skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't done the math, but are you sure that last 4km/s isn't way more significant than you're estimating due to the rocket equation?

A small mass savings near the end of the journey might translate to significant mass savings near the start.
The environment is surely in the equation, but you can hardly change the climate or the geography. You can try to improve the socio-economic matters, but any sensible improvement of the genes may be seen in hundreds of years, and they will still be at a disadvantage because of the unfavourable climate.
For internal APIs I'd recommend RPC and REST/GraphQL to create an API consumed by third parties.

Wildcard's readme elaborates more on RPC vs REST: https://github.com/reframejs/wildcard-api

(Wildcard is RPC implementation for Node.js and the browser.)
I think most people would stand up for a friend in this way. I think where Stallman erred is by making it all about Minsky without in anyway acknowledging what had happened to these girls. It came off poorly.
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Well, the title of the article is "HOW GEOGRAPHY AND GENDER STACK THE DECK FOR (OR AGAINST) YOU". Yet they don't provide any examples or evidence that your gender works for or against you _except_ in the cases of poor countries. It seems a little underhanded to imply that women are disadvantaged in western countries - if anything, it's the other way around.
There is a bit of modern history about lonely philosophical guys spending their whole life disserting things in the Catholic Church actually.
Even if it did happen, it may not meet the bar for statutory rape because the girl was 17.

So now you've crucified an innocent man, for offering a defense of his friend, who may also be innocent of what he's accused of, when what he's accused of may not even be criminal.

Really saving the world there.
TIL one-day (or, even same-day) amazon shipping isn't a thing outside of the UK?
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Have you seen popular culture these days? Neither of those things are in vogue.

Really not a good sign for our long-term growth potential.
Yeah these labels are fascinating. I studied jazz at a conservatoire and also played in the "classical" Contemporary Music Ensemble which played a lot of this difficult to define art music.

And there was the amusing rift between popular, jazz and classical students in terms of what music was about and later working as a session player of sorts I used to laugh (internally) playing jazz sets with some function bands because they didn't play any "actual jazz" and didn't play it "properly" and yet nobody else would even notice.

It's fun to debate music and genre definition, genre lacking enough nuance to even work effectively for lots of music.

If I recall Soweto Kinch (UK rapper and sax player) had difficulties with record stores putting him in jazz, and ideally he'd wanted to be in urban sections also.

For musicians and composers I think genre definition is more of a necessary evil than something helpful.
I don't think there are that many parties on the moon with the means to "destroy the ground side". In fact, as of right now there are actually zero. (Though that would probably change should a lunar space elevator be developed.)
> It is, because one is illegal, the other is not

Rape is always illegal.

Sex is not.

> Just like drinking with 21 and 20.99 years is not the same, because

they're American.

We start at 18, no problems here, no mass shootings, no one selling out to older people to buy alcohol for them.

> So by applying your logic to that, 13 and 364 days would be OK too?

So by your logic 14 and 1 days is ok?

Or, as Stallman said, rape cannot be defined by minor things such as the place where it happened or the age when it happened?

> How do you feel about that, not entirely comfortable right?

Completely.

It's your country that allows older people have sex with baby girls, not mine.

> Because you're used mentally to 18 years being the line,

Don't assume we are all like you.

I'm mentally used to being normal at 15-16...

Because that's the age when people around me started, when I was their age.

> But all the laws are like that

Not even those about rape are all black and white.

Even statutory rape is usually treated differently if the minor is just around the age of consent or not.

> If 18 is the legal age, you just don't mess with minors, how complicated is that really?

That's exactly what Stallman did.

He never messed with minors.

What upset you so much?
> Defending statutory rape, even hypothetically, will get you fired.

IIRC Stallman did nothing of the sort. The only thing Stallman said was that the accusations correspond to statutory rape.

