skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's truly shocking that the rape-apologist crowd on the right has gotten to the point where being against rape-apologia is "PC", and that the culture of conservatism has moved to the point where mass rape-apologia is now the default position and all who disagree should be "fucked". I see it here, I hear it on Fox, I see it on twitter, I hear it from conservative sermons, and in basically every walk of life.

Then again, I guess that's how most companies for all of human history have been run. Men will be men, and women serve them quietly or else. So I suppose I can understand why the progressive revolution to elevate women to a status of equality ("feminism") and expand that policy to include making it wrong to rape and abuse them even in private companies is so triggering and fundamentally unacceptable to conservatives.

Not just tech though. Business, religion, politics, new: conservatives in all walks of life are engaging in mass rape apologia and going so far as to label all accusers and all of MeToo as "liberal" and "PC". What a cultural revolution on the right...
Then just say that you want conformity to your social norms instead of inclusiveness and be more precise with your statements, please.
How climate change is affecting France's Mont Blanc mountain
> rational debate
> factual things

its getting increasingly boring to have to engage with people who don't see the irony in a belief that they can be an objective observer of what is "factual" and "rational" in their lives.
I'd say that the fact that rappers using the N-word are part of the community for whom the word was created as an insult it's crucial enough, wouldn't you? Just like I can talk shit of my family but you can't.
> [Male wooly mammoths] were more likely to do silly things, like die in tar pits

Apparently, across many mammalian species, males are more likely to take risks and explore than females. This seems to be good evidence that not all gendered behavior is socialized. That would seem to be a silly straw man argument to knock down, if it were not so widely held.
"that others steal (sex) without repent" do you mean rape?

Oh the horrors if people growing up think that rape is reprehensible.
See above, didn't know that existed but now I'm considering integrating it.
> Do you have any insight into MSFT's strategy for GitHub?

Between LinkedIn and GitHub they probably have the best data for identifying great devs/engineers as well as encouraging future devs to use their products. Soft power.
I'd prefer a car without an operating system.
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As a society, we should ensure there are processes to ensure nobody is condemned to homelessness and poverty. As individuals, none of us have to interact with people we don't want to. We could, for example, build reasonable welfare systems and pay people to administer them - or any number of other mechanisms.
I wasn’t thinking about Eich, but that is another good example: it doesn’t matter how low-key you oppose some of your employees’ marriages, doing it at all still makes you a shitty CEO who makes it harder for your company to recruit and retain talent. Given that that is one of the core job requirements of a CEO, it made him unqualified for the position he held.
How is this not bigger news on HN?
> atheists and agnostics are “prayer averse”—willing to pay to avoid receiving prayers.

Hahahahahaha
The only inequality left is for the 90% of men who are relegated to lives of farm animals in most Western societies.

Every study that still claims that women have it worse make so many statistical and logical fallacies, they aren't even worth debating. Which is ironic, since feminists refuse to debate or acknowledge them anyway, and instead resort to shaming.

* Wage gap. We all know the reasons. Majoring in whatever you're 'passionate' about is a luxury that apparently only women enjoy in our society. There are no artificial barriers to entry for women in any fields, and instead, as we see in Scandinavia, the more artificial equality used to push women into higher paid and rigorous fields, the less they choose them. And why would they - if I were subsidized to earn as much as the average HN reader regardless of my job, I wouldn't be slinging code all day. Look at the percentage of women in computer science in India vs Sweden, for example.

* Women less represented in the top 0.1% as CEOs, senators, etc: For the 99.9% of men who aren't amongst these elites either, it is irrelevant. I might as well complain about the near zero men who are represented at the top of the super-modeling industry.

* Disproportionate work spent on child rearing: That's a choice women make, and men have no say, as enforced by the state. As men, we have no rights, only the responsibility to pay for children, both individually and societally.
> benzodiazepines, a potentially addictive anti-anxiety medication

Potentially?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzodiazepine#Long-term_worse...

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzodiazepine_withdrawal_synd...
I agree.

There are two issues here, one being Stallman's hesitance regarding the use of the word "child" depending on which country this all took place in, and two being Stallman's comment that there may have not been any coercion at all.

While it's vanishingly unlikely the latter was the case, to vilify Stallman for these statements instead of making scientific inquiry is absurdly reactionary and unempathetic towards someone who is very naturally trying to make rationalizations towards the behavior of someone whom they hold in high regard, as is typical in during the doubting stage of grief.
I stand corrected. Historically they didn't.
Excellent comment! It exposes the perfidiousness of Stallman's argument.
>RMS 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.

