skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth noting that (as far as I know) Stallman was not a paid employee of MIT, certainly not a professor or anything. He had an office because, I believe, Gerry Sussman (and probably others) thought he should have an office. He's listed as a "visiting scientist" on CSAIL's page: https://www.csail.mit.edu/person/richard-stallman He's around on the mailing list (mostly to reply to every mention of software with a question about its license and every website with a demand that it work without JavaScript) but he replies with his GNU address. `finger rms@csail.mit.edu` calls him a "Visitor" and says "Project: mail forwarding."

Source: was at MIT a decade ago, was on the CSAIL mailing list until I decided to actually start filtering mail last week (good timing me). Also he somewhat famously left MIT right before starting GNU to ensure MIT wouldn't own the copyrights, and it would be surprising/confusing if he rejoined.

(The cynic in me believes he's resigning because it's far more newsworthy to say "resigned from MIT" instead of "resigned from the FSF," especially given all the news headlines calling him "Famous MIT Computer Scientist," and it also has far less of an impact on his life or his goals than resigning from the FSF would.)
"there's no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated" - NOFX
Same. Teaching curious people respect and ethics for the outdoors, and passing on the things that make me feel most “alive” would be amazing.
Most of the machines that spread the outrage mob were running GNU/Linux or another Free OS. I'm not just being pointlessly obtuse - there is a deeper connection in that when people are given freedom, they don't necessarily just use it for noble purposes.

Sure, it can't really be said that the outrage rags and facebooks are Free Software per se - rather they are proprietary viral-outrage-generating machines even though they may be built on top of Free Software. But setting them up would have been a bit harder without Free Software, and having more investment on the line would have perhaps discouraged wanton slander.

Really I just think it's a novel juxtaposition - we've had plenty of time to come to terms with Free Software facilitating individualist mal-actions (eg child pornography), but facilitating social mal-actions is a newer thing thing to come to terms with.
> and you think my comment must be somehow tribal in nature.

Tribal in what way? And I said nothing of the sort. I have no "tribal" interest in Stallman's efforts or his beliefs. I think the man has done some fine things in terms of GPLv2, less so v3, but I'm certainly not an absolutist.

I genuinely didn't understand your comment, which you still haven't answered, yet you attack me for being "tribal".
Hosting terabytes of data on an S3 bucket where people would download 45TB per month ($0.023/GB == $1000+/month) sounds like a really expensive way to distribute your data to people...
This is, of course, absolute hogwash. If it were true Silicon Valley would have been built in a low tax, low regulation state. Blue state regulations and taxes are what enable technology companies, not the other way around.
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Honestly, I’m happy to live in a future where bankrolling the denial of other’s human rights is something that can cost you your job, even if you’re wealthy and powerful.

No one would have questioned him being forced to resign if he had financed an anti-miscegenation initiative. It’s just that hatred of LGBTQ people is still normalized to the extent that people think you should be “given a pass.”
Well, you asked whether I'm defending Stallman or Epstein.

The answer is, err, "not applicable"?
It’s even more when you factor in link local and private network ranges.
This is not a religious issue. As a matter of fact, Islam is pro-education regardless of gender. What we see from the likes of Taliban or AlQaeda and their likes is completely anti-Islamic in many ways.
No, from everything I read, you can often still get a security clearance.

See:

https://news.clearancejobs.com/2018/01/28/ever-questions-sf-...
6) End up on the receiving end of RICO charges.
I'm not sure where you got this idea.

Ad-blocking might hurt in some future with hypothetically high enough percentages of traffic.

Right now they make ads more effective (marginally). By self selection, a population with relatively low click-rates has removed themselves from having any money spent on them. This helps Google and Advertisers since right now, the volume of available impressions is plenty high, the name of the game is targeting better.

If anything, ad blockers just hurt select publishers who can potentially see a large volume of their potential ad traffic blocked.
Well ideally there'd be a common protocol for all assistants.

What I really want tho is transcription for more languages. Google has an API for that, just let people use it...
lol Same. I think going on a decade now. Have had the wifi working for a while now though.
Ubuntu, not Redhat.

And no, it seems they didn't. They haven't forced deep sleep, for example.
Heavier tires and wheels Re most certainly slower at normal speeds below 20mph in a routine stop and go environment like typical urban cycling.

But the real wisdom is about keping your tires overinflated if u eant whichever bike you hapoen ti have to br easiest.
90% of cyclists routinely ride unintentionally underinflated tires.
It came out this weekend that Stallman wrote that it was most plausible that the Epstein sexual partners were willing participants and the semantics of the word rape when used to refer to the children with whom Epstein had sexual relations in an email thread defending Epstein, Stallman also argued about the age of consent varying between different territories so not all the partners were below the age of consent where the alleged crimes occurred. Stallman also defended Marvin Minsky who went to Epstein events against victim accusations that Minsky was part of Epstein's trafficking ring.
You could configure buyer pays, if you wanted to.
> So you end up in this weird place where - those who really believe in the religious aspects of marriage have to be against gay marriage because it's literally "against the rules", it doesn't compile.

