skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But there's a pretty wide gap between "oh I'll just move this allocation point out of a loop" and "oh I wrote a bunch of unnatural code".

Here's just one example: The Go compiler judges that parameters to indirect calls such as interface method calls as escaping. So in Go if you don't want to allocate you have no choice other than to avoid interfaces. But Go heavily encourages the use of interfaces, especially in the standard library.

In C, C++, and Rust, on the other hand, you can use indirect calls without allocating, because the language guarantees the escaping behavior. This is a significant difference.
"When the forest is chopped down,

the chips fly"

--Joseph Stalin
We shall not talk about it due to the connotations of its name, but rest assured those responsible have been liquidated.
His comments were disgusting. There's no room for misunderstanding here. If you have sex with an underage sex slave, it is assault. Inarguable. But he tried to argue that.

Good riddance.
As someone living in SF, I don’t think anyone in SF or SV would ever consider WeWork to be a “Silicon Valley” company in the same way that Uber or Twitter or Slack is.

The company has 0 tech brand among employees (how many ex-FB or ex-Google engineers work there?) and outside of Benchmark’s early round none of the VCs are SV-based.

Point is the media is making this out to be an indictment on some SV tech bubble but people in SV are looking at this from the outside like everyone else.
"Brilliant asshole" was not intended as a compliment. MIT should have dissociated with Stallman decades ago.
It is rather hard to support his statement of his "I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing."
Demanding the same standard of evidence we demand in court and science to disrupt human power structures helps those with power retain it and use it against those who have less power.

Also what he said is fully public, so I don't understand what you, or he, is objecting to.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20951578
> the disaster of the nbn was created by the left, and made worse by the right

The left proposed an NBN based on 'fiber to the home' technology.

The right threw out that plan and replaced it with 'fiber to the node and copper to the home' technology.

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. But being fiber based it would at least have been future proofed.

However, now that the most of the money has been spent and the NBN copper system is nearing completion, we are seeing that the NBN as it now stands is a total disaster.

It is already obsolete before it is complete.
I think this is general a pretty good argument, and in good faith, but I can't help but think that at some point power users and developers become a leading indicator.

Poor longevity and rising prices and useless or missing features wont result in a slow decline in sales -- the momentum will keep carrying things until some tipping point when complete disconnection from the market makes things get ugly.

Developers and creatives were never the major customers of Apple gear, but in the mid-to late 2000s when things started to pick up they were great evangelists. I don't think it's a good look when those people are vocally saying they're going to switch.
Hey I remember you! Great to hear from you again. Awesome that you are into Laravel. Feel free to ping me on jv at vip dot ie let's chat and catch up :)
it's not out of context. you can read his own posts.
Or say things like, "had 90% of their CPU available for twiddling their digital thumbs". CPU usage is irrelevant if all your processes are blocked on i/o.
HTTP/3 spin bit [pdf]
I have this Umidigi S3 Pro and it takes great pictures.
I agree but are you saying that if it was a tech company, it would be worth the 48 billion? Also, is it THAT much different from AirBnB that is considered a tech company? What 'tech' does AirBnB offer that qualify it is a tech company?
>Again, this mailing list has undergraduate students on it. It is likely some of them are “18 years old or 17”.

What a horribly asinine point. If you’re an undergraduate student and unable to deal with uncomfortable opinions, you are too immature to be a university student. The further infantilization of college students, and worse, college staff, never ceases to amaze me.
Get rid of the Macbook if you want to run Linux. Without OS X there isn't any real point to it.

Dell and friends do much better job at reliability.
That second one was an off the deep end rant.

1. It totally ignores the fact that it's possible to be highly respectable for some things and not for other things. Stallman has always been a jerk, but he's also always been trying to fight the good fight. Washington had slaves, that doesn't mean we should hate him.

2. You don't get to call out people for indicating that men are better at some things, and then point out that women are better at some things. Either you're allowed to believe in differences based on sex or you aren't.

I've never been a big fan of Stallman because I think he's a little to far into the realm of zealot. However, he is good for society as a whole because, in general, he's fighting for the right things. I don't think it's right to condemn him, throw the baby out with the bath water, because he's an idiot about some things.
> Scholars have proposed various theories about the carvings' meaning. Svetlana Savchenko, a researcher at the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum, suggested that the decoration tells the creation myth those who carved it believed in. Other researchers at the museum have suggested that the markings could have served as a navigational aid or map. Professor Mikhail Zhilin, an archaeologist at the Institute of Archaeology in Moscow, guessed that the statue could depict mythological creatures such as forest spirits. Archeologist Peter Vang Peterson, of the National Museum of Denmark, speculated that the idol could serve as a warning not to enter a dangerous area.

