skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the problem is the efficiency, a wind turbine is limited to about 60% by Betz law[0] and most today seem to have 35-45% efficiency. Which means with all losses included I think it's hard to see a headwind helping, same with how the apparent wind shifts forward, which would make a weak stern wind not help anything and the turbine just be drag.

They are making trials with wind "turbines" using the magnus effect[1], they seem to save about 300 tons of fuel per year, but since the article doesn't include the ships yearly total amount it is hard to put it into a relation to anything. https://safety4sea.com/tests-from-rotor-sail-technology-on-v...

I think ships is one of the applications where hydrogren could be feasable. Batteries are hard when you have to have the range from China to Europe or NA without stops and the density of hydrogen could maybe solve that. Especially since compared to cars the distribution network is more easily centered around large harbours and routes which is already used to handling dangerous goods. Though the competition is going to be synthetic hydrocarbons and all they need are producers, the entire world is already devoted to transporting them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_effect
> Stallman made some technically-correct-but-utterly-tactless comments

No. No, he didn't. He made some technically incorrect comments. Regardless of whether or not what Minsky did should be considered assault, it is considered assault, and (more importantly) it was considered at the time Minsky is alleged to have done it.

Stallman did not say that what Minsky did shouldn't be assault. He said that Minsky shouldn't be regarded as having committed assault.
FWIW, this is from a wikipedia article:

In September 2019, it was reported that Stallman had made statements on an internal CSAIL listserv in defense of deceased MIT professor Marvin Minsky, in relation to Virginia Giuffre's deposition that she was directed to have sex with Minsky by Jeffrey Epstein.[117][118] As a response, Stallman resigned from both MIT and the Free Software Foundation.[119][120][121]

"What this is really all about" is wildly subjective for such a circumstance (not a legal criminal context with judge/crime). This might be what it's "really about" to some, like the activists campaigning for this.

For the institutions making the decisions (MIT, FSF) I'm pretty sure this is "all about" scandal. One highly visible scandalous statement. A pattern of scandalous statements. Rumour os scandalous behavior. Most importantly, the promise of further scandal unless you disassociate from him.

I think RMS is one of those judgments that people would make differently in public and in private.
>It was left to cyber-security experts to break the bad news to the firm: emails are not to be trusted.

Well unsigned emails are not to be trusted...

This is another example of people disparaging email while doing it wrong. This sort of thing was totally solved over 20 years ago.

Perhaps we need to do the same sort of thing that is being done with non-tls websites. Have email clients show a flag for anonymous emails. While we are at it we could show a flag for emails sent in the clear as well.
VisionSpring, a social venture, provides people glasses - which they say costs them $4-5 each. They claim that uncorrected refractive error costs the global economy an estimated $227 billion a year.
https://visionspring.org/why-eyeglasses
Seriously I feel so attacked right now. Barrin92 is saying it is a crime to be awkward and people are upvoting it to the top. I thought people stopped picking on nerds after high school. Makes me want to kill myself to not deal with the anxiety of trying to make people like me.
Yes, we are saying that only people who subscribe to the "don't rape children" flavour of groupthink should be respected in public discourse.
> Yes, because of people like you, Geoff. When people like Stallman behave like they do and say the things they say they don't have to face the consequences because people don't want to speak up, because they're afraid of being called liars or censors. That's how authority figures and popular individuals keep getting away with it.

On the other hand, so far, no one has come forward to denounce anything (harassment or similar) about Stallman.

It seems to me that Stallman's lack of social adherence is the reason why he's being attacked. Not actual facts.
Exactly. The conversation should be framed around what he did (or didn't) do, rather than how others felt around him.
I have always found Monica Cellio to be a great moderator. If she has been fired then something is deeply wrong over at Stack Exchange.
I'm sorry for the specific request, but it must be a first hand account of an event. This second hand account can easily be the result of RMS being a difficult person to be around, for any number of reasons, constructed via word of mouth into a sexual issue.

I haven't read the description of anything that resembles sexual abuse by RMS.

