skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You should be able to have a questionable viewpoint in a discussion, without worrying about the lynch mob ending your career.

First, "lynch mob" is inappropriate and irrelevant. Given Stallman's statements, in the forum in which they were made, many reasonable employers would have fired him, with or without some "lynch mob."

Second, Stallman didn't express his views in private conversation, but rather in a forum where those views would have made it very hard for colleagues to continue working with him. If I'm X and you tell me or to Y in private conversation, "X is an idiot" or something of the sort, then that's one thing. If you say so in a forum where others can read it, then you're showing public disrespect towards colleagues, which is a fireable offense.

Here's what he could have said instead: "Have we seen evidence that Minsky himself engaged in illegal activity?" That's it. It would have expressed his point just as well, and would not have shown disrespect toward colleagues.
Yeah, that’s the point I was trying to make.

Lots of times Doctors are providing a service and the expectation is “I feel bad, give me some pills to help” when in reality many cases are rest & recover but as a client can you imagine paying your social media person $500 for them to say “doing nothing is the right move”? Not really, no.
I don’t think it would be hated if it didn’t replace the layer of existing keys, or offered any kind of haptic feedback.

I was shocked at a second revision of the MBP without haptic feedback on the Touch Bar.
Also pretty sure that if there isn't actually code heritage, the 7800 versions of those games were ported using the NES version as a reference. Is it possible Nintendo either programmed the 7800 version themselves, or actually provided the NES source code for Atari to modify for 7800 hardware? The similarities are too big to ignore (and too specific to the NES version versus the arcade version, which other computer and console ports tended to be more similar to).
Has management changed significantly from Solar City days?

Its "reasonable" to make a mistake. The problem wasn't the fires per se, but the management of the fires.

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-project-titan-replace-...

Solar City did NOT issue a recall or a notice to their customers. So if Tesla makes another screwup, they will likely keep it secret.

This is a company which operates in the shadows. If they make a mistake, they'll keep it quiet. Compared to a "typical" company who will issue a public recall notice and inform customers.

Solar City was run by Musk's cousin, and is now owned by Musk himself under the Tesla company. The general management chain has not changed.
I rather wonder the opposite. Not "what will become of Stallman, without the FSF", but "what will become of the FSF, without Stallman". Will the FSF still have the public forum it once had without Stallman using his public speaking and his standing in the free software community on their behalf? It is perfectly conceivable that Stallman will move on to bigger and better things and the FSF will sink into obscurity.
I live in Australia and most people I know would disagree with that statement. Depends on your social circles.
>>there would be something else, wouldn’t it?

ummm, the gist of it is, someone else have to write for free, else every time you curl you would be paying $$ to oracle or someone :|
It's Åkesson, actually. Quite cool to have your initial mostly unused as a one-letter abbreviation/name. Except for ångström (Å), of course.
He resigned from the CSAIL too. https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#16_September...
See below, there are templates without picture to chose from.
Ask HN: Does the contract rate rule of thumb still apply?
The rule of thumb when I started contracting was that your hourly rate was your annual salary divided by 1000. For example, a $150k/year salary would translate to a contracting rate of $150/hour.

After seeing a post[0] saying that some leaked Microsoft developer salaries were between $40k and $320k, I am curious how many people are billing $150-320/hour for software development work, and what skills you provide that make companies value your work at that rate.

[0] https://onezero.medium.com/leak-of-microsoft-salaries-shows-fight-for-higher-compensation-3010c589b41e
do you earn 6 digit salary?
This is another example of people redefining words then claiming other people are unenlightened because they use the original meaning and not the redefinition.

Gender has been used as a synonym for sex for a long time. Merriam-Webster and The Free Dictionary list that meaning before the more recent meaning.

You're simply wrong to claim the way you use the word is the only way it can be used.
Yes, I'm working on the next version I made this prototype as fast as I could but Im going to improve it, if you have more feedback you can send it to calvin@platrio.com I'll work on it
Not just open-source maintainers but also moderators.

A bad thing about moderators is that nowadays they tend to be immature teens, it's one of the reasons Reddit content quality has been going down in the past few years.

It also creates some moral questions, as companies with giant revenues are outsourcing their internet janitor duties to naive unpaid child labourers
This is really cool; I love the slick interface!

Some of your templates look vaguely familiar though.

https://realporthub.herokuapp.com

*Edited for positivity. This is legit cool.
In most cases, they will be biased by the presence of a picture regardless of its contents.
Well, it sure feels shitty to support a company for years, who has supported you in your industry for years, who suddenly just says ‘we couldn’t give less of a shit about you anymore.’
A rational actor never works for "free", they derive some perceived benefit (not necessarily money) from their action, like reputation or self-satisfaction or warm fuzzies. I think it's brilliant that we can use these carrots to get good work out of people that can be shared on the internet.