So are they just literally making things up? This reminds me of Motel of the Mysteries. http://sultanaeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Motel...
Mirror, since the site is having problems: http://archive.is/h48kp
I'm sorry, did you read his blog post? It was disgusting. He was trying to argue the subtleties of child rape. There are no subtleties. Minor's cannot consent.
The real information is that Apple is downloading them. Why would they care about granularity?
What a true unicorn.
Apple isn't gods.

A lot of time companies make shitty products and then refuse to back down on it. Apple has done it in the past and this is just another example of it.
Knowing how stubborn and aloof Richard tends to be, it is a huge surprise that this has happened at all, let alone so quickly. I can only imagine there was an immense amount of pressure from the board, partner projects, and sponsors.
That'll get them them Apple's attention pretty quickly I'd assume.
I have no doubt there will be one of these incidents where the mob mentality that is out for blood leads to catastrophic consequences. I have a hunch that perhaps then people will approach these situations with at least a bit of caution. The guy messed up, but it does not change his contributions. When is his punishment going to be seemed sufficient?
Yeah, his comments were absolutely disgusting. People here are acting like the media is railroading him. No, he was quite literally defending child rape.
For what it's worth he retracted that statement. https://www.stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_Septe...
Offhand, I don't know. I believe the same is probably true of the general public discussing the actual criminal investigation / prosecution(???) that RMS was commenting on.

What I was suggesting is that there are plausible reasons someone might find themselves on such an island; which seem more realistic if those involved are rich elite who lure 'loose' individuals down with warm sandy beaches and cold drinks.

My take on the full RMS text in question is that they were (probably biased but) pointing out that they believed in a friend being a good person and thus the generic case I called Scenario B being the one that they believed was likely.

As I lack the facts to properly make a judgement on the issue I can only speculate about what //might// have happened, and hope that those who should be reaching a judgement gather all the possible facts and prove those who are guilty as such, without making more victims out of others tricked or entrapped by the actual wrong-doers.
>Regardless of what low regard the man might be held as a person, he's being persecuted for having expressing ideas, demanding proof of claims, advocating for objective standards, and asking questions. These are all hallmarks of scientific inquiry.

Defending the rape of trafficked children is not a "hallmark of scientific inquiry".
To the person with the "dead" reply musing about Stephen Conroy being a luddite—I wrote that April fools parody article. Yes, Conroy started off as an embarrassing luddite __BUT__ unlike the luddites that came before him, he improved. He learned. He grew. He surrounded himself with smart, experienced and informed people, and he learned from them. By the time he departed that role he had morphed into perhaps the best communications ministers in recent Australian history.

---------

Whereas you can watch the moment of television where all respect I had for Malcolm Turnbull crashed into the floor (fast forward to the 17 minute mark and watch for about one minute):

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-12/nbn-debate/4882232

"Anthony said that fibre to the premises can deliver one gigabit per second, 1000 megs, and you're quite right, it can. Do you know what it would cost to have a guaranteed one gig' service? At least $20,000 a month."

So basically Turnbull used a deceptive truth (the cost of a high speed service with dedicated guaranteed backhaul) to blatantly and intentionally lie about the cost of gigabit services that would be sold to 99.9% of NBN-connected customers. The fact that he knew enough to concoct this deception made me realise that he wasn't just as bad as the rest of them, he's worse. He used his knowledge and intelligence to cleverly and carefully craft a statement that's blatantly false yet defensible as technically true if he were caught out. Nobody is that clever by accident.
Autism is a spectrum (or a ballpark): http://pseudoexpertise.com/ch-7.pdf
Jeepers, I know your comment is coming from an electronic music mindset, but to those who learned audio engineering by setting up drum kits, amplifiers, pianos and mic'ing them by hand are probably having a bit of a chuckle at your "hardware" comment.

No malintention meant here, and as far as electronic instruments go I agree with what you're saying, I just know several drummers and guitar players who would by quite incensed by the comparison with their instruments to rotary phones.
I suppose this extremely charitable reading is possible, but it still doesn't exonerate Minsky. Not only did he fail to confirm she was of age ("I never asked how old she was" is not a defense), he maintained professional and academic ties with someone who (as far as he supposedly knew) was sending extremely young prostitutes to him and his peers.

Given that even the Virgin Islands locals took to calling it "Pedophile Island," it's a pretty good guess that most of the people who went to the parties there had at least an inkling of their true nature. But no-strings-attached money (or worse, other "favors") were a powerful motivator to look the other way.
> "Epstein's island wasn't some stereotypical villain lair where anyone who steps foot on it must be up to no good."

