skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the situation is different in some countries.

Gender inequality does exist in the U.S., though it’s now significantly lower than it was 50 or 100 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_inequality_in_the_Unite...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_Inequality_Index

Your examples seem a bit cherry picked to me. More men are victims of violent crime are in part because men are more likely to have valuables, in part because more men commit violent crime, in general because men are more violent than women. Painting that as demonstrating that men are the victims seems pretty funny to me.
It's confusing on this sparse page, but no, you do pay for what you generate. It's a version of a rent-your-roof system.

If you choose to "subscribe," you are committing to paying Tesla 10-13¢ for every kWh you generate. You are then (if you're in a state with net metering) selling it to the state for a profit.

In CA, the average cost of electricity is apparently about 16¢/kWh. So you're making a profit of 3-6¢/kWh.

The incentive to you is that it's free to install, and has no commitment apart from a fee of $1500 if you want to remove the system. The incentive to Tesla is that they are selling electricity to the state for full price, minus 3-6¢/kWh to you for renting your roof.
I think your comment about disregarding the accelerating expansion of the universe is a key point. We can't actually move anywhere in space; reacheable space is constrained by our reference frame relative to the reference frame of some other part of the universe that we're accelerating away from. At a certain point, the parts of the universe become unreacheable, because we would have to accelerate faster than the speed of light in order to reach them.

If my understanding is correct, this same condition exists inside the photon limit of a black hole. Technically you're still in navigable space -- not inside the singularity yet -- and can move in any direction. But to actually escape the black hole would require accelerating faster than the speed of light.

Again, if my understanding is correct -- and I'm definitely not a phycisist by any stretch of the imagination -- our movement through time is exactly the same phenomena. We can slow our velocity through time (by moving through space instead), but we can't escape our local reference frame without moving faster than the speed of light. If we could exceed the speed of light, then we would be moving into spatial regions which are otherwise causally inaccessible to us; in other words, we'd be going backwards in time.

So: if we could go FTL, we could escape from black holes, visit parts of the universe beyond the locally-observable limit, and go backwards in time. I think (IANAP) that these are all describing precisely the same thing.

Dunno if this helps. The lawnmower analogy has definitely broken down by this point.

Also, it makes me think: if our experience of time is navigationally equivalent to the experience of space for someone getting sucked into a black hole, does that imply the existence of a higher-dimensional universe where ordinary, non-accelerating time is as fully navigable as our ordinary "non-accelerating" space? And in that higher-dimension universe, are we living near the surface of some kind of singularity? Do the inhabitants of that universe wonder about how sad it must be for poor creatures like us, forced to live on a time gradient which inexorably slopes in just one direction, the way we might commiserate the fate of those sucked into a black hole?
> And those of us from the Triassic period even remember the days before Amazon, where you went to a bookstore, and you hoped they had a book that you needed, and if not, oh well, we can get it in 4-6 weeks.

And that's if you knew it existed. If you were looking for an esoteric subject it was not trivial to discover what books on the topic were in print.
RMS is not going to have a problem finding employment in six months or so. He's just going to have to spend some time demonstrating he's not a sexist liability before he can take leadership positions again.

That seems reasonable and fair.

> I agree that we need to turn around acceptance of "brilliant jerks" but the Law of Unintended Consequence here in many cases seems way worse than the original problem we were trying to solve.

Which is... what exactly? You're appealing to a slippery slope but from my perspective we climbed UP said slope to get to holding RMS to account for years of bad behavior, and even now reprehensible folks are using awful excuses like, "They're just on the spectrum" as ammo in the "Yes but he's a powerful man" argument they've been winning for a long time.
Americans have discarded "Mens rea", guilty mind. If you go to a brothel and the owners tells you everyone is 17, and everyone looks 17, I think your do diligence is done.
The first words in my comment were "aside from the financial aspect" and I pointed out that this becomes more complicated if the couple intends to have children.
They'd just blow it on booze and drugs right?
I have no idea. Just trying to make a point for the utility of the project. Maybe rare earth elements or something else yet to be discovered?
Scroll back a few years.

And no I won't link. You defamed someone. Where I come from it is up to you to prove your defamation is justified.
> The problem is defending a man accused of statutory rape by saying his accuser appeared willing

How is that a problem exactly?

> 17 and 73

Would her being a 18 prostitute change anything in your eyes? Because I am pretty sure that most 17 year olds can easily be confused with 18 year olds and the reverse.

> Defending that situation - real or hypothetical - is very problematic. It gets you fired.

In our current "cancel culture" society, agree.
We’ve been using Gitlab for 4 years now.

