skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your argument assumes that there's some objectively right definition of which views are hateful or bigoted that exactly corresponds with the ones that will bring the social media mob's wrath down on someone. There clearly isn't:

- How someone is treated depends heavily on whether they're perceived as being part of the right clique. For example, a few years ago Nintendo sacked someone who thought it was a great tragedy that owning photos and videos of kids being raped was illegal and bloviated about this on social media. (Probably not for that reason as it turns out, although her job did involve interacting with kids.) She was in the clique and the people who drew attention to this weren't, so all the right-thinking folks and publications rewrote her views into something much less objectionable, then insisted that repeating what she actually said was a bigoted lie and the whole thing was a misogynistic attack against her. I'm pretty sure there's a heavy overlap between those people and the ones going after Stallman by rewriting what he said in the opposite direction now.

- The views you have to hold in order not to be a bigot aren't consistent from year to year. For instance, there's a faction of self-proclaimed feminists who're really hateful to trans people and have successfully lobbied for some rather bigoted laws. A few years ago any trans woman who merely pointed out the harm they'd done was labelled as a terrible misogynist. Sometime around 2016 this flipped and all the same people who'd been demanding everyone shut up decided those views were now so evil that they justified beating up elderly women merely for holding them, and that the people who were uncomfortable with this violence were the bigots. There was zero overlap between the views that were acceptable before and after the flip, and no room for a more moderate position. That faction has become increasingly irrelevant over the years, so fighting them is actually less important than it used to be.
Rocket to Moon > rocket to orbit > rocket to reach orbit height vertically, so it should help, shouldn't it?

Of course pulling up using the cable would needs power, but it could be a solar powered elevator.
It's okay to acknowledge good work but it's also important to see when brilliant people do wrong and not go all "but look at his good work".
That's essentially what GTO is - an orbit going close and fast at one side and going high and almost stopped at high side.

Going directly up means over 1h of fighting earth gravity. So need Isp > 3600. Much cheaper to go for orbit.
> If you're a stay-at-home parent then you would fall under the "not participating" category, no?

If you are so by preference, yes. If you are a stay at home parent because you can't, despite actively looking, find work that pays enough to be to be a net gain after daycare, you are unemployed.
Did you read the original email Stallman sent? Please enlighten me as to how he in any way insinuates child sex trafficking is good.
"They were all men, given the era."

Thanks arstechnica for ensuring that no two seconds on the Internet can pass without thinking about gender.

Perhaps the reason that things like this airplane were possible back then is that there was no Internet.
While I don't agree with everything RMS said I'm not bothered by it either. However, I tend to have the same effect on people when I think I'm just being honest but it comes off as offensive.

It's a hard balancing act, on the one hand people need to be able to deal with facts and reality, even if it's offensive to them. On the other hand we don't want our speech to act as sand in the machinery of communication.
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No one is questioning his book smarts or ability to perceive auditory sounds. But, like, learn how to read the room, man.

He waded into the crazy internet morass that is sexual assault and Epstein, and didn't realize that quotes like the one below might trigger a response. That is either hopelessly naive, or absolutely "tone deaf" -- these have been over-the-top, hyper-sensitive topics for weeks.

Maybe he's just so used to staking odd or controversial positions and didn't see this as any different, I don't know. But the optics are terrible.

> "The most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing," Stallman wrote in his post last Wednesday. "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."
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because it's attached to the moon, which is preventing it from falling into the earth which it would otherwise do at that altitude going that slowly.
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https://medium.com/@zohorul223/uefa-inter-milan-vs-slavia-prague-streaming-online-3392bfd683a5

https://www.exodustravels.com/travel-forum/livestreaming-inter-milan-vs-slavia-prague-live-streaming-286466

https://www.exodustravels.com/travel-forum/diretta-inter-milan-vs-slavia-praha-streaming-online-286511

https://www.exodustravels.com/travel-forum/uefa-streams-freeslavia-prague-v-inter-milan-live-free-17-sep-2019-286516

https://www.exodustravels.com/travel-forum/ucl-streams-live-tvslavia-prague-v-inter-milan-live-free-17-sep-2019-286536

https://www.exodustravels.com/travel-forum/regarder-%E2%80%94-lyon-%E2%80%94-zenit-match-en-direct-live-champions-league17-sept-2019-286596

https://www.exodustravels.com/travel-forum/lyon-%E2%80%94-zenit-streaming-match-en-direct-live-du-mardi-17-septembre-2019-286601

https://www.exodustravels.com/travel-forum/direct-tvlyon-zenith-en-direct-live-gratis-tv-ligue-des-champions-286606
The more correct term is angular momentum. There are 'mechanisms' that can slow the angular momentum. Angular momentum is conserved, and as the star collapses from the original total mass/radius to its new much lower radius, resulting in a high spin rate. At some point the angualar momentum (or centrifugal force) perhaps will fall to some critical value where the star collapse further. I think this would be a valuable event in terms of figuring out the equation of state and the related unanswered questios the PO mentioned? It's been years since I studied phyisics at uni.... astronomy was always me fav.
Then I fail to see what's programmer-relevant about dishes, and what would make börek an excellent dish for programmers aside from being an excellent dish in general.
> and a space elevator from the moon does nothing to reduce this cost.

