skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is nobody else at the FSF capable of public advocacy? It seems to me that Stallman's unique ability was formulating the FSF's ideals in the first place, but once the platform is laid out, anyone who holds those ideals ought to be at least somewhat capable of promoting them. Even before this particular incident, it seems rms was not exactly well liked as a spokesman.
To the extent that one can affect it, I think it has more to do with selecting the entire friend pool, not picking individual friends (which obviously won't work).

The friend pool at Phillips Exeter's got a higher top-end of friend quality and a higher bottom-end, generally speaking, than your average public school—the best and worst likely cases for your kids' friend groups are both "better", probably—to pick an exaggerated example.

We do the same thing when we choose where to live for the public schools. It's largely about finding better likely friend group outcomes. "Better" kids are easier to teach and their families are more likely to push them academically, so a proxy for that is how "good" the school is (test scores, college readiness, reputation) but it's kinda sorta mostly about the kids with whom your kids will be hanging out 7-8 hours a day.
He didn't defend rape. He objected to the use of the term "sexual assault", because the "assault" part connotes the use of violence. He doesn't believe any violence was used by his friend. Based on his understanding of the situation, the girl probably acted willing to his friend, and his friend likely didn't know her true age (can you tell a 17yo from an 18yo??). So he objects to his friend being called a violent rapist when he's really likely only guilty of having sex with a legal minor, while believing she was there of her own free will and probably of legal age.

Finally, your use of the word "rape" is wrong anyway. Having sex with a minor isn't "rape", it's "statutory rape", and that's only in the US. US laws do not apply worldwide. The age of consent varies from place to place, and according to UK residents on this forum, it's only 15 or 16 there. So are you going to tell me that everyone in the UK that has sex with someone that young is a "rapist"? Sorry, no.
But why not do your job as a citizen and send a simple letter objecting to this settlement - https://www.equifaxbreachsettlement.com/faq Q#25
Yev here -> in purely academic terms maybe, but there are a lot of factors which go in to whether or not a person will leave or stick around. I thought it'd be interesting to write about our journey (since it was super atypical) and provide some insights into how we make decisions.
Sounds like that company either found an alternative or decided it wasn't important enough of a problem. This isn't a situation inherent to FLOSS. I've worked many sales cycles with commercial software where potential customers act exactly the same way.

I wouldn't be surprised if this effect is even stronger for commercial software, because of the sunk cost effect.
What this has to do with anything? I'm saying that giving whole /8 (or I should say class A) to a company is wasteful. And you can only do it no more than a bit over 200 times. You are on the other hand saying that the hardware at the time wouldn't be able to handle all the companies. Why not allocate C blocks, or at very least B blocks? Or are you saying that they doubted hardware of the future would be capable of handling it?

Because of such wasteful allocation we got this "wonderful" thing called NAT which basically killed most of innovation in area of networking and IPv6 which is taking over 20 years to adapt, because most ISPs hold to IPv4 as long as they can because making this switch requires some work.
They all simultaneously call his employer and demand that he gets fired.
While I understand his argument, there are people who use that trig/calc base and move forward with their math careers - NASA scientists, physicists, engineers, and if we don't provide that math education in high school, will we be hurting those careers by not continually pushing their math skills in those directions.
Neat, I had no idea.
what would be a good example of spiritual materialism? like meditation centers such as Maharishi in Iowa or Vipassanā?
To be fair, Deliverance was a bit more recent of a movie when you left, so one could see why they made such references, unfair as they were and still are (that said, I know for a fact that characters as depicted in the movie do exist, we just don't run into 'em often - good thing - nor really discuss them - bad thing).
A framework will not prevent things to become a mess, in the angular project I inherited in most places the rootScope is injected everywhere, I do not blame the developers either, the angular architecture is not great and when you have a lopt of new tasks for you to implement you don't always have the time to reimplement things, but sometimes the correct solution is not used , though you may want to claim that your favorite framework makes it harder to do the wrong thing.
You mean what is actually stored in "memory" to play those actions? It's usually the trained model, which is a graph with many layers, each containing many nodes and being connected to other layers. Depending on the model size, it can take anywhere from a few MB to tens or hundreds of GBs, but usually the smaller the better (as having a too large model will lead to over-fitting, meaning that it has enough data to only learn the strategies needed for the current problem and not generalize the solving of such problems).
Good public schools around here drive an ~20-25% increase in house prices, for similar houses with similar commutes et c., versus merely middling schools, let alone the bad ones.
Haha it mostly makes me think how frustrating it is to work in excel
>Engineering feats like this propel us as a species forward.

Note that there are no feats thus far...
> said something wildly inappropriate in an MIT forum

I don’t think what he said was wildly inappropriate for the forum. It’s an open discussion forum. People not understanding and being offended is not something that RMS or a reasonable poster could predict or prevent.