What got us initially was the free private repos before github had that.

We are now a paying customer.

Their integrated CICD is amazing. It works perfectly for all our needs and integrates really easily with AWS and GCP.

Also their customer service is really damn good. If I ever have an issue, it’s dealt with so fast and with so much detail. Honestly one of the best customer service I’ve experienced.

Their product is feature rich, priced right and is easy.

I’m amazed at how the operate. Kudos to the team
I'm a veterinarian by the way.

Yes, you can get medical records. They're not as easy to get in an emergency situation, which is how drug-seeking (and I assume pseudoaddiction) presents itself. Sometimes the bizarre extremeness of the situation makes you skeptical enough. For example, "The dog needs the meds for a trip tomorrow from Georgia to a remote part of the Pacific Northwest and it will be in excruciating pain and anxiety if you don't prescribe three months worth right now," and it's 6pm on a Friday evening.
Everything is a shade of grey Seriously though, most of the time it actually is, and it's almost always more complex than we realize.

Saying something like "Amazon is good" well, that's an opinion, definitely grey. Saying "This is exactly 1 inch", well, it probably isn't and the more you care about it's accuracy, the harder it is to measure. Most things are like that. Clear cut at first, and increasingly more difficult the more precise you go. The devil is in the details.

So, yes, if the only options are black and white, the answers are generally easy, you've got a 50% chance of being wrong. As soon as you blur the line, you're basically wrong all the time. The goal is to be less wrong, and to improve, make progress.
The TV tropes article on value dissonance makes an interesting point on this:

"That the age of consent is 16 or less in most of Europe but 18 in some US states gives rise to some dissonance when discussions arise about the attractiveness and availability of 16- and 17-year-olds. 16 is actually common in the US (30 states out of 50), but not many seem to realize this- probably because it's 18 in California, where a lot of the US entertainment industry is based."

Tech industry is also based in California. This is a California morality issue not an American morality issue, there's no US wide agreement on what is an acceptable age of consent.
The amount of people who will actually demand a lender to omit Equifax is also complete roundoff error and insignificant compared with political dealing etc.
> In response to a student pointing out that Giuffre was 17 when she was forced to have sex with Minsky in the Virgin Islands, Stallman said “it is morally absurd to define ‘rape’ in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17.”
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> It's doubly painful, because the "free credit monitoring" on offer is provided by Equifax -- the exact company whose competence we don't trust anymore.

The free credit monitoring is provided by Experian, not Equifax. [1]

[1] https://www.equifaxbreachsettlement.com/
I can totally relate to that. In flood of notifications I missed information about expiring CC. Instead of somehow soft-locking the account they just downgraded it and all my integrations, hooks and god knows what just blowed. I managed to fix the CC in 5 minutes, but many months after I am still recovering from that disaster. Support replied that they did send warning so I should just FO.
Built in CI that you can run on your own servers trivially, free (private) docker image repo, great support for "teams", even free ones, which allows me to offer my CI boxes to my friends for their side projects.

I've had a few vague uptime issues whenever they get a big spike in popularity, but otherwise no complaints.
This is false if you're referring to CA. You can't take a water vessel, motorized or not, into reservoirs or lakes unless it's been washed/cleaned and inspected to be free of invasive and highly destructive clagga mussel.

Motorized boats tend to be cleaner than personal craft because most docks and marinas have dedicated facilities or equipment set aside for cleaning larger vessels.
The gravity is only 3% up there, so more tricky. And reducing with square of the distance.

Also every second you are accelerating straight up costs you gravity worth of Delta-v because gravity losses. So need to be quite short and intense burn to be worth it.
Did RMS did anything like that? From my quick search it seems he just defended by email a dead professor that had sex with a 17 year old. Forced or not, that's hardly what could be called a child, as it's a few years older than the age of consent in most of the Western world.
Not really tech related, but... is there an age limit now on men and women having sex? Just trying to gauge the lines being drawn in this age of moral relativity.
Some do, but children aren't a requirement for a successful relationship. Regardless, my comment already mentions that "this becomes more complicated if the couple chooses to have children"
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There's some progress. See https://libp2p.io eg.
Hahaha that’s exactly it
> There are a chain of media reports which inaccurately portray what Stallman was saying.

Why the hell the Media never puts up links to direct sources is what frustrates me the most. There's been some bad cases of this lately.
Thanks. Do you have any insight into MSFT's strategy for GitHub? I assume it helps make it seem developer friendly, data-mining, identifying projects/new ideas of value and validation, and is part of their becoming more of a cloud company strategy.
The issue wasn't him defending a man, not really.

