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Language is everything to RMS too, and he himself has "cancelled" people for refusing to use the terms he prefers, rejecting them as maintainers for GNU projects on that basis.
I've been on Dvorak full-time since 2008, and even though I generally don't use vim itself for programming, I do still use vim-mode in my editors and IDE. But I gave up on using hjkl long before switching to Dvorak, and I've always just either used motions like w/b/f/t/n/etc, or moved to the arrow keys for shorter motions. This also lets me share more of the muscle memory for movements when I'm typing into standard text boxes like this.
> This post to me sounds like someone claiming spam filters are worthless because an email got across.

If I'm literally prevented from using any other kind of spam filter, you bet I'd be complaining.

> The relevant metric is how many scams aren’t there

Would you please also prove there is definitely no teapot orbiting Mars, while we're at it?
> you might think you're making a point by repeating "it's all opinions", but that doesn't mean your single opinion is equal to everyone else.

You're very wrong.

Readability is currently impossible to measure precisely. All the opinions are grounded in impossible to quantify and define personal skills, predispositions, and habits.

"It" may be "more readable" to you. And your friends. That is still just your (and your friends') opinion, describing a feeling you have. It's not measurable. It's not provable. It's just what you think is happening, but that's it - just a thought.

No facts. No measures. No definitions. As long as your opinion has these qualities, yes, it's equal to everyone else's.

The problem with that is that it's narrow-minded. You should try to understand that, in different circumstances and for different people, the feeling of what's readable and not readable can be drastically different from your own.

There are people who swear by ⍝P⌊ or K and say they're the most readable languages ever. Others will-tell-you-there's-nothing-wrong-with-kebab-case and that (parens (are (not (a) problem) either))))))). Some will tell you that any language will do, as long as you drown it in text (like Knuth's literate programming). Yet others will try to make prose be executable, like in Inform. Some will tell you $igil$ improve readability, some will say they don't. Some will be horrifiedSeeingCamelCase, others will_see_underscores_as_ugly. Some will fight for apps hungarian, some will lead a crusade against hungarian notation as a whole.

The opinions are varied, exactly because there is no hard data to support any single position. Your opinion is yours to have, and you may live in a time and place where people you interact with share the same opinion, giving you an illusion of importance. One step outside of your bubble will show you otherwise - it's just an opinion, one of many, and not magically better just because it's yours.
How do you deal with misinformation? Anti vax misinformation could literally devastate an entire society if given enough oxygen. Are your free speech ideals more important than the health of an entire economy and hundreds of thousands of lives at risk?
The very first sentence in the article is """Hackers could take control of victims' computers just by tricking them into clicking on a Steam invite"""
Yes those are all sweet. And it goes with the french(continental) breakfast which is awfully saturated in sugar (for kids mostly): chocolate milk, bread with jam/Nutella, orange juice, viennoiseries, even biscuits. Same for the "goûter", 4pm meal for kids. A lot of sugar...

Imagine that: there were riots in supermarkets because of a huge discount on Nutella, a few years ago. (try "émeutes Nutella" on youtube)
They do have a Surface Pro X with their ARM "SQ" chips which they work with Qualcomm to make. It's nowhere near as good compared to the M1 according to the layperson's benchmarks I've seen though.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/surface-pro-x/8qg3bmrhnwhk
I don't think anyone cares if you can actually solve the problem. They are looking to see how you perform under pressure (not because the job is necessarily stressful, but because we can learn a lot about a person's true personality when they are under pressure), how good you are at problem solving, whether you actually know anything about coding or are just BSing, etc.
I guess I assumed you only need to be clear about the modifications if you are not also releasing them as Apache 2.0. is that not the case?