This isn't applicable to the specific case of Minsky, but I think that ambiguity evaporates after Epstein's first conviction.
I bought a few moto g since 1st gen. My moto G3 is still operating fine even after years of mild abuse (regular tiny drops, sometimes high drops, sand beaches, heat).

Very high build quality considering the price even brand new.

I even bought a 2nd hand G5+ because I thought the G3 was about to die.. but it didn't. I wonder if the 4, 5, 6 .. are as sturdy.
I'm paying for a phone that lasts 4-5 years (I'm on my 3rd iphone since the original, probably not going to buy another this year) and is still way nicer to use than a moto g (which is admittedly a great budget phone).
Minsky arranged a second conference with Epstein, on Epstein's private island in 2011 [1].

What sources were you using that implied Minsky's contact with Epstein stopped 10 years before that?

[1] https://www.pr.com/press-release/383199
It's because DoH can't be blocked without breaking the internet. I don't understand the benefit to Mozilla, but pushing HTTPS + DoH + ESNI + a handful of huge CDN IPs guarantees the death of ad blockers.

The biggest DNS servers for application level DoH are going to be run by ad companies and the future of tracking is via DNS (over HTTPS) queries.
Again, that benchmark isn't a benchmark of garbage collection; it's a whole-program benchmark.

There's plenty of empirical evidence—a wealth of papers dating back to the 80s—that generational GC provides better throughput than non-generational GC on most applications. I'd be extremely surprised if a properly-implemented generational GC with bump allocation in the nursery wouldn't improve the performance of Go's GC by trading off a small amount of latency for increased throughput. The reason why you won't see a benchmark like that for Go is that nobody has implemented such a collector for Go.
From https://llvm.org/foundation/relicensing/LICENSE.txt

--- LLVM Exceptions to the Apache 2.0 License ----

As an exception, if, as a result of your compiling your source code, portions
of this Software are embedded into an Object form of such source code, you
may redistribute such embedded portions in such Object form without complying
with the conditions of Sections 4(a), 4(b) and 4(d) of the License.

In addition, if you combine or link compiled forms of this Software with
software that is licensed under the GPLv2 ("Combined Software") and if a
court of competent jurisdiction determines that the patent provision (Section
3), the indemnity provision (Section 9) or other Section of the License
conflicts with the conditions of the GPLv2, you may retroactively and
prospectively choose to deem waived or otherwise exclude such Section(s) of
the License, but only in their entirety and only with respect to the Combined
Software.
That's no clear in any way that a HK newspaper has to pass info to the communist party. Separate legal system. Hence the protest about an "extradition" law
My experience differs from yours. Most, if not all of my e-books have been PDF. They work fine, and look absolutely great both on my PC, and my e-book reader. Epub and mobi on the other hand are horrible for medical books, for one.

Most importantly, my point is being ignored. I could have used epub instead as an example. It is irrelevant to the point I was making. I am not interested in a war over e-book formats.
I believe it. I mean, he's the same guy who picked something off his foot and ate it[0]. He clearly doesn't understand or care about behaving in a socially acceptable way.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67KtxG_0DVo#t=1m58s
In my undergrad years, if the campus police got a panicky parent call, they'd send an officer to the computer club to ask us to finger every host on the campus.
If Stallman's email made anyone feel 'unsafe', either that person has serious mental issues for such they should seek therapy, or they are pretending/self-generating these emotions as a way of gaining political leverage and power.

In fact, your message here makes me feel unsafe right now. Something needs to be done, call the mods.
Even if the person who commited the crime had no knowledge that the other party was coerced? Why are they at fault because they were lied to and tricked into commiting a crime?
Stallman wrote:
"We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates."

Here's the Vice headline (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9ke3ke/famed-computer-sci...):
Famed Computer Scientist Richard Stallman Described Epstein Victims As 'Entirely Willing'
(HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20965319 )

New York Post (https://nypost.com/2019/09/14/mit-scientist-says-epstein-vic...): "MIT scientist says Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre was ‘entirely willing’: report"

Fox News (https://www.foxnews.com/us/mit-professor-jeffrey-epstein-ass...): "MIT scientist defended Jeffrey Epstein associate in leaked emails, claimed victims were ‘entirely willing’"

These headlines do not match what Stallman wrote. They wrote awful words, and put them in his mouth, in order to support a narrative in which he said something which he didn't. That's not okay.
I think what you're missing is that discretionary spending is not all spending, and marketing budgets are a percentage of all spending. When I go to CNN.com right now, I see ads for Tide pods and Toyota SUVs. That ad spend came from our supermarket and car payments, which you can't redirect to tipping websites unless you want to stop eating and driving to work.

