skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I replied to a comment talking about defective Samsung and Boeing products...those are name brand products.

However, knock off products are usually worse, at least if you are burned by an exploding Samsung or die in a defective Boeing...you and/or your family will be compensated as these companies are identifiable and insured. If you are burned by an exploding knock off, odds are: 1) you won't even be able to identify the manufacturer or seller; 2) you won't have jurisdiction to sue the manufacturer or seller; and 3) they probably aren't insured and will just fold up shop and start anew.
This is the way the corporate world has always worked. The problem is when this world collides with software, where actually knowing what the hell you're doing matters.
I can definitely relate to that, and that's probably a good way to think about the difference.

However, that would categorize Stallman's gaffe here as bad judgment and not self-censorship. Seeing as what he said was definitely not appropriate to say in those circumstances.
More men are raped as well, both as children and as adults if you count prisons, which as a society we generally don't and that in and of itself is informative.
I know exactly what you mean- but is it easy for a kid to make a change? I fell in with certain groups and left others as we either shared an affinity for things or had very different values. There were some groups or friends where I put up with differences as I really wanted to be part of the group, but there were many that just weren't open to me due to my interests and sensibilities. How much I could have changed those things which were already a construct of my upbringing, background, social conditioning etc. I do not know.

I guess what I am saying it, why did person X end up being friends with the booger eater and not the chess team?

I'll be interested to see how much I can shape the direction and range of my kids friends - but I doubt they'll listen ;)
That's not what they said though, they said they are gonna vote for whoever makes their life directly better in the relative short term.
Rural poverty is definitely poverty.

The term rural ghetto can be used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_ghetto
Here we have a data-driven article outlining problems in equality of opportunity for humans across the globe, some encouraging success stories and progress, and ambitions to work on fixing scenarios where there's less success, or the change isn't fast enough. The motivation of such an article seems clear and obvious - those with the resources, ability, and of course their own altruistic motivations will have to work on finding and implementing solutions to the problem, that is, by reducing and removing the barriers that exist, especially due to geography and gender.

What's much less clear to me are comments about this article that aim to diminish it, or one-off examples to supposedly refute it. Maybe you disagree with the article, and if so, provide data-driven sources to provide us with an alternate perspective that we can evaluate and discuss.

Perhaps you have read about some of the solutions that help accelerate the move towards equality, and you wish to share them here. Perhaps you have other suggestions for making the world a better place in our collective future.
And the more children the U-countries give birth to, the luckier my children will be. Isn't that funny?

It's like humanity is intentionally making the odds worse for their own children, and noone is intervening.
First link is not about this topic i believe.

For the other statements, I dont think he's "endorsing" it, he's raising questions. I'm not AT ALL on the same boat as him wrt this topic, but I dont mind a discussion on this topic. I consider that the basis of democracy.

Also, from this recent interview on the register it shows he changed his mind on this topic: "Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it. Through personal conversations in recent years, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that. I am grateful for the conversations that enabled me to understand why."

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/17/richard_stallman_in...

I respect that people openly change their views.
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Wouldn't the more apt comparison be to the folks who set up the EPA in the first place (Nixon administration I believe)?
I feel like this censorship is mostly caused by centralization of information on closed/proprietary platforms, and the stakeholders of these platforms put it upon themselves to censor content they deem inappropriate or incompatible with their bottomline.

People can say that these platforms are privately-owned and freedom of speech is only about government censorship, but where do you speak when these platform are well established and chances of dethroning them with a decentralized and open alternative are slim to none?

Social media is not social, it's corporate.
Isn't this a case of driving using the rear view mirror? If we had done this analysis in 1965 I would bet fair that the biggest challenges would have been for people born in southern china; governance (your government would kill you at any moment), nutrition (mass starvation), education (not much of that), disease (plague, cholera, smallpox)..

The marvel is that China broke the shackles.
Docker builds are crazy wasteful in terms of bandwidth and compute. Right now I'm struggling with a project that builds ITK on demand every heckin time.

I'm working through how to best integrate apt-cacher-ng, sccache, and a pip cacher. It costs me nothing to hit apt or pypi, but like, somebody is paying that bill. A little perspective goes a long way.

I wonder if I could do something to just proxy all requests and cache those on a whitelist and stick it on my CI network.
> more men are unemployed ...

Am I reading the data (1) wrong?

