skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been anti Eich since I heard about all this. I dis-recommend Brave to everyone I know and will never support another Brendan Eich product again. I'm frequently surprised that the HN crowd largely seems to give him a pass on his hateful opinions towards LGBT people.

He's also an anti-masker and thinks a lot of what Dr Fauci says is actually lies. He is not somebody I look up to or see as a leader, especially in recent years.

Not sure how to define 'cancelled' globally but I will not support Eich for the future.
No, because of a 1996 US Federal law, information collected about you is no longer your property, even if there is no business relationship.
Who's the tech guy in the life of Brian? As in, what part of the movie are you referring to?
Have you tried working harder and being more lucky?
While I think this is in general interesting, a couple things stand out to me:

> And there's a reason why: these are mostly companies that win by having better technology, rather than just a CEO who's really driven and good at making deals.

Really? Always? Are we sure that some companies [which are funded by giants like softbank and have names that rhyme with schmuber] don't [at least] sometimes win because of massive capital injections which allow them to subsidize consumer-facing pricing and stomp all over the competition? Having "better technology" wouldn't allow you to beat uber, you'd also need to subsidize rides for years to choke out uber on pricing. This is true for a lot of big modern companies - they can leverage their capital to crush early competition and wait till they're the only game in town to raise prices and cover their costs (or hope that economies of scale will catch up). I realize that PG isn't saying this _doesn't_ happen, just seems like he's painting a glossy "it's because meritocracy and innovation" picture over things that often have a lot more to do with simply having access to insane amounts of capital (i.e. being good at making deals)

> Of course the Gini coefficient is increasing. With more people starting more valuable companies, how could it not be?

I think this is a really deceptive statement - it kinda sounds like "more people are getting rich" when in fact fewer people are getting [even] richer. The details of _who_ is getting richer are interesting and I think well covered by this post (and I'm not arguing that), I just have a personal beef with the presentation that maybe it's somehow OK (or good?) that income inequality is getting worse because... tech?

A reframing of this story about how the combination of tech & the modern world of VC enables the ultra-wealthy to more effectively concentrate and grow their wealth (even if sometimes a startup founder gets to win the lottery and join the club) could be just as factually correct and a little less rosy.
true...Google does have similar product which surely could have caused more anti trust uproar..MS in this space luckily doesn't have such issues..
How does the EU enforce the deletion of said data from Facebook servers standing on US ground?

How do I enforce deletion if I have unwittingly only a "shadow account" in Facebook?
Will be interesting if other cloud providers (Google, Azure) offer this or you see other software companies offer support for it.

Will also be an interesting case study if the community shifts to this project and it dwarfs elastic for features.
I don’t even think good songs are exceptionally rare anymore. The number of incredibly talented artists who can be discovered over the internet direct to consumers now is pretty high.
He changed his mind eventually about children being able to consent to sex. But he does make himself sound more receptive to feedback than Bradley Kuhn and other people who worked with him say.[1]

[1] http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html
> But I'm not sure looking at the top 100 is a compelling argument.

It seems to be very compelling. Most people spend more energy writing about, worrying about, or praising Bezos, Musk, and Gates than they do the rest of the top 0.1% richest people combined. Perhaps it's not a good argument. But it's compelling.
>If we could simulate and observe what happens with complex chemistry accurately

There is the rub. Biological simulations have been written for 40 years now. It's an extremely difficult problem considering how many latent variables are at play, and people have been working on it for a very long time now.
I don’t think I can take seriously the claim that people did not start companies in mid-20th century America, because of high taxes. I’m thinking of the whole Fairchild diaspora, Intel, Microsoft, Apple just in the computer industry, then there’s Wal-mart etc. all of these predate Reagan’s low-tax philosophy.
I think you mean https://www.chia.net
I would have thought most people here in the UK remember Gagarin but few would remember Glenn without prompting. Is that not the case elsewhere in the world?
Author here.
Yes, PeerReview is the most important piece of literature for us. We use a lot of similar concepts. Difference is that we're working for the past 18 years on getting this fully working, and deployed. Science is slowly making progress towards an "Internet-of-Trust".

- PeerReview assumes full network knowledge which is unrealistic in open p2p networks.

- PeerReview is built for full protocol replay and replication whereas TrustChain selectively replicates relevant information in the network. This significantly reduces storage and communication overhead, at the cost of fraud cases staying under the radar.

Latest work is our upcoming AAMAS 2021 publication, "Achieving Sybil-proofness in Distributed Work Systems", https://staff.science.uva.nl/u.endriss/aamas-2021/programme/...
No, it doesn't make him unfit. It makes him curious and open-minded. How are we as a society supposed to come to conclusions about ethical issues without examining them? If we adopted your stance, nothing would ever change. Conservatives like you would have had the exact same stance on homosexuality 100 years ago: "Zomg no, it's so terrible we won't even consider talking about it except to condemn, and we'll punish people who do try to have an honest conversation". I say this as a person who also is a conservative with respect to statutory rape laws.
I don’t trust any inflation numbers. Financial asset inflation is out of control
And then, when someone is mad at you, you ask what happened, explain you didn't realize it and promise you'll change behaviour in the future.

