skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Traders want deal flow. They also need to trust counter-parties. It really isn't in anyone's interest to have a market participant who mis-prices everything, because they won't be able to both buy and sell (and they will likely soon be out of work). Even pretty dumb traders will quickly realize when it's me, it's not everybody else, whose model is wrong.

Now, it's a whole different story if you are not a trader, for example you run a massive pension fund, a university endowment, a government treasury, etc. In that case, the investment bank's attractive salespeople will invite you to golf at a famous country club, a helicopter tour of the city, dinner at the best steakhouse in town, all while lying through their teeth about the value and safety of the financial product you're about to purchase.
"Imagine the world where people were held accountable and called out for being dicks.."
Bushnell* writes a very reasonable piece. It deals with a number of issues with Stallman as a leader of the FSF and MIT and suggests Stallman is unlikely to come back to either of those institutions.

But he doesn't deal with what the big problem here is - the way this was done is concerning. Stallman wasn't forced to resign by people like him - who are quite happy to say "Look, Stallman, you've dedicated your life to this, you've done good work, but we want to take the movement into a more mainstream place".

Stallman resigned in the middle of a press firestorm, based on lies, with people publicly accusing him of supporting someone he called a 'serial rapist'. He is now facing large numbers of people retroactively justifying his treatment by spreading various rumours that may or may not be true but certainly can't be enumerated and assessed for accuracy. They are unfalsifiable and undebunkable because so far there is very little substance and a lot of hearsay. I've seen the odd comments justifying all sorts of weird assumptions, in one case literally because 'he was an eccentric bloke'. This is gross pigeonholing and stereotyping.

This is not a reasonable process and the outcomes are horrible. Stallman has literally dedicated his life to trying to make the world better for other people. He was bought down by leaks by someone who now says "Did I even really know who Richard Stallman was before those emails? To be honest, not really" [0]. This is not how these things should be done and it bodes very poorly for the future of the FSF. Not only is there no particular reward for leading the FSF, there is also the risk of being publicly shamed and driven out.

There is a difference between leadership change by mob rule, and leadership change by voting and process. This isn't a sustainable way of doing things. It is really bad.

[0] https://medium.com/@selamjie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec2...

* EDIT - Thanks yakshaving_jgt for pointing out I said Paul. Moment of confusion, although fortunately not one that obscured the point.
Here in Victoria, Australia they love advertising that cameras are here to save lives. In reality they generate $700 million in revenue for the state yearly and do jack all to stop speeding or red light running - motorists just learn where the cameras are and continue their habit.

Every couple of years the Police demand pay increases by parking and turning their lights on where cameras are located. It's fascinating to watch.
Somewhat interestingly, the rat-studying scientist Feynman refers to in the linked piece discussed body postures in animals to some degree in [1] back in the 1940s. No mention of Power Posing directly but it's just a curious coincidence. Maybe it means something! (Just kidding)

[1] https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015026431919&vi...
No, the earth doesn't need our "saving", that's a very self-righteous view to hold imo. What we are attempting is really to save our own species.

I don't know why, I've never really shared the concerns that our species must go on, just like how some people believe if they don't have children and their bloodline ends there, it's a terrible thing, but for me if that's the case then that's the case.

I honestly feel like maybe it's causing more harm to put people in anxiety and depression, and to tell our kids that we're all gonna die when they're just getting to know the world.

But that's just me /shrug
I’m glad to see you enjoy policing language as much as Stallman’s detractors. Most would consider it “rude” to invent something out of thin air that was not actually said and ascribe “violence” of intent to it - but, again, seems right in line with this thread.
When you say "the world we want to have" I think you mean "the world I want to have" since most people seem to want a world where they primarily consume media. I think most people would say that the moral good is optimizing for consuming media, because that is what they want to do.
They’re profitable.
> Better to try and understand everything about them and their formation, then try to create as accurate a simulation as possible.

Why is that better? Learning if they can support life seems far, far more valuable and practical than better understanding of its geological history.

If crops can grow in it, then a moon base becomes far more practical, and with a moon base you'll have all the rocks you want for further study.

I.e. priority should go to "what do we need to know to build a sustainable moon base". Understanding solar formation history is of doubtful immediate value.
I'm utterly tired of the way tech executives are dressing nowadays; this audience clearly doesn't believe it matters in the slightest, but I'm challenging anyone to come up with some inkling of why it actually might --
> since [Google] has no customer service, it's hardened to PII based social engineering,

ftfy
Encryption, in email? lol...

This is what happens when end-to-end encryption isn't the default in communications software. All email providers are vulnerable to this bar none.
There was a really interesting post on this topic recently where you have a circular array of circular arrays of size sqrt(n). [1]

The result is you can do O(1) access, O(sqrt(N)) insert and delete at arbitrary indices, and O(1) insert at head and tail.

