skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software that removes the freedoms of its users is a moral injustice and the FSF has always fought against such injustice. I don’t see how capitulating to lies to satisfy a witch hunt based on slander, and thereby perpetuate an injustice, would help strengthen FSF’s commitment to fighting against the injustice of proprietary software. If all it takes for the FSF to stand by injustice is a misinformation campaign and sufficient bad PR, then what happens when proprietary companies start applying the same tactics to free software? will the FSF step back again, to avoid accruing too much bad PR? Sometimes in life it is difficult to make the right decision, but we must do it nonetheless.
How would you recommend to indicate sarcasm in the absence of nonverbal cues which a written medium necessarily entails?
Is this a widely used technique? I.e. using antibodies to silence genes and what is this technique called?
> Note, however, that roaming between APs is a feature of the 802.11 standard; you just need to have all your APs on the same layer 2 (802.x) network, and using the same SSID and credentials. No fancy hardware required, and you can even mix and match vendors.

Not exactly. There are extensions to pre-authenticate with an AP (802.11r) for truly seamless roaming without packet drop or delay and for AP controlled roaming (802.11k) where the current AP tells you your options to roam to. This last one is important because the AP has generally better information about the network than the client and because the clients are not that great at managing this.

I am sure there are other extensions too, but afaik cheap APs don't implement these.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55045639

In the UK the advice is still "Vaccination should only be considered for pregnant women when the potential benefits outweigh any potential risks." Whatever the hell that means, goes on to say "There are no specific safety concerns with the vaccines - but they were not tested on pregnant women."

Neither the BBC nor yourself are explaining why the immune system would not attack the protein its being told to attack in the body, or pointing to any large studies including pregnant women taking the vaccine and the rates of miscarriage.. Either of these things would be valuable.
The data in the article shows that life expectancy was significantly lower among European elites than it is now.

At 30, in the period they consider expected age of death was in the 60-70 range.

Now it's in the high 80s among ALL europeans in the region they consider, which seems like a pretty big difference.

"Seems like the amount of things we die from increased to match what we’re able to cure"

This is always going to be approximately true, unless we end up living forever somehow.
You know those moments in sitcoms when some people discuss about something important and someone intervenes with some boring minutiae?
I've always wanted to do this with dolphins. Basically shift human language into the range of sounds they can produce, and have a reverse path so that sounds they make can be heard in a range a human could make. Then you raise a young dolphin in a 'bilingual' environment. With humans speaking to and playing with the calf while their speech is shifted, and any vocalizations by the adults or calf shifted into a range easy for humans to mimic back.

Basically my thesis is that understanding is possible and that it's facilitated by being able to produce as well as hear a given vocalization.
> The reason clean water became consistent is because science told us clean water is important and how to make clean water widely available.

Both of these long pre-date according resembling the scientific method of germ theory. We’ve known that dirty water makes you sick and how to filter it for so long that the first example of a functioning sewer system I know of is prehistoric[1]. And clean water was transported over hundreds of miles through Roman aqueducts. They didn’t do that for no reason.

[1] Mohenji-Daro https://indusrivervalleytechnology.weebly.com/the-sewer-syst....
Acadia is not really the same kind of national park. It's trying to be a kind of timewarp back to Edwardian robber barons summering and rusticating at posh "cottages" on the coast, with a little hiking sprinkled in, but Disneyfied for the middle-class of Massachusetts and Quebec.
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Similar and more customizable:
https://typeof.net/Iosevka/
https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka
People see this as an act of either carelessness or malevolence which both is unacceptable in an application that collects and stores very personal data on a large scale.
Any modern social history text that describes social structures should be sufficient. Social power doesn't shift as quickly as we'd like to think it does and so any historical inequalities are bound to have impacts in present day society. I think the burden of proof is on you to show that past inequalities have been repaired as effectively as you claim they have. The magic formula for social transformation simply doesn't exist.
How much are you getting paid for this astro-turfing?
Is it the CIA?
You can buy at least Americans' fine grained location data, sold by corporations. The government in fact argues that it's not subject to fourth amendment protections since it's just available on the open market.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/22/22244848/us-intelligence-...
This looks like an interesting and timely project, but the marketing is... weird. It's strange seeing an advertising tone in a github repository, and the blatant astroturfing in this thread fills me with distrust (some of the comments have now been deleted outright; there were half a dozen when I made this comment).

edit: and I just saw this:
Is JingOS going to be opensource? And free software?
Yes, JingOS will open-source step by step. We will update the Github project every half year. And JingOS will be free forever.

What is JingOS based on?
JingOS is based on Ubuntu 20.04, KDE v5.75, Plasma Mobile 5.20.

