skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK. At least, as your link shows, they eventually admitted they were wrong once the Cold War ended and the records became available.

In my experience outlets like the NYT do issue corrections - e.g. just over this weekend, they published a pretty questionable story about Judge Kavanaugh but then published a correction within a day when the article was challenged and compared to the book it was based on.

In comparison I’d be very, very surprised if VICE issued a correction for its lies about this reporting, which they boldly publish right alongside the documents debunking their faked quotes.
"Asking questions" that deny people's humanity over and over isn't exactly a positive intellectual exercise.

We pretty conclusively decided that race based chattel slavery was wrong a while ago. But why? Can we keep expressing ideas and demanding proof of these claims? Can we do it forever? Can we do it while holding positions of power at institutions that are attended by black students?
For the record, he retracted that statement:

"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."

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

Edit: just noticed that's from two days ago, so in reaction to this fiasco.
Something to keep in mind: very few people will write a book about how things are basically okay but could use some small tweaks.
...two days ago after numerous articles came out highlighting his gross views.

Damage control at best, hard to give it much weight given the circumstances.
I think you just coined "Stallman exit"?
> A 'minor' is a societal construct that varies over cultures and time.

Agreed. And if a war, plague, or comet wipes out 80% of the population tomorrow, suddenly "minors" will be 13, and no one of these people so adamant here will bat an eye.

Here's a chance to have a reasoned debate about an important issue, where constructive conversations and solutions could be devised. But instead, the conversation devolves into a flame war.

If anyone is interested in spitballing some type of new novel restrictive grammar to enable having constructive conversations about hot-button issues, I'd love to help: https://github.com/treenotation/jtree/issues/52
Hmm. Despite that there still a very small percent of all office space. I see 26 locations in NYC, I’m sure I’m missing a few so say 30.

Even if all those offices were the whole building (I think many (most) are just a subset of the floors that’s not much for the entire city.

Although it’d be interesting for all the people working in them, I wonder how that’d work out.
It's a useful proxy metric, but not a metric to optimize for. I wouldn't want to work for a startup that focused on hiring ex-FB or ex-Google engineers, but given that a large fraction of talented engineers have worked at FB or Google, you'd expect to find plenty of them at any reputable large startup.
AirBnB is asset free. We is long $47B of leases.
How would he confirm she is of age? Isn't the scenario that she was forced to hide the fact she was sex trafficked from him? Would she not also have to lie about her she then too? 17 year olds can frequently pass for 18 year olds, which is a legal age almost anywhere.

> Given that even the Virgin Islands locals took to calling it "Pedophile island"

Locals almost always have more knowledge about a place in their backyard than someone flown in for a special occasion.
Luckily, GP told you how to get to the full, original document so you don't have to trust Vice's reporting.
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Used the pen with my galaxy note and the results aren't bad, but barely legible for the most part
you must not be very familiar with rms if you think he's not being sincere for "grinding another axe at the same time". stallman has been grinding all of his axes, at all times, without exception.

this is the only time to my knowledge that stallman has ever gone back on one of his fundamental positions.
If the cell site has more capacity but a similar number of customers, would those customers not get more throughput?
Yes — they are saying that we should require a lower standard of evidence to disrupt human power structures (e.g. ask someone to resign) than we should for court and science (e.g. convicting someone of a crime or accepting a scientific theory).
He picked a stupid hill to die one. Everyone who picks that hill to die on just dies.
Well, I'm now going to be following Stallman without the FSF around. His (admittedly) iconoclastic views are important, and I appreciate what he says about technology and privacy. His legal views are questionable, yes, but I don't accept the idea that he should be removed from the FSF.
Or just post a magnet link.
Thanks, didnt have earnings per share on cloudfare so skipped it
> convicted Jeffrey Epstein

The alleged Minsky assault happened in 2001.
If Apple didn't want that information to be public, they probably shouldn't have downloaded 45TB of data a day from a service they have no paid agreement with.
It's the standard library.
People sometimes say STL to refer to the entire standard library because the names are similar and because the STL is a huge chunk of the standard library (and the non-STL parts of the standard library also tend to use templates anyway, to add to the whole confusion...)