In terms of big O this is strictly better than:

- arrays: O(1) access, O(N) insert/delete in middle, O(1) insert/delete at tail.

- circular arrays: O(1) access, O(N) insert/delete in middle, O(1) insert/delete at head and tail.

- fixed page size chunked circular arrays such as the c++ implementation of std:deque which is still O(N) for insert and delete. [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20872696

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6292332/what-really-is-a...
What a confusing sentence. Are you saying the people who at mischaracterizing observations as claims are doing so because they are projecting their own positions?
Flu Vaccine Selections Suggest This Year’s Shot May Be Off the Mark
I dunno. I read it as ABC is "call you a hypocrite". I mean it's strong phrasing, but ... your concern seems more of a personal hot-button.
Journal 'Nature' retracts ocean-warming study
I think it's just an AI produced troll comment.
As "Twitter" is a foreign word.there is no set standard to it.

If I were to write it, I would write "tv" first. And draw an extended variant of "I" to cover "tv"

In text rendering, this translates to a custom ligature for an unexpected combo. I am not sure how feasible it is to add ligatures for every such combos

In real life, as long as the reader "gets" it, they would assume that it is the right way to write it :)
But ultimately in those alienating conclusions you were _right_, how do we forget this? What does it make us to disregard uncomfortable truths?
Fascinating piece. The rider provided there lest we imagine glorious things about plant intelligence is interesting:

"Richard Fortey, a former professor of paleobiology at Oxford and paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London, scorns the idea of “smart plants.” “It’s so anthropomorphized that it’s really not helpful,” he told Smithsonian. “Trees do not have will or intention. They solve problems, but it’s all under hormonal control, and it all evolved through natural selection.” These “magical” notions of plant intelligence are worrisome, he says, because people “immediately leap to faulty conclusions, namely that trees are sentient beings like us.” "
Applications to medical schools suggest the contrary.
I see this a political problem rather than a technological one. Obfuscation certainly helps, but it's still death by 1000 cuts. Even if information is sufficiently hidden in 2019, it might be retained for many years and eventually decoded. Modern privacy issues were pretty unforseeable when most democracies were founded, and seems to be the kind of thing that constitutional amendments were intended to address. I dont know why there isnt more political will surrounding this despite the level of discontent. Maybe people assume that problems arising from tech can only be solved with tech.
Anyone else just impressed by the writing of the article itself? They made a very good effort of providing benefits over traditional radial flux electric motors and how theirs was difference as well as measurable improvement numbers.

I hope they succeed.
They'll just move to outright thievery, aka civil forfeiture.
Let me give you an argument from a functionalist perspective, as a designer -- If you're never going to wear a necktie, why bother ever wearing a collared shirt?

The collar is in place to hold the tie, you don't need a tie, you don't need a collar, so don't wear one
More moderators resign from all Stack Exchange sites
> RMS had that skepticism resolved with knowledge by those who actually discussed the point

Then he should directly comment on all of the statements on the subject he has made over the years [1], particularly since they still exist on his personal website in unedited form, and are easily linked. Honestly, he could easily go back and write an "Updated: I no longer think this because X. I held this idea for a long time because Y."

He hasn't done that. He's free not to do so if he chooses, though I think this is one of the things he needs to shore up if he is to recover his reputation. I had no knowledge of these quotes prior to this incident, and while I still support free software, I will look to other folks for leadership on the topic.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=pedophile+site%3Astallman.or...
“Immoderate Menses” or Abortion?
Love the look and setup, just can't get it to work though by just entering plain forth such as
3 4 + .

I get no result. Any trick to get this to work (using Chrome)
It's the general pattern of Stallman going off on some obtuse point and making a mountain of out things you didn't even know were even mole-hills.

It's this exhausting, endless series of crusades against these utterly ridiculous things because of some kind of poorly defined principle.

Like history has decided hundreds of years ago that singular "they" is entirely appropriate, just as singular "you" is in common-use. Language changes. That's why we don't write "ye" any more, mostly because we decided to kick the letter þ (thorn, or "th") to the curb.
Chris Putnam, who used to work at Facebook, did almost exactly the same thing with videos.
That depends on your definition of shitty ADSL. My old ADSL wasn't just slow, it was unstable and would regularly starting lagging out / having massive pings which would then go away and come back. Three years of talking to the ISP and I got nowhere. I now live in an NBN area and get Fibre to the Curb with 80MBPS down, I can now truly work from home.
Keep in mind that Stallman maintained that Bushnell stopped answering emails for two years, and that was the reason for firing him.