I did it numerous times and it's not that hard, but I admit I am much more socially functional than RMS.
The internet isn't a revolution, but a meta-revolution. It seems to me we will be harvesting the value of the second order revolutions from the Internet for a long time.
RMS made these comments on work communication channels. You don't need to separate his ideas from his work because he himself put his ideas into his work environment and is now, correctly, paying the price for that.
Probably because it doesn't really make sense. If you have to build multiple projects as part of your build, they should probably be in the same repository, or you should be consuming artifacts already created from other project builds.
Ah, thanks, yeah I know workers are legit at the edge, but I meant pages specifically, unless pages are somehow implemented on top of workers?
> I'm curious how many of them did so by leveraging family or inherited wealth.

Its interesting to note that many of our own prized meritocratic examples owe their parents in terms of intellectual inheritance or first-round funding.

I believe Trump's father (a billionaire in 2018 dollars) was given start up capital by his father who owned a diner in gold territory during the rush. Elon Musk I believe also was the beneficiary of a small amount of investment from his parents.

The question is whether or not that "counts". It certainly counts when discussing disparate outcomes between demographic groups when discussing success/failure with broad brush strokes but probably doesn't when comparing aristocratic-like inheritances to startup wealth.
Nvidia to Make Central Processing Units, Going After Intel
Yeah I think 7 years mortgage would be crazy low. But a person "owning" a mortgage for 7 years(before selling and moving elsewhere) seems realistic.
The top lotto winners gained their wealth from winning the lottery!
yet here we are arguing about the FSF. Why do people care if it’s irrelevant?
> Stop needing to think about storage. Instead, it’s just about access.

100% resonates when you put it that way. Thanks for the explanation!
I think your intuition sounds pretty reasonable and probably matches most people’s intuition including my own. But I think it’s mistaken.

Even for physical objects like paintings or sports cards, the matter of provenance is extraordinarily difficult to ascertain. Counterfeiters are really good at what they do, and determining authenticity of very valuable items is presumably impossible for all but a few experts, to the extent that what you’re buying can really be thought of as a physical object along with some easily-verifiable (often through digital means!) claim of authenticity from a trusted group. In cases like this it’s pretty silly to place such emphasis on the provenance of the physical object itself!
> Unless x or y is an object, but in that case the issue is completely tangential to the original suggestion

Of course we have to assume that x and y may be objects!
When to make your product onboarding harder?
You can ask for it; finding it is the real problem.

If I thought it existed, I would be in your shoes right now. My compromise with reality is to prefer publications which are upfront, honest and generally reasonable as determined by the body of their work, not one headline found on Google.

They do reporting, they do opinions, they do newsletter and podcasts which mix both. I can live with that as long as I know where they’re coming from, what their scope is, and as long as they’re not pretending to be something they’re not.

Having read The Morning and Weekly Dispatches from the beginning, I haven’t been disappointed. I also enjoy the G-File and Vital Interests (both part of the Dispatch). Based off your preferences, you might actually enjoy Vital Interests if you are interested in foreign policy, but I can say for certain that you probably don’t want the G-File because that is unapologetic political wonkery, and to Jonah’s credit, he doesn’t sell that as anything but what it is.

That’s one of the nice things about old-style publications: they try to offer some variety and don’t mix reporting with opinion pages.

So to repeat my recommendation: check out The Dispatch, specifically check out the Morning Dispatch, the Weekly Dispatch, maybe Vital Interests.

It might not be your cup of tea, or it might.
I want to agree with you on a few points but reducing the vast Texas Hill Country and Highland Lakes to the Oasis is just misleading to strengthen your premise. No disagreement that SF has far better outdoor activities.

6th street? That's a running joke and has been for years. Everything that is happening is south of sixth, or across the river on Rainey, South Congress and Auditorium Shores.
Apple docs show unusual mid-production chip updates for Secure Storage Component
> I don't think the doctor comparison holds water.

C'mon.
It's a classic PG article. Many true facts in there, lots of good analysis with just a few questionable claims thrown in here and there. At the end, there's a massive claim that isn't fully stated but implied. "Of course the Gini coefficient is increasing" translated means "income inequality is not a problem".

Firstly, Gini coefficient is based on income, not wealth. That isn't stated clearly. Secondly, there's absolutely no data on what proportion of income flows to which decile. The conclusion (income inequality isn't a problem) is simply based on an assumption that the rise in the Gini coefficient is based entirely on the wealth accumulated by founders, and that this is a good thing.

