skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Where is the moral vagueness in the accusation?

The legal definition is wide enough to encompass a broad range of acts that people have differing moral intuitions about (even if they are all bad acts, some are markedly more heinous in a lot of people's minds). That leads to moral vagueness. Pointing to a legal definition doesn't change that.

If I went around calling you a killer, because you kill insects, or a criminal, because you had an alcoholic drink when underage, or a producer of child pornography, because you sexted your girlfriend a photo of yourself when you were 17, and then pointed to a dictionary or legal definition to show that I was technically correct, would you not still object that I'm using terms that are overly vague as to the morality of what you have done?
> most of these contributions aren't worth enough individually to charge for

Then why does my employer pay me even for the small bugfixes I make to their code?
Yes. This. There are only 700 software engineers in my province. I'm pretty sure not many are working on front end web development. Yet every front end job posting is "engineer". Just no. You don't get to call yourself a doctor because you are medically-inclined. Same applies to engineer.
Only because your words caused actionable harm. If you didn't intend to cause harm and there were no harmful consequences should you still be punished?
IIRC from the last time this came up on HN Walmart claimed that they had installations at other stores inspected independently of Tesla and they found a bunch of sloppy work that could have contributed to the risk of a fire. It's not just a matter of a recalled part to deal with, it would seem that corners were cut installing those panels.
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Wanted to jump back in here now that new public information is available, for August 2019 there was a daily average of 8MM peak concurrent players.

https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/special-...
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I'm human. I can't be unbiased. This witch hunt of Stallman for rationally exploring "what if" scenarios makes me upset.

I don't know Minsky, I don't care about Minsky. All I'm really trying to do is re-inforce how and why Stallman's exploration is reasonable and rational. And, since it's brought up repeatedly in this exploration, why even the courts consider the spirit of the law alongside the letter of the law.
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Of course not, it's my position that there shouldn't be such serious consequences for having a dissenting opinion. Minority opinions are in fact the only way we make progress in science our society. Everything accepted now was once a fringe idea.

There is a real conversion to be had about our statutory rape laws. They're absurd in some aspects. That's beside the point.
Everything is a conspiracy by our evil tech overlords (who by the way can't keep separate images separated)
I wasn't expecting much, but I downloaded the sample, and it's definitely something I'd be interested in. Made me think, "Oh yeah, you should do it that way"
GDP Per capita
$10,153 (67th)

And the population is aging fast.
According to my calculations, this means Firefox 100 will be released on 2022-03-08.
um...Yes? Don't we already have laws regarding sexism? Isn't there a whole history of sexism law, going as far back as the Romans? Maybe I don't understand the question...
The original poster on the thread even raises a question of the ethics of having the discussion on csail-related before Stallman even gets involved.

I think people are missing the context of the level of shitshow that’s going on at MIT CSAIL right now with Epstein, Ito, Minsky, and now Stallman.

When the original story blew up over Media Lab and the Administration lied that they didn’t know anything about donations to Epstein, I can only imagine the chaos.
Defending someone’s speech rights (no matter how horrible the speech is) is very different from wanting to work with someone.
Thanks for sharing that!

Part of my job involves data visualization, and what better way to flash those skills on a resume then making custom graphics with my work experience as a dataset.

Thank you for the inspiration.
How many are rising out of that sort of situation in the U.S. in 2019? It's in the interest of those who seek to maintain the status quo to have people believe that this is a real possibility, when for most, it isn't.
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The percentile rank of China's GDP per capita was 13.7 among listed countries in 1950. [0] As of recently it's 44.5. [1] You have to standardize the information to make a meaningful comparison, since there are more countries nowadays.

0: https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Economy/GDP-...

1: https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Economy/GDP/...
He's insufferable, you mean. They don't give a rat's ass what he actually said or thought, they wanted him out for so long they couldn't believe their luck he decided to publicly redefine the morality of statutory rape on a corporate mailing list.

Some people do software, like Linus Torvalds, other linger for decades doing nothing and discuss the value of rape. Hope we'll hear less of his nonsense in the future.
In my experience, I have found email marketing as one of the most underrated and under-utilized channels.

Your email list is the most vital piece of data that you truly own. Everything else depends on the respective platform's algorithms and uncontrollable factors to a large extent.

Source: I'm a copywriter and have worked with several e-commerce stores.
Recently I've mostly been hearing one from the Irish government telling residents of Ireland using a UK drivers license to convert it to an Irish one immediately (they'll become invalid if there's a no-deal Brexit).

Of course, I'm not sure I'd want to invest in Brexit, so maybe it still holds.
Interesting. Wasn't one big issue the Amphenol connectors catching fire?