1. https://www.dol.gov/wb/stats/NEWSTATS/latest.htm#LFPRates
And for reference, public housing in the US doesn't have a very good reputation. It's not just the poverty of the residents, it's the management, too. A survey of headlines about the NYC Housing Authority (NYCHA) will find problems with lead paint that the agency tried to cover up, issues with toxic mold, falsified maintenance records, energy-efficiency projects which change out the light bulbs in the apartment for LEDs at a cost of $2000 a bulb, and workers who just sleep on the job — which is in fact a step up from the workers who made headlines about having orgies on the job (no, seriously.)
However wonderfully grandiose these elevator pitches sound, I'm always left wondering: what happens when some space debris hits the thing? Instant Kessler syndrome?
I was once asked by a visting American friend why there was so much trash (rubbish) in London. I answered that it was because there weren't very many trash cans at all.

"Then why don't they install some? Perhaps people would respect their environment a little more".

"Because the IRA put bombs in them".
A major question, for me, is: how does it get started? What would motivate someone to create a website without ads, for the purposes of what you're suggesting, when the scheme is in its infancy? What would motivate a website to remove ads, when the scheme is in its infancy?
Maybe going overboard with research and quantitative statements was an effort to make it accessible while combating the notion that they might just be the 1% and blaming poverty etc for others' challenges. Not debating their ability to address these problems directly.
500 karmas for downvoting, at least it was then that the downvote button appeared for me a few months ago.
All this happens because he tried to make his friend look less bad, in a situation that most people will try to keep a good distance.

Things we take for granted today wouldn't exist without this man. To name just one thing, gcc. Yet people are more eager to punish him for what he said than to praise him for what he did.
Spending from tech startups makes up 10% of Big Tech’s revenues
It’s bullshit but if people categorize others based on those meaningless distinctions and act on it, that’s still a problem.
I personally try to avoid art from pedophiles and murderer and rapists.

I argue that art always happens in context and one context is who did it. Appreating art from someone who is clearly hurting others can't have done something so important to me to still enjoy it.

If a case is made which has some very rare and difficult scenario I'm not sure what I would do.
The same would be true for anyone who won the lottery.

Yes, extraordinary luck can radically alter normal circumstances, but that's a meaningless outlier.
I think you mean one partner with the ability to leave the relationship
Won't every vehicle soon have its own IP address? Many must have them already. IoT means some devices need multiple IP addresses
Looks like your reddit is leaking.
It can still be a handicap statistically speaking, just as geography would be for an African billionaire.

Not every male billionaire has a wife with the same level of power and prestige as Melinda Gates, so there is some statistical inequality here.
I think the reason is softbank and other large late pre-IPO investors trying to push WeWork as a tech IPO. Once they dump their shares on the public market I guess they don't care that much again.

Doesn't change the fact WeWork is an overvalued real estate company that believes it is a tech company.
Doesn't seem to be that way according to the global temperature tab one click away.

https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/
This a moon-GEO elevator which may have its advantages but it does not help you get out of the planetary gravity well.
> Credit Karma buys the data for their free product from Equifax.

Well, sorta. Credit Karma uses VantageScore 3.0 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VantageScore), which is different from the various FICO offerings, sometimes substantially. VantageScore has four different generations.

FICO has over sixty variants - by credit bureau, relevant industry (there is, for example, a mortgage-specific calculation), and generation (FICO 8 vs FICO 9).

As a result, depending on what score offering they pull, your lender may see a number that's 100 points different than the one Credit Karma shows.

> So you sign into Credit Karma and it says you're doing well, and they suggest you could get this MegaBank Gold Card. In fact, they've checked and you'll definitely qualify, no risk.

This is another misconception. "Pre-approval" doesn't mean they actually ran the numbers; they just have stats on how many people with a similar VantageScore succeeded when they applied via CK's referral links. If you look closely, CK's "you're pre-approved!" tag actually has this disclaimer underneath it:

"90% of pre-approved applicants get this card. Approval not guaranteed; subject to checks."
It's funny that Stallman is just being Stallman but since the context is suddenly around a word people are sensitive to, it's somehow suddenly not appropriate behavior.

He is just trying to create public conversation about clarification of the term "sexual assault" when it comes to murky areas of consent. If it came out tomorrow that Minsky indeed raped an underage child, Stallman wouldn't deny the truth. The truth is all he's after.
And killing-by-negligence is persecuted entirely differently than killing-by-intent.