Seems like he still holds a grudge.
Ping pong.
Yeah, I kept waiting for the article to mention covariance and contravariance, and it never did. A very weird explanation of a not-that-weird phenomenon; I suspect the author didn't really understand what's going on.
IBM Hat doesn't need it, Google probably thinks they're too smart for it, Amazon doesn't pay for open source... hello Microsoft. Docker Hub + Github = Microsoft Hub?
It's too late for me my friend!
Yes, remember the covington kids? I happened to be with a black guy when it was on reddit and he said that he wanted to "fuck his ass up". WITHOUT TAKING THE TIME TO EXPLORE THE OTHER SIDE. If you point this out to someone who engages in outrage culture, they don't want to hear it, they've already made up their mind.

Face it, the media words things in a way to generate clicks and ratings points, not for accuracy.
Those aren't that uncommon. We have the choice between a work provided phone and carrying 2 phones when on call, or a BYOD situation with a credit on our cell phone bill and only one phone. Either way, PagerDuty only rings us when we're on call.
great idea - going to give it a whirl this week.

i'm curious about the slack integration. can you provide some more info on what that looks like? eg. just a message in real-time when it goes down? a daily message of statuses? etc. Any sort of customization w/ it?

I currently use a soup of zapier zaps to take care of this problem.
Simply- google has outgrown it. No inside info but it’s unlikely that finance.google.com will ever grow past $xxx million/billion revenue per year, so its more profitable for google to keep rolling the dice on chat services.
When will I stop being even slightly surprised that Google has abandoned yet another one of it's sites?
Flu vaccines reduce your odds of going to the doctor by 40-60%. It is still worthwhile to get the flu shot. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/vaccineeffect.htm
I haven't seen this, but things like PagerDuty solve this. If you're not on call, your phone doesn't ring.
Duke Nukem 3D Composer Sues Gearbox and Valve
I wonder how many outages these days start with something like "kubectl apply" and then things go horribly awry.
I'm talking about the founders of the religions here, not entire cultures.
Kind of meta, but I don’t think Hacker News downvotes are being used as intended in this thread. There are a lot of well constructed arguments exposed in a polite manner that are downvoted.
That techno music makes me feel very empowered.
Is he actually autistic? Or is it a convenient diagnosis people give him to excuse his behavior?

(I can't find any actual reference to him being autistic on the web. Please enlighten me.)
I think the problem is a css issue, I can't see the 2 buttons at the bottom :)
Honestly I'd like to see one of the webmail providers do a decent attempt at gpg. The web migrated from a primarily unencrypted state to an encrypted one - it's not impossible with the right UX.
You might believe that questions of this nature don't belong on HN, but they certainly do when viewed from the perspective of semaphores -- human beings are going to communicate on all possible wavelengths and that includes the visual

The audience of this video is processing visual information and then audio, in that order, if you want your message to have some kind of impact you need to provide more visual cues than an unbuttoned neckline
Sounds like the description of a miserable circle of hell from Dante's inferno for me.
It will be lent out to people who can pay. If poor people can't then they won't, but I mean, it will be lent out to people less rich than the ones lending. That may mean middle class too. Still transfers from upper to middle are indeed wealth redistribution.
> Hard to believe it's even the same author.

I had the same thought when I read Zodiac, after first reading his later novels. It makes Snow Crash more clearly part of a progression.
Hey,
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Perhaps this author is unaware of the number of statements Stallman has made regarding pedophilia on his website over the years [1]. If RMS has changed his point of view, he can go back to those parts of his blog and add an update.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=pedophile+site%3Astallman.or...
'Being bad to the environment' is not actually against the law, especially not in those terms. Perhaps you are confusing morality with law and trying to hold people liable for the former rather than the latter.
I Can Eat Glass
> If someone wants to host the raw files to allow others to download it let me know. It is a 83 GB tar.gz file which uncompressed is just over 1 TB in size.

Some of the cloud providers have free hosting for public data sets (people who use the data incur cost to download/process the data). I'm not sure if this would qualify.

* https://aws.amazon.com/opendata/public-datasets/
* https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/open-datasets/
Apparently these days Excel has a bunch of features like that for data cleanup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqV9BlxEG5s

Horribly patent-encumbered, of course, so you can't use it outside Excel, but still.
You say kneecapping unions... I say not being a slave to an institution that doesn't represent me.

You say "they have every right not to take the job"... I say "if Unions were worth the price, they wouldn't have to force membership"

I'm not following? I know what unions are and what they aren't.
I'm not sure which person you didn't bother to Google, but the one I quoted is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Garrett

Stallman is currently a topic of public interest, so it's unsurprising that people are commenting on his situation, just like you're doing here.
Holy shit, that's a name I haven't seen in forever. I remember gbs.tv and SA secret santa.
I think people understood my comment neither correctly, and ,it seems, nor in the same way? Anyways, what I was asking was whether there exists a new name for html5? Have people dropped the 5? Comically, it was always a vague, tattered umbrella term from the get go (whenever used to refer to anything else than HTML5 the language/spec).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference... - people see their ingroup as distinct and unique while reducing outgroups to a borg. It's basically a logical fallacy perpetuated by everybody.
This one, the whole world should discuss and agree to.
If a union is worth the membership, why make it mandatory? Shouldn't it sell itself?