Huh? I think it's widely considered acceptable for a straight person to be against entering into a gay marriage themselves. Supporting government policy that prevents other people from doing so is a very different matter.
No one likes a quitter. ;-)

They'll have to pry the QWERTY keypad and headphone jack[1] from my cold, dead hands...or stop Android security updates.

[1] https://blackberrymobile.com/us/product/blackberry-key2/
Since I didn't see it elsewhere in this thread in a brief scan, this Vice article has some more context:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbm74x/computer-scientist...
They could help also to build/improve the OpenCollective[1] that is a completely free and open-source[2] alternative to Patreon, aiming mostly for the open-source projects.

[1] https://opencollective.com/

[2] https://github.com/opencollective/
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probably this:

> Epstein was accused of trafficking: bringing people long distances on false pretenses and then pressured them into sex or prostitution. He also reportedly raped some of those people. I believe those accusations, and I think he deserved to be imprisoned.

>Some of his victims were legally adult. Some were teenage minors. I don't think that makes any moral difference. I don't think rape is less wrong if the victim is over 16.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190903050208/https://stallman....
If it comes down to whether RMS's position at CSAIL amounted to a leadership position or not, I'd venture that it did. Professors have institutional power that everyone else on the CSAIL list who isn't one don't have. Someone who abuses their name and position to blast screeds like that, I can see why CSAIL might not want him around anymore.
Then your comment is a non-sequitur, and you seem unwilling to defend or explain it (either way).

edit: ok, so now I have some context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20990293

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6405929-091320191420...

Which after all this was what I was asking for. Jeezo.
Marriage has, since time immemorial, always been a contractual relationship. What you described is exactly what marriage is, there's no need to come up with another word or term when a perfectly good one already exists.
I don't think that distinction is precise enough for this. Sure soap is a necessity, but if you buy some premium fancy soap from P&G that had a lot of marketing budget contributing to its high cost rather than the supermarket brand plain soap, then plenty of that soap money was discretionary.
“My god” as Slavoj would say. This is an extreme example of orthodoxy gone wrong. If people aren’t even able to philosophically evaluate things and take opposing views to test their positions, we're in for some truly dogmatic times.

Just look at the state of comedy today. It’s absurd. Their jokes are taken as their actual real-life positions on things.
There are better ways to solve that problem. Different packages, visibility modifiers, using interfaces between modules, etc. Taking a little time to iron out a disciplined process for your team is so much better than using tcp/ip as your process and all the problems that brings.

If you can't trust your team to follow a process correctly, you're fucked in a way microservices can't save you from.
I loved it. I was so free. Unfortunately I had to go back to a smartphone in order to monitor security cameras and my Simplisafe alarm system at my new business. I wish I could go back.
For me, the exciting part of 5G is the connection density.

The estimated density for a 4G network is: 4,000 devices / km^2.

The estimated density for a 5G network is: 1,000,000 devices / km^2.

The density means we can scale up machine <-> machine interactions significantly, rather than focus on human <-> machine interactions that we have today.
The faculty members in question being Abelson and Sussman.
The discussion was around mobile IP connections. I am not sure if your calculation includes for example (just guessing!) other mobile carrier branded services using their network (MNVO[0]), non consumer (eg. IOT type or vehicular) mobile nodes, etc. I would trust this person implicitly as I used to work for them, they are an engineer not a salesperson and they are not known to extend the truth. While no information is infallible and perhaps they were wrong, given their position, however, I doubt it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_mobile_virt...

Edit: Seems my info was bad. Disappointing! Latest stats page 9 @ http://clients3.weblink.com.au/pdf/HTA/02127798.pdf and page 31 @ https://www.acma.gov.au/-/media/Research-and-Analysis/Report... They are indeed third (last!), though currently the fastest growing. Their MNVO base = 350K customers, total = just under 6M customers. Guess it shows how long I've been outta dodge :)
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Is it troubling because it's wrong or troubling because you don't like the answer? Is there evidence that teens willingly engaging in sex with an adult causes harm? As a society it seems we already accept this, we often have different laws like statutory rape for consenting participants.

