skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So Abelson left Swartz out to dry and Sussman says this !@#!. Lessig tries to put spin on the money as "complicated". While RMS spews some seriously libertarian viewpoints and defends Epstein, that we need to take a nuanced approach. I wouldn't say they were heros, but damn, that any of them even thought that what they were saying would be taken any other way ... is not fathomable.
Does that matter?

If advertising moves off of the web onto other channels and mediums, then necessarily the economics of the web would still change, right? Taking revenue away from a single medium will still alter the economics of that medium.

Mozilla isn't trying to change the economics of the entire market, they're trying to change the economics of specifically web content.
You’re welcome! My MinGW distro is due for an update, which I should hopefully have time for soon.
Right. I would guess the combination of available space and culture dominates income-related concerns. The places with big houses tend to be former British colonies that cover vast territories and feature an individualistic culture: Australia, Canada, and the US.
As much as we appreciate the support,
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Well people are actually using the offices so prices will go down if they backrupt but they'll catch up. It would feel like an adjustment and not a bubble bursting.
Have you ever read Shakespeare's work? Taking things in a vulgar context, especially for humor, is certainly nothing new.
There is a brew cask now: https://github.com/DeLaGuardo/homebrew-graalvm
The "turn of events" in this case is losing his job because he made the organisations associated with him look bad. And I think it's completely fair for them to kick him to the curb in this case. No one person too important to lose if they turn into a liability. And in this case, I think RMS was well past that point.
That is not a very helpful reply, thank you.
> He is a leader and a part of a larger community and is therefore held to a higher standard.

I see plenty of political and tech leaders set extremely low moral standards. Why is RMS being used to set an example? Do you think RMS actually hurt any children?

His comments are tragically inept - but this seems to boil down to being targeted by breaking headlines such as the New York Post: "MIT scientist says Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre was ‘entirely willing’".
I think Stallman did great work with the FSF and GNU.

I also think the FSF will be hugely better off without him around, and it's insane that it took this long.
> We pretty conclusively decided that race based chattel slavery was wrong a while ago.

Unfortunate that you should use this example since slavery was finally abolished precisely because people kept "asking questions" contrary to the prevailing zeitgeist about why slaves did not enjoy the same rights as other humans.

Never has then been a clearer demonstration of why the "stop asking questions" stance advocated by progressives is intellectually bankrupt.
For Kubernetes in general this has been my experience over the last 5 years (and the year preceding on Docker and other "learning Go" projects).

For web style apps with moderate to heavy client complexity (Kube APIs, client libraries) I have appreciated about being able to start with the GC, when we hit a scale cliff go and remove a 5-10 stupid allocation patterns (inlining, value types, removing pointers or replacing with internal index references so the collector ignores them), get another 10x scale from that, then go back and do architectural improvements, get another 10x, then trim some fat around the edges and get another 5x.

You definitely hit a wall at some point (comparing the best that you can do in Go with protobuf / JSON relative to say Serde) where the remaining 2-10x efficiency is not achievable. That is where I'd be most interested in generic like constructs in Go where I can type and define down. It's hard to beat the clarity and brevity of Serde - no one in Go has done it at anywhere near the performance.
Fair. Putting aside the word itself though, I don't think Stallman lacks empathy.

What he does lack, IMHO, is a huge amount of basic, day-to-day understanding of how the world works. Such as the power dynamics of teenagers in the modern world. Things he's completely incapable of understanding because he chooses to isolate himself and live in an absurdly eccentric way. For fucks sake, have you seen how he browses the internet? [1]

He chooses to live that way because, for him, every single issue seems to be a hill he's ready to die on. It was only a matter of time until the hill was bad enough for this to happen.

Still, I maintain he's not evil, neither by your definition nor mine.

[1] https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
That actually looks catastrophic. Stock price doesn't reflect it yet. Shadenfreude isnt my thing but this looks bad and insiders must already be aware.
> Just because someone sincerely believes that others are subhuman doesn't mean the conversation ends immediately.

Holocaust deniers used this very tactic under the banner of "skepticism".

They wrote books, they gave speeches. They participated in "academic debate" as if the authenticity of the holocaust was something to be debated.

