skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In your exercise in sarcasm you did almost everything except one thing - you somehow forgot to point out where the difference is. Yes, Facebook has a lot of data. And so? How that makes Facebook issuing crypto-tokens dangerous? If you consider the data volume Facebook has a problem, what does this have to do with the currency?
Again, all I can point to are the instances where I was playing music via Spotify on my Alexa devices and thanks to Spotify connect when I connect my headphones, Spotify starts playing automatically on my headphones. The downside is that occasionally Overcast stops playing because Spotify wants so much to take over and start playing. But it’s hard to say if that’s an iOS beta thing. Similarly, the app still ships for iOS 12 right now, it’s possible the iOS 13 version of the app will have a clearer explanation for the use of Bluetooth.
As the parent poster pointed out, the ethical ground of the law, or how the case would be treated abroad would have no baring in court.

Regardless, I think Stallmam's mistake was to try to start a debate about Minsky's guilt and about statutory rape in the wrong place: a mailing list about Computer Science which includes both staff and students, especially given that he is not a random person, he is an authority figure when it comes to CS and at MIT.

The debates might be valid but the place, and time (given everything going on about the connections between Epstein and the MIT) are what is wrong here.
>yet the majority of people who are sticking up for him here seem to be anonymous conspiracy theorists.

Wonder why!
> The ideal would be to be so engaged and absorbed with work, that that's the thing you want to talk about.

Sure, but aren't breaks necessary at some point during a full workday? It's just nice to work with people with whom it's fun to get lunch, coffee, beer. I also suspect it makes for stronger teams, because humans are naturally more inclined to go out of their way for people we're friendly with. But that's just conjecture.

As for RMS... it seems to me that his statements are being intentionally and loudly distorted, and that in itself is very concerning. But it's also beyond obvious that the FSF is better off without him. Its leader cannot be posting irrelevant stuff that they fully know will be emotionally divisive in the community. His job is to grow the free software community, not divide it. If he can't make his feelings about statutory rape subordinate to that, then he cannot be its leader.

But I don't think this extends all the way to "remain silent at work, it can only be used against you" attitude, especially among peers who respect each other and not situations with junior employees or even a public audience of thousands or millions.
Clearly you don't have the full picture. This isn't about a difference of views; it's about a long-standing pattern of inappropriate behavior, including (but not limited to) overtly and deliberately staring at women's breasts in a professional context. There's no innocuous explanation here; this isn't an isolated mistake.
Because you will get a fine you can ignore?

Eu law is not and will not be applicable to most of the planet.
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> WebKit was certainly started at Apple.

webkit was a fork of khtml, so the webkit name started at apple but the actual underlying project not really.

Clang, on the other hand, was actually started at Apple.
Excellent dish for programmers.
Oh my god. That's so chilling. They took his words and accurately reported them. I'm really going to have to watch what I assert is the most plausible scenario about trafficked underage sex slaves.
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Not sure if I'm just young, but my friend's over 200k total comp would have made me think twice about an offer. It's not the highest, but seems fairly competitive in sf
Why are they so valuable?
@wenbin

What AWS EC2 instance types are you using? Can you please expand about your AWS stack?
> if all k components are Gaussian random variables, then X must be multivariate Gaussian

They need to be independent as well or there should be some other criteria. Otherwise I have counterexamples.
Another fingerprint vector, with location leak.

"generally lacks required precision" well, generally, you combine measurement vectors to obtain required precision.
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There is plenty of those, they just don't have anyone tech-savvy enough to be on hacker news.
As to #4, if you're actively defending particular people's views on sex with underage people, then yeah, people are going to view you negatively by association. The vast majority of people vehemently disagree with that view, and for the most part, people assume that if you defend the view, it's probably because you agree with it.
Here's some of Google's positioning on it - think of it as an arms race: https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/marketing-resources/micro-mo...
I wonder if those thinking they could do a better job at “being FLOSS ambassadors” are taking their chance right now, using this moral panic to hoist themselves into the voids
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> This is an extremely disingenuous statement. WebKit was forked from KHTML and everybody knows this.

If “everyone” knows this, is it really disingenuous? In any case, I feel this is quite similar to saying Blink started at Google.

> It "certainly" sounds like you're trying to rewrite history (and you make a similar assertion elsewhere in this thread)..

I’m not. I have a very similar comment in response to a very similar correction elsewhere.
> The difference is that those other are not meant to be used as a money replacement

That'd be a big surprise for me when I'll try to book my next flight with miles. I certainly thought they'd replace money.

> In Pokemon Go there are coins and they are nothing but points to spend in store.