I don't think that flies, if binary releases are more frequent than that. You can't just fork Ubuntu, make some changes, make a binary release, and keep the source to yourself for half a year; that's a GPL violation.
Now all that is left is virtual audio output...
You've moved the goalpost from "there are no other options" to "there might be other options, but they're hard".
I think it's due to location. When I VPN to the US I get your results, but from Canada I get the parent comment's results.
Check out Mikrotik. Quite similar range of products to Ubiquiti, very configureable, maybe it fits your needs...
Yep exactly, so far we haven't even gotten the second derivative of what we're trying to stabilize to go in the right direction. Global carbon emissions are still rising!
The only comments section I have recently seen that were filled with thought provoking, insightful comments and/or constructive criticism were the New York Times and the Athletic. It's no coincidence that both require me to pay to subscribe and get access to them.

I'd like to see even more fine grained controls for comments on posts for social media. Facebook should emulate what Twitter has done and let me maintain an "Allow List" of friends that are allowed to comment on my posts, links, etc. The friends system was originally designed the way it was because you weren't supposed to open your Facebook friends to everyone, but 15+ years and the shifting of connections that time brings (good friends may now just be acquaintances) makes this feature a necessity.
Once you get past the David vs Goliath ethos, we are left with "I had invested millions of dollars, without even realizing it" and "my CFO was freaking out" was a big part of the problem. What was omitted was, "and I didn't listen to any of them". I also liked how everyone else was drinking the cool-aid but thinking you're going to make a billion dollars on your to-do app isn't.
The way the ideology behind free software is intertwined and inspired by free speech, one feeds from the other.
Yes, but even with companies, preferrably small ones. The ones who don't have a lawyer on payroll who handles such threats between second coffee and first lunch. Such that paying the demands is cheaper than hiring a lawyer.
> We need to stop trying to design things pixel-perfect to the mockups

This is the huge war that has left CSS and much of the web a battle-scarred crater-ridden minefield.

Users want to be able to buy a range of devices with different sizes and resolutions for different use cases.

Different users want different text sizes as an accommodation for myopia and age.

Manufacturers want to be able to bring out new devices that have a different screen size and resolution from the previous ones.

Designers (and clients!) want to know exactly what something will look like when they publish it. But insisting that you can predict the "pixel" output in all cases is to fight all of those use cases. It's just that sometimes they win.

Apple are the only vendor who've really got high-DPI and DPI scaling working consistently; Windows support is there but so widely ignored or broken by apps that you can't rely on it.
Yeah I caught myself almost doing something similar when I wanted to implement some internal tools with a React webapp and a backend server that I was going to write in Go because I wanted to learn Go and it seemed like it would have better performance, yada yada.

Then I came to the (obvious) realisation that the other guys have predominantly experience in JS/TS so it would be kind of irresponsible of me to force anyone else who wants to contribute to this now or in the future to have to do it in a new language, rather than the one that we use in our main project. Ended up going with Typescript and I think it was definitely the right choice. For production code you just gotta go with what A) works. B) the rest of the team is familiar with (or has a reasonable chance of learning enough to read/contribute)
If you have a use case for spinning up nodes fast -- what is the use for nested virtualization? Sounds like that should be containers on any underlying single-virtualized layer?
Here's a fun bit from an attempt to hold to account IG Farben, manufacturers of Zkylon B.

> All defendants who were sentenced to prison received early release. Most were quickly restored to their directorships and other positions in post-war companies, and some were awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.
Complete hogwash, but whatever. Stallman defenders would do well to not overstate his and the FSF's present (not historical) importance to the software community in addition to understating his views and the things he did.
If you have a gun at home you and your family are at significantly higher risk of injury or death due to guns. That's not just true of America, it's true of any country where owning guns privately is legal.

So If anything, you're doing your family and loved ones a disservice by owning a gun. It's just such a cowboy wild west idea that you'd "defend" your family with a gun. Maybe you would. But most people would just completely lose their shit if they were confronted with a criminal, who - in US - is also statistically far more likely to own a gun.

It's like.....in principle, I love the idea. I really like the idea as you are saying - that by owning a gun, I can protect my loved ones from harm. Who wouldn't want that? It's great.

But, statistics are ruthless - gun ownership is strongly linked with your family being a victim of gun violence, and singular examples of people defending themselves from robbers and kidnappers are not enough to make the trade off worth it.

Also - obviously looking at gun deaths is not enough. There are gun injuries. There are psychological problems where people are afraid to go to places or do certain things because they might get shot. Kids learning to live in a society where having policemen and metal detectors at schools is completely normal because there might be a shooting. Whether that fear is justified is another question entirely, but it's a thing. What kind of damage does that do to society?

