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> A typical example is seen among the more extreme pro-choice activists. They frequently make claims like "It's not about protecting babies, they [pro-life people] just want to control women's bodies".

There is actually plenty of evidence for that claim. Some so-called pro-life politicians are not meaningfully pro-life except in their opposition to abortion rights, do not support other measures like sex ed or contraception that would reduce abortions, are fine with letting pregnant women die, and some have even pressured their mistress to have an abortion despite opposing abortion rights politically. Everything points to it being more about denying freedom to women than about actually caring about unborn life.

For some at least. But their number is not small. This can also be seen by the criminalisation of miscarriages, and women being forced to risk their life to bear a dead fetus to term. Those measures are absolutely about controlling women and do nothing to protect unborn life.

In fact, there seems to be an increasing number of issues where especially US Republicans' position seems entirely based on simply opposing whatever the Democrats want on principle. Look at coal rollers; in what kind of world view does that make sense? A few years ago they voted to increase military expenditures above what the military asked for, and the military had no idea what to even do with that money.
> Trade deficit aside, we shouldn’t

US has been very successfully exporting its debt (quite literally, almost no other country can run such high deficits for so long) and services.

What do you think happens with all that money if Americans can’t buy those cheap imported goods anymore?

Also other countries like China or Japan won’t be able to continue buying US bonds. Basically Americans are getting free stuff funded by debt they are never going to pay back and still you have people whinning…

> larger %

US decided to charge e.g. 15 times higher tariffs on the EU than the EU does. You believe that’s even remotely reasonable?

Or do you actually trust Donald’s table that they made to confuse clueless idiots?
It would be nice if it showed you something when it ended instead of just having the page go blank. . .
It’s not a question of what lens you’re viewing it through — your initial comment is simply wrong.

Viral licenses e.g. GPL are _both_ free software and open source. Permissive licenses e.g. BSD are also _both_ free software and open source.
Real arms length fully open pension fund would be reasonable. All investments would have to be made in that fund or sub-fund. These would also be fully open to public. And also ban any communication between those making investment decisions and those in office.
I like to use FLOW for free libre open work.

First, the name sound cool, who doesn't want to be in the flow, putting its stream of consciousness into some hikigai endeavor?

It makes clear that there is something about liberty, rather than a focus on gratious in the monetary sense.

It also bring on the table that there is some work at play. So human time and attention. The polysemie helps in the sense that it also stand for the result of the work, be it software, music or some graphic design.
Where are you getting that 99% from?
can just speak for myself, but I wouldn't be employable after a layoff like that... I't get a mental meltdown and afterwards would probably be on disability until I got mentally better. They're literally teaching thausands of people that they aren't reliable and can't be trusted.
I mean, if that's what you're aiming for, good for you, but I'd recon that you'll end up with more people that want your head now than before.
This is semantics though. They were for all intents and purposes fired. Being placed on leave pending termination has been the standard playbook for most of these RIFs, and I would bet is what happened to all of the others that were fired at the same time as these researchers and weren't reinstated.
IMHO it’s pretty fungible at least outside the high-end stuff. Most people would hardly notice where the wine comes from (aside from specific types of grapes and such)
Ha, try that as foreigner crossing the border, or just doing a US layover. You'll be treated as criminal. There never was free speech in the US neither
And of course, none of this matters in the slightest for translated works, which almost by definition includes the vast majority of works ever written.

"As it was written" is a very high bar that is simply not attainable for anything other than fairly recent works in your native language.
Note that the reason why this works for sandboxing is that wasm code gets its own linear memory that is bounds-checked. Meaning that the generated C code will contain those checks as well, with the corresponding performance implications.
Yet that law is, what normal people are held accountable to, whether it is nasty to rely on it or not. Of course, if you happen to be a tech giant and have almost limitless financial means, you can do whatever you want.
Personal experience? I have never seen any notable case of a software project describing itself as “open source” that wasn’t also free software.

Companies that want to publish their source code but not give you the right to use it however you want, e.g. Cockroach or (my former employer) Materialize, are described as “source-available” instead.
I think the point is that is inhumane to fire someone because of "coding error", from what we know about USA not having a job is affecting your health care so might cost the person life because a "coding error" , so if you are the guy that writes a "findfWhoToFire" function please have some empathy and tripple check your code and write tests, in USA it can cost lives.
I mean, this is great, but BYD has pretty much zero installed charger footprint in markets where the Supercharger network exists.

