skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With our current or even predicted technology (i.e. no FTL), we basically would have solved the "living in space indefinitively" problem first.

So even a Venus like planet would be an very interesting target, flush with easily extractible resources.
Thoughts on Running a Collegiate Cybersecurity Club
Serverless Next.js – Run Next.js in AWS Lambda Edge
Your barriers to leaving become much higher when you're staying at home, haven't worked in years, and have a family. Thinking otherwise is dense.

I personally know people who are in relationships with horrendous people because they have no exit strategies. This is a common thing people talk about in stay at home circles.
I think that permits should only be used sparingly at National Parks. For a lot of people, their only exposure to the outdoors comes from "that one family out west trip". If we want people to pressure politicians to protect public lands, the more people that feel a connection to those public lands the better.

I view National Parks as a sacrificial public land. Let them be overly crowded in order to keep all the amazing BLM, state parks, national forests/prairies, etc... special.
A matchbox sized neutron-star would weigh 3 billion tons.
https://clearlyexplained.com/neutron-stars/index.html
I think it’s at geostationary orbit height.
I'd say they just ran a regression on the variables without any interactions between gender and other variables. It seems more likely than them trying to make an argument about equal struggles.
There was actually an article on HN recently about just this: executives who retained their position or high status (regardless of employer) despite "scandal" did not admit fault. Those that did never recovered.
I wonder why on Earth did RMS embark in such a dangerous discussion. In modern times talking about those topics is just like Wile E. Coyote throwing a dozen boomerangs at the roadrunner thinking he won't be hit back by some of them.

He should have thought carefully about that: no matter if one is right or wrong, talking about that stuff in public will expose an individual to remotely controllable public anger in a way that will harm all other good stuff he does through ad-hominem attacks ("he has such opinions about rape, therefore his software sucks as do his licensing model and his opinions on closed source").
I for one still think he's a kind of good extremist the IT world badly needs, I agree at least on principle with most of his ideas and recall listening to him at a conference then handshaking him about two decades ago.
Still... yeah, it was stupid from him to comment on such sensitive topics; this could harm the Free Software world in many ways, regardless of him being right or wrong, and probably someone will attempt to use that weapon.
You could use Airpods + Siri + Notes.app for that.
If it means rapey jerks shut up, bring it on.
Is there a good way to acquire all the headers and libraries available to MSVC on windows (MSVC, Windows SDK, ...) for use with clang-cl on Linux?

Last time I had to resort to copying the files from an installation on a Windows machine (which is not very convenient).
Wonder how fast the 'elevator cart' would be able to move. Considering that it takes a rocket several days to reach the moon.
Does anyone with kids not do this?. School rankings are front and center when searching for homes to buy.
You're right, $17B (or more, or dissolving the company) would start to actually spark off some real change in attitudes towards infosec among executives, instead of just continuing the status quo with this non-enforcement action.

The strangest part of this ordeal was when that guy from the FTC was encouraging consumers to take the monitoring on Equifax's request.

They're not even pretending to be regulated anymore, they just come out and tell the government what to say.

The senate report on this hack goes into lots of technical detail, savaging Equifax for their gross incompetence and negligence beat by beat: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/FINAL%20Equifax%2...

Despite all this provable negligence and incompetence all laid out in writing for everyone to see they still suffered zero real consequences. This is going to keep happening over and over and over again until we decide it's unacceptable.
from teh article: "I would also like to clarify that in some headlines, including this Daily Beast one, Stallman is said to have defended Epstein, which is not technically true. Rather, Stallman was defending Marvin Minsky. I directly emailed and corrected reporters who used that language if I myself had given them any comments or information. I say this to show that I never intended to “inflate” anything, because there was absolutely no need to."

Have you actually read it?
You're absolutely right. It's the reason we always use devpi for python mirrors, and firewall off CI.

Ultimately you need to be able to rebuild the product when upstream goes poof.
Big Tech Meets Its Pecora Commission: Google's Toughest Opponent Is Now Congress
How does this work? Is it the centrifugal force?
I'm afraid I've lost the metaphor, what's the "right opinion" about pedophilia?
There is a huge difference between an organization saying they no longer want you as their leader and a government trying and imprisoning someone.
Why did it take him takes to come the the conclusion that sexually abusing children is wrong? And why are you defending that?
Then it would be nice if he used the standard legal definition of "sexual assault" rather than use his own definition.

34 U.S. Code § 12291 (29) - "The term “sexual assault” means any nonconsensual sexual act proscribed by Federal, tribal, or State law, including when the victim lacks capacity to consent." - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/34/12291#a_27 . It does not require 'force or violence', as Stallman implies.

Stallman stated: "Whatever conduct you want to criticize, you should describe it with a specific term that avoids moral vagueness about the nature of the
criticism."

