skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So these jokers at apple publish a paper by using code from huggingface.
Parent didn't address it because it doesn't need to be addressed.

In most states, the law is not written "it's illegal to have sex with a 15-year-old PERIOD." Instead, the law is usually "it's illegal FOR AN ADULT to have sex with a 15-year-old."

You are correct that -- for states that a) don't have the "for an adult" clause and b) don't have "Romeo & Juliet" clause -- the law as written DOES imply both kids are guilty. And I'd bet the cost of a nice dinner that, in some of those jurisdictions, both kids in a case like that WERE charged.
> So you have the default opinion anyone in our society will have.

Hardly.
I have mentioned the issues with JSON in the story. Did you get a chance to read it?
https://internetobject.org/the-story/
Sure there is. How about: "the deposition never actually accuses Minsky of having sex with anyone in the first place"? Or how about, "Greg Benford says (https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/339725/) he was personally present at the incident and witnessed there was no sex"? Wow, who knew it was so easy to defend 'a child molester' for whom there's 'no way to defend' them.
Recruiters from WeWork reach out to people with a pitch that they are unicorn tech company. They lose me with that line.
You can't have one without the other.

Sure, houses in Ex-Soviet countries aren't as big as the ones in the US even though there is a lot of land. But good luck building an American sized house in a Western European country without paying a magnitude of what you would pay for the same amount of land in the US. From the article: “In most European countries, it’s much harder legally to build on unbuilt area than it is here,”. Most of the land is indirectly in use, either as farm land, national parkland or owned by the crown in the case of some countries (UK).
1) President of the FSF is a leadership position.

2) It would take a staggering feat of mental gymnastics to suggest Dr. Stallman's idiosyncratic role at CSAIL -described variously as "visiting scientist"- absolves him of having leadership responsiblities to students.

3) Though I did not go into details at the time, the argument above applies more widely than leaders per se - it applies to people who affiliate with and represent organisations; for example, I think we could probably agree it would apply to television anchors whether or not they led a 'team' of any kind.

Stallman's relationship with MIT (and vice versa) is a public enough role that I've known about for nearly 20 years though I live on the other side of the planet.
This essay hit me particularly hard because I've been on the opposite side of this where I was the one not realizing my significant other's needs. It makes you question a lot of yourself. To think you can cause another person so much pain through your own action and/or inaction is hard to come to terms with. I don't think I meant to hurt someone else, but that was the result. It is easy to be oblivious or flat out ignore other people's emotional needs.

For me, I realized that what I should have been doing was just communicating my thoughts and feelings better. Meanwhile being able to accept my own limitations. Can you become a romantic overnight? Can you be completely open and honest about all your fears? Of course not, these things take time to learn how to do successfully and naturally. You might realize you cannot fulfill everything for your partner and maybe it won't work.

Realistically there are a lot of relationships that will fail. We tend to think their ending is some sort of cataclysm. The author put's this so well:

"There are ways to be wounded and ways to survive those wounds, but no one can survive denying their own needs."

At some point you need to be honest with yourself about what you need in life at an emotional level. It is very hard to go through life pretending otherwise or constantly sacrificing for nothing in return. For me that is the lesson of the Crane Wife tale.
Really who cares?

Pick a language. They are both fine. Both will probably solve whatever problem you have without too many issues. Arguing over which one you should use its probably pointless 99% of the time.

I wish I had a link to the twitter exchange between both accounts where the answer they both agreed with was learn both, and lets have this conversation in a week. It feels 100% relevant here.
The pendulum has swung from "we give powerful, highly skilled, or accomplished people a carte blanche license to be total assholes" to a mentality where we're willing to ostracize people for certain types of assholery.

Has it swung too far? Perhaps. I have a rule: "society always over-corrects."

Should it swing back? No. Some moderation might be in order, but I'm not interested in going back to the time of "but Michael Jackson was so talented!"

