skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not going to entertain any more ideas of "users are stupid and therefore cannot figure out an Ubuntu installation". It's extremely simple and I don't have that little faith in the average person. It's not hard, and I'd appreciate it if we dropped this stupid argument once and for all. It's defeatist and false.

>Yes, Windows is a nightmare for getting drivers working, but I have heard worse stories of Linux users complaining about X11/Wayland bringing down their desktop

In the last 10 years? This is no longer a problem.

>plus the graphical issues Wine has when running Windows apps and games.

The "average user" doesn't care. They want to read Facebook. See my previous comment.
Yes, with kids that works nice. Sometimes they are upset so I start to laugh for no reason until they cannot hold it anymore and start laughing as well. Well, sometimes they get even more upset, so use with caution.
Of course people are allowed to change their minds. But forgive me if I take a skeptical view of someone in their sixties suddenly saying "Contrary to my writings on the subject, I've recently learned that having sex with children is wrong"

Especially if that recanting happens to take place right as the shitstorm about his writings and behavior has started.
On Stimming and Autistic Authenticity
There are four lights.
For context, please also link to what his current thoughts are, where he's since changed his mind after being convinced he was wrong.

https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...
Learning to speak German is time intensive. The global utility of that language is on the lower end. I argue that OP should rather invest this time into (1) building his career, (2) professional+personal network and (3) exercise.

That said my assumptions are that OP wants to live in Berlin, is a young tech worker who does not envision today that he stays in Germany for more than 7 years.
Re-read this thread, plenty of examples have been given.

That you chose not to find these examples yourself speaks to your character.
> No. None of the things you mention is actually the issue.

> Diversity: It's not about opinion, but about an authority figure doing things that harm his colleagues. I could have the opinion that you're an idiot and a liar, but if we were working together and I would constantly say that in the workplace where everyone hears, I would probably get fired.

> Inclusiveness: It's not about ostracising, either, certainly not because of some mental disability. If someone harms his coworkers and won't stop, they cannot continue working.

> Fairness: Again, the problem is not opinions but harmful actions. It certainly isn't about conformity. Harming the people you work with is not some sign of genius conducive to creativity.

> I think that too many people are expressing strong opinions on the matter of sexual harassment and sexual assault without having studied the subject at all. Those are opinions based on deep ignorance of the matter.

I don't understand how any of this applies to Stallman. As far as I've gathered, most of the outrage against him are due to a few different posts over the last couple decades. Regardless of how morally reprehensible you think his views are, he's not saying them "constantly" and his actions certainly don't fit "harm his coworkers and won't stop".

Also you say it's about "harmful actions", but what harmful actions has he done? I ask this honestly and would like to know.

edit: Cleaned up the formatting of quotes.
So, basically, exactly what the article says, a big nothing. The plants thing is stupid, rms doesn't hate plants. Sarah Mei appears to have no special reason to hate rms, shes a well known person who is extremely negative about anyone in software who's said anything offensive, including Linus, etc.
It's like open source works or something.
It's voluntary, volunteering... there's no need for payment.

I say this as someone who has previously run for (and lost) a moderator role.
I agree, however every time this discussion comes up I feel conflicted about agreeing because it usually devolves into smearing the left, as if it was some monolithic entity.

You did not frame it that way, which I really appreciate, because I view myself as a leftist, but find these groups detrimental.

I refer to them as sofa activists, whose goal in life is to feel good, without actually doing anything that can't be done from the comfort of their sofa, that is most impactful, worthy changes.

In fact RMS himself is a leftist. The woke group is extremely vocal and extremely damaging to the left-wing movements worldwide, but it is still a minority.
Anyone have any thoughts on doing a PhD in later life? I don't need a career change or salary boost, but I'm very aware I've stumbled into data science (albeit very much on the applied side) without the right fundamental maths knowledge or research mindset. I read dozens of papers each week and even now I find them terribly abstruse.

I suppose I'm contrasting this to just continuing on with online courses and books - is the added structure, focus and community more transformative?
23, 24, 25, 26, yeah somewhere around there. That's a lot different to 30s. I had a colleague in Austria who got a very good PhD, with top-tier publications, all done in two years and out into industry.
Just to let you know, there has been considerable forestation taking place in Europe during the last 100 years:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/12/04...

Yet, somehow people in Europe think that a huge deforestation is taking place.
I think the worst of these is calling shoulder bags "bodybag" (because it's worn around the body, or something like that). Fortunately most retailers noticed that the term means something quite different in English and stopped using it.
Google Draws House Antitrust Scrutiny of Encrypted DNS
Maybe they'll get together and we humans will just stay nice and cozy.
and sometimes is not just the gender, getting hired if also good looking or at least good appealing
So is musing illegal now or what?

