skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Thrusday

I guess I'm not up to speed and haven't read everything he said, can you quote his exact words he said on Thrusday that led you to conclude he was "Defending the rape of trafficked children"?

Stallman has just said he's having to resign after being accused over a series of misunderstandings and mischaracterizations, is this an example of a mischaracterization of what he said or did he really say he defended raping trafficked children?
Does your house have a formal living room and formal dining room? North American houses often have these large rooms that people never use. Most people spend the vast majority of their waking time at home in the kitchen.
> It seems to me that all the article is saying is that America is a wealthy country.

More like a country with a lot of land.
> In its most literal form I don't know if I would say I disagreed with the core of what Stallman

You qualify this, but that is basically the core of what Stallman supporters are looking at.

Saying something that is literally true, in an industry which is known to be stuffed with some very literal minded people, should not be grounds for anyone resigning. It should be grounds for doing nothing, apologising or clarifying depending on what was said.

It is risky to punish people for what they did not literally say. Particularly if they are the sort of person who is well known for striving to be literally correct.
For comparison, that's just about half the amount cdnjs delivers every day (on average) https://github.com/cdnjs/cf-stats/blob/master/2019/cdnjs_Aug...
It's crazy to see people taking this stance on a public forum for tech companies. He's talking about Minsky just like you're talking about Stallman. What makes this the correct venue for you but not that for him?
Pinterest is next

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
That would mean that countries with even higher disposable income than the US have even larger houses.

This is evidently not the case.

(I am also not a fan of using averages in terms of comparing income across countries)
There's plenty of MUDs still around. Not as active as 20 years ago, but still active.
Great video on the topic: https://youtu.be/R30ratQanWw

In addition to standard candles and CMB, another method of measuring the Hubble constant is mentioned, using gravitational waves.
I'd say it's an example of optimizing the right thing. Business code is relatively short and uncomplicated, compared to the interop code. So optimizing the slowest part (but not the most obvious part) gave good results.

JS inside C# being faster than Node is great news!
I thought Minsky committed statutory rape, not child molestation, or am I behind on things that happened?
Show HN: Guess a Card
Having sex with someone who is underage (in this case, 17, in a jurisdiction where the legal age is 18) is a strict-liability crime, meaning the prosecution doesn't have to prove that you knew. But be aware that, while Minsky is dead and unable to defend himself, there is apparently a witness who claims that Minsky is innocent--specifically, that Giuffre was directed to have sex with Minsky but Minsky turned her down. Since dead people can't have trials, we will probably never learn the facts of the matter.
The definition of evil is always … a heated topic, but the common theme usually is that the suffering evil inflicts is not accidental.

In your reply here, you're describing sociopathy. I wouldn't describe Stallman as a sociopath but I could definitely see the arguments for it. But even the most repulsive things I've seen this man say/do never got me to think "Yeah, this dude wants others to suffer".

Edit: And no, I don't think he has a difficult time "figuring out what the problem is".
Scott Galloway victory lap incoming 3... 2...
That repo is written in Swift, hence it is called Swift Core ML Transformers.
Note that "nutjob" and "mental health issues" are name-calling and I suspect against the HN guidelines e.g. see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Sorry, that wasn't really the idea I was trying to express at all. The two points are "using opioids as prescribed by Dr" => "using the same opioids in a way that was not prescribed."

I know off-label is specific industry jargon and it doesn't mean the way I tried to use it; sorry for the confusion.

Totally agree that chronic pain is a hard problem and tolerance effects make opioids a non-ideal long term solution. That said, I am neither a Doctor nor a researcher in the pharma industry so I don't have a lot of helpful suggestions for anything better than opioids today.
I'm not trying to comprehensively define what does and does not qualify as statutory rape, just explain the general logic behind "minors cannot consent".
"I ran a small company", what happened? Why did you stop or did it get stopped? What was the reason?

One man show / sole proprietorship is great, but its bad for family life. It's 24x7. Atleast thats how I saw my dad, dining room was the company meeting room and we all are unpaid company "helps",assisting our Dad support the family. This is the main thing that holds me back from being an entrepreneur (sole proprietorship 2.0).
>If you are in a position of leadership however, you incur responsibilities. [...]

>A person in a leadership or representational role doesn't get to publicly speculate about "clothing and sexual assault" in the abstract [...]

How is this applicable to Stallman? What was Stallman doing at MIT? It doesn't seem like he's in any sort of leadership position.
Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about these comments. It's taking me a little longer than expected due to a few other commitments. I'm just in the process of cleaning the code up and doing the documentation, so I'll have this up very soon.
It's not just about free speech, it's about his position of leadership in those organisations. He needs to either moderate his public viewpoints in order to look out for the best interests of the people there, which is what a good leader would do, or he needs to resign because he clearly doesn't understand his job.