And they caused a lot of pain to those that did live through the holocaust -- only to hear from someone making false claims that it did not, in fact, happen.
What you’re observing is not the American dream. It’s pop-culture in big population centers. Not everyone is competing with their neighbors. Some of us just want comfortable homes and like driving fast cars.
Glad you like it and hope the price continues to be reasonable as they continue to cut expenses while trying to maintain food quality :)

For me I eat a very peculiar diet so I usually just pick up yogurt and fresh bread from the grocery store on my way home from work, and when I'm feeling particularly lazy I will order steamed chicken and steamed broccoli from the local Chinese shop who really have this amazing technique of steaming that I seem unable to grasp!!
I don't know what kind of world you want to live in, but I enjoyed my university experience where most of my professors were scholars holding more or less banal views and, to the best of my knowledge, not a one being accused of "all manner of crimes." I don't think professors being accused of crimes is either common or beneficial to the spirit of learning and scientific inquiry.
I also disagree with his opinion on this topic. Strongly.

But is it reasonable for someone to be essentially fired for having an incorrect opinion?
I guess they have a Union regulation never to mention "plasma". "Hot gas" is the closest they can get. Mentioning electrons is an advance: in the old days, x-rays were proof positive of million-degree hot gas.

"Turbulence" in gas at hard-vacuum pressure is impossible. What they are talking about is plasma fluid dynamics, charged particles in motion generating fields that affect other particles at a distance, without collisions. Anyone tackling that merits admiration.
I kind of agree. As another free software fan, I've been uncomfortable with a number of things that RMS has been doing. Free software is good, no compromise/no surrender is good, and fighting against proprietary software is good. Doing it the ways RMS has been doing it is often not good.
I think this is a distinctive cultural affectation. In America, there is a strong historical context that a man's home is his castle, from the earliest history of the country, and in that sense every man can be lord of a small fiefdom. This isn't just theoretical, the rights attached to property ownership are extensive in America, and in some regions asymptotically approaches a practical approximation of sovereignty. In this context, bigger is generally better.

Someone can correct me if I am wrong, but my experience is that Americans view property as "personal sovereignty" to a much greater degree than people in other parts of the world, who view it more as an investment or generational asset. In the US, it comes with the implication of freedom to do your own thing without state interference. (In some parts of the US, this is de facto literal.)

That said, I prefer to live in a relatively small place in the middle of a real city. I don't know how to fill a large house in a way that can be rationalized, though I have owned such houses.
Maybe some ideas are in fact so "settled" that anyone being seriously skeptical of them is either trolling (and not worth our time) or frighteningly unethical (and should not be in a position of power).

For example:

1) Men should be dominant over women. Women should have no rights, and be little more than property.

2) Certain races are inferior and should be put back into chattel slavery.

3) Eating toddlers is fine, actually.

Would you bother trying to counter those ideas in good faith? Or should the people expressing those views maybe be fired/punished/etc.
This feels like straight propaganda...

> when the other claims are just as illegitimate

This is untrue, re: «On 12 July 2016, an arbitral tribunal constituted under Annex VII to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ruled that China has no legal basis to claim "historic rights" within its nine-dash line in a case brought by the Philippines»

> All of these countries have overlapping

This is massively disingenuous, because only China is putting military bases next to other countries and then chasing off their fishermen. Locate Mischief Reef on a map, and then tell me China isn’t annexing Phillipine territory with a straight face.
Can't believe the market is currently valuing Pinterest at 16B
Perhaps Apple's contributions aren't as visible, but just off the top of my head here's two major open source contributions from them: Swift[1] and FoundationDB[2]

[1] https://github.com/apple/swift

[2] https://github.com/apple/foundationdb
How is there no About page?
Hong Kong is also 1.5 times the size of NYC with about the same population. It's not quite comparable to other countries with a much lower population to area ratio.
Porting Unix Software (2005)
It’s what we’ve been calling our code for a long time (in VCBlog articles, etc.) and it’s a perfectly valid use of metonymy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy

Scott Meyers wrote a book called “Effective STL”, and there’s a somewhat-similar-interface library named https://github.com/electronicarts/EASTL - neither of these lead to confusion.
"We don't measure the patients metabolism of a drug at all. Individuals bodies process drugs differently and have different side effects. It seems that differences in reactions could be related to different metabolic pathways being used, resulting in more or less toxic byproducts. Could a urine or blood test a few hours after the first dose be an effective mechanism for screening for likelihood of side effects based on the metabolic byproducts detected? Could this test be effective at detecting these byproducts at dosages below what would cause side effects? Could this be incorporated into a "home drug test" style urine dip that patient could do themselves at home without returning to doc?"

Strangely, just the other day I met someone in Cambridge (UK) who is moving forward with a startup solving this EXACT problem.

