skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The ability to brush off the words of a respected superior (parent, manager, supervisor, etc...) is not equally distributed in the population. Female students have a disadvantage over male students, especially in fields that are male-dominated (such as CS or Physics), LGBT members are even more disadvantaged. The harm is in the compounding of a hostile environment, and when the hostility comes from a person of considerable power such as the famous Stallman, the hit is all the worse. Don't take my word for it, there is a lot of research on these social dynamics.

So the answer is that a respected person may not ever have any opinion that can be construed as offensive ever in their entire life? I mean in this case Stallman didn't even go to any effort to spread these ideas around. The fact that they are even known is due to the articles written about a few posts spread over the last couple decades.

Also I'm a little unclear about your references to female students and LGBT members...weren't the posts that people took offense to mostly regarding pedophelia? Did I miss his other writings?
I had an elderly friend (now deceased) who grew up in Durham, NC, in the teens and twenties. He knew the Duke family.

He told me a fascinating story about how the Duke family gave some Union soldiers cigarettes when they were in North Carolina during the war. After the war was over, some of those soldiers wrote to the Dukes asking them to send more cigarettes. They were hooked, and the Dukes realized they had a big seller. According to my friend, it was the basis of their wealth and allowed them to expand into other areas. (Duke Power was founded by the same family, for example.)

Their company, American Tobacco, was also the target of some of the first big successful anti-monopoly actions by the federal government.
Ah the old absolutist "doing something doesn't get us 100% of the way there, so we should sit on our hands" argument.
He built a global movement challenging people publically and he's happy to semi-publically state his opinions about sexual assault at the worst possible time, but he will stay silent about pressure to step down to be nice? I'm sorry, but I just don't believe that.
I think there are some to detect an specific product, but a not a general purpose detector. The relation between the chemical compound and the layman name of the origin is probably as difficult as detecting a cat in a image.

Current state of the art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_nose
Exactly, the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) says you have a right to ask a company that claims you owe it money to prove it.
You may expect that about firefighters, but people with the same definition of progress as you see that as a problem to be solved by lowering the bar.

I think you're also drawing a rather arbitrary line here, based on assuming the differences between young/old/male/female are purely physical. But that's clearly not the case. If you're looking for a salesperson for your motorbike store, you'll probably have more luck fishing amongst men than women and that's not discrimination unless your job ad literally says "no women allowed".

That said, I do agree programming is not a job where there's any obvious way or reason to do such targeting. But presumably these companies had reasons for making those choices. Why don't we hear their side of the story?
Subtle changes during scrolling seem way preferable to me than hiding content that, according to standards, should be shown.
Possibly, but even modifying your Jenkins script is a ‘burden’. Apparently their polling mechanism also makes that a bit painful.
But he was the leader of the free software foundation. Free as in speech.
> You can plant all the trees you want but as long as you're producing nearly 40 gigatons of CO2 a year, you're just making yourself feel good and getting some PR for your company/party/country.

Wouldn’t planting enough trees to gobble up 40+1 GT of carbon a year do the trick? I think this is the point of TFA.
>He is now likely homeless and his friends (such as Eric Raymond) have had trouble contacting him.

and as esr wrote:

>I guess he was sleeping in his office and can’t anymore.

But this hasn't been true for years.

>Until around 1998, my office at MIT was also my residence. I was even registered to vote from there. Nowadays I have a separate residence in Cambridge not far from MIT. However, I am rarely there, since I am nearly always travelling out of town.

https://stallman.org/rms-lifestyle.html
This exactly, sometimes you have to use something not because it is the best option, but because it is what your team is using, or because the ease of use is worth the performance drawbacks.
Yes, mistake do happen but you can acknowledge it, made improvement plan and move on.

I think the issue is you are viewing the killing solely from your own perspective and your own morality. While I understand it can be emotionally traumatic for you, for others it won't.

Just like killing animal, for some people it can be devastating and highly traumatic but for some other people it was nothing.
The only way to significantly alter CO2 levels is to shut down all the volcanoes.
> You can start here: https://medium.com/@selamjie/remove-richard-stallman-appendi...

Start with what exactly? What is this in response to?
What kind of support do you mean? Financial? Or more along the lines of joining and contributing to some project?
What I am curious why haven't we seen a quality mashup of a SE site? Some sort of interesting curation/filters etc.

Even the new CC-share-alike allows commercial mixins https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ .

So being that SE started with SO and thus heavy programming emphasis there should be a plethora of interesting mashups.

Instead the only SE content derived sites have been banal copies.
Can you link a source that actually spells it out that he did this, or did you just fabricate the story?
This article is complete garbage. I couldn't even read it in its entirety.

> If there are a large number of people in the United States who think that child pornography and sexual intercourse with minors should be legalized, this is the first I’m hearing of it

He never even said that!