If someone gives you a consent because they were forced by someone else to give you a consent, who is to blame? How deep do you have to go to ensure that the consent is true consent?
Brawls emerge in Hong Kong between government supporters and protestors
Using the term SJW alone destroys the credibility of any substantial claim using it. If you really want to persuade people, find a term that isn’t mainly employed as incendiary jargon of far-right ideology to categorically dismiss anyone left of their viewpoint.
Yeah that’s why I just said presidential a lot of other important elections that count on the downballot
Who exactly is the victim of bullying here?
The biggest problem with this article is that it takes as a given that commercial autonomous taxi services are inevitable. The data being collected here includes only trips in a pristinely mapped area. There’s no data about how often service is suspended because of weather, or how much labor beyond the safety driver is required to keep the vehicles in operational order, or how sensitive the sensors are to common visibility issues that happen in the real world, or which rides are turned down because of construction or other temporal factors, or what the failure states would be without a human safety driver...

But even if Waymo beats all the odds and common sense and makes an autonomous vehicle that can function as a taxi in a way people actually want to use outside of highly regularized low-density suburban environment, I continue to be surprised that anyone thinks these services would be able to operate in a profitable way, or that they will change anything about how cities work except for doubling automobile traffic and irritating any human drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians that are forced to interact with them.
I wonder if Radio Shack had a similar evolution.

One of the auction sites lists all TRS-80 stuff under Tandy Leather Factory.
I'm not a physicist, but I _think_ to my understanding what you would see is a collapse that would slow down and get more and more red-shifted, as the photons from the collapse take longer and longer to get to you (and are robbed of more and more energy, hence the red-shift).

So what you would see is more of a slow fadeout as the object shrinks and gets redder and dimmer, until you can't see anything at all. In the limit as the object gets smaller and the photons get dimmer, you end up with something that emits no light and is the size of the black hole silouette.
"You are a product of your environment" --Clement Stone http://archive.fo/yPhyn
I'm still on one of the few CDMA carriers out there, so that's not an option right now.
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His behavior in this current case is something I would consider dickish.

There would have been someone else to create something like the FSF.

Wouldn't you think so?
This article is predicated on lies. Was the original not libel? Mid-page there is a link to a Daily Beast article stating RMS claimed the victims were willing, which is something he did not do.
The redemption in the book is only for Dimmesdale, as his last dying act. For Hester, the recipient of the scarlet letter, there is no respite.

The point of the Scarlet Letter is that its victims are forever oppressed by the masses, and those near to the victim are made guilty by association.

It doesn't matter what the crime is; forever punishments are unjust, and prone to abuse.
Four hours a day, two people?

That's enough time to keep an average castle with a garden up and running.
Well, that's a lot of IQ "truthers" in these here comments.
Confidence Is No Virtue
Same with me! My relationships pushed me to go higher, put myself in a better place, while my brother had friends who kept him down, some months back I heard a family member had to stay in jail over a weekend for doing something his friends told him were okay.

It's absolutely, crushingly, depressing seeing how far you've come up, vs how others are staying down and the incredibly thin line of circumstance that seperates you both.
I'd recommend this video[1], which does a rather good job of rebutting those usual MRA talking points.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDrJo8d45gc
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As soon as he has a bigger team of developers, some of his technology choices might cause trouble. Especially not having a build server will cause chaos very quickly, because nobody will know, who has deployed when and what. A good deployment pipeline with a good test battery using a boring build server like Jenkins can help a lot here.
Isn't that for after the pivot and or a Series B to C?
“No more cars in national parks. Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs--anything--but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and the other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places. An increasingly pagan and hedonistic people (thank God!), we are learning finally that the forests and mountains and desert canyons are holier than our churches. Therefore let us behave accordingly.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
I don't like how this kind of thinking puts Western life on a pedestal as better than everywhere else.
I think the guy from the Balkans probably understands that.
> Rural poverty is definitely poverty.

I didn't say that rural poverty isn't poverty. I'm simply saying that the word "ghetto" almost always refers to an urban context.
I would not use someone who won the lottery to illustrate an article about social fairness.
There is no defending Epstein. Though I think Stallman has made many valuable contributions to free software, I think he has fallen on his sword on this one for no good reason.
You indicated that you have a particular interest in web development. That's great! I would encourage you to keep your questions focused on that. I see that you're getting a lot of answers that say "yes, you can learn in 4 months". Some answers might mention non-web related programming languages. My guess is that that's probably not what you meant to ask. May I suggest rephrasing your question as "Can anyone provide recommendations on learning Web Programming within 4 months?" I think that might evoke answers more relevant to your interests.

Glad to see someone taking an interest in programming. As others have said: although you can learn quite a bit in 4 months, programming is a life-long journey of learning. Happy programming!
There's nothing murky around sex with coerced children.
True that it is neither correct or incorrect, but it is only useless if your intention is to find out the author true intentions.