Which until a few years ago was completely legal in for example Switzerland. As long of course as no one is coerced into anything. Playing the Advocatus Diaboli, why should i view this outcry as anything different then the Saudis stance on sex before marriage? Fundamentalist puritans being opposed to self determination shaming others into conformism? Its not like the US where you cant drink until you are 21, but get to join the army with 18, where sex ed is often reduced to abstinence only, where the government does its best to infringe into womens right to get abortions, where you can be prosecuted for sexting as a minor and lets not forgett where sex workers are almost across the country criminalized has any moral high ground on the topic what so ever.

But thats besides the point. First the MIT donation and now this stuff over 3 corners. How about we focus on what actually is the problem here? How many people from both parties had connections to not a brothel owner but someone involved in human trafficking and coercing minors into sexwork? How he got away with this this despite being brought infront of a judge for it? Or why they were on that island in the first place and why Eppstein apparently invited so many people. The word compromat comes to mind. But these politicians arent so easy targets, people like Stallman or the guy at MIT are. The mob wants blood and it doesnt seem to matter whos. I would recommend checking your moral compass if you are at threat of being sued for slander after the discussion here.
Maybe so, but that cannot be separated from the project as a whole, as there is no point to it if it did not go there.
Hmm... if the Roy Moore controversy is anything to go by the US religious zealots are in tune with the French in this respect.

Maybe the other Americans are right on this one?
It is not the fault of the students who wrote the paper, but this is an exceptionally good example of terrible science reporting in popular media. Practically every sentence of the article is wrong including multiple errors in the title.

> Feasible & Inexpensive

The paper says "Building a spaceline
would be a huge engineering challenge, stretching the
limits of current human capacity - but not exceeding
them" which is a far stretch from "feasible and inexpensive"

> Scientists Find

Second year graduate students

> In a paper published on the online research archive arXiv

An as yet un-peer-reviewed pre-publication draft that is being prepared for submisson --- it says that right on top of the first page.

> After doing the math, the researchers estimated that the simplest version of the lunar elevator would be a cable thinner than a pencil and weigh about 88,000 pounds

They they actually said: "Let’s say such a line was made of a cable with a0 =10−7m2: its total mass would then be around 40,000 kg.". So yes, they're right that it would be "thinner than a pencil". A cable with diameter section of 0.36mm is definitely "thinner than a pencil". (They are misquoting them saying thinner than a pencil lead... presumably referencing the lead in a 0.5mm mechanical pencil, not the lead in the regular pencil).

So yes, you could spend billions of dollars to build an elevator that could lift ~100kg off the surface of the moon to GEO, and take months to years to do it any any speed you're likely to achieve with a solar powered elevator tethered by a 0.36mm thick line.
That isn't at all what I was referring to.
People work with prejudice, if they are aware of it or not. A bunch of companies from the tech sector have managed to earn absurdly high valuations in a short timespan by successfully monopolizing a winner-takes-all market for a service with high initial cost but very low additional cost per customer. This situation is pretty uniquely found only for a certain subset of digital services, but people have already generalized this kind of approach into the word "tech company" - even though far from all tech companies operate in such kind of markets.

What we see now is the second stage of this: companies which have a marginal involvement of technology in their core business (which is true for basically all companies today) try to paint themselves as "tech companies", with the goal being that investors put them in the same box as Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, Salesforce et cetera.

And since investors are just as stupid as anyone else and just as susceptible to fall for herd-like behavior as anybody, this strategy works to a certain degree.
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I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and moved to Pittsburgh for Uni about a decade ago. My wife and I are making plans to move to the country, for me returning, but for her living there for the first time.

When in the city we both feel low levels of chronic stress. This is alleviated when in rural areas.

Right now our worries are finding a place for the right price, sufficiently removed from other people, close to enough places that we care about, access to fast internet.

I have heard from real estate agents that this desire to move to the country is becoming increasingly common. I don't know really why that is, but I have to imagine that the ability to work remotely has something to do with it.
Yeah but this phenomenon isn't unique to social media. Mainstream media sources and alternative media sources beat the same arguments into the ground enough times that you end up assuming validity.

I can make the inverse argument that being told an argument is so offensive it's not worth examining creates this bias in kind. In fact I would argue the point of opposing "hate speech" is not to rationally confront it but to denormalize it so it doesn't affect people's beliefs. Same goes for anti-heresy beliefs, "conservative-only" posting requirements, and many other forms of censorship. I don't think far right communities are unique in the amount of social conformity demanded from members.
I think encouraging deurbanization is a mistake. Urban areas are more efficient for almost all resources. What we need is making urban areas more attractive. Some people will of course always choose a lifestyle that prefers a big house, which we can't provide in an urban area, but we can address other benefits people see in a rural setting by smarter city planning. Sound insulation, so that neighbors are not a problem, green spaces in the city, train connections to recreational areas outside the city, walkability, neighborhood communities, all these things can be achieved with proper city planning without sacrificing the efficiency benefits of the urban area.
> The firing was appropriate and reasonable, not a response to extremists, zealots, or some other kind of witch.