Or were there multiple issues contributing to the fires?
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> To be considered by the Court, your objection letter must be filed electronically with the Court by 11/19/2019

Do you know how to file the objection electronically ?
Because you go on to fix more than one bug. And add features. etc.
Money. The same reason a girl that young (let's say 18) might work for a strip club. Or in Nevada as a prostitute. Or as an escort.
I used Resumake.io (https://resumake.io/), very good service, has option to export in LaTeX, PDF and JSON as well.
What corporations rely on is thousands of parallel endeavors surfacing the best ideas and educating and training programmers from which they will take, use, hire, profit, save, all for free.

The stuff they don't use and the years of learning how to invent successful stuff is every bit as important as the failures. The successes can only be built by salvaging good ideas and abandoning bad ideas from the failures and obsolete successes. You pretty much have to demonstrate how you continue learning on Github just to get an interview.

Vital projects are not ok financially and we're starting to find out when they get repurposed as malware, or go unsupported despite being a dependency for a double-digit percentage of the internet. Most of the world is default-excluded from creating brilliant programmers because their parents have zero hundreds of dollars, let alone thousands, to subsidize a Stallman, Gates or Torvalds for the rest of us.

We are subsidizing corporations and they are racing to see who can hoard the most hundreds of billions of dollars.
I totally agree - we built https://indieshops.co/ in order to solve for the "quality first" alternative you mentioned.

We found that the majority of online shopping today consisted of 1) buying basics (read: cheap mass products) on Amazon or 2) getting advertised brands to you on Instagram/Fb/Google and hoping the one you like finds you. We hope that Indieshops provides an alternative where you can discover high quality brands.
Because their business model can't rely on the interest and free-time of others, so they are willing to pay you for your continued "interest" in their codebase. They aren't paying you for those bugfixes, rather for your ability to available to do those bugfixes immediately
I'm completely amazed by that. The hint of a simulated world seems so matrix-like as well, imagine some intelligent thing evolving out of that. Wow.
True but being able to test it a bit on a small team is a big help. Migration from CE to EE is relatively easy and demonstrating CE to management helps a lot.
CPP doesn't mean C++ in this context.

It means C preprocessor.
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There's an incidental benefit here. There's at least one system (I think Duo + Okta?) which, when configured to check if your browser is out of date, makes a logic error. It should check if your browser is the most recent, and, if it isn't, if the _new release_ is over N days old. Instead, it checks if your browser is the most recent, and if it isn't, if the _old release_ is over N days old. So, if you run Firefox and you get it from your Linux distribution, that breaks during the two days or so in between a new release and e.g. Fedora shipping it.
That dataset only has 52 countries for 1950. Their 2010 data has 219 countries. So "rank" isn't a very good way to analyze China's GDP growth over time.

A better way to look at that same data is that Chinese GDP per capita went from being 6% of the American value in 1950, to 16% of the American value in 2010. Relative to American growth, China has grown about 2.5x as much.
Introducing some gaussian noise might actually improve the accuracy of weather predictions.
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Sort of. If you don't have roads out to those rural areas you can't bring food into the city. If you don't have power infrastructure out to the sticks, you can't produce food nearly as efficiently. The modern city can't exist without a rural infrastructure.

There are a large number of Suburban areas now, that began as smaller towns and cities grew into and filled the gaps between. Those primarily existed as local concentration points to facilitate rural infrastructure at one time.
> "She" is not a woman.

Coraline Emkhe is a woman.

> I hadn't looked at pictures, but that's clearly the case.

Pictures might give you an idea of how stereotypical someone's gender presentation is for a particular gender, but they aren't dispositive evidence as to gender. In any case, and while I reject this as a valid basis for judgement in the strongest possible terms, I can't even find any post-transition pictures of Emkhe that have anything but a conventionally feminine outward gender presentation (on Google, there are a couple associated with her name that don't, but they are pictures of Chris Wanstranth and Eric S Raymond that are from articles about Emkhe.)
> But what is really being gained over that

Try to explain for a common person what benefits DOH brings to them, or why their DNS provider is unstrustworthy.

> [...] which is worth all the trouble of making it the default even for all the people whose existing DNS providers are no less trustworthy than Cloudflare and far less centralized?

A small number of people will actually have those "trouble" that you speak, and for most of them the case is so specific that they probably are power users that can figure out themselves.
I would have said: I take upon myself to guarantee my friend never touched that poor girl, and he always felt horrified she was exploited so.

He said: The girl was most likely willing, and it's morally imprecise to call this a rape, at worst it would be a statutory rape.

Who gets respect, who gets fired ? :D
These appeal-to-emotion articles written by people with an ax to grind make me this of this article I read recently:

https://theotherlifenow.com/depressive-capitalist-realism/
You can treat it like an “emblem of cancel culture” and if you’re right.

