skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RMS is only consistent in that his opinions are, consistently, where they were in the 80s, and have remained unchanged for the past 40 years. They are outdated and entirely self-inconsistent with the world in 2021, and at odds with true freedom for users.

This applies to women and inclusivity, which has been written about ad nauseam. But it also applies to their own philosophy and software freedom.

Here's a meta-thread on just how bad the FSF's and RMS's policies around software and hardware freedom are:

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1377899929209774081

They promote making hardware less introspectable and more expensive for precisely zero benefit to users' freedom, only to the illusion of freedom. They promote hardware with giant proprietary ROMs as "respects your freedom", because you can't see them. They promote crippling hardware (a la Intel product segmentation), to permanently destroy parts which may "lure" users into using non-free software. They promote sabotaging efforts to inform users about security flaws, if fixing those flaws would require applying non-free patches to non-free software they are already running, because the patches would make that non-free software's existence evident. Their entire philosophy isn't based about the freedom to inspect, modify, and understand your software and your devices; it's based around not having any obvious binary blobs in your filesystem. In addition, some of their licenses are so utterly bad as to be completely broken (and legally untested). Their own guidance about their own licenses is bad and negligent at times. They have at least once abused their "or any later version" powers to backdoor in a relicensing exception, that was so poorly written as to have a vastly wider scope than intended.

Don't believe me? Read the above thread, the sources and explanations are all there.

RMS and the FSF do not have the slightest clue how to promote an ideology in supports of users' rights in 2021. They are an ossified organization based on outdated principles, which no longer serve users' interests. The world has moved on past the FSF.
The point is very much that we've now heard him out on about half a dozen different occasions and he's repeatedly shown an inability to deliver.
In the US it's called sales tax, not VAT, that may be why you're not getting results
I dont get this sentiment at all.If you are paying people to glue Ops and Dev you are already not the main target for Heroku.

Heroku is for companies that are willing to pay for convenience.
Rather than to rehash an 2018 debate about a particular editor social media posts is in conflict with their edits on Wikipedia, where did the discussing end up afterward? I think the answer is in an Arbitration a month or so after this article was written (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests...).

I did not find any more Arbitration Requests after this date, and the topic ban has not been appealed.
How big tech weaponised patents
Heroku had developer mindshare 10+ years ago that could, in some alternate universe, have made it end up competitive with AWS/GCP/Azure. Heroku is probably worth a billion dollars, which is impressive, but it could have been a hundred billion. It’s worth asking why that didn’t happen.
Not the same. It could complement but not replace a general purpose system.

Scania has a self driving truck convoy where a manned truck is followed by several driver less trucks using such beacons. It is not a trivial solution once you dig into it- normal wifi is too slow at highway speeds, and once the air is congested and re-transmissions occur it is even slower. Scania is using 802.11p [1] and still has backups for when connection is lost or delayed.

[1] https://www.nxp.com/products/wireless/dsrc-safety-modem/road...
Intel marketing getting so desperate it's funny
> the help text in every ‘git status’ message explicitly states to use ‘restore’

Good point. This makes no sense. There should either be a warning in the documentation and `git status` should not recommend it, or there should not be a warning in the documentation and `git status` should recommend it. It’s either ready for use or not, it shouldn’t be inconsistent about it.

I agree it’s a positive change, but the current state is ambiguous when it shouldn’t be.

You don’t need the “weird -- flag” in most cases, by the way, it’s not Git to blame for that, and it’s the same for both checkout and restore. The `--` is the standard POSIX way to distinguish between options and filenames. If there’s no ambiguity (e.g. `git checkout .`) then you can skip it. You only need it if the pathspec could be interpreted as an option.
Why You Should Have Charging Station in Restaurant?
> Economy is closer to a zero-sum game, after all theres limited resources in a period of time.

The "economy" is so much more than just the extraction of natural resources, and it's not a zero-sum game in general. Maybe you're conflating "money" with "wealth"?
Shilling with extra steps is still shilling. If you're going to do that might as well actually write out what your proposal is so we can skim it.

A paragraph (or page) of someone being self promoting is something i might read if its on topic and sounds like they have something insightful to add. A video has almost zero chance.
Reading stuff like this makes me lose all hope to ever really understand (and being able to tame) git:

> Under the covers, the pull command runs git merge FETCH_HEAD. This reads FETCH_HEAD, which shows that the master branch on the beta repository was the most recently fetched branch. It gets the commit object that alpha’s record of beta’s master is pointing at. This is the second commit. The master branch on alpha is pointing at the first commit, which is the ancestor of the second commit.
so what will happen to opendistro now ?
To add some further context that isn't written here, the exploit developer here has been tinkering around with v8 for a while. Last year he published a vulnerable VM to HackTheBox (a CTF platform) called RopeTwo[1], where the initial entry point looked extremely similar to this. Its largely regarded as one of the most difficult challenges to solve to date.