If not, is there any other similar standard license with a patent clause that I could use?
A little extra work in order to kill a lot of adtech is arguably a good thing.
That's exactly the same thing I asked myself after skimming through the github README.
Is FLoC built in a way where you couldn't just feed websites fake data?
Microsoft announces Surface Laptop 4 with choice of Intel or AMD processors
Kind of funny that we trust Google's index of the whole www to take us to manufacturer's legitimate website, but don't trust Apple's own search of their curated store.
I have learned to always check the developer name, and if I'm not 100% sure, I don't install it. It's annoying because there are a bunch of them out there like this.

I've also seen the "free but not free" apps like in the twitter thread. Usually there is an invisible "X" in the top corner of the payment form that you can click to get past it and use the app's free features after all. My kids run into these all the time: they see an ad for a game, it has good reviews so I let them get it, it prompts them for payment. If you are clever you can sometimes get around it, but I've seen cheap old arcade game knock-offs asking for $30+/mo! This is not by any stretch the only developer making mad bank on a subpar app.
Anyone know why it's legal to use logic operators like that in Python?

That is, 0or, 0xor, 0and,etc. in my view, this should clearly be a syntax error.

edit: as noted by the parent comment, 0xor != 0 xor, but 0x or. But this seems to hold true for all data types.
Just to clarify, xhyve is just bhyve ported to macOS and RUNS ON Hypervisor.framework which is not based on any other Hypervisor.

Parallels for ARM, UTM (many QEMU frontends), xhyve and others are decent frontends for Hypervisor.framework on macOS.
Sure, but there's no real explanation of why, just a performative explanation of their own brilliance.
As Meja sang some years back: it's all about the money (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcXMhwF4EtQ)(cute song)

Logbooks: someone needs to distribute them, collect them, read them, transfer the (many many many) written lines to a computer, validate the signature samples/writing style, etc. etc. An app that automates that in 2 mins is so much better.

A solution could be: 1) give each employee a (corporate) cheap $100 android phone, 2) configure these to allow only 1-2 apps to 'escape' to the internet so the bandwidth is not wasted on updates or browsing, 3) provide a 1GB per year data plan, 4) ask them to switch on right before entering the 'site' and switch off right when they leave the 'site' 5) give them a monthly $5 subsidy to keep it charged.
This article is absolutely fantastic. Excellently written.

I've always maintained Facebook made a mistake when they took responsibility for misinformation posted on their platform. Now, four years later, they're continuing to double down on this stance, and forming "ministries of truth".

Freedom of speech is a powerful concept, and does not like to be stifled by types that argue it should only apply to the government. When you fight against that principle, you win in the short term, and lose in the long term. We are now starting to see those ugly realities of the long term losses, four years later.

The author is touching on something prescient here, but I disagree with some of his observations. For example, that the solution to "virus scanners" playing whack a mole was to move to cloud computing. (The solution was clearly to improve software, with things like memory safe programming langauges. Moving to cloud computing reduces freedom, not enhances it, and centralizes all the valuables in a single location a la Tower of Babel.)

If you remove the "algorithmic feed" mechanic, much of the abuse vanishes instantly. I am shown what came latest. Not this weird algorithmic mash of content that has been gamified for my attention. RSS is the way to go.
Well I guess it's a good thing nobody's trying to produce a baby, but rather, a vaccine. Because they succeeded, and you hand-waved away my completely rational explanation with a nonsequitur about pregnancy.

Those folks aren't being immunized to protect themselves but those around them. This is a team effort and everyone's gotta pitch in.

I got my J&J a week ago. No side-effects here.
Guilty by association it is, then. And, no way to undo/pay for a negative score. This is a terrible solution.
> We do. Plenty of developers fund FSFE, Conservancy, EFF and so on.

Then carry on. Obviously the Free Software movement is not your cup of tea. You will probably feel more comfortable in the OSS movement. More business oriented.

> No need for snark. It's not a matter of my personal taste.

But it is. He offends your sensibilities. Not mine. Not other people's.

> It is difficult to support FLOSS in the workplace and in society when people associate it with RMS: "that's the stuff that weird guy talks about".