(edited to remove an unintended reference to sexual assault)
> He actively made women feel unwelcome in the workplace and behaved unprofessionally over and over again.

All this is irrelevant to the quite real and undeniable truth that it's not because he "made women feel unwelcome in the workplace" that he was sacked. This is pure after-the-fact rationalization. He was sacked for having the wrong opinion and not knowing when to shut up.
While life is short, it is long enough that people can learn not to be assholes / jerks IMHO:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_No_Asshole_Rule

* https://hbr.org/2007/03/why-i-wrote-the-no-asshole-rule

* https://www.td.org/insights/dont-tolerate-brilliant-jerks

* https://www.inc.com/jim-schleckser/why-netflix-doesn-t-toler...
I find it odd that Russia hasn't fought back and tried to do a reusable program of it's own. Putin talks big talk about wanting to develop high tech industries so why just give up on space?

His nuclear cruise missile program is so lame by comparison.
"checkm8 doesn't allow law enforcement to decrypt the phone, but it does allow them to rootkit it with 30 seconds of unattended access. Once it's unlocked by the user they'd get everything they need."

That sounds like something more than a little worrying to the listed groups of people, no?
GCC Developers Look at Transitioning Their Codebase to C++11
Of course the real monsters among the rich and powerful, the clintons, the trumps, continue to be untouchable.
The original Medium post was resting on equating Stallman saying that one of Epstein's victims may've been presented to Minsky as "entirely willing", as him saying that the girl in fact was "entirely willing".

Such intentional smear campaign makes me seriously question the author of the piece, because if they had an obvious case of wrongdoing, no such intentional misquoting would indeed be necessary.
Oh. This is fantastic. Thank you so much!

For anyone else having issues allowing untrusted shortcuts. The toggle in the settings only appears after running any shortcut for the first time. This is an iOS bug apparently.
Hybrid Approach Emerges for AI Workloads
According to eyewitnesses he turned down the advances...
So just rumors about stuff happening to other people?
Anatomy of a Probabilistic Programming Framework
The theory is ROC curves [1]. The practice requires that you play devil's advocate with yourself - figuring out ways to disconfirm your own beliefs.

I usually start with the question: 'What data would convince me that I am wrong?'
If I can't answer that for myself - I know I have a problem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_characteris...
I only know a few hundred Data Scientists and (a) you don't need a PhD and (b) they do quite a bit of coding. But I suppose if you work in a more research capacity that might be flipped.

And personally I would be wary of any company that insists on a PhD since it's a clear sign to me that they are clueless. Since great Data Scientists are those with strong EQ and communication skills not those they know the most algorithms.
> You don't get X good thing without Y bad behaviour

Happens in the corporate world all the time though, was Microsoft ever really punished (beyond a wrist slap) for it's antitrust? Steve Jobs was notoriously a pedantic asshole, who gets to punish that?

I think the word "toxic" (people/places/cultures) is becoming vague and overused to the point of becoming the new badspeak - Can we just dismiss Stallman as "toxic"? Is the lynch-mob/fact-poor culture attacking Stallman not also "toxic"?
Even the US isn’t an ideological monoculture. The woke are ~8% of the US population. No one in China cares. The social strata in India and Pakistan that ape the English speaking world is on the retreat politically.

This cultural moment is mostly a US thing, and to a lesser extent an Anglosphere thing, with especially English proficient vassal states like the Dutch or Scandinavians also taking part. If it ever burns out in the US it’ll just disappear everywhere else in short order.

RMS life was not ruined for an argument on a mailing list, but because he has no allies because he’s constitutionally incapable of playing politics.
Thanks for shadowbanning me again for my valid opinions commies...
Hi Kevin, yes, this is for you.

Thanks for pointing this out. We are exploring a bunch of different ways to formulate what we do and for whom, and you're right that the core message became a bit muddled here.

Would love (really!) to hear more about your specific needs. Feel free to email me at christian@trycashflow.com.
I have a condition
Thank you for that article!!