In fact how is Stallman supposed to have defended statutory rape if he was the one raising the accusation of statutory rape? Some random virtue signaler started making up accusations of sexual assault and Stallman chimed in stating that the description actually represented the crime of statutory rape. How is that passed off as a defense or apology?
I wonder which of his other strong opinions could have led to a similar result.
Stallman wasn't defending Minsky, he was explaining why Minsky didn't need any defense with the evidence as presented. That Epstein instructed an underage to have sex does not mean that she did.

RMS points out that she did not ever say that she and Minksy had sex, although the prosecutor implied it, and there was a witness account that Minsky declined and warned someone else about what happened during the event. Pointing this out should not be a problem.

So please look past the media's witch hunt and into what's actually been said.
Great! Thanks so much. I'll read and come up with my own conclusions from the raw evidence.
It is not “difficulties communicating with the wider world” when he only hit on women, he only gave women pleasure cards, he only sexualised women in his talks, and he not only refused to take feedback on that behavior, he actively corcumvented any clear rules he was given. He was not acting in good faith.

If he had cared about his political movement more than his dick we wouldn’t be here, but here we are.
Listen Notes is a nice service. I don't quite understand how it works -- do podcasts pay to be included in search results? It's a nice thing for the listener, that is for sure.
I read it.

There was some irrelevant quibbling about how accusations are worded.

Then there was the speculation that the seventeen year old girl who is accusing his 73 year old friend of a sex crime would have appeared willing in the exchange with the implication that this apparent willingness made the situation not Minsky's fault.

Doesn't matter if it didn't happen, defending statutory rape like that is really inappropriate, and with a ~60 year ago gap it doesn't really matter about the details. It was a very creepy situation and indefensible.

Stallman was defending it, it wasn't just some intellectual problem with the wording of accusations.

Not a witch hunt, not a victimization of an innocent intellectually curious man, it was a measured and reasonable response to a very inappropriate conversation.
I can't make sense of this:

"Moroz reached this conclusion by testing the nerve cells of ctenophores for the neurotransmitters serotonin, dopamine and nitric oxide, chemical messengers considered the universal neural language of all animals. But try as he might, he could not find these molecules. The implications were profound."

But plants make and use serotonin and dopamine

Phytoserotonin also plays a role in the following aspects of plant function:
Growth regulation
Xylem sap exudation
Flowering
Ion permeability
Plant morphogenesis
Regulation of ripening

from https://www.news-medical.net/health/Serotonin-in-Plants.aspx

and

The functions of plant catecholamines [seems to be a ref to dopamine] have not been clearly established, but there is evidence that they play a role in the response to stressors such as bacterial infection, act as growth-promoting factors in some situations, and modify the way that sugars are metabolized. The receptors that mediate these actions have not yet been identified, nor have the intracellular mechanisms that they activate

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolactostatin#Plants and

Plants and animals diverged ~1.7 billion years ago, which is plausibly why they share these neurotransmitters, yet the article seems to say we diverged from ctenophores ~ 0.5 billion years ago "If Moroz is right, then the ctenophore represents an evolutionary experiment of stunning proportions, one that has been running for more than half a billion years"

So unless serotonon and dopamine evolved in plants and animals after the split between plants and animals, (or somehow ctenophores lost these after they split from us) how is this possible?
Yes, clearly there are failure modes that can be provoked, and breaking the cable close to the Moon's surface will result in this thing falling to Earth from a great height.