My argument is basically that no web monetization plan that involves redirecting some of our discretionary spending towards paying websites can make up for the advertising revenue they currently get, because that ad revenue is funded by not only a portion of our discretionary spending, but a portion of ALL our spending, and the non-discretionary portion is much larger. Tide and Toyota are always going to have more money to spend on advertising than Bobby and Jill have the discretion to spend on sponsoring websites.
New Website POC Linking Blue Collars with Do-It Yourselfers
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Looking for some users to take a look and give any feedback. There is no cost of course.
The concept is Fixrl.com; which is an online social network connecting home owners, car owners, potential clients and do-it-yourself'ers with all kinds of handyworkers like plumbers, carpenters, mechanics, electricians, general handymen and construction.

Through Fixrly anyone can ask a question for free, and handyworkers can answer those questions for free. As we continue to build out the site, a potential customer can also search in their area for a handyman they want to hire. Handyworkers will gain points and achievements and level up their profile both in contributor level and with an overall score that they can use in their own marketing. Eventually the profit side would be through advertisements and pay-per-click through our search function.

Right now we are just trying to get some users signed up and any feedback we can get so we can take the concept to investors.
No one is asking you to support his statement. No one agrees with someone else on every issue. I don't agree with him either.

The important thing is to agree on the issue at hand: software.
Throw this guy under a bus and force him to resign, but accidentally accepting donations from a child trafficker and then accidentally writing him a thank you letter is just normal mistakes for staff at prestigious technology schools. Bravo academia. So sophisticated.
Oh and good on the neoliberal media establishment for memory-holing the sex trafficking ring established by billionaires, but keeping the pressure up on some guy who just commented. Absolute hypocrisy. The people running things are abject trash.
He does it using his alternative to singular they: "Through personal conversations in recent years, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per psychologically." Doesn't really seem sincere when he's grinding another axe at the same time. https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html

Another variant of his invented nomenclature besides per is perse which I'd rather not be called. It sounds like a child of purse and hearse.
I know a lot of people who's actions, quirks, opinions and beliefs are unique. Stallman is the only person I've ever known to eat toe-cheese, let alone do it in public. The fact that other neuroatypical people I know don't eat their toe cheese does not suggest to me that eating toe cheese isn't behavior attributable to neuroatypicality.
I could imagine:

Oh, shit.. I have "How to trick yourself into thinking overpriced prestige consumer goods are worth it: 101" with Mr. Conner. That guy is a pervert.
He’s being forced to resign from an advocacy organization for being a shithead who defends child rape. It sets the precedent that you can’t defend reprehensible acts and still be considered a community leader. We are all better off for it.
> how many ex-FB or ex-Google engineers work there?

This sounds like an awful metric.
This is very sad that the leader of the FSF took such actions. We benefited from his insights and advocacy on software, but the defense of Epstein, who essentially had a child abuse production line and defense of pedophilia is not something I can support and it is proper that someone new takes over.

Stallman's views were a variety of American libertarianism. While there are a few good points within that tradition regarding personal freedom, it's kind of sad that he carried some of the other baggage with his obsession with age of consent laws.
I don't fully understand the point you are trying to make. At the end of the day, Stallman is trying whitewash Minsky's responsibility by trying to pretend that a 70-something year old man didn't know that the underage girl at convicted Jeffrey Epstein's private island wasn't actually "entirely willing".

In other words, he's taking us on this garbage thought experiment that Minsky is somehow an innocent bystander. To even arrive at that talking point is asinine.
In addition to the sibling comments, I use Join by joaoapps on my Android to approximate what you do with my Mac. I am able to push screenshots and photos to immediately download on my Mac, send SMS from my Mac, and automatically send my clipboard to/from my devices. It's a very powerful app that I couldn't live without and would meet a lot of your needs.
I got a phone call from them recently. Not automated. Asking "how the experience has been". I wonder if they're increasingly panicking. I ordered less than a handful of boxes in the past few years with them.
Happens to me whenever I hit the number keys just below the touch bar, unless I am very careful. I suspect it is mostly a matter of hand shape.
People: go read his email and make up your own mind about whether the punishment is proportionate to the crime.

(And take a few minutes to be appalled at the quality of the arguments for that particular witch hunt.)
I'm a developer also. I have no issues with the Touch Bar. I kind of like it. I never used the F keys anyway. I mapped my escape key to caps lock. I view it as the next iteration or evolution of the basic fingerprint reader on many PC laptops and notebooks.

I am more surprised by the hatred for it. It's extremely easily hackable [0] [1] and I was thinking all sorts of people would up with interesting ideas and uses for it over time.

[0] https://github.com/zakrid/awesome-touchbar

[1] https://github.com/erikolsson/Touch-Bar-Lemmings