skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do they still make Aeron chairs ???.
If the Microsoft tool you are referring to is MSBuild, that one is already open source.
I don't know what the correct standard is for an organizational leader when it comes to this stuff, but I don't understand why they need to inflate Stallman saying "presented herself as entirely willing" to him saying she was "entirely willing".
This doesn’t really have anything to do with the discussion we’re having, which is that given a specific set of facts about two person it is possible to objectively deduce whether or not they are allowed to have sex.

If you have an example of a set of ambiguous statutory rape laws, please cite it. Otherwise, I think this conversation has reached a stalemate.
Delaying IPO buys some time for Sofbank. IPO with low valuation forces huge write-down for SoftBank. Now they can still pretend.

I suspect that SoftBank & Saudi money will be the biggest casualty of current tech boom. They just throw money around.
In a civilized world, you would be able to sue someone for libel for making a statement of opinion, in the abstract, that might somehow be applied to you? And this is your response to a thread rooted in someone concerned about the need for self-censorship?
I think the news (and many others) are misunderstanding what rms said (or they intentionally misrepresented his words).

The way I understand what rms said is that the victim would've acted ("presented herself") as willing to Minsky, while being coerced by Epstein. That does not imply she was actually willing in any way shape or form.

I think you're misunderstanding it too, based on your statement: "RMS doesn't seem to understand what willing means."

The way I see it, what rms did was (strategically) dumb and tactless, but not unethical at all.
He slept in his office, and had ever since his house caught on fire, some years before I met him. I met him in 1984. When he moved his office to a rebuilt floor at tech square, he had a wall dividing the office into two halves. One half was his sleeping space, and the other, which was accessible from the hallway, was his working space.
I have now read the whole email thread available on Vice (thanks those who linked it).

First, I admit little knowledge past what I just read. I do, however, see why people don't like what Stallman wrote.

That said, I think this went too far, and that many have misconstrued both what Stallman said and meant. I hope that's ok to say.

This situation stinks.
How many of these weird cost of living calculators need to be made ?
>If you start expressing opinions about how sex with a sex-trafficked child should be legal

That is not what Stallman said, wrote or advocates so that's kind of a strawman hypothetical that continues to pedal a false narrative.
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It's of very poor quality since we've had Prop 13, Howard Jarvis and all the same in the lesser states
There are no laws against minors having sex. There are laws against non minors having sex with minors.

I am not arguing that.

I am just saying that a minor not being able to consent due to their alleged ‘mental deficiency’ due to age(as suggested by another poster above) is dodgy.

Ok. Let’s take an example of an actual ‘mentally deficient’ person...even an adult. Don’t they have sexual urges and biological needs? Are they capable of consent? What does the law say about that?

Sexual urges are no different than hunger or thirst. I want to know why sex has a more special status than food or water?
An insight I've had recently is that the most efficient way to implement architectural changes that are not additive is to rebuild. Otherwise you're trending inexorably towards the lava layer and accumulating tech debt that you cannot track.

A useful direction to unpack is to define architecture. You cannot re-architect a building after it has been built, you must only demolish or rebuild elsewhere. This is why all architecture changes must be additive in nature, otherwise you're pulling the foundation out from under the building.

Software should be modern pyramids.
So you're saying there's been pressure for him to resign for years? And that this incident is just one example of a long list of unacceptable behavior? Do you have any sources for that?
You write "That’s the point".

But you asked a much broader question.

I gave two examples, one real ("Jimmy the Greek"), and one hypothetical ("pinko Commie"). Do you really want to get into a discussion of how it was not "right and just" to fire Jimmy the Greek for his racist comments?
That is a grotesque distortion of what Stallman actually wrote, though it does seem to be how his enemies decided to distort him. Thanks for being part of the problem.
Do you spend a lot of time at work having your vulnerability to rape talked about by your boss?
Woah. In this bigger picture, amazon and everybody else is doing the last mile for Fulfilled By China!
That appears to be the whole point the person you were replying to was making -- that the two are only loosely correlated.
Indeed, it’s no longer cool to be an open white supremacist anymore. What a shame.
I’m not so sure ambitious competitors aren’t riding moral panics and polarized reactions to get rid of incumbents and take their place.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions...
The OS of the mainframe is software. The software running the distributed system is software. For the most part, the software running the distributed system just handles it. It's slightly different.
Both cars share the same platform/components.
To stop questioning something is to turn it into a religious belief. Then there's no way to know how valid it is.
> IP address data is pretty sensitive information, and throwing it out there like this, even in aggregate, is not OK because of what it shows.

Apple's ownership of 17.x is so well known it is described in an xkcd: https://xkcd.com/195/.
Not really, because it's the same paradigm that cluster software is designed for.
Yet another person who throws around the word 'pedophile' in a very inaccurate way.