But most terrorist organisations short of governments won't have the capability to provoke such damage, and it's likely that most of it will burn up on re-entry, and possibly can be designed explicitly to do so.
I don't see how it's worth that much unless their plan is to strip all features from gitlab community or expect a Google acquisition.
It says "Pay for what you generate"
Do they mean "Get paid for what you generate"? Or am I missing something really fundamental here?
Question to current Gitlab users: Why do you use Gitlab instead of Github? What are the killer features that make it worth switching to?
Agreed 100% regarding Minsky, but RMS wasn't defending Minsky's (alleged) creepery in an absolute sense, he was arguing against escalating one allegation against Minsky into another.
If that's true then Retained Earnings is Emperor. And, the Emperor has no clothes.
Anyone have a link to the actual text of chain letter? I don't want others' interpretation, that link is to an incomplete summary with links to other incomplete summaries. Cursory search leads to pages of other "summaries", and yet searching 'site:motherboard.com stallman chain letter' nets ZERO results? WTF?
The heating engineer who hit the £1.5m jackpot for a £2 bet (2011)
Maybe you missed the 4 or 5 self celebratory paragraphs at the end of the article.
I think I mostly agree with you, but what should happen to people with "inexcusable behavior?" should they be fired once? Should they be unemployable for all time? Is justice served after decades of living in a gutter? When we react with outrage mob justice we make people toxic to all future employers. It's extremely hard to ever rebuild your life, especially now where everything on the internet lives forever. I agree that we need to turn around acceptance of "brilliant jerks" but the Law of Unintended Consequence here in many cases seems way worse than the original problem we were trying to solve.
I don't know which one is worse though..
According to wikipedia's info on her early career, she graduated as a valedictorian, and holds multiple degrees from universities I would consider prestigious at a glance.

She also conceivably had to work prior to retiring to start her family.

Not sure why you're convinced she had everything handed to her?
A cool part from the article

>> part of a shadow program in which employees spend two weeks sitting in on their CEO’s meetings, feedback sessions and media or analyst calls

Does anyone know of companies that do this "internship" / shadowing / mentoring built into the company?
Crypto whiz kid Justin Sun is giving away $1.2M to 100 people next year
Only in major city's metro areas in the USA.
We are still enjoying Stallman’s software, right? I cant imagine we’re going to eradicate gcc and Emacs from mainstream development.
He didn't "[hack] MySpace using this code". He just used XSS.
I mean, with GitHub's price being 7.5 billion, it's not outrageous as one of their leading competitors. I also was feeling like a Google acquisition wasn't impossible, they did move their entire platform to Google Cloud recently.

Microsoft and Google seem on pretty good terms lately, but right now, a lot of Google's public projects are posted on a Microsoft code hosting platform. I could see a day where Google says they need their own, buys GitLab, and moves over everything.
RMS also wrote in April, “I disagree with some of what the article says about Epstein. Epstein is not, apparently, a pedophile, since the people he raped seem to have all been postpuberal,” and that alone disqualifies him from any position at a school or foundation.
> There are a chain of media reports which inaccurately portray what Stallman was saying.

Here for example https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/16/computer-scientist-richard...

It went from "defended Minsky", to "Victims Were ‘Entirely Willing’" to "defended Epstein".

> Stallman was trying to defend Minsky who had sex with someone

I think that he was just trying to be rational. But being rational against a lynching mob is not a good idea (and hasn't ever been in human history).

> but in the context of defending Minsky and in the venue they were wildly inappropriate and indefensible

Would you mind expanding on that? Say that someone claimed that Stalin drank the blood of his victims, would it be "inappropriate and indefensible" to try to debunk such a claim (and thus defend Stalin) in the process?
Also I think (a series of) rotating elevators to get from LEO to GSO are also possible?
Yeah, you can’t excuse pedophilia in decent society because it puts kids at risk. Legally you can say whatever you want, but legally no one has to employ you when you do.

Freedom of association is just as important at freedom of speech.
It indeed is fairly simple, but the manufacturer has no incentives to do that.
I don't really think all these "strings" mean too much.
The alternative compensations was set at $31 million. And the cash compensations per person caps out at $20,000. If we start with this cap, the settlement was supposed to benefit only 1,550 individuals out of the 148 million records that were breached. Even if you assume just $125 per person, that number only benefits 248,000. So the number of people benefiting from this range between 1,550 and 248,000, if the original settlement claims were to be upheld. Instead, every claimant is now being asked to get credit monitoring from the same company that couldn't secure the records. To be fair, the FTC does suggest getting an alternative from Experian, but only in the FAQ.
They used to accuse people of being communists, thus landing them on a blacklist and unable to find work.