When you're the head of the FSF, or any other organisation really, you can't just be some kind of agitator, throw out a bunch of controversial nonsense, and then expect it to not look bad for the people you're supposed to represent. It's not an "assault on free speech" to get kicked to the curb for making your organisation look bad, it's cause and effect.
RMS is indeed a visionary and deserves credit for the good works he's done in his life. He may also be a bad person. Or maybe he's a good person who shows extremely poor judgment. I don't really know much about the allegations so I won't defend him or persecute him.

But this is a good move for FSF. RMS must have realized (or been made to realize) that he is now a net-negative contribution to FSF.
source: https://github.com/DTRx719/guessacard
They would be right also!
> If Minsky did something bad, say he did something bad. But don't launder your outrage through some country's laws.

It's hard for anyone to do that because virtually everything on this is speculation. The whole thing about Minsky stems from a single sentence in a recently unsealed enormous deposition ( https://twitter.com/_cryptome_/status/1159946492871938048 ) where one of Epstein's victims included Minsky in a list of people that epstein's assistant directed her to have sex with. She wasn't asked if sex actually happened with Minsky, and didn't claim it did, she was asked about the dates and couldn't recall.

A witness who claims to be present reported Minsky turning her down and complaining about the advance, additionally on the date that conference was held-- in 2002, Epstein's victim was 18. ( https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/339725/ )

But since there are essentially no facts, not even concrete allegations-- people seem to feel free to make up their own version of events which are exactly as awful or harmless as they want them to be.

.... God save you if your imagination comes out different from the angry mob's and you dare share it with others.

Because Minksky has been dead for a few years there doesn't seem to be much interest in actually setting the facts straight, but there seems to be a lot of interest in using it as an excuse to be abusive to fellow humans.
Living in a large house means that you will live in a less dense area. Housing price trends over the last 10 years have shown that most people don’t want that.
> Now it is hard to say if the NBN proposed by the left would have been a disaster as it was only rolled out to a few place.

Can people not see and pros/cons based on suburbs that have fttp/ftth?

You can do the same with fttn based on some suburbs - where people who have paid for 100Mbps end up only getting 20Mbps during peak hour
IMHO 15 minute for milk is a quite an exaggeration. I live in the burbs and there's shopping plazas within 5 minute drive of the entrance of any neighborhood. Plazas are anchored by a major grocery store and other supporting stores (restaurants, services, urgent care) surround it.

I'd agree with the long commute. I'd move closer to work, but I can all but guarantee in a few years I'd find a new job - and I'm not going to move every time I find a new job.

As far as big houses...land is cheap where I'm at (Atlanta suburbs)...so why not? Ranch style homes are expensive by the square foot. It's easy for a developer to add a 2nd story and double your square footage without charging much more for the house. Around here you can dig deeper and get yourself an unfinished daylight basement for ~$40k more. So you can go from essentially a 1 story style ranch home, triple your square footage (basement, main + 2nd floor) for not even double the price for a 1 story home.

Just to give some numbers for my neighborhood w/ the Zillow Estimated price. Neighborhood is 4 years old
My neighbor's 1 story ranch: 2400 square feet $322k,
My 2 story house: 3400 square feet, $404k
House w/ Finished Basement: 4310 Square feet, $513k

My house and the house w/ basement have a 2 story foyers and living room. So basically, we have so much space that the 2nd floor doesn't need to be fully utilized because we like to stare into 30 feet high ceilings.
512mb: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172516-U...

And a "cache everything" page rule tends to cache literally any file type, but it's not a great idea to push media files through CF due to the TOS prohibiting "disproportionate amounts of non-web content".

2mb might be referencing the limit for Workers KV.
Living now in the US I am confused why houses are so big and yards so small. Well, not confused, it makes financial sense for builders, but a bit sad.

I’d much rather have a smaller house but with a yard I can grow stuff in, or be outside in, than a 3000 Sqft house on a 8000sqft plot.
And for centuries society decided that 1 was the correct view and anyone who disagrees with it was to be shunned or worse.
YouTuber demonitized for having “Soviet Union” vs. “Russia” in title of video
WeWork has created an incredible sort of social filter though.

At least in NYC, if someone is a member at WeWork its a strong signal you don’t want them at a party.

