skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some examples would be useful. Yes, many that don't pay tax benefit from the government, and yes, you can view that as a working class paying for the unemployed.

Imagine, if you will, a 50-year-old woman on the dole (she's paid a monthly sum by the government). In Germany, for instance, this is only paid if she can prove that she applied, and continues to apply for work/seek employment.

It's a bit of a mad circle - she doesn't want work, because she has a comfortable, if meagre life. Of course she dutifully applies for employment every month, and occasionally lands an interview.

She's been out of work for so long though, that's she's no longer employable. She's too old for manual labour, cannot type, doesn't do Internet. And so no one will have her.

It's not ideal for someone expecting to get out what they put into the system, but it's a social safety net that's better than forcing people out onto the street. Will all the problems that brings.

And yes, the 50-year-old gets "free" healthcare. Which I contribute to, from my hard work. And I think this system among the best on the planet.
If you select an item with the inspector (Chrome or Firefox), you can now refer to that HTML element as $0 in the console.
Algorithmic Fun House
If they're primitives most consoles will show you the values without expansion
It shouldn't even be necessary. If you look at the DirectSound channel listing from ages and ages ago, I think even in Windows XP, there are height channels listed. But I've never seen a sound card that used them or let you select any higher than 7.1 in the Sound control panel.
Maybe he is referring to music as such, too.
Nobody is special, the internet showed there are lots of talented artists and it's just a matter luck who's got to be the next superstar.
For every superstar there are dozens if not hundreds of similar talented singers that go down nearly unrecognized.
> This feels like a pyramid scheme.

It is. My Google-fu is failing me but there was a famous art dealer in the early part of the 20th century who promised that he would buy back the pieces he sold at least for the price the buyer originally paid less some minuscule percentage if the buyer could not sell the pieces to someone else. It made paints he sold significantly go up in price. He died. Buyers tried to get his estate to pay for the paintings and failed.
Exactly. The problem is that the behavior he defended was problematic, whether or not it actually happened. This signals to potential predators in the future, "I will look for excuses for your behavior if I like you".
I created a pythonobject oriented API based on pygame
> In many places this makes Minsky a rapist, whether or not he knew i) she was trafficked or ii) she was coerced or iii) her age.

In most places rape, like most crimes, require both actus reus (victim was coerced) and mens rea (perpetrator was aware of that). This is a complicated by the age issue (as a mistake of age is often an explicit exception to mens rea), but in general you cannot be thief, murderer or rapist without knowing that.
From right there looks ok. Just change the branch from rm to master. Not sure if there's a better place though
Cancellation isn't a binary thing either, and I'm not sure anyone is suggesting that RMS's past contributions to the FSF be dismantled or that no one should employ him, I don't think anyone seriously want's to cancel his life's work.

The suggestions are that he shouldn't hold a leadership position in a community when he's shown an inability to lead a community safely.
This is the point that RMS is trying to make. His argument (iirc) is that "rape" might be an incorrect word used to describe what happened (was it proved to be rape? The only part proved iirc were the ages), and that immediately because the person was 17 instead of 18, that word is used to describe the situation without second thought. I don't think he was saying that there should be zero repercussions, or that we should forget all about it, or that we should condone relations with minors...
Just saying, when I was 17, I was well mature enough to make my own choices and to be aware of my actions. There's a HUGE difference between 17/18 and 14/15. I think this is the point he was trying to make.
Aside: Search in Settings is a bad user experience.

If I search for "suggest", click a result, press mouse-back button: It loses my search results. I sent back to a blank index page.

So I have to search "suggest", find my place in the results, click result, back, search again, remember where I am, click, back, search, etc etc.

If you're going to make desktop software "browser-like" then actually commit. Don't add a back button but not have it act like a browser back button. Just obnoxious.

PS - On Windows 20H2/19042.867.
> How does such an obvious fallacy command such purchase among smart people? Swift is talking about "music" as an original work. Patel responds with an irrelevant point about digital copies of music.

Your quotes don't support this analysis. There's plenty of original music available on the internet. Enough to call it an endless amount. Weirdly, you point this out yourself immediately after accusing Patel of a fallacy.

The fact that people will pay for Taylor Swift's music against a landscape with other music does not actually support the idea that Taylor Swift's music deserves to be paid for, either. People will pay for all kinds of things. https://satwcomic.com/clean-living
Since Chrome 27 and/or Firefox 34:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Console/tab...
Its rarely the syngeries that make it work, instead its often they bought a business they leave alone that has much more room to grow.
> "Where does one find good information?"

skepticism should always follow money or power--or frenzy, their more easily recognizable proxy, as in this case. there's no magic answer to your question, and finding answers in the real world is not easily outsourced to a textbook or to 'expertise'. we each must put in the work to tease out the good stuff for ourselves, as best we can (what skepticism impels).

as a broader example, democracy is premised on the idea that each citizen will do at least some work discerning fact from fiction, and by the collective wonder of crowd wisdom, we'll find an optimum. democracy, or any collective action really, doesn't presume each person will individually be right, as that's obviously an impossible expectation.
Doesn't work in Firefox, unfortunately. :sadface:
Mostly in-person around MIT (just like Captain Crunch or Jake Appelbaum in the conference scene... informal until
it wasn't), but a few have made it onto the web.