It’s also an emblem for “people doing things other people don’t like and getting ditched for it” but which emblem you choose to see is up to you.

That’s kind of the power and the weakness of emblems.
Looking at legal briefings from only one side in one court case is not going to leave you with a realistic, objective look at the situation. It is the starting point in a negotiation, and is by definition one-sided. It's an example of the kind of cherry picking I was referring to.

Using hyperbolic language in comments may be an effective rhetorical tool, but it reduces the credibility of your argument.

The objective fact is that Tesla and Walmart are working together to solve these problems as it's literally in everyone's interest to solve them.
RMS hasn’t had a paid job as a programmer for 40 years as far as I know. People say he was homeless and living in his office at MIT while working on GNU in the 80s.

Isn’t he basically a speaker and advocate nowadays? That career is unlikely to be very successful now that all major organizations dumped him and he has fake news headlines saying he defended Epstein following him everywhere (backed up by apparently two decades of known antisocial personal behavior).

He doesn’t exactly sound like the kind of person you’d hire to work as a normal developer nor would that comport with his strange ethics of refusing to use any non-Free software.
I think you might have a typo in your FAQ.

"Does the server have to specify the client host?
No!.....
The server does need to have any unique prior knowledge about the client. "

Should that read, "The server does NOT need to have any unique...." ?
I kept Equifax frozen through the refinance
If money was involved, even if the clients were willing, it is considered a form of coercion under US law if the girls were under 18. The coercion label only seems to go away when they turn 18.
Back in the early days of the internet I used to believe that monetization, or micropayments, was one of the key unsolved problems. Now I'm starting to wonder if it is the problem, that monetization is the root of all evil on the internet, such as advertising and limbic capitalism, social media and surveillance capitalism, the spammers and scammers and cryptocurrency pyramid schemes, the re-intermediation of new monopolies, and so on. Maybe it would be better if people were still working on free content for love not for money, and/or working on sites and apps that provide a useful service in return for a simple subscription or fee.
That paper doesn't strike me as being particularly credible.
do you have a link? I can't find it. This same thing was happening to me when I first got the email
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> saying that Melinda had to make more sacrifices to get where she is than Bill is laughable

Unless you have actual insights into her life and personality that back up your statement, denying that she had to make more sacrifices could just as well be anything between ignorant, insensitive or plain mean.
I'd expect the definition of a powered aircraft to include the ability to maintain some given flight altitude and speed for some appreciable amount of time.

It is possible to do something sort of like this in a space capsule returning to Earth, where you muck up your entry vector and come in at too shallow an angle. You can then (depending on the circumstances) bounce off the atmosphere, and gain altitude briefly. And then you probably come back in the atmosphere on too steep an angle, and die due to g-load or overheating.
Isn't that just indicative of the sad state of things.
I mentioned this myself earlier, but later I noticed 2 huge caveats I hadn't noticed before:

1. If you are a Settlement Class Member, you can object

2. Your objection letter must include: A statement as to whether you intend to appear at the Fairness Hearing

This means you cannot opt out and also object, and you also need to spend $$$ either traveling to the court or finding a lawyer to appear for you.

Not sure how many people are willing to do that.
> “It would perhaps not be the most cost-effective way to use the government resources to launch any campaign to rebuild Hong Kong's reputation”
I bet they will switch to date-based releases long before then.
To even remotely compare someone starting a company with $0 from the ground up vs. someone spending tens of billions of existing dollars as a non-profit and classify them as the same level of entrepreneur is an insult to anyone who has ever started a company.
Well, he could have assumed she is paid for it and does it for money.
I mean, I agree that remote island full of underage girls throwing themselves at old men raise questions and most reasonable men would conclude it's too likely to be coercion rather than voluntary sex work to get involved but I still think it's not ridiculous to have discussion about it.
I also happen to agree with Stallman about the wording. If you call any activity that constitutes statutory rape in some jurisdictions a sexual assault you're doing disservice to people who experience what is more commonly understood as assault as that devalues the term and the suffering that comes from it.
What should engineering managers aspire to be?
Github search is not much better.

I've resorted to using google search and append site:github.com to my query.
The new RMS thread is a poster child of this. His supporters do not seem particularly interested in a rationed debate about whether or not someone who is bad at public speaking should continue to be employed after being bad at public speaking. Instead, they are busy accusing their opponents of witch-hunting, and of being SJWs.

Odd, that.
> Digital Recognition Network (DRN), is not run by a government, although law enforcement can also access it. Instead, DRN is a private surveillance system crowdsourced by hundreds of repo men who have installed cameras that passively scan, capture, and upload the license plates of every car they drive by to DRN's database.