Is that going to change?
Maybe I need to explain better.

Obviously LiDAR improves the maximum achievable capabilities of a self driving system. I am not disputing that. I don’t think anyone would or could dispute that, it’s just trivially true.

The point I am trying to make is more nuanced than that.

Basically I’m thinking about whether this decision to ditch lidar is actually stupid, or if there could be a sensible explanation that is plausibly true. I am proposing what I believe is a plausibly true sensible explanation for the decision.

If you think about whether accidents would be reduced by having lidar, the answer is again obviously yes. But if you think about this as a business decision, it is not so simple. The question is not whether accidents would be reduced by having lidar. The question is whether accidents would be reduced enough to justify the added cost and complexity to the system.

So then, how do we figure that out? Well, we think about the causes of human car accidents ranked by percent of car accidents caused. What would be the items in the top 95% let’s say? Then, which of those items can be addressed exclusively by a lidar enabled system.

To isolate can-only-be-fixed-by-lidar problems, I imagine a thought experiment where we have a human with lidar for eyeballs. Which of the top k causes of accidents would be fixed by giving humans lidar eyeballs. Well, maybe not that many, actually. That is my point.

This could be argued to be immoral due to I guess making decisions about death based on business considerations. But it’s probably fairly easy to convince oneself as a Tesla executive that the car (M3 anyway) being affordable is critical to getting the safer-than-human driving tech adopted, so making the car more expensive actually fails to save more people than the lidar would save, etc.
I am on a MacBook so can't really test it. When you release for safari maybe. But adblockers dominate the market, your going to need all the help you can get from journalist to break the "fixed mind barrier" on what an adblocker does. "Blocks ads"
For better or worse, government jobs are perceived as something you get for life. That was part of the appeal: yeah, the pay is less than in the private sector, but they're unlikely to fire you even if you're not good or if the role no longer makes sense.

But that aside: even if we want to alter the deal, there are good ways and bad ways to do this. Jobs are important because they are a big part of your life and because you need one to pay the bills. So you should try to avoid "haha so long" / "oops, clicked the wrong button, come back" kinds of situations.
fitness evaluation can be massively parallel and scales easily..
Is there some benefit here for Trump voters?

I don't see it.

But then again, I don't see how a trade war against the world is going to "Make America Great Again" either. It is much more likely to do the opposite.
Was a hardcode PHP dev for many years. A quick look at the code makes me glad I left this ecosystem behind - it looks like a brittle maintenance nightmare! It's no wonder there's trace log lines scattered all over the place. There doesn't seem to even a sniff of anything related to testing here. It's insane to me to try promote this over Laravel.
> and there is absolutely no reason to accept GNU's definition of "free software" and not OSI's arguably more successful definition of "open source" software

The reason was to not dilute the politcal agenda of the original movement, and this dilution is exactly why "open-source" was created.
Payroll taxes are paid into social security as an insurance payment. It is a percentage of what you pay the employee. Some might say that it is part of the employees pay.

I don't know what that has to do with taxing marketing spend.
The vast vast majority of people believe Open Source includes free.

This is nonsense & actively harmful posting. There are some good paragraphs about what you don't get, but up at top saying it doesn't have to be free is not correct.

Open Source Definition: https://opensource.org/osd
Difference in perspective, man. I practice "collective giving" by donating money and time to help those less blessed than I have been, and by voting for measures I believe will strengthen society, even if they're against to my (narrowly defined) economic self-interest. We're all part of the collective, and owe each other that.
As I keep telling, GNU/Linux had a lucky moment sidestepping the whole issue of AT&T trying to get control back from UNIX, had this not taken place and everyone would be using classical UNIXes, with some BSD code running on them.

You see the same on embedded as well, all new kids on the block as embedded FOSS OSes or bare metal libraries, are either Apache or MIT licensed.
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How did the Tech & Finance Leaders fall for this during the election? Amazing lack of foresight.
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I go back and look at old photos all the time (like when I think of a trip, and look back to it, and then just keep scrolling for a while). The pictures bring back more memories and that's to me a great joy - and on the other hand I find no value in deleting the photos that are not "the best" (I'm talking about good enough photos, I delete blurry, useless or duplicate ones immediately) - what would it gain? A few dollars less storage cost over the next decade? The satisfaction of digital cleaning?
Smartphone tide lifting other boats: reverse cameras, heat rejecting Gorilla glass windows and now this.
The team responsible for doing it right, have been fired, before the project's completion.
That’s fair at first glance, but Dataphyre actually includes a built-in diagnostic engine (Dpanel) that:
- Validates PHP syntax before runtime
- Runs JSON-defined unit tests with dependency checks
- Supports perf assertions, expected types, regex, and even custom scripts
- Auto-discovers tests inside each module’s unit_tests/ folder
- It’s designed to diagnose, trace, and stress-test production modules, not just simulate behavior in CI.