The implication here seems to be that just because he thinks there is no harm he is endorsing it as ok, that is getting dangerously close to straw-man territory.
So what constitutes "real intellectualism" to you? What subjects or presentations are fit for "genuine" intellectual curiosity, which are limited to "groupies and scenesters"? Either you're being snobbish yourself, or you're doing exactly what anti-intellectuals have always done to cast intellectualism of any kind into disrepute.
NR is the only 5G protocol (aside from Verizon's abortive proprietary 5G TF), but it couldn't hurt to at least specify if the spectrum being used is sub-6 or mmWave. This factor (700--3500 Mhz vs 26, 28, 39 GHz) is going to have the largest impact by far on the experience in terms of the bandwidth/coverage tradeoff.

When it comes to discussing these two distinct clusters of spectrum, the difference is so stark that we might as well be talking about different protocols.

5G and 5G pro?...
orders on both sides is perfectly normal market making.

Spoofing is an order that you want at the tightest level, then a bunch of orders that you don't, on the other side, at levels further back than the tightest level to inflate the volume in total. Buy at level 1, sells at levels 3,4 & 5 where you never had any intention of selling. It's a problematic defintion, and enforcement etc. I don't claim to be an expert on this, fwiw having never spoofed an order and not being a trader.
To be exceedingly frank, I'm more interested in the story of how these two people managed to decide they wanted to get married when from the very outset he's clearly a robot pretending to be a human and she's emotionally malnourished. Did he think she would just "get over it"? Did she think marrying him would turn him into a totally different person?
There's some less direct symbiotic benefits too, like the LibrePlanet has been at the MIT Stata Center for a couple years (at least). These sorts of things are facilitated by his role, for sure. I hope well-meaning conferences like that don't get disrupted by his resignation.
Here is what i want to shop by on amazon:

* kitchen

* wash

* garage

—-

Basically, id like to setup a standard or select a standard product lineup and say “refill my kitchen”

“Refill my bathroom set”

“Refill my washing supplies”

Etc...

And you could see the averaged products used to supply each area of the home...

This goes in line with a previous YC application i had submitted which was called “standard pantry”

The idea was that a pantry cabinet would be delivered to you, with ingredients and recipes on how to make various healthy dishes based on the whole pantry of ingredients. The goal being to raise nutritional health, especially among lower income.

And with a smart pantry it would give you recipe ideasbased on what you have and know what ingredients you lack and auto order

Like a netflix for healthy food...

YC hated it...
Perhaps this project will receive a grant then to help it improve?
> LockpickingLawyer on youtube has done reviews on several Amazon's Choice locks and safes and they've all been abysmal borderline fraudulent products.

So basically Amazon's Choice locks are about the same as 95% of consumer locks on the market.
A lot of outsiders can agree that American tech has been vibrant, but what about America outside of tech? Do the other parts of American society smell intellectually vibrant? Other jobs outside of tech appear extremely de-skilled, so I wonder what motivation a person has for furthering their mind -- to impress their peers?

Modern thinking on financial optimization has destroyed the spirit of work.
I used to work for HP and someone explained to me a select few companies got /8's when the internet was still young. HP got one, Compaq had one which HP now also owns. I was basically told if you had a /8 you didn't give it up because of how valuable and rare they now are (this was around 2010, too). GE, Kodak, Apple, and Microsoft were a few other names that came up in that discussion as well.
You won't go onto FTTP, they will use the Telstra HFC cable and you just get a different modem. Most of the drop-out problems I think are fixed.

The less bandwidth and paying more are only due to stupid pricing models from the infrastructure provider (NBN), for anybody who isn't familiar with the system. There's no technical reason for it in 60% of the country. They could upgrade anybody in the FTTP footprint to gigabit this afternoon and anybody in the HFC footprint to at least 250 or 300Mbps but are limiting everybody mostly to 100Mbps (but most people are on lower speeds) just because they want to gouge providers for bandwidth. The artificial limitations created by these pricing models also mean that a lot of providers skimp on buying the necessary bandwidth, so for most providers (there are only a few good ones) there are unnecessary slow-downs at peak times as the artificially limited bandwidth gets congested. It's madness!

The rest is unfortunately served by satellite, FTTN or FTTC that aren't able to deliver the speeds, or for the fixed wireless footprint it is also limited, but to a large degree only because the LNP government shelved the planned backhaul upgrades to save some money, so there are all these wireless towers that are served by low-speed microwave backhaul. The plan had been to upgrade any tower to fibre backhaul once the microwave backhaul reached a certain level of utilisation, before it was fully congested. That now doesn't happen, so those users just have to deal with speeds dropping significantly at peak times.
> there's such a shortage of top talent domestically in the USA

>> The best engineers I've worked with (by far) have been US-educated

GP's statement does not preclude your experience. For example, all US engineers could have great expertise but there could be only a few of them.
Weird, happens to me all the time, reaching for things on my desk, grabbing the laptop, resting my hand in the slightly wrong place.
not defending the term or the pharma behavior, but pseudo can also mean 'similar to' or 'having the appearance of', especially in an academic context
It’s a natural consequence of thinking ideologically rather than rationally. You don’t care about objectivity, only about what supports or attacks your ideology.
Everything depends on context, but I don't think microservices are the best solution. I think in nearly every case there is an easier way to address those problems.
No, I could have been more clear for sure. I can see how you read it that way.