Let me know if you want me to connect.
> large fraction of talented engineers have worked at FB or Google

I'd actually dispute that. The tech world is really, really big. There are a great many extremely talented engineers that have never worked at FB or Google, but they're also the kind of engineers that don't write blog posts or attend conferences, so they're less visible.
My definition of McMansion is in the urban core. It’s where they tore down the original bungalow or something old and small and erected a suburb sized house. If it’s having trouble selling it’s because of money. Price of the home with high land value or cost of the private schooling that many people with that budget would require.
> you're probably worth only $20B

This is something I don't get. Pretty much all of these businesses are aiming at dominance on some sector. They entered into the game with the understanding that it's all or nothing.

If they don't achieve that dominance, or if the sector itself turns out to be less than worthwhile, isn't it more likely that these companies are worth essentially zero, rather than some percentage of their target value?
> your opponent, China

Now there’s a straw man
> What I do wish is for the pubic perception of 'screentime' to not include _everything_.

This! My parents would let me have extra time if I was doing something other than mucking about playing games or social media nonsense.

Usually a parent would ask me what I did and if I was learning programming or something like that they would leave me to explore.

I think one of the main problems is that too many parents are just putting a screen in front of a child as a virtual babysitter because they don't want to be bothered.
I prefer a dictionary. There you will find that Intellectual comes from latin intellēctus (“understanding”). There is no qualification of what that understand must be about.
You Don’t Have to Be Good at Art to Benefit from an Artistic Hobby
I think that it has next to nothing to do with technology. MIT was still reeling from the fall out with the Media Lab and Epstein. If it wasn't for that, they might have gotten by with a simple apology, but that wouldn't be enough at this point.

There is also a history of controversial stuff related to his time at the FSF which meant that probably wouldn't settle for a simple apology either (not that RMS seemed willing to give one).

As organisations change over time, what they need in leadership also changes. In this case, they didn't need an ideologue with a history of generating controversy, they needed someone who can keep the ship going forward so that the projects they are overseeing don't lose enough talent that they become irrelevant.
Epstein's first conviction was in 2008.

The allegation about Minksky stems from a single line in a gigantic recently published deposition ( https://twitter.com/_cryptome_/status/1159946492871938048 ), covering events long before 2008.

Minsky was included in a list of people that Epstein's assistant asked one of his victims to have sex with (the deposition didn't ask if sex actually occurred). In the deposition the victim couldn't remember the date they received that request, but a third party reported that they saw the victim approach Minsky in 2002 and that he turned her down and complained about it ( https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/339725/ ).

It may be the case that the witnessed event and the content of the deposition were unrelated and at different times, but if not-- the victim was also 18 at the time...

But no one really cares about the facts, this is almost entirely a ceremonial battle over who has the sickest imagination. Because there are essentially no clear details, not even a concrete allegation, everyone is essentially making things up in order to fight over them.
My parents house was big for one main reason - it was stupidly cheap to build it. 10,000 sq ft on 5 acres of land for under $100k (adjusted to 2019).

My dad worked as a lineman for Ma Bell, and could afford to build it with no mortgage. You can’t do that today.
> Like, I dunno, tax fraud is in principle tax fraud even at a single cent, but it's absolutely not "you paid all the taxes you owed, you are fine, you under-reported one cent of your income, now you lose your job and go to jail".

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

>> And so even though there's not really a difference between 17 years 364 days vs. 18 years, one can consent to sex with an adult while the other cannot.

> Which seems to be the case. Now, why is that a good approach?

Because — with regard to statutory rape — if I know someone's age I can be 100% sure whether or not I would be breaking the law by having sex with them.
Nuclear could be the clean energy source the world needs
At the 4 year in make building a professional services firm in Shanghai, old school work, but looking constantly for online B2C and B2B opportunities, I love IH for the community aspect. Although I find one has to be careful with balancing the amount of work allocated to seeing what others are doing and the hard but inevitably more important grinding out of one's own business aspirations. Great conversation!
That reply got me thinking - thanks.
>insiders must already be aware

The lockup period does not expire till mid-october.

I read their 10-Q and found this gem about "user re-authentication":

"Users

MAUs at quarter-end were 300 million, representing growth of 30% year-over-year. This represents an acceleration in user growth, in part due to one-time changes to SEO algorithms and user re-authentication that impacted Q218. International growth drove the majority of global MAU expansion."
The actual building materials used to build a house - the lumber, drywall, shingles, etc - are really cheap relative to the cost of upgrading the finishes within the house, as well as the cost of acquiring the land and permits necessary to build (at least in most high demand areas).

And of course with the advent of things like power tools and supply chains that can cheaply delivery (relatively) uniform building materials, the actual process of physically constructing the house is easier than ever.

So, if you're in the business of building homes, one of the most cost effective ways to make the house seem more luxurious is simply to make it bigger.