I think this post boils down to "people like me are creating a lot of value, please acknowledge it. Also there are no downsides to this accumulation of wealth". This would be fine if PG also didn't argue that policies like wealth taxes are harmful (http://www.paulgraham.com/wtax.html). It just seems like a desperate play to keep his wealth intact.
There is, but I'm not aware of the specifics that led to this level of animosity. All I can say for sure is that over the past year or so, there has been arguments regarding Sawyer's initial Perl 7 plan in public and private, and mst is extremely blunt.
It's a bit rich that you accuse those who didn't take the initial smear campaign at face value of moving the goal posts.

First it was the Epstein connection, which proved false.

Then it was predatory behaviour at MIT with three quotes from over 3 decades, a sign on his door, and a mattress doused in implications.

Then it was simply "making some people uncomfortable", which is sort of a given if you talk about free software to groups of people who are in the proprietary software industry, and says nothing at all.

If you want the "real issues" addressed, stop drowning them in fabrications.
I think the claim that Amazon is winning through "vendor lock-in" is pretty silly. Honestly anyone who can't quickly migrate the stuff they're hosting on AWS onto one of the many other cloud platforms is pretty bad at DevOps. If you're using K8S/Docker/etc it should be trivial. But even if you're not, the vast majority of AWS offerings were either built to be API-compatible with other existing tools (e.g. postgres-compat Aurora RDS), are literally identical to other services you can self-host (e.g. ElasticSearch) or others have built services compatible with AWS services (e.g. DigitalOcean's "Spaces" aim to be API identical to AWS S3 – you can literally use Amazon's S3 client libs to interact with various S3-compat services from other clouds).

It's not "lock-in", it's providing a great all-in-one solution. You can host everything you want to host on AWS, which has good stability, good latency, etc. People are locked in because the DX around using AWS for everything your platform needs is just better than other platforms / having different services on different cloud providers (at least for many people).
Article source: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/12/apple-made-security-cha...
Foucault, along with most french leftist intellectuals go and write a public letter in support of pedophilia and not only are they not getting in trouble for it - many of them are the ideological forerunners to modern leftism.

It's not just cus of RMS saying the age of consent is wrong...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_petition_against_age_...
Does it have something like vim-surround?
I have four adapters in my house, I have one TL-WPA7510 and three TL-PA7010. They are sold as pairs so when I wanted the version with an access point built-in, I had to buy another wired version. But, you can add them individually to an already existing network. The Homeplug protocol is a standard so as long as you buy the right versions, you get max performance. These things are great. I have one in the basement for the Verizon router to plug into, one on the second floor for my PS4, the AP version behind the 4K TV in the family room, and another at a desk in the guest room. The Verizon router has a lot of interference nearby so quality is poor in some spots in the house. Quality is good, it sometimes reaches gigabit speeds but it's way more robust than wifi extenders. The apartment I lived in previously was built like a brick shithouse so wifi dropped off pretty fast once you got to the other end.
Is it really price gouging for bandwidth? Or is bandwidth just really expensive in general? I honestly don't know. I would assume if it was actually much cheaper one of the cloud's would undercut the other to get customers.
JSONPath confers pretty much the same concept onto JSON too with much the same syntax. There are JPath implementations for most languages now.

> https://github.com/json-path/JsonPath
‘The current situation is urgent’: Apple CEO Tim Cook on privacy online
He said that Epstein may have coerced her to present herself as "entirely willing".
OK, so heavy water has a molecular weight ~11% greater than plain old water.

If you replace 20% of your cellular water with heavy,

you gain about 1.7% of your weight maybe (water being ~80% of you).

I see an angle here for a boxing thriller.

"Joe, this taste I dunno, sweet to you? No? Huh."
Radioactivity can harm you even without the chemical elements entering your body, so chemistry is a red herring. The claim is not that carbon and potassium are interchangeable, just that the their radiation should have comparable effects.
Agree with you that the discussion shouldn't be part of his job. But there should also be room for him to have a public discussion that isn't part of his job. I don't recall the details, were parts of this discussion on the fsf home page or something?
Are you comparing the rape of a minor to homosexuality?

I would not work with someone who conversed like this in a professional setting. I'm not alone. It's wildly inappropriate at the very least. It's not his field and he's personally involved with the accused.
Exactly! but that wasn't the point of his comment
The emacs virgin thing is just what one would expect from a ‘60s/‘70s hippie. At the time, intelligent and activist women were busy attacking sexual taboos, largely defined by men, including virginity. Turning virginity into a joke (and with classical-lit undertones) is the type of thing “boomer women” would likely appreciate.