1. https://www.hackthebox.eu/home/machines/profile/260
$600-$900 a month is, assuming billing 60 hours per month, $10-$15 per hour. This is the very low end of the rates that third-world freelancers charge for development (mostly web) on places like upwork. If I were you, I'd probably try to go this way instead of aiming for a remote full time position - getting into a junior remote position with zero programming background and no CS (or even engineering) degree will be very hard. But, you can learn web programming on your own, build cool websites and use them as proof of competence on upwork. It can take a while to get established, but you said you have time. The end goal is to leave the upwork grind, by either getting the recognition among a network of clients that trust you and send work your way, or being offered a full-time position with one of the clients.

Disclaimer - I've never actually tried to freelance on such sites, so I don't know how brutal the market is right now.
> Now that he is very wealthy

You get this from where?
Not in the US. Although a lean could certainly be imposed by a court, you don't have anything to place a lien against when you're poor.
If you did not need to pay when you need healthcare, if education was free with equal opportunity, and everybody had enough to eat and a half decent place to live, I would entertain discussing this.

You could have this today in the US, it exists elsewhere. Yes, it would probably cost a bit more for the wealthiest people.

Until then, I believe we should not try to justify inequality based on irrealistic theoretical arguments. I see just a ploy to preserve the current situation by people in a good situation.

Because inequality and poverty is all too real. It hurts real people, unfairly. In the US. And it could change.
The picture of software dev you paint in the article (great read btw) is of a dichotomy: it's either a Big Tech corporate-politics nightmare, or a startup doomed to be that.

I think there is another option. There are thousands of small software companies that don't have the growth or traction to get bought out, are happily making relatively small amounts of money in their niche (but still enough to pay decent salaries - not SV salaries, but enough to live on comfortably), and care about both their customers and their code. They tend to employ relatively few engineers, who stay for a long time, and have founders who know their market niche really well.

You won't hear of them, because you're not in their specialised niche and they don't market outside their niche because they don't need investment. They're not really interested in going public, or being acquihired, or even gaining a trade sale, though that is the ultimate destination for most of them (when the founder decides to retire). They're not "sexy", except if you like actually practising your craft and building rock-solid products ("software you can love" - good phrase).
Examples: increasing capital gains taxes, AMT for corporations above a certain revenue, increasing minimum wage, free college, free healthcare, increasing inheritance taxes, breaking oligopolies by creating competitive markets, universal basic income.
Also the website: https://geometricunity.org/
Huh. So, when Reepicheep in Prince Caspian discovers that the ocean is no longer salty but tastes sweet, we can rule out that the oceans of the far reaches of the world containing Narnia are made of heavy water, because if it were then he wouldn't have been able to taste it.

Though I suppose any fan theory in this direction could be salvaged by the conjecture that talking mice are different.
From what I have seen this is true. Just check Antifa discussion page or the page on classical liberalism. The left wing bias is quite clear and it will probably only grow with the increase in the number militant left wing online warriors and the increasing perception that their views are adopted by society at large and constitute the definition of correct-thinking.

Wikipedia is still important and useful for many articles and subjects, but I currently just ignore their political stance.
What? That's exactly how annual contracts have worked for the last decades...

If you choose the annual contract, that will run for a full year with you paying monthly installments. If you want to cancel early, you will have to reimburse them. That is exactly the same as phone plans, gym plans (with the exception that gyms often don't allow early cancellation at all), etc.
Now if you don't cancel what do you think will happen with an annual contract? Of course it will prolong for another period of time that you chose, in this case a full year again. This is literally hoe contracts work.

If you get a monthly subscription of Netflix, you don't need to manually prolong it every month, do you?
Thank you, it's been a while now since I started improving things so it's easier to look at this more objectively.

I was harsh on my parents in that post, they were dysfunctional but my mother loved all of us in her own way and spent her whole life arround us, and I can't say a lot of good things about my father - dealing with my mother in those days would break anyone.

I'm on good terms with them now and they are in a better place now that we're grown up and independent.
If the price is higher there is more financial incentive to fight over territory (violence). In theory that doesn't happen if there is an actual monopoly, but that only works for Mexico, not the US. Because even if there is only one cartel in Mexico and one in Colombia, that's still at least two cartels operating in the US and fighting over territory.

On top of that, the merge to monopoly plan has the further disadvantage that then the monopolist drug cartel will be long-term stable. So their operation remains profitable and they never get shut down, which means their power grows over time as they use money to buy more power ad infinitum. You end up as a narco state. Very bad.
> Then the ants walked right past the traps. It's almost like they knew not to go into the white houses?