Also fwiw my reply should have been "I would be interested to know," not "I would be interesting." Although maybe I would be more interesting too, if I could supply that information...
This feels like spending a hundred million dollars to recreate Beenz.
When you started working on this full time was there enough profit to pay yourself anything? How did you come to make the decision to work full time on it?
In an ideal world, sure. But it's silly to pretend that a marriage is not also full of religious meaning and significance to many.
To be fair to Stallman though, he later recanted on those positions. I can't remember the exact post but he said something along the lines of how someone explained to him how much pedophilia harms children and so he has since recanted his position and now believes pedophilia is wrong and harmful.

Also he was making the statements in the context of having read this article from the Guardian which says petty much the same thing:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/jan/03/paedophilia-...

From a scientific perspective, the level of harm caused by sex with minors and even the classification of pedophilia is something we are still gathering evidence on. Does that mean it doesn't harm children - absolutely not, of course it's harmful. However, it's still fair to make the point that we don't have a scientific case for it yet.

There's a lot I don't agree with about Stallman, but I do appreciate his contributions to computing and freedom - and I certainly don't approve of this new trend towards social media mob justice.

That injustice of this social media mob justice can be seen in the fact that all Stallman's historical statements from many years, even ones that he has recanted, can be taken out of context and used against him.

Worse, it's completely without reason. I mean there were a group of US prosecutors that characterized Epstein's child victims as prostitutes to justify releasing him so that he could continue raping children. Why are we going after MIT scientists instead of those prosecutors and Epstien's associates. I think the reason is because there was a popular NY Times article that focused on MIT rather than the US prosecution service and Epstein's rich powerful friends like Trump and Clinton. These mob events aren't based on reflection, they're based on whim and whatever the media (consisting of companies some of which are owned by Epstein cohorts) and some random influencers on twitter are saying.
Your numbers are way off:

* The US is still 70+% white: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_Unit...

* The number of undocumented immigrants is much lower than that: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/us/illegal-immigrants-pop...
The way I see it, the fight for gay marriage cannot be looked at without historical context. In many countries for a long time gay relationships were illegal. Punishable by jail or worse. Gay marriage is simply a step on a long road towards legalizing gay relationships. It doesn't matter what it would be called, historically gay people would not have been allowed to participate.
"since time immemorial"

irrelevant. not all contracts are sanctioned or defined by the state. the problem is that christians see the state as sanctioning their religious institution, and now, perverting it. the solution is to have the state get out of the business of sanctioning it.
It was only for about 2 years during the V10 and G4. I'm still using a V20 and it has not bootloop, and is probably effected by it. I did have my G4 bootloop and they did fix it out of warranty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_smartphone_bootloop_issues
I don’t always want to carry around an audio interface, though I do have several.
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There isn't a shortage of top talent domestically in the USA. US tech companies import workers so they can drive down wages.

This isn't controversial and it's not xenophobic. The NYT has many op-eds covering this issue:

1. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/06/us/outsourcin...

2. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/15/opinion/workers-betrayed-...

See also the criticisms on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#Criticisms_of_the_pr...
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Is this the lawyer that made the legal threat?
https://www.fechner-legal.de/en/robert-fechner/

Looks like copyright harassment cases is one of their specialities.
https://www.fechner-legal.de/en/copyright-law/
What the hell are you talking about? What intellectual level? Stallman is quoted to have said:

Stallman wrote that “the most plausible scenario” for Giuffre’s accusations was that she was, in actuality, “entirely willing.”

How is that a rational, defensible statement in any terms?
Mozilla is master of content marketing, PR and creating buzz. If they just spent their energy into building the best browser.
It is up to the government to create rules that are clearly defined and not arbitrary and capricious as the 5th amendment dictates. The 14th amendment was found to retroactively apply the bill of rights to all government entities and it will have taken centuries for this standard to be the default way governments interact with their people.

The side effect of this is that clear rules create the way to circumvent them.

When irreconcilable the courts are how this has to be resolved, and I believe what I wrote is a factor in that argument as municipal governments regulations reactionary based on a the sentiments of a very small number of people.
I meant the docs UI, the content is the same but the interface is weak. Good to know there us a new version coming
Yeah but Stripe doesn’t get to keep most of those fees - it’s mostly interchange which goes to Visa which is then distributed to the issuing bank of the credit card
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