jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Stallman is just as free to contribute as you are I are. And he's been contributing over the last few years to the GNU Project.

The question at hand is whether he's an appropriate person to place in a leadership position of an activism organization. And frankly, there's no "should" there - there's only the blunt question of whether he's helping the organization achieve its activism goals or not. If his personal beliefs or actions are making the targets of the activism not be interested in listening, then he's undermining the work of his fellow activists, whether or not he intends to. If his affiliation with the organization threatens funding, then he's putting the organization at risk, whether or not we think that ought to be a relevant factor for donors. (And it goes the other way too, of course.)

The goal of the free software movement is to convince people that software freedom is important and to produce free software. It is a hard enough task. Changing the goals to be
to convince people that, first, they should stop caring about Richard Stallman's views, and then after that, that they should care about software freedom, just makes the task even harder.
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This is the article that started the whole "RMS defended epstein" lie. It contained a lot of other lies that the author has refused to fix. Considering all that I would say that it is not trustworthy. Even if it is true there is a good chance that it was taken out of context or was a joke. The first one sounds like one, as for the second, I can't defend it but I think that someone who says that needs support rather than harassment, or could be said in jest, for example "oh woe me, what shall I do, I have no real reason to continue living if I can't be with you!", considering how the article tried as hard as possible to misrepresent what he said it sounds possible.

Regardless, even if the suicide case happened as they said, I am not aware of him repeating it. Someone probably told him that this is wrong and he never did it again, isn't this exactly what we want? For people not to repeat their mistakes and stop what makes other uncomfortable? You are not born innately knowing that this is a bad thing.
For various ways of interpreting a lisp interpreter, see The Art of the Interpreter: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/6094/AIM-453....

I'm not sure what to say about it, other than it's well worth your time. It's also a lot of fun to implement the interpreters it presents.

Eventually it settles on emacs-style global namespaces, after more or less proving that every other alternative doesn't really work.
> So, what did we learn?

1. If you are coding or writing, multiply the expected time of any specific task by ∼ 1.5x (the real completion time will now probably still be 1.5x longer than your new expected time, but you tried).

1.5x matches my real-world SW dev experience.
If you're serious about music; performance or composition; you'll study with the most accomplished teacher you can find. They're working for peanuts during covid.

Taking a challenge like this from a rando on the internet is a huge gamble.

Want to get good? Get someone with teaching experience to dictate your practice. Want to act like you're trying? Do this.
I tried and get no results.
I'd be surprised if anything-PHP is a bonus to hiring. Most likely people work on it despite of PHP, not because of it.
I saw it here: https://www.kickstarter.com/help/handbook/rewards

I read too quickly though, $25 is most popular reward level, $75 is average. Either way, it shouldn't be a big deal since it's much higher :)
Cool. I didn't know that it could side load apps. That kinda changes everything. I didn't notice settings for that. I also got a Fire Phone during the Christmas sale, and once I got Google Play Store on it, it became a much better phone...almost good.
Maybe I'm looking at this from the wrong angle, but also, parents have not known how to read to their children except the last couple hundred years. Before that whatever children learned, in terms of verbal communication, was by listening as bystanders and interactively with other perhaps older children/siblings and adults. And when there were many more people and generations in a household, you got lots more exposure to conversations... but again, I might be looking at this the wrong way.
That is because their target customer has never been the end user. How many people with a smart phone have heard of Qualcomm?
Good points, and another one worth mentioning: watch out for the case where the single unit or small quantity of sample product you order when evaluating a new supplier turns out to be of much, much better quality than the bulk order you eventually place.
8k is considered to be the final resolution for digital displays as it should be sufficient for people with the best vision.
Based on the graphs given, it looks like the low variance may simply be a result of having the x-axis be percentile.

Consider Round 2, where sigma=1.2%, mu=98%. Suppose hypothetically that 90% of students are clustered below 100 (an absolute measure of performance), 96.8% of students are below 150 pts, and 99.2% of students are below 300 pts.

In this case, the absolute variation is huge (300 vs 150). But because only 2.4% of students score between 150 and 300 pts, on a percentile graph, it looks like sigma has been reduced.

I think it's unlikely that this has occurred, but the graphs given don't preclude it.
Overfitting has nothing to do with it. See this paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6572

I believe the original paper tried ensembles and even got the images to work on different networks.
>>Were there even the slimmest chance of acquittal, few defendants would utter that phrase without there being either a benefit to owning up, or an extra penalty for not doing so

Oh man, that's so wrong. Even where there is a LARGE change of acquittal, many choose a plea bargain because they cannot afford a good attorney or because the prosecutor is threatening them with something crazy like 40 years for downloading a movie. Would you take the risk of 40 years, knowing you're innocent? Do you have enough faith in a jury to put the rest of your life in their hands? I doubt it.
No, the images generated worked on even different neural networks trained on different data.
I liked Kin-Dza-Dza http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2659374/ and the remake.
There needs to be a ban on this practice.