How do you figure? My extensive Kerbal Space Program experience tells me that freeing oneself from the moon's gravity well is far cheaper than doing the same from the earth, and then you're approximately MGH of the way to freeing yourself from Earth's well.
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> How happy do you think he is now??

You underestimate the level RMS operates at. Somebody who dedicates his life to an ideal is not going to cry about the occasional setback.

> He will NEVER be able to get a job ANYWHERE

You really underestimate RMS. There is a world beyond the US, that doesn't really care that much about PC culture. Roman Polanski never stopped working, and he actually did have sex with a minor.
So what you're saying is that the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing but that she was coerced into doing so?

I tend to agree, and I suspect most people would, including Stallman.
> I didn't read the parent's post as "excusing" Stallman at all.

I did. To me, it says "I've known a lot of creepy people; as long as they get their work done, it's ok". And I don't agree with that.

> self-described borderline autistic thinking.

That's another thing: has he actually been diagnosed? If not, well, he may still be autistic, but that just sounds like RMS himself hiding behind a shield of autism that he's crafted himself, which is pretty low.

> Pointing out that somebody is austistic and thinking about how that may affect their actions isn't excuse-making. It is empathy. It is critical thinking.

Maybe, maybe not. It depends on what was written. The parent even said "if RMS was some random superhacker doing his thing" he'd defend him. To me, that's excuse-making, not empathy or critical thinking.

But I do agree that autism can certainly explain some behaviors, and it's worth trying to understand people, even though the explanations may not excuse the behavior. The parent's post just did not strike me as that.
Oy, yeah—that is scary. I'm glad he got better :-(
I worked on pulsars in grad school, and I always groused that I had to deal with ultrarelativistic plasma physics and pair-production in curved spacetime. There's a reason it's hard to come up with solid answers for these things.
I swear this is the motto of hacker news. "Everything sucks and you're wasting your time trying to change it" - HN
Would you like to read some moving fiction about it?

_Phases of Gravity_ by Dan Simmons takes it head-on with an astronaut whose days flying are over.

More obliquely a national loss of space capability is taken on by Norman Spinrad in _Russian Spring_.

Both great reads, and sad.
Crossrail is a MASSIVE project. It's actually really impressive that it's getting delivered at all. I hope we see a lot more of these large scale projects - they don't just change commutes and travel, they change places and lives.
You say Kevin Hart "got cancelled", yet he's still working on a Jumanji sequel, another film called Fatherhood and has been in commercials since the Oscars.

It seems like you're gravely overestimating how much power angry people on Twitter have.
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"wild pigs"

I get the point that's trying to be made here, but pigs are just about one of the most destructive animals there are. I'm pretty certain that people in cars are less destructive than people riding wild pigs.

Although a large proportion of people attempting to ride wild pigs are likely to end up dead, so maybe the author did have a good point afterall.
The EQ point is interesting. If we simplify things a lot, engineers generally aren't "forgiven" for having a low IQ. Why should leaders of massive groups of people be forgiven for having a low EQ?

To me, showing a profound lack of the intelligence that is incredibly pertinent to your role is no different whether you're an engineer who can't write FizzBuzz or you're an OSS leader who says that sometimes it's fine to have sex with children.
Not orbit, the Moon doesn't orbit the Earth in one day, but a month. The cable would be almost stationary compared to orbit. That needs less power.
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> Well, no, rape is not just rape because the law says that minors up to some age are not capable of making decisions on who they have sex with willingly

And that's absurd.

Do we all agree on this?

for different reasons

- 17 years 364 days is any different from 18 years old 0 days?

- Stallman was talking (at the time) about consensual sex, not rape

- Stallman said he found absurd that rape was defined in terms of `minor details` not that rape does not exists. He's not wrong.

> still American moral and culture norms apply.

In USA people should be horrified by Facebook spying kids[1], not about what Stallman thinks

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/
"It takes some education to properly "leave no trace" in the back country"

This kinda baffles me because it really should take a bare minimum of consideration. The basic rules are not overly difficult, right? Don't trample stuff. Dig a hole if shitting in the backcountry. Don't feed animals. Minimise your impact. Don't walk around playing music at everyone.