All the same that's no excuse to abuse people who are acting far from rationally.
In what way does it help? All it does is change your first impression from a more objective to subjective one.
well I am glad you like the gridlock. Good luck with that.
It's the network effect. GitHub was first-to-market. Almost all open source contributors have a GitHub account these days. Many older projects started there long before GitLab was a viable competitor.

Now assume you're starting a new open source project. Most of the other open source projects you've seen are hosted on GitHub. Most of the other developers you interact with have GitHub accounts. GitLab has all the same features and is slowly growing, but still isn't nearly as popular as GitHub is. Which platform do you choose for hosting your project?

GitLab is certainly a worthy competitor, but unless there arises a strongly compelling reason to switch I can't really see it overcoming that barrier and becoming the new de-facto standard for open source projects for quite some time.
The problem is with the ambiguity of the term. From a legal perspective, "sexual assault" doesn't require violence but for ordinary people, use of the term implies some sort of attack or aggression. It's only a few years ago that I learned from online discussions that in some jurisdictions the term "assault" has a specific legal meaning that does not imply violence.
Great point; for us, we do not want children and are sure they are not coming, so this does not factor into our considerations.
Storybook 5.2 released with streamlined documentation support
it seems like you would essentially need a general ai to detect stuff like cp. there are (non-digitized) photos of me taking a bath as a small child that were taken by family. if I stumble across one sifting through photos at my house, it's an innocent document of my childhood. if theyre being passed around some cp forum, it changes the nature of the images quite a bit. we're a long way from having an algorithm that understands why it matters who is holding a photo.
There were a few somewhat popular unlicensed clones out there back in the day, as well as a lot of crappy ones on the home computers. Mainly, the game "Donkey King" on TRS-80 CoCo (released by Tom Mix Software), later re-released as "The King" with unchanged gameplay. Not sure if the name was changed due to Nintendo or not. The CoCo was filled with unlicensed game clones.
Top Dating Apps of 2019?
Without "due process" Trial by Twitter(tm) is going to end like the Reign of Terror at the end of the French Revolution.

Stallman had said more than enough to merit his termination IMO, but he still deserved due process before such judgment was passed.
Yes, but not all mammoths fossilize.

Fossilization is rare. Most deaths result in recycling the animal into nutrients for other things (animals, fungi and bacteria). For land animals, fossilization involves either dying under circumstances that are likely to promote fossilization or under circumstances that are likely to quickly move your body to a location that allows fossilization. Getting stuck in a quagmire or tar pit, or getting swept away trying to ford deep, fast-moving water drives your chances of fossilization up considerably.
I dont know what his age has to do with it.

And yes, I think we should not dig up old statements once he has announced he has changed his views: that's why I commented.

I understand those past views will linger on, I just dont think they are protayed fairly, nor that it is adequately considered that he has changed.
Here is Walmart's legal filing:

https://www.plainsite.org/dockets/40v40ia2y/supreme-court-of...

There are quite a few major quotes here that suggests gross negligence on the behalf of SolarCity (and Tesla) on this very issue.

The court case isn't resolved yet, but the allegations are quite damning. It doesn't seem like Tesla is the best company to partner with, especially if an issue (ex: fire) breaks out.

Again: fires and accidents happen. Especially when you deploy 200+ large scale installations like Walmart did. The problem is how poorly Walmart was treated by Tesla.

After three fires, Walmart demanded all of the solar panels to be disconnected. And yet, other fires broke out. Walmart has tons of money and hired investigators to look into root causes, a typical business won't have that kind of money or time to "debug" someone else's work.
That's interesting, my experience with GH support is the polar opposite – they've been stellar. Particularly their enterprise support went above and beyond when we had issues and never did I feel I got either a canned response or even had to wait particularly long to receive an answer. At one point we had an issue with a flaky load balancer sometimes dropping connections, but the folks maintaining the load balancer were adamant that it was a fault with GHE. Even though I was certain it was the load balancer, I reached out to GH for support and they not only responded with helpful tips to determine whether the GHE instance had a problem, but also helped me build my case that it was in fact the load balancer that was at fault. Turns out the issue was a broken NIC on the load balancer, and GH support were instrumental in helping us figure this out, even though a perfectly acceptable response from them would've been "not our product – good luck; have fun" or something to that effect.

