skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the written source material about him implies that he is dark skinned.

Visual representations of him
show him as blue for other reasons (mainly the comical stigma against dark skin).
It is almost impossible to get a nuke to accidentally detonate. Has nothing to do with the B52. Let alone 1 in 76, we’re talking 1 in millions.
Do you reckon that? You look back over your recalled experiences and see example after example of the kinds of people condemning Stallman putting up with misogyny, harassment, and advocacy for pedophilia among higher-status people?
Technically he doesn't have; but the whole GNU work would be worth of 10 PhDs and I bet many people did their own PhDs on top of work he did. If he was awared 1 or more honorary doctorates (implying the person is a doctor honoris causa), it might be acceptable to call himself a doctor, but not a PhD, which he didn't.
had a new "Socrates" that defended a serial sex trafficker* and made those who worked around him extremely uncomfortable very often. Also as others have mentioned, he still had a very full career and is most likely still doing what he enjoys, just not in the same context or places as before.

edit: never directly defended Epstein, my error. this does not excuse his other behavior in any way.
The attack on the legitimacy of the courts will fail this time around, just as it always has. The justices rule mostly with integrity and they’re mostly respected and protected.
This is neat! I'm definitely going to be making use of this :)
When depression is like a cancer
They are rare among the general population, but among celebrities they are common. They are given for speaking at the college's graduation ceremony so they are used to draw celebrities to speak at graduation. Sometimes they are even used to reward big donors.
Cool. Didn't know about free oracle vm. Thanks
I might be misunderstanding, but it’s definitely possible to emulate this feedback loop with statically typed languages.

For example, Haskell has the `-fdefer-type-errors` flag that will turn type errors into warnings at compile time and runtime failures if the expression that fails to type-check is evaluated.
I tried to verify this but couldn't find it. However, I did find that counter-hackers changed Morris' username from RTM to RTFM to get back at him [1], so I'm not sure he used the username 'rms'. Maybe the staffer got mixed up?

[1] Page 155: https://books.google.com/books?id=oLHMBK0iGkkC&pg=PA155&lpg=...
Apple has a bug bounty program, though some moves that Apple has made towards the broader security community has some questioning Apple's actual commitment to security, vs just being a clever marketing ploy.
> All the recountings of facts in the article are heavily couched within emotional language

So you agree there are facts in the article?

> This doesn’t make sense.
It is delayed by at most 1 second plus the update rate of the GPS (about 0.1 seconds), and gives current heading and speed. WAAS receivers are accurate to a few meters. For a plane following an instrument approach to intercept the ILS, it would be trivial to predict their real-time position given the information available.
Many advanced weapons systems are made by companies like Ratheon.

I guess I'm operating under the assumptions that behavior under capitalism can be influenced by pricing, but government vendors may be a bad example.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, but shifting the goalposts from airframe incidents to ordinance safety really doesn't suit this discussion.

The B-52 is an interesting case of a set of exceptionally long-service individual airframes, with current planned utilisation of aircraft built in the 1960s continuing through the 2050s. The original design being from the 1950s.

That said, B-52s likely have a lighter overall duty-cycle, are subject to risks not typical of most (though not all) airliners (hostile enemy fire), and yes, face consequences of incidents beyond the scope of commercial aviation, though my understanding is that live nuclear weapons haven't been carried as a routine practice since the 1968 Thule Air Base incident and the immediate discontinuation of Operation Chrome Dome:

https://military.wikia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_cra...
> Let me start by saying that most of my knowledge of this is from reading news posts and comments, I will not pretend to have an in-depth knowledge of this situation.

I'm in the same boat. I've been eyeballing things I've been seeing about him on HN as of late.

> However, as a counterpoint, do you really want to live in a world where the leadership is not determined by how skilled you are at your craft, but how well you conform to a conventional morality? RMS has done some things that don't conform to that morality, and some things that go against my own sense of morality.

I won't look at this in a binary way. True, I'd choose to live in a cave, rather than in a community where all leaders are selected solely on their social conformance. However, work or any other activity where it is done with a group, people bring merely more than their skills. They do bring their culture, their personal touch as well, and under circumstances where this social side is extremely irritating, it could override a decision on whether to include this person into the group. That being said, how much we should care about one's persona is a complex problem and I am refraining presenting an opinion about it. From the looks of it, in this particular instance, people think it was significant enough.