I get that the structure may look unorthodox, but it’s built for resilience and self-healing.
Would love for you to take a deeper look, I think you might be surprised.
This feels similar to the Reagan administration’s approach to the HIV epidemic, and for similar reasons. This will disproportionately impact men who have sex with men, and I have very little doubt that that’s the point.
I said that already well before you did.

> Like, we could ask AI to assess the physical attributes of the characters it generated. Then ask it to permute some of those attributes. Generate some random tweaks: ok but brawy, short, and a different descent.

what a terror you've been.
It seems reasonably likely they were using signal to avoid records keeping requirements and public scrutiny. If you found a group of employees using signal with disappearing messages to talk about work outside of your normal work chat (slack etc.) you'd be pretty suspicious, let alone if they were working in public office!
I think Herpes Zoster (shingles) vaccine already did a great positive impact on that front.

Though I agree, any advance against simplex would have been a big victory.
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That's probably about what it'd look like. Some combination of things that make it impossible to profitably advertise the way companies do today.
I agree the funnel is narrow, especially early on. This kind of platform naturally faces a “cold start” problem: creators show up hoping for donors, but without initial traffic or discoverability, things can feel quiet.
Currently to deal with this scenario, I am focusing on:
1. Have a smooth frictionless setup - just connect your wallet and send you donation.
2. For the initial phase I would be focusing on creators with an already existing audience who have a preference to donate with crypto and to give creators a way to monetize where they already are (Twitter, Telegram, personal sites, etc.).
3. I’ll be relying on this myself to fund development. If other builders on HN or elsewhere support the project, great. If not, I’ll learn fast whether this is worth iterating or pivoting.

I don’t expect thousands of users overnight, but even a small group of crypto-native creators using this and giving feedback will be valuable.
It has been fixed on Linux distributions, which aren't UNIX.

And even that, only bash, because I wouldn't consider the state of X Windows and Wayland fixed in any way, shape, or form.
Okay true, but that's not the format's fault (:

The GFX 100s II thing is very interesting. Totally not what I would expect from such a "high end" camera.
I can think of at least one (Northern European style Socialism) that is better to live under via virtually any metric for 99.99% of people - and that includes the majority of users of this site that think they are some sort of tech unicorn.

Just not having insurance tied to employment would be such a massive win.
I'm not sure if that affects all chemistries and compositions. If you look at the spec-sheet for e.g. the LG E63 cells used in some older EVs (notably without TMS), those specify charging down to -20 °C - and the owner's manuals certainly have no warnings in them that the car will implode if you charge in the winter.
The phrase "don't catch a falling knife" has been uttered quite a lot the last few days
> For better or worse, government jobs are perceived as something you get for life. That was part of the appeal: yeah, the pay is less than in the private sector, but they're unlikely to fire you even if you're not good or if the role no longer makes sense.

Yeah, that is definitely "for worse". The point of hiring someone to do a job is to get something useful done. Not to hand out do-nothing sinecures to lucky lottery winners. I have friends who have transitioned from private to public sector and they unanimously complain about how useless the government lifers are. This is your tax money that is being spent.
My personal experience is 100%-0%. I've yet to see a project that uses "open source" as a synonym for FOSS or OSI. There are a lot of projects out there that use "open source" meaning "open source". HN comment section is always in outrage.
Yet another article purporting to "defend" open source while simultaneously undermining its communal aspects by implying maintainers owe NOTHING to others.

Where's the vigorous criticism of CLAs? The criticism of monetization that leaves out unpaid volunteers? The acknowledgment of all the free labor provided by users, bug reporters, documenters, evangelists, etc.?

This attitude is as toxic as the users' attitudes it's railing against, just on the opposite side of the fence.
For every book, Standard Ebooks provides a hyperlink to the original scan, a hyperlink to the original transcription, and a full revision history in which all spelling updates have been clearly marked. To me, this already seems to be going above and beyond—most ebook repositories provide less. I can’t imagine that the marginal benefit from keeping multiple parallel branches would be worth the cost in volunteer time and labor, when maintaining pristine first editions isn’t even a goal of the project.
Doesn't that put the ball a bit far in your court? Once they're already up and running is where you get to dictate any terms to them that would be slightly better than them having to rewrite it with something else.
If CDC, FDA, ACIP etc. are crippled,

a) it'd be very hard to release advanced medicine

or

b) it'd be very easy to release snake oil as medicine

and both scenarios would be very bad.
> There must be more to US problems.