But if you look at the repo you see the C headers like cmath, etc. that have nothing to do with the STL and are just part of the standard library.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5205491/whats-the-differ... this is a pretty solid answer to your question
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It's all just spending though. Tide is trying to get you to pay a little extra for the name brand over the generic. Instead of a Toyota SUV you could have picked up a used beater - or kept driving the car you have for a few more thousand miles. Netflix wants you to shell out extra "discretionary" money to watch some TV shows you don't need to see.

And millions of people do it, because they want to. If it cost money to read a a website, then people might do that too - if they deemed the content worthy of their hard-earned dollars. Millions of people already pony up $1000 for the latest smartphone so they can read stuff online at all hours of the day. I really don't think the web creators should be this worried about whether or not people actually want their stuff. They desperately want it; in fact, most people are probably literally addicted to it.

Of course, maybe you're trying to draw the distinction between paying for a good and voluntarily making a donation. If that's the case, I'm with you - the latter idea is a loser. But if popular websites just made you pay to use them, and the amount was tiny, and the actual process of paying was completely frictionless and unnoticeable in terms of the browsing experience, then people would totally do it. I think a lot of people think they learned this fundamental truth that people don't want to pay for things to read on the internet, when what they really learned is that people don't want to be interrupted and asked for their credit card details. But if you can make that process seamless, people will happily fritter away thousands clicking through links.
While this is great, it is really about 12.5 versions too late, isn’t it? Something like a Facebook graph is already huge, and they surely don’t care quite so much if, all these years later, restraints finally come into play for new information?

A far more damaging thing to these social networks would be mega-scale winnowing and chaffing: where OSes and devices basically start to lie through their teeth when apps come calling. I am more than willing to “let” Facebook think that I went to 500 places I’ve never been, and I am willing to let them think I am connected to hundreds of people that I don’t actually know. Let us, please, ruin their entire graph: take what truth they have obtained through questionable means, and pack it with garbage.

Of course, Facebook would also be smart enough to put a timestamp on what they already know so you can’t just give them new garbage. Let these devices give every app and website “old” fake details, as well. For example, let them pretend that three years ago I was at a certain location, or that I was in proximity to a certain person in the year 1999. I’m not so interested in protecting current details, as I am with protecting my entire history of details.
At his level, "fired" and "resigned" are often synonyms.
> The standard of evidence is lower in civil cases than criminal ones.

That's probably because the standard of accuracy is tied to severity of punishment (they're will to pay more for a higher standard in cases where it's more damaging to be wrong). Are you arguing that someone losing their job or other position of influence is low-enough severity that we don't need a high standard? That seems reckless to me.

> Taking away someone's bodily autonomy is different than saying you can't have a prominent role at a prestigious institution.

Agreed. Putting someone in jail is more severe than taking someone's job. I don't think this is controversial.

> You don't (or shouldn't) have an inalienable right to power.

Nobody has claimed this.

> And, again, the facts aren't even in dispute.

This entire thread is a massive contradiction of that claim.
Getting ~20ms on HFC, with 12ms to our BNGv(first hop)

I no longer have a FTTC connection to test, but I don't think it's 3ms low.

Using AussieBB.
It's around 20ms from Sydney to Melbourne on our routes
Having sex with a minor is a crime, regardless of coercion, because a minor is not capable of giving consent to sex with an adult, because of both cognitive differences and power imbalances.

If someone Minsky's age went out and started dating and having sex with high schoolers, he would go to jail. Period. Regardless of the exact social dynamics.
I knew he no longer works on GCC and many other projects but I thought he still contributed to emacs. Looking at the recent commits on GitHub, it appears I was wrong about that.

Did he have mainly a supervisory role at the FSF or was he just giving talks lately and no longer actively contributing?
Some of those (e.g. Slack) are growing phenomenally fast though, and could become profitable quite easily. Others (e.g. Uber and Lyft) have a questionable business model.

Edit: wow I didn't realize Slack had such a large market cap. That is a LOT of growth priced in, probably more than is justified.
To defend Minsky and Prince Andrew, there’s no evidence they knew she was underage. She also appeared in a photo with Andrew and Ghisline Maxwell. Perhaps he knew she was underage but for a member of royalty to fly to a private island and have underage sex with 8+ girls at once is a serious allegation which is what she claimed. Maybe it’s true but at least one of the accused by her (the famous lawyer involved) has claimed to have evidence that she is lying — or more precisely, exaggerating her story.

My ex-girlfriend dated Prince Andrew (she was in her late 20s). I’ve been around some of these people in South Florida and LA. A lot of allegedly good people will ignore red flags but people openly targeting underage girls seems to be isolated to only one or two principals.