Maybe it’s some sort of AI they’ve built in house?
If one of those 14 year olds sends nude pictures to the other one, is that not distribution of child pornography? I've certainly read that minors have been charged as such, but I'm not capable of verifying the veracity of those charges (I just honestly don't want to Google for this shit).
He is a beneficiary of having a free office at MIT like a faculty member on sabbatical there, at the recommendation of his friend, Gerald Sussman.
What is your current company about? How are you able to restrict your working hours?
I actually read the whole thing you wrote and I still don't understand what your point is. Walden is a way for miserable people to justify that their misery comes from a place outside of themselves. True freedom is self control. It's not impossible to have self control in a market economy. It's also possible to not have self control in idealistic economies. If the world around you is not self determined, but interdependent, where money is a proxy for utility in a complex sense, adapting beats petty rebellion either way. Either you find a way to transcend it, and somehow make that vertically integrated idealistic existence sustainable, or you have to participate. I'm not arguing for the moral good, I'm arguing for the lack of alternatives. It's misery inducing to engage in petty rebellion when you could be winning instead. I feel like the capital class is pretty happy with their position, and if you look at where they come from it's basically all countries on earth and all social strata. The commonality is offering utility to the group. A lot of people just want less wealth ie. less inputs and outputs. That is as valid as it is impossible.
Because RMS isn't just another socially awkward engineer. He is a leader and a part of a larger community and is therefore held to a higher standard. The reason for the higher standard is simple, leaders are entrusted with power and need to wield that power better than others. RMS has failed that test today.
I never much liked Richard Stallman.

But he's a freethinker, and freethinkers necessarily exist outside the mainstream. So, despite not liking him, I also don't like this turn of events.

It does seem arbitrary to me that the same sexual encounter is classified as rape in Arizona and not rape in Virginia. I suppose we have to draw that line somewhere arbitrary. But I wonder if it was a mistake to classify what is called "statutory rape" as "rape" at all. We can make it illegal without calling it rape.

That said, to me, this doesn't seem like a hill worth dying on. But then Stallman is not known for being picky about hills. People like him (or loathe him) because he's principled, and therefore no hill is too small.
Video explaining issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D-NJruH7SM
1. His post was not an out of context rant on an unrelated school mailing list. He was criticizing the words used by MIT students in connection with a protest at MIT, and that mentioned his ex-colleague. The MIT students posted this in the first instance, and it was a direct response to them. It seems to me like an appropriate forum.

2. Stallman's argument was simply to call a spade a spade, and not a defense of Epstein or Minsky. If you told 10 people (each unaware of any of the facts alleged) that Minsky sexually assaulted a girl, and then asked them to describe what they imagine occurred after hearing he sexually assaulted some, many might assume he violently assaulted someone. The degree of differences in guesses that you might receive makes the word functionally prone to tarnishing someone with a reputation for a different crime than the one they committed.

Stallman therefore asked for the incident to be described in unambiguous terms; for example, that Minsky had sex with a sex trafficked 17-year old 50 years his junior on Epstein's island. That does not mean he defends that scenario -- you can still view it as reprehensible, and condemn it, but at least you are not engaging in "accusation inflation", where you are condemning someone for a potentially worse crime than they committed.

3. I agree that Stallman is unnoticed outside this sphere, but this is part of a continued trend of threatening people's reputations and livelihoods for stating an opinion. I created a throwaway for the first time ever simply for this comment (which I think is relatively benign), so yes, I think this trend will continue to lead to self-censorship.
> I think what Americans really object to isn't the pod, per se, but the fact that they're intended to be densely packed in urban environments. Put that same pod in an idyllic, rural setting and all of a sudden it evoke independence and frugality.

This is definitely in line with my thinking (though I'm not American).

I currently live in a small home, approx 40-50sqm. But it's detached, has a bit of land (slightly less than I'd like, but enough to do stuff outside and not feel like you're encroaching on the neighbours).

The problem with urban apartment living is that you're absolutely forced into a ton of negotiations. How loud is too loud - whose wall is whose - who pays for the structure - who owns the land - the list is almost endless. For me, the mental overhead that's just always present is really draining.
May be the world's first Alzheimer’s vaccine
They absolutely do - the meat of the outrage is at the e-mail (full thread, in awful formatting, at https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6405929-091320191420...) is the claim that sex with underage girls should not be considered "assault".

EDIT:

The specific relevant passage is on page 7. Copied verbatim - line with a '>' is Stallman quoting another e-mail in the thread.

"""

> Giuffre was 17 at the time; this makes it __rape__ in the Virgin Islands.

Does it really? I think 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.

I think the existence of a dispute about that supports my point that the term "sexual assault" is slippery, so we ought to use more concrete terms when accusing anyone.

"""
Yeah I'm going with Aussie too.
Before people get defensive, this is just a bunch of personal observations, not judgement.