Really surprised to hear about your experience with their support, mine's really been nothing but positive. To be fair, I haven't interacted with them for well over a year now since I'm no longer involved in maintaining GHE. Did support take a hit after the Microsoft takeover?
This is my 2nd year of reading. I can't recommend it enough!
My question is more on why would you switch a $300+ tool if they all can do the same ? (not in the same way, but you get the point)
> The assertion is basically that PR is needed to tranquilize or distract people now out for his head

No, I think the suggestion was that he should have had a PR screen in front of him long ago to avoid the current situation.
Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast
On the other hand "for life", in the 1980s and early 1990s, was a bit different - your platform could go extinct. You might technically have a license to a program on a Tandy Color Computer or Atari 800 or even the more popular Apple ][ and Commodore 64. But all those platforms were abandoned by their manufacturers (and most of them went bankrupt anyway).
Pretty soon, people will have to consider the ethics of choosing to have new children.
The article starts by mentioning "less to do with misogyny".

My comment is about sexism, specifically misogyny (as used by the article).

You reply to my comment taking about how it can be plausible that it is misogyny.

I believe we are talking about misogyny.
We've known that was the ideal structure for a city for a long time. Other than sound insulation, we had the technology to make it happen a century ago. Cities aren't run by a dictatorship that can implement your vision. They change slowly and organically. We should make urban AND rural living more efficient instead of pretending we can create utopian cities that everyone would want to live in.
Reaching for Turbo: Aligning Perception with AMD’s Frequency Metrics
Not so definitely, from reading the links.

The first link describes some form of sexual offense, but is only strict liability if the person is under 13. Quoting the link:

"A person(A) commits an offense if..."

"(c)either—

(i)B is under 18, and A does not reasonably believe that B is 18 or over, or

(ii)B is under 13."

The second link is an anti-prostitution offense, which does not match the theoretical example or Minsky's case, and is punishable by fine.
On the other hand, if I'm going to drive to the store, I'm likely to plan ahead a little and pick up a number of items in one trip, rather than ordering them one by one online. (Or even ordering them all at once through Amazon, but having them arrive in a dozen separate deliveries.)

I don't remember when I last drove to a store to get a single item. (I do occasionally walk or cycle down to the high street for an individual item such as milk, though it's more usually a handful of things.)
Ask HN: Migrating from Recurly to Stripe Billing
Hello HN,

I switched my consumer SaaS business (15k+ subscribers) from Stripe + Paypal to Recurly (with Stripe + Paypal as the payment gateways) 2 years ago in order to better manage our billing and consolidate reporting. I haven't been impressed, for a few reasons:

1. Recurly is expensive. It's nearly our largest software line item.
2. Recurly checkout/customization is limited - we're losing many customers in the checkout process and Stripe checkout looks very good (especially on mobile)
3. Recurly reporting isn't great

I am considering moving back to the Stripe billing + Paypal as a fallback option. We will lose some reporting capabilities, but save money and ideally have a better checkout experience.

My fear is losing customer subscription data during the migration, along with the development time needed to complete the project. I'm also not fully sure if Stripe billing will meet our needs (discount codes, free trials). Recurly also oversells their dunning management and credit card retries, but I'm quite sure Stripe does the same thing.

Does anyone have experience migrating from Recurly, Chargebee or a similar billing management service to Stripe billing?

Thanks :)
Will AWS CDK Replace Terraform and the Serverless Framework?
I don't get why people are playing devil's advocate for Stallman so much on this. If it had been anyone else, a famous actor for example, the pitchforks would be out by everyone, but because he is a figure in the computing world people want to make excuses for him. This seems more like people unwilling to accept a revered figured in their community is a bad person.
Translation Using Syntactic Rules
Does anyone remember the Dilbert Mission Statement Generator? It's not up anymore, but here is a rough clone:
https://lotta.se/mission-statement-generator
Click the button to automatically generate a new mission statement.
Regarding the challenge of an efficient implementation, pytorch+pyro attempt to tackle it. It's still a work in progress, but you might want to have a look at: https://pyro.ai/examples/gp.html
We are considering WV. My father lives in Uniontown, so it would be convenient in that way. I also have a lot of family that live in the general OH/WV panhandle area.
But Stallman replied to an email advertising a gathering to protest MIT's handling of the Epstein scandal.

I have no idea if that sort of political email is common in the mailing list, but if it is appropriate to share/advocate the protest, surely it should also appropriate to discuss the topic?

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6405929-091320191420...
“Which until a few years ago was completely legal in for example Switzerland. As long of course as no one is coerced into anything.”

What is this trying to say?
TLDR: Sucks to be born with a low IQ in a low IQ country
So we just ignore the years of NATO surrounding Russia and carrying out "training exercises" on the borders?

There's this weird double standard thing where people in the West act like they can do what they want, and then flip when someone else outside of the "in" group does the same thing.
Did you even read his statement? He wasn't defending Epstein, he was defending minsky.
Sounds neat, what project are you working on?
Is it possible to input the information yourself?
I don't use github all that much.
https://www.stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#05%20Jun...

https://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#04_Janua...
From other articles on Facebook moderators, some have been exposed to things that are much worse (in my opinion) than your examples.
Oh, that was not clear to me! Thanks for clarifying! I was wondering where the downvotes came for my honest question.
Twitter: Who are these men are in this picture and how are they in my tweet?
Yay! Glad to hear that :)
Fallon Fox vs Tamikka Brents
Nobody had to write it for free. They could have sold it instead. They could also charge users for maintenance.
Maybe only Peak Oil can save us. How much carbon is there? Surely we can't continue unabated indefinitely?
> Because the code is available to use for free, without any commercial licensing, there’s no reason that companies need to tell him that they’re using it.