Reality is... that's obviously not true.
Recent iPhone models can handle multiple SIMs, but only one physical SIM card. The rest have to be eSIMs.
Is it just me or is this way premature. First we'd have to have a lot of self driving cars. Then they'd have to also avoid most fines. They might avoid some, but might also create some new ones. This concern is 10-15 years away at best. Housing is a far more urgent issue.
If their numbers bear out then 120kW would only add 8kg of unsprung weight. (160hp 18lbs)
You make it sound as though autistic people are unable to learn appropriate social behavior. That is not only false, it does an extreme disservice to the entire community of people on the spectrum.
I think the bigger problem (which I hope is now fixed) is that cargo would silently ignore unknown Cargo.toml directives.

Namespacing might help alleviate this particular problem slightly, but even with namespaces you'll need to have a way to replace a crate with another (but maintaining the same "import path").
So what’s the problem then? If they have the money to pay the extra costs needed to attract labor to provide the services they want where they choose to live then the system is working perfectly fine, no?

If they don’t have the money they should move, possibly with assistance. I don’t see any case for subsidizing services in places where it really expensive to provide those services. Why that’d be like government grants to rebuild houses on a flood plain that got flooded out.
You tell that to the geometers.
You're making the mistake of projecting the deterministic nature of "machine level" causality onto the ability of the scripting language that is human agency to interact with the world in ways that can be characterized as "good" or "bad." Which isn't to say that compassion for the sinner and acknowledgement of how in thrall we all are to circumstance shouldn't be encouraged. Just, high-level, there is choice, if only because the deterministic switches are black boxed.
How about more highway patrol? You know, physical officers who can be anywhere instead of a camera on a pole thats well known.

Speed cameras just cause people to behave in a single spot. Worse they usually backlog traffic because drivers brake when approaching them "just in case"
They were always at Pizza Hut in the tabletop format.
I only noticed that after reading your reply. To me, unless one wears wolf skin it would not even register in my mind.
My remote shell session setup
ProtonMail?
Does anyone remember the old Kartoo graphical/relational search engine? (Not its current hijacked reincarnation at kartoo.com)

It was not very practical as a generic search engine, but I found some very interesting links following the maps of related terms. I thought that kind of intuitive user interface would be improved and become popular, but they never did.
So where do I go now?
That's interesting! Any yes, that's what we're going for, but in a way that also allows you to see the messages too, not just use as triggers. So you could bind your `support@` email to it and answer with humans as well.

It's all in the context of providing an internal gathering space that isn't just a notification-heavy Slack channel. Reddit-style forums work surprisingly well for both humans and robots, so it's pretty nice.
lmao, welcome to hn comment section circa 2012+
That didn't happen either. He made public comments and received public criticism. If MIT and the FSF board thought there wasn't a problem, they could have kept him on. He chose to resign.

If there's any lack of due process, it's at those institutions. But given how both organizations protected him for decades, it seems to me that the real lack of due process was in failing for many years to handle complaints about his behavior.
As a 3rd year math student, I’ve seldom been required to show my work unless it was a proof. On the other hand, a lot of the questions on exams gave me a full page and awarded part marks for demonstrating any correct steps, even if the final answer was incorrect or even missing. Some of these exams were so hard you tended to pass on part marks alone and few people managed to get all the right answers. If you did know the answer you could just write it down and get full marks. That’s demonstrating a lot of self confidence (or hubris) however.

One thing I think might be interesting to try is to give the student the answer to the problem and ask them to show how to arrive at that answer. This could give them the feeling that their steps actually matter, rather than simply satisfying a teacher’s demand. For example, you could ask:

1) Show that lim x->0 sin(2x)/x = 2

That way a student can’t get away with just writing 2.
Tortoises are one of the celestial animals in feng shui, and are considered lucky.
Shapeshifting Robots May Explore Saturn One Day
This argument is somewhat metaphysical but it strikes at the core of the tech industry as it stands now -- the question of being overdressed vs underdressed, of fitting in vs standing out

It seems that the safe and generally accepted path is 'underdressed' and 'fitting in' and I'm telling you this is causing the entire industry to optimize for false signals which leads to social issues and frankly leaves tons of money on the table for ordinary people who are struggling to find proper career prospects
Oh Come On!
If a phenomenon occurs more frequently, then one would expect it to be noted more frequently. Or did you mean to imply something else?