skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So wait, I am not engaging in good faith because I read what Stallman posted and did not detect anything that seemed sexist? Is everyone who disagrees with you arguing in bad faith? Isn't the one who "holds forbidden knowledge" on sexists thing that Stallman said regarding the Epstein incident but refuse to say what exactly these are the one engaging in bad faith?
Ask HN: How do you learn the idiomatic approach of a programming language?
Usually most books and tutorials of programming languages teach the syntax and the standard libraries of them.
From that point, how do you end up learning the idioms of the language?
If you are ever in or near Tucson, AZ, the Pima Air & Space Museum (https://pimaair.org/) has a full-scale X-15 mock-up as well as one of the B-52s used for launching the things. You can coordinate this with a bus tour of the "bone yard" at nearby Davis-Monthan AFB. Note: the bus tour requires advance reservation & security check, I believe.
That's a good question, since it's clearly not a political case. Some quick reading says there are two factors, neither likely to apply to Snowden.

France has refused to extradite Polanski because he's a French/Polish citizen, and neither country is obligated to extradite citizens. (If the refusal is purely citizenship-based, they're required to refer the person for domestic prosecution on request. It's not clear to me whether this applied or happened.)

Poland and Switzerland were both open to extradition (Poland declined to apply the citizenship exemption), but courts in both countries refused over issues with Polanski's trial and prospective sentence.

Polanski's case did start in the US. His attorney arranged an extremely lenient plea bargain of 5/6 charges dropped and 90 days psychiatric evaluation, which he accepted when he was released from prison after 42 days. After that, things get very messy. The exact terms of the bargain were unclear (90 days or time served). The original judge has been accused of misconduct. Subsequent judges have made legally-worrying comments like threatening to delay sentencing to increase time in jail.

Switzerland rejected Polanski's extradition over ambiguity between "90 days" or "time served", and the USA's failure to provide clarifying records. The rationale was that the judge had potentially committed to time served, and extradition isn't available after a punishment (probation doesn't count) is completed.

Poland rejected extradition over the behavior from the original judge and prosecutors, plus the behavior of subsequent judges and alleged destruction of records.

"Unfair trial" is a possible defense for Snowden, and Switzerland would probably be one of the safer places in Europe for him. But a speculative claim of an unfair trial is quite a bit bolder than the Polanski decisions, which hinged on claims of actual misconduct during a trial.
Thank you, that clears everything up. NFA as used here means something completely different from NFAs in CS literature.
I think if things worked purely that way and everything was completely transparent it would be fine but there's a few things that muddy the waters

1) Moderators create alternate accounts and gobble up offshoots. They'll either have multiple mod accounts so they can "step down" and pass power to themselves when opinion rallies against them or they straight up seed themselves throughout reddit as moderators to dozens of communities

2) How do you spread the word when moderators have final word on what's posted in the "main" subreddit? Say there's an uprising in some obscure fandom and fans want a new place to correlate outside of the moderator's rule; how do they spread the word to the community efficiently that they exist when there's only one main hub for that fandom currently and the moderators silence anything (often with the AutoMod) that reference the new community?

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I think public moderation in general is good. But the tools for the community to branch out are often lacking and when moderator power-tripping crosses a line there's no outlet for members to reach Admins who will objectively weigh the facts and act on complaints.
warming up for halloween ?
It looks like this:

https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
The Origins of Nutrition Science and Calories
And Drupal just finished switching over (self hosted).
Under Trump, Health Insurance with Less Coverage Floods Market
I'm surprised at the number of news headlines and comments saying that Stallman defended Epstein. He absolutely did not.
His entire point can be summed up as "if person A (Epstein) coerces a 17 year old girl into approaching and having sex with person B (Minsky), and does a hypothetically convincing job of it, is person B (Minsky) guilty of statutory rape / sexual assault?"
His argument is valid considering Guiffre never accused Minsky of sexual assault, and doubly valid considering there is at least one witness who said that while Guiffre approached them, Minsky did not have sex with her.
Even for the people saying that it IS statutory rape in a court of law (i.e. ignorance of her age doesn't matter to the court), please consider that Minsky isn't actually "guilty" because this hasn't been proven in said court of law.
> Perhaps it’s time to start considering how to choose to live given unacceptable outcomes.

Maybe I am misunderstanding your statement, but to which period of time are you referring to? Your lifetime? 3 generations?

The long now includes a non-zero probability of a collapse of atmospheric oxygen, and complete human extinction within ~3600 years. [0]

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5138252/
Great questions but I doubt the experts who could answer them will comment here.
I've had the same experience with GHE support.
I know I do. The amount I’ve railed against companies I don’t like... oyyy, they should have put me on their payroll to sit on a beach and drink.