Yes, there are many people in the US that are highly insecure financially and socially.

The E.U. has a much higher floor. Workers have more rights. There is more social support. Medical bankruptcy is practically impossible. It's not to say that it's all sunshine and rainbows, but I'd guess that very few Europeans are one paycheck and 3 months of eviction proceedings away from being literally homeless. In the U.S., a large fraction of people are like that.

And our government, as the article says, is largely run by people that have "got theirs". They have some savings. They may have a home (albeit with a mortgage). They may stand to inherit from relatives. They have better job prospects, maybe even the luxury of a high prestige, low paying job. And these people, for the most part, can't or won't imagine or understand what it's like to live a life of insecurity.

The E.U., in my opinion, has some sense of class consciousness and solidarity among the workers, especially those that would be insecure if they lived in the states. But in the U.S., there's a substantial fraction of vulnerable people that feel morally opposed to welfare even though they'd benefit from it. They have a mentality often called that of "temporarily embarrassed millionaires". So when a politician comes along that promises that he'll give them security without a handout, that they've already earned it but he'll stop those stealing it, these people will support him wholeheartedly.

This particular lens is just one of several that explain the rise of someone like Trump. There are also accelerationists, people that think that blowing up a stable system will accelerate the revolution. There are bigots, who think that some "other" is the cause of their suffering. There are people that are merely self-interested, and think that Trump with benefit them, either correctly or incorrectly. And on and on, so many various and overlapping reasons.

And there is a missing condition: the existing political parties in the U.S. did not empathize or respect or give voice or deliver for the insecure. It was easy to think that the system as it existed offered a binary option where neither choice served their interests, so why not pick something radical and risk blowing it up?

Europe, I think, is getting close to these conditions in some respects. The far right has been doing too well recently. But Europe is also constitutionally more capable of pulling back from the brink and providing an effective centrist government in spirit, even if it sometimes has trouble affording it.
The "Unix Philosophy" is some cargo cult among FOSS folks that never used commercial UNIX systems, since Xenix I haven't used any that doesn't have endless options on their man pages.
Public and private sector science have historically been enmeshed by design.

Public sector medical research has been decimated in recent months, so adverse effects on products developed by private entities is an unfortunate byproduct of that.
Oh my memory is no good !
Ahaha, there was this tennis game I was playing.
Or maybe because it was flash back in the days - I remember the "security" that the App store has always been complaining about, security to their business model, ye?

Cause flash was proper good back then to make games.
I've read that rinse aids like finish might do unexpected things to your digestive tract, so I don't use them anymore.

EDIT: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36464527/
Reading the comments, is it safe to say that LLMs are a digest of the internet which is some update over google search, but with the caveat that you need to double check the results? I mean they basically have some compressed version of almost all the written knowledge and will respond correctly about things that have already been written, and hallucinate (extrapolate) about things not explicitly written. Of course if someone carefully curates the input data to filter out misinformation, it might even be an upgrade over google. Is there a consensus on this?
> This is possibly their corrupt intent.

Trump's OMB head has said as much: they want to demoralize the federal workforce and make them dread going to work every day. They want to give the federal government the reputation of being a bad, undesirable, unstable place to work. This is all no accident.
Love that they're using Git and keeping everything open. It's rare to see such a thoughtful blend of literary love and modern tooling
When building a camera, you decide once and then most parameters stay fixed. It would be trivial to just append 1000 bytes for a mostly fixed DNG header to each image.

But how do you test this?
While the DNG specification is open source, the implementation was/is(?) not. Do I really need a copy of Photoshop to test if my files are good? How would I find good headers to put into my files? what values are even used in processing?

Maybe the situation has changed, but in the old days when I was building cameras there was only a closed-source Adobe library for working with DNGs. That scared me off.
Yes, of course. That's why when I buy some food I know that the list of ingredients is the actual list of ingredients and not someone's free expression. That helps me feel safer as a consumer. Same in this Twitter case. Does it really work differently in the US?
And then you have the Germans, where they only feel safe in the most litigious and one of the most highly regulated countries of the world :)