skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see it as a witch hunt so much as an intervention. He has done great things in the free software movement, history will thank him for it, but he shouldn't be working as a front-man while launching foot-seeking missiles.

I have a soft spot for RMS like other people do but I don't want to donate to the FSF while he is talking this way as its president.

Maybe he is also a victim of his success. Free software has come so far in the past few decades that it's not as important as other social issues in computing at this point in time.
For everyone but the racists, yes.

I believe that even used to the definition of racism.
Founder here! I'd be very happy to get any feedback, or hear how your team currently does risk assessments?
> Healthy, mentally-stable parents

Do you think that people in Chad are inherently less healthy or mentally stable, or might it be a product of their environment?
> Because the question is not “is it moral”, because the answer is obviously no to any decent person, regardless of age of consent.

Judging by the amount of ahem, activity, between high-schoolers, we are literally surrounded by the immoral. /s
he's also worried of governments surveillance on babies ...

it's a stream of consciousness, if you wanna judge a man from one paragraph, it's your choice.

is Joyce's Ulysses just the story of a man who "masturbates at the beach"? (which at the time of writing was very offensive indeed)

> The UK government is accused of building a DNA database by stealth.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-10 because the old link was broken.]

> Meanwhile, they recently proposed to enter all newborn babies in their DNA database as a matter of course. I guess babies are not terribly concerned about governmemt surveillance.
"the very fact of their life is inherently a political statement"

Yup, we reached peak. Taxi to Dignitas please..
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Perhaps the President of the FSF, an organization which has a huge influence on the technical community, should be someone who doesn't have difficulty communicating with the wider world. Strong communication skills being important to that sort of job.
I agree that online retailing is fundamentally different, overall. But it is similar in a way that was relevant to the comment I was responding to: Amazon also has an incentive to optimize search results do sales revenue.
Cancel culture may be running out of steam, but did Kevin Hart or whomever else know ex ante (meaning right after the scandal outbreak) what they were going to face.

As it stands now outcomes vary wildly. Some people like Kevin Spacey were literally erased from movies that were already filmed; some others have just claimed back their place (maybe not their peak fame) on their own like Louis CK. And then there are neutral outcomes like the one you mention.

And then there's Jussie Smollett who isn't a sex situation but was caught in, uh, something that's not a good look.
Anazon is better than ever for brand name, known buys. Eg I recently ordered a UHD bluray movie, took about 15 seconds end to end and arrived in a day.

They are terrible for everything else. Eg I bought a reading light.

Which was a 10 minute sorting excersise trying to figure out which of a dozen nearly identical products was the least likely to burn down my house. Then trying to uncover which had real reviews and not switched etc. I hit the roulette wheel and ultimately got a unit that arrived DOA.

My trust in the last two years has deteriorated massively in their platform, as a consumer I am absolutely suseptable to a “quality first” disruptor.

And amazon is obviously jam packed with smart people, so what am I missing about their apparent lack of focus or execution on this commonly lamented problem?
He was defending his friend who, at the age of 74, is accused of having sex with a 17 year old girl on a billionaire's private island.

Is that a matter of diverse thinking?

If you think so, I'm interested to know your reasoning.
More reasonable, perhaps, but still a bit out there. Age is often hard to tell at a glance, but just going along with the situation without asking any questions would seem to be ridiculously irresponsible.

Then again, an account from someone else at the gathering claims he saw what happened, and that Minsky rejected the girl's advances. If true, that kind makes the whole thing moot.
Tipping before the service is weird. However, I don't know if you've ever worked on the other side of the counter, but it's a lot easier to get someone to tip when they already have their wallet out and cash in hand. Getting someone to take their wallet out a second time, regardless of how "above and beyond" the service or product are is tough.

I'm glad I never worked at a restaurant where pay is supplemented by tips. That's an unacceptable practice.

At Starbucks, tips were in excess to wages, so anything people gave were a really nice bonus.

Tipping should be done out of generosity. Do you value that person, their time, the level of quality they bring you?

If you look at Japan, tipping is not a thing. In some places it might even be considered an insult to tip because that level of quality is a deeply engrained part of the culture, not something to be rewarded extra for.

However, I see it as a way to show my appreciation, my gratitude.

Yes, I believe that people who have the means to tip who don't, yet greedily eat up high quality service and goods, are being stingy in the worst sense. Just from my experience at Starbucks, it seemed like those who tipped most frequently were the people who might not really been able to afford it.

An extra dollar from 100 customers, for whom that is less than 1% of 1% of their net worth means $20 for a 5 person shift. That extra $20 usually is gas money, college supplies, or a couple bucks to spend for something fun.