This is just another SJW warrior pissed off about the fact that the reality differs from the fiction she has created for herself. People disagree, people are rude, and you WILL be offended sometimes, in the real world. And learning to deal with it is part of being an adult.
It's in the sphere of believability when it comes to Stallman. He's a pretty eccentric bloke.
But have you made it past the one-week mark yet?
You might want to ask yourself whether it's the fear of making the jump into working life that's holding you back. After all, academia is a lot like school, so it's what you've done all your life and you know very well what is expected of you.

I was a fairly good student and considered doing a PhD during my MA. However, I felt exactly the same way.

In the end, I tried a variety of jobs instead. Looking back, I feel like I've evaded a huge trap. Nowadays, I'd even say that dropping out after the bachelor or doing a more unrelated master might have been best for me. YMMV.
You keep going to extremes. I'm not saying everyone treats autistic people perfectly, I'm just not agreeing that most people are so repulsed that they feel physically unsafe around us and treat us like creeps. The act of socializing itself is exhausting to me, but I don't necessarily feel like I have to hide everything about myself, its more like I have to pay attention to how I respond to people because I might say something that's legitimately rude because my instincts about what might hurt a person's feelings are out of touch with most people.

I don't know that there's a better way for society to accept us than for us to do our best to learn normal social behavior and for them to be understanding when they see that we're trying, even if we fail. Surely you don't expect normal people to just get constantly insulted forever to spare the feelings of a tiny percentage of the population.

And obviously due to variance, bad luck, ignorant local populations/culture, etc, some autistic people will inevitably have a worse experience with people than mine.
I'd just awoid stinky people no mater their neural status.
You're only heating your structure that much when you're landing an entire spacecraft. If you just have a capsule going down its usually easier to have an ablative heat shield.

Also, it's a lot easier to foresee the weight of a design than its cost so most space programs use it as a proxy for cost. So generally the space industry would optimize for minimizing weight and not even try to think about how the materials used would affect cost.
Well, the GP is quoting Feynman, so I'm not sure he's endorsing that part of the quotation. FWIW I think it's another healthy warning sign suggesting not to receive Feynman's pronouncements about scientific method too uncritically. However it may also be that the situation is now actually worse than when Feynman wrote this.
I mean US income inequality is highest level ever recorded, but sure I'm the one who's unreasonable here.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/income-inequ...
This kind of exemplifies the problem with web development in general. 100vh would have been so intuitive if it worked correctly. This is why a lot of web devs hate CSS. One needs to remember so many hacks to get the webapps behave correctly! It's one of the reasons bloated frameworks like bootstrap become popular and all users pay the price.
There’s a judge and sometimes jury in civil cases. There’s still evidence rules. My comment stands with preponderance of evidence standard.

I feel like if all this was handed to a judge or jury it wouldn’t meet the standard for civil verdicts either.

It’s only when I see this stuff presented in the tumbler verse world of most uptweets is true or whatever that it seems to stick.

It’s certainly currently effective, but I don’t know how sustainable it is because it seems like a poor way to produce quality things.

Perhaps there will be a critical mass of people who just adhere to a rational ideal and break the boycotts to the extent where we can have a parallel world that ignores such style of medium-post fueled discussion.
> Is this what happened in the UK?

Not completely sure, but I think it is.
> True, and when squinting, the scenario is understandable:

> “High profile employee repeatedly receives negative press [ABOUT HIM BEING OK WITH STATUTORY RAPE AND PEDOPHILIA] so the organization doesn't want to be associated."

Yeah that’s pretty much it.

Yet here we all are, with so many people pretending not to understand it.
Chris do you want to chat? I'm a founder in this space. Can you add contact info here or on github, or open twitter DMs or something:) My contact in profile.
Yes, but.

I don’t Amazon anymore, but the reviews were and I assume still are completely unreliable for many segments. Too many players running to the bottom.

For other things, you need to know the market. Restaurants and hotel reviews are full of bad info (fakes, ultra-picky people, etc) but it’s easy to extract useful information. Usually the fakes have details that only workers would care about or are just pure praise without specifics. People on a vacation tell stories and business travelers usually complain about things that cost them time.

You also need to consider how you use a review. The stars are there to sell the product. I look for corroborated information about things I don’t like, and mostly ignore the positive. That doesn’t work on Amazon because the fakes are more common and brazen than real reviews, and Amazon facilitates the fakery as more reviews drive transactions.
I think it is safe to assume that the author is super good at reading comprehension. The SAT [1] scores of MIT students seem to be in the top 5% of population [2].

[1] https://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/colleges/MIT-SAT-scores-GP...
[2] https://blog.prepscholar.com/sat-percentiles-and-score-ranki...
Yes, sorry, and I'm usually a pedant regarding commas.