It's a shame what a piss-poor narrow-minded society 'the west' has become...
Stop using autism to defend someone who's said that raping children doesn't harm them.
The whole Stallman story very much seems to be modern day thoughtcrime
No, I have -4D and can't see a screen clearly from more than 25 cm.
I'm split on your comment.

On one side, you indeed quote Stallman itself and the source of the quote. On the other side the complete quote reads:

The term is applied to a broad range of actions, ranging from stealing a kiss to rape, as well as other things in between. It acts as propaganda for treating them the same.

There seems to be an exception for TSA agents, however.

The term is further stretched to include sexual harassment, which is not a specific act, but rather a pattern of acts that amounts to a form of gender bias. Gender bias is rightly prohibited in certain situations for the sake of equal opportunity.

I don't think that rape should be treated like stealing a kiss, so I reject the term "sexual assault" completely.

Reading the full context and your except was totally different for me. The full context, implies he doesn't accept the term, because it's an umbrella term that does more harm, than good. That's arguable, but doesn't seem a radical opinion.

In fact, IMO, I agree that using "sexual assault" for something other than rape / attempt of, is depreciating the full meaning of the term and victims are normally the first ones to be affected by it.
I do agree that other crimes, born from gender inequality, are very serious as well - that doesn't mean, we should bundle them up. How would society react, if slaps started to be prosecuted as attempted murders?
I'm not sure someone with such bizarre views on consent should be in a leadership position or be a teacher. I usually agree with articles like this but then I read stallmans views and they are probably disqualifying.
> You don’t get the free software movement without a person like Richard Stallman. Its success depended on a stubborn pedantic ideologue. It required someone who couldn’t take a hint.

This is really the crux of the matter. Richard Stallman should absolutely be held accountable for the stupid things that he has said. The problem is that humanity _really_ needs people like Richard Stallman- very few others have made such a practical (Emacs) and political impact on software, and by extension, the world as we know it. There aren't many Richard Stallmans, and if you get rid of all them then _really_ bad things will happen.

It is equally important that he is punished, that he repents, and that he continues his work.
Why are you shifting the goalposts to sexual assault? No-one here is saying that RMS has sexually assaulted anyone, and he wasn't fired due to allegations of that nature.
This is why yours and similar arguments speak past other people. The defining feature of capitalism is private ownership and competitive markets. Against the accumulation of capital? Don't describe that as capitalism. Against monopolistic forces? Again, those forces are dangers to successful capitalistic systems.

Marxists can define capitalism and socialism with precision. But when people defend capitalism and when people argue against capitalism, they are referring to different things. People defending capitalism are defending markets and "the invisible hand" as a mechanism for positive social development. People arguing against capitalism are arguing against monopolies and market distorting accumulations of wealth.

Trying to convince people that capitalism doesn't mean markets is not a good rhetorical strategy. Instead, you might accomplish your goals better by helping people realize that socialism and govt regulation can lead to stronger, healthier markets.

My overall point is that capitalists and anti-capitalists use different definitions of capitalism and therefore the arguments are doomed to futility.
Amazon, Apple are quietly building networks that know the location of everything
I've read the mail from Stallman and I couldn't believe people forced him to resign just because he stated that 1 it is not clear assault 2, he don't disbelieve his colleague had sex.

BTW: I have also suffered the tough, complicated, unstable and rare personality of Stallman. Not for that I want to see him dead but like everyone else, when he has been unrespectful with me, I let him know. Everyone who knows Stallman knows he's a complicated and tough guy with very radical opinions and position. I was at a conference where he was cleaning the dirt from his toes while explaining everything, imagine the scene…
> And going from spelling to pronunciation is really hard in both dialects.

But you can try. And it will kinda work.

If you pronounce "Sean Bean" as "seen bean" (most likely), "shawn bawn", or "say-an bay-an" (that's gonna require some thought for a native ...) people will scrunch their brow, think a bit, maybe chuckle, and have an idea who you are talking about--especially if they've been around you for a couple days.