As it should be. The fact you are mixing open source with free software, and then complain it's not business friendly shows you are missing the point. Free software doesn't have to be business friendly. The final objective of the free software movement is that eventually everything becomes free software. All software. That is something current business doesn't find very friendly. Which is their problem. They will have to adapt or disappear.
In the old days it was arrowheads or civil war bullets.

I wonder if keys are a blip in the timeline, like analog radio transmissions, which gradually are replaced by high-information signals that are akin to random noise.
The first amendment protects you from hosting content you don't want to host. Hosting providers must be allowed to remove content they don't want there or their rights are directly violated.

Do you think that a site should be forced to host other people's vile content?
Any ex-Usenet moderators out there?

I don't remember this being such a huge deal, and there was always the alt groups.
The M1 MBP? That is what I am using (1TB/16GB model) and I easily get the 17 hours stated for web use. Even doing development in Xcode I can go 13-15 hours. It is the most impressed I have been with a laptop since the introduction of multi-core mobile CPUs.
I'm not quite sure if you're serious or not. The person you're responding to thinks that a special purpose app would be better than PGP, and your response is that the best solution is a special purpose app which calls into PGP. Why is the latter preferable?
Slackware Beta
> Apple should just remove Subscriptions completely and have app developers turn them into consumable IAPs that you have to buy every X months.

With my data going poof each time, I'm afraid that's a no. Even merely having to log in again, compared to the status quo, is way worse.
Every system that relies on crowdsourcing and/or reputation to solve such problems is doomed to fail. Remember when manual curation and recommendation of products/places/content was supposed to be fully replaced by online ratings & reviews?
Advantages of Monorepos
It's very clearly backed up by the history of how the GPL came to be in the first place.

There was a printer driver that RMS wanted to change but couldn't. If the system he was working with had had code signing for printer drivers and refused to run with his modifications because of it, we'd have had the TiVo clause in the very first version of the GPL already.
Move back 15 years, replace tacos with kebabs and whoop, it's still the same. A few older dudes who know the right places to go to, and the chef salade-tomates-oignons-chef-ing mostly young people.

Tossing "and from the ghettos" in there just lands him absurdly right in the middle of the shitty parisian that everyone hates.
This is a web of trust, except that you have a designated root.
3:2 is 15:10. It’s a pretty big deal, almost as big as going from 16:9 to 16:10

More vertical space is a win in my book.
Everything should start from a place of questioning. If there is data and the data makes sense, that can replace questioning with certainty. But often the data has a limited or tenuous connection, possibly even a fraudulent connection. This is why it’s important to actually read the studies and understand the science, not just to hand wave it away as “evidence = value.”
Also it would be cool to unlock the vault via 1password.
Index Sets and Parallelism-Preserving Autodiff for Pointful Array Programming
Worth noting that it requires clicking the invite. Still bad, but something you can easily avoid if you know to be suspicious.
> thousands of content moderators in the Philippines

And those are good jobs for people. This is honestly a ridiculous argument. It's simply that technologists don't want to pay for content moderation so they are arguing that it isn't necessary because it is "Sisyphean", which curiously enough raises their margins. It couldn't be more cynical.
Here's the AST:

>>> ast.dump(ast.parse('[0xfor x in (1,2,3)]'))
"Module(body=[Expr(value=List(elts=[BoolOp(op=Or(), values=[Num(n=15), Compare(left=Name(id='x', ctx=Load()), ops=[In()], comparators=[Tuple(elts=[Num(n=1), Num(n=2), Num(n=3)], ctx=Load())])])], ctx=Load()))])"
Or maybe people are just terrible at judging acute risks? This isn't unique to covid - ask them about flying on an airliner or living next to a nuclear power plant and you would get some equally comical numbers. At any rate risk of hospitalization/death isn't the complete picture since some of those young people are ostensibly doing it to protect the people around them.
> Then Google claims she quit which should be provable and she claims she was fired which also should be provable. Yet I've seen no proof of either.