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

There is no evidence that he was a pedophile. In fact, many of the 'girls' he had relations with were by their own admission consensual and involved compensation.

He certainly broke the law in this country and his morals and character are in question, but what he did is (and has been throughout history) legal in much of the world and we can't act like US law is a surrogate for universal ethics/morals:

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

At some point we have to decide if girls/women have agency to decide their sexual activity. 25 year-olds can be coerced in asymmetric power relationships just like a 16 year-old. We already know about the double-standard of sex when drunk--if you are man, it's consensual, but if you are a woman, it's always rape.

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

And as an aside, I think that the use of 'sex trafficking' in this context does a disservice to the actual, bonafide victims of sex trafficking--people that are kidnapped, passports confiscated, literally enslaved. Now because the term has been co-opted by a self-righteous political agenda, we can't have personals on Craigslist.
Cloudfront is a premium service. It's not a good baseline for bandwidth prices.

Backblaze will send out data for 1 cent per GB, or $13,500. BunnyCDN apparently starts at 1 cent per GB in North America and Europe, and has a fewer-PoP plan that would be $5,550. And let's be fair, you don't need many points of presence for half-gig neural network models.

The other option is buying transit. Let's say we want the ability to deliver 80% of the 45TB in 4 hours as our peak rate. Then we need 20gbps of bandwidth. That's around $9,000 in a big US datacenter. Aim for a peak of 6/8 hours and it's $6,000/$4,500.
I like the word contract for this. Especially because you ought to break things when you change the contract. Maintaining backwards compatibility is quite fascinating, think how Windows for instance manages version compatibility with using "struct size" parameters for instance and app manifests.
This is really interesting! I was fascinated by the website, joined the Telegram group… and of course got kicked for not sending a message in 60 seconds. Is there any chance I could email you my username and be re-added?
One good thing about advertising is that it allows the poorest free access to most content. Hopefully these initiatives will keep that.
I'm saying the amount of good he did for this country far outweighs his wrongs.

I'm just certain sure his slaves felt the same way. Especially Ona Judge.
What is their criteria for selection?

Are they working from the idea of a published piece of music that could be performed by any symphony, quartet, choral group, etc? Or is about what instruments it is for?

I'm just not clear on what their definition of "classical" music is.
Dude please review what you wrote, that’s libel
People's opinions and what they say have weight and actually affect people (not to mention they affect people's actions). He isn't defending pineapple on pizza, he's defending the victimization of women.

Whether or not this case crosses it there clearly is a line where expressing an opinion isn't okay. If he was spouting off racist stuff you would have very few people defending him being fired.
He slept in his office, and had ever since his house caught on fire

Yeah. This is true.

He was intermittently homeless while developing the free software stuff. It was kind of homeless lite because he was a hacker and often slept at work.

He was unable to register to vote at one point because he listed his work address and described himself as a squatter. He got his right to vote when some interview in some national publication came out stating the same thing. At that point, the registrar of voters accepted his work address on his application.
He has had hundreds of chances. He was first called out ten years ago. It took a really long time for him to convince this many people that he was a pox upon our industry. I respect the level of effort and commitment to being actively destructive to the community that he put in to the project.
Oh interesting. I did not know it used GCC. It feels super snappy, nonetheless.

Last time I tried it was a couple of months ago. I don't recall what it was missing, but it was some core part of my normal python development environment.
There needs to be more data released than gross number of disengagements, but video isn't particularly useful for agencies.

There needs to be some kind of common public protocol and infrastructure that allows the government to audit potential crashes and then test other self driving car systems to see how they'd react in the same situation. That'd also likely help with giving visibility into why a particular system acted the way it did, and give the public a better view into how the companies are performing. E.g. how well would Waymo handle the areas that Cruise is currently focusing on?
Please see the Acknowledgments section of https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/open-sourcing-msvcs-s... .
>This is showing "Pinterest the social network" not just "Pinterest the search term"

I believe this is just a broader result set that includes searches for anything that Google deems to be related to 'Pinterest the social network'.

Google doesn't have access to internal Pinterest metrics.
Headphone jacks are dumb when a majority of the populous does not use them. They are a dust and water ingress point and just take up space that could be used for something more useful. Such as more battery or haptic engine.
Good reddit thread discussing the differences between the following (I googled it specifically to find out what practical differences existed between DNS over TLS and DNSCrypt):

* DNS over HTTPS (DoH)

* DNS over TLS (DoT)

* DNSCrypt

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/89pr15/dnsoverhttp...