I don't know about Canadian law, but most likely the spirit of:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures

Was certainly not: Ask the Canadians to seize it for you and then they can give it back to you without due process.

(This is exactly the kind of Hostile Act the NSA should be protecting American's against, not cooperating with).
I'm curious, do you know what happens if you tried to make yourself useless by publicly announcing that FBI is trying to make you an informant? Has anyone tried that as a way out?
It's impressive how you and parent comment copied over to/from the dupe posting verbatim.

edit oops nevermind, I see my comment was also mysteriously transported from the dupe.
Would your opinion change in any way if it turned out the homeless person donated their kidney to the rich person a couple of years ago? It seems to me that the broader context matters here as well.
Old, beaten up textbooks from the corner of my neighborhood library was talking 741 back in the 2000s, when I was in high school and started dabbling around with electricity more seriously.

Maybe it was fully obsolete by that point, but high school + neighborhood libraries aren't exactly filled with up-to-date textbooks or the latest and greatest.

I remember that Radio Shack was still selling kits with 741 in them, as well as breadboards and common components... 12V wall-warts and the like. Online shopping was beginning to get popular, but I was still a mallrat who picked up components and dug through old Radio Shack manuals into 2005 or 2006.

It was the ability to walk around, and see those component shelves sitting there in Radio Shack that got me curious about the hobby and start researching it. I do wonder how modern children are supposed to get interested into hobbies now that malls are less popular (and electronic shops like Radio Shack are basically disappeared).

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I don't remember what we used in college. I knew that I was more selective and understood the kinds of problems various OpAmps had back then. Also you're not really rich enough to invest into a private stockpile of chips, and instead just use whatever the labs are stocked with in college.

LM358 is the jellybean that I keep in my drawer today. If you're curious. Old habits die hard though, I still think 741 as the jellybean even though it really is obsolete today.
> Quora used to be great 5yrs back now it's a shit. I get notifications of post like "I am earning $250k don't know what to do with my life", really. It's just essays of self boasting....

The daily digest Quora sends me almost always has a couple interesting questions or so with informative answers for me. It never had ones like you describe.

I wonder why we are getting such different questions/answers?
It's a better deed than giving $0. But it's a damned if you do, nobody would notice if you didn't kind of situation.
A little of both. Back in the day you had a few different platforms. Oracle was a safe choice and eventually a no brainer... most companies had either MS SqlServer or Oracle capability, and a smaller number ran DB2.

Open source created modern Oracle. I worked for a company built around Informix, and that database engine was one of the largest expenses of the company. I think we paid like $40k/socket in 2000. Today, you use an open source database to build your product.

So Oracle had to start selling integrated solutions. They do evil shit like pay higher commissions for salespeople to cross-sell their colleagues. So the Oracle Financials guy gets paid more to sell Identity crap than the identity guy. So the sales idiots form all sorts of weird alliances and kill each other.
>“It also doesn't make sense for late adopters to get the same price because there's a lot more risk associated with being an early adopter than a late adopter.”

Often repeated but false. Early adopters mine or buy large proportions at negligible prices while late adopters mine or buy negligible proportions at large prices.
In general, Hacker News has an atrocious understanding of finance. You see some absolutely swivel-eyed nonsense being given the time of day here by people who should really know better.

I'd recommend looking for a few "What's the economic outlook?" articles somewhere like the Financial Times for a more reasonable and better qualified view. I think the FT Alphaville blog is still free to read once you register. That's generally good.

Nevertheless I will go ahead and answer the question with no sense of shame or irony.

> Does anyone have any explanation as to why asset prices are up so much across the board apart from fed easy money policy?

You mentioned a huge part of it already. Another big part is the spillover effect of the monetary policy of every other major central bank in the world. It means governments can borrow extremely cheaply to prop up businesses and provide extra social protection to their citizens, without the spectre of brutal austerity budgets in the next couple of years.

The flipside of this protection is that bond yields are on the floor (and yes, the recent uptick from "on the floor" is still basically "on the floor"), so a lot of the money that needs a home ends up in the stock market, pushing up prices. This is kind of by design, for better or for worse. A lot of money ends up in property too, which is arguably why housing crises are getting more and more common around the world.

In the USA there's also anticipation of Joe Biden's stimulus plan, which is really very big indeed. It's argued (gently, by only some economists) that it will boost consumer demand in many areas that don't need any extra boosting. Some of this anticipation is manifesting itself in stock prices.