And a few others should have put me on their marketing payroll.
"Never setting boundaries for RMS for decades may have contributed to him never been properly housebroken and ultimately didn’t do him any favors."

I don't disagree.
Let's not be completely idiotic and remember who we were at 17. Idiotic and acting before thinking, sure, but far from totally clueless.

There's something beyond slavery and prostitution, there's willing exploitation of the old guy for money, beyond the sexual service. If it was a young stud with an old lady, you'd think twice before saying the old lady is a dirty pervert, right :D

But that's never been the point: the point is you and me can debate to no end about bullshit like that with half information and no legal culture, but Stallman, as a member of faculty, has 0 legitimacy doing it on faculty mail.
I'm an income tax payer in the UK and don't mind a reasonable percentage of that going to infrastructure. I've suffered being stuffed sardine style into the central line often enough to think Crossrail makes sense. Also with interest rates close to zero it makes financial sense for the government to borrow to build this sort of stuff. (The interest rate on 15 year bonds is 0.86% per year currently).

That said I can see the argument for a property improvement tax but it would be messy to figure out - London projects effect huge swathes of property in differing ways.
I understand the sentiment. However
1. Money corrupts everything. Be careful what you wish for.
2. Lone developers will probably do a better job than any sort of bureaucracy, public or private. Small-scale FOSS projects are the perfect platform for a lone developer. They can of course demand payment for their efforts, with all that it might entail regarding point 1.
“The catastrophic Heartbleed bug of 2014, which compromised the security of hundreds of millions of sites, was caused by a problem in an open-source library called OpenSSL, which relied on a single full-time developer not making a mistake as they updated and changed that code, used by millions.”

And the catastrophic Specter and Meltdown bugs show that private code doesn’t prevent this sort of thing either...
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Yeah I am also wondering where this 4hr per day statistic is coming from. Dinner for two usually takes no longer than 1 hr a day, dishes usually put in the dishwasher every other day, and we reserve Sundays for cleaning, laundry and taking out recyclables. I cannot fathom anyone taking 4 hrs every single day to do housework, unless you have some kind of aversion to a dirty clothes bin or dishes piling up in the sink or Mr. Clean holding a gun to your head.
> Your definition of 'wrong' is certainly agreeable

It's just what it is, he wasn't defending his friend, which, BTW, is not even accused of raping anybody.

> The comment was inappropriate

Like this is new for RMS...

I never said he is not weird, I've said he never supported or praised or defended rapists.

That's enough to prove who said it wrong.

It's all in the transcripts, it's all there, word by word.

> Those are the rules of the game (public relations),

But he's not a PR.

He has never been.
Blaming the people in the ghetto for the problems of the ghetto is a common refrain of those who seek to deny the material conditions and motivations that created the ghetto in the first place. This train of thought leads to the justification of various cutbacks and reductions in social aid programs (exacerbating the situation), as the presumed beneficiaries of such programs are deemed lazy, morally unworthy, and lacking the desire to change their ways.

Changing this perception is key to making progress on this and related issues of class and resource distribution. There's heaps of research out on the positive difference a slight increase in resources can make in terms of human development.
IANAL and I have not tried this, but have heard of it working: would sending a letter threatening a lawsuit get their attention?
Yes. I'm working with garbage legacy drupal stuff right now. It is so bad. Makes me die a little every day.
I totally agree, this could have all been avoided if someone pulled him aside and told him to sit on his hands. RMS is brilliant, but he does seem to be tone deaf. Now is not the time for old white men of privilege to be commenting on the sexuality of young women. (not that it ever was appropriate)
That this is being framed as a matter of free speech is preposterous.
Richard Stallman isn't some low-level engineer.
He runs one of the largest and most impactful open source foundations in the world.
The question isn't whether it's ok to have these kinds of discussions.
Stallman's questions were, to my mind, obtuse and silly, and a 74 year-old shouldn't need those things explained to him, but some people do.
The important question is this: is somebody who is this obtuse about rape victims and the difficulties that women face in the workforce fit to lead one of the biggest and most impactful open source organizations in the world?
The answer to that is clearly no.
Isn't this one of Microsoft's arguments in its FUD phase? Open source being less secure.
One thing not mentioned in the article is that working on open source, especially when your project gets popular, helps a lot with the resume and may let you skip the interview quiz fest since your future employers are already familiar with your work and its quality.