Parks have signs everywhere. Clear brochures with obvious info. What makes it so hard for people to understand and make that tiny amount of effort?
And why should men be the primary breadwinners of the family?
Also would introduce the tricky no way to abort if something goes wrong. Unless you are willing to carry a fast abort rocket with you.
It's disappointing to read many of the comments on HN today.

As we know, rms is a very dear person to most of the Computer Science and programmer community.

Through the years, he's said many shocking things. We've often disagreed with him. He's been extremely stubborn.

At some points it's been comical.

Yet we still see him as a technology treasure, and we should keep this in mind before judging him harshly based on a single e-mail.

rms is actually reacting logically here, yet also emotionally as he's wanting to protect his friend - the late Marvin Minsky. Seemingly by letting go of common sense, and sure enough this is just cause for harsh criticism.

But by simply removing a living legend from his position because he's not able to be politically correct, is far worse in my opinion. (I assume he was asked to leave).

This same lack of political correctness also happens to be one of his strengths. It built his character. It's not perfect.

I don't know what more to write at this point. It's ridiculous and turning into a witch hunt against someone we actually owe a great deal of gratitude.
I'm cynical enough to upvote this comment, but I must say that I still prefer 'solve malaria' Bill to the ruthless cutthroat Bill of the 90s.
A ballistic approach is enough so the kinematics are simple, too.
If you think about it, you have a large group in society who spend 8 hours a day watching content so controversial it won't even reach the rest of us. Just like any other company, people eventually quit, and new people join. Now if you were the bad guy wanting to nudge a % of society in a specific political direction, wouldn't this moderator group be a perfect target? Just bombard [insert social media platform] with propaganda content and you _will_ reach this group of people even if the content never appears on the platform. What a messed up situation.
I hope you're also avoiding any sort of medical treatment pioneered by people with questionable histories. Or any medical treatment derived from research pioneered by people with questionable histories.

That would be problematic.
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Absolutely. In certain environments you have to even self-censor your political affiliation. https://www.snopes.com/news/2016/11/11/grubhub-ceo-trump-vot...
You're right. The title is not very accurate.

The text from the Equifax Settlement Administrator

> Your Equifax Claim: You Must Act by October 15, 2019 or Your Claim for Alternative Compensation Will Be Denied. The amount you receive in connection with your alternative compensation claim may be significantly reduced depending on how many valid claims are ultimately submitted by other class members for this relief. Based on the number of potentially valid claims that have been submitted to date, payments of these benefits likely will be substantially lowered and will be distributed on a proportional basis if the settlement becomes final. Depending on the number of valid claims that are filed, the amount you receive for alternative compensation may be a small percentage of your initial claim.

That text was just them fear mongering. Even the FTC urged to opt for the credit monitoring instead through more fear inducing statements.

> You can still choose the cash option on the claim form, but you will be disappointed with the amount you receive and you won’t get the free credit monitoring.

> https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/refunds/eq...

But, if this is how the whole process is "administered", then I guess you might as well not have any hopes of seeing the compensation.

EDIT: Corrected to identify the authority of the email correctly.
I find it ridiculous that he has trouble communicating ideas as an engineer.
That might be disappointing for human travel, but for cargo its great. As long as throughput is high the latency is no big deal.
Non scientific observation: The Earth and Moon are not a consistent distance apart. XKCD What-If 157 (https://what-if.xkcd.com/157/) neatly illustrates this with the idea of connecting a pole from the earth to the moon, noting that "it's enough that the bottom 50,000 km of your fire station pole would be squished against the Earth once a month".

I realize XKCD isn't precisely accurate, but even if 50,000 KM is a /rough/ estimate Geostationary Orbit Height is still around 35,785 km, significantly less. As the moon and earth move closer this Lunar Space Elevator would need a winch capable of taking in 50,000 KM (or perhaps less, but not much or the earth's gravity would become much stronger on the 'station' end and the rope's strength calculation would be off) of "rope" or we're all gonna have a bad time.
I did read it, much as I read the guidelines for this website.

SJW is not an antonym of hacker. Whatever hacker culture's norm is, breaking work relationships and censorship for someone's words or actions is much older than hacker culture and is done my many more groups than 2010s American Democrat voters. Consider 1984, or Mary Whitehouse.
>Out there it's a witch hunt and Stallman is now a witch.