I read through the entire thread and it’s not as bad as people are interpreting. I think people are inferring intent and meaning that just isn’t there.

I’m pretty disappointed in FSF.
Is this with or without security issues?
> He said: The girl was most likely willing

He very clearly did not say that, he said the girl was most likely presented to him as willing.

How is it you've made half a dozen posts in a thread about this without even bothering to read what you're commenting about?
She's offended over things she copied from the RMS page on Geek Feminism, not actually experienced.
That wasn't my point. Editorializing is fine, what is problematic is outright banning.
With your knowledge of business statistics, you might ramp up faster if you learn how to write simple programs for data analysis.

The programming aspect is simpler, in general, and the hard part is knowing how to make sense of data.

E.g. https://www.udemy.com/course/data-analysis-with-pandas/
India's slowdown might be worse than it appears
Interesting distinction between the new unlimited plan and the old one:

"On the Fi Flexible plan, video streams at 1080p (Full HD quality). On the Fi Unlimited plan, video may be streamed at 480p (DVD quality)."
I’ll possibly be going against the grain, but they have really made a fanfare about this one. I’m a subscriber and I remember the email coming though and it felt a little too over-sensitive to me. You’re putting the prices up by a dollar a month, you’ve been losing out in real terms because of inflation for years, and I already have gigabytes upon gigabytes of data stored with you. I’m not moving for an extra $12 - and even then I was too lazy to take the promotion because it’s a business expense and having to process the additional invoice didn’t feel worth the bother. But I’ll admit that one is a more of a reflection of me than Backblaze.

I understand you’d be worried about a price increase but the email, promotion, two years of lead up time, and now the blog post comes across and a little too apologetic, perhaps. Just stick the prices up by a dollar and give me a quick “sorry guys, we’ve not raised them in a decade - we need to stay competitive” and I wouldn’t have even remembered it.
I think every day products will have increased use, life, and other benefits being able to have a IoT device that enhances our lives as the current products are just there in our lives.
>It seems no one is happy except me.

I disagree. Plenty of people are enjoying your content so much they want more. That doesn't mean they are unhappy, only that they think they could be happier than they already are. They are happy.
- small towns don't use container ships, which are far more efficient than anything else

- small towns tend to have longer trips from the grocery store to your house, which is where most transportation costs occur
Something I've wondered always wondered when reading through class actions: do multiple class actions suits over the same set of facts ever happen? Are they possible?

It seems technically possible: Class action settlement reached, somehow a huge portion of the impacted class opts out of the settlement (extremely unlikely, but possible). Opted out class members somehow organize a subsequent action.

Is the above possible? By opting out, you explicitly keep your own individual right to bring action against the defendant, but does it bar class action participation? There's a moral hazard argument that allowing this would create a perverse incentive on the part of the class legal representation to encourage class members to opt out of the settlement and organize subsequent actions.
If your GDP is "growing" 2%, and your population is growing 1.2%, and inflation is 1%, you're getting less productive -- not more. Your quality of life is probably declining.

I'm not saying this is the case. I'm just saying -- it is possible to "grow" without improvement. See the Malthusian Trap that plagued humanity from the beginning of time until the Industrial Revolution.

It's probably better to just measure productivity & quality of life directly. It isn't easy. But it's not easy to measure GDP either. Measure what matters, you know?
iOS 13 users getting notifications Facebook, etc. harvesting data with Bluetooth
It’s doable for someone with several years full-stack experience. I had worked with all of those systems and more by the time I had 4-5 years experience.
Bankruptcy seems quite appropriate. They not only failed to maintain the security of the data, they also provided no identity theft protection to the public (unless you asked for it), and as a company appeared to have no plan for this event. Given that they were entrusted with the identity data for basically all Americans, that is inexcusable.
I'm not sure that wouldn't have happened anyway, just with firewalls. ISPs were not above port blocking regardless.
Calling it wrong-think is so blatantly untrue. Orwell was talking about governments subjecting citizens to extreme censorship. Societies have always been able to do this without governments, that's how cultures are formed.
Hello! We haven't been at the capacity employee-wise to have teams dedicated to improve much in these areas, but we tripled our employee count this year and have since spun up a memory team [1] and are able to dedicate more people to performance [2]. So hopefully we won't be saying this for much longer!

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[1] (same link as #2 above) https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/development/en...