She said she sent a list of conditions or else she would leave on a given date. Google accepted her resignation.

https://mobile.twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/13343435770449...

This is the same story that Google gave:

> Timnit responded with an email requiring that a number of conditions be met in order for her to continue working at Google, including revealing the identities of every person who Megan and I had spoken to and consulted as part of the review of the paper and the exact feedback. Timnit wrote that if we didn’t meet these demands, she would leave Google and work on an end date. We accept and respect her decision to resign from Google

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f2kYWDXwhzYnq8ebVtuk9CqQ...
The dedicated Teams button on everything is peak Microsoft.
> At least in Canada new cycle seems to circle back to how we are subsidizing industries in the US with our young professionals who are educated here but chose to relocate to the US for far better pay at least once every three months.

Why not just... compete? Sounds like they are relocating for a reason.
Why do you assume she hasn’t? Not everything is fixable, especially as you get older.
Sometimes interviews are just part of “following the process” when someone who knows someone is going to get the job anyway, but still they have to follow the process so everything looks normal. These things are not so cut and dry and objective as you would like to believe. I wouldn’t sweat it.
I think they’re on a tight squeeze right now at the fabs.
I'm concerned about the drop in mobility too. But stepping back for a bit, imagine mobility stayed the same, what would that mean? Would that mean everyone earns roughly the same after a few generations? Or would it mean the income inequality pyramid gets flipped upside down? Is that even feasible?
Lame living by someone else's ultimatum also. If you had a union you'd have to go on strike for shit you don't necessarily care about and you would have to wait for somebody to age out to get off of pager duty. It's outsourcing responsibility of your life to someone else.
I had a Surface Pro for a few years, it ran GNOME like a champ. These Windows laptops also have pretty good Linux support afaik, so the software issue isn't that big of a deal!
the President's Choice stores seem to carry the good stuff!! :)
FPGA “Game of Life” is a tribute to John Conway who sadly passed away 1 year ago
"What is the best way to climb a tree to hunt or gather food..."
I was part of solving a content moderation problem for a tech company forum once.

The most troublesome users were often the most prolific posters. The people who had a lot of free time on their hands to post every single day were often the most disgruntled, seizing every issue as a chance to stir up more controversy.

It was tough enough to reel in difficult users when they had no power. Giving extra power to people who posted the most would have only made the problem worse, not better.

The most valuable content came from users who didn't post that often, but posted valuable and well-received content occasionally. I'm not sure they would have much interest in moderating content, though, because they would rather produce content than deal with troublesome content from other people.

Content moderation is a pain. The trolls always have infinitely more free time than you do.
Depending on the employment contract, vaccinations of any kind may be required as a condition of employment. This is common for public school.

I do not know any of the specifics of OP's situation, but it does sound reasonable.
Being very conservative with vaccine rollout means more people will die. I think the risk-averse folks that approved of harsh lockdowns may want this harsh measure as well.
This macrumors article is a better read imho https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/13/mini-led-ipad-pro-april...
A teacher read us this book in elementary school and I've unsuccessfully been trying to track this book for years. Such an interesting way to think about the world around us, how it will be perceived, and the degree to which we cannot be sure of the accuracy of our perceptions of the past.
There's no code I can show you that would be any more convincing than just looking at the code to the X server and then looking at the code to any wayland implementation. There's not anything particularly special about these projects.
Sadly, the LAST thing I ever wanted the signal foundation to do. And this adds to the PIN & cloud "features", insistence of a phone number, refusal to work with 3rd-party apps...

I'd rather them have done _nothing_ at all.

Oh well.. further proof you really need federation.
I think you misunderstand how much leading AI researchers will be learning from complexity science and networks, and how much they'll understand [informational] diversity itself as critical to all networks (including their own community of practice).

My assumption is that there is a dovetail between understanding the role of randomness and diversity in neural networks, and understanding of its role in the social computation of society. Those who don't see that relationship and don't put it into practice in their own value systems will not be "at the top", because they are partially blinded.