The issue was him defending statutory rape by saying the victim would have seemed willing.

The cirumstances around that hypothetical (17, 73, billionare's island) solidify the problem.

It isn't intellectual disagreement. It's defending rape, real or imagined, by saying the victim seemed willing.
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Note that while the age of consent for consensual sexual varies by state, if money or trafficking is involved (prostitution), it jumps to 18 by federal law.
They've positioned themselves as an all-in-one package for every tool you'd need to implement a devops software development workflow - source control, continuous integration/deployment, etc. Existing enterprises pay different vendors to implement all of these things; new and growing companies (in theory) just need to buy a GitLab license.
1.5. Use a giant net to collect debris from earth orbit and send it to a landfill on the moon.

Or just weld the collected space junk together to build a counterweight ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Nor would that be of interest for the people he inspired. The assertion is basically that PR is needed to tranquilize or distract people now out for his head. A sad state of affairs really.

I wonder if the terminus "public relations" should be renamed to "press relations", since I doubt milking the click money is representing public opinion anymore, just the most judgmental individuals instead.

PR messages by definition are as always devoid of significant meaning. I cannot really relate to people that crave more of this.
My advice would be to quit chasing exciting frameworks.

Pick something that has been around a while (Ruby on Rails, Python with Django, Java Spring) and go with it.

Focus on performance once it becomes a problem. In python, you can rewrite parts in C that need a speed improvement.

Otherwise, focus on making a great product that solves a problem for your users.
https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21...

From the article:

"The announcement of the Friday event does an injustice to Marvin
Minsky:
“deceased AI ‘pioneer’ Marvin Minsky (who is accused of assaulting
one of Epstein’s victims [2])”
The injustice is in the word “assaulting”. The term “sexual assault”
is so vague and slippery that it facilitates accusation inflation:
taking claims that someone did X and leading people to think of it as
Y, which is much worse than X.
The accusation quoted is a clear example of inflation. The reference
reports the claim that Minsky had sex with one of Epstein’s harem.
(See https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/9/20798900/marvin-minsky-jef...)
Let’s presume that was true (I see no reason to disbelieve it).
The word “assaulting” presumes that he applied force or violence, in
some unspecified way, but the article itself says no such thing.
Only that they had sex.
We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that
she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was
being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her
to conceal that from most of his associates.
I’ve concluded from various examples of accusation inflation that it
is absolutely wrong to use the term “sexual assault” in an accusation.
Whatever conduct you want to criticize, you should describe it with a
specific term that avoids moral vagueness about the nature of the
criticism."
I'm sorry, but functionally the problem witb that sentence was suggesting that minors can consent to sex with adults. While I think there is a good argument to be made that kids can and should have control of their own sexuality, suggesting a young woman forced into sexual servitude by a monstrous sex slave merchant was "entirely willing."

No one in a position to cause this outcome didn't read the original statements. Suggesting that this is all a big misunderstanding (or that this was an isolated incident of RMS's sexism, for that matter) is not only slanderous, but its profoundly disrespectful to all parties.
The MCA bus fiasco was hilarious. Basically, IBM decided it wanted to retake control of the PC and get everyone to abandon the clones, so they came up with the PS/2 and its proprietary MCA bus, and they really thought everyone would suddenly abandon the clones and their open architecture and buy proprietary IBM PS/2 machines that were incompatible with everything. They didn't seem to understand at all that now the cat was out of the bag, they couldn't put it back in. It'd be interesting to see an interview of the idiot executives that hatched up that doomed scheme.
Makes sense that at this point the cap table would be a bit of a mess.

Would be interesting to see something simple, like the total value of all the employee equity, according to different IPO prices/valuations, and then compare that to the changes in the CEO's wealth on the same axis.
Let's be honest, the people who disagree with your comment are worried that eventually someone will out them for their terrible behavior as well! It's shocking to me how unaccustomed to being held accountable some people are.

Here's a radical supposition: it's actually good when speech has consequences in society.
To be fair to RMS he has retracted this opinion and provides arguements against it himself....
as someone in my 40's, I couldn't tell you the difference between someone who is 17, and someone who is 18

I suggest you turn down any offers from billionaire convicted sex traffickers to go to their private island and meet young women then.

To be honest, you should probably turn down that sort of offer even if you're really good at telling how old people are.
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RMS is not encountering any judicial or criminal sanction.

He is merely encountering actual consequences for saying absurd, indefensible things -- and, likely, also finally encountering consequences for being a well-known source of creepy behavior towards women for a very long time. People lose jobs all the time for less.