In a country where the current president was elected on a platform of "grab them by the pussy"? Ha.
Thanks for the clarifications. Prostitution isn't my cup of tea, so typically don't worry about the finer points of it. Not morally against it.
Oil’s grip on U.S. society is as much religious as economic
Hi - thanks for the feedback, we aren't where we want to be with performance. We are working hard to improve responsiveness and memory consumption, and have a recently started a team focused on just these aspects to accelerate the improvements. You can read more about the rationale here, including stories like yours: https://about.gitlab.com/2019/09/13/why-we-created-the-gitla...

One of the major projects the team is working on, is to switch from unicorn to puma: https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/puma.html

We are also continuing our broader effort at improving performance each release, for example in 12.2 we had 58 MR's focused on performance improvements: https://about.gitlab.com/2019/08/22/gitlab-12-2-released/#pe...

Hopefully you will start to feel the impact of these investments soon.
As the other mentioned there are other devlopment stasks that are stable, to give more examples but not for Web, you can get ther code for an old .Net,Java,Qt application, download the SDK used for that version and just build it. There are not 100+ things you need, the SDK contains the compilers, a huge standard library other build tools. If the project had other dependencies those are some standalone .dll or .jar files that you place in the application folder.

For web when I inherit an older project I need to spend a lot of time in finding the correct version of things, like for an older react project it was using an official jsx transpiler but today that package is deprecated you can't just npm install it, so I would have been forced to upgrade the entire build system to use the new thing , but at that moment I had to fix a small thing so I found a hack for the issue and postpone the fixing of that issue.

What I think Web needs is some standard framework, or a framework core maybe jsx or other template thing but something standard to be used in mst projects and for side projects we can toy with the shiny new frameworks and languages.
Be careful, you don't want to get Stallman'd
> pointing out inaccuracies

But, he wasn't?

1. "Minsky has been accused of assault"

2. RMS: "you shouldn't call it assault - might give people the wrong idea"

3. "It would have been literally rape in the relevant territory, 'assault' is a fine word for it"

4. RMS: "ok, even if it's legally rape, it shouldn't morally be considered rape, so don't call it assault if it was 'just' statutory rape."

What inaccuracies did he point out? I see that he expressed his opinion that 'assault' is too strong a word for some cases of rape, but what inaccuracy was there in the original statement regarding the allegations about minsky?
HN was much smaller and more homogenous 10 years ago.
> RMS was defending his friend who, at the age of 74, is accused

So what? Lawyers do this all the time. Is it really important that the person accused was Stallman's friend?

Also, what's exactly wrong with an argument that one should not conflate "having sex with Bob" with "sexually assaulting Bob"?
It's designed to suggest that richard stallman's comments are exactly what a creep would sound like and blind defense of him without acknowledging this fact doesn't win anyone any points.

Personally I love the guy and his weird contributions to the field. But how can you look at this and not think "wow thats not ok to say" no matter what we can consider he may have meant after the fact?
Use the language that best fits the job and you're most productive in.
What have you done that is relevant to the job you are asking to do ?

To get past HR load up on recent buzzwords but tailor the resume to suit the job is the #1 thing I look for.

Any hint of not putting in the effort and I assume that is your work style.

No way I want someone who cant put in the effort to get the job. You know they will put in less when they do get it.
Or use type aliases that are helpful.
Here's some free life advice. If you're 40, and wish to retain the respect of your peers, both are off-limits.
> more men are victims of violent crime

Seriously?

Have you looked at the percentage of women who have experienced sexual harassment or assault in their life?

Do you understand what it is like to be a woman, to have to look over your shoulder so much of the time, the fear and anxiety that follows you or prevents you from walking alone at night or in a strange place?

How many women have you talked to?

The violent crime you speak of is male on male. The oppressive omnipresent threat of violence against women is by men. The population of male victims of violent crimes has a high degree of overlap with the population of perpetrators of violent crime (i.e. Your statement is like saying men are greater victims of war, when it is fact men exclusively who have perpetrated those very wars).
> I hope those guys are not paid with public money...

I hope they are.

Engineering feats like this propel us as a species forward. Imagine the material science involved in simply achieving the correct tensile strength. Every thought that goes into this will find application in other areas.