Can people still have controversial opinions without getting their lives destroyed?
Sticky footer, in this case, is not really sticky as in "always there as you scroll". It's more like: "always at the end of the screen, even if there's not enough content".
That article says

> followed up with a post relaying numerous first-hand reports from women subjected to Stallman’s harassment. One example:

The example it then lists (about Stallman at a buffet lunch) is the only "first-hand" report of harassment contained in the follow-up post. This is actually pivotal to the whole daringfireball post as he is purporting to have an ironclad case of harassment but there's only a single first-person account and an email he received about something happening to somebody else at VA Linux (I can't find any reference for Stallman ever being on the board of directors at VA Linux, although they changed their name a number of times which doesn't make things any easier).
Yes, now you're addressing my line of questions.

>But pure fraud? If you didn't even make an attempt to learn on the job? You'd get caught pretty fast as soon as someone started asking any kind of in depth questions about the models you were supposed to be training.

That's just what I mean. It would depend on someone asking you about it, right? (As opposed to being an iOS or Android developer or running microservices on the backend: in those domains nobody has to ask you anything, it's instantly obvious if you're not building and can't build anything.)

For machine learning, who is asking these questions?

If you throw data into a black box (3 lines of code) and are incompetent, can you please tell me a bit more about where you would get found out?

Let's use your example, ecology.

I show up, I get a dataset, and I put it into tensorflow using three lines of code I copy from stackoverflow.

I lie and bullshit about the details of what I'm doing, by referencing papers from arxiv.org that I don't read, understand, or actually apply. It's just the same 3 lines of code I copied on day 1. I don't do anything on the job.

How long could I last? An hour? A day? A week? A month?

Assuming I am outputting 0 useful work. I'm not doing any machine learning. Just 0 competence, or I make something up by hand or in excel.

I am trying to understand how people are judged.
Why would an image editor need Vulkan?
> you want to set the height of a div (i.e. an image) so it covers the whole landing area (what the user sees when the site loads)

I believe “what the user sees when the site loads” is often referred to as “above-the-fold”. “Landing area” may be interpreted to mean the whole landing page. Perhaps repliers were confused by the phrasing.
I don't need or buy nearly as many of the standard business casual outfits as I used to when I went into an office regularly. (Things have gotten even more casual at conferences etc. as well.)

But I've found a number of my go to mail order catalog places that I used to order from like clockwork have really gone downhill over time. I still buy from them sometimes but the quality definitely isn't what it used to be.
I have the feeling the people who fought back at the annoying closing and overly strict rules got pushed out, not vice versa.
Do Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky still a say in how SE is run? If yes, now would be the perfect time to step in and moderate the discussion.
Loss of self-organization in Earth's climate
Check out https://fairtransport.eu/, they've been doing that for over 10 years. The story of Captain Gustaf Erikson is also instructive in that regard: https://postcarbonlogistics.org/2019/06/28/captain-eriksons-...
Good point, thanks.

I'll also add some more context: These current thoughts on pedophilia were posted two days after the "Remove Richard Stallman" Medium post went up.
Well, yeah. Stallman didn't talk about this sort of thing publicly. His talks were on software licensing. This latest conversation, for example, was leaked because originally it was private.

> Can you link to the Australian law that shows the age of consent for coerced prostitutes is 16?

Here you go. http://www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/legis/nsw/cons...
This is really cool! Do you develop all of Mesh in itself exclusively, or do you still use a regular text editor as well? Either way I can certainly see this as being useful. I starred the project on GitHub and look forward to see what more is to come.

Aside from the SQL support you mentioned wanting to add, and the various todo-items, are you planning on going beyond the spreadsheet concept? For example with some type of node-based interface, like Unreal Engine 4 Blueprints [1], or like the materials editor in Blender [2]? I realize that might be a vague question, heh.

[1]: https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Blueprints/index....

[2]: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/shader_edi...
Show HN: Gym workout tracker app built in ReactJS
Because subjective opinions on programming languages (C++ good, Erlang less good) are really boring without some reasoning as to why.
being in Europe makes a big difference here I think.

in the US i know several people who did an MS, worked in industry, then went back for a PhD. it’s extremely possible.

i suspect this is less true in Europe, where the degree process is faster and more focused and where the hierarchical aspects of academia are much stronger.
That's wasted energy, not excess energy. If we're going to invest any resources into doing something productive with it, it will be towards doing something profitable. Who's going to invest a ton of money into infrastructure that doesn't pay anything back?