How is "sexual assault" not the specific term for sex with a coerced minor? Where is the moral vagueness in the accusation?
WeWork Parent Postpones IPO
A space elevator is a device that lifts things to space along a static cable. A space elevator on Earth lifts things to outside of Earth's orbit. A space elevator on Mars lifts things to outside of Martian orbit. And a space elevator on the moon lifts things outside of lunar orbit. This definitely is a space elevator by any definition of said technology.
I don't really understand how it can stay at geostationary orbit height without being at geostationary orbit speed. Can someone explain?
Other end is not 'in geostationary orbit' it's at the same height from the earth as earth's geostationary orbit.
>He never suggested though that an old man having sex with a 14 years old girl was an ok thing.

Suggested? No, it was literally his outspoken opinion which he apparently held until last week.

https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...

> Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it.

>Through personal conversations in recent years, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that. I am grateful for the conversations that enabled me to understand why.

The guy is 66 years old. I can't even understand how he held the job he had, the rules really are different for famous people.
Blackstone Group and KKR try to derail surprise healthcare billing law
It wasn't a dot-com, and he let it expire after a year. He (also) goes for $company-criticism.ccTLD etc. whatever he can get his hands on that he thinks he can rank for your company name. That's why I said similar case. The legally-not-slander stopped because we made him work to keep it on the first page on SERPs.

I just checked his blog/authority site and he does exactly the same thing to others now. Apparently he won a court case where he did this to a government agency and his current target seems to be a cleaning company that took his parking spot once.
Thank you for the information. There's obviously a lot more I need to understand regarding crypto, but you helped :)
I know its so disgusting, all these bigots, probably spilling over from The Donald. Remember when Reddit used to be a safe space from these racists, now they're on HN too! What i would give to be safe from all the bad thoughts and ideas which hurt my feels.
> I wish somebody would have simply advised him not to speak on such matters because nothing good could become of it

Everything good that came out of RMS is exactly because he didn't listen to those advising him to stay quiet.
I didn't read the parent's post as "excusing" Stallman at all.

I certainly would not excuse him! Nor should anybody else!

But given his stature, it's surely worth discussing and understanding him. And any attempt to do that would certainly have to include his famously black-and-white and self-described borderline autistic thinking.

Pointing out that somebody is austistic (or left-handed, or that they have psoriasis, or dyslexic, or seven feet tall, or...) and thinking about how that may affect their actions isn't excuse-making. It is empathy. It is critical thinking.
It would be an issue if you expect it to always end up to the same place, but if you don't care where the elevator ends on the Earth side, because you know it will be in your area at regular intervals, it can be dealt with.

I'm not sure why they picked geostationnary orbit distance if they don't look for locked location though, it seems the risk of colliding with objects would be greater at this height
I think it's pretty disingenuous to equate how political paintings are to how political technology is.
It would be sugar, obviously. A solar system sized Cotton Candy Cloud. Hey, I didn't start this sweet analogy.
It's a bigger investment I would say, but once you build a very well defined api structure and frontend components, things start getting very fast to develop.
Also you get the added benefit of completely separate front and backend logic which is very useful in a multi developer environment.
Good point, those are private, but I go in with the paper version of their review in that case and they sign a document at the end which states we discussed everything in the document during the meeting.
> Pay a monthly access fee and have micro payments go to the creators based on usage.

That's exactly how Brave Browser works.
Most of the time the rocket isn't firing - you have a few minutes of burn to change your delta v, then you just gotta sit and wait before decelerating into orbit (or landing). Assuming the cart was attached to a powered cable you could in theory constantly accelerate until half way, then constantly decelerate. Possibly this would allow you to make the trip faster (unless you had humans on board, then you're probably stuck with short accelerating bursts).
Well it's anchored on the moon at the other side
The paper uses some pretty exotic materials. The one with the lowest density has a strength-to-weight ratio only 8 times that of steel...
This is completely expected behavior from two firms that have been found to "use out-of-network billing to significantly raise the amounts they are paid." [0]

[0] https://www.nber.org/papers/w23623.pdf

Luckily congress is trying to fight back:
https://energycommerce.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/pal...
The linked paper does the math, and suggests Kevlar and Dyneema are strong enough. That said, moon gravity is only 1/7th that of earth.
The same or worse, which is fine, as it causes gridlock. The last thing I want is single party control.
I did, and that is true but not what I am talking about. The claim is about the victim's willingness, not who RMS defended.

Further do court documents and other testimony related to the Epstein investigation not agree with RMS's comments on Mr. Minsky? There is a statement that Minsky refused relations with the girl, perhaps due to realizing what was going on.
>I prefer applying compassion to people who say stupid shit.