(I'm not comparing Stallman to Michael Jackson, just using the latter as an example of a mentality.)

I don't personally have a dog in this fight, but I do get the sense that perhaps this was not an isolated incident but more of the straw that broke the camel's back.
I tried and failed to build a “hello world” http server using aleph.
I actually still use Blue Apron. It's not that much more expensive than grocery shopping (I live in New York so groceries are expensive) and you never end up with wasted food. The recipes are generally very quick to make and far better than anything I could make on my own in a comparable amount of time. While the business may not have worked out so well their service is still pretty good.
Who decides which are the questions that a representative of the university can ask and which will lead to punishment?

As far as I can tell, the discussion was on-topic given that a former professor, Minsky, was being accused of "assault." Stallman's questions and statements revolved around the use of that term and the trouble that its lack of specificity brings.

The university is (ideally) full of scholars holding controversial views, asking uncomfortable questions, and being accused of all manner of crimes. If one of them (Minsky) can be tarred and feathered without a trial, any of them could be.
True or false: dnscrypt-wrapper can be put in front of an authoritative server (instead of a recursive resolver), thereby enabling end-to-end encrypted DNS packets for a user running dnscrypt-proxy (in front of the user's cache, e.g. unbound).

If true, anyone have some examples of who is doing that?
It is download 45 TB PER DAY. Should use the egress data price for the calculation instead of the hosting price.
Yes! Switching from M$ FrontPage to Dreamweaver was a game-changer! WYSIWYG editor capabilities and generated markup that (for its time) was reasonably clean...
This is almost definitely related to the strong consumer propoganda which has been applied so consistently since WW2. If you think what I am saying is ridiculous look at the history of who invented advertising. Edward Bernays was the nephew of Freud and pioneered modern propoganda and advertising methods. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

"In the 1930s, his Dixie Cup campaign was designed to convince consumers that only disposable cups were sanitary by linking the imagery of an overflowing cup with subliminal images of vaginas and venereal disease."
I've argued couple of people into doing things my way; the typical pattern is that they disagree vehemently in conversation for a few hours and then a few days later start doing what I asked them to do. On rare occasions it takes a few months. And I've occasionally been on the receiving end of that treatment.

Minds don't change in seconds, particularly around what language to use to describe an issue; it usually takes a few days of thinking.

It might be damage control, but realistically this whole blow up is absurd for a few emails on an academic mailing list. Academic mailing lists are supposed to be the best place in the world to encounter views that will change people's minds.
I wouldn't say, "lightly taxed". I pay over 50% of my annual income in federal, state, and sales tax. I also pay between 1% - 4% of the value of my real estate every year in property taxes, depending on the jurisdiction. Then there are the fees ($1,000 annual vehicle registration fees, for example).
On the merits, yes, We is not a tech company. But bear in mind that the company has gone to extraordinary lengths to cloak itself in the unicorn-tech narrative. It masquerades as a platform for other services; it ascribes its losses to a work-setting variant of the Uber fast-growth strategy; it draws parallels to Airbnb's disruption of the hotel business, etc.

Yes, Silicon Valley's smartest minds may see through it all. But in routine media coverage, the company's own version of its story (OVOIS) gets much of the ink. It takes a while for more investigative reporters to call BS and defy the company's OVOIS.
> Also - there seems to be a thread lost. It really looks like Epstein was a US Intelligence Officer filming powerful people having sex with young women (including foreign officials) to obtain leverage on them for the United States.

I agree that the reporting silence on this aspect of the case is odd. The federal prosecutor who worked out Epstein's plea deal (Alexander Acosta) appears to have told the press that the deal was done because he was told "Epstein belonged to intelligence". This was widely reported in July (https://www.google.com/search?q=acosta+epstein+intelligence), and then this revelation was almost completely dropped when Acosta resigned from his position as Secretary of Labor due to fallout from his involvement with the plea deal.