Or maybe differently - if US was anywhere between 2 and 10 times worse in car accidents than the nearest 1st world country(and it actually is, but that's beside the point) , would it be a "good trade off for freedom(to travel and move)"? Or a sign that maybe the American system of driver training and car ownership is flawed if it consistently kills more people than anywhere else?
Come on bud, that’s a silly argument disproved with a 2 second google search. The U.K. ranks 16th on the democracy index, and China ranks 151st. At this point I can only assume you’re arguing in bad faith for fun.
Bitmap fonts become illegible on high-res displays.
> These reports aren’t just limited to the products you recommend — if someone buys anything within a 24 hour period of clicking your link, you can see, and you get commission.

Anyone else find this a pretty gross violation of privacy on Amazon’s part? Why should your unrelated purchases be disclosed to affiliates just because you clicked an affiliate link for whatever reason? Let’s say the affiliate website use accounts or know the identities of users through another channel, and track outbound clicks. With few enough clicks, they can exactly correlate your unrelated purchases with you, if I understand this correctly. In fact it seems you can easily prank unsuspecting acquaintances this way.

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

Edit: I can also see why the data could be valuable to marketers.
They push it but it’s not updated in things people who care about numerical programming care about so they don’t use it.

It used to be the case if you used NumPy on a Mac it would use Accelerate but it no longer does because the BLAS/LAPACK API is so outdated.
Finally organizations showing their support. Although the number of individuals who defend RMS is already more than twice the people who are anti-RMS and still growing, its nice to see organizations joining to defend RMS.
Speaking first and foremost about actions against its own people, none of the (real and troublesome) activities of the US government are in the same league as what the oppressive authoritarian Russian state is doing. The comparison is insulting (to the intelligence of the reader, first and foremost).

Yandex cooperates with the Russian state, which sends people to (horrendous, torturous) prisons for, among other things, reposting a meme critical of its hard line of oppressing LGBT people. It assassinates domestic political opponents. It snoops on, disrupts and if necessary curtails any serious efforts at political organizing. No comparison can be made with the US government.
A fan of Arabic numerals, the downvote? :)
> wow, time flies

Ya. I wrote a baseline-aware layout manager 12+ years ago. So much futzing to make a pixel perfect, general purpose solution.

I really thought this font and UI stuff would be settled (ancient history) by now.

I'm very grateful to Nikita (tonksy) for tackling these issues.
But my point is even the safest of coreutils will make dozens of SYSCALLs. The moment you start pipelining commands there will be several writes since that's how pipelining works and if you break even one of those writes the entire pipeline fails and the usefulness of this pipeline preview utility falls flat.

There isn't a way you can make this utility safe and useful.

You can make it safe, but then you're drifting into a whole new field of computing with regards to analysing suspicious binaries. Unfortunately you then don't have reliable, accurate, real time pipeline previews. Or you can have the real time previews but you then have to accept there is some risk involved. But you can't have it both safe and risk free.

This is why murex took the approach of having a safe list of trusted executables. It doesn't remove the risk but it at least reduces the risk to a subset of commands that are typically read only. However even that is far from a perfect solution.
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I enjoy this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzxt1sJ3RzI
I would think so, yes, although I doubt that "completely safe" is an achievable reality.
Comparison Between SWC and Babel/TSC – SWC Wins on Windows
I assign very little value to anything on the web that can't be commented on. Sure, a solid piece of journalism does have value but more so if people can add to the conversation.

Users should be able to moderate though and moderation points should be earned and spent and provide some context. Users should be able to browse comments based on their preferences, revealing those posts which have been down-voted out of sight, or made anonymously, if they choose.
very old meme on slashdot....
Apple is not a moral arbiter of anything lol you remain free to do, say, think, read whatever you want, even beyond the Apple ecosystem. Whatever you can’t do within theirs, however, is well within their right to constrain because businesses also have the right to design their platforms the way they want to. Anything else beyond their willful design is within the territory of government intervention, and strong proponents of free-market capitalism who want Apple to do something else should really rethink their philosophy on how the state and the economy should be designed.
> having a parallel consumer over a large partition spanning several GBs also requires tons of RAM because a segment must be loaded into memory.

I don't know too much about Kafka's internals, but that's my not experience of reading several terabytes of data from a Kafka topic. Memory didn't blow out, although we did burn through IOPs credits.
A really great font; sadly, not open source, so cannot be shipped by your favourite distro.
Any background or events regarding the OSI and Linux infiltrations mentioned?
> let me maintain an "Allow List" of friends that are allowed to comment on my posts, links, etc.

I like that.
In the Salary Race, Engineers Sprint, but English Majors Endure
> Perhaps a UI will look like a postage stamp on a high pixel density display. Adjusting for that difference is the domain of the operating system and the user

... how? If you've fixed the layout, there's no way to do this other than zooming the whole thing.

Nobody wants to re-layout movies because they generally aren't trying to read text off the screen.
So in other words; by your math, all the supercomputers in the world are not enough to replicate the "intelligence" of a simple biological virus --- which is technically not even alive.