I guess some things never change, including that people think such behavior is a perfectly good way to conduct a society.
I read it. I saw RMS defending statutory rape by supposing that the young woman would have appeared willing when the perpetrator, his friend, was more than four times her age.

Doesn't matter if the accused event happened or not. Defending the hypothetical in that manner gets you fired.
I am curious how the Gitlab is so valuable. I've never used the service, but HN posts keep me informed superficially. Could someone explain the valuation?
I guess it might be a net good environmentally.
Packaging is bad, but driving to the nearest store to get a single item could be worse. Convenient delivery will decrease the latter.
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I mean, the company is based in NYC, so it's literally not a SV company.
Africa focused Andela cuts 400 staff in pivot
Didn't read the article, but it could be that they give you a free solar installation, hence becoming your energy provider.
Totally agree. Courts also need to be less hesitant to disband corporations that break laws or court orders. Too big to fail should go the way of the dodo.
Sticking to the facts is exactly the problem here, everyone gets so wrapped up in their moral outrage and presumed superiority that they aren’t looking at what this guy actually said.
Can anyone please share original link that Stallman wrote?
> RMS defending his friend was happening

Although it looks like you really believe that's what happened, it is not what happened.

And no amount of repetitions can change the fact that he did not "defend his friend from rape accusations".

> It doesn't matter if it didn't happen

It kinda matters though...

> That gets you fired. Even if it is entirely hypothetical.

And that's absurd.

We always arrive at the same conclusion.

EDIT:

can I ask you why all these comments look the same?

it kinda looks like a pattern to me...

https://imgur.com/a/Wm92IDQ
> But you ended up making much stronger and untrue claim that one can't write re-usable iteration logic in Go.

Not at all. Are you telling me that `v.Next()` can be written in a reusable way for different data structures? Nonsense.

`v.Next()` will have a single, bound return type. So at that point you're re-implementing iterators for anything you want to iterate on.

Furthermore, lets say I want to `v.Next().Map()`. How can I write a Map function in a reusable way? The entirety of your iterator chain would have to be custom implemented for the one data structure you're using. Or you throw your entire type information away and use `interface{}`.

With Go, your limit of reusability is hand writing the entire iterator implementation per type. Which is hardly reusable in my view. I touched on this when I mentioned creating separate functions for these patterns. That's all you're doing here - creating custom methods to make something look like, but not behave like an actual iterator. No Map support, no Filter, no .. anything. All you made was a loop, and a hand written one.

I'm not trying to be overly negative here. However saying Go has an iterator pattern is imo strongly misleading.
There's a difference between holding diverging opinions, and defending someone who had sex with a sex trafficed minor, right? If we don't uphold at least that as a society, what are we?
I don't understand why you should feel safe. Cameras won't prevent a crime and won't make you immune to a knife.

But they are very convenient to monitor daily life of political activists.
> And then there's Jussie Smollett who isn't a sex situation but was caught in, uh, something that's not a good look.

He was caught framing innocent white men for hate crimes. He was going to send people to prison to boost his 'clout'. It's not just 'something'. It was a vile crime
> Why does this feel like such a witch hunt?

Because it is a witch hunt, in an age where witch-hunting is the most popular sport on the internet.
I'm fairly sure the content FB mods have to sift through makes those subreddits seem like a walk in the park. Even I have seen some horrible things back in the earlier days of the internet that makes those look tame.

There is no upper bound in repulsiveness for the things FB mods watch. At least with Reddit there's the sitewide rules.
I did housekeeping.

Unless you're a neat freak and insist on ironing and starching your socks, one hour a day is plenty.

If you have a large family, then delegation is the answer. Laundry and dishes can (and should) be offloaded to the offsprings.
Nintendo licensed DK to various markets. Coleco got the 2600 rights (anyone could make a 2600 cartridge, there was no copy protection system on the console). Atari bought the rights to make a DK cartridge for the 400/800 computers (I wrote that one, it was fun).