Well, that depends on the license.
Perhaps it’s time to start considering how to choose to live given unacceptable outcomes.
>6% growth would be the envy of many countries.

Yes, but China on the whole is still fairly poor. It's much easier to catch up - many poor(er) countries that get their economy going again show immense growth until they get catch up with the rich countries. Much of the eastern bloc (that recovered well) are in a similar situation.
"this is just pushing a narrative" is the perpetual bleating cry of people who want to ignore something that challenges their views
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Reading is hard.
The Debian migration is actually finished.
Yup. The Air Force Museum is probably one of the best aviation museums anywhere in the world, perhaps second only to the Smithsonian. So many unique, one of a kind aircraft are preserved there.

If you're an aviation geek who likes to linger and read, plan on two days. I went a couple years ago. I got there when they opened and spent the whole day there. I had to blitz through the last hanger because they were closing and I didn't even get to see any of the outdoors exhibits or a movie.
> It would lower costs

That is consistently the claim, but unless it would also lower outcomes, what thing is it doing to cause that which couldn't be done independently of single payer? It's easy to lower "costs" using price controls, but then you have all the usual problems of price controls. Shortages, rationing, quality reductions necessary to meet the price target, etc. Keep in mind that for people with insurance, the US system has better overall outcomes than most socialized systems.

> and it would also put them on an equal playing field with the other domestic manufacturers, rather than having to compete with other companies who have lower costs due to not having such expensive union health care plans.

That doesn't really matter unless they're competing with those companies, but most of the other auto companies have the same issues with the UAW and US workers, and those companies have the same option to build plants outside of the US as their competitors.

> As for needing a solution sooner... it’s not like this is going to be the end of it. Health care costs were a major point of contention in 2008 as well. I’m pretty sure they were a major problem for GM well before that.

That's the point. 2008 wasn't even the beginning of it, this has been an issue since at least the Clinton administration. GM would likely be bankrupt (again) before Congress does anything meaningful here.
> Paypal has a micropayment rate of 5% + five cents (USD), which means if you charge ten cents, you get maybe $0.0045.

You're off by a factor of ten here, it would be 4.5 cents, not half a cent.
So what is the difference between this and the way Eich was treated for his donation to Prop 8?

I'm not saying I agree with Eich - far from it. Seeing as an awful lot of people on this very thread were outraged by his behaviour, it strikes me as being contrary to be more understanding towards RMS for what is arguably far more heinous simply because they admire him more. Both Gates and Jobs are/were relentlessly and repeatedly pilloried for their "immoral" approach to business and freedom, but to question what constitutes rape or a suggestion that paedophilia is harmless is forgiven readily, because the individual "likes" the perpetrator is abhorrent.
RIPelstiltskin
> It really depends.

In the past, throwing opioids at chronic pain patients and calling it a day was par for the course.

Now, there's a level of awareness that not only are opioids not very good for managing chronic pain all of the time, they can even make pain sensitivity worse in the long-run.

Criminalizing pain patients is disgusting, but I'm hoping we can reach an equilibrium where those who have chronic pain are able to seek adequate treatment and opioids aren't the first line of treatment or overprescribed.

As someone with family members suffering from chronic pain, I know several people who have switched to MMJ or CBD supplements with great success. One of them took pain killers for decades and hasn't needed them in years because of CBD.

CBD won't affect you cognitively, if you have the time, money and your doctor thinks it's a good idea, it wouldn't hurt to give it a go.
In the present day and age you can only evaluate it with reason as long as you are anonymous. If you use your real name and give any comment that can be remotely construed as supporting sex offenders or racists, your political enemies will send the angry mob your way. Your counter-arguments won't be heard, you won't be given a chance to explain or defend yourself in a mutually respectful discussion, instead you political weight will be voided overnight and someone much more flexible in their beliefs will take your place.
Years ago I was using a Word document for my CV but every time I wanted to update the style it was a pain. I found a command line tool that I have been using for years which allows to decouple data (json) and presentation (web technologies based themes, I created my own theme). The name is hackmyresume (https://github.com/hacksalot/HackMyResume) or fluentcv (https://github.com/fluentdesk/FluentCV). I'm afraid it's no longer maintained but I still use it. It supports JsonResume (JRS) and also its own format FRESH. It outputs to multiple formats including word and pdf.