See #2 here:

https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix...
Thaaat's not actually a euphemism.
I didn't know until recently the landing method they used for this flight. Gagarin was incredibly brave.

First, the Vostok reentered and opened a parachute to slow down. Then it blew the hatch and fired him out of the capsule in his ejection seat, which fired its own parachute. Then somewhat lower, Gagarin had to jump out of the ejection seat with his own parachute and land. That is a lot of things that all have to work to land safely.
> Even Ruby, a language we haven't brought up and is dreadfully slow, will do thousands of requests per second with Rails. Beautiful language, abysmal performance (relative to what's possible).

It's precisely this terrible performance that makes ActiveRecord so much easier to program and better to use than Hibernate (or EntityFramework). I've written over a dozen Rails apps over the past 15 years, and it's "abysmal" performance has never been a problem for me. For my problem space(s), I'd make that tradeoff every day of the week, and twice on Sunday.
His point was that we don’t know that Minsky raped anyone from Minsky’s perspective. Go read his actual words again.
Another little trick; instead of doing:

console.log("some label: " + JSON.stringify(someObj))

pass it as a separate parameter:

console.log("some label: ", someObj)

and you'll get interactive expansions/manipulation in the console
I'd be curious at what concentration people can detect heavy water. My guess is that this concentration does not occur naturally, but I could be wrong.
>this announcement should be extremely worrying.

I agree it's slightly worrying, there's currently no replacement for RMS. The libre software movement risks falling apart if he is no longer there. FSF and RMS should make quick work of finding someone valuable.
Substack does have a lot of quality writing on it, and I think the legitimacy of that writing has come to be associated with its publishing model, whether deserving or not.

It reminds me of the MySpace => Facebook shift. MySpace was pretty much a cesspit, and by comparison Facebook seemed clean and intellectual. But reality ignored our first impressions, and the failure modes of the model were borne out over time.

Thus I think we should be wary and critical of Substack, however superior it may first seem to that which it replaces.

[edit for clarity]
> There’s no such thing as a retraction anymore, it’s just clarifications.

I think journalism always mostly did "corrections."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correction_(newspaper)
Does OSX do this with the xcode tools?
WA already has income tax, in the form of the mandatory family leave act and sick leave insurance premiums taken as a percentage of W2 pay. They also just added another 0.58% income tax in the same form, but for long term care insurance.

The long term care insurance benefit amount is pathetic too, so for any WA residents reading, you should buy LTCI ASAP by Jul 20 something so you can opt out of having that premium deducted from your pay.

I would budget paying WA at least 1% of W2 income in tax, and it’s not deductible from federal taxes in any scenario since it’s not classified as a tax.
I think you misunderstood the intent of the GP
Do you mean IBM? :-D
I recently learned of nvcode: https://github.com/ChristianChiarulli/nvcode. I haven’t tried it yet, but it’s another option in the pre-configured vim space that you might find interesting.
Another! If you inspect a console.logged function, DevTools shows you the scope it has access to.

https://umaar.com/dev-tips/117-inspect-function-scope/
Can't you just acquire a successful business and then do nothing? Just let the business you acquired keep being successful? It's not that different from investing in the stock market, except that you can have more control over the business you acquired if you need to down the line. You also then own their IP, which might be the most important part.
I think most people don't know that instead of :wq or :q! they can just ZZ and ZQ
I use HDMI with 7.1 PCM for audio from my gaming PC. It requires setting up an A/V receiver as a second monitor, which is kind of annoying, but it can be a "clone" of the primary gaming monitor. I do get immersive 2D surround sound from games.
'os' is in the standard library, not a concern when discussing virtual-env and third party libraries.
> Please explain, in detail, why you believe there should be a high barrier to entry for expressing opinions

I put quotes around "opinion". For instance:

"The blub language has the worst debugging support of any language I've used."

That is absolutely an opinion. It gives the impression of an informed opinion. Someone reads that and concludes that the blub language should be avoided because debugging will be a terrible experience. Perhaps what that person was saying is that blub doesn't have GDB support and in fact that turns out to be wrong. If someone asks for elaboration, they should indeed elaborate.

In the case of my comment, I just provided details so that everything is on the table. None of the other things you've asked for are relevant to my original comment.
My whole personal site[1] is one big console.log(), right down to theme matching :D Unfortunately I'm not sure anyone has actually noticed.