> Is there any way this could end well?

Depends what you mean by "end well", but basically yes, I think so. It's not likely to be a rerun of 1929 or 2008, for Keynesian contra-cyclical spending reasons that I'm not qualified to get into. There could well be a correction/mean-reversion/crash, but that's true of any time period. There might be a kind of Japanese-style slow/no growth eventually. There might be a major war or a natural disaster that upends everything again. It's hard to know.

I would also say that your "indefinitely" timeframe of 3 to 5 years is way too short. Especially for investing as opposed to day-trading, you need to be able to take the rough with the smooth over many years. If the stock market risk seems too high at the moment, just put your money in cash and eat the negligible or mildly negative real returns.
sigh

Running @ 45fps on a computer that runs Crysis 2 @ 60 FPS on extreme settings. Performance of WebGL is still abysmal and unusable it seems.
There is interesting blog post about it here:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xPJKZyPCvap4Fven8/the-atomic...
Gov agencies can hack devices to read the contents - this is not specific to Signal or any weakness of Signal.

However Signal does provide secure e2e encryption which prevents mass surveillance.
Big company + Obscure stable internal tool + Maintenance of that tool = thumbs up
Proper headset and/or proper microphone training. A lot of people just don't know, or care.
Chaos is a culture, right?
I feel the biggest concern is about focus shift for Signal since doing one shady thing usually means other shady things will be done.

You can ignore it for now but how much will they push it over time to make it harder and harder to ignore? Will grandma accidentally buy tokens due to some dark pattern UI and then call you about it? Will you get constant messages from scammers trying to get you to send them tokens?

This might not happen but I feel it is a valid concern for a platform you wish to stay on longer term.

edit: And since the CEO of the token company has said he wishes to make future monetary donations to Signal they have an incentive for making the token do well.
can you do tech support for users of the product? It can often be helpful if a tech support person also knows a bit about tech so as to be able to turn the customer's vague bug description into something the developers can actually understand.
Yes and no. Acute health care may be free in Canada, but even here, money has a particularly substantial effect on your quality of life if you're disabled.
Are you maybe confusing Threema and Telegram?
Lin has some interesting work in isosurface extraction
https://github.com/Lin20/BinaryMeshFitting
"Not everybody who supported Hitler was a Nazi."

Do you see how rediculous that is?

I know it is hard to swallow, but you are on the wrong side of history here. Just admit you made a mistake and try to move on.

You aren't alone, he lied to the entire world and at least 74 million people in the the US bought it.
No I don't think he's talking about Trump.
> If we censor what we believe to be false, we stop right here - progress halts.

This is a flimsy, oversimplified, and false argument. It stands in stark contrast to the depth of thought discussed in the paper.
I use a tool called "moom" for window management. Gives me the ability to snap windows to edges of the screen (like Win 7 does), plus the ability to snap-size windows to a grid. Can't use OSX without it.
key selling point: dynamic module loading support (" You don't have to recompile Tengine when you want to add a new module")
Haxe is the little language that could ... but it isn't going to. It desperately needs to be taken over by a major entity (Adobe, MS, Apple, anyone...) to be polished, thoroughly documented etc. Its got so much potential and utility in spite of the rough edges.
This is the best way to use iTerm2's tmux integration mode on a remote host. I wrote some guidance here:

https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/wikis/tmux-Integration-Be...
Also, re: 6x over 10 years versus 10x over 30 years, 6x over 10 years amounts to ~200x over 30 years, and 10x over 30 years only amounts to ~2x over 10 years; it is a fantastic return.
Self driving is way over hyped and lots of smart people bought into it. A few years ago I kept commenting about it not being around the corner. A few people compared my comments to “Less space than nomad.”

We’ve done the same to AI, what someone called AI a decade ago has been reinvented as AGI. We are doing the same to self-driving cars. “What we really meant by self-driving is self-driving in perfect conditions and normal intersections. You’re thinking of autonomous self-driving or Level X self driving.” All I’ve seen is driver assist tech improve.
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There is a 2000 character limit in the question box, so here is what I'm using now:

- pinboard for managing bookmarks (database of things that may be useful sometime; probably never) & reading list for articles

- I'm testing tagspaces (http://www.tagspaces.org/) for local files organization (mostly tagging research papers and books; didn't like Mendeley)

- cardav & caldav from owncloud for contacts and events

- anki as a memorization tool (spaced repetition) - from languages to my own mistakes (i.e. "lessons learned", so I won't repeat them)

- for insights, notes, ideas, things I've learned & everything else I use personal wiki (media wiki) on localhost. This is the biggest part of my "system", I have there entries like things to buy someday, current project's notes/resources, useful scripts, configuration snippets, notes from books, journeys, analysis of my own behaviour, personal journal, ideas for startups etc. But it's hard to organize, it becomes a mess very easly after some time. Also, I can't use it on mobile (I don't want to put all this on the web, there is a lot of personal info), it takes time to add new thing/entry (I need to think to which page new piece of information belongs etc.).