One step closer to a privatized police state.
In my opinion, free software stops being free when you need people behind it do something you need.
Once "as is" is not enough for you, you either fork or fix it, or pay creates to help you.
And it's not that people want to make money of this, rather than cover their costs while solving your problem.
Valuing free speech and valuing what others say are not one in the same.
Hash collision?
Self censorship, the first world's most horrible suffering... Dude, grow up, we all self censor. There are people I want to slap and people I want to fuck, I calm down and think twice before maybe making a relevant face, and let it go, horribly self censoring myself :D

I sure know better than to redefine the moral value of rape in a corporate mailing list, but heh, who would want to horribly self censor their every brain farts, surely not heroic stallman, defender of free speech and provider of no value.
> I'd like to see the courts force Equifax to pay $X to everyone whose information they leaked, whether they request it or not.

Unfortunately I'm not sure that's an option:

"You can’t ask the Court to order a larger settlement; the Court can only approve or deny the settlement as it is."
> 1) Read more than you write.

I disagree. You should write as much code as possible, run into as many problems as possible, and solve them. This is how you actually learn how to program. Feel free to play with and adapt other people's code along the way though.

> There is excellent code out there.

Sure, there may be "excellent code" out there by some standard, but nobody can agree on what "good code" is. Your application of "clean code" and "design patterns" might be considered overengineered enterprise junk. Your side-effect-free generalized functional code might be considered obtuse and academic. Your straight-and-to-the-point procedural code might be considered inelegant or "not modular enough". People have way too many strong opinions on this subject and they can't all be taken seriously.

Also, a lot of "excellent code" out there is written in older language versions, full of workarounds for problems that don't exist anymore. This is particularly important for Javascript or C++. The difference is is like night and day.
> If you want to have your cake and eat it too, go to Columbus. 130K in a city with super low COL! And its mostly thanks to 1 company: Root Insurance Company, which seems to be paying out some seriously high salaries.

So basically, you probably wont be getting 130k in Columbus unless you get into that company?
I'd submit most of the bigger players could (and probably have) simply build their own comparable versioning system for cheaper.
LinkedIn is commonly used by debt collectors and "private investigators" to track down and harass people. The default privacy settings and even the most vigilant privacy settings allow for paid accounts to track people down.
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Totally unrelated to this topic, but I absolutely love Joel's "You suck at excel" youtube video, done in the same vein as the old "You suck at photoshop" tutorials someone made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c
I find it absolutely hilarious, and I can almost guarantee you'll actually learn something new you can do in excel.
Yup. Friend hosted him locally & has nothing good to say about Stallman whatsoever.

He’s had decades to listen to people telling him that his behaviour was unacceptable. The fact that he hasn’t changed at all is on him.
Don't want problems for having 1-1s with women

What sort of problems? I don't hear about many cases of women accusing other women of using their status as manager for sexual harassment.
That's when you give them a 5 minute rant about how Equifax is bad for society and they should feel bad for supporting their business, then look for another lender.
I'm not bearish on Amazon, but it seems realistic that someone could build an aggregator of Shopify (or other owner-operated storefronts) sites. For example, a Shopify aggregator/product search engine that had any kind of meaningful traction could try to build a checkout integration with merchants using Shopify payments and take a cut of revenue, or just sell ads the same way Amazon does.

Maybe this already exists to some extent, and I'm sure there's a lot I'm not considering, but I think it's exceedingly realistic to build a competitor to Amazon that focuses on addressing some core complaints of both sides of the marketplace: product quality, counterfeiting, and producer control.

Should caveat that I'm ignoring AWS entirely and am aware of the irony that there's a substantial chance an Amazon competitor would be built on top of Amazon's infra.
facepalm Urf, I was right the first time. Oh well.
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I disagree, but I want to be clear that I disagree on practical, not ideological, grounds. As others have pointed out, handing out prison sentences for security breaches would be counterproductive. If we make it financially ruinous, companies are more likely to change their behavior in the way we want then to.
Exactly right. Every individual will be a subject of the silent red flag machine, and not even the machine's owners will be able to tell why. No redemption in sight, unless, of course, you have the money to buy an indulgence.
There was no assumption of bad faith, just pointing out a lack of logic and supporting evidence, and that we should take things with a grain of salt.

Appeals to emotion and innumeracy are serious problems in society right now and it's totally reasonable to identify when people pushing an argument are either appealing to emotion or being innumerate, so that others can plainly see that an argument lacks more substance than it appears to have.
Here's another example, written before this whole incident: https://twitter.com/corbett/status/994012399656042496
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I think you're talking about Kashmir. I wish you'd provide more context for what you just said. I think it'd be better to start a separate thread than to take this one off-topic.