TL;DR: It looks like DoT probably achieves much the same thing but may have more support through standardized implementations at least compared to DNSCrypt. I disregarded the top comment's opinion about DoH since their position is likely influenced by their state of competition with Cloudflare.
I'm not criticizing your preferences at all, but I think it's really strange for you to describe them as loneliness. I would say you work alone, but you're not lonely, because you have a bunch of other social connections in your life that for some people are replaced by coworkers. If anything, your comment reflects a kind of strange default on HN where work consumes so much of your life that coworkers are your "friends" and working alone is the same as being lonely.
Google pioneered something done before Google existed?
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Agreed. I was responding to:

> Let’s not criminalize kids being kids because of some strict morality code.
>negative revenue

How is that even possible?
What’s truly remarkable is that you spent several paragraphs admitting that men tend to make offensive, sexist remarks and gestures, and then you use this to justify Stallman’s behavior. This is exactly why the tech industry NEEDS to do better.
You know what, dude? I really, really hope it is just an allegation. I want desperately for it not to be the case that Minsky got sucked into Epstein's shitty web. But the deposition we've seen so far is just that: the only one we've seen so far.

That said, and this is key, none of this is about whether or not Minsky did anything. Assuming he did, it isn't even about whether it was with a minor, or a woman of legal age. It's about Stallman having decided that was a prudent moment and subject about which to "Well actually..." at the world. The whole point is Stallman's behavior, not Minsky's.

In all seriousness: what the actual fuck does Richard Stallman's opinion on what does or doesn't constitute rape matter? Why would he think that was a point that needed his quibbling? Maybe that's the judgement under question.
I never mentioned ambiguity, you did. I claimed that the laws were nuanced and not clear cut, and I guess you are just agreeing with that?
Terrifying is right. Look at how the telephone game evolved a debate about what Minsky knew or didn't into a defense of child sex trafficking:

Stallman:

> the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing.

Selam G.

> [Stallman] says that an enslaved child could, somehow, be “entirely willing”.

VICE:

> Stallman insists that the “most plausible scenario” is that Epstein’s underage victims were “entirely willing” while being trafficked.

New York Post:

> MIT scientist says Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre was ‘entirely willing’
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Apple wrote and open sourced their C++ compiler (clang) and C++ standard library (libc++), both part of the LLVM project, years before Microsoft did. In fact it was more than a decade ago in 2007 that Apple open-sourced clang, and now widely adopted by the industry. Sure Apple's participation in open sourcing may not be "enthusiastic" with huge "️Heart Open Source" billboards but it gets real job done and has real positive impact.
I wonder if they could build a spec for a simulated environment that regulators could use to test self driving cars against. Start stacking up edge cases that resulted in crashes to vet new releases and new products.
So did Stallman just assume that the Minsky allegation is true? Does he know something we don’t or is he just jumping to conclusions?
Sex. He implies that he has sex with women in his office.
> Again, comparisons with physical retail are moot because, in your grocery store, nobody can walk in off the street and start selling off the shelves. The grocery store is not an open e-commerce platform but a curated service with physical scarcity.

So, if Amazon marketplace was an invite-only, curated marketplace and not an "open" marketplace, this wouldn't be a problem?
>Into all this came the drug warriors. It’s hard for me to be angry at addictionologists, because they have a terrible job and are probably traumatized by it. But they really hate drugs and will say whatever it takes to make you hate drugs too. These are the people who gave us articles on how one hit of marijuana will get you addicted forever and definitely kill you, how one hit of LSD will make you go crazy and get addicted and probably kill you, how there can never be any legitimate medical reason for using cannabis, how e-cigarettes are deadly poison, and other similar classics. Sensing that they had the high ground, they wrote a couple of papers about how pseudoaddiction isn’t “empirically proven”, as if this were a meaningful claim. This gave the media the ammunition they needed to declare that pseudoaddiction was always pseudoscience and has now been debunked and well-refuted.

>This is just my story, and it’s kind of bulverist. But if you think it’s plausible, I recommend the following lessons:

>First, when the media decides to craft a narrative, and the government decides to hold a moral panic, arguments get treated as soldiers. Anything that might sound like it supports the “wrong” side will be mercilessly debunked, no matter how true it is. Anything that supports the “right” side will be celebrated and accepted as obvious, no matter how bad its arguments. Good scientists feel afraid to speak up and question the story, lest they be seen as “soft on the Opioid Crisis” or “stooges of Big Pharma”.
When did I ever make a claim about prosecutors?

I said the JURY decides. And in the Thomas Drake case, the prosecutors were so scared of the jury that they dropped all charges.

As I said before: the jury decides ultimately. Prosecutors do not decide. Judges do not decide. Study up on the Thomas Drake case, the JURY is the weapon of choice which fights corruption.