My friend has been handicapped since he was a child, incidentally. I'm well aware that some people have an entire life filled with difficulty.
I'm fine with that. There are weird girls who threaten to kill themselves too if someone is not going out with them. We are living in a weird world. Deal with it.
You haven't responded to my point here, this is just playing semantics and making me guess your definitions.

Despite how you are dancing around responses, from where I see it: You are clearly denying him a platform by saying he shouldnt be a 'leader' (ie. keep his posts). You are making that decision by institutions instead of individuals. You are holding all the worlds 'leaders' to your own moral views which is logically inconsistent.
Here's a couple I like that aren't over-the-top expensive or bespoke:

- LL Bean
- Patagonia
- Everlane
- Lands End

My general rule of thumb: Try to stick to natural fabrics (cotton, wool, linen) for most things. Synthetics can be good but most are really cheap.

If you're willing to pay a little more, there are some small shops still making stuff in America that you can feel good buying and will last a lot longer than your typical fast-fashion goods.
I mean primarily financial support, but I don't want to exclude a more direct contribution in the question. However in my concrete case it would be easier to donate than to engage directly.
Related(?): Vodafone Egypt uses MITM on SMTP traffic to strip TLS.
> Nowadays with CVT or with PDK it seems to me that you're merely making a "suggestion" to put the transmission into Neutral. If the transmission software is borked, you're screwed?

Nice thing about a standard transmission is that unless the linkage breaks you can always pull it out of gear, even under load.

> I'd say that you could always turn the engine off.

You can't necessarily turn a Diesel off [1], and I would not be surprised if modern very-high compression gasoline engines are able to pull the same runaway off.

[1] Big Diesel generators have countermeasures for runaway, but cars don't.
Tags can be curated or moderated like anything else, that's just an implementation detail. Sites like Twitter and lobste.rs seem to get by just fine with them..
Commercially unsuccessful projects*

There’s a big difference to Google execs between technological and commercial success. It must be very, very interesting to be a fly on the wall of their high level product management meetings.
Several galaxies have angular diameters when viewed from Earth of more than 1 degree. The Large Magellanic Cloud is 11 degrees! None of the planets in our solar system are anywhere near this big in the sky - the Moon is only half a degree.

Getting a brighter picture of something that's dim just requires collecting more light - essentially taking a longer exposure. But getting a sharper picture of something that's very small in the sky is limited by both the aperture of the telescope (the diffraction limit) and the atmospheric distortion, if you're viewing from the ground.
Why do both Windows and FreeType "faux italic" tilt the font too much for my liking? And why is the "point of zero tilt" at the baseline rather than 25-50% of the way up? This makes faux-italic text appear to be too far to the right. I feel like changing these 2 would make faux italic much less obtrusive.
> I don't particularly love studying

You need to introspect a bit more on what part of this is really true to you. You are already doing an MSc and that shows you are good at studying. May be you do not love pointless-studying. But no matter what degree you have in CS, you will have to study in your career to stay relevant in the industry

> I have no desire to become a professor

Good PhDs are usually good teachers. They do not have to be a professor and many are not. Teaching brings clarity of thought and improves your fundamentals. You could just ask your professors "why you need to be a teaching assistant" and check out if their answers make sense to you.

> I have no desire to become a researcher...and I'm really afraid of getting a boring software engineering gig.

Why pursue a PhD if you do not want to be a researcher? And who says software engineering has to be boring? You can chose what you want to work on and have just not found it. Obviously, a choice is easier for a PhD. But may be you can also look at being an entrepreneur (unless you dislike hard work)

> I'm also absolutely sick of living like a student with little financial freedom.

You have not even started on the financial part of financial freedom.

> Does anyone have any guiding advice?

My personal opinion - I find PhD to be too time consuming if it does not have a good purpose. I declined admission to PhD after working pretty hard towards that. I had been working on a certain topic of research for 3 years before that. My reason for declining was the quality of the faculties/mentors and the quality of research produced from the university. For next 2 years I did have second thoughts about whether I made a wrong decision. But I am happy with how my life turned out to be after that. However, if I had good faculties or good research produced I would have stayed

Look at the quality of the PhDs coming out of your college/university. Also check out if their research is actual research or some kind of documentation. You could even talk to or interview a few people who have spend 2 or 3 years attempting the PhD. Avoid the ones in the first year because they are more likely to be unhappy with their choice in the first year.

From your post, it just looks like you need a break. Couple of weeks off and you should be able to think clearly for yourself.
The common factor in all interactions with RMS is RMS. You can shrug off one or two incidents but not as many as there has been.
Same for in the US (atleast in Colorado). beamer.
It's an option in many places in the UK, but people often won't give out their email for a receipt because it also means that you'll be signed up to someone's shitty newsletter.