Of course, all of this is wrong —- even this concept of pleasure parties where young (over 18) girls are brought to billionaire parties often by younger guys. Turning regular girls into “sugar babies” or prostitutes is a major problem.
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Anecdotal from a history of more than a few surgeries: I think the OxyContin is actually less addictive. A pain relieving dose of a non time release opioid will last about four hours. I’ve had pain bad enough that it prevents sleep. To get a good eight hours of sleep I would need to take a much higher dose, and that puts you pretty deep into euphoria. Some people will keep chasing that feeling.

With OxyContin I could take a normal dose before bed and sleep through the night.
Standard library of Cpp uses templates extensively. So both terms are used interchangeably.
I hate to be that guy but I have done that test and the latency is under 30 us or 0.03 ms.
It’s never objective. Ever.
The conditions that apply to an "Ethics tutorial in a philosophy paper" aren't universally applicable, and that isn't a sign of something being wrong. It took me a while to understand this myself.

Suppose you wished to discuss "ethical problems" in a tutorial, people can do that, and in some other (limited) environments too. You might - to invoke a particularly awful idea - like to hypothetically explore whether what people wear had relationship to their likelihood of being targeted for sexual assault.

If you are in a position of leadership however, you incur responsibilities. People under your leadership must be confident that if someone were to tell you they have been sexually assaulted, your response would not be to wonder what they were wearing. The reason for this is, as is well established, that speculation over what women (or survivors in general) were wearing at the time they were sexually assaulted is a loaded idea that has widespread use in casting blame on the victim of sexual assault, and has been very effective at this for hundreds of years, leading to a vast amount of preventable suffering, all because of we continue to tolerate the mistaken idea that women might somehow 'invite' their own assault.

A person in a leadership or representational role doesn't get to publicly speculate about "clothing and sexual assault" in the abstract, because they have a duty to be aware of how incredibly damaging that is in the general sense, and how public speculation about that sort of relationship would clearly act to dampen survivors of sexual assault from coming forward, including in the org they are leading, in addition to being distressing for the people who have experienced it in the past, which is a significant fraction of people in general, even supposing the speculator meant well.
> Tide pods and Toyota SUVs

> eating and driving to work.

This confused me for a second before I realized it was intentional. Good one
it's rather interesting how all the information technology (social media, etc...) is slowly moving our culture towards increasing self-censorship. One has to have the right opinion or stay quiet.

Having the wrong opinion about certain topics is getting more expensive. Stay away from taboos or else... never mind the fact that what we regard as wrong changes across different societies over time.

Weirdly all the information technology is steering towards being more similar in our opinions and in what we can say without facing consequences.

Recently I started to thing about how in spite of having the ability to share, and change, and store information better and with more ease than ever, we seem to be going in the opposite direction.
Instead of having more transparent institutions, everything is getting more "opaque" (so to speak) towards the public (even it this is happening due to overload).

does anyone remember "information wants to be free"? I don't think anybody says that anymore, but I remember reading that a bunch on slashdot in the early 00s
There are advantages to room besides financial return and social standing. I like having room for bookshelves, and a big desk, and a workshop. I like being able to use power tools or blast music at any volume I want without disturbing the neighbors. I respect your lifestyle choice if "driving 15 minutes to get a gallon of milk" simply isn't convenient enough for you, but for me, bliss is not having to know my neighbors.
The follow up to the original blog post includes a few quotes (they start in section 2):

https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-appendix...
Just waiting for the Cloudflare CEO who lurks around to pop in here and offer it for free.
He'd have a very hard time winning. In many jurisdictions there is a "substantial truth" doctrine: if a statement gives an impression that's substantially close to the truth, it's considered OK, even if technically false. Once you add in how many people typically react to this sort of thing...

http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/substantial-truth
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> ... Supposing as you do that society currently holds the wrong opinion on "does sex with minors constitute sexual assault?", the right answer is unlikely to be hashed out on a MIT list for CS activities.

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.

Today, it's the question you hate that gets punished. Tomorrow it will be the question you hold most dear.
Seems like it should’ve been classified and not something they should’ve admitted in an interview
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Use of the term 'API' appears to be this decade's 'algorithm'.