Also, big houses are not strictly a suburban phenomenon. If you've ever been to a gentrified urban neighborhood it's not that uncommon to see a block where they've torn down almost every 900 sq ft bungalow and replaced it with a 3500 sq ft 3 story box.
I disagree, but maybe we're talking about different kinds of computation.

- There are tons of classes of data that work rather well with streaming modes of computation, especially video, music, and images, which make up most of the average user's data. It can even work for bigger data. I recently had my whole genome sequenced. They're sending me the data on a 500GB hard drive, which I'll upload to the cloud and use tools like iobio[0] (which I work on) to analyze it remotely. Even in cases where you can't use sampling, often the actual computation is as much of a bottleneck as the network throughput is.

- I'm thinking more along the lines of a true hard drive analog, ie the apps can store whatever arbitrary data they want, including binary blogs and special config formats. The service provides a simple API for storing/retrieving files, notifying on updates, and handling auth/permissions.

- Again there are a huge class of problems that work just fine with flat filesystems. I think databases are heavily overused, especially in cases where only 1-100 people need to use the instance. You could run into issues with large collections of music or photos, but I don't know anyone who keeps more than a few hundred photos in any one directory.

[0] http://iobio.io/
Sometimes I feel for a company like that that at least 60% of their spend is on podcast advertising.
Did he resign because of these comments / opinions? Or you are commenting on his opinions

[edit] seems the resignation is due to the comments and I’m living under a rock
1. The deposition that's been made public doesn't allege sex with anyone as it was in a lawsuit against Maxwell for trafficking activities. That's outside its scope.

2. I don't find Benford credible.

3. Minsky kept taking Epstein's money and holding conferences on Epstein's island for over a full decade after the events Giuffre and Benford describe took place. Is there any benign explanation for that?
Guess these guys didnt get the memo.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/seekingalpha.com/amp/article/42...

To be clear, I dont trade stocks and couldn't care less which way this moves. Just seems like the Google trends data is a bit of information asymmetry that the market hasn't caught on to, yet.
That's not, like, how arguments work? You don't just get to say "it's a slippery slope, it'll expand to include you, Q.E.D."
Recent history: Paedophile Information Exchange

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paedophile_Information_Excha...

Current: Age of consent by country

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent
I don't understand how these 2 languages always get into these comparisons.

They are mostly aimed for different audiences and different purposes.
This game is played with chess pieces on a chess board... though they have different meanings.

Each player sets up their pieces in any way they want on the back two rows. The number of possible of possible starting positions for each player is 64,864,800. This means that the starting game position possibility is 4.2e15.

Next is the branching factor. Chess is about 35 possible moves each play for each player. Arimaa, each player makes two successive moves. This makes for a very large branching factor... 17,281 possible moves each turn ( http://arimaa.janzert.com/bf_study/ ). Go has a branching factor of 250.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_complexity has a chart on it... Go has a larger board size and space state complexity, but Arimaa has a larger game tree size and branching factor.

That 35 and 17,281 thing... 35^8 ~= 17,000^3. If you have a computer program that can search all the possible moves 8 deep in chess (Deep Blue went 6-8 typically), it could only look 3 deep into Arimaa (a similar search space is 5 deep in Go).
On macOS, /dev/random never blocks. From the beginning up until 2014 or so, this was blatantly insecure: the only initial entropy was the system clock! In microseconds, not seconds, thankfully, but that's still a very low amount of entropy. securityd in userland would send the kernel more entropy once it came up, but before that point, /dev/random would just spew low-quality random numbers.

Since 2014, however, macOS has expected to get a random seed from the bootloader, which in turn gets it from rdrand if available, or some complicated timer stuff if not. I'm not sure how secure the latter is, but as of Mojave, there are no longer any supported Macs without rdrand, making the issue moot...
If someone using a tactic in bad faith means we can't use the tactic any more, we're going to be in a lot of trouble. People talking about things they don't understand and being in need of correction goes a bit deeper than "well, Holocause deniers ask questions too!".

Stallman is not a serial Holocaust denier. He is a software philosopher.

And insofar as he is an agitator, on most of his pet topics time has proven him to be right rather than to be a troll.
Not to be flip, but pretty sure the gp is referring to losses, I.e. burning vc money and not earning enough revenue to break even.
Not sure how good the original article is, but this is a poor rant.

And I very much dislike Go as a language.
How is it offensive to make sure we are precise in using different words to denote two different things?
Something about Minsky that seems to have gotten lost: Minsky appears to have turned Epstein's girl down, according to Gregory Benford: https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/339725/
yep! Clang-cl uses this library btw (I think it's possible to get libc++ sorta working on windows, but it's not something that's officially supported).