skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Welcome to online witch hunt. Anyone defending the witch is probably a witch as well.

How about a rational debate concerning factual things?
I have allmost no background information, knew RMS only as the weird FSF guru .. and it is very hard for me to find facts. Most of the debate is about other stuff, than what actually happened.

edit:
so apparently all of it started with this:

https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21...

A rant by a female MIT student, offended by something she rad of RMS she did not know before.
She writes very emotional, but much better, in terms of facts, than what vice etc. made out of it
Now that idea just makes me think of https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Nidavellir
I believe Tesla dropped the $1,500 removal fee from residential rental installations for the time being. They charge a time and material rate for removal of their commercial rentals (section 8).

https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/CI-Energy-Products...
> "This has less to do with misogyny"

How did they shoehorn in sexism into an article about animals? This has nothing to do with misogyny because animals are incapable of reason.
This isn't the first time, I'd bet plenty of people have tried to advise him and he ignored them.

He's been speaking on these topics for long enough to have heard thousands of people consoling him to stop.
My experience only being having a central air AC unit on top of my building, the noise is only part of it. With fans this large you can feel their movement if not perfectly maintained.
A black hole is a... hole, in terms of gravity[0]. Things fall into it. Unless you're not in a stable orbit, or being washed into it by gas (like water going down a drain), it's not going to 'suck' you into it.

[0] https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZUKsw.png
Regardless of whether it was right to ditch Stallman as the president of the FSF, here's my "wishlist" for his successor (in case they don't revert it):

- Someone who is less of a hardliner: Stallman's dedication to free software is a good thing but his absolutist style of expressing it might have put a lot of people off who would otherwise not be opposed to the idea of free software

- Someone who understands the problems of free/open source software (contributors not getting paid, corporate exploitation, ...) and has progressive solutions for it

- Someone who everyone can (at least kinda) sympathize with and/or relate to: I believe Stallman generally has no bad intent but a lot of his mannerisms are just plain awkward or offensive to a lot of people. Normally that wouldn't matter but the president of the FSF (especially Stallman) is kinda "the face of free software". So showing that the world of free software is a progressive and inclusive space here might just benefit everyone.

We should still honor Stallman for what he did for free software (I mean he basically invented it) and we should IMO continue to welcome him in this space (maybe even as some kind of executive in the FSF because after all he's obviously not incompetent). But maybe he isn't the best person for the role of the president anymore these days.
Do you think he would have listened? Something tells me he would have spoken about it on principle, in that he believes in freedom of speech.
I first used it for a free repo.

After using it, it just had a better vibe. Features seem similar enough for me, but it seems like Gitlab just lined up with what I want more than Github.

An example of this is the default page when I log in. On Github I'm given my activity feed -- which 90% of the time is absolute noise. Gitlab presents me with a list of repos, which is typically what I want.
Using “autism” as an excuse is insulting to autistic people and ignores the autistic women who were forced to accommodate his behavior over the years. “Autistic” does not mean “asshole”.

It must be nice to imagine the rules of society don’t apply to you, but eventually society disagrees. If you are bad at your job, you might be fired from it, and “not making the entire industry a more hostile place” was at last part of the job description of an MIT professor.

Also note that there are actual laws about it in the USA, so not only is it part of the job description, it is a legally required part of the job description.
Outcome Primacy
I find it surprising to the extreme that a person like Stallmann, supposedly smart and well versed in legal matters lacks the understanding of how the legal system works:

"Unintentional crime is still a crime."

Unwittiness in committing a crime is, at best, a mitigating circumstance, that does not justify or excuse the conduct.

The second issue is that does not matter what you and I (or Stallman) think. All that matters is what the law says - it is a crime when the law says so - we can't be going around redefining laws so that they don't apply when it does not suit us. The most one can hope for is to have a law redefined in a court of law (precedents, interpretations etc).
"sexual assault" doesn't require violence.
In the long term, the solution would have to be real consequences for those posting it.
Github long ago realized how unprofitable support is when you have a monopoly. Glad to see GitLab carving up a market segment.
I chose the cash option because I have credit monitoring through 2025 from the OPM breach of my SF-86 (security clearance application information) years ago. This is so idiotic. The FTC did consumers no favors in negotiating such an absolutely pitiful settlement.
I didn't know that existed, but it looks REALLY nice. It would be cool to allow for users to signup with regular email/password and let them import their own json.