I can't imagine this will get built, especially not in our lifetimes, but I do hope that it is one of many such endeavors humans will embark upon.
5°? That's basically hoodie weather.
Rape apologist? Wtf are you even going on about? Stallman never raped anyone afaik. But maybe you are the kind of person that thinks all men are rapists no matter what?

I am neither a conservative or something else since I am not an american.

I am just against your kind of thinking and want to battle it at any cost, it takes just one sentence to realize the crazy you believe in. I don't know where this crazy has come from, but it's like you were born on a different planet.
>Stallman said “it is morally absurd to define ‘rape’ in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17.”

Stallman had no comment on whether consent mattered or whether his red herring of age was intentionally designed to excuse a rape or not.
Coercion is one thing, but Stallman is suggesting that, if it were the case that there was no coercion, then the age alone of the person does not make it sexual assault considering the globally varying age of consent. Stallman is understandingly quick to assume there was no coercion given his past with Minsky but was not suggesting that we do not give the case due process. He was just advocating stricter language around the issue.
I value free speech in that I value the government's inability to limit anyone's expression with only a few reasonable exceptions.

I don't take "free speech" to mean anyone can say anything without consequence. The government has a whole lot of power and it comes with limits like free speech.

That doesn't mean that people in my employ can say awful things and I should just ignore it.

Free speech doesn't extend to being protected from consequences for how you express yourself.
After reading this whole thread I am now curious about sources. Where did this all happened?
Yeah, while researchign for this I found it's what a lot of people tend to do, so don't worry :P

Other users (like me) tend to look for a more polished design than that of what MS word/Google Docs etc... offer, but it is perfectly normal, this use case might not be relevant for you.
I can't speak directly to the US experience because it's different. However I did work for the biggest UK credit reference agency (one of Equifax's rivals) not so very long ago.

In the UK there is no "FICO score" but consumers anyway believe a single three digit number "ought" to summarise their credit history and so the Credit Reference Agencies just make one up. I actually sat in on meetings when the rating were being changed where they argued about on the one hand a factor isn't relevant to most lenders any more, on the other hand consumers really _expect_ it to matter and are disappointed when it doesn't affect their score...

The intended consumers of credit data here all have proprietary algorithms to target audiences (rather than any of them relying on a simplistic "score") with a binary outcome, indeed your credit might be "too good" for some offerings. A card with 0% for 12 months is not aimed at people who'll use the card for 12 months then pay off the entire balance without flinching and walk away.

Definitely some of the offerings in the UK are approved based on knowing your _actual_ results in the proprietary algorithm because the card company is giving that algorithm (under legal agreement not to disclose it) to be used to ensure they only get given customers they'd accept. They're not "estimating" whether you'd be accepted. They don't want to waste their time on non-targets any more than the consumer wants to waste time applying for a card they won't get.

There will be some rate of non-acceptance for other reasons, but "not credit worthy" shouldn't be on the list, that's sort of the whole rationale for this business.
Forbes probably felt compelled to write an article about this but also didn't want to go against the narrative and be accused of sympthathizing with someone who is now widely believed to be a pedophile apologist.
If it's a joke, or sarcastic, why is it in a document labeled "Plain English Terms of Service?" For that matter, why follow it up with "You've been warned?"

>Has anyone ever seen them do anything like this?

No, I've never seen them do this. But at the same time, I'm not going to give them the opportunity.
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I would assume bone structure is generally bigger and stronger, lasting longer
Yeah yeah, all information is through a subjective bubble, we can only make approximations to truth, blah blah. Save your thoughts for beginners philosophy course. That is nothing new. Of couse "factual" means, "as factual as possible". Meaning all the accusations, which apparently have been written, listed clearly.
Strange that they haven't considered chemical reasons: Males have more iron / more hemoglobin...perhaps male bones are just more likely to fossilize for some chemical reason(s)?
Using a headless browser to capture page screenshots
I am not sure what would they do with Gitlab. How do you think Gitlab fits into Apple's portfolio?
Note: I haven't yet looked into Github Actions in depth, so if there's GH Pages integration there, some of the below may no longer be true.

Github's is tightly coupled to Jekyll, and—more specifically—to this single Gem https://github.com/github/pages-gem Also, this might have changed, but last time I interacted with it, it lacked any real control over your source repo structure: there's some arcane rules about either giving it a certain name under a certain GH org, or using a specifically named branch (`gh-pages`).

Github were also pretty lax about adding HTTPS support to custom domains their Pages service.

In comparison, GL pages allows:

- using any SSG[0]

- writing your own custom SSG (even integrated/including in your repo itself)

- automatic LetsEncrypt renewal for custom domains

- out-of-repo secrets management for any tasks within your SSG build/deploy steps

[0] https://about.gitlab.com/2016/06/17/ssg-overview-gitlab-page...