I'll note though that Acosta did not explicitly claim that Epstein was working for the US intelligence services...
Now that’d be a bit ironic to get a "your account is using excessive data bandwidth " and be able to respond with "incorrect, your ip’s are using too much bandwidth ".
> Any my original comment still stands: if you do that, you're going to punish more innocent people too.

Is this a bad thing? Different courts also have different standards of proof. Are you saying that you should have to prove your case beyond a reasonable doubt in civil court? If your friend tells you an acquaintance said something mean to them, are you going to gather evidence and do cross-examinations before you'll believe them?
I sometimes wonder about all the additional HTTP load to places like debian.org that must come from Docker builds; I don't have any kind of caching in mine, and every single commit causes CI to go and build images and run tests on them.

It's not an issue I really see, but it seems to me that CI infrastructure (Travis, ...) really should have caching proxies in place.
Doesn't have to be a full-time maid, it's just a lot of work to do regular deep cleanings of large homes IMO so sometimes you need help, but it definitely depends on your disposition towards that type of work and your time commitments.
I don’t think people go out seeking density. The are avoiding a commute or being near entertainment district etc. It’s likely there are some large houses nearby too. They just require a different budget. But I bet most people would live in them if hey could.
They're not zero, but single digit percent times single digit percent is generally considered a small percent. The math works out to 0.32-0.72% total, taking either the low end of both ranges or the high end of both. I think anyone should agree that in an absolute mathematical sense, 0.3-0.7% is a "low percent."

In this specific context? Sure, it's subjective and reasonable people can disagree.
There's two pieces to the exception.

The first piece is standard for compilers, and essentially says "our compiler linking in bits of this code into your code doesn't count." It means the license matters if you're modifying the compiler and support libraries yourself, but not if you're merely using the compiler.

The second piece revolves around the concerns of mixing licenses: Apache 2 and *GPLv3 are happy in combination, but that's because of some explicit compatibility text in GPLv3; this extends the compatibility text to GPLv2.
Because America is a very wealthy country with a relatively low population density.
Sure, so in that case you pick something up on the way to/from work.

I'm not arguing that rural lifestyles have lower transport requirements in their totality - they obviously don't - just that the '15 mins to get X' example is absurd, because it describes a strawman journey that very rarely actually occurs.

Even in my youth living in the suburbs of a small town in the UK you rarely went "in to town" to buy one thing because it's just not worth it.
Saying we wouldn't have anyone left in power of they were held up to this standard seems more damning to our current power structure than the moral standard at play here
> That said, to me, this doesn't seem like a hill worth dying on

I don't think he saw it as a hill worth dying on, just a random hill he happened to be shot on. It's part of a random scattering of thoughts he makes public.

Either way, I'm cancelling my FSF donations for caving into this witch hunt. It's long demise will be helmed by people that stand for nothing less they offend someone.
Cancel culture, or as most adults like to refer to it, consequences.
Question for those who think Stallman getting forced out is great news: There are people in this forum arguing that Stallman's statements weren't that bad. Should they be fired from their jobs?

Yay for throwaway accounts, I guess.
My experience in the Golang side of this is limited to profiling and optimizing Kubernetes, which doesn't have extensive use of interfaces in general, but over the last 5 years I would say 90% of the wins we have have been:

1. optimizing allocations away in serialization

2. optimizing allocations away in api or biz logic in critical paths around that

3. algorithmic improvements on certain naive code paths

4. blocking

... distant gap

5. everything else

Serialization is its own can of worms in Go, and many places we tried to optimize came down to trying to avoid a) stupid (don't use pointers to naive objects) and b) obvious (use value types) and then hit a wall where there weren't many cheap wins.

I probably can count on one hand the number of hot paths which were interface related, so while I've occasionally been annoyed at the forced allocation moving into an interface, it's rarely actual something I've gotten a win from.

