY / bought on Amazon / Ebay / Aliexpress sketch Frankenstein AC/DC converters and adapters, which may not have proper protection mechanisms, and plug in. The network has been very reliable and I would not want to see that change.

When a car manufacturer is involved, there are at least safety measures, proper design, and recourse and a feedback look for improvements if anything goes wrong. I mean, this is basic stuff.
Yeah, Raspberry Pi needs a 64-bit memory bus pretty badly. Hopefully it's feasible in the future without compromising cost.
So I did in the end apply to Google AdSense just to find out. Turns out the site didn't get approved because it didn't have enough content on it. So I think you would be hard pushed to monetise it quickly by going down the normal display ads route.

I didn't mention in the post, but I had a couple of random ad offers, but they were for things that I didn't really agree with so didn't take up any of the offers.
Ask HN: Open-source, self-hosted alternative to Typeform – Would you use it?
Typeform (https://www.typeform.com/) is a great service, but slightly expensive, especially when you want logic jumps and other features. Would you use an open-source, self-hosted alternative? Maybe something like pay once (around $40 or whatever), and get it for yourself, instead of paying monthly.
Yup! You cannot have the FSF without free speech. Creating petitions to excommunicate RMS & other supporters just does not jive with the organisation's founding principles. I'm not going to defend Stallman's comments - they are extremely dubious at best - but I do not agree with trying to bully him out of the movement he helped build.

If he really is problematic, you can just 'fork' off and create your own FSF equivalent.
I don't think contacting rms is as straight forward as you would think.
RMS is a grown-up, he talked his way into this mess, he can talk his way out. Might involve compromise though, so good luck with that.

But seriously, it's on him to fix this. If he doesn't believe he needs to, then well, he can go sit with Brendan Eich in the "intelligent, but unwise" corner.
Am I totally misunderstanding the study? Wouldn't this figures be only people who were scholars appointed on adulthood? That would exclude children.
How does one read it? I simply can't read it, only see the first page
Apple announces investment and strategic partnership with UnitedMasters
I don't understand what point you're trying to make. Part of the issue here is that rms has published his current views to great length. The issue at hand is over interpretation, which rms has the consistency to not bother rewording things for your benefit if asked to clarify
No, it's because it puts restrictions on use. Open source does not.
>... ntpd, DNS, dhcpd

These are separate services, with separate binaries, with separate packages for most distributions and their use is optional; they have their uses. For example, most distributions won't use systemd-networkd, because it is (intentionally) quite limited and they use NetworkManager anyway. RHEL8 for example doesn't even ship a package systemd-networkd.
> A single-purpose website

The more fashionable term is Single Serving Site[0], and is a phrase originally coined by Jason Kottke.

You can find more of these types of sites here: https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-serving_site
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Steam and Xbox Live Arcade (small games akin to mobile today, not mainstream games) were both 30% before the iPhone existed.

Apple, however, transformed the phone industry by bringing that same model to mobile that had already existed in PC/console game storefronts.
Free speech never implied freedom from consequences though - this isn't the government suppressing RMS, it's people reacting to his free speech and deciding that they don't like it.

That's how it works.
The writeup begins, "known Thought Criminal Richard M Stallman was falsely accused". So, it immediately implies, using sarcasm, that there is not another potentially valid opinion on this topic, and makes sure anybody with another opinion feels antagonized. I'm not defending any articles with an opposite position - I'm just criticizing this writeup.
Solving Churn at PayPal
How else do you refer to non-binary people?
example app: airbnb when you get messages. click a message. and you'll see it will still have an indicator that you've a message, when you've none. airbnb guys are some of the best react guys out there even released open source libraries like enyzme etc. fact is no one can ever get the react thing right. don't get me started on facebook. plenty of bugs in their new app. But for some reason, instagram web is polished.
>> Drunk Shotgun is a top-down mobile game where you control a character with a shotgun, who is constantly spinning and cannot stop because he's just too drunk. You tap the screen to shoot the shotgun to damage goblins coming at you and to move around the arena. Character himself cannot move freely due to his condition, but the shotgun recoil moves him allowing you to dodge attacks, gather power ups and move through the arena to get a tactical advantage. You can also tap&hold to engage bullet time allowing you to time your shot precisely and analyze the situation. Bullet time is not infinite and is replenished by defeating enemies. After defeating 99 goblins you face the final boss.