1: https://itsokayitsofficial.io/
I have wall switches and a power meter that use the ESP32 internally. Consumer products. How much more "real" would you like?
When validation gets complex (e.g. there are many criteria to check), I like to build a list/stream/array (what ever the language offers) of tuples of predicates (functions from the object that gets validated to boolean) and strings (or functions from the object to string so I can have context in my error messages).

Then iterate over the tuples, if a predicate fails, return the associated error message and throw an error/display the message to the user.

In the end it looks something like this:

var validators = Stream.of(
Map.entry(user -> user != null, "User must be defined"),
Map.entry(user -> user.firstName != null, "Missing first name"))

validators.filter(e -> e.getKey().apply(userToBeValidated)).map(Map.Entry::getValue).getFirst()

(This example uses Map.entry for tuples as Java lacks native support for tuples)

This limits branching and you have all validation criteria neatly organized in the same location.
Amazon Seller Tool
By now there are plenty of tools out there which turn hours (I hope we don't have to take that literally? Unless you're not used to Windows and/or there's even more bloat than I know of) into a couple of minutes though. Check e.g. O&O ShutUp 10 https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10. Or else use an IOT or LTSC release or so.
I recently went through a ton of speech to text engines to test them. There are a lot of open source research projects as well as paid products, including amazon and google's paid products, which I assumed would be paying for the best of the best. Dragon (nuance's products) blew them out of the water in my experience. I was very surprised. Sentence error rate is still pretty shit across the board, so tiny improvements still make a massive difference in usability.
In my opinion it is, because repeating a belief he held already to defend himself it is a forced action that he wouldn't take unless the mob forced him to. Such an action lends credence and power to the mob, which in turn hurts everyone else.
Yeah, but they've got their tentacles into a lot of complicated sticky markets.

For example, they've done all the work to get that same software certified healthcare grade and convinced lots of hospitals to adopt it for their doctors. They can sell that for a lot more than they sell the essentially same software to you.

If you go to a corporate website and see an "Industries" section with Healthcare, Telecommunications, Finance, Government, and more you know they're good at this sort of rent-seeking.
I agree in principle. I think someone in RMS's postition could have apologised far better and been more effective at changing their behaviour. However I'm not sure that RMS himself could do this and at this point I think it's probably too late for the FSF to get him back without backlash because it has gone too far.
Something similar happened recently with Dave Chappelle. He asked his fans to stop watching Chappelle Show on Netflix. This depressed the value of the asset low enough that he was able to buy back the rights.
I wonder if RMS wrote apology emails to the individuals that he hurt:

> I sometimes made others uncomfortable or even offended them -- especially women.

If not, someone might need to explain to him that that too is customary in our society.
Irrationally doesn’t mean “in a way I don’t like” and it’s kinda rude to paint huge swaths of people with that brush.
Sure, but does any of that keep you from empathizing with the content of this letter?
* When I buy a new Macbook or upgrade the OS, I get a "walkthrough" of new features which tends to include integration with other Apple devices.

* Most Apple apps (e.g. Home, Messages, Photos, Maps, Podcasts, FindMy) advertise their integration with other Apple hardware.

* Only pre-installed browser is Safari, and the homepage is apple.com.

They might not be blatant, but I'd highly surprised if the marketing department isn't involved in their placement. They don't, for example, mention any competing products.

Also, there's no obvious reason Apple has to advertise the Apple Music subscription when I open the app to play my own MP3s.
Is a discussion of "Who is the audience for the 'amp' editor" not a discussion of the amp editor?
I read this and RMS's statement. I've been saying Stallman needs to go for adecade or more, I believe his fanaticism holds back the organization and movement.

However, after reading his statement, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt IF he not only sees now that he's been ofensive, but is more willing to listen to criticism in the future. If he TRULY recognizes he's got social issues and communication problems, then he MUST be more willing to give and take, and not be so rigid. I can truly believe he didn't understand the allegations against Minsky because I truly believe RMS frequently takes stances on issues where he has minimal knowledge of the facts.

The problem is I don't see that concession in his apology or the FSF statement. I think this is preobably a bad move. I think RMS is not only not-irreplaceble, I think there people who could be much more effective in that role.
Didn’t Apple basically set the standard? Seems like a weird way to justify it.
are you saying: what if dimensions are not discrete, but fields.?
I think that’s what GP meant by poor imitation of BH.
On This Day, 1961: Yuri Gagarin Becomes First Human to Journey into Outer Space
Then, one day, after 12 hours chasing a race condition bug, you learn that when you expand objects from console.log, it shows you the current value of properties and not the values at the time of the console log. Because the values are evaluated when you click on the arrow.

Then you quit web development and start a new career.
I'm betting the latter. Consider that lead also tastes sweet[1], that's why kids would eat lead paint. Our ancestors were never placed in situations where eating either lead or heavy water could change evolutionary outcomes because these substances are not easily obtained in high concentrations in nature.