[2] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/performance/
I've always gone with the maxim, a product shouldn't be priced at what it's worth, it should be priced at what people will pay for it. In development this is best seen in Fortran salaries.
Yev from Backblaze here -> thank you Jay! Our customers were one of the reasons that we felt it would be interesting to share our process, so they could read about how we shot ourselves in the foot :D plus the story is so odd that it was just plain interesting!
Never heard that word, and Portuguese is my native language...
Is that a difficult solution? Western countries could end world hunger[1] for something between what we spend on alternative medicine[2] and what we spend on food that we throw away[3]. Of course, there are some difficulties like lack of infrastructure needed to get aid to everyone who needs it, but those seem hardly insurmountable. Companies seem to be able to reach the most remote regions of the world when it comes to things like producing coffee; I don't see why it should be impossible to feed everyone.

The main difficulty, as far as I can tell, is that most people are reluctant to pay to feed even the people that they share the streets with, let alone people in the third world. But I don't think you can really call a problem "difficult" if the only reason you haven't done it is because you choose not to.

[1] https://hungermath.wordpress.com/2013/12/08/how-much-would-i...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/americans-spend-3...

[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2015/04/22/americas-165-billion-food-wa...
Of course it does.

There is a thing about open source and I would submit, many uses of the Internet, that ESR (and others) talked about early on, and that's use value.

Because the entire work product is available to anyone, the use value is high. There is a skill / understanding investment to make, and while that is expected, it can get ignored, or overemphasized in these discussions.

Once someone has made the skill investment, they need only entertain incremental change type investments.

Overall, great return on investment. Anyone learning *nix systems can get a ton of work done, and or have set themselves up to explore and benefit from a large number of technologies.

The point ESR made is simple:

Nobody is really working for free. They are getting the use value, and it's non-trivial. In the case of some important developers, use value is not enough. Can't eat it, or live in it. Fair enough.

In this way, OSS is a whole that really is greater than it's parts, and high use value is why.

Contributions, and their cost, are multiplied across users and that is often enough to warrant making said contributions. Anyone doing that can improve their use value, and anyone may see the benefit of other contributions.

None of that has really changed, but for large corporations deriving significant financial returns, all of which further demonstrate the huge use value in play.

I submit this high degree of use also comes with more demands for contributions than an average user / developer too. Funding this should be a no brainer given the extremely low costs needed to see awesome use value and potential to profit.

Seriously, the larger players are making plenty. It's my opinion more financial contributions can and should be made, and made in a way that leaves plenty of agency for those who receive them too.

Without that, it could be a sort of tragedy of the commons scenario. OSS is awesome, but could be a lot less awesome if this is not improved.

Surely an ecosystem like this can be maintained from the billions that it has helped others earn. We say greed is good. Well, so is a degree of fairness, and some respect for that which has delivered so much too.

If not, the question, "why should I bother?" is totally fair, and will present itself more and more over time.

And this:

>It’s still not clear that companies would be interested in such a contract. When Stenberg asked the company that needed him to fly to a different country to troubleshoot their problem to pay for one, they refused.

They totally got their use value. If they can't be bothered to help with the code, paying for said help is totally reasonable.

What drives that?

Perhaps some important people can start posing the question:

Either help with code, or dollars, which is it because everyone needs to help?
Thoughts on the Planetary: An Interview with Achille Mbembe
I feel like the technically-correct thing to say is that there are no essential differences between genders (since you can have whatever gender identity you want) or between sexes (because your sex doesn't guarantee your hormonal makeup) but there are essential differences between people of who have had long periods of differing hormonal makeup—whether natural or induced.

Which is to say, we probably shouldn't be grouping athletes by gender/sex, but rather imposing a threshold of testosterone, and having a league for people with (historic) low T and a league for people with (historic) high T.

There'd likely be an interesting opportunity in the middle for co-ed athletics leagues, where the people of both physical sexes that have "average" historic T levels (i.e. who fall on the mean of T levels of all humans) could compete fairly with one-another.

Also, as a tangent: an interesting question brought up by that, is that some athletes actually have an inherent T level that would be considered "using steroids" if a person of average T took TRT to achieve that level. Should such athletes be allowed to compete, if others aren't allowed to achieve their level? (IMHO, it's a bit like a sport where tallness is an advantage allowing people with natural gigantism, but banning people who've been given limb-lengthening surgery.)
About $50/month for a family plan should be fine for a completely add free internet. How that fee is distributed across the different sites I visit is an administrative issue.
There is a Coriolis force here too; it's just much smaller than the centrifugal force.

Consider a plane flying at ground level along the equator at groundspeed velocity v in the direction of the Earth's rotation. In the Earth's (rotating) reference frame there is a centrifugal acceleration based on the Earth's angular velocity and a Coriolis acceleration given by -2 W x v, where W is the Earth's angular velocity and v is the plane's velocity. This ends up pointing straight up in this configuration.