And I don't see how gas flaring has bearing here. If it's not profitable to capture carbon fuel that's right there, in the form a widely traded energy source - why on earth would it be profitable to burn it, to power a generator, to extract CO2 from the air, to turn it back into carbon fuel? You just end up back where you started. Surely it's easier to simply build a plant that can handle higher pressure surges, and ship the gas as-is. But it's not profitable.
If my doctor said "Yes, this is cancer, but it's so small and more likely than not to never become a problem. Come back in two months and we'll check again to make sure it's not becoming a problem", then I would be fine with that answer.
Why are some languages spoken faster than others?
I'd like to understand HN's ranking algorithm.

At the top of the frontpage:

- Mesh Spreadsheet - 66 points, 2 hours ago

At the bottom of the frontpage:

- In Defense of Richard Stallman - 463 points, 1 hour ago

Archive: http://archive.fo/Mc5qV
Now this started making sense :) I never realized it was named after a word for a projector. Perhaps because I didn't read the wikipedia article until now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_(LaTeX)
I think because it uses RGX and that uses Vulcan:

https://github.com/cloudhead/rgx
I see a lot of people arguing about mods being too strict.

I abhor the recent trend of content decontamination like many others do. But for Q&A sites like SE, I think it is a necessity to stay on topic.

Yes, some moderators might have been too eager in some cases, happened to me too. But since these people are all volunteers, I think they should get some support from the community.

I mean I might have to look for another job if SE ever gets shut down and a lot of knowledge would immediately be lost.

Many people seem to know some mods personally. I have spend a lot of time on that site and couldn't even name one moderator by name/handle.

Quite ironic that a site with a wealth of knowledge has problems with monetization. Some things in the internet economy seem to be quite off.
I find those completely different cases. Stallman didn't say what accusations attributed to him at all, and at least some stuff that is thrown around is clearly a misinterpretation for anyone who knows his autistic nature and context of being a person many people joke about. This situation is hardly related to the Eich one.
Or, people need to stop volunteering their time for free to commercial enterprises and then thinking that time investment gives them rights regarding the management of the enterprise.
Post-mortem on recent Cachix downtime
And in fact, there are laws against pollution because it's an externality, it doesn't make economic sense to the whole of society. Markets are good at maximising the total good in the case where costs and benefits can be totally internalised. Where you have externalities you see either overprovisioning or underprovisioning and in net, everyone is worse off than the rational outcome. That's where intervention is better than a market by itself.
It is unlikely that anyone was acting in bad faith here. Unless there is compelling evidence it is safest to assume that people were hasty and didn't stop to think and try to exercise a little tolerance and reflection.
"It's the fear, they're gonna take my job away,

it's the fear, I'll be working here the rest of my days . . ."

D.Fahl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRk3dJ0fGKE
That and including a standard scale for apparent width.

I always thought that photos of other galaxies resolved into specks the size of stars in the night sky. This composite of Andromeda and the moon blew my mind: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap061228.html
Surely there is nothing too strange about this? A light house can be seen from very far away, but you need not drop your keys very far away in a parking lot before they become impossible to find.
I don't really have a side here, I am not surprised in the slightest that people say things that others can find offensive (what a shocker).

However since we're in the era of unerasable past, its kind of expected for people to do dig up the past. I do wonder if "society" will start applying a consistency stick to what people say. I.e. if they have had a consistent view on say pedophilia in this instance.

On that note was Stallman consistent over time to this day?
I think I haven't really read an AMA for years now, they're all very bland now.
I am simply pointing out what can and cannot be deduced just from these CFRs. Evidence showing directly that the 737 MAX (without MCAS) was found to be divergent within the operational scope of the CFRs (which excludes, for example, CofG well behind the aft limit), would be more persuasive than these specific CFRs themselves.

Your comment about earlier 737s is informative, as the time taken to return to trim speed is not a parameter in the CFRs in question. Given that response time, could there have been any plausible doubt that the 737 MAX would require some additional form of stability augmentation? The story, as commonly told, is that MCAS was a response to an unanticipated problem, but now I am wondering if Boeing knew from the start that it would likely have to withold information in order to keep its 'no new training' pledge.

While we are on the topic of what the CFRs say, they also do not support the often-repeated claim that the purpose of MCAS is as a stall-prevention device, which is where this thread started.
He quit just a month or so ago. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2019/03/28/the-next-ceo-of-st...
currently, https://stallman.org/ says:

> I continue to be the Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project.
I do not intend to stop any time soon.

apparently the site was previously defaced by an FSF employee.
Autonomous Weapons Need Autonomous Lawyers
Are you... are you serious? Do you expect this to convince sane people? The disingenuousness on display in these threads is amazing.

"Maybe this is RMS's last-ditch effort to return to his glory days, when he could put abortion references in the documentation, and talk about virginity in his conference talks, and nobody would push back."