His resignations are going to be a net loss for everyone, but I refuse to believe this damage has been inflicted by the community. He is the sole responsible of his mouth. If you want to bring change, then the burden of being accepted lies with the individual, him, not the community.
The Twitter bullies will be so happy and think it was their voice that made the difference. In truth, they are nothing without the antifreedom Twitter mods promoting their hate.
Do You Want to Make a Great Side Income in 2019/ 2020?
It ended up being an out-of-court settlement. The parties were _very_ litigious. I was only involved as a contractor on public records requests. I want to be insanely careful about giving much in the way of details. I know that doesn't do much to bolster what I wrote, but I also need to be careful about exposing myself or a Customer to any liability. You can find the kind of cases I'm talking about by searching for "FAPE" (free appropriate public education) and "ADHD", "disability", and such.
If people were actually committed to enforcing the ethics they espouse then there wouldn't really be a question, if such options were available. I agree that these are the things the discussion is ultimately about, and free software foundations taking it seriously might make it possible to be more than just a hobby ecosystem.
Well, I went to MIT, I worked hard to get a degree (and not even a doctorate) there, I was on the mailing list because it was the mailing list for my own department, and I watched this guy email the list basically every other day with some inane comment signed "Dr. Richard Stallman," often with a lot of genuinely smart people patiently explaining to him why he was wrong, none of whom he would pay any attention to.

Is that enough examination for you, or would you like more?
In the late 80's the FSF had some machines at MIT you could telnet to without a password. they were a mess.
What about pyrolysis? Anyone know how feasible that is?
Shawn Porter vs. Errol Spence Jr Live
https://www.reddit.com/r/indexnaiball/comments/dan0ko/officialreddit_spence_vs_porter_live/

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Consumers have the power to stop using Google.
Agreed. It amazes me that we got out of the XML-for-everything era with a lot of people thinking the problem was XML, and not the for-everything part. JSON-for-everything is just as maddening to me.
I mostly agree, but I wouldn't call HN a pitchfork community. It can definitely get that way at times, but I think nuance is welcomed and generally encouraged here. Definitely the only way to keep it that way is to keep promoting it, so don't get disheartened. There's still hope.

> It is so easy to sit in their comfortable offices and homes and philosophize about privacy when you have no skin in the game.

And I definitely agree with this. But that's also why I made a big point into that lack of encryption actually gives these agencies more work (if we look at history). The problem is exactly what you note though, there will always be failure and we ask why they can't stop near impossible things to stop. Post hoc analysis is always easier than in situ.
> The vast majority of the informed peoples of the EU campaigned

I wonder where those informed people got their information from.
If you read the (short) story to the end, you will see it was first reported by the New York Times.
At a local group we have weekly meetings where we cook dinner. Two people cook, and two people do the dishes.

I used a SAT solver (z3) to find optimal schedules given that people want the tasks to be distributed fairly, but also given other secondary criteria such as mixing up which pairs cook together, prevent being assigned a task two weeks in a row or getting the same task twice in a row, etc.
Your threat model isn't the set of actors currently attacking you, but rather those actors who can and might attack you in the future. Your ISP is certainly adversarial in any sane threat model.
The article indicated the crack was found not during a regular inspection, but during modifications: "Boeing notified the agency of the matter after it discovered the cracks while conducting modifications on a heavily used aircraft."

And they only found the cracks in other aircraft after specifically looking for it after they noticed the crack in the first aircraft, so it doesn't sound like something checked as part of routine maintenance.
Quote: "Quite to the contrary, the gravitational pull of the Sun far exceeds the gravitational pull of Earth! The only reason we don't notice it is because you, me, and the entire planet Earth are in free-fall with respect to the Sun, and so we're all accelerated by it at the same relative rate."

That seems off...googling suggests that the acceleration due to the sun at earth's orbit is a tiny fraction of 1G, and conversely, to have an acceleration of 1G would require going well inside Mercury's orbit.
Avoid 100vh on Mobile Web
Running your own recursive resolver on your own machine doesn't address DNS privacy; in fact, it does the opposite, making your DNS lookups even more attributable. Of course, you can run your own resolver on a network somewhere else, and then DoH to it, but then you're just making my point for me.
This is sad, but it was also bound to happen eventually. I went to one of his talks a few years ago, and what had been billed as a one hour talk dragged on for almost 2 1/2 hours. After the first hour, people were getting up and leaving. Whenever anyone did, he would call them out from the stage. It was very awkward.