English is remarkably error tolerant. You may not get it right, but you will get your point across.

With kanji you can't even try. This isn't about whether English is easy. It's about that fact that the simple act of going from pronunciation to kanji or kanji to pronunciation simply isn't possible at all.

(And choosing a formal name as an example is just asking for exceptions. Japanese, for example, has a whole class of kanji used basically for nothing except names--good luck pronouncing those ...)
I can attest that I'm short sighted and the problem becomes much much worse if I spend a lot of time in front of my computer.

Some days when I go out early in the morning I can see everything perfectly, and other days I can't even read a number plate that is five metres away.
The moderators don't add value.
Rx – Extensible pixel editor implemented in Rust, inspired by Vi
So apsies are just jerks? right.

I can't see how packaging insults as a solution improves anything.
RMS wasn’t an academic with tenure. Those are the only intellectuals who are free to discuss controversial things, apart from people with FU money, or a complete lack of fucks to give, like RMS.
The point of a leader is that they do/present something that gathers followers. If the followers say "no, that's not ok", they're by definition not a good leader anymore (or not for that group of people - RMS can definitely create an FSF clone with people who accept him).

There's lots of leaders who love the status quo and organise people around it. No challenging needed. (for example priests being leaders for a small local community)
The next solar cycle is predicted to be about half as strong as 24, possibly leading up to a grand solar minimum not seen since the Maunder minimum in 1645. Based on historical records as well as ice core and tree ring data, there will be a profound effect on climate if this turns out to be true.

NASA prediction: https://youtu.be/jP9_4uoEdKg
Hot, charming people get away with things that ugly awkward people don't. However, the lesson to be drawn from this isn't that it's ok to do those things. Rather, it's that life is unfair.
And then fire whoever allowed it to go on for 30 years!
Every one of these community groups inevitably has some sort of internal political strife of some sort. I've never found any meaning in attempting to engage their politics in any more than the most basic sense.

The groups always exaggerate the impact of actions upon the rest of us when it's usually a no-op as far as we're concerned.

E.g. Reddit iama had this massive controversy around a Reddit facilitator being fired and everyone predicted insta failure or whatever. Lots of time passed and the product is still pretty damned successful (Bill Gates was on it within the last year). I'm sure Wikipedia has had "I'm stepping down" posts and whatnot.

Perhaps the learning is that it isn't a worthwhile way to seek meaning in your life to give away volunteer hours moderating sites unless they're your own or you're paid for it. It is a pointless place to put your self-worth because disagreements will occur and they will be enforced as the site owner desires. Your hours earn you no power.
There is no detail of the actual argument, just loads of people claiming to be in the know and indicating toxic behaviour and dramatic battles behind the scenes.

There's a lot of flouncing resignations and "we need to talk" style essays also revealing little of substance.

Considering the passion involved some people have clearly been hurt, but perhaps that's due to the amount of time they have invested in somebody else's commercial enterprise ("our community") while believing it's something more.

Perhaps what they are trying to say is the "something more" (presumably the voluntary contributions) is being undermined by paid staff. It's not clear.

At the moment it all reads a bit like a tin pot Game of Thrones though.
One should indeed be careful about what one says at work.

When at work it's very different from when I'm at home with my mates. Me and my coworkers have to share space, and so the dynamics are not the same. If one of my mates gets hurt by my jokes at his expense, he can just decide not meet me. At work, my coworkers don't really have a choice.

On a related note, the Mercedes F1 team just fired four employees, apparently for making a poll of when one of their coworkers would break his Ramadan fast. Maybe funny for a group of pals, but not fitting at the workplace.

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/146280/mercedes-dismissed-...
What definition of "middle class" are you using that includes "can't pay the rent/mortgage"?

Note that losses from rental properties don't count as housing costs, that's just poor business return.
Sorry, it was unintended. Thanks for pointing it out. I edited the text.
Consider the following: the existence and promotion of Y bad behaviour reduces the ability and willingness of humans to contribute to creating X, and the return of investment of time, money and energy spent in limiting Y results in more overall time, money and energy available to create X.