That's literally definition of money - abstract points that you can spend in the store. Well, the definition of fiat money, to be precise, but we're not going back to gold doubloons anytime soon.

> that would be probably a legally grey area.

Transferring money to other person can certainly land you in legal gray area if it against the laws (money laundering, tax avoidance, fraud, etc.) So what's new here?

> (moreover I am not sure how you would tax such a currency)

The same way you tax any other goods. If you receive income, you are taxed on its value. You think if non-USD payments weren't taxed, nobody would have a bright idea to be paid is silver bullion? IRS is not stupid, you owe taxes on any income, and better believe it, if they don't know the exact value proving it to them will very soon become your problem, not theirs.
RMS has called himself "borderline autistic". His socially clueless black and white thinking makes it look like he is far in the spectrum. RMS is anal about meanings of terms and their use. That's not working well in the current climate where words carry perceived intent. I find myself agreeing with RMS with most of the terminology and its use in this case. Women who tell stories about him paint a picture of lonely socially incompetent man who makes super creepy attempts to connect opposite sex.

I have worked in jobs where there have been very strange creepy people, both women and men. Some are angry and tense. Some are odd and talk restless or slightly disturbing stuff that make everyone uncomfortable. But if they do their work well they can stay. Others give them some room. It's called tolerance.

If RMS was just random superhacker doing his thing. I would defend him. His boss should find a position for him where he can contribute and other people should feel free to feel uncomfortable and avoid him.

But RMS is de facto leader and public figure in movement that is also political. He does not deserve the same level of consideration as normal HR headache would. Even if everything against him would be completely unjust, there is no requirement for just treatment for top leaders. They can be sacked for any reason whatsoever.
The new FSF implant president will no doubt have ties to the global intelligence community, and ensure terror can be appropriately monitored.
Try opera
It seems to me the FSF is this organization, GNU being related to the actual code.
Does anyone know what happens to the liqPref (and hence the subordinated equity shares of early employees) if they IPO below their $12bn liquidation pref?
Interesting. So Facebook assumes that some large number of promotions will fall behind previous performance? Probably a valid assumption. But interesting that they'd perform at one level and then degenerate when that's recognized.
This seems like a false positive for the defence system of the society. When you don't have it, I mean, when a behaviour or opinion is not crucified worse things happen(angry mobs, oppression of groups etc.).

Recently I have been reading Sapiens, it the book Homo Sapiens is singled out about its ability to function in groups of up to 150 people. Other humanoids were not able to do that.

I think, however, that discussing thigs on Twitter/Reddit is the same thing as discussing things with thousands and even millions of people that are gathered in a single place. Our species does have the tools to make this possible(the internet) but lacks methods to make it functional. The only thing we have is to detect an idea that somewhat sounds band and oppress it before bad things happen. That way we have some wrongfully vilified people but at the same time, we are able to stop the creation of a group of extremists(some people will not understand the discussion, mistook it for a validation of their sick ideas and if no vilification happens they will take action).

Anyway, that's why we need privacy. We should be able to discuss things in small enough groups without fear of being vilified, in a group with no outsiders we would know if someone is up to something bad or and take an appropriate action instead of overreacting and mislabeling. High-quality public discussions are beyond our capability.
Context: https://www.dictionary.com/e/facebooktrademark/
I am absolutely floored by your comment. I sincerely hope that it is parody.

Jeffrey Epstein was convicted in 2008 of soliciting a prostitute and of procuring an underage girl for prostitution. He plead guilty and was convicted. How much more clear does this have to get? He is a pedophile. How could he not be? He straight up solicited children for sex and has had dozens of credible accusations by women stating that he sexually assaulted them while they were underage. In what planet does this kind of behavior count as okay, even if only a single accusation was true? He solicited a child for sex!

No matter what fucked up views of what is/isn’t pedophilia you have, surely you see how employing underage girls and encouraging them to have sex with adult guests is objectively bad and so justifiably illegal? I mean these are children. Them getting paid makes it no better. Would you be ok with your child being employed by an older man to have sex with rich friends of his? I wouldn’t. Am I just too “self-righteous” to see such employment as exploitive and inherently immoral/fucked up?

It doesn’t matter if it was consensual. It is statutory rape, and 16 year olds are not emotionally and mentally as developed as 22 year olds - no matter what you claim. Ask any 22-year-old woman if she is the same person emotionally/intellectually as when she was 16. How many would say yes? Not many.