- simplified version of gtd as a meta-system managing this system and for projects/things to do
"The ethics of contracts" Gah. Ugh. Wha.

Anyway, to be clear: Stallman actually says that breaking your promise, i.e. breaking a contract is not cool, so you shouldn't ever accept a contract that requires you to give up essential freedoms. He does not advocate breaking contracts, he argues about which contract terms are ethical or unethical. He doesn't say break the unethical ones, he says don't accept them in the first place.

And you could run hosted software that does something that involves networking fundamentally, such as a chat service, and it would not be SaaSS. And you could run any software under a permissive license and still provide the code as though it were AGPL. AGPL isn't a requirement for being ethical, it just helps stop people from being unethical (but they could choose to be ethical regardless).
POSE method is pretty good for injury avoidance - http://birthdayshoes.com/introduction-to-the-pose-method-of-...
Increasing the wage of people who would otherwise earn far less will absolutely increase the velocity. It's preposterous to say that it would be one to one, I never made any such claim. However, your argument is that we are somehow at a perfect equilibrium with tradespeople. That's just not the case. I feel like you're throwing your lot in with freshwater economics which has a pretty terrible track record.
Would it really apply to Satan? Historically, most Christian thinkers consider him to be a creature and thus finite in every respect; likewise, evil is generally considered by the same thinkers to be insubstantial, i.e. it is the absence of good and not some kind of entity (or put another way, it's not a matter–anti-matter kind of thing). So it seems evil would have a kind of local maximum, or floor value, depending on your perspective, which would be "zero good". At the same time we could speak of evil being compounded over time, i.e. an accumulation of depraved acts and persons.

Of course, you may have other definitions of Satan and evil in mind, and I don't mean to imply that those concepts are solely the province of Christian minds.
one of my lecturers was gleefully doing so and knew the implications more than a decade ago, not all are wide eyed innocents as you suggest.
I think this is a misunderstanding. People with ADHD don't really want to be medicated. Taking stimulants whole your life is not nice. There are many side effects. But we have to. We don't have a choice most of the time. Without meds ADHD is often a fatal disease. Not for everyone of course.
Lipolysis is the inherit, main metabolical function of our liver and muscle cells. We cannot make use of monosaccharids without "switching" our cells into another mode. This is done by the pancreas secreting a hormone, insulin, into our blood stream; the hormone signals to our cells to stop burning fat and just store it instead, in order to focus on processing the sugar in the blood to prevent a sugar coma. Sugar is in essence a poison in the blood stream, and a too high presence of it will end your life at shortest within minutes. Also, we cannot store sugar for any mentionable duration of time - it's not a long-term energy source the way fat is. This is also the case for almost all other animals on the planet, mammals in particular. If the roles of sugar and fat would be reversed - sugar being storable, lipolysis needing to be acquired through switching of cell function - we could come to a different conclusion.

Today we have empirical evidence, through years of study of people living on rigorous LCHF diets, that the human body does not require a single gram of sugar a day to function; it can slowly adapt and switch entirely, both brain, core and limbs, into being solely a fat- and protein-consuming machine. We can from this perspective consider sugars as being available as an alternate form of energy that we can process by secondary function, at a cost - the cost of insulin in our blood stream, and all the problems that can come with the production of such (various cardiovascular diseases have been linked to this, as well as the cases of insulin resistance and lack of insulin production from the pancreas from being "burnt out" being the two major problems).
How would you prevent a restaurant from reporting all of their competitors?

What happens when a restaurant subpoenas you for the personal details of someone who posted a derogatory report?

I find kmort's suggestion interesting - using Twitter (i.e., data that is already public) could be a smart move, as you would then be simply displaying the data rather than compiling/publishing it yourself - this could reduce your legal liability when (not if!) a restaurant wishes to defend themselves against a report.
I agree that the discussion, especially the questioning and answering (but not so much the posturing) is especially good.

But can we limit it to one resubmit per year? After a couple times in the same year, my patience grows thin. After all, HN has a lot of really good essayists out there, folks who can be just as helpful. As nice as PG is, we don't want to give him too much exposure. After a while anybody can start to sound repetitious, like when they go on and on about something. Sort of like repeating themselves. Over and over again. The same thing.

Gets annoying.