[1] https://www.thoughtco.com/sugar-of-lead-3976065
Reading this breaks my heart a little. Having the humility to bow to the people that harassed him and the FSF is a gesture I wasn't really expecting from him.

However it's refreshing to see that people that are consistently seen as abrasive and negative, can introspect, even due to external circumstances, and try to correct their behaviour so late in life.

I feel like online we need to try to empathize a lot more with others that don't match the well established "disadvantaged" categories instead of piling on the negativity.
Honestly, the fact that a quick apology would have solved this entire problem is the main reason why I think he should go away. The entire situation reeks of extremely poor judgement on his part and the FSF's board, and to my eye seems emblematic of the poor leadership that he and the board have displayed for most of my lifetime.

Or more succinctly; if you manage to turn a minor snafu worthy of one apology into a massive scandal that's splitting up your org, maybe you shouldn't be in charge?
Unimatrix One?

"We are Borg. You will be red pilled. Resistance is futile. Where we go one we go all!"
Everytime I boot into Windows at home it just seems worse..
I think there's a limited amount of good entertaining (to me) music available on the internet.

Look, I can record a song and release it on iTunes (and all the others) using Distrokid.

This doesn't mean it's good music that people will listen to, or would sell at all.

Art is subjective obviously, but when you like something you know you like it, and when you don't like something you know you don't like it.

But just because there's a ton of music out there doesn't make it good, or therefore valuable.
RMS is a statutory rape apologist, and a defender of a pedophile. As well as making young women creeped out with unwanted advances.
Is this who we want to glorify?
You seem to have pasted the wrong quote. That one doesn't say that his biggest regret is how it harmed his reputation. Rather, it says that he is especially regretful at how it harmed the Free Software Foundation's reputation.
If someone decided to meticulously track everything I do. Follow me wherever I went. Put a GPS tracker on my car to see everywhere I visit. Peep inside my windows to see what websites I browse. Look over my shoulder at the grocery store to see what items I buy. I would consider that stalking and attempt to file a restraining order against that person.

Can I file a restraining order against Facebook? Or Google?
Writing code isn't that valuable. Many people contribute to coreutils (& other GNU projects) but there is only one RMS. His position is an ideological one.
Even worse, you're paying to be spammed by Windows. This overly-creepy direction Windows is taking is, more than anything else, why I don't trust their recent seeming friendliness to FOSS.

Even Android doesn't get that intrusive, not that it's much better.
https://stallmansupport.org/
The number itself is not enough to have the encoded information, you also need the details of the encoding/decoding scheme. So if you had this 'commentary on Shakespear' by itself it's no more interesting than if you had an encrypted copy of Bill's credit card number but not the password to unencrypt it. Having that on a T-Shirt doesn't seem quite so outrageous though.

However if you have, or circulate this number along with an implementation of the decoding algorithm, as a reader, then you're actually circulating the credit card number itself in a much more direct way. Yes, I know they also publish the unpacking algorithms, but If I walked round with a T-shirt with the encoded file on the front, and the decoding program on the back, that's clearly a much more direct and obvious transgression.

The joke about these illegal primes is that by themselves they seem innocuous, they're just seemingly meaningless numbers, but put the two halves of the puzzle together and the problem becomes a lot clearer. Handing out an unreadable, encrypted, encoded number with the latest Marvel movie in it but no way to play it seems harmless, hand it out with a bundled video player as well and that's a problem. Now it's a viewable movie and that's a different kettle of fish.

A friend of mine got very excited when we were CS students because he found a way to theoretically 'encrypt and compress' data to extremely small sizes, until I pointed out the binary compression key would end up being vastly bigger than the 'compressed' file. Basically he was just 'sucking' the complexity out of the data file and putting it in the key. These numbers are a bit like that, a large amount of the information in the 'encoded' content is actually sequestered in the unpacking algorithm.

With the right 'decoding scheme' the number 5 is an encoded copy of Infinity War. Wow, 5 is now an illegal prime!
As someone who's written a lot of disassemblers, this feature is far more complicated to write a disassembler for than how the other RISCs handle it, by close to an order of magnitude when you account for the extra tests that you want too.

All of the bits being contiguous would just mean that you could just

jump_offset = (((i32)opcode) & 0xFFFFF000) >> 12;

rather than this weird game of trying to piecemeal back all of the requisite components. Or, if the components are in order then you're given the choice; it doesn't have to be a mutually exclusive decision.

It's got to be saving some muxes on tiny cores by keeping the sign bit and bits 10:5 in the same place, but honestly even that seems like a micro optimization that doesn't have a lot of benefit at the end of the day. I wouldn't think that this single saved mux would have been in a critical path (and the sign bit would have been in the same place regardless).