That said, it would be nice if corporations would give their teams donation money for the smaller projects that they rely on. With easy options like OpenCollective and GitHub having a donation option, it would be good time to start.
Your comment is irrelevant, since I did nothing of the sort.
India is in a slump of their own, and the recent government measures there including the effective suppression of the right of habeas corpus, the most fundamental of rights is severely unbecoming of a parliamentary democracy.
I did not know C++ was running China.
I'm spinning up a new architecture for my homelab and personal stuff and that slowness is why I'm installing Gitea for repos and Drone for CI/CD. The combo seems to give me everything I want without taking a huge share of my limited server space.
I'm in a similar situation.

Started a website for fun, maybe I'll sell books. Then my website got popular and people want more content faster.

I have a day job, so I can't work full time unless I'm paid similar.

I'm unsure what to do next. My free website can be monatized with the goal of quitting my job.

Or users can get my hobby for free.

It seems no one is happy except me. The only benefit, my popularity will likely have me employed forever.
There’s a significant difference between willful ignorance and being mislead. The law accounts for this is most cases.
What's fascinating about reading this is the parallels to technical debt and slowdowns in large software ecosystems within mature and maturing companies.

This would be a good read for someone non-technical to better understand similar software engineering challenges because a rail station and the delays described are far easier for a layperson to relate to.
If you’re collecting personal and financial data points on over a hundred million people and one employee makes a mistakes that results in this kind of leak, as a leader you should be charged with with gross negligence. Why were there no guard rails in place? Why is one employee a single point of failure?
if you bother to look at the funding you'll see something like 40% comes from increased business rates in the areas expected to benefit, plus loans which will be repaid from ticket revenues from the new line
Gah! A "rational actor" is not a person, and "free" has a commonly-understood meaning that you're redefining in order to ... what? Claim the headline is false? Why?
KellyM
> Maybe one has nothing to do with the other but it’s unsettling that this has happened when tweeting photos of bath time.

Ryan Dalton
> RIIIIIIGHT!

Twitter seems to encourage this reactionary, fearful behavior. What would be more likely to cause this photo to appear: a technical glitch or a malicious act?
There are proved benefits of using PWAs in specific situations, but it's not near the wonderland that companies like Google are making it seem.

I believe that they have secured a place in mobile development and are very worth considering at this point, but it's very soon to say they're a good solution for everyone.
My freedom of association trumps your freedom of speech.

If people don't want to associate with a person who says awful things, it's not a violation of their freedom of speech to disassociate with them.
Come on now. What other plausible reason, besides being someone's daughter, would a girl that young have for being on that island with these old men? It doesn't take an MIT-calibre mind to ask this question.
That is not accurate. Tesla regularly issues recalls (some of which can be fixed in the field) proactively, and a "typical" company may try to keep a problem quiet or wait until forced to by safety bodies. I mean for goodness sake, look at the behavior of "typical" German carmakers with the dieselgate scandal (which continues). Against that backdrop, Tesla is a model of upright behavior.

I realize that not everything Elon Musk does is rainbows and unicorns, but there's some serious animus against Tesla in the comments here that is not borne out by objective facts (although plenty of cherry picking is, of course, possible to exaggerate problems that are not uncommon across these industries).
In addition, some analysts believe that China's official GDP growth numbers are overinflated, and the actual GDP growth is 1-2% lower than the official government data.

for example, Li Keqiang, the current premier of China (the #2 guy behind Xi) measures a different set of numbers [1] to approximate China's GDP growth because he doesn't trust the official GDP figures due to inaccurate local government growth data.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Keqiang_index
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Then I apologize on my understanding of the English language.

According to the quote I read of RMS (I did not read the original email fully) the salient part is his discussion where he claims that "sexual assault" as an expression (at least colloquially) implies the use of force/violence/aggression/intimidation/coercion/etc. by Minsky.

He claims that given the official report as true and taking the the claim of the victim as correct none of those (force/violence/aggression/intimidation/coercion/etc.) were likely.

This is independent on whether Minsky committed a crime or not. This is simply trying to properly understand what the accusations are. I honestly have no idea whether this would constitute rape/statutory rape/assault or any other crime, taking in goodwill what I have read it is likely that whatever happened (other witnesses claim to have seen Minsky decline the advances and the report does not claim any sexual encounter, "just" that Epstein instructed her to) Minsky did not use violence.

I actually believe I misrepresented RMS words here, as he truly only said that the violence implied by the word assault was unlikely.

(Also given that by other reports one of Epstein tactics was to lure guests into having sex with minors to blackmail them)
Indeed. Those who apologize must submit to a struggle session.
RMS is a kind of person that wouldn't allow such thing to stand. Luckily he'll be replaced by some faceless MIT/FSF person that will always do what the corporate overlords tell them.
JSON Resume needs more contributors, pretty badly. It's a great project, but it's languished a bit over the years and some tooling have broken. I encourage anyone who uses it to throw a little time into the codebase. It's not that hard/complex of a project.
The moon has ideal conditions for solar energy harvesting: no atmosphere, no weather...