There is a new religion forming among those who have largely rejected religions of the past and Stallman is guilty of blasphemy. If he only loses his job he will be far luckier than others who are guilty of similar blasphemy.
splitting hairs on what is and what is not pedophilia, and suggesting that girls who were likely trafficked or groomed by older men for sex, yet might have been entirely willing participants, is exactly what he said, and it’s just as bad and boneheaded of a statement as about any others you can make on this subjects.

and he SHOULD lose his job. he isn’t some grunt programmer, he is the senior representative of the FSF and the FSF deserves to have people on its board that aren’t going to embroil them in such boneheaded and unnecessary distractions, and they deserve someone on their board who shows better judgement than this.

and unlike some people here I am not about to split hairs about whether a 14 year old girl that is being groomed for prostitution is or is not capable of giving consent, and i’m not about to engage in semantic quibbles about what the right _word_ is to describe someone who engages in these things.

some you are completely missing the forest for the trees here.
When you say "freely", do you mean free from any and all consequences?
There are a chain of media reports which inaccurately portray what Stallman was saying.

But look past that into what was happening.

Stallman was trying to defend Minsky who had sex with someone, a teenager, nearly 60 years younger than him on a billionaire's private island. There isn't an imaginable circumstance where what happened there was not, even in the best possible light, incredibly creepy.

His intellectual arguments were understandable in a way, but in the context of defending Minsky and in the venue they were wildly inappropriate and indefensible.

It doesn't matter how "great" you are or how socially awkward, any institution should fire you for doing something like that.
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Easy: don't speak authoritatively. Acknowledge the limits of your knowledge and invite better information from people who know better.

I would advise not speaking authoritatively even if you are an authority. People are less likely to offer suggestions and ideas you didn't consider if you act like you know what you're talking about. I learn all kinds of things by not sounding as certain as I usually am.

...they said, authoritatively. I'm a work in progress.
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Sorry. I thought it can also be used for an "insignificant person". I will avoid Latin terms next time.
Not just hacker news, it's pervasive in any community where people who value intelligence meet. It's because cynicism is a lazy shortcut to a 'smart opinion'.

How do we sound smart with zero effort? Well we don't want to be gullible (everything is good and fair!) so we do the opposite (everything is corrupt and bad!).

I really wish it were more than that.
My perception is that even 1/10 is vastly overstating the number of engineers in SV who work for those companies. 1/20 might even be on the high side.
Going from 2 days to 1 day has always felt more like a luxury to me – and one I am willing to pay for when needed. For 95% of the purchases I make 2 day shipping is more than quick enough.
Yes. That's what I meant. Sorry for the confusion.
Jeffrey Friedl's book on regexes unapologetically popularized the incorrect use of the terms "NFA" and "DFA" to characterize the different implementations of regex engines. Translating to something more sensible, "NFA" means "unbounded backtracking," where as "DFA" means "Thompson NFA simulation." In this vernacular, as far as I can tell, there is no word to describe an actual DFA.

PCRE's docs continue this confusion. For example, they expose a DFA API... But it's not actually a DFA!

One might say this is similar to how "regex" doesn't necessarily imply "regular," which is true. That's definitely a battle that has been lost long ago. But NFA and DFA are even more specific jargon terms, and the way in which they have been redefined by the Friedls of the world has led to exactly your confusion over and over again.
Why do you write, multiple times, that you can't wait to meet me? You don't know me, I might be a total prick. This lying is just such a turnoff.
For any English people reading this in England: this advice is both wrong and harmful. If you've done something wrong you're allowed to apologise. You're not admitting liability and it doesn't open you up to further legal action. Not apologising may in fact increase damages against you.

I don't know how other jurisdictions handle this.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/29/section/2

> Apologies, offers of treatment or other redress

> An apology, an offer of treatment or other redress, shall not of itself amount to an admission of negligence or breach of statutory duty.

This is especially true if you're a healthcare professional or work in a healthcare organisation. Your professional registration tells you to apologise; your organisations registration body tells them and you to apologise; your medical defence body tells you to apologise; a bunch of arms-length bodies are clear that you need to apologise if you do something wrong.
Leaving moon's gravity well may be cheaper than getting to space from earth but it is far from free.

With a space elevator in the moon you can use raw material from the moon to assemble huge stations and ships in space.
That the law needs an objective way to determine whether or not one can consent to sex. It can’t be e.g. “has reached puberty” as another commenter suggested, because there’s a huge gray area where it would basically be up to the whims of the jury whether or not you were breaking the law. We use age because it’s an objectively measurable proxy for maturity, and it’s more or less correlated.

As it happens, statutory rape law is already more complicated than a cutoff at 18. There are often exemptions for people who are married, or close in age. But the line is still objective — a “bright and clear line”, so to speak.