If I could pay on my phone and receive JUST the receipt, I'd be happy - but outside of receiving a copy of the receipt and having to flag future emails as spam, there isn't an option for this.
I think I have the same approach to the items I consider inexpensive (I would define it as forgetting about loss of money in a month if the thing turned out to be a total loss). But I see this "delay purchase" after reading negative reviews as a feature: it encourages a quick second look which occasionally makes me switch plans.

For things that are more expensive and/or long-term, for example a car (which I buy as new and drive until it truly starts falling apart) I tend to pay much more attention to negative reviews, either digging in for statistics or thinking about whether a particular feature being dissed is important for me. My 2c.
Future AI Toilets to Scan Poop to Diagnose Health Issues
That's both good news. Thanks for the update.
>they think that it's sometimes fine to have sex with children

From what I can tell from the snippets posted here, he isn't saying it's fine, he's saying he's seen insufficient evidence to form an opinion - and in such a state, he resists those who would force one on him with faulty reasoning. Or, to put it another way, he views morality with three responses [yes, no, I don't know], which causes friction with people who view it with two:

"Is involuntary pedophilia bad?" [yes] "Is all pedophilia bad?" [idk - insufficient evidence on voluntary or its inherent lack of existence] "Do you think that all pedophilia is bad?" [no - position held is idk, not yes] "Therefore, you think all pedophilia is good." [no - position held is idk, not yes]

A similar comparison might be being asked if you enjoyed an unreleased book, then using "no[, I haven't read it and formed an opinion]" to justify "you think the book is bad."

ETA: also, if he hasn't said more on the subject in recent years, it's silly to assume that he necessarily still hold these views or lack thereof.
"Someone could have been theoretically, emotionally harmed, therefore I must cause real-world harm!"
It just seems like an overkill and unnecessary requirement for a pixel editor. The first one I used ran just fine with software rendering on a 25Mhz CPU.
We use it. It's great. Extremely secure too, since you can sync over ssh without having to expose a web server at all, since your wiki, tech notes, and tickets get transferred over ssh with the repo then are accessed locally using `fossil ui`. Self hosting, and it is extremely simple to setup. Backups are super simple as well.
> No, but he did say that having sex with children is sometimes fine

Can you quote/link those instances since the two statements that you quoted don't say that at all.
AFAIK this only applies to partners who sign a contract with Twitch, but I assume there's some wiggle room, like in the revenue sharing.
Affiliates are only forbidden from streaming on Twitch and other platforms simultaneously [0]

[0]: https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/twitch-affiliate-program-fa... (Q. What do you mean by exclusivity for “Live Twitch Content”?)
No, it isn't.

The appropriate approach is to accept the evidence, and correct your priors based on it, even if it's not good enough to believe. It's not to fiddle with the evidence until it's something you believe is correct.

Of course, it's much easier said than done. I don't think any group of scientists is safe from repeating this.
They are afraid of other platforms, because they know their business will take a serious hit if there's ever serious competition. The cut they take off of subscriptions and donations is absolutely shady and unjustifiable.

Add to that the long list of twitch "anti-features" and they're on a good course to become to Quora of streaming sites. Can't wait for just lurking to become "members only".

Twitch would die in a heartbeat if they allowed multi-streaming (streaming to multiple platforms at the same time).

Their product is too easily replicated and most people don't care about the platform - they follow their favorite content creators.
China is adding millions of new drivers a year (they've had to institute a lottery to see who gets to apply for a new license because of the demand), they almost have more drivers than the United States does people now. They are also actively constructing new coal power plants and creating insane numbers of new roads. All of these things are increasing their CO2 output and with creation of massive amounts of road, removing the ability of vast swaths of land to sequester CO2. That's just China.

Never mind the fact that trees don't immediately start sucking up their maximum amount of CO2 as saplings, it takes a decade or more for them to start doing that depending on the species.
I think SpaceX's recent accelerating success has caused BO to change their model a little to be more like SpaceX, which combined with Bezos's deep pockets might let them be a real competitor
I commuted 6 years by bicycle in Luleå, Sweden. Now I live further south and the best snowfall I get is about a meter thick, sure that's an inconvenience but with good plowing that's no problem. The cold can be an issue, but even at -13F/-25C with proper clothing that is actually preferable for me, I've heard this can be bad in Chicago.

A one hour commute in the winter is not for everyone, but dropping by the store 1-4km away is practical.
I think reviews have lost most value, but mainly due to Amazon’s co-mingling of inventory, merging similar product listings, and overall massive counterfeit problems. Even if you have a high quality review from a trusted source (Wirecutter? Friends and family?) you have no way to know if what you receive will be equivalent to the thing they endorsed.

This happened to me recently with an exercise bike which was an absolute piece of trash compared to what my sister bought and recommended. It makes me want to completely avoid Amazon.
> They're in a professional environment, they shouldn't have to deal with this.

Tell that to all the millions of people who are happily married to people they met in professional environments.