I very much prefer this, too, so long as they show they know what they did wrong and are clear that they'll work to do better in the future.
> The problem is trying to minimize human trafficking

Bullshit.

The real problem is this sort of witch-hunt perpetrated by these virtue-signaling types who care more about bashing anyone who they label as reactionary than the victims themselves.

They made their accusations and they commit blatant errors misrepresenting their own accusations, and when the likes of Stallman have the audacity of pointing out any incoherency in these accusations... Hell, he became the target.
Credibly accused rapist.

The courts are for determining whether someone should go to jail. But anyone can draw conclusions about whether or not they want to deal with someone who is accused of a crime.

Someone might be accused of child molestation, but never stood trial. Would a parent then be obligated to be ok with the accused being alone with their children since 'hey he's innocent until proven guilty'? Should someone who had been credibly accused of many instances of sexual misconduct be trusted as if they are a model citizen?

The presumption of innocence is there to ensure someone gets a fair trial in court. It doesn't mean everyone else has to ignore evidence of criminal conduct until a conviction comes down. It also doesn't always mean that someone who was found not guilty by a criminal court, didn't actually do what they were accused of. It just means the court didn't find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
In which case, it's on MIT and the FSF to stand up and take charge, saying "You either change your ways and apologize, or else you're out."

But what we've seen instead is cowardly throwing someone to the baying crowd.
I hope you did not mean to imply that all infants that are underweight, neglected and malnourished are so because of their moms bad choices. Some people just happen to have it hard in life and guess what, they still have children.
It's dangling down from the moon.
Going at moons speed - 28 days per revolution instead of geostationary 1 day.
So less centrifugal force form rotation that is compensated by the cable strain.
Depends entirely on contractual details likely not broadly known. Those details have not been broadly reported or discussed. In general in a generic sense it’s quite common for investors (those writing actual cheques into the business) to be made whole again and then some before options holders or others get to come to the table. First dibs on the rewards goes to those that took the most risk.

Reports out now are saying the likely market cap of the company is less than the cash raised by the company. Speaking generally that’s typically a beyond ugly situation for non-investors hoping their stake/options is going to make them some $. Think about it... it wouldn’t be right for some employee equity/options holder to get money while investors lose money.

Haven’t seen much written about the details specific to We/WeWork, but given all the crazy governance issues identified to date with its corporate structure it wouldn’t be surprising if such clauses are very complex.
All modern software engineers have a crucial affliction in this regard - they're only human.
I work at this location and I can tell you that although I've never read the description that you posted above (sounds very.. cringey) people are putting the common areas to good use, and this applies extra to the stoop. You've always got people sitting around it, getting comfortable and working on their laptops, I think it's something that WeWork has done done well at this location.
> Yeah, people should be afraid to be "creepy" in public

I agree.
Bentonville has terrible traffic because everyone commutes from surrounding cities (barely able to call them cities imo), there's only one expressway N-S, public transit may as well be non-existent, and the bike trails and sidewalks turn into grass, ditches, or roads without warning on major thoroughfares. And no one here knows how to deal with pedestrians because it's too spread out and hot to walk around. Fayetteville is better because it's a university town, but not much if you're used to real metro areas. Grew up here, moved to Seattle, came back and I hate it.

Edit: Also the only major employer in Bentonville is Wal-Mart. They own the town, and almost all employers in town service Wal-Mart in some way. There's not a single other major retailer in city limits, there are two options for groceries: Walmart and a local chain of grocers. I guess they did recently put an Aldi in, but it's outside city limits.
Even from a law perspective many lawyers will advise against apologizing[1] to a victim because the apology can be used as evidence of guilt in a civil case. I think it works the same way for most situations including online mobs.

—Adding this to expound on what DanBC writes.

[1] Goes on to explain that this varies by jurisdiction and many have passed laws protecting apologizers.

[1]https://accidentlawyerhenderson.com/is-saying-im-sorry-an-ad...
ImageNet Roulette: See How AI Stereotypes You
Do we really know for sure that the other bureau's are really any better, and not just lucky at this point?
The difference may have been smaller 30 or 40 years ago. With the internet and easy access to data, along with widening income/wealth gaps, the differences are more pronounced now.
And then 3 years later after you moved on someone like me has to come along and cleanup the project.

The current project I work on is angular1 based witch is outdated and it also sucks if the dev was just learning it at the time, the backend is done with a PHP framework that is today outdated/deprecated, this is not an old project(probably started when angular was the hot new thing)

I am sure your react project in 5 years if you will try to build it from scratch you will find issues with the npm dependencies, lots of deprecation warnings in your modules in react. I am all for the best tool for the job , use SPAs where it makes sense,
I believe the traditional answer is "lasers" or "someone else will figure that out"
Well, thanks to the bastard rocket equation, fuel savings have an exponential impact. If you can get to geostationary orbit and meet up with the elevator, then fuel up again at the moon, you save a considerable amount of weight in fuel.
It's a misapplied kind of pedantry anyway; he can quibble with what he thinks "assault" means but "sexual assault" has a legal definition.