Alas, our modernity seems to be more prudish in these matters; so people react to this sort of thing very much like a pre-60s person; and RMS didn’t get the memo.
I wonder what percentage of it's supported toolchain components will be proprietary.
So do not read his private webpage (which is full of his personal political opinions). RMS clearly separates his free software-related activities and other personal opinions.
> Microsoft is having success with aggressively pushing Teams because most enterprise IT is too small-minded to explore anything else.

Or alternatively, no other solution offers similar price/performance - They are having success because for most corporate subscriptions it is free. Also it's the most commonly used solution for business in the UK, so I have less problems with people joining teams calls than any other provider.

I don't think it's small mindedness - what other solution should they offer?

* Zoom - Awful internal messaging capability. A full office 365 subscription costs almost the same as a standalone zoom licence.

* Slack - No support for external conference calling without integration to another service.

* Google Meet - Makes sense if you use google suite, but not really if you use 365. Other than that not too bad.

* Webex - Awful client requires downloading which causes people to have issues half the time.
I'd say most of the parents' comment is applicable to the same scale. People can abuse your social security number or bank account and routing numbers across the Internet. Phone numbers being relatively easy to spoof and/or hijack makes fax trivial to mess with internationally as well.
> It's easier now to start and grow a company than it has ever been. That means more people start them, that those who do get better terms from investors, and that the resulting companies become more valuable.

This may be a quibble, because I think Paul Graham really means a certain type of high-growth startup in mind when he says "start a company". But the rate of new business formation in the US has fallen off a cliff in the past few decades.[1] The number of new companies as a percent of total businesses is 44% lower in 2012 than it was in 1978.

Again, I think this is different than what Paul Graham is talking about. When he says "many more people are starting companies", I think he's thinking more about a SaaS startup than a McDonalds franchise. Obviously that fits in much more with the theme of how people generate massive fortunes. Nobody becomes a billionaire from starting a landscaping service or an auto body shop.

But still, I think it's important to keep the context in mind. In the larger sense, entrepreneurship in America is very much dead. That doesn't mean that it isn't thriving in a specific Silicon Valley subculture, that to be fair makes massive contributions to the broader economy. But it should make us question what makes the Valley so different from Main Street, USA. If not just to figure out how to export the model from Palo Alto to Oklahoma.

[1]https://www.inc.com/magazine/201505/leigh-buchanan/the-vanis...
> How does such an obvious fallacy command such purchase among smart people?

Because Swift is not talking about music (by your definition). Swift is also talking about digital copies of music.

And with your differentiation you've made Patel's point very well: Swift is taking a valid argument for paying for music and through conflation of the two, she is arguing that it should also apply to digital copies of music. This is the actual fallacy here.
Attacked by police? He was out of the car by his own request.

Also have you seen the footage from the store? There is no alleged about his intoxication level.
I guess I don't understand what "ownership" of a bunch of bits means. Can you "own" what is basically a number?
Airbnb launches summer of responsible travel
Since I don’t see it mentioned yet: my favorite thing to do if I’m console slumming is to use it as a comma-separated expression. You can use console.log(), foo as a single expression (eg as an arrow function return) the log is executed but its undefined return value discarded. This saves a lot of keystrokes where you’d otherwise have to wrap the function body in braces with an explicit return statement.
There is also a reason websites have stopped using the term 'delete' and are using 'clear' instead. Because clearing something does not imply that it's gone unlike with delete, just out of view.
Red Hat is very independent from IBM.
The information age has room to grow i believe, but will that be spearheaded by adventurous individuals or by big corporations remains to be seen. Most startups these days are either derivatives of existing products or highly specialized in so far as they know their end game is just to be bought out by one of the big tech companies. I find it hard to believe we will see a brand new company that will reach FAANG size without some new technological revolution.
The OP is on fsf.org.
Yeah I understand, but there is an immense amount of scraping going on for "production.env", .htaccess files etc.
It's the same logic that results in publicly open mongo databases.
Color me surprised. I kept hoping that with one of these privacy leaks, or any of the other atrocities that FB has committed, it would've triggered the beginning of their demise...but nope. Their stock prices just keep rising, and people continue to use the platform.
I think the point of the article was to demonstrate that the "wealth disparity" we are seeing nowadays is not due to parasitic rent seeking behavior, but due to genuine creativity and the creation of things people want to buy, and also that this was the norm except for the mid to late 20th century.
>When is it appropriate to say somebody deserves something?

When their own voluntary actions led to that outcome?
NVIDIA called it their first “data center CPU”. Our helpful reporter simplified it to the point of being flat out wrong. Not uncommon.
That's not what I was replying to at all. He said it was "free". That's a lot different from "you pay money".
That was just the last straw.
He certainly doesn't sound like he intends to change or work to change.
Very important for backend is %j (e.g.: console.log('%j', variable); which can output complex json objects to the terminal. I often write it to the terminal and then copy it to an online json viewer so it is formatted in a viewable format.