Specifically: the petite jury (aka: trial jury). Grand Jury is a bit more controversial, but its probably better than nothing at all.
Nope... people will not agree and call you out, drumming up outrage until you resign or get kicked out.

From what I’ve read about the Cultural Revolution and Jaquereies, what’s going on looks pretty much the same mob pattern.
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> This isn't a subtle difference.

Thanks. You're right, it isn't, but the gaslighting had me doubting my own sanity for a moment there.
Oh, the jumping jacks thing was supposed to have been taken as an actual argument? Because my response to that was, "I wouldn't go there."
It is interesting that Stallman has been expressing very harsh opinions, unpopular among many people, for decades. Nothing happened to him, on the contrary, he was well respected even among people who did not share his political views and who were frequently on the receiving end of his criticism.

But as soon as he dared to veer a little from the party line in one particular question, he has been unpersoned in literally couple of days, despite all apologies and attempts to explain he didn't really mean any heresy. I guess that shows who you can disagree with and who would really hurt you if they even suspect you might disagree (even though you don't).
I agree it isn't a dichotomy. I just don't understand anti-elitism. Note the difference between the elite and rich. Trump is the latter and won due to anti-elitism.
Literally any Google search of the man's name would show that he's a fucking monster. It was never a secret, much less after he was convicted of trafficking an underage prostitute in 2008. Nobody can plead ignorance of his crimes. Everyone who took money from him, traveled with him (and his young 'friends'), is absolutely guilty by association of his continued crimes.

https://www.google.com/search?q=jeffrey+epstein&biw=1345&bih...
You're going to have to qualify 'safe' a bit. People aren't particularly 'safe' either.

Weather and environmental factors aren't a dominant force in auto accidents - https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/weather/q1_roadimpact.htm

Idiots are - https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/
That’s why I mostly use pseudonymous channels these days, like this one. I treat everything I say with my real name like I’m publishing it on the front page of the New York Times and submitting three copies to the Library of Congress.

Many fewer of my current associates hear any real thoughts of mine compared to 20 years ago. I used to get into all kinds of arguments like Stallman’s, on public email lists, which thankfully haven’t surfaced online (yet).
I never thought in a million years I'd see the Silicon Valley bubble become so deranged that they'd reverse polarity. Watching HN eat their own liberal legends like Stallman, at the direction of Fox News and NY Post. This is truly astonishing.
You are talking about a brilliant man actually getting fired, vs some hypothetical what-if that hasn't been proven.

Why not go after actual occurrences of discrimination, rather than assuming anytime some speaks out in a non-PC manner, that it means they are also going to discriminate against others? This is arresting for murder before it happens. It's the canonical example of "thought crime".
I too am very disturbed by the historic records of Stallman's bad behavior. Was he ever forced to take sensitivity training or anything, or did everyone just ignore it?
> He could have probably discussed the age of consent in public pre-2013 and maybe get a few disgusted reactions but generally be fine.

He did. People don't remember, but his home page used to have articles regarding age of consent, which he later took down.
Related -> https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21...
Webkit is Apple, yes, but it was a fork of something existing (khtml)
Is there a better browser than Firefox?
I think the far better consideration is picking the tech stack that requires learning the least amount of new skills.
> Point is the media is making this out to be an indictment on some SV tech bubble

It is (too some degree) an indictment on the Softbank and/or blitzscaling strategy that a lot of SV startups follow.
IANAL, but:

>> There is absolutely a bright and clear (albeit very complicated) line for tax fraud.

> In other words: There isn't a bright and clear line?

There is. A “bright and clear line” means a test is objective, not that it’s simple [1].

>> The IRS probably won't go after you if you underpay by a penny — but you're still breaking the law if you do it intentionally.

> In other words: There isn't a bright and clear line?

There is. Just because something is not consistently enforced doesn’t mean it’s not clearly illegal. Cops may not fine you if they see you jaywalking, but you’re still unambiguously breaking the law if you cross the street outside of the crosswalk.

> OK, so suppose we were to make the rule that if you under-report your income by any amount, whether intentionally or not, whether knowingly or not, you go to jail for ten years. That would be a bright and clear line, right? If you know that you reported all your income, you can be 100% sure whether you are going to jail. Why wouldn't that be a good approach? Or would it be?

Most crimes (although not statutory rape) require intent to be shown [2]. No justice system is perfect; innocent people get convicted and guilty people go unpunished. A good law should allow people to unambiguously know when they would break it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright-line_rule

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea
Have you actually tried talking to a lot of children about this topic?

(it would be funny if you did; it would also be equally funny if you didn't, and are surprised that children didn't express said argument, even though you didn't give them the chance)
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