I won't release the project per se, but I do plan on striping out all the business logic and release a full stack SaaS scaffolding (Node + React) of the project with the basics (dockerized dev enviroment, a CRUD, authorization, deploy ready etc...) for anyone to build a product like this. this.

edit: typo.
This is the sad truth of the times we live in. You garner an audience, and then you exhibit an opinion that is controversial then well, you shall be promptly destroyed. And these things need not happen now. You garner an audience at any point in the future and your online presence will be decompiled, diagnosed for bugs, and all errors will be promptly ostracized by the armchair armada of online experts. This is the age that the internet lurker is now the commentator, the internet commentator is now the journalist, and the journalist is now the lawyer. Your livelihood now at the mercy of any and all denizens, including bots, though they only give 3/5s the upvote.
Was rms defending Minsky in court?
Please quote a full sentence wherein he excused the actions of Epstein.
Feel free to discard the following as "conspiracy" but it is interesting: https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/08/16/la-danse-mossad-robe...
In what way would this be contrary to that? It’s not like delivery boy to CEO was a five year pipeline in the “good old days” either.
Aren't some of these installations from quite a while ago, i.e. the Solar City days?
> I welcome anyone to provide a counter-argument.

Here's a counter. You're ascribing intent to one's writing, and unless you have a special relationship with Mr. Stallman - you don't know anything.

Because of a radical, illiberal mob, Stallman's life's work has been taken from him.

Few years ago I had had a Junior engineer on my team begin telling me how he finds certain speech so intolerable that he feels he has the right to assault someone for saying it. This is the reasoning behind these kinds of mob justices.

So now I see a mob hurting yet another life, not because of real-world conduct, but because of speech. I see real-world destruction wrought because of speech.

What never occurred to this young man was that there exist people who find the suppression of speech to be what is truly intolerable in this world. That this form of group-think is truly destructive, that actions are of consequence, not speech.

Do pray the pendulum never swings in your direction.
SUVs have made a startling rise in Germany. Now comes the backlash
Not the same plane, but this reminded me of the amusing "my planes faster than yours" ground speed check of the Blackbird pilot.

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/favorite-sr-71-story-10791270...
In my experience CircleCI feels like an excellent alternative for the first few weeks/month, until you realise all the missing features, unreliability, and issues, at which point you contact support and find their support is very poor and mostly just ask you to go and "vote" for which bugfixes you want to see on their community site, where product ideas go to die.
That's an awesome idea! Thank you! I'll talk with some users about it to hear their feedback.
It wouldn't exactly be stationary, it would be moving at about Mach 1 relative to the ground

https://what-if.xkcd.com/157/
We're discussing his resignation and the pressure that was surely brought to bear on him to do so. Which almost certainly is related to his history of pro-pedophilia comments, not just the most recent ones.
I disagree with Cole's comment, and i think yours is designed to suggest that my disagreement makes me an unaccountable creep.

That's totally bogus, and I think you should consider the consequences that your speech is already having on the people around you.
I had this in mind:

https://www.alamy.com/solar-oven-huge-parabola-shaped-mirror...
That doesn't matter unless the existing pool of ad-free sites can supply good results for a reasonable proportion of the actual web searches being performed. I doubt very much it can.

For the idea to work it'd mean that there'd b incentive to have a website on a particular topic be ad-free vs ad-based competitors. How does that incentive start in the first place?
Pretty sure you show me one of these and its file 13'd immediately.

Take the time to think about your career and highlight what fits the job I am asking you to do.
Especially because if you really believe in just here for the tech and also believe that ideas should stand alone all of this shit should be penned by a pusedonym.
That is what you think now, but just wait until chocolate vs vanilla is that opinion that you will get fired for. You never know.

I would for example be glad to fire everyone that wanted him fired for the comments he made. If I get any sort of power, I will remember PC actions like this and utilize my power to battle it at any cost.
His original emails are there in the embed, in full.
for it to be accurate you have to look into the laws of a given jurisdiction. If you take EU 17 is age of consent in all countries but Vatican and Malta with a significant portion being significantly lower.
Completely agree with you and it makes me depressed that we are living on an age that we are giving up the imperfectness of humans in exchange for fake puritanism on a standard that cannot be achieved by anyone.

I bet everyone here has one opinion that can definitely and very quickly destroy their lives. Let people be wrong, let them speak, let them think ... We can then convince and converge into a common good. Cancelling the guy that gave his life for the cause is appalling and is showing how evil social media is.
No, but fear of being caught will.
The spaces where you're actually supposed to work are so hostile to productive work anyway - loud, public, and if you're not by a window or at least only one tier in from one, dark.
Self hosting is super easy with docker https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/docker/
That was and interesting site, albeit depressing. What I found interesting was the better outlook for those born in the rural midwest compared to almost all of the south.
What he said, for posterity:

> "The most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing," Stallman wrote in his post last Wednesday. "Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates. I’ve concluded from various examples of accusation inflation that it is absolutely wrong to use the term 'sexual assault' in an accusation."

Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/17/richard_stallman_in...