While I believe strongly in Free Software, I think the movement would really benefit from a new more charismatic leader, someone from a younger generation. I hate to say that because RMS has given and sacrificed so much, but times have changed.
My fear is that platforms start using DoH, bypassing local dns privacy resolver such as pihole, for tracking purpose. I have a nVidia Shield and I can see how many requests to tracking domains it does and if nVidia or Google uses DoH, I will not be able to block those requests.
Ah. Yes. And interestingly put.
Oh nice! I'm surprised I missed this.
> To be fair, [his Wikipedia page][2] seems to suggest that he's done enough work to have potentially earned a real PhD, had he been enrolled in a PhD program.

I see nothing to suggest that. A PhD is fundamentally about doing research to push the boundaries of knowledge. He may be responsible for an impressive amount of software, but replicating what already exists (most of the GNU tools were about rewriting the UNIX utilities from scratch) doesn't qualify a whit towards a PhD.
What Brought You Here?
9/11 was a conspiracy.

But because the official theory about it is very shaky, alternative theories (some insane, some not so much) are bound to sprout.
I had the same thought in this discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/daif4f/doubling_the_sp...
A lot of the examples are just reimplenting cut.
If the issue is the automatically extracted answer, does this new change solves that? Is there any meta tag to control that?
It is an interesting question. I've personally found that most venting and catharsis leads to repetition and maybe even strengthens existing patterns. Contemporary work on trauma (Bessel van der Kolk, Peter Levine, Gabor Maté) regards catharsis as retraumatizing and works instead with "titration", i.e. re-experiencing and expressing just a little at a time.

On the other hand, I've personally experienced a cathartic process that—as best as one can trace these things—brought real change, so there's no single answer about this.
If a tech company I worked for unionized, I would leave. I’m not in a single company town where everyone has worked at the same place their entire lives. Tech companies face fierce competition for talent, and it has worked out quite nicely for the employees.

I wouldn’t want some outside organization coming in and forcing me to pay dues, demanding changes to the structure of the company, devaluing my equity, and making it impossible to fire poor performers that make my job harder.
Are you referring to Team Topologies?
The data linked doesn’t indicate that was the primary reason, there is a small dip in GDP per capita (-10%?) for India/China but it was basically flat.

Looks like before industrialization the richest countries were only moderately better off. Once it began to take off that gap became enormous.
yup, i agree w/ your edit; looks like media dropped the ball and went for what'd sound most outrageous. which especially sucks bc the original medium post was very well (and earnestly) written. press coverage did a disservice to all those involved.
This is why I don't use the word "science" when discussing "science" subjects. When I see the word "science" being bandied about, I take it that the person is NOT understanding what they are trying to discuss or do NOT have any ability to discuss the subject in a clear and precise manner.

The word carries too much baggage and for many discussions there are better, more precisely defined terminology to use.

My opinion only and may not at all work for you.
I don't understand the point of the first line: Murder is also only done by violent people breaking the law but we still have laws against that.

The second line is also confusing... I wrote there should be UBI/exit programs because there aren't.
I don't get why he doesn't simply apologize, take a few months break from publicity to think things over and then move on.

Instead he seems to prefer to step down from what he has been doing for the last 30 years. Does he really regret nothing?

On a human level I sympathize with the women he has offended (I know the story is also about his behavior over the years), but I also worry about him as well, I hope he stays in good health and spirit.
Well, they are having to align some number of sensors ensuring sufficient overlap to ensure that they can process the images together. This means they either are warping, aligning, and combining the image into one frame to do processing (computationally intensive), or they have significantly more overlap to ensure that one of the frames contains the entire face (storage intensive), or they are doing some super-resolution processing trickery with lower resolution sensors.

500MP x 10 ips is 5 billion pixels per second that they have to process, that is equivalent to processing 20 4K30 streams at once, even without taking into consideration the extra data you would need, then you actually need to store the data somewhere and do the facial recognition. How many of these do you think would be reasonable to have in an area?
How are you going to get that source code onto your phone, when loading unauthorized code becomes illegal? Who are you going to talk to, when everyone else is using the approved apps? Try to think ahead a little. This arrogant naive thinking is how geeks lose and politicians get it wrong while you're not paying attention and then everyone ends up living with the consequences.
The better solution is to get more people involved in politics, then we will realize that if everyone votes, no one benefits therefore government should be limited.

I can dream....
Attempting to make this illegal isn't going to work. Even regular people have this kind of power now. A modern cellphone camera with a good vantage point and some decent software has sufficient optics and resolution to track thousands of people. Check out the zoom capabilities of Huawei P30 as an example.
> defended a serial sex trafficker

What? RMS never did any such thing.