If what you are doing (and you are honest about it) is trying to reason on what effect such a statement could have on the reader you are actually investigating a real process.

The crucial step (where as far as I can tell many postmodernists fail) is that you must not then claim that your interpretation can replace the statement itself.

All the interpretations in the world do not invalidate the obvious concept of actual truth.
I usually map Interface to contract. But i grew up on c#, so that probably makes sense.
You can sue for slander and defamation of character.
Atari 2600 Donkey Kong is still one of my go-to's on a Friday night. It's crude, but close enough. And the game play is challenging but not too hard.

As recently as two Fridays ago.
> Some people here seem to need it explained why RMS's comments were wrong.

This perspective is not compatible with a liberal society. Perhaps you prefer an illiberal society ruled by your ideological allies.
>I struggle to visualize that...

Scales are simultaneously intuitive and yet mind bending. Never ceases to amaze me either.
Millennials are $1T in debt but better at saving vs. other generations
He didn't suggest underage sex was OK.

His crime was being pedantic about the definition of rape around people who can't even differentiate rape from underage sex, which are probably the same people that are interpreting it as Him defending underage sex.
>300 yards

Make that 10 miles.
"I can't imagine Stallman being happy with having a filter"

Yeah... How happy do you think he is now??? I can guarantee he is sitting at home right now replaying the last week over in his head wishing he would have kept his mouth shut. What is next for this dude? He will NEVER be able to get a job ANYWHERE cause no one will want to be associated with him. I HIGHLY doubt he made enough money to just retire... So really... What's next for him?

Everyone thinks filters are control and evil, however, sometimes they are there for your protection.
I feel out of loop here. Can someone fill me in as to what happened.
China's slowdown deepens; industrial output growth falls to 17.5-year low
You're looking at "labor force participation rate" instead of "unemployment rate". The difference is that people who aren't looking for work are "not participating" but not "unemployed".

Further down that page you'll find:

https://www.dol.gov/wb/stats/NEWSTATS/latest/unemployment.ht...

where the unemployment rates are given: 4.8% for women and 4.9% for men. In a strong economy like we have now, the difference is minor, but in economic down times, the difference is striking. In 2010, the unemployment rates were was 11% for men and 8.4% for women:

https://www.macrotrends.net/2511/unemployment-rate-men-women
Pull Panda [0] is another tool we've been using that is offered as a SaaS and is now free since it was acquired by Github this year. It tells you average PR review time, average PR diff size, who is most requested for review, review-comment ratio, etc. I can't believe it's taken Github so long to make progress on dashboards like this for engineering managers, but looking forward to the time Pull Panda is fully integrated.

[0] https://pullreminders.com
As long as you can show you have changed your mind, should nothing you have said before matter?

I agree with the principle of people being able to change their minds and we should accommodate that, but I also have a hard time giving a huge credit when a 66 year old man says that contrary to everything he's written on the subject, he has recently learned that having sex with children is wrong.
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Totally possible! I went from zero to being employed as a web developer in about 6 months (no bootcamp). Over those six months, all I did was code.

Wake up - read about code.
At work - find good excuses to do my job with code.
Come home from work - code.
After dinner - code.
Before bed - code.

And so on. I also got lucky because I found a couple engineers at my company who were willing to mentor my early projects. What kept me going was finding projects I thought were interesting and challenging and learning everything I could to solve them.

As a lot of commenters have said, we're all learning all the time. The learning never ends! There's never a better time to start than now!
Precisely - nobody bats an eyelid when billionaires spend their money on yachts, if they spend their money on philanthropy, it should be applauded.
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What cable weighs less than half a pound per mile?

200,000 miles
88,000 lb cable

No friggin way.
I think the phrase "politically incorrect" had a narrower meaning in 1993. At the time it really was limited to politics, and in this case the politics in question were probably the politics of academia. So you'd only be be taking a risk saying the politically incorrect thing he was saying if you were an academic, and it offended other academics who had the power to make decisions that affected your career.

Nowadays, "politically incorrect" really means "socially unacceptable", and what is socially acceptable has shrunk to not include having political opinions outside of your social sphere's.

But I think the modern idea of "politically incorrect" isn't new. McCarthyism, for example, is basically the same thing; they just didn't use the term "politically incorrect" to describe statements which could be construed as Marxist.
I learnt your way in school too, but the table is copied from wiktionary.
This fact is coming from every piece of research done on the subject...