[and in my opinion: it's the last sentence that made his statement wildly inappropriate. It's one thing if he wanted to raise the possibility that Minsky was deceived, and while incorrect it would be excusable, but his last sentence is a belligerent assumption of bad faith, and it is highly inappropriate for him to use such absolute language in denying sexual assault]
I love Nişanyan Sözlük! It's an incredible resource.

Anyway, Doerfer mentions the pierogi theory, attributing it to Ramstedt (see the last part of the screenshot I posted), but he says it's been refuted by Vasmer. (Presumably Max Vasmer? Wow, that guy had a hell of a career.)

There is the impression of something circular going on. If you look for būrak in the Dehkhoda Persian dictionary, you'll see that it was also known as a kind of yogurt soup/stew, with the name perhaps originating as an alternate form of the Turkic (!) bughrā. That, in turn, may be an abbreviation of bughrā-khānī, which you can find described, e.g. in Steingass's dictionary, as a pastry dish dressed with milk or gravy. (It was allegedly named after a ruler of Khwarazm.)

So, if you wanted to piece the whole thing together, you could theorize that bughrā-khānī was shortened to bughrā, from which the Persian būrak eventually derived—and then went back into Turkic as börek. This could also involve flexibility in the intended dish, between a stuffed pastry with gravy, and some kind of soup… maybe with dumplings? It wouldn't be the strangest instance of metonymy.

You know, it's crazy for me to revisit this topic. Some time ago I was trying to figure out a sixteenth-century Persian poem, in which there are references to bughrā'ī and māhīchah. The best I could figure out, it was supposed to mean a soup with pieces of pastry in it. It never occurred to me that this might be connected to a theorized etymology of börek.
Is there some reason for all neutron stars to have the same physical make-up and internal behavior? or could they fall into types?
Does anyone know why GitLab hasn't taken off so much amongst open source projects?

I have no horse in the race (indeed, I'd love for there to be more variety in this space) but one of my jobs is to link to open source repos and I've just checked.. and the last one I linked to was in December 2018. In the niches I cover, almost no-one seems to actually using GitLab for their open source repos.

Lest you think it's just me, compare https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com to https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=gitlab.com .. the first is packed with projects posted here on a daily basis. The latter? 13 project links in about 50 days.
I'm not a historian, but I doubt it. My understanding is that the middle east was quite a lot more civilized (for some conventional definition of the term, anyway) than most/all of Europe throughout most of the middle ages. I'm of the impression that the middle east only became appreciably more violent in the last century (oil-related conflicts in the middle east amid rising quality of life all over the world). I'm only speculating though; I'd be interested to hear from someone more knowledgable on the subject.
This article is deeply unsatisfying. Too much fluff for a very basic point: ctenophores are different kinds of organisms than we’ve come to expect. That’s it. “Different” appears 24 times in the article, almost every single instance of which is just, “ctenophores are different.”

There’s not much more information in this article than that. I was hoping for some compelling science writing. But this feels like a tiny story (for now) stretched way too far. In a year or five when there are some interesting hypotheses about WHY they’re different, then we’ll see.
> The OS will switch contexts regardless of how many threads you have

With IRQs pinned (via CPU mask given to the kernel at boot time) and application process pinning, there will be no preemption of the application process.

> Even with zero threads the OS will be context switching between processes anyways

No, this is what pinning is explicitly for.

> What you're trying to say is that threads might get starved due to imperfect scheduling

No, you've misunderstood
Found one white knight, defender of the Code of Conduct. :D

Don't you get tired of spreading lies about others? Are you happy about it?
There's plenty of ground between "Stallman shouldn't get a pass for years of varying grades of crappy remarks and opinions as a public leader of the FSF" and "the PyCon dongle thing got way out of hand..."
One of the few times I've seen a site that is mobile-friendly yet desktop-unfriendly.
Feel free to believe anyone you meet, or merely hear about, is a jerk.

The question is--should being a jerk be a fireable offense?
That is a good point.

And it seems that it applies to prostitution at other ages too.

But a lot of sex workers would challenge that.
It s not fun at all 2 years later though

And it s debateable if learning other people’s apis is fun
An example of a reusable rocket vehicle. Some versions had throwaway extra propellant tanks.

That road was not really taken until now potentially with SpaceX. (The Space Shuttle had design / political issues that made it operationally very expensive.)
I don’t know why this is being downvoted: it is actually true. I know it sounds ridiculous, but that is because tolerating his behavior for this long was ridiculous.
Sunrun has been doing this for a while.

[1] https://www.sunrun.com/solar-plans-and-services/monthly-sola...
> What if the answer is to kill social-media-as-we-know-it?

The answer obviously is that.

But the questions is, what if we can't?

(Spoiler alert: we can't.)
From the thread in question:

>When this email chain inevitably finds its way into the press, the seeming insensitivity of some will reflect poorly on the entire CSAIL community. Regardless of intent,
this thread reads as "grasping at straws to defend our friends" around potential involvement with Epstein, and that isn't a reputation I would like attached to my CSAIL
affiliation.