That's just one particular experience, but the AMAZING integration with pprof from very early days has saved me far more time in improving perf than other Go annoyances has cost (relative to my experience in Java 2005-2011).
It also matters where you live. You can buy a stupifyingly large house in small communities for very little money. Why is a $250,000 old mansion in a rural or non-trendy area more objectionable than a tiny closet in SF or NYC? I’d say it is actually less objectionable and more sane. My job doesn’t require me to live in a metro area anymore and my gf and I are looking at moving to a more rural area and salivating at the home prices. We could live in the huge house that the town’s founder lived in which is on the National Register of historic places for the same price we could buy a horrible small cookie cutter house in the city. I know a lot of HN readers can telecommute and work remotely, don’t be afraid to branch out!
To add, HK's land area is orders of magnitude smaller than the U.S. Maybe Americans can simply afford to build on far bigger land given their income.
Will UK consumers ever accept face scans for retail? (My AI Brand)
It's very common in some parts of the country. AFAICT it's much more common in the south. There's definitely places in the northern states that have HOAs but it feels much less ubiquitous.

Also, IIRC many/most condos and townhomes often have something like an HOA that serves their common interests and joint expenses.
Does it really matter? He was human garbage and it was shit like what he did that drove women out of tech for decades and I hate myself for ever having respected him. Which is the proper response to these revelations, not RMS's ridiculous hairsplitting "actually it's ephebophilia" nonsense.
I think your response is very self centered at best. Feeling of being "`raped` of your free agency" is not enough to make a law unjust. It certainly doesn't outweigh the actual exploitation that was what led to these laws to be written to begin with.

The bottom line is that your agency wasn't removed as a minor, you were just left with the same choice as many other minors, to obey the laws regarding drinking, smoking, pornography, etc. Or to break them in order to gain whatever you felt you were being denied. The laws were written to punish people who exploit minors, and the consequences of those crimes pretty much always fall on the adult in the situation (for good reason).

When I was 17, and unable to vote or see certain movies, or 20 and unable to legally buy alcohol, I definitely felt like my freedom was abridged, but it didn't make the laws behind those immoral, it just made them slightly unfair. And that was for some low stakes stuff compared to sex trafficking or adult exploitation of children.
While I agree with many of your points, I'd add that adding in the additional metrics you mention (lifetime value, acquisition cost, etc.) would make Blue Apron look even worse.

My main point is that basically the only thing Blue Apron had going for it was topline growth, but by pretty much every other metric it looked horrible and unsustainable. SaaS quick ratio alone should have clearly highlighted how unsustainable that topline growth was given their through-the-roof churn rates.
Have you investigated the option in BTT on a button to always display regardless of context?
Revenue and earnings are not the same thing.
>>I expressed no opinion either way on that topic. I don't even consider the topic relevant to my position, which is that once we agree that merely asking some questions will result in harsh punishments, we're hosed as a society.

Imagine a person emails a large distribution group at their office with the following question: "I notice we have many black employees: does anything think it might be beneficial if we return to chattel slavery and own them? Could lower our bottom line"

Would that person be fired? Should that person be fired? Are there questions that shouldn't be asked? Is everything fair game?
I'm sure there's plenty I've omitted; again, I'm explaining why "minors cannot consent", not trying to comprehensively describe statutory rape laws in the U.S.
> What’s the slippery slope here?

The slippery slope is that today RMS is the kook, ejected without due process or objective standards.

Tomorrow, you'll be the kook.
I pay the same, but I (and I assume you) live in the highest taxed state & city in the country. This is very far from what the median American citizen pays.
> If Minsky were tried in US, he would be convicted. Ignorance is not a defense.

This is correct, at least for many US states (22, according to Wikipedia’s article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_liability_(criminal) ) . You can meet someone under the age of consent in a bar, see them drinking alcohol, even have them show you their license and be fooled by a fake ID, and still be liable under the law to go to jail for statutory rape.