It's just an agreed on set of rules about how we're going to exchange data (aka, compute something).
It's not an accusation. It's just a comment on the optics of continuing to spout the same bad take for decades.

It looks bad.
Why do you need such a big house, citizen? You can live in a drainage pipe; why do you need more room than this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt0VMT3t-Po

Someone should start a magazine for bugmen. It can feature apple products, human habitations barely above tent level and delicious meals made with fried crickets.
When you've made statements about "voluntary pedophilia" in the past, and you decide to voluntarily wade into the Epstein scandal, that's probably better termed character suicide.
Minors cannot consent because they, in general, have a mental deficiency called "being young". They also, in general, are in the lowest power position of any potential relationship.

It isn't that minors are non-beings - it is that they're not fully developed yet, so they need protections. Where we draw that line is up to the law and culture of any location, but it exists.
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This was the kind of gray area people dealt with on their own and cannot IMO be regulated by law (because it's just barely possible to define). There are limits though but today it's becoming too binary and myopic. Weird era.
Amazon: fast shipping, easy returns. That's literally the beginning and end of their entire value proposition. If any other company can fill that niche, they can have my money with no regrets.
Why does this feel like such a witch hunt?

It is clear RMS was stunningly clueless to write anything about this, but surely we all know of similar engineers that would make a similar error? If everyone were held up to the same moral standard, we wouldn't have many people left in power! Just to be clear: I'm definitely not supporting hurting children (directly or indirectly) - I hope I'm not falling into the same tar pit.

I certainly respect RMS for what he created and his idealism (although last time I saw him talk he spent about half the time negatively pontificating about Linus and Linux, which seriously damaged his credibility IMHO).

It must be devastating to be on the receiving end of such ire.
I want to agree with you in some aspects of this, but the history of this topic has been so severely lopsided that the current cleansing was due and is helping. As a man, I can only imagine the shit women put up with on a daily basis.
accountability == forfiture of your life's legacy? That's an alarming line of thinking.
Well, someone has to fix the mess we created, since it will persist long after we parents are gone.
In retrospect this is evidence that sometimes setting ridiculously ambitious goals isn't enough to make them happen. IMO a new generation per decade is a good pace but 10x per decade is a lot more reasonable than 100x.
If he wrote that, he'd likely still have a job. But that's not what he wrote. He took it too far.
Assumption: smart engineers only care about money.
Moral Panic
There was a library called the STL that is now, with modifications, a part of the std library. So in a sense you could say that the STL is a subset of the std library, or that it was an inspiration for part of it, but many people just use the terms interchangeably.

So, what that read me says is correct, it is also called the STL. If you want to be precise you should probably only call it the std library though. There are still implementations of the original STL around separate from the std library, so keeping the distinction is probably still wise.

Also to complicate things, some people use the term STL to refer to the specific parts of the std library that are from the original STL. Those pieces are containers, algorithms, functions, and iterators I think.

tl;dr it's all a mess and people say the two meaning different things all the time.
Wikipedia said 4G (LTE) supports 100,000 people per sq km whereas 5G up to a million.
Evil is fundamentally a lack of empathy and I see no empathy from this man. He’s not a cackling crazy
Hitler figure, but he seems to have a difficult time figuring out just what the problem is with having sex with children and with child slaves, and chooses to dedicate a great deal of mental energy defending the more powerful people in this scenario.
>Stallman quibbled over the definition of rape.

Hell yes he did. Wouldn't you? If I made my own country where "rape" was defined as "sex without first doing twenty jumping jacks," wouldn't you "quibble"?

>everyone admits knowingly slept with an woman of an age in a jurisdiction where that constituted rape.

So what? I drove 37 in a 35 today, who cares? You can't outsource your morality to the legal system like that.

If Minsky did something bad, say he did something bad. But don't launder your outrage through the VI's laws.
What is the difference between a movie house and a movie theater?
Ah, so I think my interpretation of his Minsky comments was right, although it seems unlikely to me that Minksy didn’t know.

The whole legalizing child porn and age of consent thing, oof.
The allegation against Minsky were made in a deposition in 2016 though, and I believe that deposition was only unsealed this year, hence making the news this year (leading to the recent resignations at MIT). I don’t think Minsky had a chance to respond to the allegation before he died, hence this mailing list thread between his former colleagues speculating about it.

You’re absolutely right that the allegations against Epstein were in the news before 2016 though, after all he was initially sentenced for his crime in 2007.
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