What do you think as an administrator if you see a comment like that about one of your prominent employees?
Yeah, I gave it a lot of thought, because being realistic who needs to build resumes every month?

I think having a 1 year access without recurring subscription is a nice way to be able to use the product (including updates) and not having to charge for something weird like single use/downloads.
As far as I know we don't have any recurring reports on data like this, though I think we may have mentioned it in the odd blog post in the past.
The only thing reliable on this is the names of the planets, the distance away, the mass and the possibly the elements it possesses. We don't know much about how the planet looks at all or if its atmosphere is a death trap. I think its pretty misleading to show a beautiful earth-like terrain.
Can you show me where he excused the actions of Epstein? From what I saw, he called him a serial rapist and said he deserved to be locked away in prison.
> inputs/outputs have a Neural Type, that describes the semantics, the axis order, and the dimensions of the input/output tensor

Does that really answer any of my questions? What's 'Neural' about the type?
My point still stands regardless of that for the fact that RMS isn't known outside of the FSF/Unix community.

If you ask the average punter on the street who RMS is, they would shrug.
Thanks for the feedback. We are working hard to improve performance and memory consumption of GitLab. We have two major projects underway, switching to Puma [1] as well as reducing the overall memory consumption of GitLab [2].

You can follow along on some of the progress we are making in each release post in the "Performance Improvements" section. For 12.2 you can see we had 58 MR's related to performance.

[1] - https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/puma.html

[2] - https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/development/en...

[3] - https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/merge_requests?scope=...
How would you know whether someone was coerced?

Would they tell you?
In what way it's any more "doable" than e.g. digging a tunnel through the Rockies with a spoon (or worse, a spork), given our current technology?
Yes, of course, how is this even a question?

I wouldn't want a person in my team voicing sexists opinions, I would want that person removed from the team. Let alone as a figurehead and leadership figure.
To be fair, I don’t think he said it wasn’t a crime. He simply didn’t think it equated to the same moral depravity as sexual (physical) assault, hence why he thought it should have a different term to describe it.

Not defending it, but characterizing his words correctly in context.
You’re talking about a man who was pedantic about language his entire life.

It’s not the same as a rapist saying “it wasn’t rape, she didn’t say no” especially since he wasn’t the implicated party.

In fact I don’t see him not stating it’s not a crime or not morally bankrupt by itself either.

Assaulted does carry a particular connotation does it not? Assaulted meaning, in the biblical sense: attacked.
This comment is about Forbes, and news reporting, not Richard Stallman, so no flames please.

Forbes twists the quote in the "topline" ("claimed [she] was 'entirely willing'"), then includes a more-complete quote two paragraphs later ("most likely 'presented herself to him as entirely willing'"). I don't know how an editor can see both of those things in their field of vision and think they're equivalent.

Again, ignoring the actual topic completely for the purposes of this comment, this is a good example to frame on your wall of how the "content industry" will squeeze any nuance out of a statement to generate clicks.
If they can get up there to chain themselves to the bulldozers, they can protest all they want.
Is iPhone's 11 camera worth the upgrade?
Is the idea that they are never refactored? I don't know that that's true, we see changes to the regs somewhat often: simplifications, clarifications typically?
GitLab employee here. Thanks so much for the kind words - I shared it on our internal Slack as a #thanks [1] to the whole team (and specifically our support engineering group who I agree are AMAZING).

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/communication/#say-thanks
Any feedback on how to make resumes more relevant is very welcome. That is an area I would love to improve.
Corporate usage.

GitHub is the standard so pretty much everyone has a GitHub account, companies ask for GitHub accounts on applications, it's the hub currently.

GitLab is the superior product in all regards, but GitHub has the network.
And doing so on a work related mailing list.
Not if you’re far enough away.
What I find most surprising is that nobody had ever done such a timelapse of a human body decay. Makes me think of all the other patterns of motion we could discover simply by filming everyday stuff at unusual sampling rates.
Their answer to "Q: What's the probability that when we roll 2 d6s and add up the results, we get 7?" could be shorter. It is 1/6 because after the first die produces a number from 1 to 6, there is exactly a 1/6 chance that the second die will produce a number giving a sum of 7. The probability of getting a sum of 6 from two dice is 5/6*1/6 = 5/32 using similar logic.
This example is just to show that pauses are not in the same class as any other fully managed languages. I haven’t looked at the code to know how much it stresses the garbage collector, but I agree it does seem unlikely to do so.

That said, being able to work on the stack does influence the design of the garbage collector. Throughput becomes less important because you can choose to allocate less, and pause time is more important because latency is harder to optimize. Latency is affected by your whole stack and can’t be meaningfully reduced by just adding more machines in the same way that throughput can be increased.