So in the plane's reference frame there is a straight-up centrifugal acceleration, given by (W + v/R)^2 * R = W^2 * R + 2W x v + v^2/R which is balanced by the aerodynamic and gravitational forces on the plane (which in this frame is non-accelerating), while in the Earth's reference frame there is a straight-up centrifugal acceleration given by W^2 * R and a straight-up Coriolis acceleration of 2W x v, and the plane is accelerating radially down at v^2/R due to gravity and lift combined.

Now to put numbers to this, the speed record for an X15 is about 2000 m/s, R is 6.4 * 10^6 m, and W is 1 revolution per 24 hours, or 1/86400 s^1. So the three force components look like this, if I am doing my numbers right:

W^2 * R is .00086 m/s^2

2W x v is 0.04 m/s^2

v^2/R is 0.63 m/s^2.

So the v^2/R "centrifugal force due to the plane's motion" term is by far the biggest contributor here.
There's an issue though. You spend time as you please and its fine, but ultimately current society revolves on exchanging services in a semi quantifiable manner (transactions at price). You cannot live on free contributions. I find this hybrid situation too paradoxical.
Good point - though I'd argue anything mission-critical should never rely on external SME contractors being hired to fix one-off bugs.. :shrug:
> automatic LetsEncrypt renewal for custom domains

Really, is this new? I wasn't aware of it.
Would bankruptcy be so bad? “Sorry, Equifax. Due to some recent financial irresponsibility, we’ve unfortunately had to lower your score. To zero.”
this is the core reason for free software
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New Detroit restaurant Magnet will have a no-tipping policy when it opens
You may have, but I've never met such a person, and that's a false equivalence. And it is not really ironic; when you use an inflammatory term especially in a headline, you use it knowing what the term evokes and it's a clear sign of what kind of audience you're pandering to. And I will judge that person accordingly. That said, considering the post came out in 2015 (which I didn't know at the time of making that comment), I think it had not yet totally become a blanket term synonymous with "liberals" so I can mostly reserve judgement in this case. Again, though, i don't think this is really all that relevant to the topic of stallman.
Right and it leads to several negative externalities, such as high income inequality: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2869155
Show HN: The Orbital Index hits issue #30
Why is it wrong to defend someone that is accused of something ? Does an accusation equate to culpability ? He defended him by doubting that he did the things he's accused of, not by excusing those things.

Yes, this bashing is totally unreasonable, he expressed an opinion that the charge against Minsky is not valid. One party makes an accusation, it's a perfectly acceptable thing to do for the other party to counter it. Accusation is not the same thing as proof. There is a category of accusations these days that are just the same as a jury sentence, if you're labeled, then you're done. No evidence, witness saying this didn't happen ? Still guilty.
Is anyone else reminded of how a bunch of bad business models started falling apart in 1999 precipitating a recession? We're on the brink of a recession anyway. Something really unpleasant might be coming.
Maybe not jail time but I would really want the board to be personally responsible for what they did. Or, if they can argue that they made sure their corporation had a good security culture, the executives who broke the company regulations need to be personally responsible.

Seriously, someone needs to be rehabilitated from this before they can be sent back into society. After someone gets out of jail from grand theft auto they need to understand that what they did was wrong and treating people like that hurts them. I’m not saying the executives need jail time and emotional trauma, but at least some sort of therapy where they’re confronted with the fact that doing this stuff with a hundred million people is not nice and has consequences. They should fundamentally rethink their lives and what brought them to do such a careless thing with people’s data, just like a convicted felon.

Edit: made it clearer that I meant the decision makers, not all owners.
The solution here may be for all of us to flag posts that we know are benign, like puppies or birthday greetings. This would reduce the percentage of disturbing content moderators are forced to see, and costs us nothing at all.
Dear Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, FCC Ajit Pai, Mike Doyle, et al.
Who knows what the Chinese end game really is? I'm not a political analyst, just like I would have no idea who droned the Saudi oil fields (maybe Trump did). WTF--we only know what we're told.

However, based on the fact that the Chinese government mistreats the shit out of millions of their citizens--I'm delighted to pay more for a phone or a TV or whateve; just based on the possibility that they will become overtly aggressive in the future (and drawing similarities to the US prision system does not negate my point).

Of course, this is just my point of view, and it is colored by the litterly hundreds of thousands of battles I've had in my lifetime in cars. The fact is; if it looks like someone is out to fuck you... they usually are.
all good points. i also think what really pushes a lot of developers to do open source, and bear with me for the unpopular opinion--is ego. they love having followers, and a voice on twitter with some open source badge on their profile page. it's in a way a status symbol of "i did this important thing that a lot of people rely on, im pretty important." i highly doubt that even 5% of contributors are doing it out of the kindness of their hearts or the community.

you can sort of see evidence of this within repositories filled with smug comments within the issues or pull requests