Pah. Another game that legitimises the perpetration of acts of violence against innocent goblins. In all honesty, this has gotta stop! Future generations will look down upon people of present times for deriving a sick pleasure by the shedging of goblin blood.

End violence against goblins in gaming!
You are picking only people who's life work means they are remembered for 2000 years

That's surely going to be a huge source of bias, because obviously people who lived longer were more likely to have done enough to be remembered
Any article that just dismisses the issues with Stallman as a smear and tells you not to listen to them without showing why they are wrong instantly seems to have little intent to engage on the facts.

This reads like an absurd conspiracy theory. Stallman had some good ideas about software, it doesn't mean he doesn't have bad ideas about other things (like consent), and if so we should continue to pursue the good ideas and throw out the bad.

No individual is FOSS software, and equating the two is foolish at best.
Because the church of woke doesn't care what you actually believe, as long as they get their pound of flesh.

I know that is quite an extreme statement, but the pattern has been repeating itself across all our institutions for many years now. We all know where this is leading to.
I made it very clear that I have no problem with the commission paid:

> To be clear, I have no problem with affiliates getting commission on random stuff.

The problem is disclosing random purchases. You can pay a commission without that disclosure.
You must be functionally retarded if you can't find multiple poorly written sentences that distill down to what the GP stated.
A house with two ZIP codes
Thx.

How is it possible that it's not you again who posted this on HN?
>Better value then most art or game dev schools.

While you could learn what the writer learned in a formal education setting, it very much seems like he could have learned everything he found out here from a few more chats or reddit posts with developers also in his situation.

Additionally, him launching the game seemingly without finding other people who really enjoyed playing the game feels like a major dissonance - I wish there was a concise way to put this without being harsh, but it reads like this was an expensive lapse in common sense and self awareness for someone who has the ability to build software for humans.
Swag. Set up some shitty designs on one of those dropshipping sites and a storefront. Mugs, hoodies, etc.
Even for planning for personal travel, it's worth noting the massive difference in the amount of tourism between America's top 5 or 10 National Parks, and the countless other National Parks, Forests, Wilderness Areas, etc.

Yes, Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, and a few other places are absolutely crawling with tourists. They're victims of their own success as destinations for people to check off a bucket list.

But once you get outside that top tier, America has countless places that are just as beautiful, still legitimately wild if that's your thing, and definitely not as crowded.

In my neck of the woods, the Blue Ridge Parkway and Great Smokey Mountains National Park (which are among the most-visited in the country, by the way) don't have the same sense of overwhelming crowding that, say, Yosemite does, except for maybe during peak leaf season, or at specific times/locations (e.g., Cades Cove in Spring). Most of the year, sure, they're not pristine wilderness, but it's not like they're wall-to-wall people and trash, either.

And, if wilderness IS your thing, you can go right next door to Pisgah National Forest or Nantahala National Forest, backpack for miles at a time without seeing another soul, and see views that are, IMO, equally as impressive as what you get in the official National Parks.

I guess what I'm saying is, if you're looking for a more remote experience, venture away from the big-name National Parks, and hit some of the lesser known areas, and you'll find that America still has a ton to offer.
Volkswagen's April Fool's joke backfires spectacularly
nice point on pointing out the redux part. yeah most times it's the point of bugs - state mismatch etc.
Axioms are not something you ever prove, as in, they're not provable even in principle. I would not call this an axiom, this is simply a premise. It can be determined. You'd trace this premise back up a chain of premise-based arguments, and if all are valid, you eventually reach some of the 5-10 (I forgot) core axioms that underlie all of logic. And those are not provable, but you'd generally be considered mad not to accept them.

I'm not sure what you want to achieve by focusing on this topic. You just saying you don't agree with the axioms in the article, right? So just say that.
I think you need 15 minutes to understand what the problem is about. An email-based workflow like the one the linux tree uses is based on patches, not commits. You may want to sign commits but it will be useless because commits aren't exchanged. So the proposed process doesn't "replace" anything: there's no signing in the first place.

You can't sign patches directly because then they wouldn't be usable by the git tools like git-am. So you need a meta data-structure that contains all patches and relevant information kinda like a pseudo-commit: the author, message and patch itself. Then that meta data-structure can be pgp-encrypted and sent by email, as described by your link and as you implied was not done

> Why is this a problem, the key was valid however at the time the commit was made?