It also confuses me to see people talk about stallman's language tricks as pedantry when he spends a lot of energy redefining terms or trying to pull out alternate meanings -- kind of the opposite of pedantry. Or a pedantry against his private dictionary.
My suspicion is that most people asking questions of this nature will be unsuccessful. If the answer you receive is "No, it will take a year" and you would decide not to do it, you probably wont have the desire to push through the first few big hurdles you will likely encounter.
>As long as you can show you have changed your mind, should nothing you have said before matter?

If changing doesn't have any benefits, would anyone change?

I'm not saying there should be no lasting repurcussions for such behavior, but when someone admits they are wrong, it should matter.

If admitting they were wrong doesn't matter, then it doesn't make any sense for them to do it.
> it takes a rocket several days to reach the moon

That's using an unpowered transfer orbit. Burning the whole time would be considerably quicker (and be extremely inefficient).
The end is at that height. Its center of mass is much higher, and it's rigid enough to hold together. It's also not orbiting—its other end is nailed to the lunar surface.
Does someone know what the difference in deltav would be to get to geostationary orbit from earth vs getting to lunar orbit from earth? A citation would be helpful.

I've tried looking this up, but from previous comments on this paper, I infer that I am misunderstanding something.
> Go was created at Google to solve Google problems

Still, the vast majority of critical and infrastructure code at Google remains written in C++ and Java. Languages with superior performance, ecosystems, and that have actually proven to work in large scale programming (as opposed to hand wavy incorrect claims about being that).

golang is more or less a hobby project with a lot of bad design decisions that went too far.
All good points. At the same time, there's a bit of "No True Scotsman" going on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
Fiery furnace is great! I used to drive to Moab every year for Spring Break to do outdoor sports with some friends from University, and it's a total paradise for people who want to do anything outdoors.

It's selfish and elitist to say, but I almost feel like it's better if places like Moab aren't publicized at all, and people just find out about it through word-of-mouth like I did. It takes some education to properly "leave no trace" in the back country, and I feel like that sort of works itself out when people discover the parks largely by being invited by someone who's already in the fold.

If the parks are going to be a more popular destination for the general public, then I think it is probably better to have a permit system both to regulate absolute numbers, and to require people to pass some kind of test or course about how to be a good citizen inside the park.
Well I started thinking about it more.

If it's orbiting at the speed of the moon, it's going slower than geostationary orbit speed. So its tendency will be to fall towards the earth. But since it's attached to the moon, this won't happen.

Not sure how much station keeping would be needed to hold this in place.

Also will have to deal with collision risks with objects in geostationary orbit. Though I don't think geostationary orbit is a particularly important factor. Could probably be a few thousand Km above geostationary orbit without any significant adjustment to their plan.
> "but he's a genius and does such great work that we should tolerate the bad things he does". I really thought we'd started to move past that over the last few years.

Nobody thinks this of RMS. He's a competent developer who was in the right place at the right time to found a new ideology: The idea that software should work for the user, the only way for software to do so is to empower the user to also be a developer themselves. That's all.

Being competent himself wasn't a sufficient condition for anyone to listen to him, but it was necessary.
> I’ve meant “bright and clear line” in the legal sense this whole time, yes.

Let me quote you:

> But here's the thing: the law can't take that into account. The law needs a bright and clear line, so you can know how not to break it. And so even though there's not really a difference between 17 years 364 days vs. 18 years, one can consent to sex with an adult while the other cannot.

So ... your argument was what exactly? That the law could not possibly spell out a more complicated rule than "below 18 is illegal", because ... it is impossible to do so in the English language? Or what?
To both of you: seems like you were still born in the US or some western nation. I would take beatings and ghetto over war any day.

The American ghettos / projects are a solvable issue. It baffles me how such a relatively easy problem (compared to middle eastern wars) is so hard to fix for the richest economy on earth. Can you tell me why it is difficult to fix the projects and ghettos?
I'm pretty sure humans can take 1 g continuous.
Exactly. Overcoming Earth's gravity well is the reason building a space elevator is such an exciting prospect.

The geosynchronous orbit is about a 10th of the way to the moon, so this moon elevator would go 9/10ths of the way toward the Earth. That's significant but it's precisely that remaining 10th of the way where the vast majority of energy expenditure occurs. If you can make it from the surface of the Earth to geosynchronous, then making it to the moon is relatively cheap.