They leave trail of pheromones when they go back with food. If ants go somewhere but never return - this path won't have any pheromones and other paths will get more appealing over time.

There are even algorithms for solving hard problems in programming based on that :)
> does not detract from my feeling of being lucky/unlucky

The question isn't about feeling lucky/unlucky.

It doesn't matter if you can't take a vacation in Macchu Picchu.

- Can you take a vacation any time you want?

- Can you take a vacation for as long as you can?

- Can you afford to take a full year (or more) to work on a passion project? Or on any project? On a startup idea?

See, the more money you have, the more readily your answer will be yes to all the questions above.

> Shelling out enormous money for getting connections is a conformist (expensive and lazy) way of building career. I do not find much luck in that.

You can spend enormous money and have all the connections you need in four years. Or you can work your entire life and still never get those connections.

> but they are probably less prepared for a possible black swan event

Something tells me that Harvard graduates "survive" any and all black swan events significantly better than many others.
You're just pointing out why it should be illegal for employers to run credit reports.
I don’t agree with this at all - you see stocks as a place to “keep money” while stocks are actually part ownership in another company. When you invest your money in stocks you are using your money to buy means of production - it’s an asset that generates you more money.

And when you own the stock, you own more of the means of production in the economy, and get more money that would have gone to other investors.
It's probably due to the issue that Piketty noted in his book, getting reliable and comprehensive data on wealth is far, far harder than doing so for income.

I agree with your criticism but it doesn't seem entirely honest when the "hollowing out" of the Middle Class has been a well observed phenomenon for at least the past decade if not several more.
I hope that in the wake of this more people start supporting the alternatives. More comepetition means more choice. Adobe's software is excellent, but they're far too dominant. The alternatives may not be good enough for everyone right now, but they're good enough for many of us and they're improving all the time.

The Affinity suite is great and affordable for me as a hobbyist. Many of the open source packages are also excellent.
A lot depends on what you value in "innovation". Better, more useful things? The industry has been falling short here. Perpetually reinventing solutions to the same problems, to secure a money flow? Yeah, we're good at it.
Most projects will run with cloudflare in front, which takes care of static caching.
That's like the Internet version of challenging him to a duel.

I demand satisfaction, sir! Emails at twenty paces. No IRC allowed.
I don't see her disagreeing with what I said.
Unfortunately I don't have a good answer, but I suspect it doesn't need to be a 0 or 1 situation -- having a decent percentage of the needs covered is better than having very little.

Unfortunately a trend I'm seeing in my country is that some people are calling for crippling the in-country farming industry because it is "inefficient" due to subsidization and would be cheaper to import food from elsewhere. The trend should be upwards, reducing dependence on importing and focus on local produce. Gut feeling is also that it would be more ecologically efficient although I don't have any concrete numbers on it.
Hey I'm the exploit author, just run "chrome.exe --no-sandbox exploit.html" it will work.
Well the person I responded to is claiming equicaloric diets lead to different levels of fat gain.
If you are in depth, your wealth is negative.

After I finished school, as a software engineer I bought a home and a car (by taking a loan) and effectively I had negative wealth. I was by no means in a bad situation, I just consciously took a loan against my future earnings to improve my life quality now rather than after I saved up.

Many of these charts ignore this.
USA Censorship must be stopped in Europe.
Sounds like that's the main problem with it atm, it's not well defined.
I didn't make such an assumption.

I ask again: How do you define "access to wealth"?
Yay... I hope they don't notice this small Austrian village: https://goo.gl/maps/x4i9N78MZY6KErca6

Will English speakers police the rest of the world, regardless of their language?
ScAnt–an open-source platform for the creation of 3D models of arthropods
Well-designed software shouldn't require the average user to read documentation to understand basic features
Instead of being ideological or paternal about it, just call it for what it is, this isn't Cable News.
He's been willing to listen to criticism for 30 years alright. He just doesn't change or learn anything as a result.
I never said they didn't. I said that a diet, when controlled for calorie levels, will yield identical fat gain/loss.
I also recommend checking out the Affinity products. They're feature-rich, affordable and continually being improved.
It could complement but not replace a general purpose system, and anyway the bigger problem is not navigation but avoiding other cars, pedestrians and obstacles on the road.

Since your solution is based on sending someone to mark the roads, why not use the same someone to simply build a map of the road, Google Maps style with higher accuracy? I think there are a few startups doing just that now.
You missed the whole point there, bud.
This is the same wish of all creative people - "please someone feed me while I scratch my creative itch". It's why we should be supporting UBI.
> because the relevant society has decided that it is obvious why sex with minors is harmful

Society declares a lot of things obviously wrong and most of us never really examine why they are wrong, particularly from first principles. I think being willing to examine and question these kinds of assumptions fosters a very open culture where people aren't afraid to speak up (unlike the other 99% of the world where you live in fear).