If saying, “Hey, Epstein built a secret harem of underage girls and solicited them to adult men - regardless of the children’s consent to be solicited - is a bad thing” is considered a “self-righteous political agenda”, then I guess I’m a full-on self-righteous prick.

The fact that I’m arguing that systematic, coerced sex between rich adult men and underage girls is bad and condemnable and that a lot of people in this comment section would disagree with me makes me lose hope for this world. It should be obvious that statutory rape laws protect minors and are a good thing. But here we are. Something truly is rotten in the state of Denmark.
The headline has been changed to "WeWork parent says IPO still on despite setbacks".
I hate that the parent is being downvoted. It speaks to the poor quality of the community at HN. Parent is absolutely right: twenty or thirty years ago, you were driven from the public sphere for merely a fraction of what passes today as 'within bounds'. Every cry of how we're self-censoring and being chilled rings hollow with every tweet by the pussy-grabber-in-chief. Whining about the boundaries now is just a confession of how little history you know.
Most fresh fruit isn't beautiful but is still perfectly edible, so it goes into processed foods.
More than half of it is templates that you can't hide just because of the nature of templates.

It's still the same Microsoft.
What have you ever done or risked for the common good?

Throwing away his life and career to alert the public to felonious activity by government employees deserves medals. The govt officials who broke the laws he exposed are not facing arrest. Why not?
You can look at it as a "decentralized platform".

Adding search across stores = centralized.
If anyone has any questions about Transient Epileptic Amnesia I'm happy to share my first-hand experience with it. It's very similar to TGA (was actually diagnosed with TGA first) though there are some subtle differences: environmental memories tend to lapse, brief unresponsiveness, some form of recall is possible, hallucinations are common, and the duration is typically much shorter.
Anybody who has spent time around RMS knows there are problematic behaviours in almost every interaction. This is not just about this one incident, but this one incident where he defends "voluntary pedophilia" was obviously the last straw.

I've met him a few times, put him up on my sofa once. I'd say almost every 15-30 minutes in his presence I would stop myself from saying "that's not an appropriate way to behave" or "please don't say that in that way, you're being rude", for fear of insulting him. Perhaps if more people had done that rather than being in awe and reverence (and there are many people who treat him that way), or just looking for a quiet life (my excuse), we wouldn't be here now.

It is clear to me that he has very low EQ or at least empathy for other people. I have spoken to others who have interacted with him who have suggested he might be on the autistic spectrum, and whilst I am not qualified to make a diagnosis, should such a diagnosis be made it would not surprise me.

At the weekend whilst this was blowing up I suggested he needed help. I think he is genuinely completely unaware why any of these statements would cause others to question his values. Freedom of speech is not a right to be a jerk, and he is unaware that he is seen as a jerk by a lot of people because of the many things he has said and done over many years.

It seems there are many people here who likewise are blind-sided as to why suggesting an underage girl would be entirely willing to have sex with an adult and presented herself willingly would be nothing more than a 'controversial opinion'. There are also people who think this is the only thing he's done that has caused problems - it's not.

I think there are deeper issues at play here, and he would benefit from counselling or therapy of some sort. Most people could even without his behaviour, so I'm definitely going to suggest it would be useful in his case. At a minimum it would help him navigate having a huge chunk of his life disappear over the last 24 hours.

I wish him well, but like almost every ex-colleague of his I've spoken to or who has been outspoken on social media about this: the FSF and MIT/CSAIL will now be a better place to be for others, and I hope that RMS gets the help he has needed for a long time.

I wish him well, but I also know that a large number of people will breathe a sigh of relief now that they can go about their work and studies without having to navigate him.
Why HR Depts are such a bad idea
> End of free speech is here.

No, it's not.

There have always been consequences to speech. Before social media, the traditional media would be the method of choice of stirring up people into a mob demanding resignations. It's not new.

What is new, is that it is no longer a power centralized to owners of traditional media. It is now distributed, and thanks to Twitter specifically, in a way that promotes "tyrranny by the mob" which the founding fathers themselves abhorred.

This isn't the death of free speech. Instead, view it as tech kicking itself in the balls because the people making software didn't understand how humans would leverage it at a society level scale.

It's why many of us are working of federated but social public forms of media, like the 90s and early 2000's, because that worked at scale without a "tyrranny of the mob".

All that being said, it is hard to be all "free speech is over" doom-sayer when the person in question has repeatedly (and we're talking decades) said creepy things that cumulatively sets up a pattern of behavior. This isn't Joe Shmoe hopping onto the internet the first time and losing his job. It's disingenuous to try to spin this event that way.
I have never been asked for a copyright assignment by the FSF for a patch. Maybe that happens and if and when it does I'd talk about that too.

https://lwn.net/Articles/359013/

This is hardly a dangerous, radical criticism that is novel and needs to be fought on all fronts...
Unless of course it had happened in about half of Europe or many other places in the world where he wouldn't have even been charged with a crime...