However, we completely and utterly lack empathy. So many people DON'T know what it's like to be on the other side of the counter and they completely forget that those people are thinking and feeling humans like they are. That those people have dreams and ambitions just like they do. That they are working because they have SOME goal. There is more depth to the person than the apron they wear, the smile they put on, the job they do. We forget that. We view them as objects and we devalue their existence.

But those who do tip, those who don't necessarily have the means to but still do, they have not forgotten. Perhaps it's because their situation isn't too far removed.

I think Steinbeck said it well:

"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones."
Didn't know about the coleco one, and I thought Nokia was a paper mill???

Nintendo started out making playing cards, 3M was the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing corporation (geddit), Avon started as a door to door book selling operation, I think Wrigleys started off selling toiletries, the chewing gum was a free gift.

Edit:
Nokia started as a paper mill but was later bought out by a rubber boot manufacturer

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Nokia
I like the article, but I think a missing piece of this is that when a company becomes a big enough conglomerate, parts can be in day 2 while other parts are at day 1. Amazon isn't raising money from investors anymore, it's taking profits on parts of the business and using it to expand in other places, and Bezos himself is famous for saying a profit margin is an opportunity for disruption.

That being said, in many ways the point of business is to end up a day 2 company. VCs invest so they can cash out in the IPO, IPO investors buy so they can sell to other investors, those investors sell to others, and so on. It sounds like the last guy is left holding the bag, but in fact, the people at the end can make a fortune, even as the company is fading away, if the company is distributing profits through dividends and buybacks. If a company dies before it gets to that end phase though, the whole thing will have just been a wealth transfer from later investors to the early ones.
Nabisco was founded as the National Biscuit Company.

Oh! And Sega, a Japanese company with (I always assumed) a Japanese name, was founded by three white guys in Honolulu as Service Games, to sell imported slot machines to American military bases (the armed services). "Sega" isn't even a Japanese word, as far as I can tell.
What? Most parents don't even get that far. Usually it's the children that have to teach their parents.
I tend to figure that all posts will have some amount of downvotes, and that if I complain about them, it would just add noise to the conversation.

I think most differences arise from the source of water that is present, and how that affects people's thinking of water usage. With rivers, water is seen as a resource that replenishes at a certain rate. Whether you use it for irrigation or let it flow into the sea, it is lost. Therefore, if water usage is restricted, the end result is a loss of fresh water. Maximal usage implies maximal societal benefit.

The Great Lakes are a rather unique situation, because they are the among the largest freshwater bodies in the world. So long as water being returned to the lakes is properly treated, you can use as much water as is desired without affecting the storage of water. So long as it stays within the Great Lakes watershed, rivers will quickly bring the water back to the lakes. The only way that the water will decrease substantially is if it is exported outside of the watershed entirely. Maximal societal benefit is gained by maximizing water usage within the watershed, and minimizing water usage outside.

It is these two mentalities that are in conflict, more than anything else. From the perspective of those using river water, the Great Lakes looks like hoarding, rather than appropriate management of a finite resource.
Fortune 500 CEO's are also like winning the lottery, but we still use that as a way to say that men are privileged. Can't we do the same thing here? Sure there aren't a lot of women who marry billionaires, but there are plenty who marry millionaires.

Also I don't know of any men who gets to open a charity with his wife's money or influence, but I know a lot of women who do. Even the first lady of USA gets a charity fund and a small crew of people to help her spend it, why do we do that? Because that is what we expect powerful husbands to do for their wives. Shouldn't such things get taken into account when we dole out privilege points?

I mean, men are more likely to earn a lot of money and influence, yes, but women are much more likely to marry into a lot of money and influence. So if your goal is to get a lot of money and influence but don't want to do the sacrifices required for it then you'd rather be a woman.

Or in other words, marrying into wealth and getting to spend said wealth on your pet projects is one of the most privileged roles you can have and the sex ratio for said role is extremely skewed in favor of women. Taking Melinda as an example of a woman who had to struggle due to her gender is very poor taste since she is basically the embodiment of female privilege.
It was officially licensed, along with several other Nintendo games. They did stomp out a 2600 homebrew called Princess Rescue though.
Basically this:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/17/20870050/richard-stallman...
No, you need something releasing a lot of energy in the middle of a star, otherwise it collapses down on itself and stops being a star, the event horizon doesn't provide any supporting pressure.

Also, the process that compresses matter to the point it collapses to a black hole is very destructive; there is no reasonable way to form a black hole in the middle of the star.
I hope you're right. My gut feeling though is that the sea level is going to rise much much more rapidly than we might believe is possible. I have a feeling that Florida and most coastal communities will be abandoned in my lifetime.
Then what's the easy solution?