E.g. I'm in the same boat Stalman was in that I've never recieved a satisfactory exaplanation from first principles about why mutually agreed (using that term because "consensual" has legal meanings) non-penetrative sexual interaction between a child and an adult is harmful. I've just been told to take it on faith that it causes horrible damage (and ignore the obvious confounders in the "studies"/anecdotes and the surrounding society working hard at placing the victim label on the child, which could easily cause damage itself).
Thank you for these explanations.

As introduced in this page http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=lambda,

in lambdatalk everything begins with such a text replacement process:

replace :a0 :a1 ... an-1
in expression containing some occurences of :ai
by v0 v1 ... vp-1

rewritten in a prefixed parenthesized form

{{lambda {:a0 :a1 ... an-1}
expression containing some occurences of :ai // it's a string
} v0 v1 ... vp-1}

It's nothing but an IIFE, (Immediately Invoked Function Expression).

This is a simple example:

1) {{lambda {x y} {+ x y}} 3 4} -> 7
2) {{lambda {x y} {+ x y}} 3} -> {lambda {y} {+ 3 y}}
3) {{lambda {y} {+ 3 y}} 4} -> 7

In lambdatalk the implementation makes lambdas true "combinators", knowing nothing but global constants (primitives and user defined ones). No free variables, no closures, pure functions, entirely independent of any context. Pure functions without any side effect. True referential transparency.

The lack of closures (I love them in Javascript) can fortunately be compensated by the fact that lambdas accept de facto "partial calls", and transfers of values can be done by "IIFE".

Arrays are the only one mutable objects and I use them to avoid recursion's stackoverflow, for instance in this page http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=reduce
Of course not, don't be ridiculous. My point is that whatever man-power and resources required to run the elasticsearch service can be considered as fixed cost, while the same 47.53% profit margin can continue to "scale" indefinitely, regardless of whether you have 10 customers or 10,000 customers. That's the beauty of it.

As we can see elsewhere in the comments, your biggest competitor appears to be the various kubernetes operators. With kubernetes as the common stack across multiple cloud providers as well as on-prem datacenters, the 10,000 customers can now contribute to the same operator project, to possibly get somewhere close to, or even exceed, what AWS can do with a small team of engineers.

Perhaps anticipating this trend, GKE now has an "autopilot" mode, such that a 30% profit margin is already included in the node pricing. That's one hell of a moneymaker.
> The aristocrats and oligarchs of the olden days might have been corrupt, debauched and half-useless, but at least they knew it.

You out of your mind? What could possibly make you say "they knew it"? The amount of people rich-by-inheritance who are selling their bootstraps stories is stupidly high, and a lot of them believe it. One famous example got banned from twitter a couple months ago.
Large scale wealth redistribution!
> You can't cry victimhood over your colleagues not filling in the gaps and taking care of the "technical" problems for you (presumably with the credit flowing to you anyway).

Papers commonly have multiple authors. Why would it be an issue to have multiple people work on different aspects of it? Being shunned from your department for personal reasons without consideration on the merit of the theory is an entirely different matter.
The exact same thing (monthly fee, 12 or 24 month contract) is very common in Germany for mobile phone and home internet plans.
I guess that the infamous Scunthorpe problem [0] is still raising issues all around, hopefully they will get the page back soon, it is a bit scary that the page got taken down and there have not been any response from Facebook at the time of that article.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
They recently renamed the village. It's Fugging now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria#Name_ch...
This small Austrian village already changed the name to Fugging. Someone did notice.
Nope, it will also work with a http url. Just run chrome.exe with --no-sandbox flag
If you travel even 10 miles (16 km), sales tax changes. It is at the county level. The manufacturer cannot afford to analyze this level of granular market and the associated sales tax.

Ideally, the seller should list the price + tax if it is physically sold in a store. This should be fixed (along with the tips culture in US).

Online retailers still have this problem. Sales tax is literally based on the zip code you enter during the checkout page.

So how can this problem be solved? The only solution I see is a federally controlled fixed sales tax similar to EU. But, that would be unconstitutional in US. States hold the power and additional municipal taxes are at the county level.

I think you're trivializing the matter. I've had several conversations with Europeans about it and we eventually come to an understanding that its not easy. On surface, it sounds simple if we assume is a simple nation-wide VAT tax.
That's actually what I do the whole day. I give people good advice. I call myself a generous problem fixer.
Yesterday a poor man was complaining that the steel company he worked for closed a few years ago and since then he did not get any job. I saved his life by telling him the following: "The solution to your problem is easy. Stop being poor and start being rich. You made a mistake by choosing to be poor so my second advice is to stop making mistakes."

He thanked me and I am quite of proud that I saved his life. Going to write a book now.