You want to check the validity of a commit at the moment you use it, not the moment the commit was made: imagine I put up a fake tree, with a fake commit with you as an author but made with a fake key that already expired. What's the use of that signature ? Can a third-party cherry-pick that commit and trusting that "the key was valid at the time the commit was made" ? You can sign that you did something at some point but you can't sign that you never did something, or that you never used a given key.

> spend the 15 minutes to learn how PGP works and another to set it up

You can't seriously believe that it takes 15 minutes to understand how PGP works and 15 minutes to set up a functional environment and expect it to follow the best standards. Even reading the kernel's documentation on how to use pgp (https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.1/process/maintainer-pgp-...) takes more than 15 minutes.

> Also, get some yubikeys, they work well with pgp.

I don't understand what's the link with the rest of the discussion
Hate to say it, but sorta reads like the Unabomber manifesto, just angrier, and less pedantically correct usage if idioms.
Perhaps we should have a "median-height" property, for specifying the median height of the actual glyphs in the text.
The inconsistency between cap height and em size has existed in fonts since XVI century. Why do you think it was unintentional?
Do you think it is inertia that held font designers for five hundred years to not to make cap height the measure of the font size? Why different cap height were tolerated?
In the real world, most advancements are engineered. Happy accidents have occurred but nothing on the order of AGI.

There are a huge number of people involved but as you point out, it is mostly empirical. In other words, there is no real plan --- we're just hoping for a happy accident.
Ah damn. I somehow misread your initial message. My bad.
Maybe when wars are not fought at the behest and for the benefit of the wealthy we can say they are not a de facto government.
"We" also believed that cholera was caused by miasma, not dirty water. It was science that got everyone on the page that clean water was important to prevent disease.
Where are you maintaining this score, out of curiosity?
This looks good!
I've been using [Hack](https://sourcefoundry.org/hack) for a while, but it might be time for a change..
If they can fully synthesize the methane and oxygen using carbon neutral energy sources, then they will have essentially created a carbon-neutral orbital launch platform.

Realistically, it will be easier and cheaper to achieve the same goal by buying carbon offsets on the market. Let's be pessimistic. At 3400 tons of propellant per launch (not sure how much of it actually becomes CO2), and an estimated 50$ per tonne on the market, we're talking about 170 000$, so instead of 2 000 000$ per launch, we're talking about 2 170 000$ per CARBON-NEUTRAL launch.

Only factoring in PR value, it's totally worth it.
It does when they have the ability to undetected break into the room where the ballots are and replace ballots. The crime is easy enough to plan. I'm not sure if security is good enough to stop it or not.
Perhaps monitoring twitter and other social media for symptoms that deviate from the expected for the timeframe is the kind of surveillance mentioned in the article [1]. It is definitely unrealistic to be on the hunt for pathogens by inspecting every single person, but using social media for guided search could prove useful.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32937679/
You are confusing 'gene therapy', which seeks to alter patient DNA, with the vaccines, which deliver the RNA of the COVID spike protein so as to train the immune system.
In the UK - most of the local takeout places seem to be on Just-Eat. They sponsor one of the most popular TV shows (X-Factor) and they only take 13% commission. Not sure why I never see them discussed when this kind of thing comes up.

Deliveroo seems to be more for the higher end of things. Not sure why or how it turned out that way.
>rms has the consistency to not bother rewording things for your benefit

This is a weirdly hostile way to phrase it.
The matter you have linked to is a criminal matter that relates to the practice of medicine.

It is important to differentiate between criminal and civil matters. Police should only be involved in criminal matters, and should never be act as the agent of a party in civil disputes.

The matter of video cheating appears to be a civil matter.

On this forum of all places, we must be wary of legislative creep towards vague wording such as "the misapplication of computer systems from their intended purpose". At that point, the police will be deployed at the behest of well-connected interests. In practice, it will mean that the system will be used to beat up hackers at the direction of bigco, even for petty matters when it serves to make an example.

We have already seen this play out in the Swartz and Aleynikov trials: matters that were civil disputes by any reasonable reading, but which were executed as criminal matters (in one case, even after the plaintiff had withdrawn).
I wonder if there is any data about the vaccine's safety from UK? Isn't UK vaccinating its whole population using AZ exclusivly?