Replicating "intelligence" that is alive is probably a trillion times more difficult.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think you just made an argument for "Why Computers (as we know them) Won't Make Themselves Smarter".
> The list that attacks Richard has Microsoft, Google, OSI, Linux Foundation, Gnome Foundation and Ethical Source people on it! These people oppose Free Software ideologically

What ? The Linux Foundation ? It opposes Free Software ?
Did I misunderstand this sentence ?
So much enjoyed the reading!
I like that kind of stuff - nothing serious and lots of fun.
Well done!
> So, you're either forced to defend Richard Stallman and accept what's going on over there, or __YOU ARE THE ENEMY OF ALL OPEN SOURCE__.

Where did they say that, or anything that implies that?
Don't forget the % if you are using vim, to make sure you replace on all lines :)

:%s/ubiquity/sonos/g
Neat. Could anyone give me some ideas how else the author could monetize this without normal ads?

Also, what would be the gain if he did normal ads?
I think your postmortem would be more interesting to read about than ops, frankly. It reads like the writer not only was expecting a larger degree of success for a not-so-interesting and expensive-to-make game, it also seems like he never found a group of people which enjoyed playing it.

In your case, it sounds like you would've been fine without external validation, invested not a huge amount of money into the project, and we're focused primarily on fun.
The parent mentions the obviously dramatic impact of infant / child mortality rates. That would definitely apply to the 59 average you're referring to, it's a huge factor in that average.

An intentionally simple example of how dramatic it is:

Ten people, with 20% of them dying in childhood. Then reduce that to just one dying in childhood.

80, 75, 70, 65, 65, 60, 50, 40, 2, 1 = 50.8 avg

Now drop the childhood deaths down to just one.

80, 75, 70, 65, 65, 60, 60, 50, 40, 1 = 56.6

You gained 5.8 years on life expectancy from cutting the rate in half. Now take us from 1650 childhood mortality rates, to affluent modern nations where it's eg 5 deaths per 1000 live births in a nation like Canada (and that's down by 75% from 20 per 1000, 50 years ago). I can only imagine how high the rate was 400 years ago, it would absolutely tank the average in an epic way.
It's a blinking check engine light. Ours came on steady shortly after we got the firmware update applied when the recall went out and I hadn't been told what to watch for, so I pulled over immediately and called the dealer. Then they told me...
> Despite the name, Ethical Source licenses are in fact non-free because they put restrictions on usage of the software; if the author of such software disagrees with your political views, they can ban you from using the software.

That strikes me as a weird distinction for somebody who supports copyleft to make. Is the difference that the political view that copyleft licenses support is limited to the issue of redistribution and modification of code?

Edit: I follow the author's reasoning now - they're using "non-free" in the Four Fundamental Software Freedoms technical sense.
Slightly related, I wrote a tool called ptail[1] that only shows the last N lines of output from a pipe. Quite useful in some situations

1. https://github.com/orf/ptail
Public interest in our national parks is the only reason these places exist... early robber barons tried to monetize Yellowstone and were only stopped because of people like George Bird Grinnell and the outdoorsmen/women he organized behind this effort. Without public interest in Yellowstone, the American Buffalo would likely no longer walk the earth.
I wish I understood how Europe blunted the political power of large business lobbies to such a larger degree than the rest of the capitalist world. I wonder whether a key factor is the British use of crown corporations in expanding its empire and the legacy that left in the English speaking world.

In any case, I suppose GDPR is a hopeful sign, but here in NorAm it actually seems more plausible to become an oligarch first and then make one's political wishes known then than to have any kind of political impact as a middle-class citizen.
> Why is everyone acting like this is some high conspiracy

Because everyone here is a coder and puts a lot of effort into their work, and doesn't want it get stolen.

We put a lot of effort into the Open Source projects we publish. Some of us are very generous and publish things to the public domain, but most of us at least want attribution for our work.

If you copy & paste code, strip the license, claim it's your code, and sell it for money, we consider you the scum of the earth. That's just not something that decent people do.

It could be an error; a junior dev may not know that just copy/pasting code from google search results is generally not allowed. But it's really something that everyone in our profession should know.

Just like a musician is expected to know that they need clearance for samples, or journalists know they need permission for publishing a photo, a programmer is expected to know that they need a license for reusing other people's code.
*Deliveroo is a horrible name
I'm pretty sure Raspberry Pi 4 is more powerful (both CPU and GPU wise) than either one of those.
Slashdot. 1997. Nearly perfect user moderation.
I'm really happy to not own any Apple products. They cost too much while simultaneously limiting what I can do.

I am happy they are popular, because I own stock in them. Other than that, they clearly have near zero patriotic morals.