Just my hot-take. Might be wrong. But I think there's a bias that favours these value systems amongst top tier researchers, unlike traditional hard comp eng studies.
>I am starting to think there is a much deeper problem with Apple, it is that without Steve Jobs, no one is being the yard stick of quality, especially in UX.

I'd chalk it up to Apple being the biggest company on the planet, and the sheer scale of managing an enterprise that size. Nothing lasts forever.
lol, the main reason I need a laptop with much memory IS Chrome.
Giving end users control of their own computers is not a stated goal of GPL 2.

But it is. Let's quote another paragraph of the preamble too, shall we?

if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that you have.

This surely says, in spirit, that if you as manufacturer have the right to deploy this software on certain hardware, that the recipient must have the same rights?

Linus's intention of "I give you software to do whatever you want with, and if you make improvements you have to give them back"

This, on the other hand, is not a stated goal of GPLv2. Your obligation, as a software distributor, is only downstream (your recipients/customers), not upstream (your suppliers).
32gb RAM ... meh it actually consumes a lot of power. This is a thin and small laptop. But I agree about the 1tb SSD.
It's a damn shame Stevie never kept his end of the bargain as far as producer credits and compensation. (FWIW, I say this as a huge Stevie fan.)

From https://www.okayplayer.com/music/stevie-wonder-malcolm-cecil...: "The first two albums, Music of My Mind and Talking Book, were put out with Stevie paying the bill out of the $100,000 he had in his account. We used about $64,000 for both of those albums because we were supposed to be creative directors of his company. We were trying to keep the cost down, and we weren’t charging much. We were charging $10 an hour each to Stevie for ongoing services, engineering, and because we were under the impression that we were going to get percentage points for being the creative directors of the company. We figured that we were participants and that we were in this together. That’s what we thought. Of course, that changed, but that was down the line."

On Music of My Mind (the first record they did together), Cecil and Margouleff were listed as associate producers. By Fulfillingness' First Finale, they were just listed for engineering and synth programming. When Stevie won the Grammy for Record of the Year for Innervisions, he didn't even mention them in his acceptance speech.

Malcolm Cecil later did the same thing for Gil Scott-Heron as he did for Stevie, and he got producer credit for all of those records.
I see Microsoft is fully embracing their boring reputation by announcing this in a blog post.
I'm only speculating, but serious blood clots are also known to be possible side effects of some forms of hormonal birth control. Given the relatively young ages of the women who had side effects on J&J, I would be really interested in learning if there could be a connection there.
I'd love seeing an anonymous peer review approach, to post anything you need to review X other posts. Until there are N accepts posts are invisible. I think it could work, but I am sure HN can tell me how I am wrong :)
Apache 2 is a terrible license for another reason anyway: it requires modified versions to carry notice of the modification on every modified source file. This means that tons of people who fork Apache 2 projects on GitHub are in violation of the license without even being aware of it.
Unfortunately this "pause" will also result in vaccine hesitancy (on top of vaccination delays). We know this from the EU experience with the AstraZeneca vaccine which is now distrusted by many people.

This will almost certainly now be a problem with the J&J vaccine in the US. More people will get sick and die because of this.

https://www.politico.eu/article/trust-oxford-astrazeneca-cor...
If only they hadn't done away with 4:3:

>>> 4/3
1.3333333333333333

>>> 3/2
1.5

>>> 16/10
1.6

>>> 16/9
1.7777777777777777

I use an external portrait monitor for this reason, and it is quite luxurious. So much less scrolling.

Also, if one is complaining about the dock, move it to the side.
The Separation of Money and State [video]
How should they make money?
Have you thought about doing some open source contributing? Like publish some mini projects or modules, submit pull requests, etc? I think some recruiters scrape GitHub. I know some people get tired of the unsolicited emails from recruiters but in a way it’s kinda nice too sometimes.
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