Since Project Apollo in the 1970s it is known that all the materials needed for manufacturing photovoltaic cells are present in lunar rocks and dust. Not saying it is an easy engineering feat, but the raw materials are there.
Dude, Stallman has been spitting his bullshit to the world and we had no way to stop the vomit, coming out of universities. How many young people have wasted their youth following his ideas, reading his stuff, until they finally realized it was all shit.

So, yeah, now it's catching up to him, for something nobody in his right mind every does in a corporate environment: giving his opinion on the moral definition of rape. Fucking come on man, how can you defend this moron, who does that ?

You see yourself tomorrow, in charge of the education of students, writing around to your colleagues about what is or is not a rape, for all to record and copy paste to newspapers ? At least do it on skype and add a smiley...
The TV show is good, but not as good as the original TVGoHome listings:

http://www.tvgohome.com/0206-2000.html
My hunch is that it’s driven by the millennial generation entering the child rearing stage of life. The increased preference for urban environments was largely driven by millennials. But many of the things appealing about the city lose their luster when you stop being a single adult and now have a family to consider.

Housing goes from expensive to unaffordable when you can’t split the difference between roommates, and can’t justify living in a run down 1 bedroom closet anymore. Schools are often poor in the city, and the ones that aren’t are often very difficult to get into. Public transportation is great, until you have a child or a stroller, in which case you draw looks like you have the plague. Most of the amenities that make city life enjoyable as a young person become difficult or impossible to enjoy in the presence of children.

This isn’t necessarily the case for all cities, especially those outside the US. But for the most part, American cities are fundamentally broken for families, and as such are mostly playgrounds for the young, the rich, or those so poor they can’t leave and are confined to the corners of town where “urban life” isn’t as glamorous as is often sold. My desire for living in the city took a nosedive soon after having my first child.

It also probably isn’t entirely child driven. Even without kids, I think the 30+ stage of life is when many aspects of city life become less appealing. As you put it, city life is often accompanied by chronic low level stress, which eventually just gets old. Living in a city is great for a career, but at a certain point, careers start to calm down and the need for being in a urban center starts to die with it.
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See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20194376.
Perhaps most egregious are companies who profiteer from open source, without contributing back. Amazon comes to mind.
"She" is not a woman. I hadn't looked at pictures, but that's clearly the case. Coraline Emkhe is still a man, and will always be one. There's a difference between being unwilling to endorse someone else's mental illness and being a "transphobe".
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OSS is digital volunteerism. It seems a stretch to imply it's exploitation.
I've moved almost all my news reading to the various Bloomberg newsletters (of which Levine's is the best). They are fantastic, and free.

https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters
Concur, trying to get my company to switch. It's the best solution to all modern ci/cd and devops problems: deployment figured out, easy to configure stages, integrate with docker and run integration tests out of the box.
A point that I'm not seeing raised enough is that Stallman's current job is nowadays almost purely evangelisation and PR. He is a public figure.

In that context, fired is more than fair. His image being linked with pedophilia (on top of the other issues he has) makes him a really bad choice for the public face of a movement/foundation.

If he was, say, a lead engineer whose work was not tied to his image, we could have an argument - but that's quite clearly not the case.
in the scenario I was envisioning, the big rich company wants to get a paid account now that they need it but to do so they will have to go through a process to get it approved which could take a while.
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I think (mainstream) Reddit content is something completely different; more like big clumps of PR firms employed by corporations and lobbying groups bitbotting around with nation states, all fighting and agreeing with each other and trying to build false consensus. Source IP analysis there is probably pretty interesting.
The best situation is many independent people vetting code and new versions before it is used somewhere. I wrote this 7 years ago:

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=114
Gates is not forcing an American way of life or cultural takeover by pushing for lower infant mortality among other things. The values that Gates is a proponent of are pretty secular and universal- things such as equality, fairness, freedom, access to healthcare, etc. If you feel like your culture is irreparably destroyed by giving women more rights then your culture is objectively inhumane and should adapt.
I am not sure I'd go that far, but I want to point a thing out:

Back in the 90s, it was a running joke that if you were going backpacking, you should take along a 3' length of fiber optic cable. "If you get lost, just bury the fiber optic cable and ask the backhoe operator for a ride back to town."

In at least three programming-related communities I'm in, I have made a quip about "I think I'm gonna replace the 3' length of fiber optic cable in my backpacking gear with a short post about Go's garbage collector", and people have filled in "so if I get lost, I can just take the post out, and then ask pcwalton for a ride back to town".

I can't say whether or not the argument is made in good faith, but man, there sure is a lot of it.
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