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

We are conflating 'law' and 'morals/ethics' in these arguments. If you act with strict adherence to the law, I'm assuming you've never jaywalked, committed piracy, ran a red light, etc.

Oh, these are 'victimless crimes?' What about sex after having a couple drinks? Technically neither of you can consent under the law... a person has probably committed rape if their consensual partner had a 0.08 BAC.

I think that our lack of a legal word other than 'rape' to describe 'statutory rape' does a disservice to those women are victims of forcible, violent sex acts.

Although technically correct in many US jurisdictions, I think you would have a VERY hard time arguing that an 'adult' having consensual sex with a 17 year old being described as 'raping minors' is morally equivalent to the things that 'rape' is typically used to describe.
I love the idea that folded Philo dough originated to emulate oven-fluffy bread -- when ovens weren't available.
The issue isn't that millennials don't want them, it's that the boomers want half a million for a starter house, and it's completely unreasonable to save up $100k cash for a down payment on a first house when you have student loans, other bills and rent.

Ironically, this all becomes wildly easier after you have the first mortgage, and can leverage the paper equity that rising prices gives you...
Do you really think he was canned because of this one incident? There are years of bad behavior here.

"We will, as always, be treated to much examination of the precise nature and mass of the last straw, with observations that it would not by itself be sufficient to cause spinal damage in camels, and is therefore utterly harmless."

https://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/1173796229131767808
Yes. The first time I remember was the 2009 speech where he advocated that men go off and deflower emacs virgins: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.datamation.com/amp/osrc/art... However, incidents apparently go back to at least 1981: https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-appendix...
Indeed, we agree on this. But I never claimed there wasn't one...
Not sure about that. Especially if it all goes to one ip address where they have peering arrangements. It could cause some load there but the traffic will be essentially free for cloudflare. And some good publicity for Cloudflare.
Good thing you didn’t buy an Audible subscription, or use an Epson printer, FreshBooks invoicing, LastPass. Other podcast ads I’ve heard are for AmEx, Deloitte, LinkedIn, various conferences and educational institutions, and more. I agree that certain names always show up, but I’ve also been quite surprised over the years by who’s enlightened enough to advertise in podcasts. I’ll admit, though, I never did buy that Harry’s shaving kit. ;-)
considering according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20991909 he apparently was homeless and lived out of his office for a while, yeah that's probably the definition of unprofessional.
The problematic commit reduced the number of disk IO at bootup which resulted in starving getrandom() from the necessary entropy. If disk IO is already considered a reliable source of entropy then there is no reason to not actively exercise it when entropy is needed.
I just bought the Pixel 3a as a replacement for my Nexus 5x because I had two requirements:

- headphone jack

- no stupid notch

I love it and would strongly recommend it, it feels like the actual successor of the 5x
It's crazy how quickly we have come from newspapers having to print revisions and retractions to fix minor mistakes to an organization like Reuters changing an article to say the complete opposite thing in minutes.
and have a look at how they are even using fake reviews on their own products:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20819344
Probably, but it doesn't really matter because the real damage was done by his comments ~15 years ago, it just took the Internet an unusually long time to notice.
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Or use Cloudflare in front of it, especially with mostly static data.
There have also been numerous stories from those around him at MIT about inappropriate conduct with students and staff.

The flip side of diversity is inclusion and those actions ran counter to MIT's own policies on an inclusive workplace (if you want a legalistic justification for him needing to leave).

At the same time, though, diversity can't be a cover for actions that are harmful to the larger community. Many places in the world still have strict social pressures against other sexual orientations. Saying you want diversity and inclusion, but excluding gay people—that would be conformity. However, being around queer folks does not actively harm the workplace environment or social culture. However, asking new female students if they want to go out with you, or being grossly insensitive to the plight of sexual assault victims is harmful to a non-trivial portion of the lab.

I would argue that, while RMS is a rightfully accomplished activist and computer scientist, his removal at this point in time makes CSAIL a more inclusive place. Those who might stay away because they're worried about his reputation or hurtful insensitivity—say, young female students, often underrepresented in science—may be more willing to work there.
That lib is just open source by nature, nothing to praise here.
Wait until the AIs get a little better at forensics. Might not be wise to post comments you wouldn't want to come back at you at a forum that doesn't let you delete them, pseudonymous - for now - or not.