"I’m a CIS male and I’ve avoided GPL and every event he’s associated with in boston for over ten years because I didn’t like his macho-aggressive attitudes towards everything."

"If a women reports a FOSS hero, does anyone hear it?"

Oh, and for some reason pretty much everyone in these threads is either mistaken or deliberately lying about his recent comments about Minsky.

These people are trying to ruin someone's life and they're treating the entire thing like a joke.
There's also anti-flamewar system in HN that penalizes stories that accrue too many comments too quickly; I'm betting this is what makes this and similar stories drop from the front page very fast.
Same author as the original medium post, so I would assume identical agenda and a risk of cherry-picking and distortion of the incidents described.
Volunteering is a common concept in many communities. We have volunteer fire fighters, volunteer paramedics, volunteer librarians, volunteer social worker, volunteer ...

Some of these in fields, and sometimes even in close alignment to payed people.

In the context of SO there is a community producing Creative Commons (while there was recently a license change making the company less trustworthy) contents to help people and some people love helping others and the assumption is that the value this brings to all is bigger than the value for the company. Until recently the combination seemed to work. The company runs the platform to advertise their job boards and enterprise versions of SO and the community manages the content. But recently changes seem to be frustrating.

For comparison see also Wikipedia volunteers vs. Wikipedia foundation, Mozilla foundation&corp vs. Contributors, and even people happily submitting pull requests to Microsoft products on GitHub.
> There's a lot of flouncing resignations and "we need to talk" style essays also revealing little of substance.

I feel similarly, I've read all of Monica Cellio's posts and still have no real idea what is going on. Lot's of talk of DMs and messages and emails, but nothing concrete posted, just he said / she said, all while alleging personal innocence and purity.

If there is some concrete evidence and examples, put up or shut up. This is the internet, your word isn't worth much.
I was looking for something on Amazon the other day, my searches revealed dozens of odd-sounding brands that I had never heard of before, all of which had lots of 5-star reviews, all of which seemed to be for a different product than the one listed.
It is a mistake to let the issue tracker (Jira) drive tool selection instead of the developer tools (configuration management, continuous integration). Be cautious of the switch if your company is switching for that reason.
The analysis I have read here is far over-indexed on the technology and privacy aspects. Pushing a new messaging platform involves a fundamental change in consumer behavior and this in turn requires engineering, product, design, and marketing to execute in concert. This is why corporations continue to out-deliver Open Source in anything that touches the consumer.

“If we build it, they will come.” Is just a lazy fantasy that lets you stay in your comfort zone, fixing bugs, refactoring modules, and pushing features for the next release.

If Matrix is to succeed as a technology it needs a real, highly competent go to market team and strategy. And I think you have to build some very compelling user experiences to drive switching and combine that with import/invitation features and outreach (pushes, email, etc) to even have a look at the basket. Alignment across platforms is just table stakes.
Why wouldn't an image editor need Vulkan? It's gotta render something somehow.
Style is rather personal but for reasonably long lasting clothing without extreme prices.

Patagonia or other backpacking suppliers or mid ranged department stores between Macy’s and Nordstroms. The next rung up for most brands aka Banana Republic > GAP can be hit or miss, but you really need to give up on low end stores.

That said quality is visible when you’re buying. Ultra thin cloth just can’t last.
Why do you conclude that the cause is "natural interest"?

I've heard a number of other theories that also sound plausible, and they sound like problems that should be addressed.

Examples of other theories (not exhaustive): alienated by brogrammer/strutting/aggressive culture many places, discriminated against in hiring many places, harassed by some individuals, not trying due to belief that they'll be discriminated against, not trying due to belief that they'll face harassment or other hostile culture.
No not really. They didn’t have much value to begin with. Nothing fundamentally changed.
...I agree. I find it disturbing, how quick women are to bring up notions like "awkward" and "creepy" in discussions such as this. 80% of "awkward" is about social interactions unfolding in a way that are outside the norm. 80% of "creepy" is about being unattractive. Not being socialized to conform with the norms is mostly a function of your childhood upbringing. Not being attractive is a function of your genes. Both are elements of a destiny that is cast upon you from outside and not within your control, like what gender you are born into.

I don't see at all how an environment full of unattractive and not well-socialized people create an environment that is in any way hostile to women.

But superficial people who, when female, will play the feminism card against people who happen to be unattractive and not well-socialized do create a hostile work environment for the latter group.
I hope you watched the vid, if so, you will know where to look for published work
I’d like a first hand account and link:

> Someone else downthread also linked about how a woman he worked with on a Linux project had to be warned of his arrival ahead of time so she could leave because of his aggressive advances toward her.

Just an FYI the person who said that already had beef with RMS. I’d recommend reading fully into the situation - perhaps you still believe it, but at least you’ll know.