Citation needed.
The Two Squares Puzzle
> It's not really the garbage seller's business whether it is recycled into fire or buried. They aren't harmed.

Apparently the companies use artful language to imply certain processes without specifically naming them:

"All three companies make green promises on their websites and in promotional videos, using buzzwords like "sustainability" and "environmental solutions." One Waste Connections video goes as far as to say, "sustainability and becoming more green … have been hallmarks and backbones of Waste Connections from the day we formed the company."

But if any company specifically contracted for recycling and did not recycle, it is a breach of contract with possible repercussions.

Recycling requires that the materials return to the market at a certain point, but it does not require a short window of time between collection and processing of materials.

This is where some creative lawyering can go a long way: if you can say that you're going to process it at some indefinite point in the future, you're not comitting fraud unless the contract defines an specific time limit, specific technical processes, and an specific destination for the processed materials.

I don't think commercial contracts that meet all these criteria are viable at scale.
You have to kill some of them to put the others in place. If you add 90 slots you can just fill the new 90 slots with your guys. That’s the theory of his statement.
> If you keep making mistakes that get caught in testing

Ha, yea. I can get behind this. There are times that one dumb thing causes the entirety of my tests to crumble and I'm always admittedly laughing saying "that's why we have tests!"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/famed-mit-computer-scientist-r...
All I see there is a thread in which you proposed encrypted messages by XORing them with zeroes.
Which is good, since it hasn't really had one since 1990 or so.

Has anyone else noticed that Stallman hasn't been effective, outside of the hard-core FSF, in a very long time?

I'm a big fan of the GPL licenses. I'm a moderate fan of the FSF. But geeze, Stallman has been a liability in terms of the outside world for a long time.
It’s effective for _known_ domains, active analysis of your IoT device would eventually show all communications made.

I find it easier to just put the device in its own VLAN with zero internet access. Like the author has said, there’s no clear cut solution.
Do you have a current rss reader you use? Will you be moving all your feeds to this reader?
You’re aware that the major professional sports in the US are unionized right?

Do you think the competition for talent for them is more or less fierce than it is for you?
I just hope his next step is not going to be a suicide... RMS, hold on tight, many people are grateful for what you did for free software!
Pretty sure he made all of them up.

I can't find any confirmation he didn't.

He certainly made most up. It would be seriously easy to match someone you actually murdered to the real incident if you wanted.

Even 20 would still impossible without solid matches by now.

Given the number, he will eventually match in an unknown case reasonably well, so I'd like to know more about the one 'match'

Life isn't a movie. The fact they think he has a photo graphic memory only goes to show they are easy to fool.
Strategies for Long Projects
it's kind of rude, it's a bit like Google showing large snippets in the web search results so that users never have to leave google.com
I remembered teachers constantly acting like we had 20 minutes between classes, so we had no excuse if we didn't have the time to do everything from taking a shit to printing resources out at the library between classes. Of course, they also wouldn't let us out of class in time ("I dismiss you, not the bell!" power trip). In reality, the time between classes was used up just commuting between classes and changing your textbook from the locker.

I also remember so much downtime during class that I would regularly sleep in school. So the idea that bathroom breaks need to be some scarce resource is ridiculous. Not to mention any time you need that privacy whether it's GI issues or adjusting your colostomy bag or whatever.
Same here and can confirm the scoring is up to the teacher.
I've always thought that one the the biggest benefits of democracy was to provide a mechanism of power transfer / competition between groups of elites that uses the votes of the masses rather than the blood of the masses as a medium.
I’m quite amazed this isn’t already a thing.

It doesn’t seem to work though - on my iPhone X it just says ‘multi camera not supported’
Agree that pushing things under the rug doesn't help anyone but displaying vulnerability is a no-no for men. Men are not defective women. They need to process emotional thigns from a masculine emotional frame of streght, not vulnerability. In nature, when low in the status social graph, masculine homo sapiens are the disposable gender. Other people won't run to create emotional safety nets or safe spaces for them. Every men knows this deep inside.

At the same time I do think is totally okay to share that something is affecting you as a men but, if you are a man, is not good to express it from a feminine emotional framework. I has to be somehow preprocessed in a masculine frame:

"hey guys, let me share this with you, listen... I've been experiencing A, B and C and I see is causing D and E and affecting me in this F way... is that okay? Is that what we want? I think if we can review it in this X1 way it will be good because A1, B1 and C1 reasons... but if this isn't going to change I need to know because I'm a man with options and I eventually need to define if this is working for me, so I need to know it"
Maybe not everything is about scaling it up?