Because I'm willing to bet it's a world hunger solution: "Just give everyone food!"

Simple to say, difficult to do.
IQ denialism is the most bizarre thing that I see on a regular basis. I generally see it professed by the cognitively privileged, who have lived almost their entire lives in a bubble that is only populated by people of above average intelligence. The difference is just too stark to ignore in less selective environments; the podunk little school district that I grew up in easily had a 50 point swing between the top and bottom of the distribution, without even factoring in the severe and profound program - and this isn't conjecture, my mother was the elementary special ed resource room teacher for forty years, who did all the testing. By the end of her tenure, she was into the third generation of some families
And even for brand name items, you still have counterfeit worries (IE, many people refuse to buy flash storage at all from Amazon now), due to counterfeits from intermingling of "sold by amazon" and "shipped by amazon" items.
fwiw: Many of us dinosaurs remember when you ordered things on Amazon, and it took a week and cost shipping. Prime, and 2-day shipping, felt like a luxury you don't need. (And many of us thought long and hard if we should spend, and then it turned out to be really convenient...)

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 then Amazon popped up, and you could just order online, and it felt like a luxury to have things in a week, and then we paid for it. We didn't need those books within a week, mind. It was the Triassic,
we moved slowly, and 4-6 weeks for a rare book seemed just fine. (Because, amongst other things, it gave you an excuse to spend the next 4-6 weeks browsing what other books the store had ;)

I'm fairly certain the same will happen to 1-day. It'll feel like a luxury. It'll turn out to be convenient. It'll take a year or so, and then we'll all happily pay for it.
You're doing the same thing by claiming your opinion is "reality".
I mean... yes? It doesn't have to be a trillion dollar company. You put tons of useful data on a public S3 bucket and publicize it, and people are going to download it. S3 data transfer isn't free, so I think it's reasonable to expect that, over time, the cost of serving the data is going to be prohibitive without funding it in some way.

> Even when it's free people still think you're somehow entitled and overcharging.

I just explicitly advocated for the opposite of that, so I'm not sure where you're getting that.
Does it even have to be a disruptor? Can't people just figure out how to put a better storefront on Amazon's backend and just filter out the garbage?
I don't have a context here but there is a legal defintion of 'stautory rape' that is different by country. So at least in that context rape is not rape. One culture see's an 18yr old having consentual sex with a 17yr old as rape. Another does not.
...and that seems to be a pretty common straw man. Who is "they"? Is this a self-selected group, or chosen by you? Am I maybe in it?
Less, but not much less. Around 12 km/s instead of 14 km/s.
One of the authors on twitter (https://twitter.com/PCzanik/status/1173873611926581248) wrote: "Sudo is more than just a prefix for admin commands. I try to cover less-well-known features, news, or anything sudo related."
Hasn't Adam already cashed out $700 million during a previous round?
> Once you have a good mapping from thoughts to code, the visual part doesn't add much.

Having the visual representation readily available is indeed "great for reading the code and sanity checking". Writing code (here meaning text or visual) involves reading code, both the code you're currently writing and anything that is connected to it. Thus the visual representation is also good for writing code.

I'm not advocating a low bandwidth interaction model. I can certainly see why some people might quickly grow tired of Scratch, but I'd argue that's a problem with the specific language/editor, not something that is universally applicable to anything that tries to go beyond "text". Structured editors can beat text editors in interaction speed.
The S3 bucket is a repository for the models which get downloaded at runtime it seems so a torrent isn't really a good fit for a drop in replacement.
> Not sure why they put Melinda's gender as a handicap, it allowed her to get things handed to her on a platter by Bill. She is now loved and famous thanks to spending Bill's money on charity without taking any of the downsides and hate related to starting a company and fiercely clawing yourself to the top like Bill did.

Take that sentiment. Now look at the Foundation, and think: Given that a lot of their charity work was her initiative, how many of the people she has to work with saw things from your perspective of "wife spending husband's money", instead of thinking about her in terms of an entrepreneur with strong financial backing? Overcoming that is part of the gender handicap at work.
I'm going to guess that you didn't even read the article.
Thoughts on Tiobe's Language Ranking Methodology
I crunched the numbers on my household (two people) awhile back.

Once you amortize weekly things like laundry, vacuuming, shopping and washing the dog they come out to less than an hour a day. Cooking and cleaning up after cooking is also less than an hour. The real time sink is weekly tasks that take substantial amounts of time. There are basically two categories of those tasks, cleaning lots of things (e.g. making everything spotless because guests are coming) and property maintenance. These numbers are very household specific since the difference between "needs to be done" and "should be done" are very much based on personal preference.