According to that Wikipedia article though, in some other U.S. states ignorance would be a defense. Whether that’s the case for the U.S. Virgin Islands isn’t clear.
Lots of male developers thought Linus was an asshole.
You're speaking as if love and hate should cancel out, like weights balancing. But having a love/hate understanding of a person is extremely common. If I were teaching a person who could not understand both (such as a young child) I would start with only the good things about Washington, because that's more accurate if you absolutely had to choose. But, we're all adults here.
"Famed Lisp hacker and author of GCC resigns from Python kindergarten."

About time, man!
Evaluation of Hourly Rates and Benefits in Software Engineering
I'm hesitant to post anything, anywhere, just because I don't want to offend anyone by expressing an earnest opinion.

I think the trend's moving more quickly towards self-censorship than anyone realizes. How can we even quantify that? Those who censor just disappear?

What stands out for me is the obvious monoculture we're developing.

I miss custom PHPBB boards for every little interest and opinion.
1. How the hell is your tax rate so high.

2. $1000 in (annual) vehicle registration fees means you’re driving a sweet car, so I wouldn’t complain. In some European countries you might pay 100% or more of the vehicles sales cost in taxes and fees.
For those, like me, who missed the story behind this story... TL;DR: Richard Stallman has resigned from MIT and the FSF over comments he made defending Marvin Minsky "partying" with Epstein, and donations made to MIT. Joi Ito, the Media Lab director resigned over covering up the donations. Nicholas Negroponte "shocked" with his defense of these donations. Lawrence Lessig wrote about trying to rationalize the donations.
As parent said, there needs to be a "bright and clear line."

We don't give 12-year-olds a 2/3 fractional vote because a) that introduces a ton of complexity for not much gain, and because b) children are essentially legally "owned" by their parents so the odds of their compulsion to vote a certain way rise dramatically. (Some people didn't want to give women suffrage last century because they figured it would just double the exact ratio of the existing men's vote tallies. And now a century later we have wives that still vote only to please their husband.)

Some things might work -- I don't think this would fly in the US but maybe you could allow 19-year-olds to buy beer (not liquor) like in some states in the 70s.

But how does that work for kids and sex? You want to embed the "first base, second base" junior high sex metaphor into the LAW? A 19-year-old can fondle a 16-year-old's breasts but not her genitals?

Again: "bright" and "clear" have legal and common-sense context here.
Three or four seasons a month is probably about the equivalent total TV+film watching in our five-person household, combined. As in maybe 50ish hours of distinct content of that sort watched a month, not counting one thing multiple times if several of us are watching it. Since some of that's re-watches we wouldn't necessarily be paying for it every time, too. $40's just the point where I might bother to check that the streaming service made sense—probably I'd conclude that it still did, just for convenience (again, assuming it had most everything) but that if they hiked the price to $50 I'd need to look again.

I'm fairly certain, without adding it all up, that at $60 we'd save money just buying/library-ing/redboxing, $40's just where I'd start to go "hm, better run the numbers" and there's a chance it'd work out against paying for streaming, so I'd call it a decent upper bound on what I'd probably be willing to pay for such a thing. Hell, I'm paying almost that now, but the fact that I can still only find maybe 1/3 of what I want to watch available on my three services is why Amazon's set not to renew next year and Netflix is on the chopping block soon (3rd service is a cheap, niche one with mostly anime, b-movies, and some original web animation stuff, sticking with it pretty much just because it's cheap).
To your caveat, I can access thepiratebay even though it is
supposedly IP blocked in the UK because the courts are not willing to order a block of the whole cloudflare IP range. With so many websites using cloud hosting, it has become very hard for the authorities to block IP ranges.

DNS is really the last bastion of government interference. The UK is supposed to be rolling out a nation-wide porn block at some point but it will be totally defeated by encrypted DNS.
Same is happening with antiques as pieces are often to big for increasingly apartment and smaller houses. And seems to be generally less desirable as status goods.