I think that Atari also did the PC version later on, which was largely a mechanical translation of a cartridge implementation (might have been the 400/800 version, don't really remember -- I only know that I never got any royalties or bonuses, and that many other people did).
And never shall a man accused of treason have a lawyer, for to defend someone who is accused of treason (and therefore has likely committed treason) is itself an act of treason, is it not?

And surely to defend a rapist, even an accused one, is nearly as bad as being a rapist? Why, perhaps we should skip the courts all together and simply tar and feather them in the public. That's worked out well historically...
It's open source and extensible.
You are describing sex work. Both of those are other terms for sex work. Which is fine once the sex workers are of age and haven’t been coerced, but neither of those was true here.
And the Moon orbit is not a perfect circle, the Earth-Moon distance varies quite a bit (about 40000km between perigee and apogee), so to actually keep the cable at the same earth altitude you will need to change its length quite a bit (seems like around 125km/hour).
Plenty of websites already have no ads. Wikipedia, for example. Many blogs too.

But even with ads, you'll still be listed. But ad-free sites get a higher ranking, making that a more viable decision for some.
TBH this is the first time I've heard about Elm, the language. I was wondering why nobody else had made the joke, so I took a stab at it.
I like the distinction that is made between Java the language and the JVM. With the rise of languages like Kotlin, Scala, and Closure I think the JVM will be around forever, even if Java as a language falls into general disuse. I wonder if the Java ecosystem can go through a renaissance like .NET is going through with .NET Core or if that's a continual and gradual process which has been happening and continues to happen within the JVM separate from the languages that used to write apps that run in the JVM.
According to the interview posted to HN recently, RMS hasn’t written software in more than 20 years.

And I’m working with quite a few women who know how to code and stand up for themselves.

I’d say that in these discussions, I’ve seen WAY more angry neckbeards than angry feminists.
Uber to limit drivers' app access to comply with NYC regulation
Microsoft bought Github for $7.5B so it gives them a great comparable.
There are already 2 LIVE trademarks on book at TESS at (uspto.gov). One bothers me at the company wants to ("Digital on-demand printing services of books and other documents.") use it for a business involving book printing.
You need more dv to get to the moon than to leo. An elevator helps with this.
> As opposed to you apparently, I've done my share of reading already

So, he says something a decade and a half ago, and then coincidentally 3 days after an email discussion where he defends a man alleged to have had sex with a victim of child sex trafficking, he suddenly "thinks adults should not do that".

WELL WHAT A REVELATION.

He called her a member of Epstein's Harem and said the "most likely" explanation is "she presented herself as entirely wiltingly"(sic)

A harem is a collection of wives or concubines. How exactly is a child sex slave either of those things?

RMS' theory is that a 70 year old man goes to a billionaire's private island and a 17 year old girl just happens to "present as willing" for sex and the guy asks no questions?

As other's have said, even if he didn't know she's 17, and somehow it never occurred to him to ask, it's the plot for a bad porno, it's not a plausible chain of events in reality, and it's definitely not the most likely scenario.
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The 7800 version was far, far superior. It had all the levels, much better graphics and gameplay.

That said, the 2600 version (and Coleco version, which was basically the same thing) was incredibly popular.
I see a retraction on his website dated Sep 13, 2019.
and the Tideway project. Huge feats of engineering. Although I doubt a considerable sewerage pipe is going to increase your home value.
True. But if you're doing raw material extraction on the moon, you probably also want a cheap way to bring mining equipment down to the lunar surface.
In human systems (which software now enables) like oppressive government and corporations, often things do suck and vast powers are arrayed against the individual activist.

In peace and science, social justice and medicine, things have never been better.
> It is beginner-friendly since we can add types gradually.

Is there any data showing that gradual typing is better for beginners than fully dynamic or fully static typing? Off hand I can think of many arguments against this and it’s a surprising find if true.