Better yet, consider the following: things are more complicated that ridiculous oversimplification.
Desert solar is extremely predictable. On the rare cloudy desert day, which you can predict half a week in advance, you increase prices statically or dynamically (for e.g. 15min intervals) to force preemptive load-shedding.

This requires enough solar to break even over 24h in the winter, and enough storage to cover the night.

You need large HVDC lines, however.
Oh god, I'm going to have to reply to this, aren't I, because it's tripped one of my bête noirs.

Where do people on the Too Online spectrum get these terrible, horrible, no-good wrong ideas?

(1) The idea that email are "private communications" and that the RECIPIENT of the email SHARING that email is somehow violating a sacred trust? YOU HAVE NO RIGHT OF PRIVACY IN AN EMAIL AS TO THE RECIPIENT. The natural end state of this argument is "I send you a bunch of spam, and then complain when you report it to my SMTP provider for VIOLATING my SACRED PRIVACY." It's an incoherent argument. It's wrong.

(2) Even worse, here, this silly person tries to upgrade a "private email list" into deserving the same sort of privacy protections deserved by email (WHICH, LET'S BE CLEAR, AS FAR AS THE RECIPIENT IS CONCERNED, IS: NONE AT ALL).

So the argument being made here is: RMS wrote something in a more-or-less public forum, but I'm going to complain that other people took it to a different forum.

That's a terrible argument and the fact that this is the one he OPENS with makes me want to stop reading immediately.

Ugh ugh ugh.
Get the PhD. You KNOW you can get it now. You may not be able to say the same thing in 5-7 years. Private industry will NOT penalize you for having additional education, and academia does NOT hold a monopoly on boredom. In fact, plenty of people are just earning a paycheck and can't remember the last time they felt satisfied professionally. In my experience, private industry gives PhD.s a lot of latitude to figure out what THEY want to do for the company. Does that sound interesting to you? Also, you mention that you are studying in a foreign country and are very unhappy there; do you mean the country, the university, or both? I ask because every country has an intellectual tradition that reflects its values and culture. Is it possible you would be happy in academia or private industry if you returned home?
Ignorance is a bad excuse for undesired behavior. That's why when it comes to legal terms, you can't claim you didn't knew something was illegal and get away with it.

There are good reasons to defend (some of) Stallman's behavior, saying he don't know better is not one of them. If anything, it only makes me feel better about his current situation: Oh, the whole problem is that he didn't knew what he was doing? Well, he's learning a hell of a lesson now.
Yes never forget October 2018
No it won't, find a position in industry asap.
Has Stallman ever been faculty anywhere?
You made a stupid comment. Own it. Don't play the victim.

People aren't attacking you personally.

Rather, people are criticizing your argument.
> HTML in the wild was a mess, and required a lot of error recovery and empirical quirks

> HTML in the wild is not quite as bad as it was and is much more easily parseable as well

I beg to differ with the "HTML in the wild" concept and need for heuristics. HTML, including HTML5, was and is easily parseable using SGML, the markup meta-language on which HTML versions up to HTML 4 were specified. My DTD for HTML 5 (W3C's current HTML 5.2) can parse up to 97.31% of the test suite normatively referenced by the HTML spec (the rest being somewhat in a grey area containing constructs to make test automation happy, which is designed to never fail, but rather to produce something still in a predictable way) [1].

[1]: http://sgmljs.net/docs/sgml-html-tutorial.html (reported on the slides reached via the "TALK" link)
Survey of Chinese-Linked Espionage in the United States Since 2000
Is this a joke? This is disgusting.
I think taneq is implying that while you might beleive you're middle class, the fact of struggling with rent, by some definition of middle class, makes you not middle class.
I think you're right to criticise "cancel culture", but I think (absent of actual law breaking), it needs to be as absolute of free speech.

i.e. people shouldn't just protest it for people they like, but people they hate or vehemently disagree with as well.