I think Americans generally like everything bigger for some reason. When I came to the US from Germany I noticed that everything was much bigger here. Kitchen stoves, fridges, office chairs, food portion sizes, TV sets, beds, candy bars, cars and so on. Not efficient, just big.

I knew a lot of well off people in Germany whose houses were much smaller than what Americans of the same status would be living in.

Not sure why that is but it seems cultural to prefer big things. Maybe it got started in the 50s when American cars were huge just for the sake of it.
Why a maid? I have a few relatives with very large homes. (one has a pool and tennis court) and none of them have maids.

But also, I've had relatives that were maids, and the places they cleaned weren't always large. More often the owners were just busy people.
I'm pretty sure it's called "Sea-lioning" from this comic strip: http://wondermark.com/1k62/
Miller 5.6.1: mobile-friendly docs at HTTP://johnkerl.org/miller/doc
This is a joke talk (hyperbolic)

Most of the codebase problems in Kube are:

1. we depended on half the Go ecosystem at one point (docker, grpc, etcd, a few others) which is hard to do with dependencies in go (few standardized libraries)

2. performance of serialization mattered and JSON and protobuf were still raw at the time

I don't think Kubernetes is any worse than any other large (3M+ LOC), relatively young codebase I've seen on average.
Directly contradicted by the article.
They could just revert to their old (plastic-free) wrappers: aluminium foil with a paper sleeve
STL contributes to STL. Aptonym is apt
Again, gross.
If you want to run particular apps, you can use Macports or homebrew.
But you misrepresented the legal mechanism as lacking any exceptions. That clearly isn’t true.
> The FSF is foremost about community, and only incidentally about software

I fear that this has become true, but the only reason anybody gives a damn about the FSF and the only reason this is even newsworthy is because of the software and licenses produced by the FSF.

If you take the software away the FSF is nothing, so I don't understand how you can claim it's primarily a community.
They have been charged but should they? Send the girl to prison rather than, I don’t know, getting her help or something.
This gets me thinking. They validated or at least thought they validated their idea because they gained traction at the start correct? But clearly they didn't validate the business because the price point wasn't at a profitable level? Was this the mistake?

Or is it that the price point allowed for marginal profits and they thought that by scaling up it would cover the fixed operational costs and thus lead to profits.

Where do you think it went wrong?
I am glad that people didn't force Chomsky to resign from MIT due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faurisson_affair.

Freedom of speech means that people are free to defend what other people find morally objectionable. The idea that the "leaders" should be morally pure is understandable, but ultimately very elitist.

It also reminds me of this article: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/neurodiver...
This doesn't fit because the income range between the country side (where you can have huge houses and lots of land for cheap) vs the city (where a postage stamp house is expensive) doesn't match with income levels. (low in the country vs high in the city).
There is no reason to use MSVC when clang-cl[1] exists. Both Google and Mozilla build their browsers for Windows platform for more than a year without using MSVC. So it is a pretty solid platform and ready for production.

[1] https://clang.llvm.org/docs/MSVCCompatibility.html
If there is a belief that is backed up by evidence (and in this case there is) then the first response should always be to provide that evidence.

Just because someone sincerely believes that others are subhuman doesn't mean the conversation ends immediately. We could try providing evidence and clarifying whether they are dead-centre wrong or just dealing with a technical detail before turning to exclusionary tactics.

I mean, seriously. If the choices are (1) end the conversation, try and get someone to resign and (2) try and convince someone to take a different view through conversation over a few days then (2) is far superior. We have a lot of people working in, eg, law and the upper echelons of business who are fantastic contributors to the general good despite having extremely questionable moral stances.
It’s actually terrifying this is the top voted comment.
Sometimes yes. Leaders are always accountable, but not always responsible for outcomes, RMS was responsible for his actions, now he must be held accountable.
I agree completely that you "metabolise fat" all day long. I communicated this poorly in my original post.

In my experiments (using the widely understood concept of "morning weight = true weight") the fat I burned did not come off my body in a measurable way until after I slept. If I didn't sleep, my weight did not diminish until I did. The worse/less sleep I had effected the amount of weight I lost.
What law are they breaking? I'm flabbergasted that you believe something is illegal just because Snowden says it is, when it is so obviously incorrect.

Do you also believe Snowden's ridiculous description of PRISM? That bumbling illiterate was so proud of finding a data integration project between the FBI and the NSA that he asked The Washington Post to publish the description in full while ranting about "omniscient, automatic, mass surveillance" and warned the Post's reporter melodramatically that the government would kill the reporter if he didn't publish quickly.