Assuming a western lifestyle and a household size of 2(!!) 4hr/day of housework would probably require a high maintenance property (lots of hedges to trim and grass to cut) and/or lots of cooking from scratch and/or heating with wood (and splitting it yourself) and/or doing a lot of cleaning that is probably not strictly necessary.

A castle is stretching it but if it's a small castle, the landscaping isn't too opulent, you aren't a neat freak and have the money to spend on labor saving equipment it should be doable on 4hr/day.
He was defending his friend who, at the age of 74, is accused of having sex with a 17 year old girl on a billionaire's private island.

Is that unrelated, trivial behavior that should be ignored?

This isn't a witch hunt, what he did was wildly inappropriate and the number of people defending his behavior because he's quirky and did great things is a little disgusting.
No, I am not mistaken; you are confused. And your confusion is very pervasive in the technical community. You're not talking about randomization in general when you speak of a "treatment regime." You're talking about randomization in a causal experiment such as a randomized controlled trial. But "randomization" is a broader thing than randomization in a controlled experiment. The assumption of randomization is made for almost all classical statistical inference, which has nothing at all to do with causation.

Say you want to do basic linear regression: you want to estimate the slope for Y regressed on X. The most stringent form of inference works like this: you draw a random sample (X_i, Y_i), modeled as n independent and identically distributed realizations from the joint distribution (X,Y). Etc. This is certainly a stochastic model; we require randomization (or some approximation of it) to do inference. But it has nothing whatsoever to do with causality.
you don’t need to follow the chain, his first comment is bad enough:

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

stop. stop and think about this. you’re telling me that some random person on the internet can sit there and claim, with a straight face, decades removed from the event, and completely unaware of what went down in that room, that “the most plausible scenario” is that she was willing? are you kidding me? how do you know? he wasn’t there. he doesn’t know this person. and why is this so plausible? on what actual basis here is he making this statement? oh, that’s right, nothing except his own prejudices.

he doesn’t know a damned thing about what happened in that room, and for him to jump to the conclusion that, well obviously, she wanted it, is freaking absurd.

he entirely deserves to get pilloried for this statement alone. he had no business jumping into this discussion, he has absolutely no basis on which to make his judgements except his high opinion of himself, and to go out of his way to engage in a public debate about such a highly sensitive subject when he knows jack squat about it shows an incredible lack of judgement.

the media didn’t do this to RMS, he did.
One idea: To cope with all this, reduce the flagged posts presented by the algorithm to maybe 2 - 3 hours a day. For the remaining 5 hours, the algorithm could show them chats, pictures and videos that are harmless and uplifting. This might create a counterbalance, showing that there is still something good in social media.

I think that's how RL works in most countries. You are not running through the streets, getting slapped with crime and therelike all the time.

Of course, this also means you need more people to deal with the same amount of content as you do today.
I was merely pointing out that if the argument is that a given class is underpaid or systemically has less opportunity, finding a single counterexample that became so by essentially pure luck isn't much of a refutation.
Such an inspirational post! Love Listennotes.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20992991.
World is not black and white. People are all over this spectrum. I would happily be stay-at-home husband if my wife could earn as much as us both. She can't but she earns good income. If I left all housework for her, she would not have enough time for work at all. Some women accept this, some even want this, BUT NOT EVERYONE wants this. The whole premise of Bill Gates charity is about enabling people to do what they want to with their lives.
I would assume that Soyuz capsules aren't considered aircraft. They don't really fly, per se, they get launched on a rocket and then fall like a rock back to earth.

You could make a stronger argument for the Space Shuttle, which re-enters at about Mach 25, IIRC, and is gliding. But it's not doing so under power.
As opposed to you apparently, I've done my share of reading already: https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...

...and you just straight out lied there:

> He resigned after claiming that a victim of child sex trafficking, was "a member of (the trafficker's) Harem" and "entirely willing".
I am lost for words...angry and frustrated that this has happened. There have been dozens of things RMS has said in the past that I disagreed with and at the end of the day, I always had (and still have) the highest amount of respect for that man. He is the definition of "harmless as a fly".

Found the word I was looking for: DISGUSTED.
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the key for me is a backend-as-a-service platform that i can reuse over and over. i used to be mainly a backend developer, but for more than 5 years now i have barely touched the backend code because it was designed to be reusable.

i build SAP applications now because they make it easy to work with a reusable backend.

for the rest of my system, i use basic LXC containers. no docker, or other container management system.

deployment consists of setting up an instance of the backend, and generate the frontend as static files that can be hosted whereever.

saltstack to control it all. done.
An answer almost worthy of "What If?" Are you sure your name isn't Randall?
What about non-art?

Do yo actively avoid using technology invented or heavily influenced by problematic people?
Uncovering the hidden “noise” that can kill qubits