Yeah, he's done some good things. And maybe (MAYBE) he's actually not neurotypical. But that doesn't mean he gets a pass on being a creep forever.
Read it again. RMS wasn't defending statutory rape, he only wrote to not use the term "sexual assault" when there was no evidence of violence being involved, because words have actual meanings and using wrong words confuses the issue.
Reasons for initially switching to Gitlab:

- Pricing structure made much more sense than Github's at the time. I would've been willing to pay for Github, but their pricing for private repos (now unlimited on the free plan) scaled steeply for any reasonable number.

- In addition to private repos, their free plan still offers many features that Github's free plan lacks, and their paid plans have many more features again than Github (Github focuses on polish, while Gitlab bundles the kitchen sink). While they may lack polish, some of these features are genuinely useful. Particularly around CI. Github's Actions API is an embarassingly recent addition.

- Gitlab Sites: their answer to Github Sites is an underadvertised and wickedly powerful feature. Github Sites really pales in comparison.

Reasons for staying:

- Responsive / active / communicative support team. Getting talking to Gitlab staff is incredibly easy.

- Proactively/playfully innovative culture, evident on tickets and MRs throughout their projects. I also really liked their approach to GithubLab: https://hub.gitlab.com/

- Transparent process. Finding out what's cooking in Github is frustratingly impossible, and why Github holds off supporting seemingly obvious things for eternity is just odd.

- The warm fuzzy feeling of storing my code on an open-source stack.

Reasons for wanting to leave:

- Stability and site performance have always been and continue to be abysmal. This seems to be a result of a reasonably good team being lost in a sea of complexity in a platform on which new features are prioritised over a simplified architecture. They do seem to spend a lot of time working on polish and performance, but never actually managing to achieve either of these things.
>I guess some things never change, including that people think such behavior is a perfectly good way to conduct a society.

Many people seem to be complaining about this.

As far as I can tell, very few people are filming and posting publicly a video saying:

"My real name is $myActualName, I work at $employer, and I think it is acceptable for Richard Stallman to have said “I think it is morally absurd to define “rape” in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17.”and he should face no consequences."

or

"My real name is $myActualName, I work at $employer, and I think it is acceptable for Richard Stallman to have said “I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing.” and he should face no consequences."

Instead they wave their hands and mutter about "free speech".
you don't have to do it that way. i run a company, and i don't get my family to help me. as long as i earn enough money to cover the family expenses, i don't need to work crazy hours.
i get to take time off whenever i want, or whenever the family needs it, and not when my boss allows it.
Do you think that protest must be violent to be effective?
Not a dig at you because I understand that you're using Apple simply as an example of a big company, but Apple hypothetically buying GitLab sounds soo ridiculous.
Yep, I've done this many times.
Eh?

You don't need to get sideways velocity at all. It's enough to only reach the distance. This is a major and huge saving in fuel.
As you get bigger, the people organization becomes more complex. Changing the simplest of things become a complex song and dance of internal political posturing and maneuvering. Then changing people's mindsets and attitudes become even more difficult as people above them fear they will kill the golden goose if they try to change the mechanisms of how people work. This is a problem as old as time itself. This is why smaller startups disrupt bigger companies.
He did not defend Epstein.
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RMS is unemployable at this point. He is also 66, so he could just retire as an option.
> science equipment that previously couldn't be put into space at all.

The large amount of science equipment manufactured on the moon?
Yes, but only a small demographic that actually votes.

If only 1% of the population actually votes, elected representatives will tend to represent that 1%. If you cede the centre ground you get extremists.

Say what you like about Trump, he managed to get his target demographic fired up and out to vote. $boring_reasonable_politician doesn't have the same ability by their nature to get people fired up, but we still need to vote for them.
In case you haven't noticed, we are talking about what He said in the recent emails, not in 2006.
I was confused by that at first.

If you "subscribe", you "rent" solar panels which Tesla will install, and you will use them to generate electricity which you use. You pay for the electricity that is generated, in place of paying a rental fee for the hardware.

It seems unusual, but it's a bit like renting a truck for a very low price (i.e. $20) but then you pay $1.50 for every mile you drive. It's still a little hard for me to wrap my head around, though!
Is your argument that any content platform that allows posting by the general public (vs say, employees) should be obligated to carry all the content that is posted?

Because that's where you end up if you don't want any filtering.

The next step after that is that no one allows posting by the general public anymore.
Being fired or pressured to resign from a prominent, public position because of something you say is not a free speech issue. You can say whatever you want as a private citizen, but as an employee of an organization you are held to different standards.
You can turn a neutron star into a black hole, but you cannot turn a black hole into anything else, only make them bigger.